it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. merrick garland set to deliver an announcement on the doj s two-year probe into the minneapolis police department. we re going to bring you the very latest. right now, in texas, a search and rescue mission is under way after a string of tornadoes ripped through the area, killing three people and leaving dozens injured. we ll have a live report from the scene. and he s the 11th name to enter the 2024 republican primary race for the white house. we ll ask miami mayor francis suarez how he plans to break out in his increasingly crowded field with trump still on top. a major search for survivors is under way after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the greek coast. we ll bring you the latest on this humanitarian disaster. and we begin with breaking news for minneapolis, where any moment now attorney general merrick garland and other top justice department officials are set to make a civil ri
ultimately playing spoiler for one side or the other and the case you re playing spoiler in favor of donald trump is pretty strong. vaughn hillyard, mike memoli, brandon buck, thank you for being we us this morning. miami mayor francis suarez is the latest person to join the republican presidential field. he may not be a household name across the country, but he is well known here in south florida. suarez is the first mayor of miami to be born in the city of miami, his father also served as mayor, also of miami, and also served as miami-dade county commissioner. with us now for his first msnbc interview since declaing his candidacy, miami mayor, republican presidential candidate francis suarez. mayor, thank you for being with us this morning. this is an extremely crowded race you re joining. you re the third floridian to announce a run. why are you running for president? well, because i think my candidacy is different. i think i look different. i think i sound different. i think
gospel in spelling doom for mcauliffe. in ten, out of the last 11 gubernatorial elections in virginia wrote, the post, the party that won the presidency lost virginia s governorship a year later, and who was that one exception? mcauliffe who won election in 2013, but what s left out of the analysis is who drove mcauliffe to victory, black voters, black women in particular. npr wrote last week, black voters have put democrats over the top in virginia elections before, considered that in 2013, mcauliffe lost the white vote by 20 points according to exit polling, but he won more than 90% of black voters. they made up 20% of the electorate, and it was enough to help mcauliffe to a three-point victory. using his analysis of the gender gap in the exit polls, i went the extra step of declaing in a
with him, 10% to rick perry s numbers puts him right up there with mitt romney and the race goes on and on and on. the difficult thing is how do you coax those voters away without looking like you re piling on? clearly rick santorum does not have the solution here. richard wolffe whose book is out in paperbook revival. thank you very much for joining us tonight, richard. thank you, lawrence. a quick programming note. we ll have a special post-debate show tomorrow night on the last word. michael moore will be among our guests reacting to the latest republican debate. after the break, michele bachmann takes a swipe at mitt romney calling him a frugal socialist which he is compared to michele bachmann who has benefited more from socialism than any other republican candidate. and there is breaking news. we re following mississippi voters have rejected an amendment that would have effectively banned abortions in the state by declaing that life begins at the moment of conceptio