Of you from Msnbc World headquarters here in new york. Welcome, rch, to Alex Witt reports. Heres what is happening at 11 a. M. Pacifictime, 2 00 p. M. Eastern. We kick off with the story we have been bringing you live here on msnbc. One small step for man, and a Giant Leap for a Billionaire Taking on space as the next frontier. Richard branson making history, successfully launching himself into space on his Virgin Galactic unity spaceplane. Release, release, release, release. Clean release. Ignition. And Bransons Trip to the edge of space, edging out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos in the race to commercialize space travel. He spoke about what it was like moments after landing. Ridiculous. It is a complete experience of a lifetime. And now im looking down at a beautiful space port. Congratulations to everybody. Clearly that was while he was still in space a remarkable feat in itself. The historic launch this morning was the first fully crewed Test Flight to the edge of space. I want to g
Going to join lawrence, this next hour, right now. Here on msnbc so i am going to get out of the way. I will see you again tomorrow night. Now, it is a time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, i think you isolated what could be the most important question about this Indictment Today because it refers to other people, other executives in the trump operation. Are how many of those possible other executives involved in the commission of these crimes are named trump . How many of those are children of Donald Trump . And if it was a systematic scheme, by the company, to including its most highly compensated executives to pay them in ways that were that were designed to evade taxes. Which is the way its described in the in the indictment. Allen weisselberg was getting paid A Million Dollars a year, and they said he was one of the highestpaid beneficiaries of that scheme. There arent many people at the company who are more highly paid than him, and i dont
Melberstart you no. Good evening, we begin with Breaking News. The Trump Organization will be charged for these tax and corporate related crimes as soon as tomorrow afternoon. The Wall Street Journal reporting Alan Weisselberg who has been the center of so much of this will be himself independently indicted for evading taxes on his benefits. Hell appear in court tomorrow. This is a huge development. This is what Donald Trump has been running from for many years. It is what his desperate bid to hide his taxes. The Wall Street Journal which by the way is as twin Sister Publication of fox news. Any charges against the Trump Organization, weisselberg would be a blow to former president trump. What may also worry Donald Trump is that the beginning of the Indictment Phase of this case if you watch The Beat, we have been watching on it when it was leaked and there was a grand Jury Probe and some witnesses here learned what the investigators were asking, all of that was the investigation stage
Congressman tim ryan. So, of course, tim ryan will be joining us later in tHe hour to respond to tHe trump attacks. And its pretty impressive because tim ryan just recently announced, actually announced on this program that Hes running for senate in ohio. You would think tim ryan had some He lead already that had to be stopped. THe way Donald Trump went after him really shows you how strong a cAndidate i think tim ryan can be tHere. It also just like, you know, in political combat its one thing to, like, kind of size up tHe relative political size of each of tHe contenders, And trump taking tHe shots at congressman ryan, obviously, as you say, says something about his chances at winning that senate seat. But you look at trump right now, And its like, yeah, so did you still want to go to ohio once you learned that your business is probably going to get indicted tHe tuesday afterwards . What Hes worried about, what Hes got on his plate right now is so pitiful And scummy that for him to b
Greene became unresponsive shortly after and died on his way to the hospital. But new video reveals a more disturbing confrontation. In Body Cam Video obtained by The Associated Press, troopers can be seen repeatedly punching greene after appearing to drag him out of his vehicle. Taser, taser, taser. Put your hands behind your back. Troopers tase greene multiple times as hes Face Down on the ground while they attempt to handcuff him. Another trooper appears to kick greene. The associated press released three segments of the original video, which says is 46 minutes long. Only two of the clips have sawedio. Cnn has never reviewed or obtained the original audio. Lee meritt, an attorney for the Greene Family. What it tells us about police brutality, its a team sport. Reporter 2019 Police Report says they attempted to pull greene over for unspecified traffic violations. Two investigative officers wouldnt tell his mother why they were chasing greene. The lack of transparency on behalf of aut