Good day. I am jose diazbalart, in for chris jansing. Foreseeable and preventable mistakes. A brand new bipartisan report lays out Secret Service failures ahead of the attempt on Donald Trumps life in july. The errors at the heart of the report and what it means for The Agency moving forward. Plus, an unprecedented attack appears to be sparking a new phase of war. Israel launching a wave of strikes in lebanon after intercepting a missile fired at Tel Aviv in hezbollahs deepest strike yet. What the idf just said that could signal a Ground Invasion could be coming. And florida bracing for impact as helene intensifies into a hurricane. Millions of people are now under a State Of Emergency as they prepare to grapple with Lifethreatening Storm Surge, damaging winds and heavy rain. Well talk to the head of fema about how they are preparing. And we begin with new details emerging from a bipartisan report on the Security Failures that led to the first Assassination Attempt on former president
How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
Racketeering indictment. The Clock Ticking before they turn themselves in to the Fulton County jail next friday, with Pressure Mounting for some or all of trumps 18 codefendants to cooperate, you might think trump would be bending over backwards to ingratiate himself with them, keeping them from freaking out and flipping. Doesnt look like it. Not so much. Take Rudy Giuliani, facing 13 charges in Fulton County. Cnn today reports that giuliani made a hail mary pilgrimage to maralago in april in what is described as a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going inperson a source familiar with the matter told cnn giuliani and his lawyer believed they could explain facetoface why trump needed to assist his former attorney with his ballooning legal bills. According to reporting trump verbally agreed to help with some of giulianis legal bills without committing to any specific amount or timeline. Nbc news has not independen
Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo