midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
okay, the good liar confronting nra attendees with facts. it s just a taste of what they heard. i ll be talking to them late on in the. our you don t want to miss o what some of them got. they re also ahead, the latest information on a leak of classified documents and the 21-year-old at the center of i all. and then asked the supreme court faces wednesday midnight deadline of its stay involving a key abortion pill, republica 2024 candidate, wants to tal about everything else except abortion rights. we have that coming up as. wobbly begin once again with two mass shootings overnight daybell, alabama, four peopl are dead and multiple others injure after a shooting at a birthday party. two others were killed i louisville, kentucky, afte shots were tired there into crowd of hundreds gathered in park the shaq brewster is following both cases shaq, let s talk through som of this. here we are talking about mass shootings in the country starting first in alabama, i m still waiting
from s&p sea world headquarter here in new york welcome to alex witt reports we begin this hour outside a serving court in washingto d.c. there you see protesters gathering, it s happening today, over the next few days as th showdown over reproductive rights returns to the nation s highest court. mifepristone, the drug at th center of this legal battle, remains available to women across the u.s., at least unti wednesday, while the court way the latest gop led efforts t ban the drug a new reaction this hour t comments made at the nra convention, including donald trump s remarks that mas shootings are not a gu problem. here s what to advocates for reform told my colleague jonathan capehart. camilla congress, and to se the cowardice from my go colleagues is just gross everyone is too comfortable. we walk around with our suits, we talk to our donors, w raised all of this money, an then we go on banded kne pandering to the nra are you kidding me the united states o america s o
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We are monitoring two major stories that are developins alen large. Explosions now have been heard hed seen over southern as israels Military Campaign Againss Israt Last Hamas Strongd In Rafah is now officially i underway. Now, this after Cease Fire Negotiations broke down with the terror group hamas, because theyre unwilling or unable dth return israeli and american hostages. Now, hamase to terrorists did td to bamboozle the world and the presos saying that they supported a deal, one that never existed and was neverit offered. It is important to note that the rafah operation i to bn underway, despite reports that Biden Unilateraspite rel ry put a hold on u. S. Weapons shipments to israel last week. Now, clearly, joe giving it to his radicalized Democratic Party base, New York City, by the way, you tonight is having protests all evening, as you can see on your screen see. Its been going on all night. Bidens national securityonal S Communications adviser, john kirby, could not confirm o