Our coverage continues on the last word with my friend lawrence o donnell. Good evening. A big newsnight. Yes and minutes before you started your live coverage, we just got the news and i was reading it as you are handling it live. I have been following these swarming investigations of city hall and eric adams at what i felt was relatively closely, but i have never been able to describe to anyone the full shape of it. I think by tomorrow we will have the diagrams built to put on screen to show you the number of commissioners who resigned from this administration. The number of people in the adams administration alone who have had telephones seized. I first covered it on this program two weeks ago for the first time when the police commissioner was forced to resign. That had reached a level that really made it feel like it was now happening at the very top and here we are tonight at the top of the top, at city hall. Stunning news and new york city history in the making. Have a good show
Welcome to primetime weekend. Lets get to the top stories. The former President Hand picked the Supreme Court with the intention they would undo the protections of roe v. Wade and they did as he intended and in state after State Laws have been passed criminalizing Healthcare Providers or anybody and we heard that story in georgia, a tragic story about a young woman who died because it appeared that people who should have given her healthcare would be criminalized. After the decision came down. She spoke to the National Association Of Black Journalists that he is a threat to all Women In America and if you return to the White House. The Vice President was referencing reporting in propublica that found the Abortion Ban he put into motion are causing women to needlessly suffer while waiting for treatment or causing irreversible damage to their Health Rendering them infertile or impacting their ability to have children in the future and we have irrefutable proof that this is killing women
From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
Labor day weekend is upon us. With it, the next chapter in the roller coaster 2024 presidential race. Many voters will soon be taking a closer look at the candidates as the weeks countdown to election day. Vice president kamala harris has a light schedule this weekend, as she gears up for battleground states appearances next week in concealing and michigan. And, prepares for the presidential debate september 10th. Meanwhile, former president trump is cleaning up several critical masses of his own making, including a controversial visit to arlington cemetery that has some veterans outraged. And, a shifting message on reproductive rights that has even some members of his base scratching their heads. Before we start, some breaking news out of the middle east. The israeli defense force says they have found a number of bodies during fighting operations in the gaza strip. The idf says troops are still in that area and they are working on identifying the remains. We will bring you more inform
First Public Comments after house members, including 11 fellow republicans, voted to strip her of her Committee Assignments over the Crazy Conspiracies shes pushed before. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson In Washington along with our nbc news team, Peter Alexander at the white house, Leigh Ann Caldwell on capitol hill, nbc News Business correspondent jo ling kent has the new jobs numbers, and Austan Gooslbee served as chairman of the White House Council of economic advisers under President Obama. And just to map out, right, what were watching during our hour, because it is going to be a pretty packed one. Youve got that meeting with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs, along with President Biden, to talk about the next steps on covid relief. In an hour from now, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene holds that News Conference. Also at 11 00 eastern, were going to hear from members of the white house Covid Response team, who will probably have a whole lot more to say on Johnson