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welcome to prime time weekend. i am nicolle wallace. let's get right to top stories. in a perfect world we would not actually start the show where we are going to start it today, opening our broadcast with the results of what amounts to a legal circus, a spectacle and diversion. the ruling from fulton county superior court judge scott macv was actually a victory for rule of law in the matter of the d.a.s relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade the judges ultimatum amounted to this. either leave wade behind her help the prosecution of this case altogether. turned out to be an easy choice for d.a. willis to make. remember what she said when she

announced the indictment. >> the states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those who believe that results of an election are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. the indictment alleges that rather than abide by george's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn george's presidential election results. >> so, nothing that happened today changed any of that but d.a. fani willis accepted nathan wade's resignation which means the case will move forward as

planned. consider the fact though, even a listen, trump got most of what he wanted. there are emails flooding inboxes shouting look here, and fani willis is corrupt. no legitimacy to that but it goes even beyond those attacks. consider the motion to remove fani willis and wade from the fulton county case filed on january 8th, 67 days ago. trumps team run out the clock for two months, and exceptionally exasperating development for the role of locke crowd given what we discussed on this program yesterday. that is how do successful trump has been an employee in the tactic of delay at all costs. election day a potential offramp for the disgraced ex- president and his legal troubles and only eight months now separate the american people from the prospect of that although we should never forget what this case was about. it is about a sitting president actively working to undermine

the results of a free and fair election and this is what happened when he did. so, despite hours of droning punditry about what did and did not happen there, that is what this is about and the upshot is this, team trump came for the king and the queen in this instance and they missed. game on. here to start us off on this extraordinary day of news again,

some of our most favorite experts and friends, former lead investigator for the january 6 committee tim haig is back. lisa rubin, host of politics nation here on msnbc and the president of the action national network. the reverend al sharpton is here in host of politics broadcast, molly john fast is here. i am catching up still. i was out for a little bit and one of the things i am catching up on his alvin bragg's case, which is about trump allegedly having sex with a star file married and then allegedly paying money to cover it up so it did not come out ahead of an election. this is about two single people who had a relationship in the middle of prosecuting an ex- president. it feels like sometimes we stare so closely at the trees that we miss the forest. >> yes, exactly right, nicole. this is a distraction because

it does not touch the core allegations in this case. none of the issues at stake in judge macv's ruling today bear in any way upon the charged conduct of the defendants. this is a separate issue. it is, however, a legitimate issue because prosecutors have a higher duty. judge macv goes on for pages in his opinion about the fact that prosecutors are held to a very high ethical standards and they can't have any actual or apparent conflicts of interest, and there are ethical rules to

this effect. prosecutors are held to a higher standard in this issue of a relationship between the district attorney and the special assistant district attorney who was leading the prosecution until this afternoon has been a huge distraction, really, and unforced error because again it does not touch the very strong evidence of these pundits' guilt, but it caused a 67 day delay in getting to the courtroom. i think judge macv has made a very sound choice to find that there is no evidence of an actual conflict of interest, misconduct, but there is an appearance issue that the d.a. supervising a person with whom she has had a romantic relationship causes potential suspicion about whether she is making decision strictly in the in's tryst of judgment or personal relationship so mr. wade stepping away makes a lot of sense. hopefully it allows them to move forward and get back to the core issues in the case, whether or not there is a racketeering conspiracy intended to disrupt the election and that is where we need to get to. we keep talking about on the show it is time for these allegations to have their day in court, all the sideshows, all the motions to be resolved so a jury finally gets to decide whether or not the

government has proved its case. >> lisa rubin, you have the unofficial, official role of tracking the calendar for us. is there any chance that what was just described in this case happens ahead of the election? >> i think it's really difficult at this point. we really just wasted 10 days from january 8th when ashley marchant filed this motion until today. we have done nothing else in this case other than pay heed to these motions. scott macv granted a minor motion yesterday, when the got a lot more press than it deserved in terms of impact on the case. okay, so he decided a small motion but really, the bulk of these 67 days has been taken up is what tim rightly characterized as a sideshow. how do you get this case back on track now when you've lost the quarterback? it's a really

