good evening, and welcome t politicsnation tonight s lead, rights versu might. it has been a whirlwind political week, with republicans from the state house to the courthouse, tryin to force their ultraconservative agenda o americans who have repeatedl rejected their platform at the ballot box but trump appointed federa judge yesterday suspended th fda s longtime approval of ach abortion drug, the latest blow to reproductive rights which have been under assault sinc the overturn of roe v. wad last summer. meanwhile in tennessee republican state lawmakers voted to expel two black representatives for speaking out against gun violence invoking rules used only twice before since the civil war a fair lawmaker who barely escaped this himself joins u live in just a moment. and of course, there s forme president donald trump, defyin in the face of an unprecedente criminal indictment. his house gop allies are rushing to his defense targeting the democratically elected africa
and we re also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don t like the idea i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, but it s well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for office at the time, you all may remember it that i had a big fight with the former president. and maybe future president. bless me father. anyway, all kidding aside, and here s the deal, what happened was the folks are really going after me for trying to, and by the way, 90% of all debt forgiveness for student loans will go to, under my plan, 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year. okay.
i just turned on the news, woman found murdered in denver, colorado. i just grabbed my son and screamed and cried. was it somebody she worked with at the radio station? could it be the boyfriend that she just broke up with and december? you re giving the detectives names of people? yes. he looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at that time? we have to look under every stone, every pebble,. they re talking about hundreds of names here. hundreds, thousands. she is driven. her tenacity is just remarkable. i knew i was going to find him. it was a competition between him and i. your heart is pounding like, oh, my gosh. this is real. i said, i found him. i know who killed helene. hello and welcome to dateline . helene pruszynski lift by a simple philosophy, smile and make the best of everything. the budding journalist did just that as she started a college internship in radio. then helene was murdered. the investigation led detectives
politicsnation tonight s lead, and territory. right now, america is bracin for what could be historically unprecedented event. the possible crimina indictment of a former president. earlier today, former presiden donald trump put out a serie post on his truth social media platform, referencing report that he could soon fac criminal indictment in new yor as early as next week. trump claims that leak indicate he will be arrested o tuesday. but he did not say whether h has actually been informed o any charges or what thos charges would be a spokesman for the manhatta da s office has declined t comment. trump also called for protest, and d.c. news reported frida line forsman agencies includin the nypd, fbi and the secret service. they are already this costin security plans, should charges come down. we will be talking about all o it ahead with our guest, including former trump attorney, michael cohen who testifie before the grand jury this ver week and later, the attorney genera
i m in for ari melber. it ain t all good and that s the truth. things aren t going like you thought they would and it s all on you, fox news. new evidence showing rupert murdoch and fox news new trump was lying but put them on the air anyway. dominion systems suing fox news for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit. the claim is fox news knowingly lied about their company and now we have receipts and private texts. fox news host called trump and his lawyers election claims total b.s., insane, crazy, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless, off the rails, and effing lunatics. these are not mean tweets. these are actual texts from fox news hosts. tucker carlson showing hannity and laura ingraham were in disbelief on camera over trump s conspiracy theories. carlton texting engram, quote, sydney powell was lying, by the way. i caught her, it s insane. sydney is complete nuts, no one will work with her, ditto with rudy. carlson writing, quote, our viewers are good people and they believe it.