Thats what he said, thats esobviously what the opposition is. Paul manafort mumbling his way through a 2016 interview with cbs because he himself had extensive russia ties. Now trump is reportedly planning to bring him back as another loyal trumper, Peter Navarro, heads off to prison. Also tonight, judge Aileen Cannons unusual request for Jury Instructions which legal experts are calling insane, bizarre, clumsy, amateurish, you get the idea. Plus, polls will close soon in ohio, where three republicans are competing to challenge senator Sherrod Brown in a race that could decide which Party Controls the senate. But we begin tonight with the former president s crime syndicate. Trump white house aide Peter Navarro is as of today locked in a federal prison. Day one of a fourmonth sentence. Before turning himself in, navarro held a Press Conference at a Strip Mall Parking Lot down the street from the facility. He was convicted for Contempt Of Congress for refusing to comply with the january
You were past your prime. Hell, i know something about that. President biden was cracking jokes with defending World Series Champions at the white house yesterday. That looked fun. We do have a lot to get to this morning. A very confused judge in fort pierce. Oh, my gosh. She was shocked, shocked that you could have two grand juries going on at the same time. Its not a good sign, actually. Whered she go to law school . Oh, boy, a lot of questions. Not a good sign. Well go through the flurry of legal filings last yesterday in the 2020 election case that has the judge summoning both sides to a washington, d. C. , courtroom. Different judge. This is a different judge, a different case. Plus, action around the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta. Different case. Sparking speculation that another indictment, another one, could be coming very soon for the former president. Also ahead, well explain how the fight for Abortion Rights in ohio could hang on what happens in todays special election
billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. i like to tweet. i m a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. okay, okay. it sy, cross talk so we can t really get into it. oh, i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. so summer plans they re often up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this date in pen june 1test. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an importantan day, and, m, it is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, but no s
you learned the house rules in elementary school, right? the senate rules in high school. this is such an exciting night for me. because we are going to cover once again the single most exciting thing, you can never see in the house of representatives. unfortunately it s almost inexplicable and it is of course the procedure that the democrats are using right now to try to force a vote on a clean debt ceiling bill. the discharge position. the man who filed the discharge petition is joining us tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m mean you can go through a whole lifetime and never meet anyone who filed a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing discharge petition were, like the plot of a mission impossible. it is, or, if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to end, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stabi
tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m, you know through a whole lifetime and never meet someone who files a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing district petition were, like, the plot of a mission implausible. it is a cape, or if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to and, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability of the american colin economy. it s going to be, at the end of the, are because we have a lot of other stuff to get through with neal katyal and others, and it s one of those things where you just have to have just a little bit of belief in miracles for it to happen. we will. see i always believe in miracles, lawrence. i m here, aren t? i thank, you. have a good night. i get the joke. thanks alex, thank you. well, if you re tuning into this program in the hope that for the