president ever be criminally charged, is expected to be arraigned on tuesday afternoon, according to sources. now his attorneys tell nbc news that there will be no plea deal. but keep in mind. trump and his team still don t know exactly what the charges are. the indictment is still sealed. sources do tell cnn that it involves more than 30 counts related to business fraud. remember the new york grand jury has been investigating trump s role in that alleged cover up that $130,000 payment to silence adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. daniel s alleged affair with trump, which he has denied. his ex fixer and attorney, michael cohen was convicted on campaign finance violations for coordinating the payment, which he said donald trump ordered him to do, cohen says the indictment shows that no one is above the law. this is also about that. whatever laws that sent me to prison. should send him to prison. we re all supposed to be looked at in the eyes of the law. t
john: chaos on a college campus in virginia where activists ambushed a students for life meeting reportedly throwing punches. it got violent and aggressive quickly. pro life students say somehow despite the threats against them, they are the ones who got shut down. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, it s friday. feels like a monday. sandra: so much news to get to. sandra smith in new york. the latest example of a certain type of speech getting shut down in this country and even attacked. right here on our college campuses, students at another university are mounting a revolt against their commencement speaker. they say he is harmful, that speaker, the republican governor, glenn youngkin, who earned 1.6 million votes. that s all new at 2:00. reaction from his lieutenant governor winsome sears in a bit. but first, breaking news on the former president. john: at this time on tuesday we expect to see former pr
right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. china s a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why we re here today. house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn china s use of a spy craft. senators are set to receive an all members briefing of their own in about 30 minutes. all of this happening as the state department is revealing fresh details about china s surveillance program this morning. and just what the balloon hovering over the u.s. was capable of. in a few moments, i ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to china max baucus about what we can learn and the very real threat posed by china. plus, fading hopes for survival, days after devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria. the
from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs and officers on horseback and drones that are working to track him in order to locate him. the sheriff is saying that he hopes to have the suspect in custody within the next couple of oropeza hours, and this informatio
welcome. it s great to see you. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. i am coming to you live from washington, d.c., today. in just a couple of hours, the president will travel from the white house to the white house correspondents dinner. and annual tradition in full swing tonight. just days after announcing his reelection bid, the president will take good-natured aim at those who cover him every single day. more on that ahead. also coming up this hour, a big political fight between the white house and republicans on capitol hill over the debt limit. we re going to look at the potential impact on your family if the gop gets its way, but we are also following breaking news out of texas. where an eight year old and four other people are dead after yet again another mass shooting in this country. and the gunman, remaining at large. everybody that was shot was shot from the neck, execution style. the my understanding is that the victims came over to the friend