and she is furious right now because that i m on camera, but my mother was amongst a group of black student protesters fighting for equality in the 60s at delta state university. and that was a dangerous time. but those types of incidents that were covered by local reporters and some of the shame that came from the national embarrassment of treating people inhumanely this part of the pressure that helped to create that type of change. but what would become of my mother knows that they weren t telling their story. [applause] and now, it s no different. but thankfully, my mother story was told. she got it completed degree of delta state, continued on the florida, and then got another degree. and then for the last 45 years, has worked at an historically black college as an educator and administrator. [applause] and those are many black colleges, you ve got a you wanted a black college. to my mom, i say thank you for everything you ve done for me. and for everything, the countl
right now, i m in washington d.c., about to attend the annual white house correspondents dinner. tonight, much of washington will come together. but an epic political battle lies ahead. president joe biden officially launched his reelection campaign this week. asking americans for more time to finish the job he was elected to do in 2020. black voters were pivotal in sending biden to the white house. tonight, i ll ask georgia congresswoman, nikema williams, whether enthusiasm for the biden harris ticket remains high. in the meantime, donald trump is building his case to be the republican nominee, again. the former president is racking up endorsements, as his poll numbers rise. that s despite the escalating state, federal and local investigations into trump s conduct before and in the white house. his former vice president, mike pence, testified before federal grand jury, two days ago. about trump s conduct leading up to january 6th. also tonight, celebrating harry belafonte. t
held in new york different from the dominion trial, which was held in delaware, new york tends to move a little bit slower in terms of their legal system, so that could be part of the holdup. but this is going to be a huge case for fox and a lot of us were watching the outcome of the dominion case because it has big implications for how fox is going to litigate the smartmatic case. but another thing to note that that s not the only lawsuit that they face you ll recall they face a lawsuit from one of their former producers. she is suing the company alleging that fox tried to sort of medal with her testimony. pretrial and then in addition to fox, you have a slew of other companies that dominion is actually suing so dominions lawyer yesterday who appeared on cnn, justin nelson said that it s not just fox. they have lost it out against newsmax one american news, rudy giuliani, sidney powell. there s a whole slew of them. and so for the next year or two, we re going to be seeing a
filing. all right. let s beginning this morning with kara scannell. kara, these are stunning developments. walk us through the key the key revelations that tells us so much. yeah, i mean, what we ve really learned from this, from the department of justice filing, they say when they went and executed this search warrant at mar-a-lago three weeks ago they recovered twice as many classified documents than what the former president s legal team had given them pursuant to a grand jury subpoena in june. so this all goes right to the department of justice s position that the trump team has not been cooperative with this investigation, they re really trying to put forth a counternarrative him. they say that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform, calls into serious question the representations made in the june 3rd certifi
election and that trump himself could be next. also tonight, mary trump joins me as her uncle s constant demand for loyalty is severely tested. more people are coming forward to reveal what they know about the big lie including trump s former white house lawyer pat cipollone. as access to abortion gets more scarce by the day, we re asking the question tonight, how long before an american woman is prosecuted for having an abortion? we begin with unprecedented measures. today fulton county district attorney bonnie willis spoke out after a special grand jury sent a fresh round of subpoenas in her investigation into interference in georgia s 2020 vote. it s worth noting that one of the recipients is pretty extraordinary. among those summoned was sitting united states senator lindsey graham for information on his phone calls to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger questioning legally cast mail-in ballots. it s not every day that a united states states senator is subpoen