the weekend in the state making their closing arguments in a state that can make or break their campaigns. fighting hate and extremism is p president biden s focus when he speaks from the same south carolina church that a wall street shot and killed nine parishioners. and the secretary of defense is still in the hospital as washington demands answers. why did he and his staff wait days to tell the white house that a criminal member of the chain of command was in the icu. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics . first, breaking news, donald trump is asking a judge to throw out the election subversion case against him in georgia. the former president s legal team just filed a motion claiming presidential immunity, just like they have in other cases. paula reed has been going through the court filings. what s his reasoning, paula, for wanting immunity in this particular case? reporter: dana, this is all familiar. the president s lawyers argue a ing
stretched for five years. and the source told the fbi about these conversations in june 2020. that s right as joe biden was wrapping up the democrat nomination. the burisma executive told the fbi s confidential source that burisma had to pay the biden administration for help getting rid of the ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating burisma for corruption. quote: 5 million for one biden, 5 million for the other biden, the burisma executive told the confidential human source. now, people who have seen the document tell us that the $5 million payments were a kind of retainer agreement that burisma had with the biden administration do deal with a number of issues. one of which was getting rid of this prosecutor. other issues burisma needed biden s help with was help with oil deals. now, the executives said they needed to pay joe biden because hunter was quote, unquote, dumb and couldn t get much done by himself. now, people who have seen this document say it looks like a pay
first of all, big amen to all of that. this hour, the former president doubling down, donald trump telling a crowd, immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. and quoting vladimir putin, condemning american democracy. all well questions swirl about reports around a binder that s been missing, containing highly classified russian intelligence. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news on capitol hill, top senate negotiators are scrambling right now to hammer out a bipartisan deal to fund the wars in both israel and ukraine. while also clamping down on u.s. border security with a framework needed by the end of today. nbc s julie tsirkin is reporting from capitol hill for us. julie, welcome. tell us who is negotiating there, and with the latest issue here on the talks? hey, alex, the next couple of hours we ll see the new consented to go cheaters once again h
warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. without an agreement to increase what the federal government can borrow, it could run out of money by earlyjune. at that point the federal government might not be able to make wage, welfare and other payments. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury is live in new york for us. we have been here before but once again, a stark warning that if nothing is done, it causes huge repercussions around the world. this is because as repercussions around the world. ti 3 is because as you say it is going to affect the jobs of government employees in the united states and have a knock on effect on the border economy, but then there is beyond the shores of the united states, the kind of ricochets it will have around the global financial system and that is why you have had this increasing drumbeat as we get closer to the kin
hello. happy mother s day to all the moms out there. thank you for joining us today. we begin with the votes being counted in turkey s presidential election. the race could have global repercussions by reshaping the country s domestic and foreign relationships. president erdjon is leading. he and his opposition claim to be leading. let s check in at istanbul. reporter: very preliminary results are beginning to trickle out. vote counting is continuing and we expect in the coming hours to get the preliminary results of this presidential vote. the whole is anxiously awaiting the results. we ll find out what the turks decided to vote for today. did they decide to vote for more of the same, for the promise that the president will continue on the same path for this country, or are they did they decide to go for the opposition that promised change to reverse the past two years and they say a return to real democracy, or is this divided, polarized nation headed towards a run-off?