hey, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson, with me now is nbc white house correspondent mike memoli, the washington post and msnbc political analyst, ashley parker, also with us new york times politics reporter, lisa lerer. mike, let me start with you on this one and talk about what we heard from the president around the 1:00 hour. essentially the message is get out there and vote, especially if you are for abortion rights because we can help codify it come january. talk us through that, three weeks out now from the midterms. yeah, that s right, yasmin. i think the political strategy here on the part of the white house is very clear. democrats saw a real boost in the polls in the late summer months after that june decision by supreme court came down, striking down the protections for abortion rights under roe versus wade. as one democratic strategist put it, maybe if that decision came down in august we d be feel better about where things stand now. w
good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, may 25th. i m john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in new york this morning. behind me is the robb elementary school where 19 children and two adults are dead. children, second, third, fourth graders ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. at this moment parents are giving dna samples to try to match with their deceased children as they await for some kind of news about what happened. this is what we know at this hour, all the new details we ve been getting in overnight, as i said, 21 people have been killed including a teacher. police say the gunman shot his grandmother who is in critical condition, then crashed his vehicle before entering this elementary school wearing body armor. the 18-year-old shooter has been identified, he attended the high school in this town, he was killed by law enforcement officers at the scene. a photo of two ar-15 style rifles appeared on an ins
Polling as we speak of some kind. Kind News Unspooling always. Thank you for joining us at home. Today has not been a good day for the Republican Party. It began with a fourth defendant flipping in the George Racketeering case against donald trump Turning Jenna Ellis tearfully pleading guilty in state court. This afternoon we are bombshell new report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity and special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smith team that he long believe the trumps was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, n
This afternoon we have a Bombshell New report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity in special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smiths team that he long believed that trump was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, now republicans are holding a vote Behind Closed Doors to choose their fourth nominee for speaker in less than two weeks. This morning, after five rounds of voting Behind Closed Doors, the party nominated its third speaker candidate, congressman tom emmer. And then, just four hours and ten minutes later, t
new york. welcome in to alex witt we reports . we begin at the top of the order following three breaking stories. an nbc exclusive that donald trump will be interviewed by a probation officer tomorrow. we have more on that in a moment. new details on israel hostage rescue on saturday. and then this just in. an benny gantz and his party resigning from the israeli war cabinet, a huge development. we have more on that in a moment. meanwhile, gaza s ministry of health says more than 270 sa palestinians were killed yesterday, 700 injured. israelis officials are disputing this number. new reaction to the number of on palestinians killed. civilians were killed. that is tragic. it is heartbreaking. i said before that the palestinian people are going through hell in this war. they are caught in the crossfire. hamas hides among civilian infrastructure, they ghhide underground.tu it puts the palestinian people t in harm s way. pe when we snatched the hostages, when we extracted