trump s top aides, including then chief of staff, mark meadows. and mike pence could be staring down the same fate as his lawyer was seen entering a closed hearing about the subpoena he s been served. all this, as trump continues to post provocative, even dangerous messages about the manhattan district attorney, who s investigating him on another case. plus, congresswoman maxine waters joins the ranking member of the house financial services committee it s here to talk about another tumultuous week for the economy and what is next for every american worried about their mortgage rates, the cost of living, even the safety of their banks. and a very special meeting of the velshi banned book club will come to order. our guest this week is not an author, but a member of the club. she has 100 years old, a longtime defender of the freedom to read. her personal story is something we hold. velshi starts now. [interpreter] and good morning to you. it s saturday, march the 25th. i m a
mississippi. at least 23 people are dead and officials say more are likely trapped in the rubble. we will have the latest on the rescue mission, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is saturday march 25th, as 11 a.m. in the east atm in the west. i am ali velshi. for the past, week donald trump has been relentlessly attacking alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney investigating the stormy daniels hush money payment for which the former president could possibly face a historic indictment. let s jump that aside for a moment because despite the attention and the vitriol, that trump percent alvin bragg s way since last saturday, there actually were not a lot of developments in that investigation in the past week. trump was not arrested, as he claimed he would be one week ago today. their grand jury only met once this week on that matter but in contrast, a pair of recent other court rulings in other cases found that trump may not be as privileged a
congress. would this really help or a ploy for political mileage? and president biden will have to counter this dismal sal by barack obama in 2008. we re arguing over a gimmick to seau half a tank of gasp. if so everyone in washington can pat themselves on the back. let me tell you something. this isn t an idea designed to get you through the summer. it s an idea designed to get them through an election. phil mattingly joins us at the white house. this is another effort by president biden to deal with gas prices. he s released oil from the strategic reserve. he will travel to saudi arabia in efforts to increase production. he s called on refineries to ramp it up. but even some democrats don t support a gas tax holiday. help us understand the white house thinking here. reporter: it s just a myriad of reasons why they have been reluctant to give their support. it s been on the table. it s been something that s been under consideration by president biden and his team ask t
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. four legal threats to donald trump only helped him politically and number five will probably be the same. we been through the data so many times but it does bear repeating today. survey after survey show that donald trump s numbers have risen with each four indictments. first gop debate which he escaped changed nothing as to his hold on the party. look more deeply at the polls and you find the reason why. republicans largely share trump s opinion that the indictments are political. one recent example. the walls journal found trump is the first choice of 59% of republican primary voters. up 11% since april. his lead over the conspirator ron desantis is rising, desantis is 13% barely ahead of the rest of the field at this point. why is trump so strong despite being indicted four times? because republicans largely agree with his claims of election fraud. same wall street journal story points out this. asked about the indictments of trump.
president, had been marginalized, and would likely leave after his year anniversary at the white house. that anniversary came and went yesterday and was accompanied by a tweet showing a beaming kelly and president trump with the caption congratulations to general john kelly. today we celebrate his first full year as white house chief of staff. today, white house officials told fox news that the president asked kelly to stay on through 2020, the end of his first term, and that kelly accepted very many of the previous rumors about kelly had come from within the white house and his changes elsewhere in the administration. with general kelly at his side, president trump is going to war with the powerful koch brothers, who are waging a campaign against the present strategy of using tariffs to leverage new trade deals. because of new tariffs, our farmers livelihoods are at risk. carmakers, factory workers and macs you don t like manufacturers. farmers want trade, not aid.
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