you learned the house rules in elementary school, right? the senate rules in high school. this is such an exciting night for me. because we are going to cover once again the single most exciting thing, you can never see in the house of representatives. unfortunately it s almost inexplicable and it is of course the procedure that the democrats are using right now to try to force a vote on a clean debt ceiling bill. the discharge position. the man who filed the discharge petition is joining us tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m mean you can go through a whole lifetime and never meet anyone who filed a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing discharge petition were, like the plot of a mission impossible. it is, or, if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to end, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stabi
tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m, you know through a whole lifetime and never meet someone who files a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing district petition were, like, the plot of a mission implausible. it is a cape, or if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to and, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability of the american colin economy. it s going to be, at the end of the, are because we have a lot of other stuff to get through with neal katyal and others, and it s one of those things where you just have to have just a little bit of belief in miracles for it to happen. we will. see i always believe in miracles, lawrence. i m here, aren t? i thank, you. have a good night. i get the joke. thanks alex, thank you. well, if you re tuning into this program in the hope that for the
this is america s newsroom. a years long investigation. a grand jury brought an indictment to president trump. the charges are under seal for now. the counts number in the dozens. bill: that s sparking a firestorm of criticism for the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. known as a soft on crime prosecutor. since he took office in january, he has downgraded more than 50% of felonies in new york to misdemeanors. he appears to be taking the opposite take against the former president. republicans calling it political persecution. manhattan d.a. s office is in contact with the former president s legal team. they re working to coordinate his surrender. a logistic call nightmare. one of the president s attorneys said the d.a. wanted when im to surrender today. the president pushed back on that and expected to happen on tuesday. bill: let s begin now. chad pergram on the hill. andy mccarthy with analysis. bryan llenas joins us outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, new york city.
alvin bragg facing intense questioning after yesterday s intense spectacle of bragg going after trump in new york city. critics called it a bank shot, because it relies on a stiff backboard of evidence yet to be seen. americans watched the soft on violent crime stretch to link trump to campaign law violations. bragg was on the defense. today we uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. we ve had available to the office additional evidence that was not in the office s possession prior to my time herhere. we have a profound interest in new york state. trump made his return to his home state in mar-a-lago take the american public eyeballs off of the failed policies of the biden administration. well i don t know if you watch the former president last night when he got b
maddow and joy and myself. the whole gang will be back at 8:00 for special coverage, our whole primetime lineup of colleagues much more tonight starting at 8:00, but right now it s time to sit down with another bucket of popcorn or whatever you re having because it s time for the beat. hi, nicolle will see you at 8:00 p.m right now we re reporting on arraignment of former president donald trump stepped into court, took his seat to make his first appearance as a defendant in a criminal case. this is what that moment looked like this is here the photo right before the arraignment officially began and the news photographers then left the room a standard practice that trump s lawye lawyers asked to maintain today. meaning these are the photos donald trump did not want to world to see trump appeared at times somewhat sullen flanked by his expanded legal team he went on to plead not guilty today. he was watched over, as you can see here, by court officers, who are there not to p