first, former president trum legal team turns the tables laying out their arguments against impeachment and forget their brevity. in a few concrete ways, they dismantled key pieces of the democrats rather incoherent constitutional argument. i will break down a few pieces tonight for you. the most important ones. the core claim of democrats impeachment article is that trump speech incited the januar. his speech on january six, here is strong counsel michael vanderveen. the senate should be extremely careful about the president the president this case has set. consider the language that the house impeachment article alleges to constitute to incite. if you don t fight like hell, you not going to have a country anymore. this is ordinary political rhetoric that is virtually indistinguishable from the language that has been used by people across the political spectrum. for hundreds of years. and he had the example. democrats are going to fight. we fight. we are going to
tennessee house republican expelled to black democrats fo protesting gun deaths as the governor promises to pardo nine who kill the black live protest are. in the exonerated five crimina defendants from. a closer look at the gop - is providing yacht trips t justice thomas and his artifac collection that evening if you ve been watching this show since we launched over tw years ago, you know the core enterprise of this program has been to sound the alarm on the threats to american democracy. and to underscore had the gran old republican party constitutes the greatest threa of all this week, we ve got fou stories illustrate exactly that, indeed, we are sadly spoiled for choice let s start in tennessee where it man accused of molestin multiple young girls was ouste from the state legislature wait, no he wasn t back in 2019, after thos allegations came to light, the republican s the point to lead the education subcommittee this week, the tennessee gop expelled to like democrats fr
in tennessee and late friday, a ruling on a abortion pill that could hav enormous implications for wome all across the country senator catherine cortez masto described that texas rulin with a word i can t say on television and that exclusive interview i coming up first. plus, what is next for justi j. pearson, one of the tennessee three who captivated this country this week i will ask him when he joins m in a few minutes meanwhile, after donald trump arraignment in new york, republicans stepped up their calls to defund the fbi and th doj. i will explain all the reasons why the gop is anything but in the party of law and order and later, what was th governor of california doing a alabama? i traveled to montgomery for a wide ranging conversation with governor gavin newsom. i asked him about gun reform abortion rights in the, trum indictment, and of course hi favorite foil, ron desantis. i try not to be alarmist on the show, but every now an then there is good reason to
welcome to msnbc specia coverage of the indictment o former president, donald trump i m jonathan capehart live fro msnbc headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. and we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2:15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. we are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. so, katie, this i incredible what we are about to see and we have never seen anythin like this in all of ou history. a former president of th united states indicted by an manhattan grand ju
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