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minister and the right wing extremists to make up an important part of his coalition are still in power. david rothkopf, as always, and happy holidays to you and your family. thank you, david. a lot more coming up. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. [inaudible] > [inaudible hey everybody, good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are very thankful for that. with the stroke of a pan, the dawn of giving donald trump exactly what he wants refusal to take up an issue that is clearly headed their way. now puts the chances of trying the former president for election interference before the next election in serious jeopardy. meanwhile, trump may face new legal danger from a new tape that have surfaced trying to pressure a group of republican officials in michigan to help him overturn the election. there s lots of speculation about that. obviously the fact that it comes out right ....
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with two major developments both of which could impact the election interference cases against donald trump. first up, we have the supreme court rejecting the special counsel s request for an early review of clumps claims that he should be immune from facing prosecution. a newly discovered recording of trump pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election. we are going to go right now to nbc s erin gilchrist here that the white house fourth. aaron, welcome. what does this mean for trump in the cases against him? alex, to potential impacts. hear this phone call could turn into damning evidence in one of the four cases against trump. now at the same time the supreme court could be just the kind of speed bumps the trump legal team could be looking for. reporter: the setback for government lawyers trying to fast-track the prosecution of former presid ....
mar-a-lago maintenance worker helped move boxes into a storage room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the work was reportedly helping trump valet move the boxes, but did not know what was inside of them. that comes from a new york times report with one anonymous source that nbc has yet come from that account. it comes on the heels of a washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers before his office received the may 2022 subpoena. more shocking our tails for that report revealed that trump show those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump is insisted that he is done no wrong. i had every right to under the presidential records act, you have the presidential records act, i took what i took a ....
don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to b ....
be coming true. as the 80-year-old biden is expected to launch his candidacy with a video announcement and that is expected to happen tomorrow. john: a new poll from nbc news shows 70% of americans, including a majority of democrats, do not want biden to run for a second term, saying the president s age is a major reason why. so, can he do anything to calm those fears? our political panel, juan williams and david avello, and ronna mcdaniel are here to discuss the race for the white house, coming up. sandra: a fox news alert, we are waiting national security adviser jake sullivan to take the podium at the white house after the biden administration was forced to evacuate another u.s. embassy in a war torn country. hello and welcome, everyone, as we begin a brand-new week, sandra smith in new york. john: that weekend went quickly, didn t it, sandra? john roberts in washington, this is it america reports. also a pentagon briefing at the top of next hour, diplomats t ....