executive producer casey dolan, and not to be left out here with me in our d.c. studio is none other than jason neil, jason, the camera over here, son of our executive producer jasper, jasper i used your daddy s name and i am so sorry. this is jasper neil, son of michelle perry neil and jason neil jasper is bilingual in english and spanish, an ace math student, and he s going to be taking over the show one way or another in about 20 years. so thanks to all of you, jasper, eleanor, and daphne, and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis is halfway around the world but still feeling the heat back home, from donors, supporters, and of course donald trump. is it enough to get him to finally commit to launching a presidential campaign? our new reporting that he s r
Live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis is halfway around the world but still feeling the heat back home, from donors, supporters, and of course donald trump. is it enough to get him to finally commit to launching a presidential campaign? our new reporting that he s r re ready to launch, but even if he does, has he already missed his best window? in new york it s the former president feeling the pressure on day two of his defamation trial with the wonl aman accusig him of rape. e. jean carroll back on the stand today, cross examination started just about 90 minutes ago, the questioning turning political almost immediately we ll bring you the very latest from in that courtroom. and more than four months after her release from a russian prison camp, brittney griner is for the first time revealing details about the darkest period in her life. we ll bring you more on that in just a minute. but, we start with florida governor ron desantis poised to pray his political
Wars and legal battles in florida, including a new lawsuit filed by disney, trump is in attack mode trying to derail desantis s campaign even before it begins. i want to bring in nbc s natasha ka ruk key who broke this story, also with me, washington post deputy national editor phil rucker and former rnc chairman michael steele, both phil and michael are msnbc political analysts so so natasha, you heard the governor he said no decisions have been made what are your sources telling you? that s partially true in the sense that one thing that our reported showing yesterday that there was a lot of internal debate in desantis world over the launch date. we were getting told that, you know, some people were settled on may 11th. others said that was way too soon what four sources told us was definitively that he was going to dip his toe into the water, jump into the fray in mid-may. that could look like an
Pre-pandemic normal, today marks the full on return of take your kids to workday, and that includes the white house where the youngest members of the white house press corps took over the daily briefing. just look at that, and raising their hands and probably acting a lot better than some of our regular correspondents, not ours, of course, but some of the others there out in the rose garden, the president and some of the new gaggle of reporters asking some questions so he is obviously having a very good time. he loves this kind of thing on the south lawn around 600 children actually of the white house staff, he was led by some pint-sized and possible future secret service agents i don t know if they have the aviator specks and things in their ears, but they re ready to do the job and meanwhile, live from new york, we are welcoming our team, daphne, the daughter of our senior producer e erica josephson, and the daughter of the msnbc reports senior
Major moves in two of the myriad cases against former president trump, first the former president s legal team losing its bid to block mike pence from testifying in a special counsel s investigation. that s the one into trump s role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the classified documents probe, they re taking the extraordinary step of asking congress to intervene. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett is with me along with andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and an nbc news and msnbc legal analyst. so laura, you ve got this washington appeals court refusing trump s request, right? so when might we see the vice president? well, the former president could theoretically still appeal this to the u.s. supreme court i say theoretically because in the past he hasn t taken it that far. when the d.c. circuit has allowed other senior aides to testify, hasn t blocked lower counts on that, he hasn t fought it, and so he could try on