busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious con
former american president. it s hard to overstate how not normal this is or how not normal it used to be before donald trump. since the search of mar-a-lago, there has been a spike in threats toward law enforcement. the bulletin was an internal warning for authorities to watch out, that their own personal safety might be at risk, quote, the fbi and dhs have observed an increase in threats to federal law enforcement and to a lesser extent other law enforcement and government officials following the fbi s recent execution of a search warrant in palm beach florida. three officials tell nbc news the fbi also warned that it has seen personal identifying information of possible targets of violence, such as home addresses, as well identification of family members as additional targets. these warnings can t just be dismissed as idle talk. on thursday a pro-trump veteran was killed in a standoff with law enforcement after local police say he attempted to break through the bullet-proof
To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati
A damning new report by the guardian says serious omissions were swept under the rug in the republican led senate investigation that claimed to exonerate kavanaugh of accusations he sexually assaulted christine blasey ford as well as potential misconduct against other women decades ago. the 2018 investigation prominently claimed to debunk the allegations of deborah ramirez who said kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party, saying it was a case of mistaken identity. turns out the mistaken identity claim was sent to the judiciary committee by an attorney named joseph smith, according to a nonredacted copy of a 2018 email obtained by the guardian. smith who is also a member of the federalist society, wrote in that email that he was in a class behind kavanaugh and believed ramirez was mistaken in identifying kavanaugh. instead, smith said it was a fellow class mate named jack maxi who was a member of kavanaugh s fraternity.
What else did it say? as you mentioned, there were the names of the individuals who were posted online in the nonredacted forms and that s been an issue for them. the surge in all of these threats has been an issue more broadly for the fbi to contend with at a time when they re operating this massive january 6th investigation that s already really stretching their resources. they re getting pulled in a lot of different directions and i think that dhs fbi bullet is meant to be a flair up to say make sure we re on all these let s going forward, katy. do they have any specifics on who they said they have addresses. have individual warnings given out to individual law enforcement officers? if so, do we have any idea what