Aide is at a florida courthouse, potentially to go before a grand jury, investigating trumps handling of classified documents. Overseas, pope francis in the hospital and scheduled to undergo surgery. What we know about his condition. Back at home, another Mass Shooting, this time outside a High School Graduation in virginia. And we are Just Moments Away from yet another republican officially entering the 2024 president ial race. It comes just hours before former Vice President mike pence does something that hasnt been done in more than 80 years. And we begin with Breaking News on the investigations into former President Donald Trump this morning. A key trump aide who runs a protrump super pac entered the federal courthouse in miami to potentially testify before a grand jury Hearing Evidence in the investigation into trumps handling of Classified Information. This comes as two people briefed on the matter tell the New York Times former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows testified b
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
aide is at a florida courthouse, potentially to go before a grand jury, investigating trump s handling of classified documents. overseas, pope francis in the hospital and scheduled to undergo surgery. what we know about his condition. back at home, another mass shooting, this time outside a high school graduation in virginia. and we are just moments away from yet another republican officially entering the 2024 presidential race. it comes just hours before former vice president mike pence does something that hasn t been done in more than 80 years. and we begin with breaking news on the investigations into former president donald trump this morning. a key trump aide who runs a pro-trump super pac entered the federal courthouse in miami to potentially testify before a grand jury hearing evidence in the investigation into trump s handling of classified information. this comes as two people briefed on the matter tell the new york times former white house chief of staff mark me
tonight, but we do know biden has been working on it since november, that s over three months for one speech. this thing better be good. here s what the binder said the speech was going to be about. this is going to be a joe biden speech. and when you hear it, that s what you are going to hear. jesse: okay. i can listen to the binder explain biden all day. so much insight. but what is a biden speech? well, a biden speech is a story and that s what you re gonna hear tonight, the greatest story ever told. what he needs to do is tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you can sit in that oval office careen karine can tell you and tell a story for six hours. he needs to tell a story tonight. jesse: he may not be a great president he is a great story teller. his stories aren t true. that doesn t matter. old politicians know people don t want to hear the truth. the truth hurts. people want to hear a story because a story doesn t have to be true. it s just a stor
mirage. in biden s world, inflation is not at a four-decade high and 64% of americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. democrats are already cheering on the con job, chuck schumer s wetting himself with excitement. i think the president will do a very good job at selling the accomplishment. from what i hear there are like 40 million people to watch. it s not the super bowl but a heck of a lot of people. jesse: and general psaki thinks her old boss can seal the deal. people will get big, progressive, bold joe biden. he s done a lot of stuff, accomplished a lot of stuff, and nobody really knows about all those things. they can t make the speech about that, they know that. you can t do a list of all the things you ve done. people will tune out. they don t want to know about data. he needs to tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you sit in the oval office and karine can tell you and he can story tell for six hours. he needs to do that in the speech tonight