Alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The twice impeached former president already hit with two other criminal indictments, pleading not guilty. When it comes to the second federal indictment, trump refuses to remain silent. In a social media post yesterday trump threatened, in all caps, if you go after me, im coming after you. Which got a response from the Special Counsels office. Overnight, attorneys asked the federal judge overseeing the case to issue a protective order on trump and his legal team to limit the information they can share publicly about the case. All of this comes as trump faces a trial on four Felony Counts laid out in Special Counsel jack, smith, damning 45page indictment. Those counts include conspiracy to defraud the United States government. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. Conspiracy against the right to bow and to have one vote counted. That fourth charge falls un
good morning. it is saturday, february 10th. you re watching velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. we have got a lot to talk about. we begin this morning with donald trump s new reality tv show. we all remember the apprentice. the whole, you re fired, thing? what we are watching now is more like, the defendant. a terrifying real-life spinoff series played out in actual courtrooms and along the campaign trail each and every day. talk about reality tv. the stakes in this game show are, quite literally, american democracy and the rule of law. let s be clear, no one is watching it as their, quote on quote, guilty pleasure. everyone is watching. this week s episode contained plot twist, new characters, and twist that left us all wondering what is happening next. let s discuss. donald trump has not had many good days in court in the last two years. for the guy who wants infamously predicted we will get tired of so much winni
tonight straight from the source, breaking news from the detroit news. apparent recordings of donald trump himself in 2020 allegedly pressuring two election officials in michigan not to sign the certification of joe biden s victory. plus, the special counsel strikes back urging the supreme court to i merely consider amenity claims as rudy giuliani file for bankruptcy. willie pay up? his attorneys are here. and even more accusations of plagiarism against harbors in battle president. the two student journalists who broke the story joins us this hour. this is the source. we begin with at breaking news. randy reporting on yet another recording of a phone call allegedly made by donald trump in 2020 pressuring local election officials, this time in michigan on november 17, 2020, two weeks after he lost the presidential election in that state by more than 100,000 votes. cnn has not heard the recording, but the detroit news says it has. it reports president trump personally pressur
closing in, the special counsel appears to be wrapping up his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents as new details emerge about what was going on at mar-a-lago, just before the feds swept in. melissa murray and barbara mcqueen will explain the significance. and, all hail the queen of rock and roll, danielle smith is here to celebrate the life and legacy of tina turner. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. congress is on memorial day recess, but negotiation teams from the white house and house republicans are hard at work trying to seal an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. all signs show that they are inching closer to a deal that would raise the limit on federal borrowing and avert and unprecedented, catastrophic default. treasury secretary janet yellen added new urgency to the negotiations, over the last few months, she has warned congress that the debt limit could be reached in early june, and potentially as early as june 1st.
starts now. tonight on the reidout when honest people say what s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. at the same time, the liars who have been trying to silence them, shrink and they become weaker. that s the iron law of the universe. true things prevail. yes, indeed. true things do prevail, tuck ems. you are repulsively racist as the guy you once played on tv. now, add hospital waiting room to the ever-expanding list of places where you can be shot and killed in gun-crazy america. senator raphael warnock is here to talk about today s deadly shooting in atlanta. and we ve got the latest on texas republicans unprecedented push to give one hand picked official the power to overturn election results in the state s largest democratic-leaning county. we begin tonight with how white nationalist receipts can get you fired. even from fox. the new york times reports, damning text messages tucker carlson sent to a producer after he watc