surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff
previously thought. what would it take for them to finally take action in the jimmy thomas scandal? i will discuss. using religion as political ammunition? a san francisco archbishop says that nancy pelosi cannot receive communion in his archdiocese unless she changes her stance on abortion rights. i will speak with the reverend claiming that the archbishop is using communion as a partisan political weapon. later, dozens of republicans voted against the bill that will help ease the broad baby formula crisis. i will introduce you to one texas businessman who says, i am tired of waiting for politicians to solve the problem. he stepped up in a huge way. all of this and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. we have so much talk about this morning. let s get started. president biden is an indictment meeting with allies in the region. hours ago, he spoke in south korea about the importance of uniting the world democracies in the face of authorita
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll ask the head of the foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, about what s next for the u.s. response to that crisis. in new york, the suspected gunman in a racist shooting in a buffalo store is in court this morning as they launch a probe into the suspect s social media footprint. we begin with the dire situation facing families across the country, the baby formula shortage. the president taking dramatic emergency steps, invoking the defense production act to ramp up manufacturing as two bills, one sending $28 million to the fda and the other expanding formula access for low income families make their way through the senate. nbc news is the first to obtain a letter from two senate democrats urging president biden to, quote, immediately assign a coordinator to work with formula manufacturers. meanwhile, any moment now, the fda commissioner is going to be testifying before a house committee where he s expected to be asked about ho
election denier, against josh shapiro. north carolina voters rejected madison cawthorn. despite a trump endorsement. in ukraine, after three months of fighting, russian forces have captured mariupol. in kyiv, a russian soldier pleaded guilty today to shooting a ukrainian civilian. this is the first war crimes trial of the ukraine conflict. in a major blow to vladimir putin, sweetsweden and finland applied for nato membership today. this hour, i will speak to ukraine as president zelenskyy s chief of staff. first, the primary races. joining me now, steve kornacki. steve, it s been a long night. it s going to be a long days, maybe longer. start us off in pennsylvania. where you see the remaining vote. pennsylvania elections, just like 2020, we are in overtime. exactly. oz leading mccormick for the u.s. senate. the margin, 2,463 votes. we are still waiting on some more votes out of allegheny county. that s mccormick s home county. he has been leading in that county