we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. we re still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. it s the threshold of democracy and liberty. with that anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. in january, i signed electoral reform acts to protect the will of the people and the people transferring the transfer of power. we know that we must get the vote in congress. to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. let s get right to sell not where we find nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. good to see you, this is a
the contentious weeklong battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy s rocky road to the gavel including sessions made to the far-right s holdouts is raising fresh questions about how a republican-led house will govern. earlier today, house republicans getting their take. sometimes democracy is messy, but i would argue that s exactly how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people, and then you get a decision. it is positive, not negative. it is not weakening kevin mccarthy it is providing the speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the map of the american people. 218-plus republicans realized that kevin mccarthy needs a chance to govern, and we are going to give him a chance. well, democrats giving a different view earlier today. the leader hakeem jeffries expressing concerns with the prolonged speaker fight means for the house moving forward. this function was historic that we saw this week is not at an end, it is just the
that destruction left behind in just three cities in florida. and clued in fort myers. we will go there in just a moment and now coming to be known as ground zero. satellite images showing areas there before and after the storm. survivors continuing to speak out about what they have endured. i sheltered in a closet until part of the roof came off. and then the wind came in there so that i just went behind the bed. and stay there. nothing about gratitude that we are here and for all that the people out there do. i will never ever not evacuate again. the power of that storm i mean if that would ve crashed into the side of the house. we would have been swept away. all right happening now in sarasota county in west central florida. possible levee break, that is threatening flooding about to 15 feet in the hayden river community. the sarasota county sheriff s office tweeting a warning saturday morning. and then urging residents to shelter in place if it is safe to do so.
and charm, it is you, lawrence. i trust you will get to them of, what the wife of clarence thomas, the activists, an election denier, ginni thomas, said in those four walls. we might not but we are going to try. we will do the best we can with congressman schiff, and then andrew weissmann will join us with the latest ruling of judge today. i saw the discussion of, it alex, and i want to try a different take. i am prepared with professor weisman, and a law professor, and he will grade me on this. one, it doesn t matter, and it was a criminal investigation, on the classified documents. and to, they might be right. donald trump should be able to protect his right to a criminal defense in court on the question of what about these documents, possibly, being planted. the normal place for that to come up, is in cross-examination of fbi agents in court. it may be that it is a good thing, that he is allowed to continue to hold on to that, all the way through a criminal trial, becaus
you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to, alex witt reports. the race to the 2022 midterms is nearing the finish line. and just three days, in a matter of hours, the results will begin coming in for what could be one of the most consequential elections in u.s. history. new today, a trio of u.s. presidents bringing their star power to the campaign trail in this final weekend. president biden, and former president obama, will be in philadelphia together later today. that because after biden makes a stop in illinois, and obama holds a rally in pittsburgh, this in the next few hours. then former president trump will be in western pennsylvania rallying for republican candidates. more than 38 million americans have already cast their vote ahead of tuesday s elections. earlier today on msnbc, some candidates and key contests stressed the importance of reaching those voters yet to cast their ballots. races in the state are always close. our last three