to discuss his great brand new msnbc series celebrating latin excellence in america. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s ge started. all right, we start this hou with some major breaking news, just moments ago nbc new learned that the start of th trial in dominion voting systems civil lawsuit agains fox has now been pushed back one day. it will now start tuesday at 9 am eastern instead of tomorrow morning. now, the cause of the delay is unclear at the moment. that means that unless in 48 hours, dominion will finally square off in court agains fox. more than two years afte failing a 1.6 billion-dollar defamation lawsuit alleging th network knowingly aire disinformation about fraud i the 2020 presidential election dominion not only has to prove that fox made false statements which it already has done, but also has demonstrated actual malice and that those fals statements caused harm successfully suing for defamation in the united state is intentionally difficult the legal experts belie
senator amy klobuchar joins me in studio to weigh in on that, plus new ethics concerns about justice clarence thomas. and other hot button issue facing the senate, as they return to work this week and tennessee representative justin j. pearson is back on the job in the state house i will ask him about being bac at work with the sam republicans who expelled him and where his fight for gu safety reform stands now i have something to say. congress is back in sessio tomorrow after a two-week break, and they have their work cut out for them judicial nominations in th senate, controversy in a supreme court. but first, we are discussing a case that could have drastic effects on peoples lives one of a two pill treatmen used to terminate a pregnanc in its first two weeks it has been in circulation for more than two decades. it is a safety record of 99% it is the nation s most common method of abortion a single judge in texas has pu that axis in jeopardy. judge matthew casimir ha suspe
personnel from the u.s. embass evacuated overnight from sudan s capital city o khartoum a former army general is gonna join me and what it took to ge embassy officials out what the future holds for the war tor african nation plus, new nbc news polling wit a fresh look at the upcoming presidential election, and wha they re saying about president biden just days away fro announcing his reelection bid. and why governor ron desantis hopes of being a presidentia contender may have already failed we ll take a look at all o those numbers, plus, could w see donald trump take th witness stand this week? a hint, the answer has nothing to do with elections coming up in the next, our special guest, senator alex, right here in california joining as well. you don t wanna miss tha conversation, we re gonna ge his thoughts on what he like t ask the chief justice of the u.s. about ethics concerns a the highest levels of th supreme court. we begin with that breakin news, overnight, out of sud
believe, according to recent polls, the decision on dobbs t overturn the 50 years of precedent when it comes to abortion in the country coul be politically motivated of course, the court, includin chief justice robert vehemently deny that still, democrats have a job to push on in this. and i think they will hold thi hearing with or without robert on may 2nd take a listen to what durbin had to say today we re still waiting for the chief justice to answer my invitation i think that s the first ste that ought to be taken that th supreme court itself, with his later the chief justice, mak it clear that they re goingt reform what comes to ethics to the court. there s no question in my mind that the supreme court has exempted itself from standards applied to the executive and legislative branch, even t other judges now, not all members of the committee are happy with thi hearing or think that th supreme court even needs to be policed by congress when i comes to these ethics roles.
circus to town, so to speak. of course jim jordan is not concerned with new yorkers lives and the well-being of ne yorkers. as we have seen in the first 100 days of the republican control congress, they reall have no policies that are abou affecting the lives of any american it is really about theatrical, grievances and politics an running interference for their leader donald trump. and that is exactly what thi hearing is about to your point, jordan isn t the only republican attackin brag, donald trump just attack and again this morning o social media, we know when the gop attacks brag that there is a spike in the number of threats against him. and this week s crags office was sent a letter threatenin white powder, it is the second time in a month that something s happened the authority said the powdery was nonlethal but presumably trump and his allies know, and