We are coming on the air this morning with Breaking News from capitol hill. Our first look at just how house Impeachment Managers plan to prosecute their case against donald trump. Set to file their pre friel brief and we are now getting a look at it just seconds ago, this is all ahead of next weeks Historic Second senate trial and we have a better sense of what their argument will be. A point by point case that trump is responsible for inciting the deadly insurrection at the capitol and that his responsibility for those events is unmistakable. Those managers taking direct aim at what im told will be one of the key arguments by the former president s team. That defense team also rushing to meet their own filing deadline today. My new reporting on how theyre going to convince senators or try to to acquit donald trump again. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team covering this. Garrett haake on capitol hill, Shannon Pettypiece outside the white house,
Have missed. January 6th was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try and stop us, specific piece of Domestic Business they did not like. Fellow americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the center floor. They tried to hunt down the speaker of the house. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President. They did this because they had been Fed Wild Falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth. Because he was angry and lost an election. Former President Trumps actions preceded the riot for a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. Therefore, i am endorsing donald j. Trump. The one thing we cut off there, maybe its not fair is right after that, he broke into a rousing tune. Happy days are here again. It was like the 32 convention. I couldnt believe it. But yeah. A little discordant, song didnt go with the message. But you know, thats mitch. Mitch mcconnell there, that was in 2021. It was a month after j
overseas, as israel launches strikes against palestinian militants in the west bank. what the white house is saying about the stepped up violence there. and later, new reporting on the race for president. why the first gop debate is at risk of losing its draw. the latest on donald trump s double digit lead against his republican rivals is straight ahead. welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this tuesday, july 4th. we start with breaking news overnight. five people are dead and two children injured after a gunman wearing body armor opened fire in a philadelphia neighborhood. police first responded to the attack just before 8:30 p.m. after reports of gunfire in multiple locations. officers arrived on the scene and began chasing the suspected gunman who continued firing and didn t stop until he was cornered in an alley. that is where he surrendered. about 50 spent shell casings were found in the area which covers a two by four block stretch. the people were all adult men. the
good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and inhumane and making a plea to the residents of that city to protest peacefully when video of the arrest is released to the publ
it certainly goes further than a lot of republicans would like it to go. but there is no doubt this bill is going to save thousands of lives. ahead not next 15 minutes i ll speak with the democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a voice that worked on the deal and one of president biden s top allies. and relief at the pump, that s president biden s goal this afternoon, asking congress to pass a three month federal gas tax holiday, but it s already facing stiff resistance from democrats and republicans. why is that? we ll break it down coming up. and this hour on the hill, roger goodell is testifying virtually before a house committee. what he is telling lawmakers about the league s handling of work place misconduct allegations in the washington commanders franchise. what we are learning about the next hearing for the january 6th committee and the new revelations from the latest one. ali vitali is on capitol hill. and i want to bring in reporter kyle cheney and cha