Abortion ban, share the heart shattering experiences that led them to say, enough is enough. Behind the scenes, new reporting from the white house today on what led Vice President Kamala Harris to make an unscheduled trip to florida to confront the states republicans over new Teaching Guidelines about slavery. All that, plus breaking entertainment news, jamie foxx makes his first Public Comments since he was sidelined by an unspecified medical emergency. I went to hell and back. I went to recovery, had some as well. Im coming back. Im able to work. We have new numbers in on barbenheimer. The dueling debuts of barbie and oppenheimer this week. Which one is ruling the box office so far . Thats coming up later this hour. We begin this hour with the former president and his mounting legal troubles. William russell, a former aide to trump, testified before a grand jury for hours on thursday. Were learning what he was questioned about. Lets bring in nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. Al
abortion ban, share the heart shattering experiences that led them to say, enough is enough. behind the scenes, new reporting from the white house today on what led vice president kamala harris to make an unscheduled trip to florida to confront the states republicans over new teaching guidelines about slavery. all that, plus breaking entertainment news, jamie foxx makes his first public comments since he was sidelined by an unspecified medical emergency. i went to hell and back. i went to recovery, had some as well. i m coming back. i m able to work. we have new numbers in on barbenheimer. the dueling debuts of barbie and oppenheimer this week. which one is ruling the box office so far? that s coming up later this hour. we begin this hour with the former president and his mounting legal troubles. william russell, a former aide to trump, testified before a grand jury for hours on thursday. we re learning what he was questioned about. let s bring in nbc news justice repor
Playing in all of this right now? he s been pretty sidelined and quiet in this critical period. we don t know exactly what role he s playing. he certainly not an act of communication with a lot of the trump team, from what i understand. so, it s a big mystery to a lot of other defense attorneys who are representing other people who have now been sunk into this ongoing grand jury probe. ryan, i also want to ask you about the classified documents case. judge aileen cannon ruled that trial will start on may 20th, 2024. that s months after the doj s requested december trial date. what s the latest on this? are you hearing anything from your sources about whether this may date could be pushed back again? yeah, i mean, i was talking to someone last night, who does not think that s going to hold. when these things are initially scheduled, years after build in some flexibility. it just seems like, if any tripwire comes up, they could have a reason to delay it with the discovery issues, wit
So the head of the democratic party in florida, nikki freed, she has said that she told a number of outlets doing interviews or the last couple of days that instead of using resources to organize folks and get the campaigns, they re using resources to just put people on the voter rolls in the numbers are important, last year, right? at the end of the year there were about 438,000 folks on the voter roll who had early mail-in ballots. at the end of july, the beginning of this july it was about 92,000. right? so there is some, there is a gap there, there s a lot of work to be done and we will see if the democratic party in georgia can make it up? staying in florida, simon, i want to ask you about the controversy over guidelines in the state, they suggest that teaching that slaves received some. benefits from slavery is their new social studies history curriculum,. and vice president kamala harris flew to the state to react. here is part of that. re is part of that
Case classified documents case. also his attorney on the manhattan d.a. s case. so we could legitimately say, look, judge, i m gonna be in trial the end of march, it s gonna be a minimum of two weeks of jury selection. that is gonna push it all the way to may. i am not capable of being able to prepare for that may 20th trial. so what i think will happen, which happens on defendants who are not high-profile, is that one of those cases, the manhattan d.a. s case, will stand down. meaning the more serious case, he may 20th case, it will take priority. that happens often, when i was a prosecutor i was on the side of i had the most serious case. so a defendant to loosen another jurisdiction or another, office my case went first and i ve been on the other side of that, i had a least serious case, so the other cases weren t, so that is really the conflict. the conflict is that there is no judge that s gonna let him out of a trial so you can go campaign or he can go make a