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bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is a ....
of morality. televangelist pat robertson, famous for blaming gay people for 9/11, and black people for hurricanes, is dead. but his legacy of shattering the lines between church and state lives on in the quixotic presidential candidacy of mike pence. also tonight, i want to tell you about an under the radar supreme court case that could affect where special counsel jack smith brings criminal charges. as we await the possible indictment of donald trump. and surprise, chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh come to the defense of voting rights in an important victory for voters in alabama. so what happens now for all the other efforts to redraw maps to marginalize voters of color? but we begin tonight with the supreme court. there was a surprising decision today reaffirming the landmark voting rights act, and we re going to get to that a bit later. but i want to start with a lesser known case that is still awaiting a ruling by the highest court in t ....
How to handicap. and airy melber, internals coleman, gentlemen thank you so much. i want to go down to laura jarrett, our nbc legal correspondent who s been covering this case and she joins me now. a rubicon here being crossed by the department of justice, and to our east point, merrick garland per doj policy, had to greenlight. this it doesn t just op-ed jack smith. that whole building, merrick garland, all the department of justice, now behind these charges. it s interesting. the justice department would push back on that. the justice department would say, jack smith can do this all on his own, but in reality, we all know that the buck stops with merrick garland. he s the attorney general. he is the person who has been senate confirmed. and even though he put this in the hands of jack smith, a dogwood and formidable prosecutor, in reality this lands at merrick garland. the former president asked for ....
Indicting donald trump, especially if he appears in florida, where we have seen a rise in extremism? i m more concerned about the other path. i think you talk to people and you look at people in our country from outside our borders, and it s an open question about whether the rule of law applies to everybody in america in the same regard. because they ve watched what we ve watched, someone who has trample the constitution, trampled were rules and laws, which if any of us who had violated we would, been prosecuted a long time ago. nicolle wallace, thank you so much. i appreciate. you i second, rachel. glad you re in the chair. i expect rugged be in the chair tomorrow, spending some time together. i m just guessing. thank you, nicolle while us, rachel maddow. the great harry whitman, edema starlings with, me airy melber. we brought the big guns in tonight we re gonna continue to ....
As you and i have discussed many times, the majority of the conduct likely at issue here and the indictment we still haven t seen took place in this a district aided by a panoply of people favorable to trump. lisa reuben, thank you for that. i want you to stay with me. i m gonna do a few updates. a bunch of folks lined up here to process this together. so first of all, the ex president has really some sort of video on truth social that we will watch for bringing you whatever news contained therein. we have confirmation now from nbc news that there isn t a chance in the indictment, seven counts, we don t know what s charges for but we know there are seven count at least. that s reporting indicates. airy melber, chief legal correspondent and host of the beat here at msnbc. charles coleman, civil rights attorney who previously were just a prosecutor in the brooklyn district attorney s office. all right, let me begin with you, this sort of high-level reaction, which i think, again, ....