Good evening, and welcome to politics nation. Tonights leaned, to the bottom. Race to the bottom. As expected, donald trump extended his Winning Streak in the republican primaries last night in South Carolina. But as he closes in on the gops coronation, the former president is revealing more about his State Of Mind as he contemplates a second term as president , promising more vengeance and retribution to his enemies at a major meeting of conservatives. And the night before, saying his strongest appeal to black voters is a shared cultural comfort with criminality as he faces down four indictments, 91 felony charges. The racist remarks were met with thunderous applause from a gathering of black conservatives. Tonight, ill talk to the author of a new bestselling book on Black Republicans about how the gop went from the party of lincoln to the cult of trump. Meanwhile, the next primary contest is just two days away in the swing state of michigan, where President Biden is trying to mend fe
close look at what donald trump was saying to his circle the days after the 2020 election defeat. it comes after prosecutors questioned multiple witnesses about whether trump privately acknowledging the days after the election that he lost. according to four people briefed on the matter, the times says that one of those witnesses was trump s son-in-law, and senior adviser, jared kushner, who testified to the grand jury last month. precautionary, he s not the only person who knows what trump was saying in 2020. here is just a reminder of what we learned in the january 6th committee hearings. i remember maybe a week after the election was called, i popped into the oval just to give the president the headlines and see how he was doing. and he was looking at the tv, and he said, can you believe i lost to this [bleep] guy? as they investigate trump s efforts to overturn biden s when, the prosecutors are also talking to michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson, about what ha
we ve got brand-new reporting that reveals special counsel jack smith is taking a very close look at what donald trump was saying to his circle the days after the 2020 election defeat. it comes after prosecutors questioned multiple witnesses about whether trump privately acknowledging the days after the election that he lost. according to four people briefed on the matter, the times says that one of those witnesses was trump s son-in-law, and senior adviser, jared kushner, who testified to the grand jury last month. precautionary, he s not the only person who knows what trump was saying in 2020. here is just a reminder of what we learned in the january 6th committee hearings. i remember maybe a week after the election was called, i popped into the oval just to give the president the headlines and see how he was doing. and he was looking at the tv, and he said, can you believe i lost to this [bleep] guy? as they investigate trump s efforts to overturn biden s when, the pro
Face questions any moment now, we expect john kirby to join Karine Jeanpierre on the podium after a busy weekend on the international front. More on that in just a moment. Sandra the briefing comes amid renewed questions about President Bidens age and the 2024 election. Well see if The White House gets pressed on any of that. John welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour number two. Im john roberts in washington, off to a rolicking start this week. Sandra we will be monitoring that Press Briefing and will bring the news as it comes in, but first this fox news alert. John major powers testing the United States on The World State yet again, starting with saudi arabia after the oil rich kingdom announced more cuts and threatening another summer of high gas prices. Sandra China Making Waves in the taiwan strait, a Chinese Navy Ship cutting across the path of an american destroyer. John dont forget about russia, Vladimir Putin leaning on the back of the Chinese Communist party as he
president zelenskyy in lithuania as the alliance declares ukraine s future is in nato. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with ukraine s big ask at the nato summit. nbc s kelly cobiella is following that story from kyiv. so what is president zelenskyy walking away with after this summit? reporter: yeah, well, chris, we all know that he wanted those promises from nato that they would have a firm time line for joining the alliance. he said there were a lot of positive outcomes, even though he didn t get what he went there to achieve. just take a look at some of the things that he did get, and chief among them is this security guarantee from g7 countries. unwavering support pledged from the g7 and security guarantees which essentially mean they have committed to supporting ukraine s right to self-defense, focusing on air defense artillery, armored vehicles, air combat, intelligence sharing and reconstruction and recovery, so long-t