I hope you have a great weekend. The news continues. The source with kaitlan the source with Kaitlan Collins starts now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com tonight straight from the source, President Biden siding with the auto workers over the auto makers in the first ever strike against the big three. Filmmaker and Working Class champion, Michael Moore, is here with us tonight. Plus special counsel jack smith asking a judge for a limited gag order against former President Donald Trump, warning that the expresident is trying to undermine the criminal justice system. And now senators want to know if elon musk personally intervened to undermine ukraine. To more on International Affairs to tesla and twitter, just how powerful is the richest man on earth . Im Kaitlan Collins, and this is the source. Tonight, nearly 13,000 United Auto Workers are on strike at three plants in three states against all three major u. S. Auto companies for the very first time. Tomorrow Union Leaders are expected
keeping this chair warm in my absence. i do miss you all so. i see some of your messages on twitter and i miss you right back. so happy to be back with you today, to have my hair brushed for the first time in three weeks. the good news is the beat with ari melber starts now. before i get weepy. i have such mixed feelings. i have my feelings and news feelings. congratulations for you and the family, which i can say now, we love having you back, even though i know it s just for today. the mixed feelings is the seriousness that you were discussing with congresswoman cheney is part of why you were back today. so i did want to say all the things and let you respond to any and all of the above and again, our thoughts and happiness for your family. i ll start with the first things and i ll be brief before i get weepy. i feel like we tv people can be quirky, but we ve worked out the family dynamic on all of our big nights and i m so appreciative for the kind words and love and
both sides about gagging donald trump. now, jack smith did win the first round in the d.c. coup case, but that gag order has not been am place. indeed, it was held for this review today. the special counsel s team says donald trump has clearly shown in his violent rhetoric and his calls for violence and his calls for other things that sounds like witness intimidation means he has to be gagged. trump s lawyers say the gag order, first of all, is overly broad. second of all, they think the whole thing in its entirety is basically a violation of the first amendment, first speech rights afforded to everyone, including especially a presidential candidate engaged in free speech, which can include legitimate criticism of the current administration, which oversees the justi department. now, special counsel jack smith was in court today. despite the judge s pushing back at prosecutors at times, we could tell you one headline from the new york times is this, they write that based on
seems to stun me. it seems right now with the war effort and fractiousinous and the rage of his government even before him it s like there s pressure building up in this chamber. we ll see where that goes. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. if you missed it, this is what it looked like when robert f. kennedy jr. officially announced he would run as a third party candidate for president. i need my speech. you can t read anything. it s upside down. it s upside down. it s upside down. that is how rfk jr. began his independent bid for the presidency last month, and that s kind of how it s been this whole time with rfk jr. his campaign has been filled with unfortunate stunts like posting videos of him doing push ups shirtless for no reason at all. he s trafficked conspiracy theories more suited today the dark web or a reddit page. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people i don t know what happened on 9/11. i mean i unders
fraud trial against him, the penalty part. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news in manhattan where donald trump is already inside the courtroom about to take the stand in his $250 million new york civil fraud trial. these proceedings are just getting under way this morning. nbc s vaughn hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. also with us, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi attorney and former investigative council for the january 6th house committee. we saw those live images inside the courtroom. we aren t allowed to have cameras inside the courtroom during the actual testimony. i understand, vaughn, trump spoke moments ago before he walked into the courthouse. start us off there in mann with what the president, former president is saying this morning and what we can e