Good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. And youre looking at live pictures from selma, alabama, where Vice President Kamala Harris and other dignitaries, including myself, are crossing the bridge to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, with just two days till Super Tuesday, election 2024 is very much on our mind. And joining me now is congressman steven horsford, democrat of nevada, and chair of the congressional black caucus. Congressman, mister chairman, its been nearly 60 years since john lewis and Josi At Williams and some 600 others first marched across that bridge, the Edmund Tennis Bridge you and i just marched across with the Vice President. And yet we still find ourselves contending with conservative forces, seeking to curtail Ballot Access for minority voters, or students. And in the case of alabama, dilute the power of the black vote. What are your thoughts, as the cbc chair, as we walked across that historic bridge, 59 years later, and still fighting for
Toughest, most efficient, most effective Border Security bill this country has ever seen. So instead of Playing Politicwise the issue why dont we get together it and get it done . That was President Biden calling on trump in texas. Their message to voters was very different. Plus well go through some of Hunter Bidens testimony on capitol hill as new transcripts are giving us a better idea of what was said Behind Closed Doors. Also ahead the latest from gaza following a horrific scene yesterday, dozens of people reportedly shot and killed by Israeli Forces while trying to get access to food and other aid. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, march 1st. We made it to march. Im sam stein in for jonathan lemire. We start this in texas where President Biden and former President Trump both visited texas yesterday. They torpedoed a Border Security bill last month at the direction of donald trump. Meanwhile at eagle pass the former president spoke little of policy and talk
Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
they need to know ifions biden s gross negligence left america s top-secret information exposed in at least five unsecured locations. every member of theat o committee, regardless of democrat or r republican were unanimous in this position that were left in limbo until somehow a special counsel says it s oka for us to get briefed. it s not going to stand. texas ataturk ted cruz for his calls on hearing of what exactly is in the documents. amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that is 1850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware.g th why is the university withholding the gift agreement at the mystery funder of maintaining those documents. did the money come from china after the ccp said $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and able to get pen to lobby for the china com initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee james comer told m e recently. we now learn that the university of penn successf
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