before the 6th. pence pushing back every time. was it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and he had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? very consistent. and then the new memos show ing pence s legal and political advisers spending weeks whether pence could block or delay the electoral vote count. their conclusion doing that would break multiple laws. the author of that second memo, former counsel to the vice president, greg jacob, will testify today. so will federal judge jay michael ludig, who rejected a theory by trump adviser john sman that pence could unilaterally reject lectors. and if he tried any way, the new york times reports that emails from eastman predicted a heated fight in the supreme court. much more on that, and the connection to justice thomas wife
Search his maralago estate if trump continued to refuse to hand over classified documents. We begin tonight with the first televised hearing in fani willis criminal case against former President Trump in georgia. Im Jason Johnson in tonight for joy reid. The trial will be televised and is coming very soon. Today, we have a taste of whats to come. Fulton county Superior Court judge scott mcafee said he would allow Kenneth Chesebro to sever his case from Sidney Powell. Chesebro and powell are among the 19 defendants in the georgia racketeering case. They have both asked for speedy trials. Chesebro is accused of being the, quote, architect of the Trump Elector scheme while Sidney Powell is facing a slew of charges that include an effort to improperly access Voting Machines in rural coffee county, georgia. The defendant said their cases were different and they wanted to be tried separately. Prosecutors response, that aint the way this works. So weve heard a lot from both defendants about t
the turnover of these very documents. messages that could have exposed the involvement of his wife. for that reason, i think the committee is well within its rights to identify what kind of internal communications are occurring from the supreme court. maybe eastman has a pipeline to clarence thomas. barbara, betsy, ali, thanks to all of you for talking to us about this breaking news. that s going to do it for this hour. join us every weekday at our usual hour, 1:00 eastern time, right here on msnbc. special coverage of the third round of january 6th hearings begins with andrea mitchell and hallie jackson right after this. hallie jackson right after this. no, he s seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. you re pretty particular about keeping a healthy body.