welcome to jesse watters prime time tonight. i don t know who sters pri there what security measures they re taking. there s probably government watching and there mightw what on t be personal security on the island. more epstein documents releasedhe as prime time goesdocume inside island. you ve heard of smash and grabs now crash and doomsday bunkers for billionaires. what do they know that we don t ? plus, you know what jesse tters does every weekend.? 59 years ago today, jrs president lyndon b johnsoned a w declared a war on poverty. his plaarn and racial discrimination. dubbed it the great societyen party. the great society asked notae how much, but how good, not only how to create wealth, but how to use it. not only how fast we re going, but where we are headed, but the greare headet society dt end poverty. it kept poverty at the exactoves same level. the first year of the great socisat, the poverty rate wa at 15%. today the poverty rates at 13%. how man
donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
tonight i don t know what measures they re taking. there might be personal security on the island. jesse: more epstein documents released as primetime goes inside pedophile island. you ve heard of smash and grabs. now, crash and grabs. doomsday bunkers for billionaires. what do they know that we don t? plus. you know what jesse watters does every weekend? jesse: 59 years ago today, president lyndon b. johnson declared a war on poverty. his plan? end racial discrimination. he dubbed it the great society. the great society asked not how much, but how good. [applause] not only how to create wealth, but how to use it. not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. jesse: but the great society didn t end poverty, it kept poverty at the exact same level. the first year of the great society, the poverty rate was at 15%. today the poverty rate is at 13%. how many trillions of dollars have we wasted? how many families have been destroyed? how much d
the victims attending a memorial for a top iranian general killed in a u.s. air strike four years ago. martha raddatz with late reporting, she s in the middle east. in the u.s. tonight, those bomb threats targeting multiple state capitals. authorities at this hour investigating who is behind the hoax. outside new york tonight, authorities on the scene, the religious leader shot and killed outside his mosque in newark. witnesses describing the suspect tonight. the passenger plane that collided with another plane while landing in tokyo, bursting into flames. tonight, we have learn what the pilots on that passenger jet had been told just before landing. matt gutman in tokyo. here at home, the crisis at the border. houfs speaker mike johnson and fl low republicans in eagle pass, texas. and tonight, president biden blaming republicans for holding up funding for border security. matt rivers from the border. just in tonight, former president trump asking the supreme court
america you re still innocent until proven guilty. we re in a situation where there are people in my own party who are blaming doj. how about blame him? he did it. a few of donald trump s challengers in the 2024 race reacting to his indictment as the former president is now just hours away from his arraignment on several federal charges. we ll have a full break down of what is expected from today s hearing. and we ll look at the extra security measures in place outside the miami courthouse amid possible protests and threats of violence. meanwhile, house speaker kevin mccarthy refused to condemn those threats, some coming from members of his own party as he defended the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 13th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. it s a historic day, and former president donald trump is now just hours away from his first scheduled court appearance as a federal criminal defendant. bu