It is high noon in the east, and 9 00 in the west, and welcome to weekends with alex witt. Im richard lui in for alex. And in mexico and on the run, but now caught and could face extradition. And could trumps strategy to neutralize a former president backfire in a big way . H it just got bigger. What are your odds of winning the massive 800 million ja jackpot . First off, developing news. Msnbc news can confirm that mexico is aiming to fulfill a request by the United States to extra tra indict el chapo the United States. His real name Joaquin Guzman was captured in a predawn raid six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison, but what brought him down is not what you would expect. Here is mexicos attorney general. [ speaking Foreign Language ] and fou to msnbcs Gabe Gutierrez in mexico city with more for us. Reporter overnight, the most wanted druglord in the world, and once among the most richest and powerful men on earth was paraded in front of cameras in handcu handcuff
How can you lose like this . He really isnt even a democratdemocrat. Shes losing New Hampshire, which is sort of amazing. One white house veteran bristles at the socials label though and says struck a nerve with americans left behind. The Vice President joe biden raises eyebrows by praising sanders seemingly at the expense of Hillary Clinton. Biden says sanders is connecting on the campaign trail because of his deep concerns over americans squeezed by income inequality. There used to be a basic bargain. If you contributed to the profitability of enterprise you got to share in the profit. Thats been broken. Productivity is up. Wages are stagnant. Hillary is talking about that as well. Well, it is relatively new for hillary to talk about that. Hillarys focus has been on other things up till now. And thats been bernies. No one questions bernies authenticity on those issues. More on the bind interview in just a minute. First were joined from ames, iowa. Sanders happy about the race tighten
The Korean Peninsula. We have many military options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan, from any attack, and our commitments among the allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories, including guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, response both effective and overwhelming. Kim jongun should take heed, the United Nations Security Councils unified voice, all members unanimously agreed on the threat north korea poses and they remain unanimous in commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula because we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely north korea, but as i said we have many options to do so. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I want to bring in cnns pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, the significance of this statement, coming from the secretary of defense.
Aggressively fighting the Opioid Epidemic on all fronts. With todays declaration, and what it means for those on the front lines of his epidemic. And, the jfk files. Why have they been sealed all of these years, and why open them now . This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Folks seems Republican Leaders spent the last 48 hours pretty much doing different version of this all right. Move on. Nothing to see here please nothing to see here. Please we thought wed want to give you a little laugh. Anyway, President Trump today insisted again that there is no divide in the gop. He said, do not underestimate the unity within the Republican Party. Speaker of the house paul ryan today insisted again the public isnt interested in the partys infighting. I dont think the American People care about that. You know what the American People want to see us do . Solve their problems. I dont think the American People want to see
Certainly all of us are going to go back to washington, make sure that happens as soon as possible. Hi, im mark, i represent the 41st district of california. I was here in 2014, leading the delegation when the unaccompanied minor surge at the border was occurring. This is a huge change that the president has made with his executive order of zero tolerance. Im concerned about the 2000 young people who were separated from their parents. We have yet to hear the fine plan of how to connect those young people to their parents and whether and how many parents have been deported out of the country. It is unclear how were going to connect all the information, all the dots, to bring those to reunite those kids with their families and, going forward, theyre still a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not families will continue to be separated. Congresswoman annie custer from new hampshire. This has just been heartbreaking. I think the people working here are trying to bring some compassion to th