greetings everyone, you are watching symone. former president donald trum indicted by a grand jury o tuesday. he will be formally charged an fingerprinted. it s the first in american history. we are digging into why there a debate over whether president, former current should be hel to the same legal standards as you and i. and in true trump fashion, h is lashing out district attorney alvin brag and his staff, even the judg in the case. targets of attacks on social media and we re talking to reverend al sharpton, a man wh knows all about donald trump s history in new york. last republicans, while they are falling in line. the former vice president elec the leaders, even people trump could be riding against in the 2020 primary all defending donald, trum right now. before we even know the charge or the evidence. i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. no one is above the law. it is not just a slogan, it an american principle that i supposed to guide the ju
No one is above the law. it is not just a slogan, it an american principle that i supposed to guide the justic system a principle that s pursued accountability for everyon from billionaires, to hollywoo hot shots to members o congress, to capitol secretaries. there, governors to mayors but never for an american presiden current or former. that all changed on thursday when a manhattan grand jur took the historic step o indicting former president donald trump after a lengthy investigation led by manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg that case centers around alleged hush money payment, to adult film star stormy daniels during trump s 2016 campaign true sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news to expect about 30 charges related t document fraud here is what trump s attorney, joe tacopina told my today sho colleagues about the forme presidents response. he decided we have to fight
Their child to school withou knowing whether or not they ar going to come home i am completely frustrated b this i can understand you know i sa the clips of representativ bowman and i feel every part o that because it is frustrating we have the ability and th capacity to do something about it and right now, republican are blocking, don t have the will and are blocking an legislative measures in orde to keep kids safe from school. there are folks out there are congresswoman, that woul say it s the nra way that it i holding these members of congress hostage a fuel fo lack of a better term. the nra is not in my opinion wielding the power in this debate anymore it s a gun culture mindset tha they have spread and that it i held fast with the republica bassist of voters. how do you win your democratic colleagues and congress, counter that pressure. counter that narrative i think we elect more
I had was to prohibit the us of federal funds to ar teachers because the onl people calling for things like that are people who have never spent a day in a classroom because as a teacher, you know i know that i could not be responsible for a firearm an take care and make sure my students are safe. that is not the solution t this problem the problem is common sense, gun legislation and making sur that we have less guns and our schools and in communities, no more along those lines, hous speaker house minority leader hakeem jeffries sent a letter t speaker, kevin mccarthy and he was pressing him in that lette to hold a vote on the quotes common sense, gun safety legislation. but as you know, more well tha most that there s a lot of republicans on capitol hil that believes that legislation won t stop gun violence. leader jeffrey says that it time to put kids over guns
Why isn t that happening why is it so difficult yes and as the leader noted in the letter, we have had a think it s close to 130 mass shootings already this year an we re only in march. and the last congress, i cosponsored legislation to jus collect data to shooting safet and preparing staff. my republican colleagues tha want to collect data so that w can have preventative measures they are putting their head in the sand, that even wors blocking any legislation i order to keep our kids safe. when asked about, it thing like we can t fix this that is not an option. if you re an elected leader an you are not even going to tr and fix this problem, then you need to move out of the way an let the people who are willing to do something about it, whic right now happens to be th democrats, get the work done o keeping the kids safe in schools. they should not be happening this does not happen in an other country in the world no parent should have to sen