Night, the special counsel jack smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a gag order against donald trump prohibiting him from attacking prosecutors. Including the judge, herself, or potential witnesses who may testify on in a federal criminal trials, stemming from his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Now, prosecutors said, quote, the defendants past conduct, including conduct that has taken place after and as a direct result of the indictment in this case, actually demonstrates the need for this order. Adding that trumps past salvos had already resulted in harassment of potential witnesses. Of course, to no ones surprise, yeah, donald trump responded by doing what he always does. Lashing out. This, time on social media, claiming that President Biden had weaponize the doj and the fbi. Of course, there is no evidence to support that whatsoever. And its requests, the special counsels office contends that trump hosts amount to more than a mere breach of decorum, because his public vit
And sunday. Next, msnbc prime weekend. Welcome to primetime weekend. Im nicolle wallace. Cabinet would have all the best people. The best and the finest. We will have the best people in the world. The voters believed him. Promises to surround himself with the best people. We will let the extremely high turnover rate. The disgraced expresident eyes and other term. Expect the definition of the best people to have changed. Now simply the undying loyalty. Take what he did at the rnc installing his daughterinlaw. To leave the rnc with the model. If trump does win back the white house. He will fill his administration with people who share his every impulse and goals of an anti democratic extremist policy agenda. People like Jeffrey Clark. Been flooded from the Attorney General. A former doj official after the 2020 election. Going to overthrow the results. Efforts could land clark in legal hot water as he is moments away from being disbarred. Politico reports eight Disciplinary Panel in washi
the famous blue lagoon is closed. small sign, officials say of what is to come. thanks for joining us. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, our closest look from inside gaza, with israeli troops uncovering hamas underground infrastructure. and a u.s. official saying one command post is under gaza s main hospital. day one of the former president s defense in new york s civil fraud case, with donald trump jr. taking the stand. we begin keeping him honest. what the former president is now saying about his opponents and how his allies are reportedly planning to target them. thanks for joining us. it is no secret that the former president lies nearly all the time. what s also becoming clearer, though, is that when he talks about what he would like to do to people he perceives as his enemies, he s often not lying. there s new reporting to that effect tonight. and coupled with several other recent reports, it sugges
tomorrow. so anything much going on in the news? enjoying these sleepy summer days with not much happening? agh. all right, we ve got a bunch of stuff to cover tonight. first, the former president of the united states is going to be sentenced for 34 felony convictions next week on thursday. the prosecutors who brought that case and who prosecuted in court that case against donald trump, they were due today to make their sentencing recommendation to the judge. in a new york state case like this, it s not the jury that convicted trump that will decide what his sentence is, it s the judge who oversaw the case. it s judge juan merchan who will sentence trump. the maximum sentence trump could face is four years in prison. it s very possible, however, that he might not get any prison time at all, or if he does get a sentence of confinement, it s possible it could be home confinement, we just don t know. on the one hand, what he s been convicted of, while it is 34 felonies, it s a
growing far more negative. with the death toll rising in gaza and memories facing of hamas atrocities; killing families, children, babies, taking civilian hostages. all of which i think should be mentioned every day. much of the mainstream press is growing more skeptical and in some cases outright hostile. look at the verbiage by this cbs news anchor. we begin tonight with israel s invasion of gaza i go growing more intense. howard: not israel s realuation for a war started by hamas which is dedicated to wiping it off the map. bibi netanyahu s government didn t help itself by bombing the largest refugee center, and i get it, the israelis were targeting and killed a top hamas commander. hamas because this kind of embedding everywhere, using its own people as human shields, but many just position on the civilian deaths. watch this exchange between cnn s wolf blitzer and israeli military spokesman richard hecht. israel still dropped a bomb there attempting to kill this ha