people are heading back to the office and out with friends across the city. prop a ensures that muni delivers you there quickly and safely. with less wait time and fewer delays. and a focus on health and safety in every neighborhood through zero emissions fleets. best of all, prop a won t raise your taxes. vote yes on prop a for fast, safe, reliable transit. a very good day for all of you in msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news out of ukraine. just hours ago, first lady jill biden made a surprise trip crossing over the slovakian border into the war zone in ukraine. doctor biden met with ukrainian first lady olena zelenskyy in a mother s day show of solidarity for all the woman fleeing russia s invasion. the first lady saying why she thought it was important to make this trip. i thought it was important to show the ukrainian people that this war has to stop. this war has been brutal. people of the united states, and the pe
reporter: evening, trace. this is the second federal indictment for the former president out of jack smith s investigation. the 2024 gop candidate who leads the field by a wide margin has already pleaded not guilty to 37 counts related to his alleged retention of classified records from his presidency. only this time we re talking about four federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the u.s. conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. obstruction and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. and conspiracy against right. notably resist allege the president knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen which, they claim, stoked the fires of january 6th. quote, these claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false, but the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate creating an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administratio
to, them because they have such good chemistry and stuff, why don t you go sit with them, and i m like, yeah that s great, if it, acadia call you. [laughter] ali. need to blame a r]johnson the republicans in nethe house, because we re still in d.c. because we didn t know government shutdown. that situation. that s how we re gonna do this. when you all are in new york, you noticing? i get up early for this. i want to be on the show with you guys. good to tsee you. have yourself gua good day, and we ll see you tomorrow morning. velshi starts now. by, ali. good morning. a saturday, march the 2nd. amal you ll see in another universe, i would be telling you right now about how we are just two days away from the start of the momentous first criminal trial against a former president. instead, that trial seems like it t.may not happen this year, and if the former president returns ifto the white house, i may not happen at. all major new developments thise week hav
staying put. no matter what happens. if going forward, you get these indictments, their ends up, you got a jury in d.c., you get convicted and sentenced, does that stop your campaign from president? if you re sentenced? not at all. there is nothing in the constitution to say that it could and, not at all. meanwhile, president byline highlighting strong economic news in a visit to maine. he signed an executive order, aiming to prioritize american manufacturing, while saying bidenomics is working. unemployment in america is below 4%. the longest stretch in over 50 years. it s not just that we ve recovered all the jobs we lost during the pandemic, it s that we now have four more jobs than we did before the pandemic. and late friday statement, people magazine, the president, for the first, time now publicly acknowledging his seventh grandchild, four year old girl named navy. his son the president and first lady said they wanted the best for all of their grandchildre
reporter: yeah, we do. this is from a spokesperson, he says this is nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt from the biden crime family and their department of justice to harass president trump and those around him. he goes on to say deranged jack smith knows they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and get someone other than donald trump to run against crooked joe biden. i want to give a little bit of context here. obviously they are saying that this is an attempt to get donald trump. we have heard all of these words time and time again. they are calling jack smith deranged even though lawyers have asked donald trump not to do that, not to speak out about the special counsel. however, there was a lot of conversation going on for months about whether or not carlos was going to be charged inside of trump s circle. they were under the impression that they believe that he could be a defendant months ago when th