as well. marc thiessen, andy mccarthy, nicole parker and juan william following along as we watch this play out in real time live this afternoon as we wait for the president to finish and to come out. first to mark meredith live there outside the courthouse in miami. hello there. hi, mark. martha, hello to you. the story at this hour is two very different scenes. the former president with his legal team and across the aisle the special counsel and the justice department ready to begin this long and lengthy process following the indictment unsealed last week. shows the former president will face 37 different felony charges as a result of allegedly holding on to classified documents and not turning them back over to the government. that s what is happening inside. outside the federal courthouse in miami a different story. you have a media spectacle where you have trump supporters and trump critics out here ready to make their opinions very well-known. we ve seen a couple hund
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
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. i m tom king in for alisyn camera at that. debt ceiling drama. we re closer to a debt ceiling deal, closer but not there yet. janet yellen gave them four more days, and we ve got a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning, can they get it done in time? plus, can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that s the question, as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not being shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and lasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than what he was running in 2015 and 2016. and i think the direction he s going with the campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. can ron desantis? here s a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you
the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be classi
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s