Another defendant. Also a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case with orders to investigate the president s son and others. The question now, who are the others . We are live in maui, where the death toll just rose sharply. Some especially powerful new video is coming in, which we will bring to you, along with exclusive reporting on how hawaiian officials may have missed Key Opportunities to prevent a tragedy like this. Good evening, everyone. John berman here in for anderson. We begin with what we learned today about how judge Tanya Chutkan intends to handle what could be the most important trial this country has ever seen. Someone who is held and right now running to reclaim the highest office in the land. And on top of that, hes donald trump. The venue, as you know, was a hearing on how he and his legal teammate handled evidence, some of it sensitive, that prosecutors will be turning over to them, specifically what they are allowed to make public. And on that, judge chutkan
welcome to special coverage of the indictment form hasn t. frontline here tonight with my embassy colleagues, jonathan capehart, host of the saturday and sunday show. simone standard temps it house of - and katie fang house to th katie phang show and less than 24, hours th president will be flying to ne york for his arraignment his decade as teflon don comin to an. and nbc news has learned tha the indictment includes around 30 counts related to trump s alleged role in the hush money payments made to storm daniels. he would appear in court o tuesday. the campaign now says trum will give a speech a mar-a-lago the same evening. the legal team said they are not doing anything about the arraignment and instead will wait for the indictment to b unsealed we will dissect it. the team will look at every an shoe that we will be able to challenge and we will challeng it i anticipate a motion. there s no law that fits this. there is no law that fits this we re likely to get a first
Gives him the ability to go to other venues. usually special counsel is someone chosen from outside doj, a former dojer because you want the point to be an appearance of impartiality. so, like john durham, who barr installed as a special counsel, weiss is also a current doj employee. so, that s not the normal pick. it s pretty puzzling what s going on. the main reason we were told, at least, why he did it was because david weiss, for the first time, we think, asked for it. evan, you know, president biden is obviously running for re-election right now. how hard is this going to be for him not to address this on the campaign trail? yeah, john, you know, sort of his nature, his habit over the decades has been when he s facing a personal or a political challenge or a setback, he talks about it, talks about it out loud. it s his response to a lot of things. he talks to the public.
When he was investigating this case, and dropped it, he did s at the behest of the souther district of new york, th federal prosecutors. the southern district of new york at the time was under bil barr so, it s a case that michael cohen, it s an argument he s been making, he makes it in hi most recent book, that the bor trump administration justice department was instrumental in this case not proceeding, or this not going forward it was. one explanation that has com out is the problem is this long-standing justic department opinion that th justice department itsel cannot prosecute a sitting president. so, yes, the sdny, i think muscled up manhattan prosecutors, if they do that it s known as the sovereig district of new york there was an effort by barr to slow down the situation there. but jeffrey berman, who barr try to force out but stayed in power for a while, said th
but more important for mr. barr apparently is to show that investigating this president and his pals for exactly that should be seen as bad. and he hand-picked a prosecutor to investigate just that, and he calls the russia probe thin justification. trump is the victim. all right. that was what was promised from this ig s report, 476 pages, no trump as victim. trump even says that that s what this says. it doesn t. he s lying to you about the report. please do yourself the favor, do the homework. he s lying to you. you can discover it if you want. just like there was no proof of him being a victim in the 468-page report that the ig put out, even though they told you it would. it wasn t in the 412 carter page fisa application. there were mistakes but he was no victim. the 83 pages that examined james comey s behavior, the 39 page