Replaced rosen with clark a subordinate who supported trumps big lie and wanted to send a letter command georgia to that letter was to be the first of six with one sent out to each of the swing states where trump hoped to toss out the Election Results. Thats according to the plan hatched by clark. From that new report, according the rosen trump opened the January 3rd Meeting by saying, quote, one thing we know, you, rosen, arent going to do anything the overturn the election. The Deputy Attorney general Richard Donahue and assistant Attorney General steven engle made clear all the assistant attorneys general would resign if trump replaced rose within clark. Donahue added the mass resignations likely would not end there and other u. S. Attorneys and other d. O. J. Officials might resign en masse. Donahue and rosen also rrld pat cipolloy and Patrick Philbin pushing back against a proposal to replace rosen with clark calling clarks letter a murdersuicide pact and the two white house lawye
Office. What any of that portends is anyones guess at this hour. We have eyes on entrances and exits of that courthouse. Journalists there standing by and a few trained ears to the ground. As soon as we know something, anything at all, we will let you know. We should know today marks two weeks since donald trump announced that he had received a Target Letter in this case. It suggests he could be charged with Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct the january 6th session of congress, and depriving voters of their rights. Here with me are my guests. First, lets bring in justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, who has been following all this for us today. Ken, bring us up to speed for what we do know at this hour. Reporter greetings from the department of justice, where we are not so patiently waiting for news that explains the developments you just laid out. There are a lot of uncertainties around this process, because this is two weeks to the day si
Now charged in a fake electors scheme in that state. What that means for them and the wider probe. And later, what were learning about the american soldier detained in north korea including an account that he ran over the border at, quote, full gas. Thanks for joining us. Im Anna Cabrera Reporting from new york. And we begin with a deluge of news about the Special Counsel Election Interference Investigation as donald trump is told that he is a target of that probe. This morning were learning that trump has reached out to leading Congressional Republicans to strategize. Here with us now, Vaughn Hillyard and lisa rubin and also jane trimm and also a committee spokesperson. And also barbara mcquaid. And so vaughn first talk to us about what trump is saying. What do we know about these conversations that he is having with republicans on capitol hill as well as these events hes had since the announcement of the Target Letter . He made multiple stops in iowa yesterday including sitting down
vice president kamala harris of asserts the theory behind new education standards in florida. specifically about teaching that some enslaved people actually benefited from their bondage. she says that replacing black history with lies. we will unpack the settling unsettling response from desantis. i am symone sanders-townsend, i know you missed me! and i have something to say. history moves fast, just 109 days, ago a u.s. president current or former had never been indicted. now, we may see it happen for a third time to the same person. former president donald trump. and that has unprecedented implications for the 2024 presidential election. on sunday, the former president received a matter from national jacks mitt. informing trump that he is the target of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news reports that the letter mentioned three statutes related to the defamation of rights. conspiracy to defraud the united states, and tamperin
filed against fake electors they tried to overturn the 2020 results. we will break it all down as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. here we go. good evening, once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, donald j trump is lashing out at special counsel jack smith and riling up his base for yet another possible legal battle. today, trump said he received a letter from smith informing him that he is the target of another grand jury investigation. they won on interference in the aftermath of the 2020 election. two sources confirmed to nbc news that trump did get that letter from smith. trump says that the letter gives him until thursday to report to the grand jury. spokesperson for the special counsel s office declined to comment. people who received target letters, this is important to note, often are indicted, and it is not always the case. this news comes on the very same day as a major hearing in the classified documents case. today, jack smith s team squared