hour, including john kirby who is sitting here at the table ready for me to ask him questions about the iranian attack on israelever overnight. as we count down to the first criminal trial of a former president, leanny davis will join me later in the hour. he s a legal adviser to michael cohen. jamie raskin is here as well. i want to start with the breaking news out of the middle east. overnight, iran carried out an hour long airborne attack inside israel marching more than 300 missiles and drones. 99% of the incoming fire was intercepted. thanks to the iron dome and defense systems funded by the united states and a coordinated effort. only a few of the missiles launched actually entered israel causing minor damage at an israeli air base. a young girl was injured biochip fell, but no reports of other casualties. iran says it was in retaliation for the israeli strike on a building in damascus syria that killed several commanders earlier this month. now, despite being adversa
where just over five months before our next election and increasingly in the ballot for the biden and trump campaign. polls suggest are anxious if not divided over a second biden term. by that, i don t mean that anything approaching a majority of them will go for trump in no member. it appears trump couldn t track at least enough black voters in key states to divert biden from victory in most states, making his path to re-election even more harder. i talked to a member of the congressional black caucus about the swoop in the race, just a moment. as both candidates continue to court voters of color in their own way, the wild president biden was on the road pitching his administrations economic wins to voters of color, donald trump responded with a soulless rally in the bronx, featuring indicted wrappers. in the former president version of black outreach feels especially start for me tonight as we mark the fourth anniversary of george floyd murder, a case that i was personally
speaking tonight with flores forbes. you are in for a treat. maybe another round of applause your detroit red wings overcome a couple of housekeeping things. we have a cell phone or something that might take place in the now is the time to turn an often silent day. we have the book for sale at the register and we will be signing writer afterwards. we also have flyers for upcoming events so we hope you can check us out here to love our event in may. when you buy a book come you not only get a great book a great out there but you support your local independent bookstore in the last big event like this one. we appreciate that. thank you. our interviewer for this evening is flores forbes can associate vice president for strategic policy and program implementation at columbia university. he was a leader in the black panther party insert fighters in prison before receiving a masters degree in urban planning from new york university. he s the author of two books, will you die with m
dramatic narrowing in battleground states but nationally and they re on noteworthy in that they showed this going on pre-developments that broke on friday saying that investigation with hillary clinton did in the e-mails will have to open up again. with what we are learning, peter barnes of the latest in washington. donald trump in grand rapids as you mentioned expected to keep hammering hillary clinton about phase two of the fbi investigation into her and her and so she was secretary of state and whether any of them send classified information with it. trump has new material to talk about today. government source confirms that the meta-data on anthony winners computer has turned up positive hits for e-mails. metadata is like the address on the letter that shows you who is two and who it s from that doesn t detail thed intelligence source based on the meta-data review it appears a virtual sheet that new clinton records around the computer. a search warrant or allow investig
acknowledging that the american people are better off than we were seven years ago. even he understands we made important progress. connell: the senate majority leader is here, mitch mcconnell is here to talk about his book called the long game. should have a nice long talk about that. interesting to hear the white house 8 you as almost a source. don t know where they got that. i have been saying the opposite. the middle-class is shrinking, the worst recovery after a deep recession since world war ii. the number of people on food stamps is at a record level. the labor participation rate is where it was under the carter administration. i don t recall saying anything optimistic. connell: maybe we are better than we were at the depth of the recession. it was convenient for the white house. another way of looking at it is how does this compare to other deep recessions? the worst recovery after a deep recession, the pattern frequently always has been the deeper the recession t