Last night on truth social the former president said joe biden had turned the United States into a third world country. Here he is after securing the nomination. We will not take time to celebrate. We will celebrate in eight months when the election is over. Novemberfiftf, i believe, will go down as the most important day in the history of our country, so start thinking about it, start thinking about your vote, because this vote would be the most important vote youve ever cast. Im sparing a thought for the people in the seven Battleground States who will be also altered from here to november by ads, surrogates, the nominees, it would be a long stretch. ,. ,. , stretch. That is what it is about, the battleground stretch. That is what it is about, the Battleground States stretch. That is what it is about, the Battleground States where l stretch. That is what it is about, i the Battleground States where it could go either way, the map is pretty much drawn and theres been much redistricti
The lead starts right now. Donald defiant. Back on the campaign trail this afternoon, pushing back on prosecutors who want to restrict what he can say publicly about the federal indictment. Plus, that hideous river boat drbrawl, after a man was rushed by a group of wight men. And americans in Credit Card Debt, surpassing 1 trillion as more americans pull from their own Retirement Savings for help. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Were going to start with our Law And Justice lead. The Federal Grand Jury here in washington, d. C. , the same one that indicted donald trump last week, is back Behind Closed Doors today. For the First Time Since handing down those unprecedented charges for Donald Trumps unprecedented actions. It is a clear sign that the investigation into the efforts to over turn the 2020 election is not over. And it raises questions about six coconspirators listed in the indictment and whether they could soon also face federal charges for their actions. We also just got
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and this is the final friday until the elections. we head into the weekend campaigning, four days out from election day and the campaigns are bringing out some of the big guns. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and of course, but i will tell you all this. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already have cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. there it is. that s oprah pushing democrats in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. we can report that tomorrow, there will be rallies there with biden, trump, and obama. so if you think about it, if there s one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now on this final friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that pennsylvania is clearly important. important because it s close and it could decide control of
we extend sincere condolences to all the victims who have been affected. ashley: ezekiel kelly was supposed to be in bars at the time of the attacks, a judge sentences him for aggravated assault in 2021. todd: he was released after 11 months and the charge was downgraded from attempted murder. brooke singman has the latest. brooke: police confirm the suspect who was at large for almost 24 hours has been caught, here is what we know so far. 19-year-old ezekiel kelly is in custody for the serial shootings, victims include 24-year-old man killed around 1 a.m., another gunned down at 4:35 p.m. at bp gas station and a woman shot one minute later on a nearby road. he documented the murders in video on facebook. kelly was arrested after wrecking the stolen getaway car at 9:28 p.m. this image captures his big smile in the cop car minutes after his arrest. we are learning more, court records show he was charged with first degree attempted murder in 2020, employment of a firearm
reid. we begin with more on the search at donald trump s mar-a-lago home. while trump and his allies have been raging the fbi and the justice department have remained conspicuously quiet. here s what we have learned. according to authority the federal authorities drew increasingly concerned that the man, i don t know, known for skirting the law for the last 40 years and his lawyers, have not returned all of the classified material that he carted off with him when he went scurrying down to florida after being booted out of office by joe biden. i a cording to the washington post officials, quote, blame, suspicious became suspicious that when trump gave 15 boxes of items to the national archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records. trump attorney christina bobb, the former oan reporter who helped spearhead the recount said trump s legal teams were in discussions with the justice department this spring about record