Himself, for vinge the retribution and to continue to double down on calls for political violence. and so we re going to continue to make sure that we re building out the apparatus from a campaign standpoint that we know we re going to need to make sure we re talking to those voters and critical battleground states, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia, arizona, nevada, et cetera. to make sure that we are in a position to get to 270 electoral votes. that s where our focus is. speaking of the campaign. obviously, a major issue for voters. both parties is immigration and president biden tomorrow, we are told by sources is going to sign this new executive order that would basically shut down the the southern us border to asylum seekers once there s a threshold of crossings at 2,500 i m here in an average of that. and once that s exceeded, and of course, some people say we re remembering what president biden said as a candidate about donald trump for doing something quite similar.
Ad, if the speech that we re going to hear from president biden tomorrow has the potential to persuade and energize even those voter who is they say it isn t their top concern. i like to see the cross tabs or the follow-up question on the 16%. who is that threat to democracy? if 68% of the people believe democracy is under a threat, then i want to ask the next question. what is the threat? who is causing the threat? because that s what joe biden is trying to get to. i think it s a very strong opening ad. it pulls at the right heart strings. if you have some blood coursing through your veins for the country, if you are repulsed by what happened on january 6th, not from a partisan perspective, but an american perspective. so i think for joe biden, this is ab opportunity to begin to as
200 buildings damaged or destroyed. we talk to residents who have lost their homes. alex presha reports from the fire zone. mark meadows appears to contradict former president donald trump s defense in the documents case. did the former president declassify those documents while in office? what sources say his former chief of staff told the special counsel s investigators. plus, the painstaking recovery operation in maui just hours ahead of president biden s visit. a church service honoring those lost and the many unaccounted for, and the fire chief gets emotional in his first national tv interview as he talks about the toll it s taking on his firefighters. danger in the water, what health officials are saying about a flesh-eating bacteria that s already killed five people in florida and three people in the northeast. a boost for ukraine. president zelenskyy hails a promise of dozens of u.s.-made f-16s from european allies. what this could mean for ukraine in its war with russi
The trip comes amid lingering questions and frustration over the island s response to the disaster. tonight, we talk to the fire chief. here s melissa adan. reporter: tonight, president biden just hours from landing here on maui. the official death toll 114. a church service today for those lost and the hundreds still unaccounted for. maui fire chief brad ventura, in his first national interview since the fires, getting emotional when talking about the firefighters under his command. the firefighters are hurting. this is their community. this is their home. these are their people. nobody in our department is unaffected by this. we care about our firefighters first and our community as well. and if they can t go to work in a healthy way, then it s difficult for them to serve. reporter: first responders facing scrutiny after some ran out of water fighting the fires. does it frustrate you to think, knowing what they were going through, that they may not have been able to have water,
Believe it was possible for trump to have the actual document. meadows said he knew it would be problematic if trump had war plan documents in his possession, the sources said. in a statement to abc news, a trump spokesperson accusing the justice department without evidence of selectively leaking incomplete information to impact the 2024 election. there is a process that the white house goes through to declassify materials. i don t have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president but that doesn t mean it didn t occur. reporter: and linsey, former u.s. attorney preet bharara told abc news the information mark meadows has is, quote, pretty damaging but it s unlikely he s flipped on trump. that s because meadows was indicted last week alongside trump and that separate investigation into election interference in georgia. both have only until this friday to turn themselves in. thank you. linsey: president biden is hours from landing in maui nearly two weeks after t
Senate impeachment trial he will use his job permanently. here s where it gets amazing. that trial will be presided over by the president of the senate, the lieutenant governor of the state, dan patrick. as the presiding judge overseeing paxton s impeachment trial, he will have immense power. he will be the ultimate art of the door of the rules and the admissibility of evidence, and all that stuff. here is a thing that i cannot believe it is real. and it is. so dan patrick, the guy who is the presiding judge in this impeachment trial, just had to release his no campaign finance report, and would you look at that? he just received $3 million from that ken paxton super pac. what a coincidence. dan patrick isn t even up for reelection until 2026. all he has coming up is this impeachment trial that he has to run in a few weeks. and here is the pack for the defendant in that impeachment
Something the national parks service agrees to maintain and protect in perpetuity. but they now have that responsibility. and that is a start. that is something president biden will sign a proclamation, designating the new national monument tomorrow. on what would have been emmett till s 82nd birthday. had he lived past the age of 14. and this designation, this decision to do this by president biden, this comes at a time when it certainly feels right to do something like that. it comes at a time when the state of florida has just approved bizarre, new mandates for teaching african american history in the state of florida. the new rules, created under florida river on santa s. the rules order teachers and florida to say that slavery was
The river and cut off its supports and spray-painted and they housed with acid and a shot at. literally, hundreds of times. the marker, noting the place where his 14-year-old body, tortured, mutilated body was pulled out of the river, that is the place with that sign keeps having to be rebuilt and put up. tomorrow, the president of the united states will designate that a national monument. that site. the emmett till national monument will be created by president biden tomorrow. and this new monument includes three sites that riverbank site where the sign has gone up and up again and again and it is now a bulletproof version of the sign. the riverbank site also the site of the courthouse where men who admitted to killing
Monument that would be designated tomorrow by president biden will be named both for and it still and for his mother. it is called the emmett till national monument. becoming a national monument means now this is protected land. protected by the federal government, protected and maintained by the national parks service in perpetuity. with this particular new national monument, with that sight in particular on that river bank in mississippi. that has been treated like a shooting gallery, this had four different markers go up. the latest one 500 pounds and bulletproof protected by a gate and alarms and cameras. where a white nationalist group nevertheless tried to shoot in anti black, white power propaganda video in 2019. with this newest, designated national monument, i don t know how it s going to go for that to be federally protected land.
And more expensive by the day. seems to be the only person who ever had a prayer of being within shooting distance, proverbial shooting distance forgive me of the republican front runner. i mean the republican party really does poise to renominate it s front runner. to nominate a candidate who is dominating their presidential polling by 20, 30, 40 points. and if nobody can get anywhere near him, if they do we nominate donald trump as their candidate for president, that means the whole campaign for president, the whole election for president of the united states over the course of the next year is going to be in large part a referendum. on this question of whether we follow court orders anymore as a country. whether the legal system binds us, whether it binds all of us. because the likely republican nominee for president, as things are going, the prohibited favorite to be the nominee for president is facing a trial in october.