sandra: president biden s campaign and full-blown crisis mode as more lawmakers in the democrat party call on him to exit the 2024 race. we expect to hear it directly from the white house when the white house press briefing begins. it is expected at any moment now. already pushed back by a half-hour but we are at the new time now. hello and welcome, i m sandra smith in new york and john great to have you back. john: good to be back. could be fireworks there. i am john roberts in washington and this is america reports. president biden is trying to rally his party behind him as he enters a critical week for his campaign. this morning he sent a letter to house democrats declining to step aside and minutes later he appeared on msnbc with that same firm message. listen here. i have a neurological test every single day. try sitting behind this desk and making these decisions. you know it and they know it. i am not bad at what i do. it doesn t mean i never make a mistake. i
been diminished, his anti-democratic ideas are gaining strength. and that should worry all of us. donald trump s lie about the election continues to spread because it is not just donald trump s lie anymore. it is a lie backed by the republican party. the gop is a party dedicated to one man right now, and to that one man s lies. but they are not just repeating the lies. they are acting on the lies. it is now harder to vote in arizona, florida, georgia and almost a dozen other states, because republicans are making policy based on trump s lie. the brandon center for justice reports quote, between 24th and the 14th 2020, one republicans in at least 14 states enacted 22 new laws that restrict access to the vote. and at least 61 bills with restrictive provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures, and quote. in states like texas, republicans are even trying to make it easier to overturn elections. and the bogus fraud it in arizona, has inspired republicans in other states to
to discuss what this means for defendant trump. but first, donald trump is a weakened man. no longer in office, no longer protected by presidential immunity. but while the man himself has been diminished, his anti-democratic ideas are gaining strength, and that should worry all of us. donald trump s lie about the election tons spread because it s not just donald trump s lie anymore. it is a lie backed by the republican party. the gop is a party dedicated to one man right now and to that one man s lies. but they re not just repeating the lies. they re act on the lies. it is now harder to vote in arizona, florida, georgia, and almost a dozen other states because republicans are making policy based on trump s lie. the brendan center for justice says between january 1st and may 14th, 2021, republicans enacted 22 laws that restrict access to the vote. at least 61 bills with restrictive provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures. in states like texas, republicans are even
he was shot and killed on the morning of april 4th during a traffic stop. new videos released by the police department show the final moments of his life. lyoya is seen in dash cam footage being pulled over in a residential neighborhood where both he and the officer, who has not been publicly identified, exit their vehicles. i want you to listen to their exchange, and i want to note that there are certain portions of this video that, in fact, have been blurred out not by us but by police. i m stopping you. do you have a license? what done? do you have a driver s license? do you speak english? yes. can i see your license? what do you want? the plate doesn t belong on this no. no. stop. stop. put your hands up. stop. we got one running. northbound. stop. running north. okay. so, from there, the interaction turns violent. the two men, they re wrestling on the ground as you re seeing there as the officer appears to unholster his taser. it seems as if they re yel
go play their games somewhere else. and the man quoted as saying, we are not moving. he s the head of the court fisherman s association. his name is patrick murphy. i don t think vladimir putin knows enough murphy s and i don t think he does. i grew up with a whole gang of murphy s and rachel, in my experience, when murphy s say we are not moving, murphy s do not move. they do not move. i will tell you that we have been covering this story for a few days. on the show and we didn t do it on the show yesterday because of all the breaking news about the supreme court and everything. we ve had other stuff to do. we worked on producing a segment for the show and last night it didn t happen. i think about half of the production staff of the rachel maddow show is about ready to volunteer to go to cork to make sure the fisherman can get the word out about what they re doing and also because everybody wants to meet these men. yes, and that point about the meeting they had with the