greg: all right! thank you! thank you, thank you. thank you, sir. so happy, february 29th. it s a date that only happens once every four years. he reminds me to change my sheets [laughter] it s often said that life is like a crap sandwich. the more bread you have, the less crap you ve got to eat. but in gavin gavin newsom california, they mean it literally. they mandated a higher minimum wage for fast food restaurants, raising it from $16 to $20 an hour. but it offers an odd exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a stand-alone item. why? what difference does that make? why shouldn t a restaurant/bakery be subject to the same laws as everybody else? is the baker s union that powerful? if you cross them, lee lined up with the pillsbury dough boy s head in your bed? no one will say. but according to a new bloomberg news report, newsome pushed for the bread exemption to help a long time campaign donor, billionaire greg flynn, who happens to own a bunch of pan
greg: all right! thank you! thank you, thank you. thank you, sir. so happy, february 29th. it s a date that only happens once every four years. he reminds me to change my sheets [laughter] it s often said that life is like a crap sandwich. the more bread you have, the less crap you ve got to eat. but in gavin gavin newsom california, they mean it literally. they mandated a higher minimum wage for fast food restaurants, raising it from $16 to $20 an hour. but it offers an odd exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a stand-alone item. why? what difference does that make? why shouldn t a restaurant/bakery be subject to the same laws as everybody else? is the baker s union that powerful? if you cross them, lee lined up with the pillsbury dough boy s head in your bed? no one will say. but according to a new bloomberg news report, newsome pushed for the bread exemption to help a long time campaign donor, billionaire greg flynn, who happens to own a bunch of pan
percentage of the vote from his party that donald trump is getting from his party. nbc news projects that president joe biden is the winner of the michigan democratic primary and that donald trump is the winner of the michigan republican primary at this hour. joe biden has 79% of the vote and donald trump has 66% of the republican vote. oh let s go straight to steve kornacki latest board for the big numbers. yeah, lawrence, let s start with republican primary, because a fifth of the, vote one in five votes are now tabulated here. and you see the counties lighting up in trump s color. i think the headline level inside is obviously that trump wins, but remember what hailie has been getting so far. in new hampshire, she got 43% vote. in south carolina just last saturday, she got 40% vote. she made that idea of 40% kind consistently a centerpiece of his speech setting a night. here we are in michigan. same rules south carolina had, no party registration in michigan, nobody regi
ari melber starts right now. nicole, one week down, thousands to go. eternity to go, we hope. have a great show. eternity, we could be so lucky. have a great weekend, our thanks to nicolle wallace first big week back. welcome to the beat, i m ari melber, we have a special show for you tonight. we have a lot to get to. let s get right into today. jack smith making a new pitch on behalf of the doj on why donald trump must be put on trial before the election. if that sounds like a familiar issue, jack smith has more than one case against defendant trump. so, the defendant was actually down in federal court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial in the other jack smith case, earlier in the week discussing the big coup case and the supreme court slowing that down. this is the classified documents case, you probably remember both, and they are saying, over at the doj, there is nothing in their rule or precedents which prevents this trial, o
so there is a lot of presidential politics happening right now, where the primary over the weekend in south carolina, and a primary tomorrow in michigan. lucky for us, someone who knows a ton about politics and never seems to hold back, james carville, is standing by to talk with us about all of it. there s also quite a bit of legal news we are following. today, the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg as the judge in that criminal case to impose a gag order on trump. former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who s been on our show many times before, felipe perez, we ll discuss with us and what comes next with there. but i want to start tonight with a little bit of what i will call a reality check. about the very likely general election matchup between joe biden and donald trump. both candidates face challenges right now. but they are no way the same. on the one hand, president biden is dealing with poll numbers that don t seem to budge on the econ