it is the eve of the iowa caucus, the start of the presidential primaries, you may have heard. and i m ari melber, with you right now for an msnbc special, a candidate slash defendant trump, reporting on his own clash of american politics, law, and how voters may assess the candidate, whose ear could end in the exalted oval office, or a small prison cell. that will depend on the outcome of several criminal trials, plus other cases. and the next person to track, and break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve, as the primaries begin tomorrow, some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be adva
primaries, you may have heard. i m ari melber, and right now for an msnbc special candidate slash defendant trump recorded on this unprecedented class of american politics. law, and how voters may is as a candidate who might and in the exulted oval office or a small prison cell. it will depend on the and other cases. we have special guests to help break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve of the primaries begin tomorrow. some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be advantageous for democrats. the notion that somehow all of the stuff that is swirling around and it s good to be a positive in
To in the next nine or ten months or so, is replacing Reflexive Partisanship like my team, right or wrong with reflective partisanship. Partisanship is fine, weve been partisan you know, jefferson said we have been dividing themselves into parties since rome. That is okay. In fact, the constitution would not work without them as it turns out. Only voting because of a partisan label is in fact, i believe, undermining of the spirit of the constitution. The spirit of declaration of independence. I am lucky. I do not have particular passions about particular policy issues. I believe that i do believe that this experiment needs to go on. I just worry and i hope i am wrong, but i dont think i am, given the evidence of the last ten years now, that a reelected trump would not only damage that experiment, but he darn well might end it. I dont say that casually, i
That the trials, because people are hearing the facts, and trump allies. Yeah that makes sense. Leslie caldwell, thank you so much. Andrew, thank you, and stick around, because he is part of another program in our special. I have a report coming up on exactly these trump trials, and how trump could become the candidate who is tripped up by his other side, his dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde of trump the defendant, also historian Jon Meacham is here, and he is our special guest, next
Trump, for conspiring to defraud the united states. Trump is back in court for the multi million dollar civil fraud trial. The civil lawsuit, brought by e. Jean carroll. Grand juries in manhattan, voting to indict a former president , for the first time in history. Criminally indicted, in the state of georgia. Charging Donald J trump, felony violations, national security laws. Violation of georgias act. We have one set of laws in this country, after all of that, some observers even wonder how trump is seen as a viable nominee for a major political party, yet alone the idea that he could possibly beat biden, as some polls show is possible. And whatever hope donald trump has in running and biden, if trump becomes the nominee, it seems to require, as a matter of everything we can understand about the electorate, that this potential trump nominee, if he is, what have to duck or beat