officially add unhinged convicted felon who snapped after he lost the 2020 election to the list. that is how the current leader of the free world, president joe biden, describes his rival and his first expansive remarks taking down donald trump post trial, post conviction. the president taking the presumptive republican nominee on head on, for having made history in all of the wrong ways. for becoming the first ever ex-american president to become a convicted felon and for being the first convicted felon to then try to become president again. current president telling a crowd at a fund-raiser in connecticut last night that the 2024 election campaign had entered, quote, uncharted territory, with trump s criminal conviction. adding that as if the guilty verdict isn t disturbing enough, quote, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. echoing remarks president biden made last week, he called out trump s claims of a rigged just
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will today s executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the president s son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 minutes emerging on day one of the federal trial. the defense is using the opening statement to argue that hunter biden was in deep denial and may not have considered himself a drug addict. outside the courtroom, a dramatic altercation between hunter biden s wife and a former trump white house aide. a group of senate republicans refusing to do their jobs and using baseless conspiracy theories around donald trump s conviction as an excuse. how could that impact what has been one of the least pr
in trouble in the first place. jimmy fallon upstairs last night. good morning. tuesday, june 4th. politico s jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and analyst for msnbc, eugene robinson. vanity fair writer and host of the pod cast the fast politics, molly jong-fast. president biden made his most candid comments yet about trump s criminal conviction. in off-camera remarks, biden told the audience a convicted felon is seeking the office of the presidency. the president added, quote, as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. . biden is reported to have said, something snapped in this guy of the election and it is literally driving him crazy. biden went on to call trump unhinged. maybe a private preview, joe, of where we might see president biden go publicly as the campaign rolls out, now that donald trump has been convicted on 34 f
she shouldn t be allowed to run, okay? there s virtually no doubt that fbi director comey and the great, great special agents of the fbi will be able to collect more than enough evidence to honor indictments against hillary clinton and her inner circle, despite her efforts to disparage them and discredit them. if she were to win this election, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. in that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and, ultimately, a criminal trial. [ crowd booing ] it would grind government to a halt. wow. well, that was then candidate donald trump just three days before the 2016 election, saying a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis. he got the premise right, just the players wrong, as he is now the first former u.s. president and candidate to be convicted of a crime. i mean, this is what he said. she should not be able to run. i
negotiations between israel and hamas and what we re hearing from the families of hostages about this potential deal. great to be with you. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. breaking news in wilmington, delaware, this morning where for the first time the son of a sitting president is standing trial not far from his father s election headquarters. hunter biden s federal gun case beginning this morning with jury selection. he faces three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics. he has pleaded not guilty. this trial coming just days after another historic first, donald trump s guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his new york hush money case. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is outside the courthouse. nbc news white house correspondent monica alba and criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos. court has been in session for about an hour and a half. what can you tell us, ken, about what s happening so far?