this. good evening, i m rachel maddow. here on msnbc as we begin the special coverage of the arrest and booking a former republican president. donald trump at the fulton county don t atlanta georgia. historic, historic moment. in american politics, american, life and for all the worst reasons. he was indicted two weeks ago. he was given until noon tomorrow, noon friday to surrender or face arrest. he s expected to surrender tonight to be fingerprinted, to have his mugshot taken at the county jail. one of the unexpectedly convenient thinks about having official business to conduct out of jail is that they are open 24/7. 365 days a year. for local jail, they never close. so tonight s events were effectively scheduled at the convenience of the former president himself. he could ve come in at anytime, as long as it was before noon tomorrow. for whatever reason, he chose tonight. and perhaps not coincidentally in primetime. less than 24, hours after all the other candidates runnin
phone about the moment of paper they re dealing with. it s coming up. i had an intuition that would be there. when you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. thank you, my friend. you bet. thank you all for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. if your calender was marked for this coming monday when president trump was set to hold a press conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that fulton county indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, i m sorry to inform you it has been called off. trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. he adds, therefore the news conference is no longer necessary. that news comes right after trump s legal team in another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial.
caught plotting flake electors. we must be prepared. to lobby our republican legislatures. how roger stone is responding tonight. and meet the judge who helped rollback your reproductive rights. because doctors love looking at babies. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, today fulton county district attorney fani willis, who was prosecuting donald trump in 18 other criminals under racketeering charges announced her office is investigating threats against the grand jurors who indicted the ex president. nbc news reporter first reported yesterday that trump supporters leaked deported addresses of grand juries online. along with their names which did appear in the indictment. and this is just the latest example of threatening behavior by trump supporters directed at the various people working to hold them accountable for the crimes he is accused of. we also learned yesterday that a texas woman was arrested. and charged with making threa
lawyers hope and owen to take us off the air this evening. and on that very important note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow. they did it out in the open. they tweeted this video. then they applauded themselves when they were done. 11 arizona republicans met on december 14, 2020 at republican party headquarters in phoenix and signed documents representing themselves as the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the united states of america from the state of arizona. and they transmitted them to the national archives and congress. for counts by mike pence january 6th. though joe biden had won arizona by more than 10,000 votes. and you know the rest. the attorney general has indicted them on felony criminal charges along with seven other coconspire soars affiliated with trump s 2020 presidential campaign. t
night. do you think more people would pay attention to the price of the eggs if you gave the good economic news in an ugly christmas sweater? possibly. i just i was remarking i don t know where that sentence was going to end. i have never seen hris hayes with an over the shoulder monitor that says tiz the season. and the holiday cheer people want to see you in the santa hat. i m going to be in an ugly christmas sweater doing this throw before the holiday season is out. whatever it takes to get people to pay attention to good news. america, you are owed that. thank you, my friend. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we are beginning with some breaking news this evening. the israeli government has voted to accept a deal that would free 50 hostages currently being held by the terrorist group, hamas. that is according to the office of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what we do know is that the 50 hostageerize all women and children, and they