It is 4 20, happy 4 20 to everybody who celebrates. That changes the game. Very interesting. Every day is 4 20. You know kyle griffin, i have been texting with him because it is difficult to get on your show, the bookings are hard. Beginning of may, may 5th or may 12th, i will be making an actual appearance, not like the last 12 seconds, i will talk to you, so dont take time out may 5th or may 12th. You only come on when you have a book to sell, ali velshi . That cut deep. I had to write a book to get on your show. Lord i appreciate the warmth with which you will welcome me and perhaps we will see you tomorrow. We will be here. Velshi needs to start now. Saturday, april 20th, a week that put the 2024 residential race into perspective with a full panel of 12 jurors and six alternates has been chosen for the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States. Opening statements will begin on monday. While the former president was meeting the jury and the court for the first time, joe biden spent three days campaigning in the swing state of pennsylvania. On tuesday, the president visited his Childhood Home in scranton, pennsylvania, the first stop in his door and the crucial battleground state. He met with Construction Workers the following day in pittsburgh , and stopped by the United Steelworkers headquarters where he told the crowd he was proud to be the most prounion president in american history. On the last leg of his trip, he stopped by one of the most important institutions, the Convenience Store and sometimes gas station, wawa, which makes a mean sandwich and way better than dunkin donuts. Sorry. Biden attended a Campaign Event in philadelphia where he was endorsed by several members of the Kennedy Family despite the fact the relative is running against him. But it will have events in washington, d. C. And florida next week where he will deliver a speech on tuesday focused on reproductive rights one week before a joke on him six week abortion ban takes effect in that state. On the other hand, the only Campaign Stop donald trump made was at a Bodega In Manhattan which is a county were active registered democrats outnumber republicans nearly 10 to 1 and he spread false claims about rising crime in the country. He spent most of the week in a courtroom, a preview of what the devil several weeks of his life will be like if this trial proceeds. Only the first week and clear that candidate donald trump is frustrated by how much defendant trumps legal obligations are complicated campaign plans. During remarks this week he complained multiple times about how he should be on the Campaign Trail instead. The former president and his legal situation has not completely sidelined him from campaigning. He did hold a rally in pennsylvania last saturday and he will host another event in North Carolina tonight. For the duration of the trial, expected to last six to eight weeks, his Campaign Schedule will be dependent on when the court is in session. While donald trump will largely be confined to the courthouse for the coming weeks, donald trump ism is alive and well and continuing to spread. The former arizona gubernatorial candidate kari lake did her best impression of the formal president , dismissing his criminal cases and using violent rhetoric. He is willing to sacrifice everything i am, that is why they are coming after us, they will come after us with everything and that is why the next six months will be intense. We need to strap on our lets see we will put on the armor of god. [ applause ] maybe strap on a glock just in case. [ applause ] you can put one here and one in the back, whatever you decide. We will put on the armor of god and maybe strap on a glock on the side just in case. She has been increasing herself to donald trump, and election tonight running for a crucial United States senate seat in arizona that could determine control of the chamber of commerce. She is not the only republican this week to endorse the use of physical force against people whose ideologies dont align with theirs. On monday, tom cotton took aim at demonstrators who have recently been blocking traffic as a form of protest against the ongoing assault in gaza by israel. He encouraged people to take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. He followed up that post with a video from an unspecified protest showing peaceful people forcibly dragging protesters out of the street. He captured the video how it should be done. This is not the first time either lake or cotton have used violent rhetoric and while they should be held responsible for their actions, it is clear that donald trump ushered in this dangerous era of politics. During his first president ial bid, he repeatedly promoted violence on the Campaign Trail, and Antitrust Protesters were assaulted by Trump Supporters and more than one rally, it happened in birmingham in 2015 to a black lives matter activist. The following day, donald trump said, maybe he should have been roughed up. When a protester disrupted his speech in las vegas in 2016 he said, i would like to punch him in the face. After multiple protesters showed up and interrupted an event in North Carolina in march of 2016, he lamented about how, in the good old days, this didnt used to happen, because they used to treat them very rough. One protester was indeed assaulted by a trump supporter at that event. After the rally go or was arrested, donald trump said he would pay