Good evening and welcome to a special hour devoted to the Trump indictments. I'm Melissa Murray. I'm Andrew Weisman. And we are both

NYU law professors, MS NBC legal analysts, and now the co-authors of the New York Times

best-selling book, The Trump Indictments, The Historic Charging

documents with Commentary. Donald Trump is charged with 88 felony counts in

four different jurisdictions. In this hour we will cover the latest developments in Donald Trump's

criminal cases starting with Fulton County, Georgia today.

But we'll also zoom out and reflect on whether the American justice system has

so far proven whether it can meet the challenges

of, as we write in our book, the former president's attempt to politicize are corrupt,

not only our elections, but our American governance and the rule of law.

January 6th committee member Jamie Raskin will join us.

And later in the hour we will flip the script and ask an MS NBC anchor the important questions.

Chris Hayes will join us to weigh in on the media's role in the event

that voters ultimately get to render a verdict

on Donald Trump

before a jury does.

But our breaking news tonight comes out of Fulton County, Georgia,

where District Attorney Fani Willis has learned

that she will not be disqualified from her election

interference prosecution against Donald Trump. The case had been imperiled

after one of Donald Trump's co-defendants alleged an improper romantic relationship between Willis and Nathan Wade, who Willis had

hired as a special prosecutor.

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