president biden s support is slipping and it s at least in part because of his handling of the israel hamas wa that is according to new polling from the new york times and the college. registered voters were asked if the election were held told, who would you vote for? biden or trump. trump wins by just two points but amongst likely voters, biden leads by two points. t both by the way are within the margin of error. that is just part of the story though. there are still 11 months until the election with no official republican candidate declared. nothing is set in stone. but there s something even bigger in this polling. the biden camp should be zeroing in on. are they losing support amongst young voters? amongst registered voters 18-29, the former president has a six-point lead. that could be the biggest hurdle for the president s re-election bid over the next year, but there s time. so what are those young voters saying? shaq brewster has more. voted for biden and i told
you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, more on the breaking news just in the last hour, an unexpected move from special counsel jack smith. he wants the supreme court to immediately take up whether donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution. what it means for a criminal trial starting before the election. plus, israel s prime minister says it s the beginning of the end of hamas. the escalating push into southern gaza as aid groups warn of apocalyptic scenes on the ground. six killed, dozens injured as more scenes of destruction emerge. and alex jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed sandy hook was a hoax and made money off of it returns to x and gets a warm welcome from elon musk. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that breaking news on that fascinating legal move by special counsel jack smith. msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin is with me. i know you ve had time now to start going through
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.