Chris jansing live here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. Who is in charge . One of the questions at the heart of the hearing over Immigration Enforcement today, will texas be allowed to take the lead in trying to keep undocumented migrants out of the state . What about the migrants and others who are there legally . Could they be at risk as well . Plus, the new York Attorney general urging the court to reject Donald Trumps claims that it is impossible to get anyone to cover his half A Billion Dollars appeal bond. Whats one suggested solution, he cover it himself by handing over some of his prized Real Estate Properties to the court. And two more members of mississippis socalled police goon squad facing justice for their horrific torture of two black men. The latest on the sentence that was just handed down later on in the show. All right, we want to start with the fate and future of americas immigration system, potentially hinging on a hugely consequential hearing. On one side,
D. C. Today the Biden Campaign lo launches the difference between communities and communities of colors. The first criminal trial of an expresident comes to a head this week. A former advisor is here. Overnight, to senators are calling for Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself from election cases. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. New this morning, federal prosecutors are asking for help as donald trump increases his attacks on the justice system. The special Councils Office is now asking the judge in the classified documents case to block trump for Making Statements that could endanger Law Enforcement investigating and prosecuting him in that case. The request comes after trump falsely claimed the Biden Administration authorized the fbi to use deadly force against him during the 2022 maralago rate. Of course, that is not true. The Justice Department of course followed the standard policy. Just one escalation this week of trumps Outrageous Campaign rhetoric. Anot
Were sent to the building according to multiple sources. Joining us now is von hilliard. What do we know about this . Reporter we know that there are at least two vials of blood that were sent to the rnc headquarters. This building is just two blocks away from the u. S. Capitol building offices. This is per u. S. Capitol police releasing a statement in just the last few minutes confirming that they responded. The u. S. Capitol responding and is a a suspicious package and reported at 7 45 a. M. Eastern and onsite about two hours and closing the surrounding streets around the rnc headquarters who have not released a statement at this time. It is not clear where two vials of blood came and the extent they may have been dangerous substances. Still a lot of outstanding questions. We are waiting for the u. S. Capitol police to provide further understanding of exactly what this package was, whether it was actually intended for the rnc, why and who it was from. Von hilliard, thank you so much.
May 19th, im Alicia Menendez in new york, with symone sanderstownsend and Michael Steele in washington, d. C. This morning, the compass braces for protest, plus donald trump addressed the Nra Convention, between the usual, there was a not so well threat to execute the city president. Plus, it could be the final week of trumps criminal trial in new york, a big question, will the defendant take the stand . Grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. Safety is of course a priority for many voters and yesterday donald trump cozied up to the extreme gun lobby, accepting the endorsement at the annual meeting in dallas, in another hard to follow address, he painted a dystopian version of america, urging gun owners to vote because their safety is on the line. He used the event to rattle off his lies about President Biden but he added this new twist. He is a manchurian candidate, he has accepted money from china, from russia, from ukraine, from everywhere. If that were a republican, he
Well, we dont have a platform. We recognize that, historically in the Republican Party, all kinds of people have had different views on all kinds of important issues. But, there have been certain principles that are broader than particular issues where every republican disagreed and they dont anymore. This has been turned on its head. Just to give you one example, americas involvement in the world, peace through strength, we had a majority of republican members of the House Of Representatives who voted against aid to ukraine. In the very near future, no republican would have voted against aid to ukraine, i mean, we tried isolationism in the 1930s and it didnt work out very well. Now, republicans are saying, in essence, okay, Vladimir Putin, take it. You want ukraine, it is yours. Trump has said he would invite Vladimir Putin to invade nato countries. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan saying that . We have gone from mikael gorbachev, tear down this wall to Vladimir Putin, have at it. It is