great to have you, paul. second show of the week so i get a bonus today. let s get to it. we begin with this, new details emerging about the biden campaign s last minute effort to cover up the new york post hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. and the origins of the infamous in new sworn testimony morel said secretary of state antony blinken played a key role that led to the now debunked letter. blinken was working as senior biden campaign adviser at the time and house republicans are asking blinken to testify in their investigation of the coverup and many argue that the now debunked statement helped save president biden in the 2020 election final days. he uses it to defend his son during that year s final debate. there s 50 former national intelligence folks saying he s accused me of a russian plan and has all the former five heads of cia, both parties say what he s say asking a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except his and his good friend rudy giulian
share information about ongoing investigations. including donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. what that means for the gop s efforts to probe the agency. plus, donald trump dropped the lawsuit against new york tierney general letitia james a day after he and his lawyers or saw plus 1 million dollar fine for another, quote, frivolous case brought against hillary clinton. could we see trump upending even more lawsuits? and, congressman george santos long list of lies and controversies just keep piling up. a small newspaper exposed much of his inconsistencies weeks before the election. but, no one paid attention, why? i ll put that question to the papers publisher straight ahead. we have a team of reporters from capitol hill to the white house and ukraine following the latest for you this morning. and a good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. thanks for starting your saturday here on msnbc. house republicans have made it clear that they plan to use t
Billionaire heiress in memphis. Police confirming a short time ago the body found monday afternoon is that of missing Kindergarten Teacher and mother of two Eliza Fletcher. The suspect in the disappearance is now charged with firstdegree murder. Great to be back with you, john. John good to see you as well, sandra. This is America Reports. Sad news to start us off. Fletcher had been missing since going on a jog early friday morning. Surveillance video shows a man believed to be Cleotha Abston henderson exit his truck and aggressively run toward fletcher. The man then forces fletcher into his car. Sandra Court Documents say he was seen cleaning his truck and acting strange before the attack. He is a convicted kidnapper, spending nearly 20 years in prin for a similar crime carried out back in 2001. John Criminal Defense Attorney with more on this in moments, but Charles Watson is in memphis. Whats the latest, charles, and the charges against the suspect . Good afternoon, unfortunately th
culprit. yet another dose of gun violence adding to a string of shootings already staining the headlines. right now, police in washington state rushing to find this man, officials say he walked into a yakima gas station last night opening fire and killing three. he then possibly carjacked a fourth person. let s get straight to cnn s lucy kafanov. lucy, what do we know? reporter: john, the details are still coming in. three people, at least three people are dead following that overnight shooting at a circle k store in yakima, washington, that the man responsible for firing those shots is still at large. matt murray, the yakima police chief calling this individual dangerous telling reporters, quote, it s random so there is a danger to the community. we don t have motive and we don t know why. when officers arrived to the scene they initially found three deceased individuals at the circle k store. they quickly realized there was a second incident, a shooting mow tensionally
zelenskyy last week. that meeting comes at a critical juncture for the war amid new questions about the quantity and quality of u.s. support. and exactly what specifically makes the new mexico da so sure about the charges against alec baldwin, that could land him in prison for years. it wasn t that we were trying to charge him with a felony. it s that what his actions did matched the case law for involuntary manslaughter. but let s start exactly two years out from inauguration day, seeing the early contours of the presidential strategy, that the white house hopes will get joe biden back to the oval office for a second term. the goal to spotlight pooud s legislative achievements of the past 18 months and contrast that with what a white house spokesman predicted would be republicans divorce from reality political stunts. to that end, politico reports the administration is giddy that only soft of the biggest bomb throwers are now on the oversight committee believing they a