Coverage right now. Good morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. And we begin on the Breaking News on the legal drama surrounding former president Donald Trump. A judge is holding an election in trumps federal election hearing case. The first hearing in nearly a year. Trump is not at or attending Todays Hearing. His lawyers entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to a revised version of the indictment filed last week. Now Todays Hearing comes just over two months after the supreme Courts Landmark ruling that former president s have broad immunity for prosecution for official acts. Judge chutkan is expected to lay out a schedule for how the proceedings will take shape over the next couple of months. With us now, nbc News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent ken dilanian, Katie Fein, the Katie Fein show. And maya wiley, former assistant district attorney. Ken, what has been happening in that courtroom over to . Reporter well, jose, first, ill tell you abou
and president biden on the road, celebrating his economic winds, plus a remarkable story of perseverance, and the most special way to end our thursday night. you do not want to miss this. the 11th hour just getting underway, right now. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we have a lot of big news tonight, including the scathing federal report about the massacre in uvalde, texas. we will have more on that in a few minutes. but first, this evening, let us head to capitol hill, where congress passed another short term funding bill to prevent a partial government shutdown. this is a third stopgap bill to kick the can down the road since we have had in meanwhile, president biden is talking about donald trump s big win in iowa. and he does not sound impressed. i don t think i would means anything. the president got 50 some thousand votes, the lowest number who has any way he wants. but while we wait for a federal appeals court ruling on trump s argument that
ruhle with starts now. ow tonight, our government shutdown avoided, for now. congress kicking the can down the road on long term funding until march. donald trump takes his immunity claims to social media. then, the scathing report from the doj on the response for the school shooting in uvalde, texas. and president biden on the road, celebrating his economic winds, plus a remarkable story of perseverance, and the most special way to end our thursday night. you do not want to miss this. the 11th hour just getting underway, right now. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we a lot of big news tonight, including the scathing federal report about the massacre in uvalde, texas. we will have more on that in a few minutes. but first, this evening, let us head to capitol hill, where congress passed another short term funding bill to prevent a partial government shutdown. this is a third stopgap bill to kick the can down the road since we have had in meanwhile, presi
now with elycia menendez in for alex. reporter: the bread and butter of conservative media for years now has been hyping up the investigation into president biden s adult son, hunter biden. it s never been seen to end. they used it to create asymmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family, and so long as this case was open and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case, even though republicans have been dining out on this hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it hadn t finished yet. they were aghast that trump was indicted before hunter. they wanted hunter s case resolved immediately. well, today we have some closure in that case. today we got the news hunter biden is expected today enter a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors in that investigation. he s also expected to strik
it s sunday june 4th. i m ali velshi. after we can revelations regarding the special counsel jack smith classified documents investigation we got more news this morning about the future of that case. and we see news has exclusively learned that the federal grand jury that has been hearing evidence in that case will reconvene this week after a recent lol in proceeding. the purpose of the grand jury s upcoming meeting is unclear. it s not necessarily an indication that smith and his team are prepared to seek an indictment just yet. the justice department would not comment on the investigations status but previous reporting from out what s like the wall street journal has indicated that smith is wrapping up that part of his investigation that quote in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at donald trump s florida home. from top political aides to maintain staff. as the head of a large organization that s been one of the