Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
all right, hanako montgomery, thank you for being there. the news continues, the sort starts now. see you tomorrow. tonight, straight from the source. donald trump, formally challenging the decision in maine to remove him from its primary ballot based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. and we expect other legal challenges from his team any minute now. plus, a senior leader of hamas, killed an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah warning is released this kind of action inside lebanon s borders won t be tolerated. could this lead to another front in israel s war? and is officially out as harvard s president. her resignation following mounting accusations of plagiarism that began after her controversial testimony on capitol hill about antisemitism on orbits campus. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by mains secretary of state to remove the former president from
donald trump win in 2024. it memo to possible donors as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i am stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. today donald trump made it official. he wants voters to put him back in the white house but today there were stunning revelations about what he was doing during his first term. trump was raking in millions in cash from foreign nations while he was in office. at least 7. 8 million bucks according to a report from democrats and the house oversight committee which they titled white house for sale. the report says 20 foreign governments made payments to trump businesses during a two-year period with five and a half million coming from china alone. the money went to trump hotels and d. c. , vegas, and new york. here is one big problem. aside from the optics, it s a little thing in the constitution called the clause that clearly forbids presidents from receiving any gift or benefit
unemployment kept steady at an historic 3. 7%. that marks three consecutive years of economic growth in biden s three years in office, and along with more jobs come consistently higher wages. there is no way to paint this as anything but good. so, let s see how they celebrate the good news over that, at fox. the job numbers are through the roof. jobs numbers are pretty gangbusters. jobs numbers smashed expectations. of course, the left is trying to figure out how to spend these great economic numbers. okay, i m getting. that isn t how they celebrated it at fox. that was fox. but that was not today. those were fox personalities talking about positive job numbers during donald trump s presidency because in fox s world, the monthly job numbers were always fantastic when trump was in charge. but today, when fox, and even fox business, did talk about biden s positive job numbers, the bulk of it sounded like this. we ve got another strong jobs report. but it isn t what