american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south
talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. that s something that i posed to chairman bennie thompson yesterday after the hearings were over. he said, basically, it wasn t a question of if they were going to comply, but went. although, now, we do have a better sense that that compliance is happening. i can throw up for you on the screen there a statement from a committee spokesperson who says, the select committee is engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the department of justice. they re not inclined to share the details of that publ
off. nbc s ali rafa reporting for us there. jonathan lemire, let s step back and take the big view of this. we had donald trump at cpac speaking to really the disspill distilled down, core base of supporters. nikki haley was the only other candidate who showed up there. after her speech, she was chased by a crowd into an elevator. her aides had to get her out as they chanted trump 2024. we know what cpac was. at the breakers in palm beach, other potential candidates and candidates were talking to donors, raising money. you did have this divide in the party. these two groups. one that want donald trump there. the other that would like to turn the page. for now, i mean, you look at the polling, this is trump s nomination to lose. what d you see in those events over the weekend? you re right to point out the nifty, tidy split screen of where the republican is right now. one side is louder than the
governor announced he will not run. during their annual retreat last week in baltimore, house democrats agreed they will stick with president biden for 2024. nbc news white house correspondent ali rafa is tracking all the developments. on this bridge, blood was given to help redeem the soul of america. reporter: president biden paying tribute to the heros of bloody sunday. the seminole moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of the voting rights act nearly 60 years ago. the right to vote, to have your vote counted, is the threshold of democracy and liberty. with it, anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. reporter: the president hoping to make good on a 2020 campaign promise his administration is trying to keep in the spotlight ahead of an expected second presidential bid. i won t let the filibuster obstruct the sacred right to vote. reporter: across the aisle. republicans must use every
to figure out some kind of a gun package in congress. with multiple sources telling nbc news, we could see text of the bill as soon as today. that is significant. we ll explain why. but senator chris murphy, who is, you know, leading the negotiations on the democratic side, he s saying that he thinks that they can get this to a vote next week. i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali rafa. ali, listen, text of a bill is kind of like a congress nerd thing, but it is so significant here, because there are a number of republicans, specifically, and i imagine some democrats who want to see the language here, who want to see making of mitch mcconnell, for example, does the framework match what is ultimately going end to up in the bill? how close to the finish line are they? hallie, senators say that they re close, but really no cigar yet. and remember, that main group of senators negotiating this bipartisan deal, senators murphy, sinema, cornyn, and tillis originally set