his legal bills this is a problem that is no longer being treated like a problem within the republican party. It is emblematic of a party that has grown increasingly intolerant of dissent, a party that lacks leadership and does not have a unified ideology and that is why we are seeing the chaos on capitol hill going on right now as well. Joining me to discuss is the special correspondents at vanity fair. And an msnbc political analyst, and historian and professor of history and american studies at Yale University and author of the field of blood. Good morning. Joanna, you are a student and an academic of violence in politics and particularly in congress. Is there a Flavor Difference between what we have seen historically in this country and what is going on now . The reason i ask, there is a Casting Nature to the violence we are hearing about, not donald trump doing it or carry lake doing it, references, take care of things with the gun to clear them out. Writes, and a lot of the violence i have studied involves politicians largely talking to each other. Congressman using violence to get their way in congress. What we are seeing now is people especially appealing to the public in a variety of different forms of technology, media, faster and more dangerous on any kind of social media platform. They are appealing to the public without language and kind of making it like it is a joke. But it is not a joke. It is normalizing an almost, in the cases of some people probably somewhat unstable, asking for that kind of behavior. It is endorsing vigilantism and democracy is a pact we make to abide by rules and constitutional standards. This is an interesting point. Sometimes it is set as a joke or thought of as a joke, or donald trump will tell you they are making a big thing out of the fact i said there would be a bloodbath when i was talking about automobile tariffs. But they are real things and dependent on some people, we dont need many, we have seen this in european history, you dont need everybody to listen, you just need some. Trump has always, since he came on the scene, used just joking into baiting the media into covering him seriously and his supporters and the right wing media saying, he was just joking, the Mainstream Media is over reacting. This idea that the road to really the truth is the road to authoritarianism is people telling you youre overreacting and youre overreacting until it is over. Sure it has happened. The violence has taken place, attacks on fbi people, at these rallies. On parlor, there was an advertisement for a donald trump night not association with him or parlor, but it calls it a perfect rally knife. We dont need rally knifes, we need knives to cut cheese. What does this do over time . Viewers of these things i would assume would be more observing, say i will not get involved in Political Violence but in the last election in Arizona Armed people were outside the voting booths. I dont know what they were going to do with their big guns. It is the concept that violence is involved in politics. Not just involved but normalized and endorsed by people with power or people who want to have power. They are running on it. Not even that they are slipping in a comment, but running on that fact. If i go back to the founding, one of the things that generation understood, the people who had power, the first people who took over the National Government and came into power, whatever they did, people would copy. They did not want to have them dressed like aristocrats or act like aristocrats because the American People would watch and , what their leaders did, they would do. I may be talking about hundreds of years ago, but that basic fact is true. Molly, you write and vanity fair about candidate trump versus defendant trump essay the conventional wisdom if donald trump is somehow found not guilty, talking about this trial in new york, that will only make it more sympathetic in the mind of his voters, yet not clear how these details from the proceedings would permeate the news bubble. Is that settling in . I have been so interested with this trial, for so long before it happened, so many people in the complex, the people we know, and several who we love, say this is not the strongest case, there were stronger cases, dont bring the ones i have seen, this case so far has been a huge sea change. He is there, tired, reports of him nodding off, looking deflated, exhausted. And he is a defendant. He is not a candidate. He is a defendant. He is listening to the judge, being told what he has to do. It is a huge the visual is humongous. The question we have, will this permeate our bubble . Will this go to the people who do not read the news . Who are last informed in this way . I think it will. We are seeing it on late night and the cover of all the newspapers, international newspapers. There is a reason he spent 100 million trying to avoid these trials. Running for president and being a candidate being a defendant are not two things that Work Together well. Based on what you just said, as a candidate and as a president , he runs on the fact that he does not obey rules. He says what he wants and does what he wants, and we are watching him bound by rules. He is not following all of them because there is a gag order he is in violation of probably, but he has to do what the judge says he has to do. Antitrust message. It is antitrump message. Joanne , Jury Selection this week, two jurors