In court amid revelations the father gave his 14yearold son an Ar15style Rifle after both had been questioned about alleged threats the boy made to carry out a school shooting. The teenage suspect was in the same courtroom, shackled and tried as an adult. Its now a campaign issue. J. D. Vance on the defense after the Harris Campaign pounced on him saying he wishes School Shootings were not a fact of life. I dont like that this is a fact of life. If you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. We have to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington with Donald Trump speaking in new York City just at this hour. He has been lashing out at his multiple legal cases and at the judge overseeing them and at the Justice Department. The former president claiming again that he has no idea who e. Jean carroll is. The writer who won her sexual Assault And Defa
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
Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Its becoming the Noahs Ark of american politics. Passengers climb on board two by two including Alexandria Ocasiocortez and Bernie Sanders as well as Adam Kinzinger and the former number three House Republican with the last name practically synonymous with what the conservative republican party in its most strictly conservative It Ration used to be all about. All of them now in the same boat to save democracy from a disgraced, twiceimpeached expresident with the fondness for dictators abroad and a yearning to be one right here at home in america. All this critical Post Labor Day juncture in the 2024 campaign, Conservative Stall Worth Vice Chair Liz cheney announcing she will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris for president. Heres that moment. I think it is crucially important for people to recognize not only is what i just said about the danger that trump poses something that should prevent people from voting from for him, but i dont think we have
The department on their findings . You heard the ag a moment ago saying that the Justice Department stands ready to provide resources and support in the days ahead. What is been going on for the past four years . Its obviously intentional. In these couple months leading up to the election they want to put people on notice to not intimidate, harass, all of the above anyone who is part of an election or watching these polls and the like. This is a Task Force they put together some time it appeared im not entirely surprised. It is certainly part for the course for this Department Of Justice to do something like this. Again, im much more interested in what is happening with iran with respect to the United States and how they are trying to actively undermine our election in 2024 and hurt Donald Trump and wondering why the administration has not taken more serious action on the front. John when you think about the days ahead, lets remember in two days voters in North Carolina start casting e
Im Peter Alexander here in for Andrea Mitchell. We are following that Breaking News from georgia where we are monitoring an incident. Its 40 miles outside of atlanta. As you just heard, the Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is directing all available resources to that Schools Campus right now. You can see the pictures we are getting. The Chopper View from above. A lot of Police Presence and other Emergency Vehicles on scene right now. We want to get to nbc News Correspondent Anne Thompson joining us alongside Jim Kavanaugh and former Fbi Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi right now. Anne, acknowledging we are learning little bits of information, trying to get a better understanding, whats the best information you have been able to gather at this point . Reporter right now, we know that the High School has about 1,900 students. They are from grades 9 through 12. We have seen many of them come out of that building, the building is said to be on a hard lockdown. The governor put out this statem