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operatives. visibility and power and put them in a position to say no and be a hero to his party. to his py also a political activist with a lot to say about voting rights and joins me live tonight. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. looking something like this as they toured the rio grande this week, dramatically swooping in by water to arrive for a news conference after touring portions of the u.s./mexico border with customs and border patrol, a reminder that the perceived enemy at the border is this. children. not soldiers. not terrorists. only girls and boys looking to be united with family in the u.s. that s right. gop senator tommy tuberville ready it take the fight to unaccompanied kids. everything the republican party is doing at the border right now, everything the republican party is saying about the border right now is a performance from their fake outrage over how children are being treated to their attention-seeking rambo-style theatrics, it s meant to dist ....
which will get him in serious trouble in court if he tries the same thing on the witness stand. and we will bring you the rest of the major legal developments of the day, including federal judges officially finding that rudolph giuliani did lie about two election workers in georgia, an innocent mother and daughter, who were attacked by not just giuliani but the then president of the united states, donald trump. and there is more we have to get to tonight, because it happened again. in tennessee. you would think that the republican legislature learned their lesson when they suffered worldwide condemnation for expelling representative justin jones and representative justin pearson, who were then immediately reappointed to their positions by local officials, and then went on to win their reelection s to the legislature. but this week, the tennessee speaker of the house, formally ordered the silencing of representative justin jones. and once again, the republicans in the te ....
not apply to the other co-defendants. we re seeing a request that the trial go forward starting on october the 23rd. i want to get to our reporters and our legal experts now. to make sense of this because this is my interpretation of it which could prove to be entirely incorrect. but i got glenn kirshner. this came out about a minute before the show started. so i don t know if you had a chance to read it or make sense of it. but tell me what you know. i had your producer read it into my ear just moments ago, ali. so i think i understand what is going on here. so under georgia state law, a speedy trial means that a defendant should be taken to trial during the present term of court or the next term of court. that would be the end of october. we already know that defendant ken cheesebro has been set for october 23rd. we know sidney powell made a speedy trial and we assume she ll be batched together with ken cheesebro. that is the natural thing to do. batch co-defendants ....
rocket blasts off to new heights. now the question is, where did it go? our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in florida, where they re in court, and the judge just made things interesting. back in session after the lunch break. i understand that judge cannon is showing some skepticism. about what? reporter: that s correct, chris. it s always perilous to trying to interpret judge cannon. she has a habit of asking tough questions on both sides, but it was pretty clear she s baulks at the argument that the presidential acts means this case should be thrown out. she replied, it s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment. she added that this line of argument cements better suited in trial or during jury instructions, which is a point that some of our legal experts have made. this question that he decreed that some of these documents were personal, that s a fact question that should be decided at trial. even th ....
with more than a dozen of his closest allies. that is according to some news accounts. an it this come though thafternoon. the grand jury had heard from half of ten witnesses expected to testify in this case at this stage. among those witnesses, former georgia state representative bee wen. present for the 2020 hearing where rudy giuliani pedalled false election claims an urged legislators to appoint a slate of fake trump electors. two other witnesses who were expected to testify tomorrow have been called in as well. they include journalist george chidi, who stumbled upon a december 14th, 2020 meeting of fake electors, as well as former georgia lieutenant governor jeff duncan, he s a republican who has been openly critical of trump s baseless claims of fraud in the state of georgia. signs a potential end game in fani willis s criminal investigation into the ex-president and his allies is where we begin today with our favorite reporters and friends. former top justice dep ....