Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Brawl at a riverfront started by a group of white men shoving a Black Dockworker. Right now in ohio, a high stakes Special Election for a proposal to make it harder to change the states constitution. How that could have implications beyond the buckeye state. We begin this hour with the very latest on former President Trumps legal troubles. Trumps legal team and jack smiths office is locked in a battle over a protective order in the election interference case. That order is aimed at protecting the governments evidence before trial, and trump wants something much narrower. The judge over seeing the case is ordering both sides to come together for a hearing together. With us, msnbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. Lisa, lets start off by defining what a protective order is in this case. A protective order, jose, is something that governs discovery in a civil or criminal case. Discovery is essentially the evidence that the government would be relying on whether that is statements by witnesses, t
For something different, looking for something beyond obvious talking points. The ones ive spoken to our partisan at all, they are looking for hope, Hope For The Future and country and hope for their fellow man. Is there a candidate in the race that can rise above all the partisan politics who deliver on that hope . We headed to the early primary state of South Carolina to find out. What is the number one issue for you in this next election . We need to stop spending money on unnecessary excursion endeavors. What you mean . We need to stop sending a lot of financial foreign aid to ukraine as well as his other countries. Theres a lot of issues right now but the most important is the deep state just seeing ever since trump was elected in 2016 how adamant they been to go after him and political opponents. Largely the economy. For me, its hard to see billionaires get past their fair amount and hold to the lower and middle classes. The abortion issue. Does that still exist . We still exist.
This morns wing, we are see for the first time new evidence that may be used against donald trump in the Special Counsels 2020 case. The New York Times has obtained this memo that has previously been secret. It was written by lawyer kenneth chesebro. He was named by prosecutors, youll remember, as coconspirator number five in the indictment, not in the indictment against donald trump, all of the coconspirators so far, unindicted. The internal memo spells out in detail the plot to overturn the 2020 election with socalled Fake Electors and it also gives new insight into how the plot would unfold and what they really wanted to do as it was unfolding. Cnns Jessica Schneider is here with much more on this. Jess, lay out what new is learned in this memo. Yeah, kate. This memo dated december 6th. Its known to prosecutors. It will likely be a key part of this case and it really lays out that even the man outlining this Fake Electors plot, kenneth chesebro, he knew it was far fetched and knew i
For something different, looking for something beyond obvious talking points. The ones ive spoken to our partisan at all, they are looking for hope, Hope For The Future and country and hope for their fellow man. Is there a candidate in the race that can rise above all the partisan politics who deliver on that hope . We headed to the early primary state of South Carolina to find out. What is the number one issue for you in this next election . We need to stop spending money on unnecessary excursion endeavors. What you mean . We need to stop sending a lot of financial foreign aid to ukraine as well as his other countries. Theres a lot of issues right now but the most important is the deep state just seeing ever since trump was elected in 2016 how adamant they been to go after him and political opponents. Largely the economy. For me, its hard to see billionaires get past their fair amount and hold to the lower and middle classes. The abortion issue. Does that still exist . We still exist.