prepare for the trial. oh my goodness! all the networks! wow! then, why a federal judge suggested elon musk was protecting donald trump from the production of his twitter plus, real evidence that many criminal charges across four indictments are having an effect on trump voters. and, one year after it was signed, the simple math and wild success of the inflation reduction act, when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump and his 18 codefendants in that rico indictment must turn themselves in at the fulton county jail in atlanta, georgia, within nine days. there they will be booked, processed, and mugshots taken ahead of the arraignments, which district attorney fani willis wants to take place the first week of september. today willis also proposed a trial date for this case in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia and elsewhere. she requested it begin on march 4th of next year. that is the day before super
thank, you alex. i want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trump s criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a standing invitation to appear on this program at anytime. all of donald trump s defense lawyers have failed more spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a criminal defense lawyer, which is to control your client. donald trump is out of control, spewing poisonous hateful, racist, sexist lies about the prosecutors and judges who are involved in the cases, the criminal cases against him. or, as in fani willis s case, still investigating him. and every one of donald trump s criminal defense lawyers knows that every poisoned, filthy word donald trump has said about the prosecutors, every one of those words is a pathological lie. and not one of those criminal defense lawyers has the professional dignity or
she used to be the district attorney of the neighboring county i. want to get her reaction to this. this is something we ve never seen before in the history of american prosecutions. georgia has never seen it, and i just want to get her feeling about what the impact of it is. yeah, i mean, funny willis is not issued an indictment against on trump and he s already using everything at his disposal to undermine her and threatened her. so this is absolutely tara incognito it should not go under noticed or under discussed. i will be watching. thank, you alex. i want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trump s criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a standing invitation to appear on this program at anytime. all of donald trump s defense lawyers have failed work spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a criminal
night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with the scope of the special counsel jack smith s investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. the latest revelation that investigators executed a search warrant of donald trump s twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. the twitter files that the justice department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. all those materials could be relevant. it s fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. i think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the appeals court to get timely compliance. but clearly the evidence here that is important to jack s
brief, spare, objective and at times even honestly dry terms what exactly they are doing, and that this grave step was taken carefully after the attorney general says they exhausted the other less intrusive options and, he put it on record for the nation, that he personally approved of this legal measure. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means. less intrusive means is exactly what the doj was, according to garland, doing up until this search. now, he spoke for just a few minutes. he took no questions. he emphasized that prosecutors will continue to approach this case with independent, nonpartisan rigor to uphold the rule of law. upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. under my watch, that is precisely what the justice department is doing. there you have it. it may