And its allies try to prevent a strike on israel with the Cia Director heading to the region. Is there anything that can stop the conflict . And Joe Biden races the clock to cement his Health Care legacy. His now Announcement Today for his cancer moon shot. Our msnbc reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbcs Dasha Burns on the much talked about discussion between donald Trump And Elon musk. So the Trump Campaign said this would be the interview of the century. What did we actually hear . Well, chris, it sounded a lot like some of former president trumps rallies. They typically run about 90 minutes though this was over two hours with Elon Musk who didnt get too much of a word in there. It was a lot of the same Talking Points going after President Biden, again, falsely claiming that harris staged a coup against President Biden and attacking harris on her record and also getting a little bit personal as weve seen him do recently. Take a listen. Kamala w
answer, trump. oh yeah, it was very dangerous. question what was dangerous? we were threatened. question with what. answer, trump. they were going to throw through fruit. we had a threat. question, how did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit. answer, trump. we were told i thought the secret service was involved in that, actually. but we were told that if you get hit with fruit it is very violent stuff. we were on alert for that. question, a tomato is a fruit, after all, i guess. answer, trump. and you know what? interjection from lawyer. judicial notice, please. apparently that is the point when trump s own lawyer jumps in and says, it has seeds, meaning a tomato has seeds. therefore it is a fruit. trump then continues. it is worse than tomato. it is other things also. but tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it is very dangerous. that is actually literally the transcript. tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it s ver
question with what. answer, trump. they were going to throw through fruit. we had a threat. question, how did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit. answer, trump. we were told i thought the secret service was involved in that, actually. but we were told that if you get hit with fruit it is very violent stuff. we were on alert for that. question, a tomato is a fruit, after all, i guess. answer, trump. and you know what? interjection from lawyer. judicial notice, please. apparently that is the point when trump s own lawyer jumps in and says, it has seeds, meaning a tomato has seeds. therefore it is a fruit. trump then continues. it is worse than tomato. it is other things also. but tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it is very dangerous. that is actually literally the transcript. tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it s very dangerous. question who were you speaking to when you said answer, the audience. so, you a
in the can t, and 2500 years ago, at and of course our first amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press and, in practice, it gets complicated. as legendary reporter a. j. liebling wrote in the new yorker, freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. pretty smart thing to say. it carried on for decades and because we are now seeing that exact principle play out before us. this active desire to own a press, to control freedom of the press, from some on the right, to control who gets to speak under the guise of free speech. that is what the celebration of billionaire elon musk buying twitter is all about. twitter! it s in elon musk s hands, can you believe it? count this one as a victory for free speech. he may have saved the town square. it could be a pivot point in our history. elon musk believes in free speech. he thinks everyone should be allowed to talk. people should be free to say what they want to say without just being shut down,
of tonight, we will be talking more about that this hour as well. in politics today, we had another one of those days that feels i guess sort of normal us to now but even just a few years ago, today s politics headlines would have been rejected out of hand as completely unimaginable and over the top. i mean we just saw the defacto leader of the republican party, former president donald trump, give one of his coveted endorsements to a candidate named jd vance, who is running for the united states senate seat in ohio this year, that endorsement from trump was followed immediately, no surprise, by mr. vance launching a huge tv ad campaign, touting the trump endorsement, bragging about how much he agrees with trump, how close he is to trump, how much trump likes him, but then that of course was followed almost inevitably by a former roommate of mr. vance sharing his text messages from 2016, in which mr. vance reportedly told people how he thought there was a pretty good chance th