Good day, everyone, from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york, welcome to weekends with alex witt. Well get you up to date as we star with breaking news from portland, oregon. Were awaiting a News Conference from the mayor and the police chief in the next couple of hours. Police have confirmed details of three hours of chaos on the streets as Trump Supporters squared off with counterprotests, ending with a deadly shooting. Police confirmed hundreds of vehicles formed a protrump caravan and drove into downtown starting around 5 30 p. M. Portland time. Police responded to fights, disturbances, collisions, in fact, involving members of that caravan and pedestrians, but they say they were not able to get to all of the incidents because they were spread ought around the city. The bulk left downtown around 8 30 portland time and then 15 minutes later officers responded to shots fired. Shooting was caught on video. You may find this video and audio disturbing. [ sound of gunfire ] a Wash
Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Good day from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Well bring you the latest as we begin with new reaction this hour to bombshell secret recordings of President Trumps sister sharply criticizing him. Maryain trump spoke with mary trump for hours in 2018 and 19 unaware she was being recorded and saying things like this . [ bleep ] and the lying oh, my god, really, but you know it is the change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying, the holy [ bleep ]. But hes appealing to the base. What theyre doing with the kids at the border, i mean well the tapes were reported by the Washington Post and obtained and confirmed by nbc news and recordings were made here in new york where only one party needs to consent for a conversation to be legally recorded. Meantime, the president is gearing up for a scaled down Na
What are you seeing on the ground now . Reporter very big crowd at Freedom Plaza. Ill show you behind, were at the tail end of the group. This still a really sizable crowd. They are making their way from Freedom Plaza to the supreme court. Were at the back end so this is kind of the thinner part of the crowd, if you will compared to the Largest Group that has already made their way sort of towards the front. Its hard to get a clear count as to how many people are here because every one is moving but the numbers are very, very high. Thousands of people have made their way. Many of them made their way but to also make it known that they do not support ore agree with the results of the election. You can see some of the signs. Not a whole lot of those folks out. We did see a small group of counter protesters earlier in the day come from Freedom Plaza. They were surrounded by Trump Supporters and chanted out of the area. You get a sense of this, more and more coming this way. Signs saying a
Executive actions are only one of the many topics. The others are police relations, the war on drugs and trying terror suspects and something her district has done more than any others. We start with pete williams. What are americans learning about Loretta Lynch today. Well the guitar track was not part of her testimony. As entertaining as it was. Youre right, i think that was the thing that republicans asked most about today, they kept coming around over and over again to the executives use of authority to delay deportation or removal for a number of people here in the country illegally and her answer was very nuanced. She didnt say what she thought of the policy she said what she thought of the departments legal analysis which supported the analysis and thought it was reasonable and some cases where the Justice Department told the president it couldnt do things which the Administration Made clear at the same. So she basically brushed aside questions about whether she agreed with the
Papadapoulos spent a night drinking with an australian diplomat and told him in that conversation that russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. According to the times, two months later when leaked democratic emails began appearing online, australian officials passed the information about mr. Papadapoulos to their american counterparts. Now no response of as of yet to the report from papadapoulos. And trumps claims that a dossier compiled by Christopher Steel sparked the russia investigation. The president tweeting, use the the fbi used this to go after the Trump Campaign. And today a message from putin telling trump he wants the two countries to, quote, make progress andn promoting pragmatic cooperation designed for the longterm. We are in West Palm Beach there in florida. And kit, a lot to talk about, but if this reporting comes t t tout out to be true, this is a realignment in the time line for the russia investigation. What do we know. Reporter well this would be fascinating if