on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
we re back with david miller, ben rhodes and claire mccaskill. david, is steve bannon known outside of far right circles? or what is the level of familiarity with him in brazil? i think he was better known before, when he was closer in with trump and often appearing with him. more so now you see him in connection with eduardo bolsonaro, that s jair bolsonaro s son, who is a lawmaker. and really there is the connection is more about this sort of internationalization of this right-wing movement that eduardo bolsonaro has tried to position himself as the face of, at least from in bannon an alln that effort to really, as ben was saying, to make this a global wave. claire, the right still gets really twitchy when their tactics are characterized as authoritarian and echoing those
Called trump s claim of executive privilege, quote, at best, ambiguous. nbc news legal analyst barbara mcquaid posted on twitter the letter from bannon s team to the committee was, quote, a gimmick to provide last-ditch defense in bannon s case and poison the well in the january 6th investigation. let s bring in investigations reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany. and state attorney for palm beach county, dave aronberg. good to have you both. jackie, what else can we expect this week, and what does steve bannon s willingness to testify, what does it tell us? is it going to be a day of pleading the fifth? my gosh, he wouldn t dare lie under oath, would he? mika, there are a lot of questions about steve bannon s potential testify. fresh in this morning is another interesting development, which is that in his contempt of congress case, which he s actually supposed to appear in federal court for today, justin