Epidemic of Violent Crime in america. His focus, overwhelmingly and as expected is on guns. If White House Correspondent peter doocy starts us off from the north lawn, good evening. A few minutes ago, the president said he never gives up hope that congress could someday pass on Assault Weapons Ban but in the meantime he thinks there are more common sense measures that can be taken to protect crimeridden cities making the same joke twice. He doesnt think anybody needs a gun with 100 rounds of ammo unless they think a deer is wearing kevlar. We arent changing the constitution, we are enforcing it. Speak of the headlines of the president s multipoint plan are arrest firearms dealers, help former prisoners reenter the community and expandable limit opportunities for young adults. Help make sure the young people pick up a paycheck instead of criminal. Critics argue criminals are emboldened by softer sentencing standards and bail reform. The biden plan will not address the rise in murder and
So were going to do it the way we try to do it around here, which is with the facts and details first, and then well discuss them together. Todays proceeding began around 4 15 p. M. Eastern. Defendant trump was seated with his lawyers, just as he was during his last arraignment. You may recall. This is a sketch from that day in a Federal Court in florida. That was how he looked then. Todays arraignment adjourned so recently that we actually dont have those actual Court Sketches yet. We will get them and we will bring them to you on msnbc at whatever hour we get them. Lets put it like this when this year began, no former president had ever been indicted and arraigned. Tonight were reporting on Defendant Trumps third arraignment in four months. So he does know this process. Today he was digitally fingerprinted, submitted details like his birthday and Social Security number william a know that special counsel jack smith was in the courtroom because our reporters spotted him, seated roughl
latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
the suspicious powder found over the weekend. also tonight the philadelphia mass shooting suspect appears in court as we re learning about his disturbing social media posts. bill asking philadelphia s district attorney what they might reveal about a motive. and president zelenskyy warns that russia is ready for a potential attack on a ukrainian nuclear power plant under the control of russian forces. speaking exclusively to cnn about the threat to the plant amid new global fears of a nuclear disaster. welcome to our viewers. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt and you re in the situation room. starting tonight at the white house, confirmation that a small bag of white powder was found in the west wing and was in fact cocaine. the question now, who s responsible for bringing an illegal substance into the inner sanctum of the white house? the latest on the investigation, jeremy, how is the white house handling this in. reporter: we heard from white house press
before i get into it, this is exactly what we expected to happen before the former president was allowed to testify, whether or not he would be allowed to testify is kind of laying the ground rules, and the judge has said this repeatedly, over and over, that this was already litigated. the former president sexually assaulted e. jean carroll. this cannot be relitigated. let me read some of what you said. the jury unanimously concluded that you sexually assaulted her and his claim that he did not was false and defamatory. there are no do overs a prior action cannot be relitigated. trump sexually abused ms. carroll. and let me talk about the details to which he sexually abused her. i won t talk about that on television. and they said that the statements that were made in 2019 were false. carroll, in fact, did not make up those claims. this is a judge talking here as well. and he goes on. he s kind of laying out the ground rules to which there would be testimony allowed from the