in the united states and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is friday, december 22, yes, i m wearing a candy cane tie. stunning new revelations into just how far donald trump went to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. a new report from the detroit news alleging that then president trump pressured two election officials in wayne county, michigan to not certify the results of the vote, that is according to audio recordings they have reviewed for a phone call trump made in 2020 following the election. the newspaper reports that he told them we can t let these people take our country away from us and everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. joining me now, joey jackson. thanks for getting up early for us. this recording seems to go to the core of the case jack smith is building against trump, namely that he actively conspired to overturn the 2020 election. and you remember of course that phone call pressuring georgia election officials to find him vote
also recently met with prosecutors in manhattan and just yesterday, source told nbc news that local state and federal law enforcemen agencies have already starte preparing security measures in new york in case charges are filed against trump. this is, of course, happenin against the backdrop of th start of the 2024 presidential race trump s campaign confirmed tha he will hold his first officia rally next saturday in waco, texas. joining me now by phone is m colleague, lawrence o donnell, the host of msnbc s the last word lawrence, thanks so much for kicking us off at the 10:0 hour what do you make of trump latest post? he s made a lot of claims an called for his supporters to protest other things in th past we run the, we ve heard them is there something different about this particular post thi morning? well, it actually, when w think about it, it s consisten with the way donald trump ha dealt with development involving criminal investigations beginning with the fbi searc
To hear are central players in this case. Talking Stormy Daniels, Karen Mcdougal and Michael Cohen. Karen mcdougal who had some instagram posts last night. The witness list has been kept under wraps because prosecutors fear donald trump might attack the witnesses and and pick their testimony. Donald trump has been held in contempt for violating his gag order. And the judge has four other potential violations to rule on. Joining to discuss it all is our msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Kristi Greenberg and is also the former deputy cheap at the Southern District of new york but also with us is the former january 6 investigator Marcus Childress. Greetings everyone. How to be look at it this week . We have three potential witnesses that could kick off the conversation this week. How are you assessing this . And those the order really matter at this point . I assume Michael Cohen will be the cherry on top. I think Karen Mcdougal and certainly stormy could land the plane as
Will focus on air defence. This includes interceptor missiles, anti drone systems and artillery ammunition. Whats not included are the new patriot air defence batteries, something ukraines president Volodymyr Zelensky says are critical. The us defence secretary lloyd austin has been speaking about the importance of the aid. Take a listen. The outcome in ukraine will determine the trajectory of our times. If putin prevails in ukraine, the Security Consequences will be grave and global. Europe would face a Security Threat that it hasnt seen in our lifetimes. As President Biden has noted, russia will not stop in ukraine. If the kremlin gets its way, if putins war and imperial aggression succeeds, every tyrant on earth will take note. Americas top diplomat is warning china that washington will act, if beijing doesnt stop providing russia with supplies, for its war in ukraine. Antony blinken says hes made it clear to his chinese counterparts that theyre helping fuel the biggest threat to Eu
next president. take a look at these headlines. the atlantic devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second trump term with the words, if trump wins. from the new york times, why a second trump presidency may be more radical than the first. from the guardian, a second trump term will be far more autocratic than the first, he s telling us. the washington post, a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the through line is a warning donald trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the justice department to the federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tip, to the allianct underpin our foreign pocy. don t assume trump will fall sort of his goals like did so often in his first term. a second-term trump would be different. from the atlantic, i his first term, corruption and brutality were mitigated by lay v llaziness. in a second term, he woul have more willing enablers in tow and a much more