Salome zourabichvili, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me for the third time. Do you think that russia wants control of georgia . Russia wants control of not only georgia, but probably parts of europe. It has its. Old ambitions and old aspirations of remaining as an imperialist state. But should we be thinking about what russia wants or what we want . Well, the last time that you came on hardtalk, which was at a time when russia was on the back foot in ukraine, it was the end of 2022. You said you didnt think russia would invade georgia. The situation in ukraine looks very different now. And i wonder if you fear for georgia, particularly if President Putin is successful in ukraine . Well, i think that we should, again, all fear if President Putin is successful in ukraine. But i dont think that he is successful in ukraine. He has been losing in ukraine all his first ambitions, Strategic Ambitions taking kyiv, dividing the government and the population, dividing ukraine from eur
0ur North America correspondent peter bowes sent this update. This means the trial of donald trump on charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the result of the 2020 election will be significantly delayed if indeed it is able to go ahead at all. Donald trump is accused of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through his words, his actions, in the days leading up to january six, 2021, and the assault on the capitol building. He says he was the president at the time and therefore he cannot face these criminal charges because he had president ial immunity and that he cannot be charged for anything he did during that time. We have since heard from him again, after hearing about the Supreme Court does make intention is to look at this case, donald trump releasing a statement, reaffirming his still believed that president ial immunity applies. In fact, he says it is in the best interest of the United States, Notjust Talking about himself but referring
very important, that s the winner of the week. brian tyler cohen, brittany packnett cunningham, thank you, that is tonight s reidout. all in with chris hayes starts now. ts now. tonight on all in. donald trump cannot make public comments about known or foreseeable witnesses in a case. the trump gag order is upheld in a major court decision, with big implications for the timing of the coup trial. it makes that march 4th trial date increasingly farm. as trump s codefendant in georgia helps make cases in four other states. the please lower your hand instead your true and correct the legal name. kenneth john chesebro. then the state of texas threatens to jail doctors for following court orders on a emergency abortion. this is the attorney general saying that she should be the one practicing medicine rather than the physicians in his state. and how in the world will be right wing spin machine handle another and unambiguously good jobs report? when i m going to ma
you here. okay ellie, tell us the significance of the development today of donald trump s attorney, um and then corcoran, who now is being ordered by an appeals court to testify. this is a pretty big deal because the bottom line is even corcoran has to testify about every everything that donald trump told him that relates to an ongoing crime. so what happened was doj wanted to talk to evan corcoran because he was part of the chain of communication that led to this false certification that trump s team gave to doj saying we ve given you all the classified records all the government records when of course, that was false. so doj questions corcoran he invokes attorney client privilege. doj goes to the judge and says crime fraud exception, meaning we believe these conversations between corcoran and trump were part of an ongoing crime, and the judge agrees. and today, a court of appeals panel. all three judges agreed. so now corcoran has to go in and doj gets to say, tell us about those cri
the three-judge court of appeals panel was quite skeptical, and i think donald trump s lawyers mishandled that argument. they could have made a straightforward argument and a master who both sides have agreed to and all we re asking is that we protect our privilege and they went a couple of steps and they re his property and he gets to keep them. sometimes lawyers make that mistake and they argue way more than they need to prevail on the issue and if this goes in doj s favor then it will put an end to the special master ruling. all right. fascinating. a lot of ground to cover ellie hoenig, thank you very much, as always. still to come, elon musk says he will begin restoring previously suspending accounts in the coming days. we ll discuss that after the break.