Republican party. President biden delivers his state of the Union Address this thursday. Also ahead, congressman Eric Swalwell on the danger of donald trump escaping accountability in our nations courts. Illinois governor j. B. Pritzker joins us at the table days after his fate became the latest to kick donald trump off the president ial ballot. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the week again. As we come on the air, Criminal Defendant donald trump heads into the week with a dominant hold on the Republican Party in the president ial primary. Last night, trump won caucuses in idaho and missouri. He also swept the Republican Convention caucuses in michigan. Today, voters in our Nations Capital are voting in the d. C. Republican president ial primary. It might be nikki haleys first shot to pick up a win even as trump gets closer to clinching the nomination. In two days, voters in 16 states and one territory will cast their ballots on super tuesday. On thursday, President Biden wi
good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may 1954, segregation, racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months after brown v. board, the naacp named medgar evers its first ever field secretary in the state of mississippi. they named him field secretary in mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. and in 1
er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend
and rumors like how many shooters there are. other police outside a riot. it was really scary. there is a woman who had to stay behind a little bit for evacuation. she was changing her diaper for her child. it was terrifying, actually. the gunman was killed at the scene by a police officer who happened to be at the outlived responding to a different matter. but neither his avidity nor those of the victims had been released as of yet. according to a database maintained by the associated press in usa today, this is the 27th mass killing the sierra. and the second deadliest after the monterey park massacre were 11 people were killed during lunar new year celebrations in january. joining me now, live from allen texas is nbc news correspondent morgan chesky also with us is jim kavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge who was previously facing dallas for a period of time. msnbc terrorism analyst. morgan, one of the league is my friend that your hearing on the ground about t