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very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from ....
shawn. army sergeant daniel perry says he fired that day in self-defense. he claims that the protesters surrounded his car while he was driving through downtown austin and basically ran into a black lives matter protest. his lawyers argue that he had the legal right to open fire after one of those demonstrators raised an ak-47 and pointed it right toward him, so he feared for his life. christina coleman has the very latest. christina? reporter: hi, eric. texas governor greg abbott says he has requested the state s board of pardons and parole to expedite its review of this this case after army sergeant daniel perry was convicted of murder for killing air force veteran garrett foster, a black lives matter protester. it was an emotional day in court after the verdict came down on friday. members of foster s family could be seen crying and hugging the attorneys that they worked with. some eyewitnesses strongly kiss piewpted perry s claims in this case. they testify that f ....
against the giant of right where i think media and one of the big purchase vsayers of collection fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial. sayern fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial but they said that it was pushed back to tuesday. no official reason was given judge davis said this morning that it was not unusual for delays like this but the wall street journal which happens to be owned by the murdoch family reports fox has made a late push to settle the dispute with dominion voting systems out of court, that is according to people familiar with the situation the washington post reports this, two people familiar with the case said that two sides are scheduled to meet monday to determine if a last minute deal to avoid trial could be brokered one of the people said that the judge had asked the parties to make a final effort to settle the issue before proceeding with the trial. these talks are hap ....
what did that say to you? a great deal of rage by someone. he looked like your average high school student. tall, clean cut, polite. a teenager with two sides. he would yell at her. he would be pushing her around. a puzzle seemingly solved, then blown apart. we recorded the conversation and it was dynamite. micaela was on the ground and she wasn t really moving. to unravel the mystery, investigators would follow a trail through high school hallways, teaming with secrets and schemes. the hatred grew more and more and more. bad idea that became a horrible idea. bad idea that went very, very bad. they call him wendover will. he waves at you from miles. the big neon cowboy. wendover will is what he s called. and his job has been to tampa travelers off of interstate 80 near the utah-nevada border. pull them off the road to this tiny casino commerce. and most evenly a little lighter on the wallet. knowing precious little about the stories wendover like ....
attempts to pressure him and he could be a key witness trump and his team could still appeal the ruling. but they have lost similar previous cases a date for pence s testimony is not settled, though it is likely to be later this month according to an adviser. now the ruling by judge james boseberg ordering pence to testify said that while pence was excused from providing details regarding hisrole as president of the senate on january 6, 2021, he s not excused from testifying about conversations related to alleged illegality on donald trump s part that means that special counsel jack smith could gain firsthand knowledge, a firsthand account of the one-on-one conversations that mike pence and donald trump had that day special counsel jack smith on the verge of access to a central witness in the insurrection is where we start today new york times reporter glenn flush is back with us and joining us msnbc legal analyst paul butler. he s a former federal prosecutor, now a l ....