with a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to all of you to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, out west. the campaign season certainly heating up with events on both coasts. president biden is campaigning in columbia, south carolina today. republican candidate, nikki haley, it campaigning trust about 90 miles or so away. early voting starts today in nevada and vice president kamala harris is in las vegas. so is gop front runner, donald trump. also new today, trump is reiterating his call for senate republicans to reject a bipartisan border deal that ties ukraine aid to border security. speaker mike johnson s already said that bill may be dead on arrival in the house. president biden is urging congress to get on board. saying he will use his authority and the bills provisions to, quote, shut down the border. meanwhile, texas is escalating its efforts to divide this week s supreme court ruling. refusing to allow federal officials to r
it is sunday, january january 28th, in your watching velshi. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend ali velshi, we ve got a lot to talk about. we start this morning with the trials against donald trump. he had his day in court, and i was just been ordered by a jury of his peers to pay 83 point $3 million to e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her. how do you respond? vegas, baby. the campaign rally a week and a half before the nevada caucuses was replete with the typical vitriol, hatred, and lives we ve come to expect from the twice impeached, multiply indicted republican from honor. however, instead of focusing on his primary opponent nikki haley, trump largely directed his verbal assault at president joe biden. now, to, be fair, this actually makes more sense, and it reconciles much better into trump s political economy. the primary season may have just begun, but, to be real, things are all but over. president joe biden is going to be the democratic nomine
legal team is gathering the resources to properly define him against a federal indictment. we ll bring you the latest on trump s legal troubles in another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, it. good morning, i m ali velshi. the minneapolis police department for years engaged in, quote, excessive force, unlawful discrimination and violations of constitutional rights. those are the findings of a two-year federal investigation into the police department. triggered by the murder of george floyd. on may 25th, 2020, george floyd s three final words became a fixture in history as at the weight of the minneapolis police officer derek chauvin was actively cutting off his oxygen flow. those three words were i can t breathe. we now know that george floyd s choking death was not an isolated incident. the attorney general merrick garland announced on friday, quote, we found numerous incidents in which officers responded to a person s statement that they could no
official comments from the judge overseeing the donald trump classified documents case. the lead starts right now. new today judge aileen cannon setting a new deadline for federal prosecutors and for trump s lawyers. why? these decisions could have a real impact on the timing of the case against donald trump. we are going to talk to former republican u.s. attorney general. then another republican candidate jumping into the presidential race. miami mayor francis suarez running for the gop nomination and his ad literally running. with an already crowded 2024 field, is he really running for vice president? plus, agencies of the u.s. government, victims of a global cyberattack. why this means your banking info, personal info, medical records and more may have been exposed. we start with law and justice. our lead as we hear for the first time from judge candl judge / aileen cannon. today judge cannon gave attorneys five days to notify her on the status on the necessary se
But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do