plus, what if i told you there was no legal principle more than anything or anyone else in the country that keeps real police reform from basically being possible at all? what if i told you a federal judge just called that widely it use legal doctrine and unconstitutional error? well, that happened this week and it got way too little attention so i will take my glasses off and talk to some lawyers about this stunning ruling and what it could mean in practical terms. then, a remarkable story about what happens when ordinary citizens stand up for their community. ali velshi himself rings us a story of two idaho moms who fought to save their local school district from a fiery take-over. another hour of velshi starts right now. good morning. you are watching velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman jr. filling in for my friend and i like ali velshi and we have a lot to talk about if you want a seat for the hottest event in new york city you better make your way downtown to
appealing to libertarian voters this memorial day weekend speaking at the party s convention in washington saturday night. promising the group he would put a libertarian and his cabinet. welcome to fox news lives. i am like the manuel. madeleine rivera is following it all for us. it was quite a scene on saturday with some supportive trying to drown out boos from the crowd. the former president attempt to win them over by making promises like these. i am committing to you tonight that i will put a libertarian in my cabinet and also libertarians and senior posts. if you vote for me on day one, i will commute the sentence of ross who was sentenced to time served. he has already served 11 years. we will get him home. the founder of the black market website silk road. a lot of libertarians want him to be released. the trump team knew the former president may not be well-received at the libertarian national convention on saturday. they are also trying to neutralize the threat
happened this past week, which was really the last week of argument in this historic criminal trial of donald trump. the first ever for a former president, as you certainly know by now. this final week was a short one, but a lot happened. michael cohen was back on the stand finishing his four days of testimony, and trump s lawyers began and ended the case. in one week we saw the d.a. and the defense team both rest. and we saw the defense witnesses, who, at times, stumbled. here is how it played out. the defense wrapped up with michael cohen after three days of cross-examination. it was a grueling three days. the prosecution has now rested its case. the defense has also just now called its first witness. robert costello back on the stand later this morning after yesterday s fireworks. he was nearly tossed from the witness box and his entire testimony was nearly stricken from the record. an extraordinary moment. his whole attitude on the stand can have the defense
washington and then news, this morning, severe weather is battering several states, right now, extreme storms. let s start in dallas. they left disruptive mark. they look at this. this is what happened over this was a shell gas station after a possible tornado touchdown. it s not far from their 18 wheelers blown over. search crews, operations happening right now this morning, more than 200,000 customers across missouri and kansas, texas, oklahoma, nebraska, in the dark and more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather across the country today, we of course, are tracking at all. another breaking story. we are watching this morning, a stabbing spree across to massachusetts communities. police hit suspect stabbed four young girls at a movie theater before driving to another town and stabbing two others at a restaurant. an hour later, we will have the latest on that amara walker, i m victor blackwell here for you on this busy sunday morning or breaking news r
a presidential historian and author john meacham joins me live to discuss the state of our democracy today. the beginning of the end, we will break down what we can expect from closing arguments and jury instructions and trumps hush money election interference trial this week. and the chances that trump will be the first former president convicted of a felony and a look at what happens when trump steps out of the magna bubble. the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. whoa! i am jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. the tomorrow is memorial day , a day to remember our military service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. according to historian david blight, black americans were the first to honor fallen soldiers. black writes that in may, 1865, the black community in charleston, south carolina held a parade for a union soldiers killed in the war and, quote, converted confederate real men into their own