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Interest. i just believe that a judge is going to take a close look and its going to be examined closely by a judge in terms of what role mark meadows was playing there, was there any tuck to governmental interest in that discussion in terms of the service that he was providing to the president. i think its a tough case, but the standard is so low that i think we cant be assured that a judge isnt going to go the other way on this thing. >> and let me ask you, you worked for donald trump and you ...

Think we cant be assured that a judge isnt going to go the other way on this thing. >> and let me ask you this. you worked for donald trump. you worked in his white house. do you think that theres any chance whatsoever that he would accept a plea agreement if it means keeping him out of jail? i mean as much as he is trying to make a mint off of his mug shot, i cant imagine he wants to spend any time in the slammer. >> look, this state case is probably going to get heard two years down the road. ...

Less than 250 days. two state cases, two cases brought by special counsel, if this is once every millenium occurrence or is the new norm? some on the right believe this is election interference, relentless pursuit of the former president. those on the left believe it is just dessert of a plot to use power of presidency to pressure others for personal gain. a recent poll asked americans if they believe former president trump committed crimes. this poll, like everything else in life, was broken do...

Ringleader of republican election subversion efforts, and donald trump is one of those leaders is no doubt. but rudy giuliani and sidney powell, certainly were public faces of these efforts as well. but there is one man that has flown under the radar in both the federal, and state cases. and that is, until now, mark meadows, donald trumps former white house chief of staff. >> its fair to say that you know, mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around january 6th, he was someb...

Breathe. >> i think it was a good call. it allowed for a lot of substance. and a lot of yelling and one-liners that you see in any debate, dominating this thing. for a few minutes, he did and that it was moving on to something else. also, not applying to state cases. it is an admission of guilt. i dont know if the foreign president would want to do that. you can understand why television is drawn to ramaswamy he is funny. he talks very fast. even faster than i do. but i am reminded of other peop...

Walk us through this very crowded calendar, ken. >> yeah, at this point, chris, donald trumps most important legal strategy is to seek delays in all of these cases any way he can because if hes elected president, its possible that none of them can move forward. he could order his justice department to drop the federal cases, and its official doj policy that a sitting president cant be prosecuted and that would include state cases. in the atlanta case, hes making clear that he will try to slow th...

And with 2024 just around the corner, president biden is as named the new white house counsel, as hes facing a special counsel investigation into his own handling of classified documents and the hunter biden investigation as well, as house republicans are eyeing a potential impeachment inquiry. weve got much more to come on all of that. but we begin tonight with a big night of trump legal news. here is -- first of all, there is mark meadows, who was trumps right-hand man in the waning days of hi...

“There may be no greater threat to Trump’s liberty than a Fulton County jury willing to convict him,” said a Georgia State University law professor.

He says he does not want to get in the way of recovery efforts. well continue to follow the tragedy in maui as well as the administrations response. meanwhile, were also of course covering news from georgia last night. former president trump in total now facing some 91 charges across four criminal cases including georgias two cases, federal brought by special counsel jack smith, two state cases, one in new york, the latest in fulton county, georgia. it can be hard to keep it all straight. thats ...

Accountability. there is actually a testing of what you have to say. >> neil, donald trumps team tried to get the manhattan d.a.s case moved to federal court. it failed. could he get this one moved to federal court? >> hes certainly going to try but i think theres three problems with it. its true theres a federal statute passed after the civil war that allowed some state cases to be moved to federal court and i have no doubt that trump is going to want that if for no other reason than federal co...