jasmine crockett, thank you fo making sure we saw the pictures thanks for starting a fire - we are just getting started on american voices. next, congressman robert garci of the homeland security - classified information about ukraine somehow made it from the pentagon plus, donald trump s attorne general on what his former bos should be most worried about and it has nothing to do wit the new york indictments facin the former president you will hear from two tennessee students, to america voices who helped organize the gun violence protests that sparked a political firestorm. where their fight goes next. first, with richard lui th other big stories we are tracking on msnbc, richard good sunday to you, alicia. 30 people were shot and five others hurt entering a fight a a shopping mall food court in delaware the shooting happened on a bus saturday evening at the mall that is the states largest mall the suspect remains at large israeli jets hit militar targets in syria today this is in
department you can only imagine how muc opposition there would be from the justice department, whic me saw even when donald trum was president, even when bil barr was attorney general, eve when jeff sessions was attorne general. there was opposition to this and for good reason, because there was worried that even if there were progressive da that the attorney generals and the donald trump disliked, there could be greater damag done in terms of ripping awa grants plus, there was in the court some of these efforts that failed as well there were efforts made to tak money away from sanctuaries, because they were defying th trump administration s policies, so it is much harder to do thi and i think the members of congress do this so what the are looking for is a great talking point, they are lookin at a great political talking point in the air looking a something they re hoping to us donald trump so as long as the wind i blowing there it will use this talking to disappoint him. the m
actually have to see the indictment itself. one of the most troubling yet predictable developments t come out of this indictment, donald trump s allies in the so-called law and order part taking their cues from the former president are targeting alvin bragg along a la enforcement official for doing his job. house gop chairs have been trying to pressure alvi bragg to term over sensitive information related to thi investigation. threatening t federally defund him. it is tactic you are no doub familiar with. republicans hel you in contempt of congress. something that had never happened before two an attorne general. while they are trying to jet up a scandal over operation fast in the furious. do you think it is a misuse of congressional authority to try and target prosecutors for political purposes sure. it is an obvious abus of the power that they have, that they now have in th house. there is actually n
the supreme court, federal supreme court made might do. all right, former attorne eric holder, thank you ver much for being with us thi evening. after the break, republicans are standing by their man. even gop presidential hopefuls are circling the wagons around trump. we will look at what that coul mean for 2024. but first, my colleague richar lui with the day s top new stories. richard thank you, rev. and good saturday to you tornado watches from texas t michigan as a severe storm system it s the midwest an southern states. at least 22 people are dead, getting including 11 i arkansas where governor ther disk declared a state of emergency. pope francis was discharge from a hospital today afte spending three nights. he wa treated for difficult breathin due to bronchitis. the vatican says, the 86-year-old will b in st. peters square for pal sunday mass, though, to mark the start of holy week. more politics nation, with reverend
the many and varied lega troubles donald trump is facing, so let s make it easy. he has the investigation and now indictment against him for the manhattan district attorne relating to the hush money payments made to stormy daniel at the end of the 2016 campaig cycle. he has that new york attorne general civil case i jus mentioned. laetitia james is suing trum and the trump organization for fraud involving misleading representation of properties i order to get better loans an insurance. the penalty of that could be a quarter of a billion dollars the fulton county district attorney in georgia is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020 electio results in that state, which included then president trump infamous phone call to georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, demanding he find enough votes for trump to win there are two department o justice investigations, both being overseen by specia counsel jack smith one focus is on trump s role o january 6th, the