it s my favorite book. i ve definitely read it. my favorite part is probably the ending, how it all wraps up. this is a very special bible. and it could be yours for the high, high price of $60. but i m not doing this for the money. i m doing this for the glory of god. and for pandering and mostly for money. [ laughter ] saturday night live s take on donald trump hawking his own version of the bible. the former president then spent easter sunday ranting for hours on social media, saying things that you wouldn t say on any day. we ll discuss why that matters and how the biden campaign is responding. plus, we ll get legal analysis on the gag order in trump s hush money case, after he repeatedly criticized the judge and the judge s daughter. also, the latest from israel, where thousands of people protested yesterday in jerusalem, calling for new elections in the country. it is the largest demonstration since the war against hamas began. we ll talk about that for sure. go
conspiracy come of that conspiracy, the republican party adores nonsense and now t weaponizing those bogus beliefs about the bridge collapse in baltimore. you re going to hear from the state department staffer who resigned this week in protest of president biden s gaza policy as the white house announces it is sending even more weapons to israel. let s do it. on this show, we talked a lot about how trump, if re-elected, plans to expand his use of the authoritarian playbook here at home. but now, we are actually getting a better idea of how the ex-president would try to we can democracies around the world. enter this guy, a former diplomat who served as acting director of national intelligence under donald trump, and is one of his biggest loyalists. even after he left office, trump called him his envoy. the washington post reports he has been acting as a kind of shadow secretary of state meeting with foreign right leaders and movements, and at times working against the current
welcome back. we start this hour with the deadline facing donald trump this week after a partial victory from an appeals court. donald trump has until thursday to pay $175 million to cover his bond in the civil fraud case. it feels familiar, right. another deadline before letitia james comes for trump s assets. and just last night, donald trump claimed on fox that he can pay it. at this point, i think it is safe to say that we will believe it when we see it when the funds clear. joining us is to discuss is attorney mike cap ia wylie with the leadership conference of civil rights. and we have a former republican congressman out of virginia. he was a senior advisor on the generally sixth select committee. let me tell you all, a committee. welcome to the table. in the last hour, the three of us were having this pretty intense conversation around this idea of accountability. we are not trusting the accountability issue when it comes to the judicial process donald trump is inv
to ask him about that, and other things. so he will be with us in a minute. thank you, symone i. love that white on you tonight, by the way. i fabulous, i symone. let me go into, it good evening and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead political swirl. president biden is in florida right now, touring the damage caused by hurricane idalia. the his potential rival for the presidency, florida governor, ron desantis, decided he had no need to meet with the president today. all that, while a brand-new poll conducted among gop primary voters, after the latest gop debate, and mostly after the news of donald trump s mugshot, shows desantis is a whopping 46 points behind the league. the leader, who has, you guessed it, former president donald trump. in a moment, i will talk to one of the candidates on that list, who is running against trump. yet, has only nice things to say about the twice impeached four times indicted former president, who basically tried to illegally stay in po
. with symone sanders townsend and michael steele. removing records from the baltimore bridge collapse, we will be joined by governor wes moore and senior adviser to president biden tom perez, state and federal response to the disaster. trump attacks the judge in his hush money case, again. could it be a turning point in the legal system s accountability. jamie raskin is at the table. has pushed up jared kushner come before the oversight committee. grab your coffee. settle in. it is sunday. this news breaking overnight. donald trump attacked the judge in his criminal hush money case . calling for him to be, quote, sanctioned and recused. it comes after a week of withering attacks from the ex- president targeting the judge and his daughter, private citizen. this week, we will learn whether the judge will expand as partial gag order against trump after a manhattan district attorney alvin bragg asked him to clarify whether the gag order applies to family members. let s