Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Well see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow thank you all for joining us at this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned. If your calendar was marked for this coming monday, when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference that he promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye calla, well im sorry to inform you, that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence informal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team and another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in April Of 2026. Th
Doing to make the problem go away other than saying let the speed of science go to the ballot box. we chose to highlight this in congress to defund the special counsel s office, because as much as i would sort of wave that away as a hair brained fringe idea, we re talking about a speaker of the house kevin mccarthy who s willing to abide any lunatic idea that his base floats out there, whether it s packing appropriation bills to political non starters, what have you. do you think the idea that special counsel jack smith s smiths efforts should be defended she could actually emerge as a line of argument with this modern republican conference. not going to happen in the senate. i can tell you that for sure. keep in mind, there is a lot of senators are there from states where they have to win the independent voters to stay in office. they are not gerrymandered. you have states like ohio and pennsylvania and arizona and nevada, montana, where people want to get elected and they cannot do