unusual newsday, which may b in part a function of th holiday? but i don t really think, so i think it s just turning out to be an unusual newsday. first, of all i should mention that this remarkable search an rescue operation is stil underway right now about 370 miles off the coas of newfoundland in the north atlantic a submarine is an autonomous self supporting undersea vessel. a submersible, as opposed to a submarine, is a vessel tha also goes under the water bu it is not autonomous it has the use either anothe ship or a surface platform o some kind as a home base t which it is based. the vehicle that has been lost that they are looking for righ now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launche lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it started a dive. the dive was supposed to b about two and a half hours down, three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another tw hours back so it was about eight hour beneath the waves but about an hour
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
this is msnbc s continuing coverage of the indictment o former president donald j trump, time elevation you york, after becoming the first president i u.s. history to be impeached twice, donald trump has made history yet again, becoming th only ex president to face criminal indictment. on thursday, a grand jury vote to indict the former president as part of manhattan distric attorney alvin weiss investigation into a hush mone payment made to and at fil star stormy daniels, in 2016 that indictment is currently sealed that means we don t know the specific charges being levie against donald trump but we do know that bag ha been focusing on a felon charge, of falsifying business records, which carries a maximum sentence of four years it means that he s formerl charged with a crime but there are still severa steps in the coming days, the ex president is expected to surrender himself to authorities, after which h will be taken into custody like any other person charge with the, c
or 24, that abortion access is critical and it is one of th most important reasons for people to turn out and vote. we need to send a message to politicians that we re not going to take it anymore today the biden administration asked the supreme court to take emergenc action to stop a trump appointed judges ruling that would restrict access to mifepristone, one of the mos commonly used abortion drugs the restrictions were set to g into effect at one 8 am on saturday, but just hours after this protest, the supreme cour issued a five-day hold o restricting the availability o mifepristone justice samuel alito, th author of the dobbs decision stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion, ruled that access to mifepristone will remain statu quo until the supreme court ca make a final decision on wednesday. there is no guarantee that the supreme court will over turn the abortion pill restrictions beyond a five-day stay abortion advocates continue to fight republican oppo