Inner circle. The memo which was obtained by the New York Times and has not been verified by nbc news, was allegedly sent in early December 2020 by trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, who is one of the coconspirators identified but not charged in the Justice Departments latest indictment, of the former president. In the note, chesebro details the fake elector scheme which falsely claims former Vice President mike pence had the power to block the certification of the states votes on january 6th. All just to buy time. Chesebro admitted that the Supreme Court would likely reject the plan, in a statement to nbc news, the lawyer writes that he was simply providing legal advice to trumps campaign. But that quote whether the campaign relied on that device, upon that advice as he intended would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. Those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for American Democ
morning joe: weekend. it was another monumental week of news, and here are some of the key conversations that you might have missed. despite donald trump s win in new hampshire s republican primary on tuesday, and it s simple suggests major problems i had for donald trump if he goes on to the general election. according to analysis by fox news, 39% of gop voters in the granite state says that they will not vote for trump if he was the nominee in november. assembler question was asked of nikki haley for the voters in new hampshire. 94% on cnn. they would be dissatisfied if trump wins a nomination. among that same group, 83% said they would consider trump unfit for office if he is convicted of a crime by election day. it s crazy, i, mean he is talking about terminating abortion, terminating roe v. wade. the poll there showed that that issue also weighed heavily on the lines of new hampshire voters and so there you have 66%. george conway, so, you know. even before the democra
justice department for pursuing charges in the first place. they have sunk back to school yard antics. whining, and what about-ing, and an echo of eight years, the phrase, but her emails has made it back into the gop s political rhetoric. which is a reference to hillary clinton s use of private email server when she was secretary of state. it was a controversial and flawed decision that the state department ultimately did say increased the risk of compromising classified information. but after multiple investigations, the episode concluded with officials finding no evidence of deliberate mishandling of classified information, and a republican appointed fbi director says no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges in the case. just like she was never found to have done anything wrong from the countless benghazi investigations. which the current speaker of the house kevin mccarthy once admitted on president were deliberately orchestrated by republicans as a political endeavor
florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis s presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with bbc i think it had up to 3 million people listening up at the same time okay. but the problem is, they had so many people coming in at the same time, in part and we were just talking about this because folks like elon musk that have massive followers he has over 100 million people that follow him when they tweeted out the link, it exposed this event to so many more people then typ
this hour, we see ukraine high on the agenda. volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join in person, seeking commitments from the world s wealthiest democracies. also, the u.s. is now signaling that it will not block allies from sending f-16 jets to ukraine. we will look at how that could change the battlefield, and tens of thousands of israelis marched through jerusalem s old city for mostly peaceful but tense flag parade. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. leaders of the g7 nations are meeting at this hour in hiroshima, japan russian invasion of ukraine, of course, high on the agenda. and now we are learning they will be welcoming a special guest, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the uk and european union have already announced new sanctions targeting russia s diamond trade. and in a key development, sources tell cnn the u.s. will not stand in the way of allies setting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something kyiv has been requesting for mon