michigan primary. with president biden facing the possibility of a significant protest vote over the situation in gaza and nikki haley hoping for something, anything positive with donald trump expected to easily win the republican primary and the nomination. we ll get to all of that shortly. but first, we want to set the stage just a little bit for where things stand when we talk about the republican party. so we begin the reidout tonight with the freak show. the weekend was the annual conservative political action conference, cpac, a showcase of just how extreme the once grand old party has become. how extreme, you ask, well, as nbc news is reporting, nazis mingled openly at cpac, spreading anti-semitic conspiracy theories and finding allies. yes, you did hear me say nazis. nbc news noted in previous years, conference organizers have ejected well known nazis and white supremacists such as nick fuentes from cpac. this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn t meet any percep
alex presha on the campaign trail. linsey: also tonight, the biden white house weighs its options after alabama s supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children. what this means for the future of ivf. linsey: the bold promise from ukraine s president stating we will win as the war enters its third year, with russian forces advancing in the east, the ukrainians are now pleading for more aid from the u.s. claiming the next month is crucial. our james longman right alongside president zelenskyy asking if he s lost faith in america. linsey: a kentucky college student dead, another student now under arrest, accused of killing him. the latest in a series of campus murders. linsey: nationwide vigils for nex benedict who died after an altercation at school. new video from inside the school building and from the hospital as well as their mother s painful call to 911. linsey: we now know the cause of a deadly fire in new york city. one person killed, mo
welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
show he was pushing extreme election subversion strategies that could now put him in brave league goal peril. we re talking about kenneth chesebro chesebro was the right-wing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. the scheme to a appoint fake presidential electors that republican legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the georgia election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. let s get more details from cnn s marshall cohen who is breaking the story with kfile. marshall, tell us about these tweets and could chesebro be at legal risk for seemingly hiding them? jake, he could listen when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth and cnn s kfile team uncovered a secret twitter that cheseboro concealed from prosecutors in michigan. there are dozens of tweets from 2020 that undercut wha
tonight on the reidout you girls will serve the leaders, and their barren wives. you will bear children for them. tonight on the reidout, yes, american women are facing a real life handmaid s tale, overturning roe wasn t enough for republicans. now some on the right are coming after in vitro fertilization. even birth control. as president biden announces 500 new sanctions against russia following the death of alexei navalny, republicans are pushing even harder to abandon ukraine. plus, does nikki haley realistically have any chance of winning the republican nomination if she s unable to win her home state of south carolina in tomorrow s primary? we ll discuss in tonight s friday politics block. but first, we begin tonight with a frightening question. what if the next presidential election is already decided? what if the maga republican led house of representatives decided to just steal the election on their own? we talk about democracy under threat a lot on this