President ial nomination. Well President Biden faces no serious competition, his margin of victory could shed light on the eagerness of democrats to check his name in november. And maybe the same could be said for donald trump, who has consistently lost 30 to 40 of the royal publican vote in early primary states. Joining us now to discuss it all is the democratic governor jb pritzker of illinois. Welcome governor. Its a tree having you here. Youve been bringing the fire on behalf of President Biden and the effort that is in front of the country, quite honestly. Given the menace that is meant represented by donald trump. I want to show you some polling though out there from the New York Times poll on the general election. Right now biden is trailing former President Trump by 43 to 48. Also you have conversations out there weve got mr. Trumps winning 97 of those who say that they vote for him four years ago, you look at that 2020 vote. Talk to us about the work that you see right now, an
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front of the suffragettes statue in front of the capital, or visiting the world war ii memorial. we were doing in to save our country and save our brothers and uncles unanswered whoever was working, doing all that crappy work in a factory, so they could put their lives on the line, it was worth it, to have them come back. a group proud of all they accomplished in the war, and for women for years to come. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. some genuine all american heroes are taking us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. it s great to be with my family last week. but i love being back here with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight, on all in. these scenarios existed david pecker and mr. trump long before i started working for him and 2007. the unnamed witness for the trump s grand jury is revealed, and the man who ran th
florida governor ron desantis abruptly removed a twice elected democratic prosecutor just last year. why? because he refused to go after people who seek and provide abortions or provide gender affirming care to transgender people. andrew warren sued desantis, but now a federal judge has dismissed that lawsuit, saying his action of the governor did violate the first amendment and florida s constitution, but as a federal judge, he couldn t rule against a state official based only on the violation of state law. and in the wake of that ruling today, andrew warren joins me now. andrew, thank you for coming. i know we talked when this first actually happened. so i ve been curiously following this particular suit. and the federal judge did take governor desantis to task for his handling of your suspension, but he ultimately upheld it. tell me why you think that is and what s your reaction. well, thanks so much for having me back, laura. as you said, the judge took the governor to
versus donald j. trump. we re getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we re going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they re happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump s lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump s lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to falsifying business records. and if you have any questions about that, you can ask the judge. after putting on the stand, just two witnesses, one of whose credibility completely crumbled during cross-examination, donald trump s defense team today closed by arguing essentially that there was never any criminal conspiracy to conceal the hush money payments. trump s attorney todd blanche also went af