chief legal correspondent ari melber, legal analyst, andrew weissmann, and my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor katy tur. rachel, we re about to hear from jack smith himself. if i have to interrupt you abruptly, i apologize in advance. your thoughts right now. reading the indictment, nicolle, i was struck by the simplicity of it structurally. this is not a case where we need to wait for somebody to flip. there s no allen weisselberg character out here who we need to find out how much they re going to tell prosecutors. there s no opaque question of intent that we need to wait to see if prosecutors have some access to. there s no, you know, contingent second crime that elevates these things to a more serious thing. all things that we ve seen in other serious cases involving trump and his business. in this case this is straightforward. what they re laying out, it s an accusation. it is not a conviction. what they re accusing him of is that he was not allowed to have this stuf
to four announcement. coincidence? i don t think so. naacp it says this in response to laws and declares the state s openly hostile to african american rodents and of color. the chairman of the naacp, leon russell appears to live in florida, tampa to be exact. that s my hometown. lord is so dangerous that a democrat strategist who claims florida is about to be a terrorist state just took her family there on spring break. i really appreciate the naacp s guidance on this issue. i just took my family to spring break in florida recently. i think about all the folks who traveled there for the sun and joy and peace and restoration. to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in america. certainly as a certainly has a lesbian and a black woman, on behalf of the naacp i thank them for issuing this broad guidance. kayleigh: there are places i don t want to take my family, tulsa, afghanistan, siberia a
who s at the center plot to overturn the election. the man whose lies about the results pose a threat to democracy to this day. the ex-president himself, donald trump. that subpoena promises to add to his mountain of legal trouble and peril. the ones he already faces. multiple investigations into his handling of government records, family businesses and his attempt to overturn his defeat. it sets the stage for a number of big decisions for the january 6 select committee. abc news is reporting this. on internal deliberations within the committee on what his testimony could look like. there s been talk for months about whether they want trump to testify in a live setting. no doubt they want him to testify under oath. some members are hesitant to give him a live stage while others view it as beneficial to the investigation as they would get to question him under oath and there appears to be more of an openness to committee members having him appear live. should he refuse, the co
committee. the lead starts right now. 14 pages, trump gives the january 6th committee an earful as the panel tries to legally compel the former president to testify. but he never addresses the million dollar question. plus, debate night in one of the most competitive senate races in the country, the high profile republican help that herschel walker is getting after weeks of dealing with an abortion scandal. and cnn on the record with one of the three jurors who voted against the death penalty for the gunman behind the parkland massacre. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. we begin with president trump s response to the january 6th committee. in a long letter posted to his social site, he makes no mention whether he will comply with a subpoena. in this, trump reairs a lot of grievances and repeats claims about winning the 2020 election. he blames democrats for failing to protect the capitol on january 6th. he bashes the committee for what he calls very poor television rat
of the state, who s had a stroke, and can no longer speak in complete sentences. that s happening right now. dr. oz is getting crushed by a stroke victim, who was already crazy. it s bizarre. the question is, why is this happening? we spent time on the phone the other day, calling around to small political people to find out why it s happening. we heard a lot of theories, and they boil down to dr. oz is a bad candidate. mitch mcconnell said it s candidate quality. before we accept a republican can t win at a time when democrats have completely discredited themselves, it s worth pausing and asking exactly what does this mean. what is a bad candidate? there are no bad candidates? there s no bad candidates, they re just running on the wrong thing, talking about issues that people don t deeply care about. a good candidate is the opposite of that, a candidate who promises to fix the problems that voters worry about the most. candidates like that tend to win elections because the m