That. The reidout with joy reid starts now. Tonight on the reidout the actions that have unfolded over the last ten months, the leaks, the commentary, the demonizing, this did not surprise us that we reached this day. These judges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged. What s happening here is weaponization at a level that nobody has seen before ever. A tale of two new yorkers. Both facing criminal indictments. Both with a similar style. Maybe the democrat adams could be a republican presidential nominee some day. Because he certainly meets the maga ethical standards. Also tonight, vice president kamala harris on the world stage today, meeting with the ukrainian president as donald trump was selling, you know, watches. Like the scam guy on the street who sells fake guccis. Plus, the politics of hate, with republican congressman clay higgins making vile, racist comments about haitians and mini soldier mark robinson, aka black nazi, reported to have made an extremely disturbing comment
That this indictment was coming and would be Unsealed Today. We expect him to take that podium any moment now, but im going to hand off to jose diazbalart, who picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. All eyes are on new York City where mayor Eric Adams could speak at any moment. Just after Federal Prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with bribery, Wire Fraud, and many other charges. Federal prosecutors are scheduled to hold a News Conference later this hour as well. Were going to, of course, bring you all these remarks when they occur, but youre seeing there that dais has been set up right outside where were going to be hearing from the mayor of new York City any moment now. Adams is the first mayor in modern new York City history to be charged while in office. The indictment was unsealed hours after the Mayors Attorney said Fbi Agents went to the mayors residence, Gracy Mansion, to take the mayors phone. With us
For four straight years i fought for american workers like i would fight for my own family. I took care of our economy like i would take care of my own company. Yeah, yeah, you did. You did, donald, run economies run america s economy into the ground just like you did your businesses which filed for bankruptcy a total of six times, and also your failing weird truth social thing. Which is like down 70% this year. And oh, wait until you hear trump s world salad plan to make child care more affordable. Also tonight, judge tanya chutkan shuts down the effort by trump s lawyers to put a halt to the election interference case until after the november election. And late today, the judge released a new calendar in the case. Plus, the right s dishonest claims about communities being overrun by migrant crime. And how fox and elon musk are helping trump to amplify those lies. But we begin tonight with russia still listening and still interfeing in our elections. That is what we learned when the j
We begin with Breaking News. The biden administration taking a series of actions to target what they allege are attempts by russianbacked actors to manipulate Public Opinion here in the u. S. Ahead of the president ial election. According to two senior u. S. Joining officials. Joining us now is nbcs ken ken, dilanian. Ken, what more have we learned . Jose this is being described by our sources as a whole of Government Action designed to target russian Propaganda And Disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2024 it election. It is said to include sanctions by the treasury department, Law Enforcement Action by the Justice Department, and one of the focuses on rt, formerly known as russia today, that network of russian government funded English Language websites and Television Platforms that was flagged all The Way back in 2017 by the u. S. Intelligence community as a vehicle for russian Disinformation And Election interference. At that time, the Justice Department required rt to regist
Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.