prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. here is how district attorney willis puts it last night. the indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia s presidential election results. now, her indictment of this criminal racketeering enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. quote, depth donald trump lost the united states presidential election held on november 3rd, 2020. prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. they say that trump and his 18 co-defendants along with 30 unindicted co-conspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing fal
appear before a judge, a magistrate judge, to be formally charged for the third time in less than four months, as chris said, and msnbc news has learned three of the officers injured in january 6th will be trying to attend the hearing, although just a handful of members of the public are going to be allowed inside, and just 11 members are reserved for the press. you can see the camera shaking because we re all moving in real time here, trying to give you as much access to see what s happening, but even before he appears in court, trump has been fighting these charges on social media. he s been raising money off of it, his fund-raising committee has fired off at least eight solicitations for donations since this indictment was handed up on tuesday. he also posted a message to his supporters saying it s a great honor to be arrested because i m being arrested for you. now, technically, he s not going to be arrested. he s going to go in and surrender to authorities, but let s d
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 here in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace on the presidents day. as we come on the air the world continues to absorb the shock waves from the death of alexei navalny as tributes pure in around the globe as the sickening reality sets in that vladimir putin was silenced yet another of his critics, the world seemingly stands united in their grief and their outrage at the injustice and the certainty that navalny would still be alive but for vladimir putin. and yet here at home there has been one notable exception, the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president who said silent on navalny s death, who did not utter his name until today, three days after the world first learned that the russian opposition leader was dead and still trump notably has not condemned vladimir putin. no. instead in a twisted kind of metaphor trump likened himself and his legal battles to the now martyred alexei navalny. it is not just trump, it is also trump
january 6th select committee hearings, judge luttig called out donald trump and his cronies as a clear and present danger to american democracy. you will recall that when the disgraced twice impeached four times indicted ex-president was pressuring mike pence to help him overturn the 2020 election results, pence in his moment of legal need called judge luttig for advice and in no uncertain terms he told mike pence that legally and constitutionally he could not help trump do what he wanted to do. now judge luttig is sounding the alarm again, about another constitutional question. does trump s role in the insurrection, not just make him a really, really bad choice to be the commander in chief, but does it actually bar him from ever holding office again? judge luttig argues that under the 14th amendment trump is actually prohibited from ever being the president again. judge luttig s legal theory is being adjudicated in multiple courts in multiple states right now. judge luttig h
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai