Donald trump agreeing to that or sticking to that, not to mention that promise will be a problem for current candidates who have already said they would never support trump if he gets the nomination. And then there are other republicans about to jump in, including chris christie, trumps number to bike and north dakota governor doug joining me now on the road, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard in des moines. , this is the first time we have seen a lot of these gop hopefuls on the same stage, why are these events crucial for these candidates . Hey, right. This really was the Summer Campaign kickoff here. But you just laid out why it is extra important. It is because the debate is just two and a half months away. And in order to spread the message for so many of these candidates to a broader part of the electorate, being on the debate stage is going to be key. You just laid out, they are not 45,000 unique donors. Some of these candidates, they are going to have to work to get to that
say, we now have two standards of justice in our country. the democrat communists who want to jail their opponents while they protect the murderers who prowl our cities day and night, and other brazen criminals. the linking, rather, his own complaint about its own prosecutions with his views on crime, in line the way the republicans written in 2022. he s also gonna say, either we have a deep state, or we have a democracy. either the deep state destroys america, or we destroy the deep state. yasmin, that goes back to 2016, the same kind of grievance about being investigated by the fbi, by robert mueller. and now by the special counsel. we ve heard from the former president since he was, in fact, the president of the united states. a speech getting underway here today, we ll see whether former president knows anger and frustration about his indictment overcomes the written words prepared in front of him by aids. and what they hope will be a speech that taps into more of the vie
4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
contest it is taking shape. new and familiar presidential faces jump into the 24 contest. selling themselves as the next and best alternative to donald trump. speaking of, incriminating new evidence this weekend in the classified documents case, not just one of trump s also tonight, legislating inaction. president biden rex up another big win in washington by delivering on a key campaign promise. it is pride month, the love story that triggered a movement for equality in chicago, and beyond. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa. a crucial stop for gop presidential candidates, as they work to find footing in a republican party defined by trumpism. this afternoon, a republican 2024 hopefuls stumped in des moines, at a fund-raiser hosted by joni ernst, noticeably absent, front runner donald trump. chief rival, for now, florida governor, ron desantis. he was there, desantis used the moment to lean into trumpism. while also trying to convince voters he is the best
Blockbursts reporting that solves the mystery of The Missing Link in a story that has rocked American Politics and media. For weeks now, a question has loomed over the ouster of top fox host Tucker Carlson. Why did the Murdochs Fire One of their biggest stars . The architect of a platform that unselfconsciously peddles Conspiracy Theories. Why did they fire him based on something that didnt happen on air . What was that missing link . And what if anything did Tucker Carlson do or say off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th hour settlement of 787. 5 million in the Defamation Case brought against fox by dominion voting systems. The New York Times answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some groundbreaking new reporting. The message was reportedly unearthed during the Discovery Process with dominion. Heres how the times reports that out. Quote, in the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump Su