fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
tonight on the reidout what about 2024? we will see if this is a legal and valid election. just to be very clear, i don t hear you committed to certifying the election results. will you only commit to certify the results if if they re constitutional. does that mean former president trump wins? it phenes if they re unconstitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the constitution. elise stefanik refusing to commit to certifying the will of the voters if trump loses. as trump himself refuses to sign a pledge not to overthrow the government. also tonight, president biden who unlike trump, supports democracy, took his message to mother emanuel ame church in charleston. amid growing concerns about his standing with black voters. but we begin tonight with the january 6th insurrection. more specifically, what went down before the violent mob stormed the u.s. capitol. at a, quote/unquote, news network called fox. as author and journali
married up, dude. i sure did. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. in the year 2000 george bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016 donald trump became the second. now, what made both of those victories even possible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000 it wasn t just the electoral college. it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remains staggering to this day. and even though al gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes, whether those 537 votes in florida did or did not get counted would decide the race. and after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the supreme court. the supreme court hasn t been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.
dissent? we had three of us writing a dissent. we thought it was for many, many reasons harmful to the court and we thought for many reasons it was generally a harmful decision. we thought it was wrong and five people thought it was right. so the truthful answer is, at this moment i don t know exactly. there are people who spend a lot of time on this matter. i can say it is a very important thing, this right to abortion, and i think casey is a better opinion from a legal point of view than roe, and i am very, very, very sorry. thank you for watching. you can catch my full interviews with bernie sanders and carol burnett anytime you want on hbo max. and join us here on cnn every friday night to find out who s talking next. good evening, everyone. i m allison, welcome to cnn tonight. it s friday night. the culture wars are in full swing. there is a plot television. in the republican-controlled state legislatures of south carolina and nebraska restrictive abortion bills
good evening, donald trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. our special coverage of this unprecedented verdict continues. i m ari melber here with my colleagues. may third, 2024 is now a day etched in history. it was 4:30 p.m. when the jury in new york versus trump reached its verdict. the jury told the court triggering a process which unfolded over a roughly 36 minutes as the defendant, lawyers, and reporters returned to the courtroom. around the nation, people received alerts. a verdict was in. on msnbc as you can see, nicole wallace reported this verdict was imminent. and that this jury, which was tested in unusual ways and heard over 20 days of testimony and deliberated over nine hours, this jury s work was done. it had not been delayed. and, jury s work and its findings were not deadlocked. they reached a unanimous decision filling out the legal forms tabulating each felony count signed by the anonymous foreperson who read out the verdict to the court. with no cameras