A defiant former president , donald, trump off the Campaign Trail in pennsylvania. Just a few hours, last night in iowa, at this, as he tells one interview, or even prison would not stop his campaign. If if Going Forward right you get these indictments there ends up, youve got a jury in d. C. , you get convicted and sentenced. Does that stop your campaign for president . If you are sentenced . Not at all. There is nothing in the constitution to say that it could and not at all. The former president s remarks coming as he faces mounting legal troubles from special counsel, jack smith, new charges in the classified documents case and a looming Potential Indictment for Election Interference. We will have all the latest developments in just a moment. Also this, our controversial new comments from Supreme Court justice, samuel alito, who says theres Nothing Congress can do to regulate ethics on the high court in the wake of highprofile scandals involving most prominently, himself. New infor
in her post. whether there should be term limits to 26 year terms, for example. we saw legislation proposed in recent years to that effect. so far, zinc, way the average age of 65 years. old when most americans are getting ready to, retire there is no plans to change the term limit. it s fascinating what s happening there. as julie tsirkin, thank you. coming, up a michelin person story turned upside down. new details on the alabama woman now charged with faking her disappearance. the former president hinted at testifying in one of the many cases currently against. and what are the odds we will actually see donald trump on the stand? the stand? and could reactivate. shingles strikes as a painful,
boom was ousted in a violent military coup led by a rival army general friday. in a move that drew widespread commutation of democratic leaders around the. world the french foreign minister has suspended all aid to niger, meanwhile, anthony blinken said earlier today that he has spoke directly with the ousted former president, calling for his immediate release from detainment. nbc s, courtney kube, is on the ground for us and joins us now. courtney, i hope you re staying safe. what is the latest with the situation there and what is the country s political future look like if nothing changes? we are coming to the end of the second day, with no protests in the street. this all started wednesday morning, when the democratically elected president, president mohammed bazoum, was taken into custody by his own presidential guard services. in the hours that followed, that we saw the first protest. they seemed to be in favor of president bazoum, who was being
was at the first one observing them, you saw people trying to overthrow, start overthrowing the government because they didn t like the fact that there was a black president. we saw legislation. for example in the statehouse they were putting in legislation to overturn the right of citizens to vote for the u.s. senate. they wanted to have the state legislators do that from now on. this has been an existing part of the republican party. the problem is the republican party and the corporate overlords contained it. now it s taken over. trumpism is in charge of that. they don t care if they get their tax cuts, their regulation. they will destroy democracy in the process as long as they keep on keeping they are able to keep that in their profit margins. the only real way to defend ourselves right now is for us to have a very vigorous democracy where we get out the vote and stop all attempts for them to