And in just a few minutes, the state lawmakers are set to discuss impeaching the governor. While behind closed doors, two top former justice department officials are answering lawmakers questions over the weekend about just how far former president trump went to overturn the election results. And those in the justice department that actively helped him. We re going to hear from grammy awardwinning musician who is making major headlines after requiring vaccines at his concerts in austin, texas. A city with just six icu beds left open. The praise and the backlash he s now getting. We ve got to start, of course, this morning with covid. The good news right now is that half the country has officially been fully vaccinated. But at the very same time, the number of average cases are topping 100,000 a day for the first time since last february. The rate of hospitalizations and deaths nationwide have both jumped more than 90% over the last two weeks. Of course, the biggest problem is in place
defense. in wisconsin, we could get a verdict at any moment in the kyle rittenhouse trial. the jury is set to return to deliberations after zeroing in on one video. we have teams to bring us the latest. i want to start ron allen with the ahmad arbery murder trial is about to resume at any moment. what are we expecting today? we re expecting travis mcmichael to return to the witness stand and face a very aggressive cross-examination. the prosecutors are trying to convince the jury that all the defendants who were white made all the wrong and worst assumptions about arbery who is black and they had no reason to shoot and kill him. i want to give my side of the story. reporter: taking the witness stand wednesday in his own defense, travis mcmichael telling the jury that arbery attacked him on the day in question. and he fired three shotgun blasts at close range killing arbery in self-defense. i shot him. why? he had my gun. it s a life or death situation. i m going t
welcome to msnbc specia coverage of the indictment o former president, donald trump i m jonathan capehart live fro msnbc headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. and we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2:15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. we are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. so, katie, this i incredible what we are about to see and we have never seen anythin like this in all of ou history. a former president of th united states indicted by an manhattan grand ju
and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started is donald trump finally abou to face accountability for his crimes we have the latest on th possible indictment of forme president trump for allege hush money payment to an adult film star. they lied, again and again and again. more details on what was going on inside fox news as they peddle conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. my question is, how much wil those lies cost them and later, tennessee man and drag shows on public property? what one of the votes famous drag performers has to say about it, and how we can pus back against anti-trans hate all of that and more, coming up and the good saturday morning to you, i m kati phang. we begin today s show with a mixed bag when it comes to the economy, with the doubters focusing yesterday more than 300 points in the red, but a better than expected job report, surprising a lot o people 311,000 jobs added much more than the 225,000 economists were expecting. the unemp
not a so gun shy republicans pledged allegiance to guns at the annual nr convention as a second deadl mass shooting in a week play out of just hours away i louisville i ll talk one-on-one wit morgan mcgarvey the kentucky congressman behind the fiery rebuke of republican prioritization of banning book and direct shows over weapon of war plus, fox news, outfoxed the media empire said to begin a huge jury trial tomorrow for pushing for president trump big lie over stolen election all right and what s called on of the most consequentia defamation lawsuits in decades it s black maternal health week did you know black women are three times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy related cause? we ll take a look at why thi is happening and what s bein done to narrow the widenin disparities in materna mortality. all of that and more is coming up and good sunday morning to you i am katie phang the nra convention wraps up in indianapolis today as more gun violence or perhap