All of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with decision 2024. 101 days to the election and a flurry of campaign activity and get out the vote efforts around the country. Right now vice president kamala harris is in massachusetts for a fundraising event. First gentleman doug and hafiz in wisconsin. Governors josh shapiro and andy beshear are out on the trail for the harris campaign while former president donald trump will speak today in tennessee and his running mate j. D. Vance will join him in minnesota. Trump is raising new questions and outright concerns today with this electoral comment to a gathering of religious conservatives yesterday in palm beach, florida. Take a listen. And again, pistons, get out and vote! just this time. You won t have to do it again anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won t have to vote anymore my beautiful christians. I love you christians. I m not chri
are glad for your depth of experience, on wheels like this lawrence because these are tectonic shifts, these are seismic shifts. even though we knew this is what the supreme court was going to do, the reality of the fact that it is happening has got to have everybody in this country thinking about what s next and what freedom actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming to
actually looks like. actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming today. but we have never been through anything like it. and i m gonna take us through a little bit of the history that joe biden mention today that got us to where we are today. i look forward to it lawrence, thank you, have yourself a great show. thank you. the supreme court is facing a crisis of legiti
that report. presumably, this is a correspondent on the ground in mariupol, embedded with russian forces. but we don t have that detail. there is no confirmation at this time from the ukrainian side that any civilians have come out of that plant. alex, as you say, there are a lot of questions here. we do not know, assuming for a moment it is accurate, that civilians have come out of that plant, we do not know, are they in russian custody? or are they going to be escorted beyond the russian lines into ukrainian held territory, outside of mariupol. that was certainly the hope of president zelenskyy at his office yesterday, when they put out the statement saying they were moving towards an evacuation. their hope was that officials from the united nations, from the international community of the red cross, we move into russian lines, and then would escort people out. we just do not know, at that point, if this is how it s gone down. or if these civilians are now in the custody of
from msnbc world headquarters. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour, from america s notorious tornado alley. more than a dozen tornadoes putting through a small town. revealing the devastating punch, dozens of buildings and homes destroyed. authorities are right now out searching for potential victims. as of now there are no reports of potential deaths, and only a handful of minor injuries. authorities are expected to brief the media at any moment. we re going to update you with any developments. by the way the same town was devastated by an f five tornado, years ago, that one killed many people. we also have a report some civilians have been allowed to leave the steel plant where hundreds have been cornered by russian forces for weeks now. nbc news correspondent will be joining me with the latest. also new weapons shipments arming hope at this hour. dozens of shipments of u.s. weapons and other supplies are arriving in europe. this, right here, some ne