Threatening the judge in the 2020 federal elections subversion case. Also, georgia d a fani willis, as a trial date for donald trump, it is alleged coconspirators. How will it fit with the other three criminal trials hes facing in the middle of a president ial campaign . Plus, a live report from maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen in probably over 1000 people could still be missing. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin with two pieces of Breaking News tonight. The first, weve just learned, of charges in texas connected with alleged threats against judge chutkan, obviously presiding over the 2020 Election Subversion Trial of the former president. According to the court filing, the woman who lives in alvin, texas left a threatening, racist, bigoted voice mail for judge chutkan on august 5th. Allegedly saying if trump doesnt get elected, quote, were coming to kill you, tread lightly. And then a curse. She allegedly continued, quote, youll be targeted personally
jobs and the dignity and security that comes with a paycheck. former president trump awaiting a decision that could be coming soon about possible criminal charges as the manhattan district attorney appears close to wrapping up his investigation into the role of the a the alleged role of the former president in hush money payments to former adult film star. the apology from a mexican drug cartel for the murder of who americans who died in a case of mistaken identity in a kidnapping just over the border with texas. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the labor market is strong. the pace of hiring is slowing. 311,000 jobs added in february. higher than markets had expected. january s big jump was also revised downward. the unemployment rate rising to 3.6% amid persistent concerns about inflation. we created more than 12,000 jobs since i took office. nearly 8,000 manufacturing jobs. overall, we created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in
thing, we win the election. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what your father called him? the p word. the hearing included testimony that even after trump was informed violence was breaking out on the capitol, he tweeted an insult saying that pence lacked courage which the committee says led to a surge in the crowd. then i remember getting a notification on my phone and i was sitting in a room with roma and ben and we all got a notification so we knew it was a tweet from the apresident and w looked down and it was a tweet about mike pence. it was clear that escalating quickly. the committee also walked through right wing trump attorney john eastman s relentless effort to advance his legal theory that vice president pensz oi pence could on his own block certification of the election. and that theory was rejected by
are you surprised? yeah, well, i guess. in seeing the other polls i ve seen, i m not surprised. they showed the same. i am surprised that there are still a number of americans that know that donald trump is guilty. but would vote for him over joe biden, because they don t like joe biden s policies. i think there has got to be an understanding that we re gonna have policy differences on this cycle. but if you want to have policy differences in the future, you
And what we see in this poll, it s over 60% of americans say, they probably or definitely would not vote for the former president, donald trump. well a majority also say, they probably, or definitely, would not vote for joe biden. but what s key to understand about this, they re asking about each of the candidates individually, not matching them up against each other. okay. why are they even asking that question? i would even get to that? we could ve. what happens when the former president in the current president are actually matched up. yes, i think this is the key thing. it turns out, you can t just be matched up against a generic candidate, you have to be matched up against each other. this is not our approval voting, where we vote for just one person and not have any idea who the other person is. what we see is, here s the key phrase. no clear leader. donald trump and joe biden are as close as they could be. they had donald trump done by just one point, well within the m