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we arranged for all of that to happen in that hour as hazing for you. you re in the frat, don t worry. thank you, rachel. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. right off the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so. in a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. he lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. there were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. he is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. but he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. we have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. so his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had ....
say no. absolutely. thank you for incredibly. doing that. the battle for the american presidency in 2024 will likely come to another battle of the blue wall including michigan and wisconsin. two reliably democratic states that flipped and led to donald trump s victory. votes for jill stein in both states in 2016 were larger than the vote difference between trump and hillary clinton. joe biden won back both states in 2020. winning michigan, wisconsin, and that pushed him to 270 electoral votes before georgia and arizona so it cannot be overstated how critical these battleground states are. and today, donald trump took his election denying xenophobic stump speech to michigan. our first guest tonight will be michigan s democratic governor gretchen whitmer who will join me in just a moment. trump started his day in michigan where they launched a new billboard campaign to remind everyone that he lobbied republicans to tank the bipartisan security bill. he lost to joe bid ....
as a local daily, high school sports drive interest, as does s restaurant news. and we still run birth notices in our papers. who does that anymore? reporter: not everyone loves the paper. some elected officials, community leaders there s a lot of mischief that can go on in the dark that happens when you don t have local journalists keeping track of what is going on. reporter: mainers have relied on the sun journal for more than 175 years. thanks to the trust, they still can and be a short delivery person beth combs will see you get your copy, even at your back door. thank you to the amazing harry smith for one last piece of good news to take us off the air tonight. on that beautiful note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up ne late. up late. thanks to you at home for joining us. really happy to have here. right of the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so in a ....
d.c. today the biden campaign lo launches the difference between communities and communities of colors. the first criminal trial of an ex-president comes to a head this week. a former advisor is here. overnight, to senators are calling for justice samuel alito to recuse himself from election cases. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to the weekend . new this morning, federal prosecutors are asking for help as donald trump increases his attacks on the justice system. the special councils office is now asking the judge in the classified documents case to block trump for making statements that could endanger law enforcement investigating and prosecuting him in that case. the request comes after trump falsely claimed the biden administration authorized the fbi to use deadly force against him during the 2022 mar-a-lago rate. of course, that is not true. the justice department of course followed the standard policy. just one escalation this week of trump s outra ....
we re barely 5 months from the election and the fight between the biden and trump campaigns for black and brown voters is poised to grow even uglier. biden, for his part, has been making real investments in communities of color, coming off a multiple state tour promoting record-breaking job creation for black workers and growing diversity of the federal courts on his watch. not to be out done, trump held a performative rally not far from here, in the bronx thursday night where he brought out two indicted former gang members in a show of solidarity with black and latino voters. because in his mind, that s what they relate to. he then glossed over record low unemployment rates to tell those voters in the bronx, of all places, that immigrants were taking their jobs away and he s still going on about crowd size, claiming nearly 30,000 people when it was more like a fraction of that, including those that protested his presence. in a minute i ll talk to bronx congressman rich ....