politicsnation. tonight s leads, not a moment to lose. right now it s five pm in washington. and house republicans have just released their spending plan to avert a government shutdown. moments ago. now, have less than a week to pass it and ultimately prevent a potential economic catastrophe for america. meantime it appears the table is nearly set for 2020 for democrats. out before, i m out exportation s, in tuesday s elections scoring a big win on abortion rights in ohio, taken control of the virginia legislature, winning a key governors race in the red state of kentucky. fresh off the victories for the soon to be first black house speaker and rhode island s first black congress person joins me shortly with their takes on where democrats stand ahead of 2024. as for republicans, they help their three primary debate with a significantly narrowed field. and they re a front runner donald trump remains embroiled and other matters, including a continuous fraud trial here in
i m alicia mendendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele and new york city. today, the next president really against his criminal conviction and his party revolting against the justice system. michael: joins us at the table to react . and what comes next for trumped as the assumptive nominee said to be sentenced days before the gop convention. conservative supreme court justices refusing to take the ethical high road and how should democrats respond. grab your coffee and your tea and settle in. welcome to a supersized edition of the weekend. donald trump s felony conviction and the fallout is a historic moment for this country. the guilty verdict showing us no one is above the law, not even a former president but since the conviction we have seen a sharp rise in attacks against prosecutors, the judge and the jury. yesterday, trump unleashed a rambling tirade filled with lies undermining america s judicial process. and right on cue his gop allies parroted and
looking at everything to make sure that we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it s just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides, we don t have a quick apprehension. there s usually a lengthy investigation, especially when there s involving multiple victims. and so again, we re still working very diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution because that s what s most important now. so i was hoping that we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time. and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities, and that we made the proper next of kin notification. so again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives and of the family, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victims publicly. again, you know, we can
this is the first time and him having to take that mug shot in georgia, is the first time he s ever been held to real accountability. i like marco and byron too, i d like them to advocate for young men of color who are currently in the system and are being tried by the very same justice system that donald trump has just gone through. there are some courthouses we have a few in prince georges county maryland, you can come. we can go and advocate for those young men because, man, this system is so unfair. if it s unfair for donald trump it s got to be unfair for them too. i don t hear that advocacy. where is that advocacy? and that points out to me, at least, just the outer dose was the word i want right now at this hour of the morning craziness. we will go with that the craziness of all of that because you know at the end of the day you were lying. and you are perpetrating. and you re showing yourselves to be
Authorities in Chicago are searching for a disabled Air Force veteran who may be in danger after missing a flight from O'Hare International Airport to Cleveland.