So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
they re trying to show you there s a clash between law and a very certain candidate, because the week has now begun, and these judge us unanimously ruling a president could be tried for an election and the states try to bar that same candidate for similar conduct. so what is the distinction here? well, trump lost this appeal yesterday because he s not above the law. he is below the doj and jack smith when it comes to his own conduct and being accountable for it and even if he also, as a matter of job history, once oversaw the federal government including the doj as president. so that case is back on track unless the supreme court weighs in. the case is about rather random states and local judges can simply decide and announce that trump committed insurrection before he even goes on trial. in other words, is it constitutional and fair to ban candidates and basically decide elections that way? i ll tell you right now, most legal experts do not see precedent for colorado to beat
subpoenas for and asked questions of some of the lawyers associated with donald trump s efforts to over turn the results of the 2020 election. among the names, some of them you probably recognize. sidney powell, for example. so central sp spending baseless accusations of voter fraud. and then emily knewmon who worked with her and mike roman and we told you last week about rudy giuliani s conversation with investigators. the result of a so-called proffer agreement. we now know that meeting actually spanned eight hours. and of particular interest, that infamous white house meeting back in december of 2020. and heated clash in which sidney powell put forward a plan to have our country s military seize voting machines all in order to rerun the election. and thanks to the committee, there is an abundance of public testimony related to that meeting. some of the participants in their own words. i was asked, are you claiming that the democrats are working with hugo chavez and whoev
the special reports that we do sometimes around here. this one is about what we call the just comply lie from some republicans, as well as sean hannity. we re going to show you how it has been shredded by recent events. how sean hannity s standard was failed by none other than donald trump himself. how it fits in with civil rights in our country. by the end of the hour, to end the week, we have a saturday night live alum with us as well. our top story is the kind of news that sometimes comes at the end of the week about the january 6th coup. it s about our democracy. it s about the man who already got donald trump arraigned, special counsel jack smith. people are taking everything he does as seriously as possible these days. indeed, one thing that you can find agreement on from sort of doj veterans and allies of the justice department, if you want to put it that way, and donald trump s team and world, they all think jack smith means business. they are all watching everyth
out of the supreme court breaking news about this, this drug it is called mifepristone. it is a pale about the size of an aspirin and it is the first of two pills used in the most commo form of abortion here in the united states. it s medication abortion it is safe it is effective. and it is significantly less invasive than a surgical abortion and if you have been following the news, you would know tha, am -appointed federal judge i texas ruled that despite thi drug being used safely for 2 years now, the fda was wrong t approve the drug and his ruling had the potential to take the drug off the market altogether. so, tonight s decision from th supreme court was pretty clear it means this will not happen, at least not yet the supreme court issued wha is known as a stay, meanin they are effectively blockin that texas judges decision while this case is appeale through our court system maybe even all the way back to the supreme court down the roa now, the lower court battle is c