Tapper starts now new Cnn Poll on the president ial race, and were going to dive in into it with you. Lead starts right now exactly. Six weeks to the day before Election Day new data revealing the strengths and weaknesses among different voting groups its for trump and for harris. But did Vice President harris just lose out on a key endorsement . A senator who backed biden is telling her Today Shame on you the explosive report on a new York Congressmen in a tight race for reelection, revealing that he reportedly put his Fiances Daughter and his lover on the Payroll Missouri Death Row Inmate just hours away from execution, even prosecutors are saying, however, he might be innocent so why is the States Governor essentially . Police saying, tough luck the lead. Im Jake Tapper and were going to start with a major development breaking in our Law And Justice Lead Today hey, Judge Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge in the January 6 case against Donald Trump, has ruled that she will allow the sp
Good morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Right now testimony has resumed in former president Donald Trumps new york hush money trial. Former National Enquirer publisher david pecker is back on the Witness Stand Being questioned by trump attorney boefy. Prosecutors wrapped up their questioning yesterday by asking about the tabloid purchasing the story of Karen Mcdougal, another woman who claims to have an affair with trump. Trump denies having an affair with mcdougal. Pecker testified about how trump sought to block stories that could hurt his campaign. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, Glen Kirschner, former federal prosecutor and host of the Justice Matters podcast, Kimberly Atkins store, boston globe columnist and cohost of the sisters inlaw podcast, and danny cevallos, criminal Defense Attorney. Glen, kimberly and danny are msnbc contributors. Vaughn, what has been
are deeply held that some of these people have but are they there because they really think that they re gonna change minds, no they are there to make things difficult to get on tv. but do they signal a real human ground swell of the kind that would represent a majority sentiment in the united states or is this a small but vocal minority group. it could grow. in the first day in the los angeles they did a lot of it. the public sector union. it s a real test of left wing activism. this is what the left does they held these demonstrations twice. and whether there is an agenda there other than continuing barack obama s agenda that means to be seen but to make a
he stuck his neck out on immigration. he s been called out for sticking his neck out by conservatives. and now he s doing everything he can do to madly try to go as far right as he can and look like as much as a conservative as he can. and even to talk about a government shutdown right now over obama care? it s ridiculous. this is him covering his backside. that s a big part of it, joe. one sign that that s the case is this is not really just an ideological battle. you have richard burr from north carolina, i don t think of him as a rhino or a squish saying this is nults. the republican party right now is not so much as a divide. imagine two high school kids on a big gorge and one of them is goating to jump. come on, the water is right down there. the others, are you nuts? and i d say at the moment, the majority sentiment in the republican party for the first time in awhile is with, are you
american jobs act. while trying to shore up support in a key election battleground. in a speech, the president challenged republicans position on the payroll tax cut extension. a key part of his proposal. republicans said they re the party of tax cuts, that s what they said. a lot of them have sworn an oath to never raise taxes on anybody as long as they live. how is it that they can break their oath when it comes to raising your taxes, but not break their oath when it comes to raising taxes for wealthy people? that s the very simple choice that s facing congress right now. are you going to cut taxes for the middle class, and those who are trying to get into the middle class? or are you going to protect massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, many of whom don t even want those tax breaks. congressional republicans are signaling support for the measure, with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell saying there s a majority sentiment to continue the tax breaks. democrat