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getting out. donald j. trump coming out of ah, the car there , the suv going up the steps. and did you know that this was extremely historic. tomorrow remarkable moment in u. s history will unfold the first ever arraignment of a former president in federal court historic and unprecedented. weve never seen a former president sit in federal court at the defendants table. soon he will take off for florida and for history. and of course, a day like this would not be complete without disgra...

That way. she the fact that shes appointed by president trump is of absolutely no moment and with respect to recusal who should who should sit over the case, a judge appointed by president biden, that would be more fair. she was picked by random selection. the government picked the palm beach division, which only has a couple of judge judges. in it, she would get the cases related case in any event and the decision that they are so critical of the decision that a neutral arbiter er should review...

Neither nbc nor msnbc has verified those materials. we can tell you that the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen rejected the letter. it was never sent. congressman rashnakrishna murthy also said that there were six letters that were drafted to go to other states. trump himself pressured the justice department to declare the election corrupt. joining me now, legal analyst and professor at the university of alabama law school. also with me roland martin, host of roland martin unfiltered, who is...

Far impact president trumps opinion of giuliani. hes standing by his lawyer and ardent defender. >> rudy is a great guy. rudy is the best mayor in the history of new york, in my opinion, the strongest, best mayor. rudy is a great crime fighter, corruption fighter. >> joining me, one of the reporters on the "washington post" report, and former u.s. attorney joyce vans an msnbc contributor. lets start with your report. it says according to people familiar with the ongoing case, investigators are s...

Dont have kings in the united states, suggesting that don mcgahn and maybe others need to testify, that there is no absolute immunity. well, president trump has now tweeted three times in a row in the last hour or maybe much less than that. let me go back to hans nichols at the white house. what is the president saying? >> reporter: the president is making an argument on executive prerogative and hes saying hes trying to defend the presidency from these investigations, and what he says are total...

And so, you know, gordon sondland has already amended his version of the truth once. maybe well see version two or, you know, 3 b or 4d. but my guess is that the stone conviction today is going to sober up some witnesses who mightve been tetering. >> all right. we are going to sneak in our last break. frank, joyce vans, thank you so much for being with us. talking us through this incredibly significant day. dont go anywhere out there. well be right back. anywhere o. well be right back. advanced ...

That a case is dead in the water. >> joyce vans, julia, thank you for that. we have some breaking news coming into us and that is a new move by the trump administration against north korea. the administration is announcing some new sanctions there after a week of mixed signals. the regime is launching more weapons test after showing willingness to try and restart talks. theyre trying to have it both ways. back with me with hans nichols over at the white house. talk through these new sanctions. w...

Contradict himself, that this was a small infraction. what he lied about was not even something illegal. it wasnt leg for him to disclose the information that he did in 2016, but simply that theyre trying to catch him in political cross hairs because of his involvement into the investigation between the trump campaign and russia. so at this point were all waiting to see whats going to come out of the grand jury, but its very clear from the message yesterday from the justice department that they ...

Manhattan sent to a military school upstate because he is a bad young man. now he can be the commander in chief. we will see that come out of him. >> to this point no sitting republican lawmakers to my knowledge and correct me if im wrong but no sitting republican lawmakers have objected to the presidents comments yesterday regarding accepting help from a foreign power, former -- john kasich, for instance, former politicians have, but no sitting lawmaker. what do you say to your republican colle...

Counsel sentencing memo today. the former u.s. attorney and current alabama law professor joyce vans joins me and midwin charles is back with us. joyce, let me begin with you. weve got some key pieces of information. what could they possibly be? what should we be looking out for? >> whats at stake here is whether or not paul manafort gets any credit for cooperating with the government at sentencing. he had entered into this deal with prosecutors where he would cooperate with them on other invest...