Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
not accepting the counsel of his real advisers, not the imposters, but those who were actual advisers, not just yes people wanting to tell him exactly what he wants to hear, even when there s clearly no evidence to support what he wanted to hear. but we have heard about the attempt to exploit the legal process, the department of justice, local election officials, and a relentless pressure campaign to what he called an attempt to stop the steal. the fact that nothing had actually been stolen, i mean, details. details, it seems. i ll leave you all to decide whether the hearings so far have threaded the needle or maybe moved your own needle. but we are seven hearings in and we re learning tonight that the january 6th committee s upcoming eighth hearing will turn to the number 187. that s 187 minutes where the president of the united states was radio silent. i mean, crickets. well, at least publicly. but what exactly was he doing for over three hours? after the capitol had been b
trump taping that video on january 6th and struggling to condemn the violence. and the blistering heat baking over 100 million people in the u.s., countless others abroad. and there is still no letup in sight. lead. joe biden testing positive for covid. the 79-year-old president who is fully vaccinated and received his second booster shot in march just released a video saying that he s doing fine. symptoms are mild, and i really appreciate your concerns. but i m doing well. white house covid coordinator dr. jha says he s breathing well and oxygen level is normal. he s isolating for the next five days in the white house and taking the covid anti-viral drug paxlovid, which is recommended for people such as joe biden who are at higher risk because of their age or underlying medical conditions. we re joined now live from the white house. the press secretary and the white house covid coordinator just wrapped up a press conference. what did they have to say? reporter: it is c
Reduce their exposure. glenn, i hesitate to do this with three former prosecutors, but i ll do it anyway. i ve interviewed three of the capitol police officers, michael fanone, harry dunn and officer ganell. to me retraumatizes them still today is the denialism on the right, the crisis actor smears from fox news, the refusal to acknowledge their service or their injuries by house republicans, the refusal to bestow upon them medals and commendations for saving all of their lives, no elected officials of either party lost their lives or were physically harmed that day. what this jury verdict says to me is inside a courtroom facts still matter outside in the political arena, at least on the
To make a victim impact statement to the judge when these defendants go to sentencing. i look forward to that as much as i look forward to his trial testimony. andrew, i wonder if you can weigh in on this. the democracy was the intended victim that day. but the people who laid their bodies down between the oath keepers and the proud boys and the trump supporters that showed up that day to halt the peaceful transfer of power and succeeded in some ways in delaying it, the victims of those crimes were harry dunn and michael fanone and officer ganell and brian sicknick and all of those officers. i think today this justice is very much for them and in service of their sacrifices and the truth that they have gone out there and really i m sure unwillingly in a lot of instances entered the ugly nature of our politics to put the facts out there. how should this verdict be viewed in terms of what they ve