Galaxies when politics, media and the courts are drawn into an existential battle over the white house, the hill, the supremes, donald trump, joe biden, hunter biden and, well, the american way of life. Its the ultimate drama for the main stream media which have practically created Opposition Camps in this president ial election year. Looming over the landscape is the nations highest court which agreed to hear trumps appeal on the crucial question of president ial immunity. Shannon if bream ahead on that. Many in the media see this as the right way to settle such a weighty question while many others in the media are calling this a Stall Thing Tactic to delay the January 6th Case past the election. Its all a been fast and furious. Illinois has become the third state to kick trump off the ballot, and were waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on that. And given the con. Census that this is a consensus that this is a very bad and undemocratic idea, i dont know why scotus isnt moving faster.
Public safety and Crime Reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been for a long time back when i was chairman of judiciary committee. You know, since day one my administration has been working with Law Enforcement, mayors and Community Leaders to do what we know works to keep people and communities safe. As was referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw Violent Crime rising and their budgets were strained as they faced deep cuts in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. But we stepped up. Thanks to my American Rescue plan which i might note not a Single Person on the other team voted for, we provided 350 billion, 350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. You know, and the fact is that we find ourselves could use this money to keep Law Enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence. Invested 15 billion, 15 billion to make their communities safer and we added billions more in grants to help. Justice department invested in Law E
Hutchinson, one of the few republican candidates who has been critical of trumps legal problems despite the fact the former president seems to be gaining, not losing political strength with each and every indictment. Were keeping also a close eye on the Security Situation surrounding the courthouse as a mix of federal and city Law Enforcement blanket the area ahead of trumps rapidly approaching arrival. Were also learning new details about the latest indictment that appears to rely on testimony from high level Trump Administration officials including former Attorney General bill barr and of course former Vice President mike pence. So lets start the hour with nbcs Aaron Gilchrist outside the court, Peter Alexander and kristen welker, the cohosts of weekend today, former fbi general counsel, andrew weissmann, kristy greenberg, and former u. S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg on set with us. So aaron, kick us off from outside the courthouse. Whats the atmosphere out there as we get closer to Pre
time when prosecutors for jack smith were really, really active in interviewing witnesses around trump s mindset, appeared to be trying to get at just that. they were trying to determine whether trump knowingly based his actions on a lie in claiming widespread fraud that impacted the outcome of the november 2020 election. now, as we understand it, kushner has insisted that it was his impression that trump genuinely believed the election was stolen, according to a person familiar with what took place. this is a line of questioning the prosecutors have asked several witnesses, who are trying to figure out as they try to figure out exactly what trump s intent was because one of the things necessary depending on the charges the prosecutors might bring would be to establish corrupt intent. maggie, how does this information fit into the larger investigation by jack smith, the special counsel, into the efforts of trump and others to overturn the free and fair 2020 election? a
justice is protected by the constitution. there s growing evidence that equal justice in the u.s. is being replaced with a system of selective prosecution. agencies are targeting citizens they re supposed to protect. under president biden the justice department mass prosecuted his direct political rivals, no better example than donald trump federally indicted. to be clear can you disagree with trump s actions and believe what he did was wrong. i did. but this is the president s main opponent. his al it s like steve bannon peter navarro rudy giuliani have been targeted and maybe that s all right and proper. in the interest of democracy to question it. many believe these agencies have become unaccountable and too powerful. so, i watch with interest the questioning at the house judiciary committee today. you preside over the fbi. it has the lowest level of trust in the fbi s history. people trusted the fbi why j. edgar hoover was running the place and the reason is because you