of their son. we re going to talk to evan gershkovich s freshman year college roommate in just a few minutes. we ll talk about the person he calls a, quote, exceptional friend and journalist. plus, we have breaking news to share. the man accused of shooting and killing 23 people at an el paso, texas, walmart in 2019 has just been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences on federal charges and that is just his first round of sentencing. we re going to have the very latest for you any moment when we get our nbc news reporter who s there on site for us. we begin this hour at the site where republican primary race begins, that being iowa. right now former president donald trump is hitting the campaign trail in council bluffs as he continues to campaign and fund-raise. the republican leader writing in a lengthy statement last night that the doj is going after him and claiming that special counsel jack smith, quote, purposefully omitted the presidential records act. are quote,
pulling within the margin of error. it money and it s a panic move. deep left field. and jeremy pena sends one out of here. you dance, dance, dance. creeping up on you so just, dance, dance, dance. all those things i should do but dance, dance, dance. ain t answer beautiful shot of new york city? what is that in the distance? looks like a ferris wheel that circle. steve: is that coney island? brian: a rainbow. looks like a rainbow is that a rainbow or my monitor? steve: we re back together. welcome back. ainsley: thank you. took a few days off. so glad to be back. thank you for waking up with us. i watched all three of your shows. brian: vhs copy i couldn t get it was this song you were dancing to club last night. so many songs i dance to at the end ends up being bump-in music. ainsley: this actually is a song from trolls. you know this song very well. brian: as justin timberlake ever written a song that meant anything? steve: you would have
also calling for an investigation into greg abbott who has bragged about busing far more migrants than desantis. do you have any idea why abbott isn t being targeted? well, i would assume, alex, because ron desantis is running for president and newsom views that as an opportunity to gain more attention on this issue and to criticize desantis, and there s also been a pretty aggressive rivalry between desantis and newsom. we know desantis has shown up a few times in california and bad mouthed the state there. i m sure part of this is personal, and part of it is just the fact that ron desantis is a far more prominent figure in the republican party right now than governor abbott is in texas. look, though desantis s focus on divisive cultural issues suggests that he s running to trump s right, last night he highlighted what he says is the importance of appealing to a broader set of voters. take a listen to what he said. you can t win with just republican voters. i think we showed in f
herself. do you know about the tent city being built on radged island for the illegal immigrants coming here. when did that start? who is funding this and putting it together? rachel: that s great question. ainsley: she said everything is secretive there. they won t talk to her. she tried to talk to some of the workers. you will see later in the show she goes up to the workers on the other side of the fence. steve: exactly. we do know the workers for the city for of the run down homeless shelter the help shelter that ainsley was talking about. the city pays $5,300 for every person. it is an absolute hell hole and 350 yards away beautiful gleaming tent saying welcome to earthquake in. here s the thing. you know, did you see the project veritas guy who taped the city employee who is one of the advance man for mayor adams. he got fired yesterday. because he had said i-ohe bad-mouthed the mayor and he
push the marxist or democrat party radical agenda. they never talk about what it is that democrats are proposing with the vote, that is destroying. there is a ideology that has been in work for decades. public journalism, it means we journalists are citizens too, we have to provide a contact context for it. remember dewey, there has to be a social agenda, they love dewey, they talk about dewey, he has a huge influence in journalism schools today and education schools, today, it iss an excuse for advancing the radical agenda. they try to destroy donald trump, they bad mouth his supporters, they tried to destroy ronald reagan, and bad mouthed his supporters, they