this doesn t happen very often around here buck the great ari melber is dealing with some technical issues so you get a couple more minutes of me, and i am thrilled to get to show you more of this conversation with rosie perez. she talked about her childhood trauma, about grappling with ptsd and also talked about something my colleague rachel maddow and i talked about last night, and that is the mental stress and pain of what happens in the news. here she is talking about the dobbs decision. whey thought about were all the children that could potentially come into this world that will be unwanted, unloved, and abused. there s such a greater you know, it s such a great sin to do that to a child, because when a parent doesn t want a child, the child knows it. i knew it. i knew it. and i just think about all of that, and it breaks my heart. i even called i even called one of my sisters, i call her, from the children s home when that decision came down. and i was like, oh,
sandra smith will stick around for us today as well. and bret baier also joining us this hour as the president insists the economy is right on track. celebrates it with james taylor at the white house. first we go to white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. hi, jacqui. even though that new gallop poll shows that voters are far more concerned with the economy than the climate, the president is fixated on climate telling reporters that he s not concerned about yesterday s hotter than expected inflation reading or the stock market sell-off before announcing that $900 million for electric vehicle chargers on highways across 35 states. great america road trip will be fully electrified, whether you re driving coast to coast on i 10 or on i-75 in michigan. charging stations will be up and easy to find as gas stations are now. we ll invest $7 billion to have the batteries and other critical materials that car companies need. the white house wants half of all new cars to be el
maga republicans are destroying the democracy. we the people will not let anyone or anything tear us ap apart. today. asked me about the maga agenda. it is one of the most extreme agendas we have seen. and you are not aware the majority of americans are comic that is extreme. joe biden has a problem. the only way he changes that is flipping the script and talking about maga, ultra maga and trump and everything but joe biden. this is a political play and very obvious what that says they will try to d cramp us down everybody s throat. todd: live in washington, griff jenkins. no shortage of that, todd, a warning outside independence hall in philadelphia. president biden warned the nation for 24 minutes democracy is under assault by predecessor and the millions of americans who voted for him. donald trump and the maga republicans represent extremism that threatens the republic. maga is determined to take the country backward. the political speech was a far cry fro
with all due respect, if we needed a pope, we d hold a conclave. but biden waxed pseudoal spiritual throughout his sermon address, the dark of charlottesville, of covid, of gun violence in his direction. charlottesville, covid, gun violence, insurrection. we can see the light.. light is now visible light thatl will guide us forward. i ran for president because i believe we re in a battle for the soul of this nation. the president claims that thists is a battle for the soul ofle the nation. or thebut you can t save the sol by killing the body. re bid and that s what, by aneny objective measure, biden s policies have done.g crime is skyrocketing all over the country. inflation s atthe coun a 40 yea. the border is wide open,de and this administration hasthei encouraged migrants to risklint their lives to enter the country. er illegally. all that does is strengthenan the cartels and human traffickers. the nation s report card dropped today showing that nine year olt y showin
i m ari melber. our top story is this new gag order that binds defendant donald trump in his new york civil trial. the gag order is back on. the judge also noting they ll be enforcing it regular rousely and vigorously, and we ve seen the judge deliver on that promise before. as discussed, these things matter but only become this big a fightf you have the rare case of defendant who is flout the law against their interest. trump s already been fined on for this on two occasions, violating this order and been forced to payorit. you may say, what does he care about fines? itas fines that forced him into deposition as well. it is how the system, however slowly, enforces theseul trump s move comes after court filings show the judge and law clerk were receiving threats, a deluge of threats after trump was deliberately using his public following and online profile to try to whip up antagonism or worse, potentially other things, menacing things against these individual who is administ