with a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to all of you to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, out west. the campaign season certainly heating up with events on both coasts. president biden is campaigning in columbia, south carolina today. republican candidate, nikki haley, it campaigning trust about 90 miles or so away. early voting starts today in nevada and vice president kamala harris is in las vegas. so is gop front runner, donald trump. also new today, trump is reiterating his call for senate republicans to reject a bipartisan border deal that ties ukraine aid to border security. speaker mike johnson s already said that bill may be dead on arrival in the house. president biden is urging congress to get on board. saying he will use his authority and the bills provisions to, quote, shut down the border. meanwhile, texas is escalating its efforts to divide this week s supreme court ruling. refusing to allow federal officials to r
back to the original brief saying the refusal to provide full and equal wedding cake services constituted discrimination based on sexual orientation in violation of the unrue civil rights act but also religion is a protected characteristics and her attorney argues the agency has chosen one right over another. the california state agency supposed to protect kathy miller from religious discrimination and hate crimes like this is actually the same agency that has been prosecuting her for six years. the california appeals court will likely rule on miller s case in 2025, but she said her and her attorneys say they are prepared to take the case all the way to the u.s. supreme court if necessary. sandra: a live look inside that atlanta courtroom where any moment now a hearing could shed light on communication between d.a. fani willis s office and the federal government, including the biden white house. that is set to begin a short time from now. hello, welcome, i m sandra smit
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in the pol
wow, thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. tonight on 3 of 0 sparks fly in the courtroom between the judge and the president on the day that e. jean kale took the stand. trump ally robert stone on tape talking about assassinating two democratic congressmen. we ll speak to one of them and my conversation with a former hostage who reveals much of her captivity was spent with her husband and children and others in an exam room in a major hospital in gaza. we begin with these words. i would love that. that s what the former president told judge lewis kaplan after the judge threatened to remove him from the courtroom to which the judge replied i know you would. at issue his comments during playoff e. jean kuraly s testimony telling jurors what it was like to endure the most powerful men in the free world calling her a liar or he was found guilty of sexually abusing her in a department store in the 1990s, a denial he repeated in court today. this is a person i have no