Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
As you are looking live there, Special Counsel jack smith will make remarks at a News Conference from the Justice Department shortly. We will bring those to you here live and we have a full show of reaction to all of the developments and the specifics on the charges for that Griff Jenkins has the details outside the courthouse. Griff good evening. Donald trump has been ordered to appear in court behind me for First Court Appearance and possible arraignment. That is the news breaking at this moment. It will be on thursday at 4 00 p. M. Now Special Counsel jack smith has laid these allegations out in the form of Speaking Indictment where prosecutors lay out a detailed time narrative events surrounding the january 6th, 2021 capitol ri ri. How they dealt with his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 president ial election. The indictment alleges, bret, that trump falsely claimed the election was stolen, that he pressured State Officials to nullify Voting Results and sought to interfer
this space. watch the space, along with all of us. all right, one last thing before we go. i recently chatted with my friend and colleague chris hayes about my new book prequel. it s a live taping of his podcast in front of a town hall in new york. it was tons of fun, we shot it as a tv show. it is now available to watch, to stream on peacock. the easiest way to find it is to go to the ppe app on your phone or computer. just search maddow. the top results should be the solicitation with our faces on it. if you click on, that you can watch that really cool thing i did with chris hayes. peacock, it s up there right now. okay, that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. rachel, i m so happy the writers guild has been able to organize with our coworkers here. as a member of the writers guild myself for longer and then some of these new members have been alive, i m very happy to see them teaming up. and rachel,
chatted with my friend and colleague chris hayes about my new book prequel. it was a life taping of his podcast in front of an audience a town hall in new york. it was tons of fun. we shot it as a tv show. it is now available to watch, to stream on peacock. the easiest way to find it is to go to the peacock up on your tv, on your phone, or on your computer. just search maddow. the top results should be this little illustration with our faces on it. if you click on that, you can watch that really cool thing. peacock, it s up there right now. that does it for us tonight. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. rachel, i m so happy that the lawyer s guilt has been able to organize with our coworkers here. as a member of the guild myself, for longer than some of these new members have been alive, i mean, i m very happy to see them teaming up. and, rachel, before you go, this episode of the last word tonight, i mean, you know what? don
that s a special report coming up tomorrow. up tomorrow. it s time now for ac 360. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, israeli hostage families in angry confrontations with the government that some of them say is putting killing the enemy ahead of saving israelis. also, with their client on the attack, lawyers for donald trump today trying to convince an appeals court that what he is saying about special counsel jack smith and the january 6th case ginagainst him and it s lot is protected by the first amendment. plus the literally earth shaking iceland that could be getting ready to blow. john berman here in for anderson. we begin with israel s war on hamas. the many pieces of it now in play. and the one question that six weeks of fighting has yet to answer, namely how a sometimes divided democracy should fight a ruthless enemy, which hides among palestinian non-combatants and holds hundreds of israeli non-combatants captain. troops reached th