Say no. Absolutely. Thank you for incredibly. Doing that. The battle for the american presidency in 2024 will likely come to another Battle Of The Blue Wall including michigan and wisconsin. Two reliably democratic states that flipped and led to Donald Trumps victory. Votes for jill stein in both states in 2016 were larger than the vote difference between trump and hillary clinton. Joe biden won back both states in 2020. Winning michigan, wisconsin, and that pushed him to 270 electoral votes before georgia and arizona so it cannot be overstated how critical these Battleground States are. And today, donald trump took his election denying xenophobic stump speech to michigan. Our first guest tonight will be michigans democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer who will join me in just a moment. Trump started his day in michigan where they launched a new Billboard Campaign to remind everyone that he lobbied republicans to tank the bipartisan security bill. He lost to joe biden by 500,000 votes. H
We are shaming latina women on the show. Alicia and i are but somebodys now. Good to see you. Have a good day. Velshi starts now. Good morning, sunday, april 21st. About 24 hours now, Opening Statements begin in the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Tomorrow morning, the republic partys presumptive residential nominee, donald trump will be back in a manhattan courtroom as a defendant facing 34 felony counts. Those charges stem from his alleged role in falsifying Business Records to cover up payments made to suppress a potential scandal, just days before the 2016 president ial election. Those Opening Statements are going to give the public a preview of the case that both sides intend to present. Some Court Watchers didnt think we would get to this point so soon. There were predictions the Jury Selection would take a couple multiple weeks, considering the defendant is so wellknown, so wellconnected. And so intimidating. Then there were times last week the highstakes of thi
Floor. That is simply what this rule vote was. And yet they still couldnt get it over the finish line right now. Now what we are hearing from the Speakers Office is that there is a hope that they might be able to go back to the House Rules Committee restructure this rule and create some kind of harmony among republicans to actually get this debate started on the floor. But again, they are up against a deadline as intelligence officials are making clear that they our very concerned about fisa not being reauthorized by the april 19 deadline, arguing that the impact on their ability to collect intelligence would be severe at a time when there are so many threats happening. Against the United States at the same time. Now, there is a big question right now about what johnsons future holds, what his speakership holds given that threat for Marjorie Taylor greene and republicans are just frustrated with the level of tumbled and chaos that they are experiencing day to day working in their jobs.
county official with a post erased in which he shared a t-shirt blaming china for the coronavirus saying the suspects in the shooting just had a bad day. he does claim it was not racially motivated. i spoke with investigators that, yes, he understood the gravity of it and was pretty much fed up, at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. this was a really bad day for the victims too. today, celebrities are speaking out. testifying on capitol hill after speaking to nbc. this man targeted places where asian-americans were working. you don t have to peal the layers back far. i ll speak to activist coming up and with president biden and vice president harris. the president has addressed the shootings on wednesday. i know americans are very concerned. as you know, i ve been speaking about brutality against asian-americans for months and i thinks it very, very trouble some. joining me now from atlanta, nbc news correspon
The stand with outlying. Is going to sound like an idiot. Is going to sound like a pompous jerk. Is going to sound like he can do anything he wants. And the Jury Wont like it so his lawyers are going to be pleading with him, please mr. Trump dont take the stand. But most of his case is going to be in crossexamining witnesses and one thing they are going to do in the presentation of the Case And Opening oral arguments is prepare the jury further weak witnesses. The prosecutor is going to say, you will hear from Michael Cohen and he has been held responsible for line. He pled guilty to some crimes, but we didnt choose Michael Cohen, this is the kind of person Donald Trump hangs out with. That is what you expect when you go up against somebody who is a crook. They are surrounded by other crooks. Meanwhile, the prosecutor is going to say, listen, the witnesses you are going to hear from have no ax to grind or the people who work with him like hope hicks, whos completely loyal to him, so yo