Trump indictments. Im melissa murray. Im andrew weissman. We are both nyu law professors, nbc legal analysts, now the coauthors of the New York Times best selling book, the Trump Indictments. The hist forurge Charging Documents with commentary. Donald trump is charged with 88 Felony Counts in four different jurisdictions. In this hour, we will cover the latest developments in Donald Trumps criminal cases starting with Fulton County, georgia today. And we will also zoom out and reflect on whether the american Justice System has so far proven whether to meet the challenges as we write in our book. The former president s attempt to politicize are corrupt, not only our elections, but the rule of law. January 6 Committee Member will join us. And later in the hour, we had flip the script. And ask an anchor the important questions. Chris hayes will join us to weigh in on the medias role in the event that voters ultimately get to render a verdict on donald trump before a jury does. But the bre
In the primary calendar that in previous cycles has given us a clear indication of which candidates will win their parties president ial nomination. But this year, there is far less suspense. Both parties have already steered us to who their nominees will be, as biden and trump cruised through the early voting states. The republican president ial candidate nikki haley is still in the race, for now, but the expectations are low. These are the states voting today. The us territory of american samoa, also staging a democratic caucus, tuesday is also the last day for democrats in iowa to mail in their primary ballots. Almost a third of the delegates will be up for grabs on Super Tuesday. On the republican side of the ledger, the winning candidate needs 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination. A clean sweep today would put donald trump within touching distance of the nomination. And if the polling is right, then the 2024 election will be the contest 70 of the country didnt want. Biden ver
the middle of what could become a much bigger war. the ongoing russian invasion of ukraine, deepening fears of what the china might invade taiwan while america is indirectly supporting two major wars. extreme political polarization around the world and here in america, not to mention a climate crisis that they re in the habitability of our very planet. so much is going wrong. so much there around us, which one is the most serious threat to global stability? none of the ones that i mentioned. the greatest threat to the stability of the world right now remains a twice impeached, what the bull indicted former president of this nation, donald trump, is the greatest threat that the world faces. here is why. those global crisis i mentioned actually hang in extremely delicate balance with president biden steady and on the wheel. as chaotic as things may seem right now after some, how much worse to take it with donald trump at the white house? he s on the case, joe biden s, with ukra
it has been quite a week. michael beschloss is here to put it into perspective as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings everyone, i m simone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump s divisive and potentially dangerous rhetoric is about to be tested in court. monday morning a federal appeals court will weigh to lift a partial gap order imposed by judge tanya chutkan. who is overseeing the election interference case in washington d.c.. this afternoon judge chutkan denied the former presidents bid to strike references to the violence of january six from his indictment. that rule came just hours after we learned more about trump s own view of that day. and the rally on the ellipse. here s what he told abc s jonathan carl. a little bit more than two months after the insurrection. . who if you look at the real signs of that crowd it was never reported directly. it s the biggest crowd i ve ever spoken in front of by far that went back to the was
us through what that committee is considering. yeah, alex, well monday is likely going to be the last time we see this panel assemble publicly and in person. and, when chairman bennie thompson gambles in for the last time, there are a couple of things that we could see him consider and this whole panel consider as they wind up their investigation. these are certainly things that the committee is still considering and to beating. whether these could happen, and should happen. one of those things are those criminal referrals for former president trump to the justice department for his role in the attack on the capitol on january 6th. some of those charges that we know committee members could be considering our insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of congress. and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. alex, this would obviously be historic, unprecedented. this is a decision. the weight of which is not lost on committee members. they have said for months now