and completely overall the fbi and the justice department whe and if he returns to the presidency donald trump announced his candidacy back in november taking up familiar vague lives last campaign. the election was stolen from him and expanding th persecution narrative, claimin that all the investigations of lawsuits in the criminal indictment against him are politically motivated. and by all appearances, th messaging is working for him very well. brand-new nbc news poll this morning shows 68% of republica primary voters believe that th investigations into donald trump are politicall motivated. and are designed to stop him from being president again i think that those voters must support trump now to stop hi opponents from winning meanwhile, nbc news report that president joe biden i expected to formally launch zealot reelection campaign thi coming tuesday, for years to the day after he announced his 2020 presidential bid on a platform of rescuing the country from a president
we have lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer. let s get started. intensifying strikes israel s offensive in southern gaza is back in full force overnight with repeated rounds of shellings as more humanitarian aid makes its way into the ravaged gaza strip. we are live in israel with the latest. plus, the forgotten hostages we are shining a spotlight on the tie and filipino nationals released by hamas at this week and why they are not getting much media attention. no kings in america trump imperial immunity claims shot down by the d.c. federal judge overseeing his 2020 election interference trial. you won t believe what the front runner has to say about democracy and authoritarianism while on the campaign trail. we are going in-depth on it all. later, between life and death nearly 20 years after the bitter battle over terry schiavo which put the right to die movement in the national spotlight, we are going to go inside a new msnbc documentary retracing
hundreds and the salem witch trials which also took place across the country where women of medicine were being targeted and literally burned at th stake. and that is the kind of frenzy that we are seeing notice this case that wa before george bush merrick these were petitioners that fo the last two decades could not get a judge to give a hearin to this. that is, no bush judge which one are bush to. no reagan era judgment eve taken up the challenge such as this there was never a time befor where the fda was pressed with to withdraw a drug from th markets which had undergon such thorough review and now we re in a time in which you are right, it is not just abortion. it is not just contraception it is not just sex ed. it is a time in which we shoul all be alarmed, because this i a flash. point this is a proxy for so much else in our democracy let s remember the very same states that are rolling back
joe biden is not running for presidentt again. sorry. h nobody wants himis to meet his wife. does nobody elseno els? 70% of democratic voters say they d rather someone else run. soer s will that person be ? well, kamala harris is the vice president, apparently. but vic police and good lucken getting into the vote for bush judge. he s a joke. so the person the insiders are talking about obviously should be michelle obama. obviously p, polls show democras love her. the media loves her more than anything. she went to princeton on merit. she s a fashion icon. she s married to barack obama. she plays in her own vegetable garden. therefore, he s totally qualified. and we assume this was goingng o happen until we saw a new showtime series that portrays michelle obama as first lady. m and it turns out that michelle obama is exactly the person you thought she was. here she is . you don t t think i m on the top of every time i see another unarmed black kid get shot? t
fact that we had one branch that was the bulwark for western democracy and that was our federal judiciary. one case after another. one trump judge after another. one obama judge after another. one bush judge after another said no, get it out of here. and if you even argue it, i m going to sanction you. yeah. the judiciary held, we shouldn t have been in that last line of defense. right? that s number one. number two, alarmism is always ridiculous and absurd until it s not. january 6th. something really bad happened on january 6th, and we should pay attention. agreed. thank you to you all. new data on covid can i say quickly. we have to go to break, but we want to make a statement. we want to let everybody know that ed luce has forged his own path. he is not following his father s footprints. thank you.