castro in for alicia menendez. as we begin a new hour, a break continues on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent an appeals court to dismiss former president trump s immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get rolling. plus, nikki haley s campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what herenda says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, but look at how the polls have shifted over the course of 2023 and what that means for 2024. and why and immigration law in texas is drawing the attention of the justice department. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa, where several gop presidential candidates are spending the weekend in hopes of dismantling donald trump s hold over that republican party. that includes former south carolina governor nikki haley. but as she works to capture momentum from a surge and the polls, her campaign
actually put a former president on trial. several prosecutors are working on that very task even as donald trump s civil fud trial stretched through december of 2023. and in 2024 as you ve probably heard because you re watching the news former president trump faces different criminal trials while running again. special counsel jack smith, for the coup in washington, and separately the stolen intelligence documents case in florida. the head of d.a. pushing on those rico trials after winning conviction of trump aides through this 2023, and then the smaller criminal case in new york. take it together you ve got over 90 felonies charged. that is not normal even if it has been normalized. the first coup trial initially slated for march, while those schedules can of course change, america is facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, from actual legal experts discussing a major possibility that one of the political parties of america, will ultimately rally around
documents case against donald trump. it comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. we ll dig in to both of those stories. and a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. and we ll begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nation s capitol. yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f-16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. the response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. here s some of the sound surveillance cameras captured. the sound was heard across many miles. the cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. it then crashed in the shenandoah wall i have in virginia. officials say ther
wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down from underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? something i don t want to see again. yuck a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. two families in torment. i couldn t deal with it. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite to families in shock and heartbreak. except they were about to find out that the truth about what. . ,. happened on that fateful night might b
earlier today, president biden told reporters, he is confident a deal will reach his desk. and no more sticking points to iron out. msnbc news has also learned part of the deals raising the debt limit for two years, avoiding another debt showdown before the 2024 election. the deal also clause back some unspent pandemic funding, we ll talk about what that means. and shaves off some irs funding. it also expands work requirements for certain adults on food stamps. speaker mccarthy also spoke to senate republicans this afternoon about his deal at the white house, two sources tell msnbc, republican retold the bill 150 pages. and will include 15 pages of spending cuts. this morning, he told reporters, he expects a vote on the bill as soon as this wednesday. we did a conference call with a conference over 95% were overwhelmingly excited but what they see. they re getting the text today, the process, look, in every single negotiation, when it comes to debt ceiling and others, you