difficult proposition. i think it's really unlikely this case gets tried before the election unless some measures are taken, for example, triage. you pull off some defendants, try it more than once, a bunch of people played out. accepting those circumstances, i don't see how this happens. >> fani willis charged a really aggressive and tight set of facts. none of that is at issue. no one has anything to say about the facts in this case or the charges, and again, before i stepped away, every other day, someone was pleading guilty in her sweeping racketeering case. this is, so, a successful sideshow on trumps side. he got the delay he needed to happen before the election. >> i think a lot of us should look into the other side of that. one side says that he wants to delay it until after the election, but the fact is that even if he does, he cannot dismiss or pardon himself from

state charges, both in new york with alvin bragg, or with fani willis in fulton county, so what i suggest is that maybe he or his attorneys believe he is going to be convicted. why would you starlet, mr. president, unless you know you are going to be convicted, and evidence is so overwhelming because you really are stalling what is inevitable. you're going on trial. whether it is before or after the election, so what you are stalling is trying to go to jail. the other thing i think that are big losers here are some of his co-defendants, because if he had -- if they had ruled fani willis could not try this, and it had gone to another county and it may have never gone to court, giuliani and everybody else charged would have had another day. they had a bad night last night because when they ruled today that fani willis could stay there, that means rudy giuliani and all of the defendants have

a day in court now and the date, probably, of conviction. i think we are missing a lot of that, so yes, i would like to see it before the election but i know subliminally, donald trump must really feel he is going to be convicted. that is what he is really stalling for, aside from the election. >> it is interesting. there is not anything more to the legal strategy and because there are so many cases he can't analyze them across the documents case in the january 6 federal case in the georgia case and alvin bragg's case, but there is not a defense on facts and we know that he tries all of his issues in the court of public opinion. there is no pushback on the facts. >> no, and in fact, what he did was put the justice system on trial. he said this is a corrupt system. it is them, not me. he really made this yet another campaign event. the other thing is he spent millions of dollars trying to delay, and every time, people

are talking about fani willis and nathan wade, they are not talking about donald trump and fake electors. >> that is so interesting. i mean, tim, what is the sort of -- take me behind the curtain. what is the private gripe of prosecutors who see trump deviating his way out of accountability on every front? >> look, prosecutors want their time in court. they would not have brought this case had they not believed they are holding cards that will win the hand. i don't mean to suggest that the game, but they always feel strongly they have very strong evidence of criminal conduct and every day, as everyone in the studio is saying, we are not talking about that. we are not putting that to a jury, testing by cross- examination on the presumption of innocence, makes it more difficult. for prosecutors, cases get

worse the more time passes. things can go wrong, more things can arise, memories fade. community interest lessons, so prosecutors, once they make a decision to charge, they want to go. they want their day in court. they want to move the case forward. we are seeing that with the text six of the special counsel's office in the d.a.s office and as reverend sharpton just said, wrongly accused defendant who is very anxious for his day in court to clear his name would be rushing to get to the courtroom. i remember senator stevens. you remember this case, where just before an election he held the government to its burden of proof and said i want my trial in 70 days because i want an opportunity to clear my name. now, he was convicted but there was some evidence not disclosed, but a different approach to somebody saying all right, you're going to charge me, i want my opportunity to rebut that. we are seeing the opposite here, someone who has not articulated any substantive defense, who continues to try

to avoid sitting at the table, listening to that evidence and having his opportunity to challenge it. i think it is a really telling, consistent strategy of delay. it is a political strategy, not a very sound legal one. >> i mean, let me just successfully pushback. as a political strategy i think he would point to the polls and say it's successful. in his view, he's got a 50-50 shot of winning. it seems to be successful on both fronts, and what does the rule of law side do to protect the exportation of delays, or is it not something that can be protected? did it, like so many other norms, rest on the good faith of its participants? >> yes, it does. and look, the system has built into it a lot of protections for charged defendants. they have an opportunity to bring forth motions and to make

legal arguments and to have those issues resolved. because we have a system that presumes innocence and gives lots of procedural rights to charged people, whether they are shoplifters or former presidents of the united states, that builds into the process, a fair amount of potential delay. we would not even be talking about this now if these investigations had been launched sooner. they could've been launched on january 7th of 2021, or even january 21st, but they were not, so we are only close to the election because of some reticence on behalf of federal and state prosecutors to pursue this, and the revelation of crimes by the committee for which i worked, if we had looked at it sooner, then i think arguably all of these procedural protections would've been granted well in advance of the trial before the election. be that as it may, we are not there now, so the intersection of the campaign and these legal

