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the times adds, that includes the cost of protecting the staff that are carrying out the investigations. what was most fascinating and kind of most disturbing is that 1. 9 million of that money went to paying in the u.s. marshals to protect jack smith, his family, and prosecutors working on the case, many of whom had been named name checked on social media by donald trump and his supporters. people went out of their way to tell me that that number was rising rapidly as the almost $2 million to protect the department of justice, to make sure they are not harmed during this investigation. that is something. meanwhile, former nypd commissioner bernard kerik, you remember him, he worked with rudy giuliani to uncover what was alleged voter fraud, he has now turned over thousands of pages of documents to jack smith s office. and tonight former trump justice department official richard donahue told nbc s spoken to the special counsel s office. last year, he told the janu ....
watching for what special counsel jack smith does next in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. about a week ago, trump confirmed he was a target in smith s election interference probe. now, while we wait for news on a possible third trump indictment, we are getting a clearer picture of the scope of the investigations. the new york times now reporting that the justice department has been pouring resources into the trump investigations and the special counsel is now on track to spend a total of $25 million a year. the times adds, that includes the cost of protecting the staff that are carrying out the investigations. what was most fascinating and kind of most disturbing is that 1.9 million of that money went to paying in the u.s. marshals to protect jack smith, his family, and prosecutors working on the case, many of whom had been named name checked on social media by donald trump and his supporters. people went o ....
melber. you re very kind. thanks, alicia. good to see you. welcome to the beat, i am ari melber. get comfortable. we are going to walk through what was an absolutely unusual day in the legal trials, tribulations, and skirmishes over defendant donald trump. we are tracking, as my colleague just mentioned, major developments across three different cases. two courtrooms were in action today. in georgia, we saw the most significant day since perhaps the dramatic confessions and sentencing of other trump codefendants in that case, but we saw for the first time the d.a. leading the case, rico d.a. fani willis, taking the stand and testifying, which itself was a surprise last-minute move, while in new york, the other side of your screen, we got it. the first scheduled criminal trial of defendant donald trump. that case, you may recall, was not supposed to go first. there are a lot of reasons, legal reasons and delays that have led to this outcome, but we got, today, the ....
nomination robert f. kennedy junior. his testimony focusing on government efforts to censor opposing viewpoints including his own calling it a systematic programs to control what americans can say and think. this is part of what he had to say about 30 minutes ago. i am being censored here through this target, through smears, through misinterpretations what it said, through lies, through association, which is a tactic we all thought had been discredited with after a andy mccarthy hearings in the 1950s. those same weapons are now being deployed against me to silence me. dana: he dispensed with his written statement and gave it passionately from the start and got applause at the end of that. he might have some friends in the room. the democrats are loaded for bear. they wanted to table the hearing and wanted to take it to executive session so he wouldn t even have a chance to be seen in public, which is ironic given the subject matter of the hearing. bill: he is quit ....
insurrection at the capitol. what s new signs, the next possible terminal indictment for trump is in georgia. we are going in-depth on it all coming up. and later, like a war zone, a parkland parent who walked the school turned crime scene for the first time since 2018 massacre joins us live to talk about the traumatic visit. all of these stories and much more is ahead. and good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today show with millions of americans reaching their boiling point over the brutal heat baking much of the country for yet another day. 84 million americans are under heat alerts stretching from the pacific northwest all the way to right here in miami, florida through tuesday. that is more than 3200 miles of people just sweating it out and trying to stay cool anyway that they can. the valley of the sun is definitely living up to its name. phoenix is sizzling and temperatures topping 110 degrees, for a 15th straight day. but that is nothin ....