court and nbc justice correspondent pete williams, tom goldstein and kimberly adkins-store. pete, take us through the significance today. we hope to see we hope the supreme court will stream it on the website. we are waiting for that to start. the court said yesterday it would start right at noon. is that because they are streaming it because of the covid restrictions on the court? yes, i think that s part of it. of course, the security environment at the court. the big fence that s around it. it won t be the first time we will have seen one of the swearing in ceremonies on television. the first time they did that was for sonia sotomayor. this will be a scaled back version. members of her immediate family. john roberts will start the process. he will give her all justices have to take two oaths of office. not just the constitutional like you see the president take at the inauguration, but they also have to take a judicial oath. roberts will administer one and stephe
Jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. Prosecutors dont hand out agreements like candy. Mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. He could speak to trumps mindset in a very specific way. Welcome, everyone. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. We begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. The former president s Chief Of Staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his team more than once according to a abc news. He allegedly told investigators he didnt believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day in november 2020. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. [ cheers and applause ] meadows reportedly telling investigators that he believed trump was being dishonest and saying that cnn anchor of the source, kaitlan collins, joins us now. We have been asking for, i dont know, a year plus, whats up with mark meadows .
talk to the people who were there. he wanted to go to the capitol. that s what matters. also, that he knew that the mob was armed when he urged them to go to the capitol and when he refused to take action to call them off and when he sent that tweet that said that mike pence was a coward. all of that testimony has not been disputed. that testimony is easily corroborated by the testimony of others. that s what advances the story. she also said some things that are very important to highlighting the importance of hearing from pat cipollone and mark meadows, who were having these conversations with donald trump in real time. i don t think you will hear from mark meadows given he has been willing to defy a subpoena and he was not acted upon by merrick garland and the justice department into taking action against him. unlikely that. cipollone, as an officer of the court, has some obligation now to deal with this. has been publically pressured.