Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
four presidential contest is careened to be a testosterone primary, summerside quest, data dates with fewer contrasts on policy and proving more keen on comparing feats of strength. miami mayor francis suarez is bragging about placing sixth in a 5k run in cedar rapids, iowa. sender tim scott tossing around the pigskin with his campaign manager. ron desantis baseball cards are getting passed around, highlighting his stint in the little league world series. and who can forget the shirtless rfk jr. workouts. the beefy democrat reviewing his secret to getting buff. i am on antiaging protocol from my doctor. that includes testosterone replacement. but i don t take any steroids. i don t take any anabolic steroids or anything like that. jesse: greg, you were right when you said he was on something. greg: it s obvious. you cannot be that caught at 70:00 p.m. i mean, look at harold. [laughter] bought a low bar, right? you know why, dana, because people in d.c. just aren t in goo
hour of chris jansing reports. i m alex witt. ahead for us, kevin spacey on trial. the oscar award winning actor appears in court on multiple count of sexual assault. we re live in london. plus, a scathing report in the wake of jeffrey epstein s death. the d.a. blasts prisoner workers for multiple failures. a russian missile strike targets a crowded ukrainian restaurant right at dinner time. also, trump s growing legal woes, word that his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, met with the special counsel s office. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we will begin with nbc s vaughn hillyard who s following the latest trump legal troubles. what can you tell us about rudy giuliani and the legal team. rudy giuliani is a lynch pin in so many of what is a large web around january 6th and the special counsel s investigation. at this point in time, we know that in fulton county in the district attorney s investigation there, he has already been togethe
house playing out in key battleground states as the two leading contenders for the republican nomination hit the campaign trail. hello to you. hello, john. happy friday eve. anita vogel in for sandra smith. former president donald trump meeting with faith leaders in des moines, iowa as he b barnstorms the state before he joins sean hannity tonight on fox news. florida governor ron desantis makes a two-day, five-town blitz across the state before campaigning in new hampshire. john: the field for the gop primary will grow more crowded. mike pence, chris christie, and doug bergham will show their hats into the ring next week. rich edson is live in urbandale, iowa, the former president taking aim at desantis today, and desantis saying you know, that s not the way to go about this. it s been back and forth and intensifying, certainly after ron desantis got into the race. we have seen that since the former president has been in iowa, he arrived last night. came here to the we
bank failures, silicon valley bank and signature bank. christine romans, what is happening with credit suisse is different, but it s also spooking thing market. it is. so this is european banking fears that are now spreading back into an already fragile and vulnerable u.s. system. credit suisse down 20% to a record low. several european bank shares are halted in european trading. so that s just feeding into the worry about rising free agents and fragilely in the world. dow futures down 1.5%. if this holds this would take away the rally in yesterday. nasdaq, s&p futures also lower here. the regional banks that bounced back in the u.s. yesterday a sign of stability, a sign of relief, a mixed performance. first republic shares in premarket trading up a little bit. some of the other banks are down and again what folks are really zeroing in here is what are the exposure to these banks, these long-term treasuries, long-term securities that are going to be hard to sell in the near