the oscars have certainly had their shocking moments. but none of these have had the cultural impact of the slap heard around the world. so here s the scene. chris rock s on stage. he s presenting one of the awards, best documentary. the most interesting thing that has ever happened in the academy awards happened when most people went to get their second beer. chris rock spots. jada pinkett smith. will smith s wife sitting in the front row and she s rocking this bald head. i think she looks better without hair than most women look with hair. chris rock says, jada, i love you. she adds to can t wait. the entire audience laughs, including will smith. she shoots. will this look like him? like she is not amused and then will like. like hitting a light switch. jumps up on stage, stalks right to chris rock. then like a pitcher in the bottom of the knife rearing back stance. when violence spiked at the oscars. that s the moment we knew crime was out of control in liberal cities. fir
january 6th select committee officially issuing a subpoena to donald trump. when exactly they want to sit down with the former president, and what s next and what could be a potentially long and historic legal battle. plus, president biden set to speak any minute now. the focus, the student debt relief program. with election day less than three weeks away, how it s moving forward, after surviving two legal challenges. and while we re talking midterms, senator raphael warnock, no more mr. nice guy ramping up attack ads against his opponent herschel walker. plus in nevada, we re talking to both candidates in the senate race that could decide which party controls the chamber next year. we re going to start with nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, new york times reporter, and msnbc contributor katie benner and legal analyst charles coleman. good afternoon to all of you. ali, obviously this is breaking in the last hour. you were busy reading everything in betwe
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good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. good morning. great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china s stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it s not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began s goal to help finance putt putt putin s war in ukraine. tell us more. we have known for some time about russia s project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven t been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasio
many in the media mob in particular they have announced that former president donald j. trump is guilty of everything she accused him of. never mind the many reports that two secret service agents deny their allegation that donald trump a try to commandeer the vehicle that he was being driven in. never mind one of president trump s attorneys says give a church he testified under oath that was her handwriting, it s my handwriting. she did that under oath. never mind that the president trump s denials that he wanted to waive armed people into the rally, he has that night it. how about we do a few simple things and not rush to judgment and may be give people the benefit of the doubt. lets do these three things. let s have the secret service agents, let them sign sworn affidavits, they don t have to go before cameras and give up their careers. how about we do this? why don t we hire the best professional handwriting experts because i would bet a lot of money that they will be abl