one year ago, president volodymyr zelenskyy stood defiantly with his cabinet in kyiv as russian forces attacked the ukrainian capital. ukraine has defied expectations and showed the world tremendous tenacity over the past year, fighting back russian forces time a time. today, there are no signs that europe s biggest land conflict since world war ii will end any time soon. we will be covering this come somber anniversary throughout the morning. at home, we re following the federal response to the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. transportation secretary pete buttigieg toured the scene as investigators appear to pinpoint a possible cause for the crash. he certainly had challenges for donald trump, as well. yes, he did. well, i m glad he came here. if he is now ready to join us in stopping the deregulation of dangerous trains like this one, then, yeah, we can work together. we ll have more of what he had to say and what is in store for east palestine today.
hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pence s bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big new york times story that was making waves. you might have seen it. he s here. he make his beat debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those hardliners, and during those clashes when he had to get all the votes on the house floor, he promised all kinds of concessions, including promoting what was then his most ardent foe to a committee to look into fbi investigations and attacking the fbi and doj. and that itself is a shift in washington s power dynamics. this is a story i m about to tell you. for decades, members in both parties lobbied to get on committees like appropriations, controlling money. some sought prestigious assignmen
Seeing trumps very own words and rhetoric in a court filing as it gets. Attorneys for the expresident accuse the Special Counsel of asking the court to, quote, take the extraordinary step of stripping President Trump of his First Amendment freedoms during the most important month of his campaign against President Biden. They say, quote, now keenly aware that it is losing that race for 2024, the prosecution seeks to unconstitutionally silence President Trumps but not President Bidens political speech. On pain of contempt. End quote. Now, if all this sounds familiar, its because trumps attorneys have been making this argument for months now. As the New York Times notes, almost from the moment mr. Trump was indicted, his legal team has raised a First Amendment defense. Its also a defense that jack smith anticipated. His indictment of donald trump on the Election Interference Case says on the second page, the defendant had a right, like every american, to speak publicly about the eleioand
reports. we begin with breaking news, in the last 24 hours, donald trump suffering two major legal blows when it comes to his actions on and around january 6th. three judges, on a federal appeals court unanimously dismissed trump s claims that he has immunity from several claims connected to the capitol riot. the judge overseeing the justice department s criminal case ruled trump has no protection from prosecution as a former president. let s go right now to nbc s dasha burns joining us from cedar rapids, iowa. where donald trump is expected to speak in this next hour. welcome to you, dasha. how is trump s legal team reacting to these back-to-back losses? well, trump spokesperson is reacting to both of these lawsuits, saying in a statement, in a response to the federal appeals court ruling, this is a limited narrow and procedural ruling, the facts fully show that on january 6th, president trump was acting on behalf of the american people. carrying out duties as president of
6th Committee Member jamie raskin. Hes part of the discussion that included the committees chief investigative counsel and retired federal judge Michael Luttig who testified at the hearings. This Virginia Bar Association event is about 90 minutes. [applause] steve, thank you soso much. I want tot intern thank steve busch, Paul Atkinson for their exceptional work and also richard called in for the that he did to get this up, put this program together. The events of january 6th are seared in our memories, and i use that verb appropriately. The only connection, the only other examples i can think of is 9 11. Anything probably because in each instance we actually saw it in real time, almost as if we were there. But we have to get past those images and we have to ask ourselves why did it occur, who i what is responsible, and perhaps most importantly for our discussion today, how do we prevent it from happening again. And thats why this panel and these four individuals are so extraordinary,