The Texas Tribune festival which politico is proud to be an official media partner. Texansbune has invited to a free politics, news, and community festival. Anotherlike to thank sponsor for their sponsorship today. My colleagues and i are excited to convene important conversations this afternoon including a Playbook Exchange with the House Freedom caucus, spoiler alert, they are not for impeachment. How to fix american politics will be after that. 2020 and the border will be third in the order, and then finally agriculture in the modern world, so stick around. This brings me to our first conversation of the day, and i am honored to be sitting with this mostly distinguished panel of three of the Top Republican strategists in the country, three guys who wear the Campaign Managers for the jeb bush campaign, marco rubio, and ted cruz campaign. They are danny diaz, say hello. Hello. Hold your applause. [applause] tim terry sullivan. [applause] a little lesson through the and for terry. Plea
Nbc news daily starts right now. Today friday, march 8th, 2024, bringing down the house, President Biden minces no words in his final state of the union before novembers election. You cant love your country only when you win. I will not bow down. It was a fiery speech that could be likened to a campaign rally, the biggest takeaways, and what were hearing from voters j. The u. S. Economy added more jobs nan expected last month but also up slightly, the Unemployment Rate, how it could impact your bottom line. Jailhouse threats, the father of a convicted School Shooter himself on trial facing new restrictions after making threatening statements from behind bars. And life after a layoff, losing a job is really tough financially and emotionally. Were talking about some helpful ways to cope, whether it happens to you, or a loved one. Critical conversation, especially as so Many Industries are facing layoffs right now. Its tough no know what to say. Were going to begin this hour with the race
York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle, live from Msnbc Headquarters here in New York City where we are just hours away from former president Donald Trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern. He is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. Where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight, Law Enforcement is preparing setting up barricades outside of the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts. Including Conspiracy To Defraud the United States of america. Today, trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense. That the Indictment Strikes at the former president s right to free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct, not speech. Its criminalizing speech for this reason. With the president s
opposite of what transpired on the video. the memphis police chief warns the public ahead of today s release of body cam video in the death of tyre nichols calling her former officer s actions inhumane. we ll have the latest. and also ahead, the latest from ukraine following more deadly russian strikes likely in retaliation after the u.s. and its allies announced they are sending tanks to support ukrainian forces. and that comes as president biden is considering a trip overseas to mark a year of war in eastern europe. good morning, welcome to way too early on this friday, january 27. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the five memphis police officers who were fired after the death of tyre nichols have now been charged with his murder. a tennessee grand jury confirmed indictments against the former officers. all five were members of a specialized police unit patrolling high crime areas in memphis before they were all fired for a their conduct du