taken down the nypd has added extra security at the manhatta office, but it s not just alvi bragg here, after hi arraignment on tuesday trump offered doj special counsel, jack smith and fulton county da, fani willis trump called smith, a radica left lunatics, known as a bomb thrower. and he called fani willis, a races. last, night fani willi responded. willis told mark witty that trump has a right to speak a mine and so, the comment not concern me at all. it s ridiculous in nature but support his right to b protected by the first amendment and say what h likes. while she supports his righ to speak freely, she did war him not to cross the line. people have the right to sa whatever they choose to say. as long as it doesn t rise t the level of threats against myself, against my staff, or against my family. trump isn t alone attemptin
to weaponize the just system for his ow political gain the former president supporter in congress are taking note. in march, house speaker kevi mccarthy announced that he was ordering a probe into the ma and ea s prosecution of trum accusing brag of an outrageous abuse of power, demanding bags testimony in the house investigation. bragg refused, he called a unlawful, incursion into new york sovereignty but today, house republicans took their crusade to the next level. when the house judiciary committee fired off its very first and their so-calle investigation into da brag judiciary jim jordan dissipate manhattan da s office named, mark pomerantz who resigned from the office after disagreements with bragg last year. bragg, in response to th subpoenas called so-called investigations an campaign o harassment and intimidation. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former ascrib general and msnbc legal analyst, and someone who is literally the voice of the whole serie of saget s for us.
don t have them bouncing off of each other that s when they can go for a very long time and get very, very big and very dangerous. i mean, how many tornadoes are we talking about here? chad? today i could easily see there be 50. wow no question and i could easily see that they re now that they ve already started. you know, we talked about this in the weather service in the office here to the weather service that sometimes when you get a high risk day, everything just doesn t work like you try to make a cake. you put all the ingredients together, and it just doesn t rise. right and so that is always a possibility. where the and just too many ingredients. you just can t get the tornadoes to fire. but i believe all the ingredients are in the right amounts today and you know, we don t even see storms down here. but there will be. we don t see storms up here to ottawa. but there will be they will fire all the way through the afternoon, and the potential here is also for damage. when it come
defeated isis in syria. if you recall during the trump administration, isis was rolled back. considerably and the caliphate was largely destroyed . so those 900 troops or so on the ground there are working with our partners and ensuring that isis doesn t rise back up and attack our allies and partners in the region work eventually trying to strike our homeland. for the most part, shia militia groups are funded and resourced and in many cases directed by tehran. and so the question is. why is this? why is this escalating at this point in time now, on the other hand, we ve heard from d o d that since january 20th 21. we were attacked nearly every 10 days or so there s been nearly 80 attacks in in this two year period. so this is ongoing in many ways, and now we ve had an american killed six or seven others injured and i give the vitamin inspiration credit for responding for retaliating, retaliating. it s exactly what they should do. new developments in the investigations into donald trum
possible that we could see that death toll rise very quickly here, neil. neil: all right, nicole, thank you. i hope it doesn t rise, but with so many missing, you cowonder. thank you for that. want to go to phillip gunn, the speaker of the house in mississippi, kind enough to join us. mr. speaker, thank you. the damage the is just beyond comprehension, and it all apparently happened so quickly. what are you hearing and what happens now for those are residents? well, good morning and thank you so much for your interest in what s going on here in mississippi. i am actually at ground zero here in rolling fork, mississippi, as we speak. words just cannot describe the devastation that i am seeing. as nicole said, buildings are just gone, completely missing. slabs of concrete is all that s left. trees are splintered. they are, the death toll, unfortunately, has risen from