Adams being on the more moderate side, at least what he wants is to say we re a sanctuary city but it s okay because the federal government is paying. biden doesn t want to hear that. those are the battle lines. bill: the map looks like a state park. that s right. bill: the school is five miles north of this location. there are a lot of folks who thought they will be here in the summertime. they have been moved back. not to suggest that we get another storm they will be back inside that school. this is what happens when you run out of hotel rooms, soon cities will run out of schools to vacate. then they will come for your homes. i don t know if he is right or not but this puts a target on the issue of immigration, not just at the border anymore, paul. all throughout america. that s right. we re all the border now and we ve heard that online, you hear it from some politicians and it is accurate. now the southern states who are completely overwhelmed have got it together enough t
Defense. but the judge is inclined to allow him to do so with some restrictions. that s according to cnn s lauren delvow. we re told with conversations with donald trump s team that trump doesn t want any restrictions if he s going to speak. it s still very unclear whether or not we re going to hear from the former president tomorrow. but look, i do think we should just point out some caveats here. trump has said repeatedly in the past that he wanted to play a larger role in his team s defense. just last month he had plans to testify in this case and then canceled that testimony at the last minute. so even if donald trump and his team agree on some of the parameters around what speaking in court would look like, that doesn t mean this is a done deal and that he won t cancel at the last minute. just to take a step back and think about the political strategy of this, donald trump and his team recognizes that this would be a great distraction away there rivals on
Who wants to hear from hunter right now today? anyone? come on. who wants to hear from hunter? no one. mr. biden doesn t make the rules, we make the rules. mr. chairman, you make the rules, and the rule you made is that he can choose. excuse me, hunter, apparently you re afraid of my words. it was messy, and shouty, and not exactly easy to follow, so let us bring in our reporters to explain the context and what the gop does now. nbc s sahil kapur is on capitol hill. also with us is jacqueline alemany, washington post congressional investigative reporter and msnbc contributor, and robert gibbs, former white house press secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. sahil, explain the context here. why was it such a surprise and why did it throw things so out of kilter when hunter biden showed up. reporter: what hunter biden
Public hearing. mr. moskowitz, mr. biden doesn t make the rules, we make the rules. mr. chairman, you make the rules and the rule you made is that he can choose. the rule is those were your words. reclaiming my time, mr. chairman. after he took you up on the invitation to come, and then oh, no, no, no, my god, what did i do. hunter biden has been to capitol hill now twice since he s been under congressional subpoena. he has yet to take any lawmaker questions on those two trips and until today he didn t take any reporter questions until he talked to me. mr. biden, why did you put your dad on speaker phone with your business partners if he had no involvement in your business. you have a dad? does he call you? yes. you answer the phone? yes. ok. why did you need to talk to him during business meetings if he had nothing to do with the
Secretary of state antony blinken made an unexpected visit to bahrain today, working on getting more buy in on arab nations to stabilize gaza after the war. earlier today, blinken was in the occupied west state, meeting with the leader of the palestinian authority, which the biden administration hopes will govern gaza. those discussions are critical. right now, 90% of gaza s population is facing severe hunger, potentially starvation, according to the u.n. for children, survival is not good enough, long periods without adequate categories can have lifelong consequences. what is the u.s., which is helping to fund israel s war doing to ensure more aid gets to innocent civilians. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell
Get more engaged. get more excited about this issue. it helps hunter biden s lawyers make the point that quite frankly otherwise would be farther down in the news coverage, and i think the white house belief is that something like an impeachment inquiry without any evidence related to president biden is a loser politically for republicans. is it a good idea for hunter biden to show up unannounced like he did today and suddenly leave the hearing room after only a few minutes when marjorie taylor green starts talking, robert? well, look, i think the point clearly that hunter biden and his lawyer wanted to make today was if the committee was interested in hearing directly from hunter biden, as they ve said they are, and they re holding him in contempt of not doing, here he is to answer questions. so in reality, i think being there, being present and having them not take him up on doing that does help his side of this. there s no doubt that there s
Remind them that on monday night at 7:00 p.m. they need to be in their local precinct, and they feel very confident about what they had built up over the course of the last year plus. for donald trump, he will be here for a couple of rallies over the weekend, the last get out the vote effort, but by and large, it may not be a surprise that donald trump is most concerned about not only what is happening in d.c., as part of that immunity hearing yesterday, but also the future of the trump organization. it might turn out to be who is most enthusiastic that showed up on monday with the temperatures, what is it, negative 10, real feel. that does not sound fun. i think we re talking about negative 25 windchill on sunday. i have to do some socks shopping. vaughn,ha you so much. this week alone, the front runner f republican party was in federal court arguing he could do anything as president, even order the assassination of a political rival. he, donald trump that is, was in federal cou
Unsubstantiated, that president biden benefitted financially from his son s business dealings in ukraine and across the world really, and china as well. and that his policy decisions were influenced by hunter s business interests. they have brought in countless witnesses and people who have testified publicly and privately before them over the past year, and very little evidence has materialized that directly connects joe biden to his son s business dealings. we ve seen republicans again and again mischaracterize and misrepresent some of the evidence that they have obtained about hunter s business dealings that wasn t previously public, and does have is slightly nefarious in the sense that hunter was clearly trying to trade off the biden family name. but again, does not show any wrong doing by joe biden in his capacity post vice presidency
But democrats and republicans meanwhile on the house oversight committee are still debating the matter right now as we speak, and were anticipating several amendments to continue to be introduced, including an amendment introduced by democrats that would essentially bar the members, scott perry, andy bigs and jim jordan, the three who have previously defied congressional subpoenas from voting on this contempt resolution if and when it does make it to the house floor for a full vote. let me ask you, the house republicans say that their ultimate goal here is to impeach president biden, and they need hunter biden to help gather evidence. what evidence have they so far gathered, what evidence do they have to even open this impeachment inquiry? that s really the most important question of all, that republicans have yet to answer. they have still not been able to produce any evidence that supports their allegations and the entire thesis of this investigation that president biden, these a
Even if they think it s an easy one to hit. yes, absolutely. i think what you do in this case is you certainly don t want to look like you re either interfering with or involved in the legal strategy or anything to do with, you know, obviously hunter biden s you ve been indicted by the justice department. you have to have that hands off attack in this. but i think also, look, in some ways, what hunter is doing is creating this hypocritical caricature, side show, never a dull day in washington, and i think what it does is it adds many levels of not just news excitement to this but really paints this as a circus. and i think if the end goal is you just mentioned impeaching the president, what this does, i think, is help each side, quite frankly, the bases of each side