Largest tribe in the state. And today marks the first stop of the new sunday series, Velshi Across America. Every sunday, i came to you live from a vital Battleground State from across the country. I learned much more from being out in the field talking to people and so were doing it again but for different reasons. The election is over. Joe biden is president elect and now we have to turn our attention away from the circus that will soon leave the Nations Capital to the most pressing Health Emergency in modern history, the covid19 pandemic. More than 13. 3 million americans have been diagnosed with the disease and nearly 267,000 of them have died. More than 2,000 americans are now consistently dying every day from covid19. While theres promising news about vaccines, while an end to this National Nightmare is in sight, were still many months away from it being safe to return to something that resembles normal. And while we can all look ahead to the seriousness with which the Incoming B
charles. that s right. listening to the president speaking just now, you d think that we got all good news in the jobs report today. in fact, i was reading his statement from earlier on the jobs data. the first line, this is bidenomics in action. but charles, you ask the average american how they feel with what they re bringing home, when they have to pay for groceries. seems to be a disconnect versus the rosy picture coming out of pennsylvania avenue. i want to dig into the numbers that we got today. the economy added 209,000 jobs in the month of june. that is the lowest addition that we have seen since december of 2020. it was significantly below expectations as well. if you listen to the labor secretary, she says it s good news. this is very much a part of bidenomics. creating good jobs in every community across the country. we re seeing job growth and wage increases in a tight labor market, workers have more power to choose and to look for better working conditions and
this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
and why, later this hour. that s a federal official. plus, the colorado ruling. why it s a political gift to biden, not donald trump. and just in time to ruin the holiday, this. breaking news on fog. very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with this breaking news. just before the deadline overnight, donald trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington asking it to toss out the d.c. election subversion case against him. saying he should be immune from prosecution for his actions while he was presidents. it comes a day after the supreme court declined to intervene and the case, leaving it to the lower court to decide first. meanwhile, on the question of immunity, president biden, now, has weighed in. mister president, do you think that our [inaudible] i can t think of one. joining me now, nbc s julie tsirkin in washington. julie, welcome. what did we hear from tr
nebraska border. trumps pitching voter there s in support of ethanol subsidies. trump is focusing on ron desantis. the former president claimed his endorsement got desantis elected to the governorship in the first place. i said run, if george washington came back in the dead and he had the support of abraham lincoln, you can t get elected. ron was losing badly. i said let s give it a shot. desantis s defenders have pointed out he won re-election by nearly 20 points. trump has maintained a significant lead over the republican field leading the second place desantis by more than 40 percentage points. desantis says he has a strategy. if any republican in the country, i have the best report of defeating the left on issue after issue. we ll be making that case over the next six or seven months. i m running to win in january