rights la of the year to share his personal views about religion. but the problem is alito and the other right-wing justices are imposing their personal, moral and political beliefs on all of us. and new reports show how they re using made up plaintiffs in recent supreme court cases to do it. also tonight, new details on donald trump s efforts to over turn his election loss in arizona. amid new reporting that jack smith is giving close scrutiny to trump s clown car team of lawyers. plus america post dobbs. north carolina s 12 week abortion ban take effect as republicans in ohio make it much harder to protect abortion rights even though a majority of the ohioans support those protections. and we begin on the eve of the fourth of july. during a time in america where a lot of people are seeing their freedoms being taken away. and that is in large part due to the supreme court of the united states. mainly the court s six conservative judges whose decisions last week peeling
than half of the republican members of congress and before all the votes were even counted in iowa on monday night, at least at least a fair, nick the gop house conference, there was already calling for the other candidates to drop out. this weekend, she is in new hampshire campaigning on the former president s behalf and maybe auditioning to be his running mate. also at a rally last night, trump received a key endorsement for one of his former 2024 opponents, the south carolina senator tim scott, who was ironically appointed to his position by then south carolina governor nikki haley. as was the case in 2016, virtually the entire gop is falling in line behind trump. nearly two thirds of iowa republicans say that they believe he would still be fit to be president even if he is fit committed of a crime. a similar responded that believe president biden legitimately run the 2020 election. a sign that trump s baseless big lie continues to have a hold on the gop. the response
taking trump down. today, he gets it. so will his campaign be more focused on the presidency or the former president. and the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine floods the front lines. releasing millions of gallons of water and turning entire towns into lakes. as bad as it is, the worst may be yet to come. we ll have a live report from ukraine in just a minute. but we start with an intriging mystery surrounding the investigation into donald trump and his handling of classified documents. we re now learning that a second grand jury has been hard at work down in florida in addition to the one in d.c. according to the new york times, they already heard from one witness, with at least one more slated for later this week. but we don t know who the witnesses are, who the target might be or why that second grand jury was empanelled. and we ll still learning new details about the high stakes, highly unusual meeting between special counsel jack smith and trump s three
reports, president trump lashing out at jack smith today trying to portray the investigation as an attempt to rig the 2024 election calling on his supporters to fight against the justice department and fbi in a series of fiery social media posts. as the potential for indictments grows by the day. despite a direct appeal this week from trump s legal team. the special counsel in new video obtained exclusively by nbc news is not ready to show his cards. is an indictment coming soon, sir? is an investigation wrapping up, sir? also today, former new jersey governor chris christie is entering the republican contest kicking off a string of announcements this week from candidates trying to catch donald trump in the polls. and i ll be joined by maryland governor wes moore on the culture wars being waged by top republicans as a wedge issue against democrats. plus a disaster in ukraine, a major dam and electric power plant blown up, thousands are being evacuated from rising floodw
leaders, but each hold huge potential to shape the trajectory of the war in ukraine. at the g7 summit, in the japanese city of hiroshima, presidentjoe biden told leaders the us was prepared to give the go ahead to train ukrainian pilots on f16 fighter jets. some details remain unclear, like who would supply the jets, and how many pilots would be trained. britain, the netherlands, belgium and denmark have expressed support for the plans. president zelensky welcomed the move, and said it would greatly enhance the ukrainian army in the sky. i count on discussing the practical implementation of the decision at the g7 summit in hiroshima . that is what he tweeted. president zelensky is due tojoin the g7 group in hiroshima in the coming days, where its expected he ll address leaders, and hold a meeting with us president, joe biden. but on friday, he was in saudia arabia for an arab league summit. of those present, only syria has openly supported the russian invasion. others have s