donald trump s alleged involvement in trying to overturn george s 2020 election results. congressman adam schiff on republican efforts to keep him from serving on the intelligence committee he just chaired. and the string of mass shootings in his home state. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. in about 15 minutes, we expect a sheriff s update on the latest mass shooting in california, the second in as many days. this time in half moon bay. the victims members of the aapi community. seven people are dead and another with life-threatening injuries after police say an agricultural worker opened fire on his co-workers at two farms. many of the workers live in these rural complexes with their families and children. some of the children witnessed the tragedy after they had just gotten home from school. nbc news has exclusive video of the moment the 67-year-old suspect surrendered in a sheriff s office parking lot. last night the county sheriff describing the
Welcome to prime time we can, i am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. Donald trump would never keep the Fifth Amendment. If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment . Now he is on trial for Hiding Hush Money payments to a star. But he wont take the stand. Donald, why wont you testify . After all, you believe only guilty cowards to the fifth. Fifth amendment, Fifth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, horrible. Horrible. Please take the stand, donald. Or admit you are a coward. It is a big Open Question at this point, will he or wont he . Will donald trump take the stand in his defense in his own Criminal Trial . The jury good to hear from the man at the center of all of it, the defendant directly. We have seen the expresident take the stand or go under oath for very short periods of time in previous trials and it has got not gone very well for him. In november of last year he testified in the Civil Fraud Trial against him and his businesses, where he flung a
Democracy at stake, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court hold in their hands the power to forever alter the trajectory of our country. How they rule on cases having to do with january 6th, violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power, will echo for generations. So not only is it reasonable for us to expect those nine human beings to go about their process impartially, its vital that they are seen and perceived as being impartial appearance. The mere appearance of bias could strain our trust in an honest result for these cases, which is why todays news isnt just disturbing, its scary. The New York Times cites photos and interviews with neighbors in reporting that in 2021, days before president joe bidens inauguration as president , days after the deadly attack on the United States capitol of january 6th, neighbors of conservative Justice Samuel alito noticed something on his lawn, an upside down american flag, a symbol commonly used in those days by Trump Supporters
donald trump has obviously been damaged in his legal expexposur possible obstruction of justice because of the amount of time he spent resisting turning over those documents. does all of this diminish the political potency of the issue against joe biden or donald trump? yeah, it s hard to say it doesn t. first thing that comes to my mind is, do we have another special counsel on our hands? mike pence is very much indicating that he may run for president himself. if that s the standard we are setting that you can t trust doj on its own, then we may be looking at that again. it really feels like the air is coming out of this issue. i think all of us are learning about this in real time. if this is just a thing that sort of happens, it s hard to see this being particularly damaging for either trump or biden. obviously, this is only a small part of donald trump s legal woes. perhaps we move to the next thing. it s hard to imagine people are going to get too worked up about
pleading. this is just an effort to delegitimized the justice department. there is no legal basis to appointing a special master and giving him this extra look see into the government s work. he is in essence trying to argue to the jury of public opinion, you can t trust the justice department. and that s what this is all about. he doesn t have a defense. he s acknowledged having the documents. we can all see for ourselves and they are classified. so his only strategy is to trot out this tired old approach that easy s time and time again when he s been in trouble, and say you can t trust doj, they re at fulton coming after me, it s a witch hunt. i should have a level of oversight into their investigation then no other subject in a criminal case is entitled to. what about the unsealing of the detailed inventory of items from mar-a-lago? what can we expect there? what does that practically mean? so it s important to note that doj offered this up, their