tiktok ceo told congress, this company is not a security threat to millions of americans or in the platform. well, congress isn t buying it. we are talking to some influencers about the potential ban. of tiktok and what that would exactly mean for them. in our celebrating her story series, we are talking to caroline o connor, major league baseball s second highest ranking woman. i have something to say. former president donald trump has been taking hits on the legal front all week. he could be indicted in the next. yet again, there are concerns that the former president s incendiary rhetoric could be putting lives in danger. alvin bragg is investigating former president trump. regarding a hush money payment. to stormy daniels during the presidential campaign. yesterday, bragg was the target of a death threat. brad received a letter that said, alvin, i m going to kill you. an envelope with suspicious white powder, which was determined not to be dangerous. not to mention, there
this is unheard of, when i saw that they were doing this, i had to give them some credit for the imagination they were meddling in something that had the state district attorney level, that something that congress doesn t exist to do. we exist to have legislative lawmaking purposes. to do all that, oh it s not a house committee structure that is set up to make laws, it is helped on a trump make the case that, when he s done over the last several years, is nobody. and pave the way for his reelection. we are, if i check the clock that i have right in here, about two hours the former president is expected to take the stage in waco, texas. the pre-rally is underway. do you, the former president has not linked his current rally there to the deadly standoff from 1983. what we are sources telling you about the place, waco, just the plans that the trump campaign has to put this thing together.
last month, that s according to the brennan center for justice. in washington, nbc news correspondent josh letterman, the pre-rally for the march on washington and voting rights is beginning in just a few moments. the crowd is picking up a little bit. what can we expect? reporter: the crowd s picking up and, in fact, even before the sun came up a little bit ago there were already folks starting to gather here in advance of these events today. you can see they re getting the stage set up behind me for speakers who are going to be appearing here at mcpherson square, and then down past the white house. behind those trees over there. you can t quite see it right now. while there are events taking place all across the country today washington, d.c. is really the epicenter with more events taking place in addition to this one there s also going to be a rally and concert taking place
tell us first how beto o rourke ended his campaign? reporter: it was sudden because the staff put up signs, a section at one of the biggest celebrations, 13,000 democrats gathered in des moines yesterday and they were ready to go for beto o rourke to speak there and then that didn t happen because right before that event he tweeted saying he didn t feel that he could serve or feel that the best way to serve was as a candidate anymore. and so, he dropped out of the race, spoke to his supporters in a pre-rally and so now he was supposed to be here today. he is no longer here. but let s get to the second point that i think you were getting to. that s julio castro. my colleague reporting that the sources saying he s refocusing the campaign not only in iowa but in texas as well as nevada.