it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
and they tend to vote in primaries for the candidates that they feel closest to. that they would like to see president. they are not voting about who they think could get elected. that may come back to haunt the republican party in 2024. because if you look at the democrats what they think of the race, they think that trump is going to win the nomination. and they think that biden will be beating him. because he did beat him. the case can be made that he is a loser. fox news analyst with an accurate assessment of donald trump s political track record over the last several years. in the opinion shared by one of the country s most conservative political groups. that group is out with a new attack against ronald trump. ask yourself, is it worth the risk? america is struggling because of joe biden s policies. but with donald trump, republicans lost the house. lost the white house, and the senate. and we have lost our chance to capitalize on biden s devastating record. if dona
five pm eastern. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone, i m alicia menendez. breaking news as we come on the air tonight. air force one is touching down about an hour ago, the presidents arrival kicking off a week of high stakes talks in lithuania. you are looking at new video of the president in london just moments ago. it really starts tomorrow, where we are told he will take a full day of meetings with a sit down with the prime minister 10 downing street. then it is off to windsor castle for the first face to face meeting with a sitting u.s. president. on the agenda for president biden and king charles, fighting climate change. russia s war on ukraine, putin s aggression will be in the backdrop of the entire summit. the u.s. will send cluster moms to help fight. they are controversial, deadly weapons that weigh heavily on the presidents mind. it was a very difficult decision on my part. i discuss th
not to bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the middle of the war. ukraine now promises it will not use the american supplied cluster munitions in russia. it comes as the controversial weapons divided congress. they want these as self-defense to use against russians in their own country of ukraine. i don t see anything wrong with the, these weapons would be a game-changer. cluster bombs should never be used. that is crossing a line. we would risk losing our moral leadership. also new today, treasury secretary janet yellen returns from china after a weekend of high stakes meetings. the secretary is optimistic progress is being made to shore up tense relations. i had a very construct a visit. i received a warm welcome and had a very substantial series of meetings. an objective of my trip was to explain the national security is something that we can t compromise on and we will protect. capitol hill is bracing for a potential far-right feud as marj
and say that skin color determined. turn hard not to do that. the answer to that has official backtracking today. i will speak to the reverend, al sharpton, about the controversy coming up. we also continue to follow the dangerously putting millions risk this weekend across the country. a billion dollars up for grabs in the next few days as jackpots for the two biggest lottery is in the country reach stratospheric heights. more on the head, as well. more on that and the new york times we ve been talking about back in 2018. former president trump inquiring about pursuing an irs investigation into two fbi officials, lisa stroke and page this is coming from a sworn statement from trump s former chief of staff, john kelly. joining me now the reporter that broke that story new york times washington correspondent and msnbc washington correspondent, michael schmidt. michael, always great to talk to you. thank you for joining us on a saturday afternoon. give us a sense of more of