this legal pressure that is engulfing donald trump to a degree he s clearly aware of. his former white house lawyer made waves and concerned people by ricking trump will go to jail over white house documents. now we have this short but unusual letter from donald trump s lawyers, signed by them, publicized by donald trump that reads like a cry for help or some sort of freakout. i can tell you straight up it s not a normal legal proceeding. it s addressed to attorney general merrick garland. the wall street journal made waves that the quays may be nearing the intend although no one can say what happened, it clearly had bad news in there at a minimum for trump with insiders bracing for a possible indictment. again, that s not news you can go to the bank with, but it s wall street journal, which is own by the murdoch empire, and that may among other things may have led trump to write this letter. it basically tries to shake down the attorney general of the united states, whic
we begin with breaking news, florida governor ron desantis announcing on twitter that he is running for president. but the live stream events with elon musk do not go according to plan. it was plagued with technical problems and delayed for nearly 30 minutes. if you tuned in when it was supposed to start you would ve heard silence, and then after about 12 minutes of that, you would have heard this. so, let s see. keeps crashing, ha? i think we ve got a massive number of people online. so services are straining. that was elon musk saying that the servers are straining somewhat. then there was silence again. the former president is already mocking the governor s debut. still a statesman thing i m comparable silences, glitches, a complete failure to launch, and that s just the candidate. jessica dean joins us now from miami. last night of the program we talked about how a live event on twitter with elon musk could either be compelling or a train wreck. it certainly start
long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith s evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, the new york times is naming names. the new york times reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet, and that they moved the boxes into the room before search of the storage room that sam day by evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump. for trump. this brand new reporting, which we should mention, has not been independently verified by nbc news, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether it helps to answer essential questions in the case. did donald trump clearly and flagrantly commit obstruction of justice? as jack smith barrels to an indictment of the president, we h
, everyone i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy saturday afternoon. it s down to the wire as negotiators say they are very close to a deal on the debt ceiling, as talks continue right now. i feel closer to agreement now than i did last time before i couldn t see progress. but this is not easy. but that since [inaudible] i am cautiously optimistic a deal will be negotiated and the default will be averted, and congress will be called back into session next week. but there s nothing to celebrate here. this is purely a self inflicted wounds. we re also keeping an eye on the rare side of the house hearing in texas as well, considering the impeachment of state attorney general, ken paxton. and its fellow republicans leading the charge against him. we also have new information about donald trump on tape. part of the evidence against him in a manhattan d.a. s investigation, and it is, everybody, as you all well know, memorial day weekend. the unofficial start of summer. we re
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul