It doesnt always work this way right after Holiday Weekend but its right after a Holiday Weekend and the news is on full blast today. Sometimes its sort of a slower on ramp back into the news but not today. President Biden Today was in tulsa, oklahoma, touring the greenwood district. The prosperous self sufficient African American Neighborhood in tulsa that 100 years ago this week was beset by a white mob as the president said today. It was not a riot, it was a massacre. Thousands of homes and businesses not only looted but burned to the ground. Whole blocks of homes and businesses and churches in newspapers and restaurants destroyed by a white mob and that not only shot black tulsans in the street, telling innumerable people literally enumerated people. The total Death Toll not known to this day from the Tulsa Race Massacre. But then not only shot people in the street, they literally dropped a Homemade Firebombs on the Greenwood Neighborhood from private aircraft. It was basically a w
Come in and get treatment, but because they have left it so long, it means that the treatment required will take longer and its more complex. Neighbours reunite the leaders of australia and new Zealand Meet for talks for the first time in 15 months after Coronavirus Border restrictions are lifted between te two countries. Serious but under control the president of the Democratic Republic Of Congo sends a message of reassurance after his government mistakenly announced a second volcano had erupted. And britian s prime Minister Borisjohnson marries his Fiancee Carrie symonds in a secret ceremony at westminster cathedral. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Chelsea fans are celebrating after their team won the Champions League final in porto. They beat fellow English Side and Premier League champions Manchester City in a one Nil Victory after seven tense minutes of injury time to pick up their second European Cup. More than 16,000 supporters were allowed into the stadium in portugal after the
Concerned that evidence sought by his former fixer, michael cohen, and half A Billion Dollar lawsuit, could incriminate the former president. Michael cohen goes on the record, live, a little later. And must see tv. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us live to make the case for Televising The Trump trials. All of this and more is coming up. And a good saturday morning to you all, im katie phang. We begin this hour with new developments in one of the several cases against the twice impeached, now thrice and dated, one term disgraced ex president. Overnight, the department of justice, seeking to have a federal judge impose a Protective Order on criminal defendant, donald trump. In Special Counsel jack smiths 2020 election case. The doj is concerned, rightfully, in my opinion, that trump will share sensitive and confidential information. And its likes to trumps own inflammatory social media posts in which trump appears to vow revenge. Its important to note that on thursday during trumps
Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no