a presidential historian and author john meacham joins me live to discuss the state of our democracy today. the beginning of the end, we will break down what we can expect from closing arguments and jury instructions and trumps hush money election interference trial this week. and the chances that trump will be the first former president convicted of a felony and a look at what happens when trump steps out of the magna bubble. the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. whoa! i am jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. the tomorrow is memorial day , a day to remember our military service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. according to historian david blight, black americans were the first to honor fallen soldiers. black writes that in may, 1865, the black community in charleston, south carolina held a parade for a union soldiers killed in the war and, quote, converted confederate real men into their own
found an ice box of eight abandoned puppies floating in a swamp water. someone had apparently dumped them in the pond or the floodwaters and that washed them in. he saved the soaking wet puppies and brought them to a pet rescue. it sounds like after a little tlc, they should be just fine. well, the fox news @ night commonsense department happened to be scanning the los angeles times when it ran across the story with the headline reading, quote, what s the matter with portland? we ll get into portland s problems in a minute but the l.a. times asking what s the matter with portland or any liberal city is kind of like a camel saying what s the matter with the drama dairy or a duck talking about the goose. portland has a sky rocketing homeless problem with feces and urine on the streets. the city is spending record amounts of money on the homelessness as the problem continues to get worse. commonsense wonders if the l.a.
not encountered. it comes as major cities like washington, d.c. and as you pointed out, steve, new york city is feeling it the new york post headline reading, migrants sent to new york city amid homeless shelter have no local ties were directed here by biden administration. and it s not just humans. border patrol chief raúl ortiz reporting this week they have seized more than 51,000 pounds of marijuana. almost 10,000 pounds of meth. almost 10,000 pounds of cocaine and almost 1200 pounds of fentanyl. but the tragic reality is much larger unknown number is getting past law enforcement. the d.e.a. says they are finding deadly victims at record rates and the southern louisiana corner warns it s playing his community saying two young people recently died on the same night in unreality the incidents from taking fake pills laced with fentanyl. ainsley, brian, steve? steve: we hear that story too often. griff, thank you so much. so the new york post exclusive, what they did was, remembe
nuclear weapon and i look forward to bringing you up to date on the latest on where we are on the talks with the europeans, the iranians, russia and china on the jcpoa. so great to see you. secretary of state tony blinken there meeting with the israelis in latvia speaking about the war in ukraine and the russian invasion in ukraine. speaking specifically of diplomatic resolutions, what are the next steps here? the war needs to stop and we need diplomatic resolutions. i want to bring jason back to the conversation here. let s drill down a little bit on that. first and foremost, what more the west can do when it comes to getting moscow to stop their invasion and what diplomatic resolutions look like. and i want to talk first about something you wrote in the l.a. times and the headline reading this, the ultimate sanction, listing russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. you argue this, officially
has said that she will put this on the floor when we return. but what many people don t realize is in the senate we have 48 co-sponsors. and we also have two republicans that are pro-choice. we have a majority there in the senate that could pass this bill if it were not for the filibuster. so yes, being able to have an exception for the filibuster is very key and critical for this. and speaking of the infrastructure again, this week is biden agenda took a setback from a member of your own party when democratic senator joe manchin wrote an op ed threatening to pull his support for that agenda. the headline reading why i woent support spending another $3.5 trillion amid inflation debt and the inevitability of future crises. congress needs to take a strategic pause. he at first seemed to support the infrastructure bill. congresswoman, a key part of