It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, scenes of devastation in michigan after tornadoes pommel homes and businesses ripping the sides off a fedex facility and wiping out an entire mobile home park. The risk isnt over. More than 50 Million People still under Severe Weather alerts told. Also told, Donald Trumps battle against the d. A. And his Georgia Election case. The new development as he tries to get fani willis thrown off the case. Plus, another campus crackdown, Police Moving into clear an encampment at Gw University as other schools scramble to salvage Graduation Ceremonies. The growing fallout. And the cease fire talks underway right now in the middle east. Can a deal get done, even with israeli tanks inside rafah. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin in michigan with nbcs Maggie Vespa Covering the after math of devastating tornadoes. What are you seeing . What are you hearing from fo
continue this travesty and darkness and i want sunlight. that s a nice way of saying it. isn t that pretty. i want sunlight. i want everything exposed to the public. and let s let the public decide because i want cameras at every inch of that courthouse. careful what you wish for? no, he doesn t. we got a lot to cover from that speech on saturday, including some frightening comments from the front-runner in the republican primary. meanwhile, donald trump s defense team will present its case in the civil fraud trial. we ll tell you who is taking the stand later today in new york. also ahead, it appears the new house speaker is not ready to move forward with the impeachment inquiry into president biden. we ll go through that new reporting. plus, we ll play for you the surprise announcement from republican senator tim scott, one of the five candidates who was just on the debate stage last week. we ll also bring to you the very latest out of israel and gaza. good mond
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the trump davidians, that is how trump ally steve bannon sums up a movement that has swallowed whole one of our nation s two major political parties. a movement led by an ex-president currently facing 91 felony counts and on a third run for the white house on a platform of damaging democracy. that quote is from jonathan carl s brand-new book tired of winning: donald trump and the end of the grand old party. it reveals this dramatic collision of efforts to hold the ex-president accountable for his alleged crimes and misdeeds and a candidate who has no hesstation stoking the fires of right-wing extremism and sees winning the presidency as the only way out of his legal troubles. in an essay in the atlantic that is adapted from his book, john karl writes this about the decision by the trump campaign to hold its very first rally in waco, texas. the site of a standoff between far-right extremists and the fbi that ended in dozens of dea
early news for us this morning. that s awesome. founder of the conservative website, the bullwork, charlie psychs is with us. willie will be back tomorrow. right now we re following new polling that shows donald trump s hold over the republican base is as strong as ever. in the latest cbs news ugov survey, the former president has 62% of support from likely gop primate voters. 46% clear of his closest challenger. and among those likely trump voters, the polls show they trust the former president even more than their own loved ones. let s put a framer around that. they trust the former president more than they trust their on loved ones. 71% say they feel what trump tells them is the truth ahead of friends and family at 63%. conservative media figures at 56% and a religious leader at
project senior adviser, former republican communications director and uva center for politics scholar. and charlie psychs. editor at large for the bullwork and msnbc columnist and contributor. i ll start with you, charlie. we lived in the world of talk radio for a time. and there is a certain amount of outrageousness in talk radio that is encouraged. on fox, the level of it was it was rush limbaugh times ten. he was saying stuff that used to be considered just straight up white nationalism. and they didn t have a problem with that. why do you think this one text about him saying that s not how white men don t fight, which is a very odd thing to say, by the way, in the 21st century. why do you think that got him bounced? yeah. i m not buying this actually, joy. i think you laid out the reasons why. you know, i think ari made the point in the last hour. so we re supposed to believe that fox executives and board members were shocked, shocked to find out that their leading star was a r