[ laughter ]. Well, that escalated quickly. That s right. Harris was not in the mood. Don t be surprised if you see lester holt narrating his own episode of dateline. Started out as a normal interview. All right. We ll get to that answer from the vice president and the much bigger, much more complicated problems beyond the border coming up. But first president biden flies to the uk this morning, leaving behind infrastructure talks with republican senators that have now collapsed. He heads to europe to, as nbc news frames it, meet putin, a pandemic and skeptical allies. A lot to cover. As for covering the president on the trip, though, the plane carrying the white house press corp. To europe gets delayed after doing battle with cicadas. We ll get to the trip and the insects in a moment. But first, willie, the stalled infrastructure talks. Yeah, full collapse. President biden talks with a group of republican senators on a sweeping infrastructure package collapsed yesterday, shifting the
Made news with her detailed comments in an interview on the beat this week, which came on the eve of the bombshell news that there is a new grand jury, signaling the risk of indictments or jail time, in this very case. She went on to explain that, quote, i spoke about the trump payroll corporation on the beat. Weisselberg saying that, after she spoke about those issues on the beat, including described potential or alleged crimes, she was threatened with a suddeneviction notice. And remember, investigators have spoken to michael cohen and her as they gather evidence in this case. Here is some of what she told me in that interview, she just referenced. Started, immediately, hiding money in escrow. Taxes. Tax fraud. Tax evasion. When donald says numbers or certain things and then alan says numbers of certain things, they re not adding up. Confidentially, having them cut checks that would make him vulnerable to tax evasion, tax fraud. That is some of what weisselberg was telling us. Now, s
Turning point usa, charlie hurt. One of the msnbc contributors going out after she said she saw pickup trucks waving flags, suggesting it s a threat to our democracy. The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the american population, i don t know how big it is, but we have voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. I think as long as they see americanness as the same, as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every american at the table. But how to separate americanness from whiteness. Until we can confront that and talk about that, this is going to continue. I was on long island this weekend visiting a dear friend and i was disturbed. I saw dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with expletives against joe biden, trump flags, and dozens of american flags, which is also just disturbing because the message was clear. This is my country. This
Appointed by him, have made that clear. Some of his own advisers want him to drop this too and move on but he won t. Sources say he is now more obsessed with his big lie than ever before. And soon that obsession hits the road. He is planning summer rallies. And here s what s chilling. Some of his supporters, right now, think that more violence, a coup, could be the answer. And he s not publicly speaking out against that. So who is the president listening to? who is he ignoring? and will republicans in congress keep supporting him as he heads further down a dangerous path? we begin this hour with cnn political analyst and white house reporter for the washington post, josh dossey, you have now reporting on the bottom of the barrel, what exactly are they telling the former president to do? there are folks like my pillow ceo mike lindell, and others in the mike flynn, sidney powell orbit telling the president that these audits in arizona, potentially an audit in georgia and other states co
composite plan to shore up our current economic suffering due to covid. and to ready the country for an equitable future that republican lawmakers have spent the past five years running from. the republican party s response was to present its sole black u.s. senator as proof of its own racial equity. but the gop rebuttal to the president coming three months after a racist insurrection that it never mentioned barely mentioned racial discrimination, except to claim that it was president biden and the democrats who were responsible for our national division. of course, their political problem is that a cross-section of americans not only approve of the president s action, but they want more of it. and for black americans, that means discernible action to match the president s soaring rhetoric on racial inequity, starting with this challenge to congress to have the george floyd justice in policing act signed into law by the end of this month. joining me now, one of the people who