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as imperious as always, he emerged today if he s going to take any questions to defend his departments actions lea via president trump yuri to speak on my role is to be completely consistent during the special counsel regulations. following the regulations. laura: let s be very clear here. the issue is are you acting in good faith or part of a political operation to get a conviction of trump by any means necessary? 81% of republicans believe this about this is all about politics and protecting one of the more destructive presidents the united states has ever had joe biden. and they are right. consider the situation this way. no one believes that merrick garland would still be ag if he didn t, hadn t green light a special prosecutor in this case. everyone at msnbc and cnn believed that merrick garland s trying to put trump in jail. no matter where the facts leave. otherwise, they would be calling tonight for his removal. it s really not that complicated. any of the l ....
,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that ....
way. it s calleunts by d count stacku 31 of the counts of willfulul retention of national defensede information, six process crimefs . president trump is calling this election interference at the highest level. members of congress are now openly comparing the u.s..presi government to a corrupt banana republic. and ondelling this elect progra onrk levin, called it a war on the republic. and coming up tonight, we ll get full legal analysis from our own great jarrett alan dershowitz, former acting attorney general matt whitakeret . we ll also hear from former speaker of the house newt gingrich. hous matt whd the former se judiciae chairman jim jordan. and later, stay tuned for my preview of my exclusive interview with california governor gavin newsom. that s all coming up this friday night. but first, wnewte begin with aih statement that you hear a lot from the left. nobodycalifoovernor is above t. they say there is one set of rules for every american. in fact, the doj spe ....
machine according to their report. and the 2024 gop field got even bigger. both former vice-president mike pence and the very unpopular former new jersey governor chris christie. i think he left office with about a 14% approval rating in his case now entered the race. we have full analysis of all this straight ahead tonight but we begin with this fox news alert. sources have now confirmed to fox that the doj s special counsel investing former president trump s taking of classified documents has now convened a second grand jury, this one not in dc but in south florida. that would be the same district where mar-a-lago is. and based on what we are hearing, the special counsel is now poiseded to wrap up that probe and there are many reports that charges could, in fact, be eminent. at the very same time, we are learning that an indictment against hunter biden could also be forthcoming, but don t expect hunter s charges to implicate the big guy. this will be all about optics, ....
election ballots. these decisions are based on an interpretation of the 14th amendment, and trump s actions during and after the 2020 election. but late thursday, california s secretary of state, decided the former president should appear on that states primary ballot. all this sets up an explosive legal and political drama that will inevitably end up before the justices of the nation s highest court. nbc s ryan nobles has more. for the second time in two weeks, a state has ruled that donald trump is ineligible to run for president of the united states. it was not a close call on the question of whether january 6th, 2021, was an insurrection. the events of january 6th 2021 were impressive dented and tragic. reporter: shenna bellows, the secretary of state in maine, a democrat, determined that trump s actions on january 6th constitute a violation of the 14th amendment. the weight of the evidence makes clear that mr. trump was aware the of the tinder laid by his mul ....