happening on the hill, and it s something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth! and so, donald trump further endangered mike pence s life with that tweet. and what cassidy hutchinson seems to be saying is, we knew. she knew that that tweet was further endangering the vice president. yeah, and i can only imagine i
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this busy hour with hunter biden s felony gun trial. the defense rested without calling hunter biden to the stand. moments ago the prosecution called an fbi agent back to the stand for a rebuttal. joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. also with us, david henderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. ken, what s the latest from the courtroom, and what can we be expecting today? reporter: good morning, jose. the prosecution has now rested, but not before that fbi agent provided devastating testimony about evidence of hunter biden s drug use the day before and the day after he purchased that handgun on october 12th, 2018. some of this evidence had already been in, but then there was some new evidence where she talked about geo locating his phone to a 7-eleven in wilmington, delaware, and also introduced eviden
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin
out on bail. but the folks in christie s party don t seem to be heeding his warnings. despite his growing legal woes, he is still the front runner for the gop s nomination. i have to ask, can american democracy really survive a presidential election campaign in which one of the major party candidates is in the midst of so many criminal trials? what does it say about our two major parties that regardless of all of this, they are still on course to nominate for president a man that in the words of chris christie, is a one man crime wave. let s discuss all of this with david anderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. he is also a cnbc contributor. glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. and jill wine-banks, a former assistant to watergate special prosecutor. legal analyst of the co-host of #sistersinlaw podcast. thank you all for coming back on the show. jill, i will start with you. how big of a deal is this superseding indictment that we have on
i have to ask, can american democracy really survive a presidential election campaign in which one of the major party candidates is in the midst of so many criminal trials? what does it say about our two major parties that regardless of all of this, they are still on course to nominate for president a man that in the words of chris christie, is a one man crime wave. let s discuss all of this with david anderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. he is also a cnbc contributor. glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. and jill wine-banks, a former assistant to watergate special prosecutor. legal analyst of the co-host of #sistersinlaw podcast. thank you all for coming back on the show. jill, i will start with you. how big of a deal is this superseding indictment that we have on thursday? it is a very big deal because the obstruction that is laid out there is so awful, and it s so ridiculous, and it s so well documented, that it really puts a diffe