always for your time. you are reminding us of our shared humanity. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. good evening, ali. in fo i just came back from seeing my folks in canada. i have housing issues because all of the immigrants coming to canada. the mayors and places like toronto and vancouver are putting in restrictions on how you can buy a place or live in a place if you re not a citizen. and people are complaining about it, not about the immigrants, are complaining about making it hard for immigrants to get into the country because canadians figured out a long time ago that this is what you need to run a country. we have low unemployment and we need people in this country, and it s completely different view than most americans have of immigration, as you were just talking about. we just need to rethink how we think about. it didn t have greg abbott and 25 other republican governors striking fear in calling fo
plus, house democratic leader hakeem jeffries is here at the table as republicans struggle to do anything with their majority in the chamber. and arizona secretary of state demanding the justice department take action to protect election workers. grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. we begin with the verdict and e. jean carroll s defamation case against donald trump. the 83.3 million dollar award includes 65 million in punitive damages. friday s verdict came after an eventful day in court. trump stormed out of the courtroom during closing arguments while carroll s lawyer were telling jurors that the former president is a liar who thinks quote, the rules don t apply to him. joining us now, former u.s. attorney chuck rosenberg, he is an msnbc contributor and former senior fbi official. also with us, msnbc host and legal analyst katie phang. katie, in the run up to this verdict, the big question was, what number is going to be big enough to make donald trump st
projects. it is an interesting one, because on one hand, donald trump says that day one, dictator for a day, i m going to drill drill drill. russia producing more fossil fuels than anybody in the world by a long shot, and then antibodies ever produced. let s get down to the skin of some climate activists who say that maybe that is not the goal that we should be having. and so this is that intersection between energy dependent and being a leader in the world and guaranteeing freedom for people who don t want to buy their gas from russia, and at the same time, being conscious of the climate. it is an interesting tightrope that we are going to talk about. have a great weekend, i will see you again tomorrow morning. all right, take care alley. all right. right i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a blockbuster penalty that a jury has awarded the writer e. jean carroll in a defamation case against the twice impeached four times indicted ex president. yesterday, a
with a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to all of you to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, out west. the campaign season certainly heating up with events on both coasts. president biden is campaigning in columbia, south carolina today. republican candidate, nikki haley, it campaigning trust about 90 miles or so away. early voting starts today in nevada and vice president kamala harris is in las vegas. so is gop front runner, donald trump. also new today, trump is reiterating his call for senate republicans to reject a bipartisan border deal that ties ukraine aid to border security. speaker mike johnson s already said that bill may be dead on arrival in the house. president biden is urging congress to get on board. saying he will use his authority and the bills provisions to, quote, shut down the border. meanwhile, texas is escalating its efforts to divide this week s supreme court ruling. refusing to allow federal officials to r
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