President comes into focus. I am from regular stock. I am from regular people. Tonight, donald trump, Clarence Thomas, and new reporting on the Billionaire Friends Keeping clarence happy. I like to keep that friendship. [laughter] then, why the republicans need to root for jack smiths speedy trial. Plus, on a rainy day for Fake Electors in michigan, why arent we seeing this all over the country . Count three alleges that you dont falsely make, alter, for, its recovered a Public Record with the intent to defraud. Do you understand the charges in maximum penalties . Yes. And senator roy mazie hirono on the devastation of the fires and high hawaii, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have a proposed date for Donald Trumps trial. On charges they tried to steal the 2020 election. In a court filing today, Special Counsel jack smith asked for a start date of january 2nd, 2024. He said this would vindicate the Publics Interest in a speedy trial. That i
But it s also the difference between trying to commit fraud and not trying to commit fraud. oh yeah, absolutely. it might well have been very prudent for these electors to think about getting together, because we ve got this crazy byzantine system of translating the peoples votes into electoral college votes to get counted in congress. good lawyer-ing will probably tell you that you want to have a backup in case trump is declared by a court to be a winner in that state and then does, to the extent of these fraud cases turn people to state of mind, their intent, this does show, we don t intend to break the law, we re just trying to cover ourselves in the event that there is judicial change in the result. obviously you ve been writing about election law for a long time. it s an area of law that has grown more contested and higher salient s, i would say. there s a really interesting piece that has been published by two conservative law
York has not had a republican governor since george protectee in 2006. louise eldon beat kathy hochul up on the issue of. private seem to have salient s. and then the last poll i saw, crime was a bigger issue than inflation. but in the end, the dna held. it is a blue state. and kathy hochul is the elected governor. and then the question is, was it actually in danger? and the fact that there was so much attention put on this and other states, kind of what van was saying in new york, it got democratic voters energized in a way that they were not before. jake? all right, dana, we are staying laser focused on the tight senna trail s is in georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. each one is pivotal to determining the role of the united states senate. and as we wait for more votes