reject being the latest scheme to sneak amnesty in the build back better bill, the immigration plan would outweigh the budgetary impact with the reconciliation process. the decision is a major step back and likely to fuel party infighting. capping yet another rough week for president biden. earlier today, biden had another stream of baffling moments. during his remarks to students in south carolina state university, have a look. all kidding aside, president harris i m going to congratulate you but let you know that your country, this is not hyperbole, it s counting on you. they are counting on you. to change the turn on the dial at a moment we have a chance to do it. i share the frustration. i know the family well. i got started in politics because of the civil rights politics. i m sure what some of your wondering, how does he know the black national anthem? i sat in a black church after going to at 10:00 on the east side getting ready to go out and desegregate restaurant
if you go after me, i m coming for you. those are the words donald trump posted in all caps on truth social yesterday, just one day after his latest arraignment for election interference. saturday, august 5th, i m ali velshi. we begin today with the very latest it s criminal indictment of donald trump. in a court firing late last night, we have proof that the justice department is taking this language from defendant trump very seriously. the special counsel s team cited trump s truth social post in request for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former vice president from making public any sensitive information turned over by the prosecutors. quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. in response, trump spokesperson put out a statement claiming that the pos
themselves saying this race is over. [ screaming ] i have news for all of them, new hampshire is first in the nation. it is not the last in the nation. [ cheering ] his race is far from over. there are dozens of states left to go. nikki haley vowing to stay in the race, despite a double digit loss to donald trump in new hampshire, after winning the iowa caucuses last week, trump beat haley by just over 11 points in the granite state. president biden, meanwhile, is hitting the campaign trail after cruising to victory in new hampshire without even being on the ballot. play for you portions of his passionate speech focused on the contrasts between himself and the republican frontrunner. it comes as new general election polling out of pennsylvania shows the incumbent president leading trump in the key battleground state. there s the trend going on in pennsylvania, not just with joe biden over the last two polls, willie, we ve also seen it with fetterman, his numbers going
consequences. last night, there were consequences. also this hour, the iowa caucus campaign blitz with haley and desantis battling for second place. if the latest polls are correct, donald trump has a 30-point lead. kristin welker joins me live from des moines to break it all down. former president trump refocusing on iowa after his fireworks during closing arguments at his civil fraud trial in manhattan. the judge promising his decision on how much to fine the former president and his adult sons before the end of the month. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back in washington. while u.s. forces in the wider middle east are bracing for retaliation after they struck back at houthi rebel forces in defiance of the ultimatums keeping up their attacks. the pentagon and british allies bombed more than 60 targets inside yemen overnight that they say were used by the rebels to plan and launch dozens of attacks against commercial shipping routes vital to the world econo
arabia, as i do with mexico, as i do with everybody. you know, they all buy apartments from me. they pay millions and millions of dollars. am i supposed to dislike them? i love them. china. i sell apartments for $50 million, $30 million, $25 million, the cheap ones like $10 million. i don t bother to sign those contracts because those are the cheap ones. but i get it from saudi arabia. i get it from japan. i get it from everybody. i love these people. willie, what do i always say? when he s talking, there s laugh tracks going in the audience, but you can believe him, right? you can always believe trump when he makes a claim like that. yeah, that was almost a decade ago, too. wow. there s some new information we re getting this morning. we ll get into specifics about how much he enjoys those relationships he was bragging about. yeah, there is a new report that finds those payments continued during his years in the white house. we ll talk about that. good morning. w