white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
ohio voters have voted to guarantee abortion rights. supreme court overturned roe versus wade last year. voters in seven states, including republican states like kansas, kentucky, in montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban passed by republicans in the legislature which is being now challenged in court. joining us now, we think, is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. or perhaps not. the control room of thought we had steve kornacki, and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we re going to find. him were going to get him back. instead, joining us now is shan, round and craddock senator from ohio, senator brown what is your reaction to this major news tonight that the voters of ohio have delivered? not surprised and thrilled of course, lawrence i m gonna hijack your show just for a moment and do
had any advice for jack smith or for us as the country experiences this again. the conversation is out today, a special episode of rachel maddow presents back man. you can listen to it wherever you get your podcast. here s a preview of it now. tim, what was your reaction for what s been your reaction overtime as we have seen these indictments of trump? no department of justice worthy of its name could have failed to bring these charges. those charges had to be brought. and yet, they scare the hell out of me. i am terrified that he somehow could be acquitted. and if trump is acquitted, i think that ll probably elect him president again. i want to bring into the conversation mary mccord, former assistant attorney general for national security at the department of justice. she s also a cause of the msnbc broadcast, prosecuting donald trump. laura jarrett is also here. nbc news senior legal