their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the cente
Massachusetts' highest court recently rejected an appeal linked to a brutal murder and used the opportunity to throw out a "misogynistic" legal principle that allowed killers to be convicted of lesser charges.
mysoginistic attacks on women and it s not the billionaire you think it is. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. president trump refusing to say today whether he has confidence in the director of national intelligence, dan coates or in cia director gina haspel after they contradicted his statements on security threats facing the united states. their assessments at odds with his on north carolina, isis, russia and iran. do you still have confidence in gina haspel and dan coates to give you good advice? i disagree with certain things they ve said. i think i m right but time will prove that. time will prove me right probably. mr. trump repeating that he does not believe a deal can be reached by the february 15th deadline between the house and senate negotiators, trying to come up with a compromise on border security. the president insisting he will take nothing short of a wall on the southern border,
debate you had ten gentlemen up there and when they were talking about issues in particular about women s issues. i remember the exchange with donald trump and megyn. it was just so insensitive and it came across so mysoginistic. i think carly fiorina, obviously has a better understanding of how to talk about the issues. she was biting. her criticisms were unfair and outrageous but style and approach comes across softer. that does have an impact on voters. interesting. so hillary clinton, herself, was tweeting during the debate. apparently she was watching. i want to put up examples of her tweets. one said watch the gop debate. bet you feel like donating to a democrat right now. there was this one. if gop attacks on planned parenthood feel like an assault on women s health.
more than a dozen phone calls were made, the voice messages ranging from profane to mysoginistic. i hope you realize there s a target on your back now, one said. kill the senator, i ll donate the lead, said one. charles allen wilson age 64 of washington state arrested, accused of having left those messages for senator patty murray of that state because she was supporting health care reform. wilson was arrested after the fbi obtained phone records and confirmed his voice was the same as the one heard on the answering machine at the seattle office. court documents detailing the first threatening message recorded and saved by murray s staff was on march 22nd. the day after the house approved health care reform. mr. wilson allegedly called five times the following day when the president signed the bill into law. he reportedly said, since you are going to put my life at risk, some bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at risk, dear. a federal agent called wilson,