Threatening federal prosecutors. Today, the judge in that case could decide exactly how much he can talk about it. It comes as federal prosecutors are now pushing for a trial right after new years day. Cue up u2. Well have much more on trumps legal issues ahead. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is i mean, come on, man, its august. Its august. This is moving. This year is moving too fast. Its midaugust. You know, you get old like me, and it just flies, right . Its august 11th. With us, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. Host of politics nations, wearing tan today, the reverend al sharpton. Looks good. Come on, man. President obama wore tan, and look what happened. It was a big news story. With me, its just another day. Can you believe that . That was a big news story. The president of the United States wearing tan in the white house. We have a the same people that were upset by that are now, like, hey, its really cool. We su
Yet been released. The question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. Joining me now, National Security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. Admiral, thank you very much for being with us. I know that we believe, the United States believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. And were happy to have these individuals back. When will they be on a plane back and out of iran . I dont really know right now. Were still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. But we dont really know right now. Were just really happy that theyre out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. Theyre in house arrest, but still in iran. Theyre not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. Have we been in touch with them directly . Do we know what condition theyre . We have been in touch with them t
Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo
District attorney as well as Making Threats against Law Enforcement officials according to Court Documents filed a day earlier in u. S. District court in Salt Lake City. He owned numerous firearms including a sniper rifle. The complaint laid out his history of threats on social media. Other subjects of mr. Robertsons threats, Attorney General merrick garland, governor gavin newsom of california, letitia james, the new York Attorney general. This at a time donald trump is directly going after prosecutors who either indicted him like jack smith or alvin bragg or maybe on the verge of doing so. Like fani willis. Donald trump airing a Tellvision Add in atlanta and other tv markets attacking the Fulton County District Attorney charging him with his fourth criminal indictment. The new ads released Sunday Accuses Willis of previous wrongdoing. Also names attorneys who already brought charges against trump including manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg and Special Counsel jack smith. Now, n
I think this document is about as close as you get to a smoking gun. Then, the case for not televising a trump trial, and the man suspected of threatening to assassinate joe biden and alvin bragg is shot and killed by the fbi. And, the Pro Democracy Movement wins again. A majority still rules the majority still rules [crowd chanting] [applause] how the republican push to remove fundamental rights lost big in ohio. Starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today we can see new developments in the january 6th case, the terrifying reminder of how dangerous it is when this problem defendant, donald trump, constantly attacks judges and prosecutors. Earlier today a man named Craig Robertson was killed just 45 minutes from where President Biden is set to speak tomorrow. Federal agents say they were trying to serve the man an Arrest Warrant after robertson had made a series of graphic and extremely specific Death Threats towards the president as well as the Vice President