midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
and a little ice cream wit senator turned presidentia nominee turned secretary o state john kerry i talked to one of my othe former boss is about the threa of climate change and the work he s doing to fight it many of us across the countr breathed a big sigh of relie on friday when the supreme court announced that the mos widely used abortion pill will remain available while an appeal moves forward. it s welcome news, but, let be clear, the abortion pill is still in jeopardy, and the political stakes just got a lo higher whatever the appeals court decides, the case will likel end up before the supreme cour next year. meaning a final decision could come at the height of the 2024 presidential race. remember, roe v. wade wa overturned just a few months before the 2022 midterms and that turned out to be a majo driver for democratic voters which brings us to the other major story to break this week after a long wait and a lot of speculation, president joe biden is finally ready t
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out the birds and she woul show us the value of carin about the environment around you. it began in the very early age and stuck. it clearly stuck. you were there for the first earth day, what was that like? it was exhilarating energizing because 20 millio americans came out of thei homes all around america tha same day it was the first major movemen like that on the environment people rebelled and it mad things happen, that s what s exciting about it, it really did. how do you think we can reinvigorate and get that kind of activism and excitement bac and engaged. i think some of that is happening right now, i think w are in the middle of a incredible growing movement. and i see it with young people all around the world, youn people are saying wait a minute, what do you guys doing to us you re going to leave us without a planet, with a pla it doesn t work, that s dying, that s got all these problems? but i am encouraged. i feel in optimism because i a in the middle of working w
at stake here. what are they saying how are they feeling i talked to a bunch o senior staffers on capitol hil this evening and a number of folks whose boss, as a democratic bosses put ou statements everyone from the congressiona black caucus to the immediat past speakers, pelosi, hakee jeffries, they were all beatin the same drum if you will. no one is above the law, thi investigation, this came, this decision came based on the facts. and i think that is what you are going to hear from mos senior democrats publicly. privately, what i have heard i that people are doing this t dance and i have urged caution to every single person tha i ve spoken to one, it because we do not know the charges. we do not know how this is going to play out, and frankly i have long since said tha there is never doubt in my min that any of thes investigations that the former president would be indicted. the question on the table is will he ever be charged? will he ever be convicted?