paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. as 2,024 presidential election year begins president biden s support among key voting ruse is slipping with the new suffolk university usa today poll showing the president drawing only 63% support from black voters down from 87% in 2020. donald trump now leading among hispanic voters and younger people in the same poll, the biden campaign hopes to turn those numbers around by attacking mr. trump as a threat to democracy, the president marking the third anniversary of the january 6th assault on the us capital with a speech in valley forge, pennsylvania, the release of his first television ad of the 2024 campaign. president biden: there is something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? paul: doug shown was an advisor to president clinton and the presidential campaign of m
pride month. i m seeing rainbows everywhere, but the sky. let s talk about war. would you rather we do trans? all right. that is later in the show. war is a great topic. it s so great no one wants to talk about it. it is like bringing up 9/11 at a baby shower. yeah, that landed. that s proof. we re sending billions of dollars of weapons to ukraine, you wouldn t know it judging by the press. someone winds up with that issue prosecute. what if russia bombs a shipment? we can talk about that after world war iii. who is winning or loses and none of it makes sense. do we care? we love to talk about war, war on of po erty, war on drugs, not real world. it is half a world away, those people talk funny and the view never talks about it. i don t get to make fat jokes. 401(k), don t check until you cash it out. it is worth pointing out amidst silence, there are two men speaking up, saying the war has to end. the moment you say that, somebody will call you a putin puppet, to which you
reports. we begin with breaking news on two deadly mass shootings in this week s five hours i louisville, kentucky two killed and four wounded an in dadeville, alabama, fou dead in a quote multitude of injuries let s join shaquille - with the latest. jack, welcome. what are you hearing about the latest from the shooting i alabama? we expect to get up som officials in that hour but i sounds like that press conference has been postpone at this point. what we know is pretty muc what you said at this point. in dadeville, alabama, fou people were killed in multiple a multitude of others injure in a shooting that happened at a birthday party in danville alabama. again, this is an extremel small community, tight-knit, a it has been described. we did hear from officials earlier this morning during an emotional press conference, an one of the fears here, we don know who the suspect is and we don t know what weapon was used, one of the fears that multiple students, multiple young
and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester
midterms. exactly one month away. early voting under way with issues like abortion and inflation driing people to the polls. many say democracy itself is on the ballot. we have special stuff planned. want to get right to it with michael steele. you know the music, sir. en why the beat. i know it well. when you hear that early voting is under way and look at what s going on out here, i m coming right to you, regular beat viewers know we have a set up. coming right to you. what do you see right now in this homestretch? what i see right now are voter deciding to hunker down around a vote. the early voting, as you noted, has started. there s some anticipation and trepidation. the anticipation is voters are going to take seriously not just their concerns about the economy that s being stressed by some, but also the democracy. that it will matter the kind of men and women they select, choose to be an extension of them to be the best representative for them in the statehouse