where it just wakes and to primary season, and already both parties seem to be circling their wagons around their likely nominees. a rematch between president biden and donald trump seems inevitable. but both men face plenty of uncertainty between now and november. that s why president biden is south carolina tonight, a week ahead of its forest in the nation democratic primaries. a victory seems certain. but the mood of black voters and the state is hard to predict. and just a bit, i ll ask to black activists who helped engineer the presidents 2020 win in georgia about what the president needs to do to repair his standing with african americans before election day. as for donald trump, he faces twin challenges. his last republican rifle is sharpening her attacks as the campaign moves into her native state. and the former president s legal troubles are mounting. a new york jury yesterday hatching him with an 83 million dollar judgment and his defamation trial. john it may not
investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
assures of safety measures are to donald trump claims the arrest is imminent, and call for protests standing by their, man house speaker kevin mccarthy leads the republicans rallying t trump s defense. , and the rates for 2020 for how a possible indictmen could hurt or help trump s bid to return to the white house the prosecutor in new yor has done more to help donald trump get elected presiden than any single person i america today. i am jonathan kaye, part an this is a special edition of the sunday show. welcome, katie phang is off this morning we began th special edition of the sunda show with the news that as bot the political and legal worl holding their breath yesterday, a trump blair in social post, that la enforcement agencies are essentially preparing to arres the former president justthi tuesday. , remember this part of trump legal woes stem from a 201 alleged hush money payment t adult film star. the manhattan da s offic declined to comment on wha trump said
are the children being used as pawns against could you say yes or no to that? the children are not being used as a pawn. we re trying to protect the children. how is this not specifically child abuse, these innocent children who are being separated from their parents? i want to be clear on a couple other things, the vast majority, vast majority of children who are in the care of hhs right now, 10,000 of the 12,000 were sent here alone by their parents. that s when they were separated. according to baker and glass, are behind the scenes, secretary nielsen was ready to pack her bags and resign over that policy, which she opposed. one trump immigration advisor stephen miller first began floating in 2017. bigger and glass are right, once the public began sounding the alarm, quote, suddenly, trump officials who had pushed to take away children where denying that was their intent. attorney general jeff sessions who had privately told prosecutors weeks earlier that we
that he testified on friday in front of a d.c. grand jury. the new york times in the wall street journal reporting that general counsel has also testified. and what we are hearing, from the january 6th, now maybe an even bigger deal. even more damning. and what they showed us last week. and their final hearing until september. you remember the shortest then president of the united states, donald trump, the day after supporters attacked the capitol. hunted lawmakers in the halls. beat police within an inch of their lives. the day after all of that. they showed us how he absolutely refused to say the election is over. now, the committee is showing us more about what donald trump refused to say. even after his top advisors and his own family begged him, the committee releasing a never before seen exhibit today. i m going to play for you, here it is, in its entirety. i m not sure when those conversations began because they could ve started early the next morning. but i believ