When we leave he gives us a hard. There you go. Thanks, steve. It means a lot. Wisdom borne of age. And friends born of a hes a mud duck. We are so happy that matt found his flock. Im so grateful that my colleague megan found this story, that mauro produce it and then boyd shared. It and please remember, it costs absolutely nothing to be kind, and i can assure you any nhl team owner that i know, ill be emailing you the segment tonight. You sure as hell better stand this man some cool gear. With that i wish you a good night. From all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Today the Supreme Court made a momentous decision, one that has significant implications for the rule of law in this country. At five pm eastern, this afternoon, the Supreme Court agreed to take up former President Trumps claims of president ial immunity. These are not credible claims. That has been thoroughly litigated in District Court and federal Appellate Court. By nearl
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s
Idea. also, you know, judges, i think, have most judges are patient. most of them are thoughtful. but they believe deeply in the rule of law and protect the decorum of their courtroom. so the more that, you know, these folks come in and raise their voices and make wild accusations and, you know, say things out of court, including on social media, the more you re going to push a judge to do something you might not like. perhaps a gag order, perhaps a contempt order, perhaps something else. look, i think judge chutkan in this case was absolutely right to set a trial date in march. as i said earlier, plenty of time. it also sort of minimizes the amount of time that mr. trump has to cause mischief, and that s a good thing. chuck, i want to turn you to georgia. as we ve been discussing, mark meadows yesterday appeared on the stand and is trying to push that case to federal court. give us, first of all, your assessment as to whether that ll
Fundraising purposes on social media that depending how you interpret who is a victim, who is the community, could go over that line. donald trump will be there thursday to surrender, but not a in- arraigned on thursday. when do we expect that he will come back to be officially read charges and plead? sometime after september 5. the agreement was, or rather the order was, from fani willis, i want a trial date in march and i want these defendants to be arraigned anytime after september 5. we don t expect all 19 of them in a courtroom together at the same time. so we should expect waves of arraignments, maybe not necessarily individual arraignments, but at least clusters of them sometime after labor day. and we should expect this will be on television as well. cameras will be allowed in the courtroom at least as of now. lisa rubin, thank you so much. coming up next, what do you do when more than half of iowa s republican voters still believe that the 2020 election was
Typical witness tampering, trying to influence a witness. there s a different subsection that tedeals with obstruction oa proceeding. that s good context. when you see that you immediately think there s some kind of mob-related. the espionage act isn t always about spying. witness tampering isn t always what you think. there were several legal developments in the president s world yesterday, including ruling the manhattan district attorney s case involving hush money payments to the adult film star stormy daniels, what does that say? we remember alvin bragg, we have a trial date in march. he has indicted donald trump for those hush money payments to stormy daniels. donald trump made an interesting motion. he wanted to walk his case from state court over to the federal court where i used to work. why would you want to make that move if you were donald trump? you would get a different judge. you could have a more favorable jury pool because in federal