it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester
that the next press conference regarding the mass shooting in mass casualty event out in monterrey park, california, will take place 11 am eastern. msnbc will be covering it and i want to thank you for watching the katie phang show. we ll be back next weekend saturday and sunday and velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. we are following breaking news right now out of california. law enforcement sources they re confirmed at least ten people are dead after a shooting in monterrey park just east of los angeles. ten others were injured and taken to an area hospital. it happened last night around 10:30 pm local time. li county sheriff s homicide captain andrew meyer described the scene at a press conference just a few hours ago. when officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals with location pouring out of location. screaming and the officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. the monterey park fire department responded
supporters, enough that they change their views of him? will this be the thing that convinces certain people that he is lawless and dangerous? and that he has an entire political party and its infrastructure behind him? of course, the answer was generally no, there will never be a bridge too far for donald trump, an epiphany moment for the vast majority of his supporters. but for some, at least on an individual level, perhaps there is and perhaps this is it. for cassidy hutchinson, the young, unflappable white house staffer, who testified before the january 6th investigation yesterday, the events she witnessed on and around january the 6th last year with a tipping point for her. she described feeling frustrated and disappointed and disgusted with the presidents apparent approval of the violence, as the capitol was being overrun. but for the most part, we should probably stop looking for big shifts in public opinion about donald trump in reaction to new information. politicall
witnessed on and around january 6th last year were the tipping point for her. she described feeling frustrated and disappointed and disgusted with the president s apparent approval of the violence as the capital was being overrun but for the most part, we should probably stop looking for big shifts in public opinion about donald trump in reaction to new information. politically, americans seem pretty set in their opinions about him, but opinions aren t everything. there s actually this interesting pesky little thing called the law. and on that front, there s a noticeable shift happening today in one area. there s a real insignificant shift under way in analysis about whether donald trump might now, as a result of all of this new information, actually be prosecuted for his role in january 6th. people who thought that would never happen today awoke today thinking it just might and perhaps more likely than not and that shift is happening where it matters, inside the justice depa