issues is frustrating, but the system gives defendants this opportunity. it bends over backward to make sure people are treated fairly and have the opportunity to raise anything they think is relevant. >> you just put your finger on the entire enchilada, though, to maybe the reluctance to examine crimes -- maybe it was so disoriented to watch crimes committed before our very eyes and watch the criminal carry out those crimes on tv and then to watch him tweet at the criminals, we love you quoteend quote, that it made people stop, but i guess what i am trying to get at is an honest conversation for our viewers for the next eight months. there will most likely be zero legal accountability for donald trump and his banking on that being a winning political strategy. the only people who have any agency in this conversation at

this point are the voters and what fani willis went through, she has been docs to. her kids have been doxed. there's no glory in trying to hold trump accountable but all she's trying to do is treat trump the way any of us would've been treated if we did what he did. i will speak just for my own hours, to talk as though legal accountability is on the table -- it probably is not, and i wonder what that sounds like and what will people who have spent their lives in their careers as prosecutors, what will they say about a specimen like donald trump who one,, who did it, who got out of accountability, who got his get out of jail free card and didn't even need a pardon to do it. what do we do about that is sort of the voting public. what does that conversation sound like? >> really good question. i don't know. maybe even though the case has not been tried, the allegations

are such that they will influence people in terms of their decision as to who to vote for. i think they should. i think they say a lot about the character of the person who is offering to serve once again in my hope is that most americans who understand those facts which have been told and told and told again, that will influence them. there is one jury, it is the american people, and all fani willis and jack smith could do is use the levers at their disposal to hasten the former president using the levers at his disposal to try to delay the not may not result in adjudication prior to the election, of any of these cases. i still think there is a chance the case may be resolved before the election. it depends on the supreme court but your point is a good one. it feeds right into this narrative of the former president saying the system is broken and corrupt. it feeds

the beast that people don't have faith because things take so long. it is an example of when our systemesn't work or does it seem to work that increases cynicism, and that is precisely the argument that he is making, and it is a political argument as to why he, as a change agent, should be back in there. >> i appreciate you bringing this to a real place because i think the best thing we can do for our audience is have an honest conversation and i will say, i constantly plead with the national security officials who saw up close and personal, donald trump's lack of fitness.

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i've been thinking about the conversation you and tim were just having about how we get accountability and obviously, one part of that is voters taking this system by its horns and behaving as the jurors that we all need, every single person of age in this country, to be right now but the other metric of accountability, and forgive me because i was a civil litigator, is the civil cases against him, where you have seen both letitia james and e. jean carroll get the kind of accountability, albeit not in

the contact of -- context of criminal acts during his presidency, but to illustrate to people who donald trump is and always has been. because of both of those cases, his conduct in many years past is what is at issue. both of those women are and hinging him with their ability to get into his wallet and yes, e. jean carroll has been represented by very capable lawyers but she has also been at this since 2019, and so by being ahead of the curve, you know, we talk about the department of justice waiting too long all the time, e. jean carroll did not have the concern about the restoration to normalcy that maybe merrick garland and his senior leadership did. >> and i would add, stormy daniels could become another woman on this front very shortly. >> i think that is true, and i have not been a civil litigator there but i have been a civil rights activist. i think that is why people like me have been saying that it is

justice for those who have means and who have certain things on their side, and others don't. there is no way, if this was some guy on the south side of chicago with just a regular job or no job, that he could go through two civil cases that he loses and then have four criminal cases and stole this long. that is why people need to vote, because we need to really equalize the system. i can't imagine anyone that could stall this, so i think in many ways, the lesson of this is the inequity in the criminal justice system that those with money can play the game and those that don't end up either pleading because they are afraid and they played something they are not guilty of and end up being in an expedited situation i think that this is a classic example of showing that.

>> it is the case against complacency, right? nobody is going to save the american people from trump. there is nobody coming. there is no cavalry. voters are going to have to save the american democracy by voting against trump and if they don't, then i don't know what happens. >> that is an ominous entry to you, tim. you get the last word because you brought us to a place -- it's just a real conversation about what we are actually going to be dealing with over the next eight months. we are not going to be watching with bated breath as trump stands trial for his crimes the way anyone else in the country would. we are going to have to take this evidence as the committee successfully did to the american people, turning democracy into a one, two, three political issue to voters of the midterms. we know how to do this. >> we absolutely do. facts matter, and the facts are clear. the facts have been consistently demonstrated and i hope americans pay attention to them, endeavor to understand

them and that they influence decisions and not polling place. it may be that the real accountability here is, do facts matter to enough people to make a sound decision as to who should be in that very important office. there is no shortage of accountability if everybody pays attention to and reacts to those facts, as everyone is saying. engagement, participation, and use of those facts in manifesting and voting is maybe the only jury that will do that. >> it is just taking peoples power back. i talked to so many people who are so exasperated that this is the legal state of play, but to your point, tim, the committee did this. the committee did not have the ability to sentence him. they did not have the ability to charge him criminally.

