Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
zero delegates on the line. does this contests have any impact on the nomination? and with a failed impeachment vote, and a locked border bill, do republicans have a plan c for immigration, as the 11th hour gets underway on this busy tuesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are not 273 days away from the election, and this has been an absolutely huge news day. in nevada, votes are being counted in these states primaries. in washington, speaker mike johnson led an embarrassing display of setbacks with not one but two failed votes. and in michigan, we got a ground breaking verdict tied two mass shootings in the country. but, first, the biggest story of them all, a panel of federal judges, excuse me, a panel of federal appeals court judges ruled that donald trump is not immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. my colleague laura gerrard as all the details. reporter: former president donald trump today dubbed citizen tru
american voices. i don t get to tonight, including breaking news out of bucks county, pennsylvania. we learned a short time ago that a fifth person has died in flash flooding. officials say the victim is an adult woman. the news coming from state police about an hour ago, as the death search continues right now for two releasing, children a toddler in an infant. we do have some rates for you, at our second briefing we informed you that the search team were able to locate fan additional adult female. shortly after that briefing we initiated, we have found the second adult female. approximately 100 yards from where we found the first one. unfortunately, they are deceased. we continue to look for the two children. we are not gonna give up regardless, the weather is a factor, but at this point we are gonna continue the operations and said things in motion for tomorrow as well. the toddler an infant currently missing were in a car overtaken by flash flooding, we are gonna have
i m katie phang in for chris hayes. tonight a development in the department of justice classified documents case against donald trump. it comes in the form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant, wall teen nauta. today, his lawyers try to get the first hearing in the documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing scheduled to take place this friday, july 14th. they are claiming in this that the date just doesn t work, because now does lead, lawyer is scheduled to begin a trial for another client in washington d.c. this week. notably, that client is federico klein, former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation in the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that his local florida counsel cannot appear on her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays w