Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
an unprecedented decision for an unprecedented time in america. can a state kick donald trump off the ballot over the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from holding office in the nation s highest court will soon decide. the supreme court tonight announced that it will take up colorado s case, which means the nine justices, including three of whom trump-appointed, they are now squarely in the middle of the 2024 election. that very election that would decide whether trump returns to power. it s the most involvement at the court, any court has had in presidential elections since bush v. gore. and already, trump s team is winking and nodding their way into tipping the scales. i think it should be a slam dunk in the supreme court. i have faith in them. you know, people like kavanaugh who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he ll step up. those people will step up. not because they re pro-trump, but because they re pro-law. b
condemned trump that day are still working for him. also tonight, democrats were accused of lying about a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. now that the story is confirmed, what it tells us about the terrifying future of reproductive rights in america. jfk said the torch has been passed. now another generation of young americans is saying loud and clear, pass the torch to us. we begin the reid out tonight with january 6th committee s eighth public hearing. the final chapter for now of a damning and horrifying story about donald trump electrifying a violent mob to block the transfer of power on that fateful day. one must imagine trump is watching or rather hate watching every second of these hearings. i mean, they are about him, after all. now we are learning about trump s attempt to possibly influence witness testimony. this week congresswoman liz cheney revealed that trump called a witness in the panel s investigation after one of the previous hearings. today chairman be
letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. happy friday. happy friday. thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i m joining you on this friday, june 28th, a day that marks a major shift in this presidential race. it s something you can basically feel and that many felt in their core. the emotion hitting probably before the logic or any intellectual observations, even as president biden first walked out to the stage. at this debate which his campaign pushed for. earlier than ever. and then delivered a performance that has, for now, up ended this race and done so so swiftly the discriminations had begun long before he and trump walked off that very stage. this is a debate that is certainly memorable but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathart
on why joe biden chose prosperity over vengeance. plus, david wallace-wells on how so many western countries got covid so wrong. and is there any way in the world to convince vaccine skeptic trump supporters they should get their shots? all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. we ve got big developments on two of the biggest mysteries surrounding the january 6th insurrection. what happened to capitol police officer brian sicknick? that led to his death. and who planted pipe bombs, next to the rnc and the dnc? there is still a ton that we do not know about that day. though, today, we learned a few more pieces but before we get into that, a little context. because over the last two months, there has been a concerted evident on the right to spin a counternarrative about this violent insurrection. you remember, you saw it happen, live, on tv. an attack, that sought, explicitly, for, really, the first time in american history, to disrupt the pea