good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will today s executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the president s son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 minutes emerging on day one of the federal trial. the defense is using the opening statement to argue that hunter biden was in deep denial and may not have considered himself a drug addict. outside the courtroom, a dramatic altercation between hunter biden s wife and a former trump white house aide. a group of senate republicans refusing to do their jobs and using baseless conspiracy theories around donald trump s conviction as an excuse. how could that impact what has been one of the least pr
that and it will be the defense that raises some of the uncomfortable facts about some of the other people involved in this case. mike memoli and barbara mcquaid, only day one, opening arguments, thank you so much. today, a former trump attorney and two others were charged with felony forgery in wisconsin for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election through so-called fake electors. nbc s ryan reilly is following this for us. what can you tell us about the charges, ryan? we have seen this trend in several states now where we have seen these charges brought forward against related to the schemes, these fake elector schemes involving individuals who falsely say donald trump won an election that he actually lost and all of this was in the leadup to january 6th, with the idea of being creating chaos on january 6th as all of this was unfolding saying some of the state were in dispute when they weren t.
A criminal complaint filed earlier this month by the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney charges Terri A. King, 60, of Bronx, New York, with one count of felony stealing, one count