Front yard in front of the Police Headquarters there. I dont smell any irritant in the air at the moment, but again, this has been going on all night. Periodically the police come out and announce the fact that theres a curfew, people need to disperse and go home. Theyre not doing that. Theyre staying out here. Theyre angry. Theyre upset. They dont like the explanation theyre getting from the police about what happened that the officer mistook or somehow thought she was firing a taser and instead fired a weapon. That the boy, the young man, had been stopped for a vehicle infraction because his license plates were expired. It just is something that people find just completely unacceptable. So, here we are. They want the officer fired. The mayor has also called for that. The police chief said theyre going to have due process. But the bottom line is at this point this has gone back and forth. Theres been some ebb and some flow. The crowd has gotten larger and smaller as the night has gone
We also know he can be seen as the strong and bold, also weak and fearful here. Explain whats going on. Reporter well, i think Donald Trumps the only one that can tell us exactly whats going on here, but its clear that this is a gamble in many ways. Were in a state thats known, you know, for farming, and this was, in effect, him playing a game of chicken with both fox news and ted cruz. Donald trump, though, by making this statement, effectively freezes the race, if he doesnt show up for this debate, freezes the race where it is right now. We can put up new numbers that show exactly where it is, these numbers now from monmouth. A month ago, donald trump was trailing ted cruz in the state by roughly five points. Now this latest poll from iowa shows that he is up by roughly seven points. No matter what, we know this is going to be a tight race, but clearly, the momentum has appeared to be on trumps side in recent days. It also sort of solidifies, cements the narrative that donald trump i
Nightclub on a prior occasion and tried to talk him out of conducting any kind of attack. He will be along in a moment to give us new details. As americans pray for the vic m victims hospitalized here to recover, we also want to pay tribute to those who died. Regularly on msnbc today you will see their names pop up onscreen. You will see the names scrolling on the bottom of your screen from timetotime. That our tribute to them. We will get to politics in a moment and begin this hour with our Ongoing Investigation and learned omar mateens current wife, noor, is cooperating with the fbi saying she did try to talk her husband out of doing something violent. Pete joins us now. Good afternoon. We tked to several people who are familiar with what theyve been told and what the buy of omar mateen has told them since shes been questioned after the attack. She says that he asked her to drive she asked he asked her to drive him to a couple of locations to that he was considering attacking. That i
The president of the United States 13 months before an election. But defense is something the president says the gop is not doing well enough. As he makes an explosive comparison this morning between impeachment and lynching. Its far beneath the office of the president of the United States. Our team of reporters and analysts are here with brand new reporting and insight. I want to start with m mss Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Hans nichols is at the white house. Robert costa from the National Post and National Political reporter is also joining us. Garrett, let me start with you. Bill taylor is now in the building and behind closed doors. We have not seen an Opening Statement from him yet, am i correct . Reporter yeah, hallie, thats correct. And this is someone that democrats in particular have wanted to talk to really since this inquiry got started. Bill taylor was a retired diplomat, brought in off the bench, if you will, to replace the ambassador to ukraine who was pushed aside by
good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. we begin with breaking news it s a girl for the royal family. we got the news just moments ago from the town crier who made the announcement in front of the hospital. on this day, the second of may, the year 2015 we welcome with humble duty a second born of the royal highnesses the duke and duchess of cambridge. the princess is fourth in line to the throne. the princess was born at 8:34 this morning london time weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces. the duchess of cambridge and princess are doing well. the queen and the entire royal family are delighted with the news. and joining me now in front of buckingham palace is mr. sykes, what s the reaction there? hi alex. there s a joyous atmosphere down at the palace. which i m sure you can see behind me the place is absolutely rammed. it is just filling up all morning. and to be honest the announcement came a lot earlier than we thought because she went in at 6:00 a.m. ou