Good evening from Washington. I'm Jen Psaki and for Chris Hayes.

Tonight, we have some major developments in two of Donald Trump's criminal trials.

First in Washington, D.C., today, a federal judge set the ex-presidents trial date

for March 4th of next year, which also happens to be the day before Super Tuesday.

That means, on the eve of the most important day in the primary, Donald Trump will not be

crisscrossing the country and wooing voters with MAGA rallies.

Instead, he will be sitting in a federal courthouse, on trial for federal charges,

while Republican voters decide if this is the man they want to nominate.

We'll have more on the federal case in just a little bit, including all of the politics and what

it means. But there was another major legal development involving the ex-president today as well,

big legal day. We got some big news out of Georgia this afternoon involving Trump's White House

chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Now, we all know Meadows, in his position as Trump's right-hand man,

was integral in facilitating the attempted coup. His own top aid told the January 6th committee

as much, including Meadows' apparent role in the plan for Trump to lead his followers to the

Capitol for the insurrection itself. On January 3rd, Mr. Cipolloni had approached me, knowing that

Mark had raised the prospect of going up to the Capitol on January 6th. Mr. Cipolloni and I had

a brief private conversation where he said to me, we need to make sure that this doesn't happen.

This would be a legally terrible idea for us. We have serious legal concerns if we go up to the

Capitol that day. And he then urged me to continue relaying that to Mr. Meadows because it's my

understanding that Mr. Cipolloni thought that Mr. Meadows was indeed pushing this along with the

president. Remember how eye-popping that testimony was? So when the January 6th committee initially

caught kicked off its investigation, Mark Meadows complied. He handed over more than 6,000 pages of

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