studio? i like it like this. is it you doing this? i don t even know. i m a kind of go along to get along dude. i like being with you, so if that s the cost of sharing a studio. we can raise it up, whatever you want. just feet away from each other. i ll just wear a sweater. thank you. have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. we re going to warm up in the next few minutes. president biden hasxt released s first campaign ad of 2024. and in that ad president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of thisce election. i ve made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain o
new york, he will be the first former president to appear i court as a criminaldefendant nbc news has learned that he s facing about 30 counts related to document fraud. they stem from manhattan da, alvin bragg, s investigation into the hush money paymen made to adult film actress stormy daniels now, trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon. that s when he s scheduled t turn himself in for an arraignment. today, we are getting ne details on how the dramati moment will unfold the former president wil arrive in new york city monday night on tuesday around 1 pm he will be driven from trump tower to the courthouse. as of now, the former presiden will not be handcuffed photographed for a mugshot, no placed in a holding cell however, he will b fingerprinted. trump s lawyer, making clear h intends to fight the charges - hold up in mar-a-lago, so we will fix this and we will be successful, i m sure president trump will not take plea deal in this case,
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
Power. these are all opportunists that smell blood in the water and se an opportunity to really go after democracies that are waffling and seem disinterested in investing in their security. and this is the one area that, you know, it really does concern me. i think we may possibly have turned the corner. at least there s some indications that the population in the u.s. is voting on democracy. but we are not serious about our security. there are fundamental decisions that need to bee made about ukraine s supplemental aid, and the administration could take steps in its own right to really significantly improve the support to ukraine that s intelligence sharing, that s logistical support.th these are not expensive, big ticket items. these are small policy changes that the administration could take on its own and just have refused today do that. and i really urge the administration to seerg the dangers of ukraine maybe
Unsurprising minds and opinions really just aren t being changed, but th opinions are pretty strong o this take a listen. consequentially, it may not come out to that much, and i think having to see this through, especially with the former president and actuall putting it towards action to new former president reall shows that okay, we want t keep people accountable. i think for the last what for five years, it s bee incredibly frustrating tha we ve gotten a sense of th president is above the law which should not be the case nobody should be above the law i think when it comes t trying to summarize the impact the indictment is having o voter opinions, i think bottom line, those who have vehementl steadfastly been against and opposing former presiden donald trump, this is somethin that they say is a major issue that should disqualify him those who have stood by him an