Grown on our farm, enjoyed at your table. welcome back to our Special Coverage, msnbc reports Debate Day live from philadelphia. It is a gorgeous day here. Hello, im chris jansing. As a democratic strategist put it, its like running a 5k after riding a tiltawhirl. Thats how hes describing Tonights Showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. 90 minutes that could reshape the final 55 days of a race that has been stubbornly tight. Heres our first look at the stage inside the national constitution center. Were told harris has just arrived for a walkthrough ahead of her meeting with Donald Trump, who she has actually never met before. We have details on how the Vice President s team is already taunting trump in the runup to their faceoff. Also, new Exclusive Reporting About What Trump sees as his biggest challenge tonight. Nbcs Yamiche Alcindor covers the Harris Campaign and Garrett Haake covers the trump campaign. If only if people could have heard our conversation in the break. We a
i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
why are cities in so much trouble. let s start with san fran, the biday by the bay. appoappointed stores straighp closed, the only thing they weren t stealing from walgreen is toilet paper. $5 million, guaranteed incomes, homes for 1 dollar as family. to get a sweet deal like that you need to have the last name biden. this is happening while theft, violence and homelessness skyrocket. especially minority communities. it s like instead of solving the problems before them they offered pie in the sky i had i idioccies. let s burn down the house instead. ironic knee, this version of rep rations could cause a civil war. we found a war over a tax on tea, the rep rations deal makes that look like an argument over a parking spot. cnn reporter s car got robbed, was a laptop filled with fake news: terrible. and from the description, the perp sounds like a desperate loser with no respect for the law. shortly after a former police commissioner says becoming victimized is part of a basi
closely watched primary race in georgia. amid reports that the republican governor s association hatched a plan months ago to spend millions to defend incumbents against what one former governor called trump s personal vendetta tour. and there are new developments on the war with ukraine as russia intensifies its bombardment in the eastern industrial heartland. fierce fighting in the donbas region is forcing a new round of ukrainians to flee their homes. as ukrainian and russian troops battle it out town by town, the battle for donetsk has become a major focus as russia seeks to capture one of the major cities still under ukrainian control after taking the southern port city of mariupol. the head of the luhansk region said russian bombardment in using scorched earth tactics. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said the fighting in the east has become increasingly bloody. with up to 100 ukrainian soldiers kill each day. meanwhile, ukraine is ruling out any cease-fire deal
past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020. that s new drilling. that s up. but the production is also up. it s at an all-time high. president biden is allowing drilling on federa