And fills at the Burning Man Festival after heavy rains caused chaos. Police investigating at least one death. All of that, plus a subject close to my heart, literally, next hour. Im using my personal battle with it is east to educate our viewers. And im not alone. We have to be able to pivot. You have to be able to do the exact same things that you tell your athletes to do, you tell your kids to do if something is not right, then you have to act. And i had to act. She had to act, as we all. The legendary Hall Of Fame Basketball dawn staley, and another fellow survivor carroll divine, join me with two top medical experts in the field, for a special. You do not want to miss it. It could save your life. That is our next hour, ahead. We want to begin, at the, with the former president , donald trump, said to be arraigned wednesday along with 18 codefendants in georgias election interference case, even without most of them being there. Trump and 11 other defendants have waived their right
again, along with obamacare, of course. the funny thing is, trump is using this approach to try to appeal to latino voters, while at the same time promising to bring to america the political style and economic policies of the strongmen leaders of places like argentina and venezuela, which have some of the highest inflation rates in the world right now. make it make sense. tomorrow is set to be a big day for economic news. we will get a new inflation report in the morning and the fed will give an update on interest rates in the afternoon. so is rachel maddow would say, watch this space. and that is tonight s reidout . you can follow me on tiktok and instagram and follow our show accounts on instagram and tick tock. all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in as we deliberated today, we reached a verdict pretty quick. the presidents son found guilty of violating federal gun laws. no one in this country is above the law. everyone must be accountable for
Based on their argument that as a federal official he would be immune from state prosecution. i want to bring in blayne alexander in atlanta, georgia. paul butler, former federal prosecutor georgetown law professor and msnbc legal analyst. and peter baker is the new york times chief white house correspondent as well as an msnbc political analyst. so, paul, what are the stakes here? i wonder if you agree that we re not just talking about a potential change of venue, but in fact could be whether the charges ultimately stick or not. yeah. so, meadows is asking for two things. one is that the case be moved from georgia state court to federal court and the other is that the indictment should be dismissed entirely. he s blaming an immunity based on the constitution s supremacy clause. i doubt that the judge is likely to dismiss the case either in federal court or state court.
Orders from then-president trump. what s the next step here? reporter: what these three defendants are saying is an initial argument they re trying to make that could determine the shape of this case in a couple of different ways. they re not the only ones that are going into court right now and having to put up some arguments initially. there are two others doing that, mark meadows and jeffrey clark. what these three people have in common is that they were fake electors for trump after the 2020 election in the state of georgia. they re charged for that activity. and what they re trying to do is say, we don t want our case in state court. we d like our case to be heard in federal court. and the reason we have the ability to do that and the reason we want that to happen is because we were fake electors, that means we were acting at the direction of the president. now, that is going to be a legal argument about where this case lands, if it gets split up, if the defendants are in federa
Is they were fake electors for trump after the 2020 election in the state of georgia. they are charged for that activity. and what they are trying to do is say we don t want our case in state court. we would like our case to be heard in federal court and the reason we have the ability to do and that a the reason we want that to happen is because we were fake electors, that means we were acting at the direction of the president. now, that is going to be a legal argument about where this case lands, if it gets split up, if the defendants are in federal court or state court trying this, but it s a preview of what could happen at a trial. there is one of the big things we are watching for is if defendants are splitting with different legal arguments for trump cuddling up to him or distances himself from him, with this argument that could become something that they will try to make later on as well, try to say we were just doing what we were told, how could we will