elbows are impossible to lick. i meant your own elbows. you don t settle for bad internet. that s why you have the xfinity 10g network, with ultra-low lag for better streaming. wish you would have been more specific about your elbow. only from xfinity. good afternoon. i m chris jansing reporting live from msnbc headquarters in new york city, and it is suddenly another wild day inside a manhattan courtroom. breaking news as we come on the air, former president trump addressing the court right now, part of the final chapter in the civil fraud trial that could bring down the empire that made donald trump a mogul and then arguably president. today there were dramatic closing arguments as the former president tried to argue his way out of a devastating blow to his business. lawyers putting their final mark on what has been an intense and important 11 weeks. i want to bring in new york times investigative reporter suzanne craig. also with us new york times chief white house c
white and affluent drivers are polluting the air breathed by people of color, mr. roth is racked by guilt for how he is driving on the 405 to the valley and it s not only growing his carbon footprint, he s fueling other racist outcomes as well. he said i couldn t help but consider my only complicit while reading a new study from usc researches, found that angelinos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution. now the argument is that low income communities of color were torn apart to make way for freeways over the decade, while the whiter, richer, this constitutes environmental racism. environmental racism, it s about policies that practices that discriminate against communities of color by making them live near landfills, sewage plants and polluting facilities. by making people live near landfills? we re making people live next to polluting facilities? well, that s obviously ridiculous. and this is obviously not about race, it s about poverty. and who is to blame
and. then spend those moneys on sustainability projects that make their donors and their cronies rich. also if freeways are racist, the king of bigots must be president dwight d. eisenhower who commissioned the construction of 41,000 miles of highway in the federal highway act of 1956. i want you to meet the godfather of the environmental justice movement, robert bullard. when we talk about infrastructure in the past. infrastructure like highways and roads. that infrastructure was detrimental to many communities, black and brown communities and destroyed a stable community. so we have to be careful not to assume that all infrastructure is created equal. people actually write those lines. of course, what this is really all about is control. democrats don t have any real plans to raise the general standard of living for working people. white black brown. in fact, they re doing the opposite. their wrecking our economy without a control spending and by limiting our oil and gas
move in the middle east this morning. he began a meeting with the prime minister of israel just a few moments ago. we re following that. a news conference is set to begin in about an hour. we ll be monitoring. of course, all of this happening ahead of tomorrow s unprecedented, direct flight to saudi arabia. good morning. a lot to cover this morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 14th. joe is off. later this hour, we ll speak with capitol police sergeant gonell, who was forced to retire after the injuries he sustained by the pro-trump mob on january 6th. he s testified before the committee. on tuesday, he embraced one of the rioters and accepted his apology. ahead this morning, former oath keeper spokesman jason van tatenhove, who testified before the committee on tuesday, will also be our guest. he broke from the group in 2017 and is now speaking out about why. willie. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with the latest on the january 6th investigat