welcome to prime time weekend. i am nicolle wallace. let s get right to the weekends top stories. in the study of criminal minds it is actually not uncommon for an arsonist to knowingly return to the scorched earth he or she so brazenly torched. what is uncommon though is the arsonist not just being applauded by the victims upon its return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today, donald trump played the arsonist in the trump run republican party and showed with senate republicans this afternoon three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, comes to washington, d.c. today abounding to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi today. press spin for today was a trump engaged in forward- looking discussions of policy, hannibal lector kept coming up, including donald trump successive animosity toward the department of
trump s gains with lack voters ahead of the election. some suggest trump had more black support for president right now than any republican in decades. but this weekend in the swing state of michigan, trump held campaign events that reinforced how profoundly cynical, if not delusional, his idea of black outreach truly is. yesterday, the former president went to a black church in predominantly black detroit three days before juneteenth to tell a mostly nonblack audience that black neighborhoods are desolate and black led cities are corrupt. a common theme for the former president, who followed that up by keynoting a known white supremacist where trump told an overwhelmingly white right-wing audience that there black and brown friends in the u.s. are hurting because of immigrants. so we start on the campaign trail of both the biden and trump camps. joining me from los angeles is msnbc s white house correspondent aaron gilchrist, and from detroit in d.c., 2024 campaign embed j t
left behind, thrown away. he s talking about the experience of the 1990s and 2000s where a generation was moved to prison. there will be a heavyweight battle for the black vote between kamala harris and cory booker. they have strengths. kamala harris being a strong woman will have a big appeal. cory booker being better on the issue of criminal justice reform than kamala harris. she s gotten criticism for her role in that. carol mosely brown and al sharpton were in the same primary one time. neither of those figures have the heavyweight star power that you have with kamala and cory. if we look at booker s roll-out they are well calculated.
counties across 26 states. the bone dry conditions are destroying farm crops and one analyst estimates that 75% of the corn crop in the drought region is now wiped out. that could drive up food and fuel prices across the entire country and brings us to rob marciano live in bu. we have corn that should be taller than it is right now because of the drought and because of the heat. this stalk should be well up and over my head. there s a couple of examples of ears of corn. this was tough to find, a decent one, what you would typically see in a healthy environment but this is what we ve been seeing, ears of corn not even close to developing and not even pollinated. not only here in indiana but across the corn belt as far north as the canadian board enand across the southern plains. this part of this particular field is pretty healthy, we re right at the edge, the corner, it gets more circulation and runoff from the road. i want to bring in bob smok, another local farmer. you ha