have been unseated with concerns about their safety and identity being known. They will be harassed individually or collectively because donald trump does that sort of thing. There are 12 jurors and six alternates, the highest number of alternates you can have in a nonmurder one case. Are you worried about your integrity and whether this case is derailed because donald trump is such an effective person to threaten people . That is a larger worry. We see the same logic with libraries and school board meetings, election officials, again and again, people who are doing their civic duty, being good citizens, and they are afraid to be good citizens because they are afraid of what someone who will be thinking that joke is not so funny, that it is serious and will act according to that. Yes, what we are watching his people trying to get in the way of, ironically enough, a fair trial. He deserves a fair trial. What we are seeing is a variety of ways in which it will not be fair. One juror said, because my identity has become known, i dont know i can be fair because she is fearful for her life at the hands of the defendant. Trump has a long history of behaving this way. Even Michael Cohen worked on intimidation, Stormy Daniels said people came up to her with her daughter in the parking lot. Remember, his mentor was roy cohn, someone famously disbarred for his malfeasance. I do think this is very much to be expected. And it runs contrary to what the laws are. The two important witnesses we will hear from, Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, the pressure on them must be remarkable because people know them and they have a presence. They will be targeted despite the fact there are rules that say donald trump cannot do this. Great to see you both in real life. Joanne, great to see you. Molly jongfast is a special correspondent of vanity fair and a msnbc analyst. Msnbc is the author of the relevant book, the field of blood. The house is debating i had a four expected votes, aid for ukraine and israel, security with taiwan and tiktok, i will discuss those pieces of legislation and the important room the democrats play in helping speaker johnson get those votes to the floor in the first place. Congressman adam smith of the Armed Services committee straightahead. It is velshi on msnbc. Tech at safelite, well take care of fixing your windshield. But did you know we can take care of your Insurance Claim . That means less stress for you. Woman thanks. Tech my pleasure. Have a good one. Woman you too. Tech schedule today at safelite. Com. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Heres to Getting Better with age. Heres to beating these two every thursday. Help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need. Without the stuff you dont. So, heres to now. Boost. Hello, ghostbusters. Its doug. We help people customize and Save Hundreds on Car Insurance with liberty mutual. 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And check in. They all choose the advanced Network Solutions and round the Clock Partnership from Comcast Business. See why Comcast Business powers more Small Businesses than anyone else. Get started for 49. 99 a month plus ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Dont wait call today. Members of the house are working saturday morning, will vote on four bills that would authorize new u. S. Aid to ukraine, israel, more, they make up 95 billion in National Security assistance. If they pass, they would be packaged together and sent to the senate. But there is a reason these boats were delayed for as long as they were, because republican drama. The drama is not over. Far from it. The far right arizona congressman joined forces with Marjorie Taylor greene and thomas massie, threatening a motion to vacate which would force a vote on keeping or ousting the house speaker, mike johnson, in retaliation for allowing the vote on ukraine aid which of these three opposed. Now, if all democrats also vote against johnson, as they typically do in a speaker vote, then mike johnson can only lose two republican votes to save his job. Either that or convince at least a couple of democrats to bail him out. Joining me is julie live from capitol hill. This is a nailbiter on capitol hill because, he could go smoothly and we could have the passage of four important bills, or could derail the republicans in the house and the career of mike johnson as speaker. Reporter or both can happen, they could pass these bills and invest them to the senate where they are excited to take these pieces of legislation up, specifically to fund ukraine, these bills are similar to what the Senate Passed in february. Leadership over there are satisfied with the construction of these four bills in the house. Lets say they clear it, which we expect them to, yesterday, a resounding bipartisan vote, more democrats voted in favor of these bills that republicans did. All in all, we do expect this to pass in the house in the next 3. 5 hours. The next problem is for mike johnson and his job i spoke with thomas massie, one of the three that signed on to this effort to oust the speaker and he said he does not want to see a public motion to vacate these vote on the floor because of the issue you brought up, which is the fact that democrats would more than likely support Hakeem Jeffries which would not bode well for republicans so close to an election. What he wants to see happen is that johnson re