Public safety and Crime Reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been for a long time back when i was chairman of judiciary committee. You know, since day one my administration has been working with Law Enforcement, mayors and Community Leaders to do what we know works to keep people and communities safe. As was referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw Violent Crime rising and their budgets were strained as they faced deep cuts in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. But we stepped up. Thanks to my American Rescue plan which i might note not a Single Person on the other team voted for, we provided 350 billion, 350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. You know, and the fact is that we find ourselves could use this money to keep Law Enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence. Invested 15 billion, 15 billion to make their communities safer and we added billions more in grants to help. Justice department invested in Law E
but, first, trump, trump, trump. that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: oh, some major depolling for liberals today. bloomberg morning consult poll showing that trump is leading biden handily in seven key swing states. and in four states that trump lost in 2020 he is now winning in 2024. wisconsin, where billionaires are spending huge for joe, trump is up by five. pennsylvania look out, he is up by 3. nevada, a state run by democrats, for democrats, trump trouncing biden by 8 points. ditto in georgia. trump s got north carolina by 10 points. and michigan by 5. in arizona, he is up by 3. well, turns out that overwhelming the country with millions of demanding, ungrateful and dangerous migrants isn t such a good campaign strategy after all. who would have thought that? now, remember when democrats used to cry about how he had to help all the poor migrants hiding in the shadows bring them out of the shadows and give them jobs. they aren t hiding anymore. instead brutally
n. chris jansing reports starts now. good day, guilty on all cobs, robert bowers convicted on all charges how the community that lost 11 members is reacting now. we ll have the very latest coming up. plus, as donald trump rails against the government for seizing his classified documents, we re learning more about what his staff calls a beautiful mind connection to those piles of boxes at mar-a-lago. and this is all that s left of perrytown, texas, much of that town wiped off the map by a tornado. right now, more than 50 million americans are at risk of severe weather from florida to west of denver. we ll have the details and the forecast coming up. but we start with breaking news out of pittsburgh, where a jury just took just five hours to convict robert bowers. 11 people were shot and killed resulting in 63 federal charges against bowers, including federal hate crimes. he was convicted on every single one. up next will be the sentencing phase which will include the
good evening. , tonight in the eyes of a federal giardia of his peers to donald trump, the once president of the united states, is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll at a department store in the 1990s, and then defaming her about it last year on his social media site. the jury took just under three hours to reach their verdict and reward carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment, we will be joined by jessica leads, testifying during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s. her lawyers neither put on defense, nor called him as a witness, leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of trump s testimony. they heard the access hollywood tape in which he says that stars can get away with women and heard them during the deposition, doubling down on that. historically, that s true with stars. it s true the stars that they can grab women by the ? if you lo
off lies he s told if convicted. testing the waters, florida governor ron desantis trying out new lines in iowa for a very unofficial kickoff to his widely expected presidential run. the latest legal developments for his potential rival donald trump. what he s saying about the manhattan d.a. investigating hush money payments to stormy daniels. we re also watching now a stock selloff which has been accelerating in the past hour. investigators are spooked by the second biggest bank collapse in u.s. history. our nbc news reporters are covering all of the latest developments and we begin with the selloff on wall street this hour. nbc s seema mody is with us. what has investors so concerned about the collapse of the silicon valley bank? well, chris, svp is certainly the story of the hour on wall street as the bank has been shut down for the day by california regulators, this as the large institution in silicon valley with really broad reach across the technology industry has f