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it is the eve of the iowa caucus, the start of the presidential primaries, you may have heard. and im 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 do...

primaries, you may have heard. im 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 trumps rivals are now invoking trumps legal probl...

that the district attorney likely errored in exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin the u.s. use of the classified records in its criminal investigation. we agree. and theres more. the three-judge panel tears to shreds the arguments that trump and his lawyers have been making in public and in the court of law, that the records belong to him, or that somehow, at some unknown and unstated point in time, that he declassified the documents. also, from the ruling, quote, plaintiff, meaning d...

that the panel having accumulated a veritable treasure trove of juicy details on the trump coup plot, that trove growing by the day, as more and more witnesses testify before the committee. tomorrow investigators will hear from a prominent stop the steal conspiracy theorist with deep pockets and that would be the overstock guy in the words of former white house counsel pat cipollone and his name is patrick byrne and the former ceo of overstock.com. the former furniture industry executi...

had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didnt they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that hes been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to...

Be subject to criminal prosecution . If he were impeached and convicted first, hands down. So your answer is . Leslie, i am curious about what you think about the fact finding, or truth seeking mission of the law. Because we are told that that is one good thing that is supposed to come, for guileless of what else happens. In other words, we hear about it in the case of victims, that the trial is designed to have a truth seeking function, that is separate from what the jury ultimately decides. Th...

Pressed you all sorts of different ways. i hope not to a point that its uncomfortable to try to understand why it doesnt appear that doj is investigating donald trump himself for his role in inciting the deadly insurrection. is investigating donald trump for witness tampering as complicated? could that take another 18 months? >> no. its a much simpler thing, and i do think that this is a really grave matter for donald trump. witness tampering is a standalone crime. its one of the most serious cr...

Incredibly sexist misogyny that is happening on social media by trolls. we are paying attention, but it may not be bad. it may be that we are learning something. this is a highly dysfunctional, toxic relationship and maybe were all learning something about ourselves and about how to treat one another, and juries are the perfect place for it to happen. it is a truth seeking function. >> so talk about -- a british court found that amber heard, you know they found for amber heard in many counts, wh...

Of he said/she said. this is he said/she said she said, she said she said count to 35. it seems as both a lawyer and a journalist that law and journalism sometimes fall down on this job because of the rules about how we treat claims. theres an important truth-seeking function to that. but i think when the story is all said and done about bill cosby, eric we have a lot of evidence to suggest that the story was missed for a very long time because people were not listening to what so many different...