It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Special Counsel Jack Smith has responded to a set of motions filed by the Trump team asking

Judge Tanya Chutkin to dismiss the four federal charges against him in Washington, D.C.

Glenn says his motions explain clearly that Trump's arguments are meritless.

So friends, Special Counsel Jack Smith's team just submitted multiple court filings,

destroying, eviscerating, each and every legal claim Donald Trump's lawyers offered for, you know, why the

case against their client should just be, you know, dismissed.

Let's start with the new reporting.

This from Kyle Cheney of Politico.

Headline, Alone in American History. prosecutors urge Judge to deny Trump's bid to dismiss DC charges.

And that article begins, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued Monday that Donald Trump's bid to subvert the 2020 election was far from a case of misplaced advocacy or constitutionally protected speech,

and he urged a federal judge presiding over Trump's Washington, D.C. trial

to sweep aside Trump's bid to sanitize his conduct.

Quote, the defendant attempts to rewrite the indictment,

claiming that it charges him with wholly innocuous, perhaps even admirable conduct, sharing

his opinions about election fraud, and seeking election integrity, wrote assistant special counsel, James Pierce, when in fact it

clearly describes the defendant's fraudulent use of knowingly false statements as weapons in furtherance of his criminal plans.

In a 79-page filing, Smith's team articulated its clearest case yet for Trump's prosecution,

repeatedly characterizing Trump's false claims of election fraud,

as knowing lies, aimed at the frauding election officials from secretaries of state and

governors to his own vice president Mike Pence.

Smith also indicated he intends to introduce evidence in Trump's March trial that Trump

stoped the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol and then used it to further his efforts to derail Congress's

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