Deadline in the 2020 election interference case. Hes got until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimidate witnesses or undermine the case. Smith asked the judge to step in after trump issued a vague threat on social media on friday. He wrote in all caps, quote f you go after me, im coming after you. This morning, were also keeping a close watch on Fulton County, georgia, where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. The streets around the courthouse are being shut down as the grand jury considers charges. Trumps lawyer went on a media blitz and appeared on all five networks sunday morning. He floated a new defense for trump, alleged will pressuring mike pence and georgia officials to overturn the election results. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking i
phang show, live from miami, florida. we ve got lots of news to cove and lots of questions to answer, so, let s get started. indictment watch with th latest news that the new yor district attorney s office may indict former president donald trump as early as next wee i ll talk to glenn kershne about the indictment might loo like a what we can expect next in the process and breaking overnight, wyomin becomes the first state to outlaw abortion pills. i want to know, could this jus be the beginning as we await a texas ruling that could have national implications? and an arrest warrant for th president of russia. vladimir putin the international criminal court accusing the russian leader of war crimes i ukraine. have the white house i responding the chilly morning you, i m katie phang we begin today wit the strongest signs yet but new york red jury may have already returned an indictment for former president donal trump. we can see his arraignment a soon as next week. nbc
sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
on the stand in new york today? so i increasingly feel, and you ll have to let me know at 7:00. i don t have the training to analyze donald trump anymore. i need a psychologist or a psychiatrist. i don t know how much of this was as some of the journalists suggested was performative deflection, and i don t know how much of this is actual holy you know what, they took my toys, right. i think that he cherishes his company more than democracy. i accept the journalism that supports this trial means more to him than some of the federal ones that are to come. i don t have a good enough answer for you about whether it is performance art or an actual meltdown. quickly, i have to ask, we ve got the political lens, and then we ve got the actual legal lens. i m not going to ask about the legal lens. there s tons to talk about that i ll be going over in the next hour. politically, do you think this was a successful strategy for the former president today? i think those are, you kno
Chutkan. as i said in last hour, she has in several cases sentenced these january 6th defendants to sentences beyond what the prosecutors have requested. so if you look at this from a defense attorney perspective, you want a different judge. but is there anything here you think supports a request to recuse? yeah. there s no constitutional right to being able to pick your courtroom. right? and the place they want to change the trump team wants to change the venue to is west virginia. right? which is a place that went for donald trump 69% of the voters went for trump in west virginia. just not fair. listen, donald trump should be giving the d.c. voters a little benefit of the doubt. i m sure he will be fairer to them than he was to the capitol police officers that were getting beaten up the forces on january 6th. he could have stopped that and he did not. i m sure the d.c. jurors would be much fairer to him than he was to them. there s no basis to disqualify this case or move the cas