Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Republican critic of donald trump. Now, hes running for the senate. Our Keynote Conversation with former maryland governor, larry hogan, on the direction of the gop as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again, im Stephanie Ruhle live from washington d. C. Get out your sharpie and your old School Calendar because we are now 246 days away. Cross them off, from the election. The Supreme Court has officially ruled on a key question looming over the president ial race, the day before super tuesday. Today, all nine justices rejected colorados effort to kick former President Trump off the ballot because of his actions leading up to january 6th. The decision applies to all states, basically ending the effort to remove trump from ballots around the country. The courts ruling comes on what was supposed to be day one of trumps federal election interference trial, but that has now been delayed by the Supreme Court. My colleague Laura Jarrett breaks down todays deci
tonight with his opposition to gop calls for stronger work requirements to be included in any budget agreement that would be . with the debt ceiling increase. the issue of a work requirement has a barge for the biggest remaining hurdles for reaching an agreement between negotiators for the white house and house republicans. as a top gop negotiator is weighing in on this tonight, that s louisiana covers man garrett graves. he said tonight his party will not drop their demand for tougher work requirements as part of a final agreement. democrats have conversely argued listen, social benefit programs already work requirements in place. adding to them this is unnecessary. meanwhile, as you pointed out the president and his top advisers are over at camp david this weekend. working perhaps. assess june 5 deadline quickly approaches. jason, we will all be watching and i know you know a lot more about this and i do. we ve got a popcorn here in washington waiting. back to you. kevin
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rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this congress. don t tell me this is about consistency. republicans remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. another example of house republicans putting the show ahead of any policy agenda. also tonight, president biden talks policing reform with the congressional black caucus. but there s still almost zero chance of getting enough republican support for anything meaningful. plus, the next presidential campaign is upon us, and nikki haley wants in and other republicans are clearly interested in challenging trump, but don t necessarily want to subject themselves to his school yard bullying just yet. and jordan klepper joins me. he spoke to trump s maga supporters at his recent campaign stop in south carolina. and i m just shaking my head. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele, in tonight for joy reid, and we begin with a very dysfunctional congress and its slow and