with real questions and answers. not scripted. peter: no big kickoff rally today. so far all we have got is this very short teaser ad. courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. peter: as usual, white house officials say they don t want to weigh in on elections because of the hatch act. but they are happy to speak about ron desantis florida. lawmakers, republicans in florida, have attacked diversity. they have an attacked inclusion efforts. they have limited the teaching of black history. and they have launched attacks on the lgbtq youth, immigrants, educators and women s reproductive freedom that s what you have seen from lawmakers in florida. desantis is not clearing the feecialtiond the primary field of other trump challengers. glenn youngkin, rumored to be considering a run. his top staffer says glenn youngkin is focused on virginia. anyone who anonymously says otherwise probably isn t as close to the governor as they wan
ground. and down to the wire. with nine days until default, where negotiations stand right now as the white house and capitol hill race to strike a deal. plus, a ground breaking new agreement to manage an incredibly precious but endangered resource. the three states working together to ensure the colorado river doesn t go away. also back in court. any minute, former president trump expected to appear virtually in court for the first time since he pleaded not guilty to felony accounts of falsifying business records last month. we ll have a live report from outside the courtroom. our reporters are following all the latest. i want to start in new york. ron allen is there. ron, what s the plan as we know it for today? reporter: well, this begins around 2:15, very shortly. as you said, mr. trump will appear virtually. he is not required to be here. most of this is going to be about a protective order. an order designed to protect the evidence and integrity of the case. it spec
of bribes, and an inside look at is evarts to turn over the election. and fighting, back at the free speech organization that is suing to block rhonda scent this after he banned books in florida schools. i m charles lowe, in for him in, let s get started. this week, the facts finally caught up to republican-led smear campaigns. let s start with the mess, the hearing on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. for months now, chairman jim jordan that promised to testimony from dozens of whistleblowers on how the fbi is unfairly persecuting conservatives. yet hours before the promised blockbuster hearing on that very issue was set to begin, the fbi made a shocking revelation. two of the three self proclaimed whistleblowers sent to testify had a security clearance was revoked over questions about their allegiance to the united states, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct and their handling of sensitive information. so when the hearing began, it quickly
thank you, jodi kantor for doing it, and thank you for coming on tonight. thanks for having me. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. t starts that story is phenol and deeply distressing. we all know how it ends, of course, which is the overturning of roe v. wade in the dobbs decision. nonetheless we will walk through this in this in the same details that seem deeply the the word feels like they re deceiving the public so that it cannot look like yet, we re waiting around for her to die, now we ve got a person, let s go do it. that feels one of sam elite owes former law clerk s argues case in front of him? a lot of red flags. we re gonna have more on the hour with the other reporter on that story. have a great weekend. today rudy giuliani finally got a taste of accountability. jurors in the defamation case against giuliani awarded former fulton county election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss a staggering $1
findings. the press and fbi gave a penny somewhat of professionalism and took up the cause of vengeance. the real story here from the fbi s perspective is what an abomination that this was, this so-called investigation. it wasn t a witchhunt, it is a good imitation of one. let s bring in kim stross all who is following this story and then right from the beginning and their skepticism about the russian collusion narrative. what was the most important thing you learned from the durham report? i think the most important thing is what you touched on. it never should have been opened in the first place. the reason it was was in part because the fbi skipped all kinds of preliminary steps. they didn t do any interviews or try to corroborate or look at their own intelligence databases. if they would, they would ve seen there is no evidence held by any government agents that the agency trump engaged in any collusion. this was a decision, this is important, made by the higher ups