the threat from the right. chris wray mentioned it in september. what i can tell you is that within the domestic terrorism bucket category as a whole, racially motivated extremism is the biggest bucket within that larger group, and within the race and violent extremist bucket, people are subscribing to some kind of white supremacist-type ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that. that s of course a guy trump appointed. he was then punished by the former president on social media for making those comments. the times writing about trump s efforts, the effect of his direction was substantial. according to interviews with current and former officials, diverting key portions of the federal law enforcement and domestic security agencies at time when a threat from the far right was building ominously. also this morning, details about funding related to the rally at the washington ellipse where trump spoke just ahead of the january 6th riot at the capitol, urging his supp
immigration here at home could get in the way. meanwhile, new attacks all across ukraine, including kyiv, as the united nations chief visited the country. plus, things go from bad to worse in mariupol, as russia bombs a makeshift hospital inside the steel plant where fighters and civilians are barely holding on. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, joins us in a moment. and later, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, on the very latest in ukraine. and the january 6th committee ready to go public as the chairman announces the date of the first open hearings on the attack on the capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, april 29th. quite a week. yesterday, we knew president biden would be asking congress to fund a sweeping aid package aimed at keeping ukraine in the fight against russia for at least the next five months. we just didn t know how much he would be asking for. we heard from the president, proposing $3
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
and you know, we get into law school every so often on this program and we get into barack obama s unearthed law school manuscript and what he says about safeguarding american democracy, which is pretty relevant. but we begin with huge breaking news. a billion dollar verdict. that is the total damages for the liar proven in court to be a liar and right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones. the lies matter. because the sanctions for them matter. because what is happening right now tonight in america is according to so many victims family, justice long overdue for these families who lived through the unthinkable. the murder of their children at sandy hook and the man you see on your screen tried to lie about and harass and defame and profit off all that. well that ends. that ends today. that was put to an end in court with and i want you to hear this number because it is way larger than any number i have ever read in any newscast to you as news. $965 million in damages against
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf