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♪♪ good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc in new york city. another new first for this country. the first trial of a sitting presidents son getting under way in delaware just days after the end of donald trumps historic trial. what will the impact be both personally for the president and politically for his re-election. well go live to the courthouse where jury selection has been going on since 8:30. plus, the man who became the face of the covid response, dr. anthony fauci c...

Expect from a president. hunter biden is on trial today. theres another case later this year in september, two separate cases targeting his son. i think that fact alone really undermines and reveals the false talking points that weve seen from literally everybody save larry hogan and the republican party. >> mike memoli, is the biden campaign worried about any potential downside here? >> reporter: well, i think as you talk to people close to the president, their concern is less about the impact ...

Potential peace deal. and in his words, the claim that israel has agreed to a cease-fire without its conditions being met is not true. will a pressure campaign from the u.s. and hostage families get him to change his mind? a lot to get to on this monday. we start in delaware where for the second time in less than a week legal wranglings inside a courtroom have the potential to sway voters in what is already an unpredictable, unorthodox and volatile president election. hunter bidens charges linke...

>> i didnt sap lock her up. remind us what actually happened. >> not quite true. quickly to tims point, im just a journalist out there watching and listening and trying to -- >> talking to voters. >> talking to voters. i dont know if this will be good for him or not. watching their strategy right now, they are very much leaning into this idea of him as a political prisoner, as a victim of this system they clearly think can gain some sort of advantage. in the context of talking about trump and ja...

Boost to her campaign. it would have been a preposterous thing to say. color me skeptical. i think there is some fund-raising benefit. outside of that, im still skeptical theres a political benefit. >> lets talk about early polls. a lot can happen between now and when people get their ballots. 52% of independents believe the jury reached the right verdict and think it should end his campaign. those double haters, the folks that dont like trump or biden, 65% say the verdict was correct. 67% say i...

Attacking hunter is just kind of something that is happening constantly over on news max and these maga media outlets, and you think that is something that lands with the voters, the most rabid partisans. unlike some of the other things, some of the other texts that do land with a broader audience, these attacks on hunter do not. i think they have the potential for back firing and it undermines his attacks on the justice system. i think there are a lot of areas of political peril here for the re...

The wall and immigration if each side has the spinal fortitude to face down its most rabid partisans and take it. time for the power panel, capitol hill producer chad program and chairman of the american conservative union matt schlapp. lets start with this tweet from the president saying mexico is going to pay for this, it will all work out which congress has not ratified yet. that is the tweet, mexico is paying for the wall. with that in mind the top democrats chuck schumer had this to say tod...

Ireland and canada were granting asylum to the election of trump presidency. >> facebook and google announced plans to try to block some of this fake news, but that could be tough. many of these stories originate with rabid partisans or web sites that make money out of publishing this propaganda and dont much value the truth. john? >> tom foreman, thank you so much. shifting gears if youre looking for a break from politics, dont forget anthony bourda bourdain. this weekend, buenes arias. bourd...

Adviser tweeted a link tying hillary clinton with money laundering and pedophilia. not at all true. on and on these stories go. after donald trump won the vote, a fake story saying he took the popular vote, too though clinton beat him by about a million ballots and another claiming ireland and canada were granting asylum to americans fleeing the trump presidency. nope. >> facebook and google announced plans to try to block some of this fake news, but that could be tough. many of these stories or...

Think the contrast is there in terms of his approach and his no-nonsense style. but if you look at new jersey, unemployments high, the schools are not doing better, and if you talk to key senators in that state as they did to the "new york times" this weekend, they will tell you he doesnt deal one-on-one, and he doesnt have a relationship, which are all of the things this president is being criticized for. so ultimately, if the magnifying glass is on chris christie, the question is, will there r...