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's former deputy director of national intelligence, sue gordon, reminded us recently, 200 years for our democracy is no guarantee. there is no promise. it is an existential choice that our nation faces that we have been examining in our new series, american autocracy, it could happen here. it is something that feels more urgent with each passing day. with putin on the march and emboldened on the world stage, picture or bond -- victor or

bond being emboldened especially at mar-a-lago, in the words of joe biden again, history is watching. joining us at the table, secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. so, i said this behind your back. i will say it to your face. you are not just the administration's most skilled communicator, but one of the most skilled communicators in our politics and i wonder how you even bite at this huge idea of democracy and the very real, universal concern that the roads we drive our kids on and the roads that are school buses travel on without any seatbelts, are safe and secure? how do you do what the

president wants us to do and meet this moment while also talking to people where they are which is worried about the bills, worried about the roads, worried about the schools. >> one thing i really appreciate about serving under president biden's leadership as i think this whole administration revolves around an understanding about the relationship between these high- minded, almost cosmic things we talk about like the durability of our democracy and incredibly, everyday things like filling in holes on the road are making sure there is clean, safe water coming out of our pipes and i think that is not an accident. one of the tests for any model of government is its capacity to deliver on the basics, but i don't think it is an accident that, for example, the last time it was really acceptable or even fashionable in some circles of american society to talk approvingly about fascism, which was in the 20s and the 30s -- one of the excuses they would make for people like mussolini, dictators abroad as well, who makes the trains run on time. by the way, that isn't true.

>> it's never true. >> but they say that, the narrative is that these more autocratic systems are somehow better able to deliver on the basics. the president often mentions that anytime infrastructure came up, one of the first things he would immediately mention his xi jinping and talk about how china was seeking to create the impression that their top-down command-and- control system was better able to deliver on things like infrastructure than a messy democratic system and that getting this infrastructure bill passed would be a chance to prove them wrong, and i guess that is my real answer to your question, that in this moment if we can deliver on the basics -- have better roads and bridges, better transit and airports and a better economy and a better everyday life, that is part of how we validate the idea. because the truth is, you know, democracy and the american

system did not win the ideological battle of the 20th century against the soviet model just based on theoretical arguments alone. we won because there were far more people in the soviet union who wished they were living in the united states than the other way around and that really does come back to how we deliver on those things that make everyday life better or worse, depending partly on the condition and the functionality of your federal government. >> and, this one's bite and spent a lot. it is the formula, it is why you cannot get more formula in the united states of america and it is crystallized most clearly in infrastructure and trumpet of coveted and

infrastructure bill all his own. he wanted to do it because even trump knew you could cut a big, fancy ribbon and stand in front of a road or bridge and he failed and president biden invoked his predecessor 13 times in the state of the union address. i wonder how you make this contrast clear that this is what is on the line, that road, that bridge, that wi-fi you suddenly have, those bars on the top of your phone. you did not have those last four years. you have them now. >> i think that was a good example of the contrast between bluster, saying you're going to deliver something, infrastructure, week again and again with no results, which is what we experienced in the last administration, and actually delivering, which this president and administration did in our first year. just this morning i was in philadelphia at the martin luther king bridge. i was at that same bridge a couple of years ago as we were just announcing the beginning of this infrastructure program. i was talking to the workers in the middle of actually rehabilitating that bridge now, so the difference between talk and action, between bluster and results, is very much on display and what we have right now with this infrastructure package and

i would say the how. not just the foot, but look at how it got done because there is this fiction out there that the way to get things done, especially infrastructure, is to have a strong man come in, barking orders and command and control. >> the chinese way. or pick your dictator. >> which also rhymes with the last administration's kind of style except that didn't get anything done, and the president, in a very democratic way, by the way, the democratic way for we really work to the presidents direction to get republicans on board and many of them did. we did not do it by shoving it down anybody's throats. we got republicans to come across the aisle. not all of them. many of them, not most of them,

