tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t
counter to donald trump s claims over the weekend that the manhattan district s attorney dropped the stormy daniels hush money case, the grand jury met today for the first time in a week to continue their investigation. they heard testimony for a second time from the former publisher of the national enquirer, david pecker. who previously appeared in january. pecker allegedly helped broker the payment between the adult film actress and trump s former lawyer, michael cohen and is likely key to the prosecutor s argument that the purpose of the payment was to suppress negative information ahead of the 2016 election. also over the weekend, d.a. alvin bragg pushed back again against the three house republican chairman who continued to claim that congress should be privy to his testimony and documents in the ongoing investigation. bragg tweeted, we evaluate cases in our jurisdiction based on the facts, the law, and the
as netanyahu, to keep himself out of jail. as he attempted to control our judicial system with warnings of death and destruction from his supporters. he gave a clarion call to insurrection version 2.0 over the weekend, at a rally that looked a lot like a cult gathering in wacko, texas. a right wing shrine infamous for a 51-day stand-off between federal agents and the branch davidian dooms day religious cult. and in a clear nod to the dark legacy of waco with his speech falling on the 30th anniversary of the deadly standoff, trump leaned into his role as a cult leader, leading the crowd in lionizing the january 6th insurrectionists, showing a video of the attack by a song recorded by men in prison for the attack that day. followed by a call to arms which we re not going to play on this show. just know he attacked the prosecutors investigating him, saying our justice system will be defeated, telling his followers, they re not coming
thousands to become political appointees, stripping them of job protections. it lows the president to fire civil servants who fail his loyalty test. trump ran out of time. biden rescinded it. if trump wins in 2024, an aggressive purge of the civil service will be one of his priorities. fascist governments usually start by perjurying the civil service. this sounds like a promise to do this. you know who else loves the idea of doing a schedule f? ron desantis. even the alternative to trump is an autocrat in waiting. look, they re very, very serious about this. donald trump has made it very, very clear he would come into office and purge the ranks of government. when he says i am your justice, i am your retribution, he s made it clear he will gut the department of justice, go after the fbi, he will go through the ranks of the military to eliminate anybody who would refuse his orders. and he s not being subtle about it. he said it was just last week, right, that the greatest threat
after me, they re coming after you, and he cast the 2024 election as a final battle, telling his supporters that once again he is their retribution and he is their justice. totally normal stuff. joining me now is charlie sykes, editor at large of the bulwark and an msnbc contributor. and you know, charlie, it strikes me that the waco timing doesn t feel coincidental. this was a religious fire that set fire to its own building to protect a leader who was raping children and declaring himself to be jesus and god on earth. i feel like trump leaned into that. well, trump leaned into it because he wants to amplify his anger and the atmosphere of menace. apparently, he thought it was want enough to threaten death and destruction or tweet out images of him with a baseball bat and the prosecutor in manhattan. so what he s doing though is he is embracing some of the most