Frost is standing by with his reaction. And later, my wideranging conversations with New Hampshire governor chris sununu. I get his take on the first gop debate, and ask him where his party goes from here. So every once in a while, things happen in politics that sort of stop you dead in your tracks. Things you just know you are going to remember for a very long time. In 20 years of working in this world, ive seen a lot of them up close. But these moments do seem to be happening much more frequently now than i can remember. The word unprecedented has never been more precedent did. There are also times when the stop everything youre doing moments to stand, not because they do tell the whole story. And, there are times when you get more than one of them, in a single week. The story of this week, and the story of the Republican Party right now, can be told through two images, two singular moments in time. The first of course, is the release of the mugshot of former president donald trump.
Thank you for your coverage, my friend. You bet. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Former President Donald Trump, former President Donald Trump got some marching orders today. The judge overseeing Special Counsel jack smiths case into trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election, judge Tanya Chutkan, today she laid out some new rules for the former president , as far as the next phase of this criminal indictment. When mr. Trump want to go over sensitive evidence, like Witness Emails or Audio Recordings in his testimony, he is not allowed to bring anything into the room with him that could be used to copy that sensitive material. Like a smartphone, if trump is reviewing this material on his own. Or, alternatively, trump can take his phone with him but his Defense Counsel has to babysit him to make sure he does not copy anything onto his phone. And if the defendant takes notes, regarding sensitive materials, the Defense Council must inspect those notes. It is sort of like t
flipped. today nbc news caught this video of him. have you testified for the grand jury? i don t talk about anything do you think it s appropriate, the investigation? so he does not say anything about january six to reporters, but he did meet with a grand jury. you can conceivably watch that video and see a former white house chief of staff who simply does not want to speak with the reporter. that s pretty common. but today republican presidential candidate and former federal prosecutor chris christie offered a different interpretation of it when speaking with andrea mitchell. that looks to me like somebody who is cooperating with the federal government. you know, witnesses, grand surrey is secretive for the government. the government cannot reveal not for the witness. and the witnesses told, as they leave, you don t have to answer any questions or talk about it, but you are free to do so if you like. the only time you can t do it is when the government has
of government documents. all this is not what joent. didy next to the corvette and atou upenn and at the beach house in delaware and at the delaware university. oh, yeahat, same thing. anyway, two counts of obstruction. these additionalstruction. charges couldhan 20 y carry more than 20 years in prison. and meanwhile, a maintenance prison ag afte worker, they re going after maintenance workers at mar-a-lago was alserso charged with obstruction. now, this entire case about documents from trump s presidency that were apparentlye stored at mar-a-lago. now, don t forget,t, president trumalp also facinghas 34 bogus charges in ill new york for allegedlyegedly mislabeling of certain documents. now it looks likely also, he will face more bogus charges in d.c bogus. over january six. you can t forget about fulton county, georgia. ultipl according to multiple outlets, the courthouse in georgia noe tw is barricades. as a trump indictment is looming, therer trumpe now, have is joe
some the new york times secular could quote wipe out trump s entire stockpile of cash. in addition, trump is barred from personally when a company in new york for three years and cannot apply from alone from any banks in the state for the same amount of time. handed down to the other o plaintiffs in the case. trump s to all the suns don jr. in eric, both of whom are executives in the family business, were ordered to pay $4 million each. meanwhile, to executives allen weisselberg jeffrey mcconney have been permanently banned from serving in financial management roles for any company in new york. additionally, weisselberg was fined $1 million, and all four of also been barred from personally running a company in new york for some period of time. this is the case that is often referred to as the new york civil fraud case, but that shorthand masks the true scope in nature of the misdeeds for which trump has now been held liable. back in september, judge arthur engoron issued a st