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america, meet trump employee number five, the mar-a- lago staff are dropping a bombshell in the classified documents case brought by special counsel jack smith against donald trump. in an interview with cnn, mar-a- lago employee brian butler painting a very specific picture of trump's inner circle and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else, with loyalty prized above everything, a world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. nbc news has not independently confirmed butler's identity as employee number five and he rick declined our request for

comment. he said he helped trump's co- defendants move those boxes containing those boxes containing some of our nation's most sensitive national security secrets. >> i pulled up and he had a bunch of boxes. they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. that is what i remember loading. >> did you have any idea at the time that there were potentially u.s. national security secrets in those boxes? >> i had no clue. >> no clue and here is how

carlos deolivera described moving boxes for trump. >> we were moving boxes and talking about well, biden did the same thing. it always got brought up about biden another people that did the same thing and there was one time he said that we are all dirty. we all move boxes. >> but we are not. of course, president biden was not charged with obstructing the government's attempt at trying to retrieve closed boxes. here is butler describing a conversation he had with carlos deoliveira about the widespread panic rep -- around that footage. >> i remember saying hey, what's coming tomorrow. oh, cool. okay. it was not until the following day when we are out walking his like a, by the way, it's a secret. don't tell anybody waltz is coming. why? well, he needs me to find something out before he gets here. what's that? he needs me to you know, how

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the sudden bout of indifference or amnesia about the clear and present danger trump's embrace of dictators poses to all of us, as something history reminds us, we do it our own peril. it's something we've been exploring and digging into in our series, american autocracy, it could happen here.

this specific threat of history repeating itself has been hauntingly explained by an american hero named guy stern. guy stern escaped germany at the age of 15 only to return as a member of the legendary richie boys. the ritchie boys were secret american intelligence unit, many of whom, like stern, were german born who use their knowledge of german language and german culture to interrogate captured soldiers. the ritchie boys are responsible for most of the combat intelligence the united states got from the front lines. stern was awarded the bronze star , but his entire family perished at the hands of the . guy stern passed away at the age of 101, but he never stopped warning us about forgetting these lessons, about the danger of forgetting the lessons we learn from history. this is what he told our friend, filmmaker ken burns. >> we have seen the nadir of human behavior and have no

guarantee that it will recur. if we can make that clear and graphic and understandable, that is not something to imitate, but as a warning of what can happen to human beings, then perhaps we have one shield against its recurrence. >> one shield. joining us now, emmy award- winning filmmaker, documentarian -- we have called you a legend already, ken burns. we are so glad you are here. >> i'm so glad to be with you. welcome back, nicole. we missed you. >> thank you so much.

i mean, this maybe is all that we should be doing. maybe all we should be doing is using our space to remind people what history teaches us. >> in a place where there is so much disinformation and misinformation, there is also bullying and making the other of somebody. we are desperately in need of the kind of clear eyed view of guy stern. he lived to be 101 because he had escaped, you know, he had been the one selected from his family to go to the united states to try to get the others out. he could not get them out. he joined the army. he went -- he had lost everybody and he has borne witness to that. just to back up a little bit, you are asking andrew a really good question. 10 years ago could you get out of this? let's say in 1932, he wanted to be in the most civilized, cosmopolitan place on the planet, you know, where everything was new in literature, and architecture, and music, in cinema, and ideas. there would be no better place in 1932 and in berlin. the next january, not so much, and so we realized how precipitously we fall, and i'm

now working on a film. this one, in guys words, continues to resinous -- resonate with us. we've been working on a film about the american revolution like where we came from. for me, it's a kind of reverse engineering that can take place. a few lines pass the famous lines of the declaration that we knowend quote, the second sentence, jefferson said all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable. what he is saying there to all of us is that here to for, all human beings have been subjects. they've been under authoritarian rule, and we are suggesting that there could be a new version of this, that you could be actually a thing called a citizen instead of a subject, that you could be not a superstitious peasant filled with that misinformation, the disinformation, the bullying, but you could be something else. that is the promise of the united states. it did not fulfill it at any

point for everyone, but we were, at the very beginning, wrestling with the noblest aspirations of humankind, and they had nothing to do with authoritarianism, and now we find ourselves in this improbable, please wake me from this nightmare, dreamed that these things are possible here. it can happen here, and we do have the momentum of most of human existence to show that it could, that we have been an outlier, and then a kind of inspire of others to resistance tied, and that we have held high , and washington's resigning his military commission, in him leaving after two terms, and his idea that the highest office in the land is a citizen but there are people and tendencies, human nature doesn't change. history doesn't repeat itself but human nature doesn't change

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