developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the judge
first television interview at 8:00 p.m. eastern. getting things started by putting out this teaser video. is it worth the fight, do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. former trump former president trump wasting no time going after desantis saying the florida governor cannot win and needs a personality transplant. brand-new polls show trump gaining support and doubling his lead over desantis since march, but desantis appears ready for a fight. expected to spend up to $200 million to try and defeat trump. and the liberal mines are out for the former governor, the ultra maga florida isn t safe for people of color, lgbtq+ people, or even multibillion-dollar corporations. and the media is getting in on bashing desantis. i don t want to dislike him, i can t help it. why do you dislike people of color? what s wrong with american history? what s wrong with those folks? you see his lack of political skills and political
on his great american comeback tour. ainsley: his initial rollout was not so smooth there were technical issues on twitter spaces delaying the big announcement hosted by elon musk. lawrence: peter doocy is live at the white house with all the details. peter? peter: even though the desantis campaign launch couldn t be seen or heard by anybody for more than 25 minutes because of technical difficulties, losing about half of its original audience in that time, the sunshine state governor is trying to spin it as a success. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they had ever had. it did break the twitter space. so we re really excited with the enthusiasm. ultimately, it s about the future of our country. peter: the republican frontrunner donald trump s team says ron desantis botched campaign announcement is another example of why he is just not ready for the job. the stakes are too high and the fight to save america is too critical to gamble on a first time
tech strategy and trump himsel posted fine messages, many aimed at the manhattan da. his former fixer and sta witness in this case has a different idea of what is goin on with his former boss. it goes way beyondscared. way beyond afraid. he is petrified. he could put on whatever big vibrato that he wants, knowing donald trump as we all do, who s not just forget about th fact that he is a germaphobe and so the fact that he is eve going to be in this area i going to sort of make a skin crawl. trump successor meanwhil taking a hands off approach to the news are you reacting to president trump former president trump s situation? no, i have nothing to say about. that i m not going to talk about. it i will talk about th white house no comment strateg and whether they can keep it going in the face of mor criminal cases but we are going to start with this deadly tornadoes that tor through the south and midwes for you. at least 18, as was mentioned, are now confirmed dead afte
details about the suspect arrested in the brutal killings of four idaho college students. a source telling cnn police were tracking 28-year-old bryan kohberger as he drove across country from idaho to his parents home in pennsylvania around christmas time. the arrest comes seven weeks after those four university of idaho students were stabbed multiple times as they slept. a source telling cnn that dna found at the scene was entered into a geneology database and that helped crack the case. the suspect identified as a graduate student in criminology who made a chilling social media post trying to solicit information from criminals to try to understand how emotional and psychological traits influence decisionmaking when committing a crime. now now, i understand you just spoke with the suspect s attorney. what are you learning? that s right. he only has one attorney at this point. it s the chief public defender for monroe county, northeastern pennsylvania. his name is jason leb