proceeding, and conspiring against the rights of voters. it ties these to the violent attack of trump s voters at the capitol on january 6th. special counsel jack smith spoke on that after it was filed. it was fueled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u.s. government, a nations process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election. the men and women of law enforcement who defended the u.s. capital on january 6th, are our heroes. they are patriots, and they are the very best of us. since the attack on our capitol, the department justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. this case has brought consistent with that commitment, and our investigation evander individuals continues. the indictment names trump as the only defendant, but it describes six coconspirators working with him to contest joe biden s win in 2020. trum
he pitched a fit. he was insulting, he was doing what he does. but i know that s what he does when he is insecure. i know that s what he does when he is threatened. and he should feel threatened, without a doubt. [ cheers and applause ] hello. thank you for joining us. i m ryan nobles in washington in for andrea. former president donald trump is back in federal court in new york city at this hour. at any moment, he could take the stand to defend himself in the damages phase of the e. jean carroll defamation trial. her defense team played a video of mr. trump s deposition this morning and wrapped up its case. the former president is fresh off his new hampshire victory and has continued to attack carroll publically and online after clashing with the judge who threatened to remove the former president from court last week. msnbc national correspondent jasmine have a joins us. do we know when and if donald trump will testify today? a couple things have gone on in the las
is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
evening. and the rachel maddow show starts right now. you. just lived my nightmare. i know. this was going to come out while i was live on the air. your staff had a betting pool on it. we did. whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. you got tacos anyway. we got tacos for everybody at 8:00 anyway. i couldn t wait any more. it worked, because i got it. we brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, we ll make that up to you tomorrow. usually when i start this show at 9:00 p.m. eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. tonight there is no script because i m going to go through what we just learned from the special council s office, i m going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. this just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it ri