Exclusively to ron desantis about his Campaign Reset and trumps dominating lead in the polls. If, on the other hand, the election is not about january 20th, 2025, but january 6th, 2021, or what document was left by the toilet at maralago, if its a ref run dem on that, we are going to lose. Theyre fighting against trump thats not a pathway for success for the republican party. End of the trail for the u. S. Womens soccer team. Falling to sweden on Penalty Kicks. A crushing early exit from the world cup. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where this afternoon, Donald Trumps defense and the prosecutors have to submit legal arguments by 5 00 p. M. On the governments request for a Restraining Order to prevent the former president from attacking the judge, the prosecution and witnesses, influencing jurors or revealing grand jury evidence. The judge protected an argument they needed three more days to submit their objections to the protective order. The prosecutors reque
set expectations for what could and would happen next because it does seem like something is happening. today our cameras caught three of donald trump s lawyers at the department of justice minutes after they left, donald trump started posting about the case saying, quote, how can doj possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other presidents were charged? so does donald trump know something we do not? joining us is senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. donald trump s lawyers were at doj, ken. do we know who they were meeting with? we know who they weren t meeting with. attorney general garland and deputy attorney general lisa mona core were not involved. presumably it was with career officials who have some oversight over this case and are briefed on this case. it s very common for defense attorneys to come in at the end of an investigation and make their case to management at the justice departm
quote, look he worked hard tonight. he put into words what he felt, and he ended the evening far stronger than he began. give him credit for that. here s another. quote, his wife jill is looking lovely tonight in a beautiful purple dres. now, if you don t know who said this, don t worry about it. the answer is really very unlikely. those were both reviews from former president donald trump. and as much as trump also ranted about biden s speech even he had to admit that last night was a strong night for the president. he managed to sort of trick republicans into greeing with him. there were a few of those moments. the most notable was one this. we started making thewealthy pay their fair share, some republicans some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it contact my office, i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. as we all apparently agree social security and medicare
congress. we ll have the latest on the shocking unrest and how these riots were inspired by the january 6 insurrection. meanwhile in, washington, kevin mccarthy starts his term as speaker of the house after a week of chaos and failed votes on the house floor. we ll take a look at the significant concessions he made to secure the position he sought for many years. and the latest from president biden s about it to the border as he faces more pressure to address the humanitarian crisis there. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 9th. thanks for starting your day and week with us. there is developing news this morning out of brazil. yesterday thousands of supporters of the nation s former president breached multiple government buildings. video shows the moment that s rioters stormed the nation s congress and the supreme court in the capital of brazil. the chaos comes one week after the inaugurationst president desilva but falling on a day wher
sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. they re trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how he s trying to make this happen. he s been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these kind of republican so-called rebels here, trying to figure out what are the concessions that would be needed to peel off the votes for him to get there, even after they ve been negotiating for a matter of weeks now. listen to what one republican defector had to say this morning? it remains to be seen. i want a resolution. i want us to elect a speaker. another wrinkle this morning, you have former president donald trump giving kevin mccarthy his strongest endorsement yet, writing on socia