Sexual abuse former president. But also the most important trial of our life times. The United States of america versus donald trump. Tomorrow, trump will be arraigned in a washington, d. C. Courtroom. Hes expected to plead not guilty to four criminal counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct, conspiracy to violate the right to vote and obstruction of an official proceeding. This latest indictment of the former president handed down by special counsel jack smith is an incredibly detailed and damning account of an attempt to subvert democracy and forcibly overturn the 2020 election. It pulls from firsthand accounts including people very close to the president and sets up a potential block buster trial with star witnesses, including his former Vice President and countless maga senators and members of the and members of congress. The core of the case is broken down into three parts. The first part details how trump was fully aware that he lost the election. F
Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j
want to keep perpetuating this man who is mentally deranged. the thing is that part of it is i think a fear of the electorate? right 7 in 10 republicans, trooes according to the new york times poll want the republican party to fight for trump and not to oppose him. i think they re afraid of those voters. but, do you understand where those voters are coming from? they lived through the trump administration, too. but their perception of it is so different. and also by the theory that they re supporting, kamala harris could simply cause joe biden to remain president simply by throwing out electors. and i m not sure that the base of the republican party is understanding where their theory ends. it ends with kamala harris deciding who the next president is. and i don t think they want that. people should read the indictment to know the reasons they ll get a great civics lessons. trump should read it. then he might understand how he was unelected as president in a very legal way.
what i want to start with, clark, could you have lived this? you re gay, you re republican, which i ve always found interesting. you can explain it. your party is against same-sex marriage. you fought that battle. trooes in the public positions will argue about that in a minute. what do you make among the intellectuals, he s always been raining pretty high now. well, what george is saying is a reflection that we ve seen in the platform debates. there actually was a debate about doma, about striking doma from the platform. those who fought for it tended to be much older. so, yeah, the younger the republican, the younger the conserve stative. the chances are they re agnostic. now we re going to go to blows. here it is. the language on gay marriage and the republican platform this year. we reaffirm our support for a