barbie and the bomb. will the box office turn pink, or will oppenheimer blow past the competition? barbinheimer is here. it s 10:00 eastern. so much to get to today. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s go break to our breaking news, judge aileen cannon has now set a start date for the classified documents trial against president trump for may 20th of next year. so this is well past the december start date. special counsel jack smith s team had wanted and smack in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign. joining us now is nbc news justice correspondent ryan reilly, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, and charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst. so ryan, what do we know about how the judge came to this date? yeah, a little bit past the time that the special counsel s office had requested, obviously, here, but you know, the former president s team did not want a schedule set at all. not really a w
in texas, new calls for biden administration to step in over reports of what s being called inhumane treatment of migrants at the southern border. we ll speak with former texas congressman beto o rourke, who s demanding the government step in and take action. and messi madness in miami. the soccer star lionel messi is about to play his debut game for inter miami. we begin with sad news about an american icon, tony bennett, one of the most beloved and recognized voices in american popular music history died this morning at the age of 96, less than two weeks before his 97th birthday. in a career that spanned 07 years, bennett received 20 grammy awards, two emmy awards, he twice made music industry history as the oldest performer to have a number one album on the billboard top 200 albums when he was 85 and again when he was 88. at the age of 95, he held his last public concert alongside his friend and musical collaborator lady gaga. the cause of death has not been named. he