Good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We begin with President Biden saying donald trump should not receive Intelligence Briefings. In a new interview with cbs, biden breaking with tradition, saying trump has no need for those intel briefings now that hes out of office. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not . Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection. I just think that theres no need for him to have that Intelligence Briefing. What value is giving him an Intelligence Briefing . What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and Say Something . Also in that interview, the president says he will not budge on the 1,400 stimulus checks but maybe taking a more targeted approach on exactly who will receive those checks. I will talk with Congressman Ro about covid relief in just a moment. Today marks one month since the attack of capit
Thats 1880851177. Call now leaks lives cia secrets, maori play nali plane dollars, playing lives were at stake. Yes, my children. This is horrifying United States of scandal with jake tapper. New Episode Sunday at nine on cnn this, is cnn. He news. We are monitoring Breaking News this afternoon on cnn news central, top generals in charge of the chaotic us withdrawal from afghanistan back in 2021, are testifying on capitol hill former Joint Chiefs Of Staff general mark milley and former commander of Us Central Command general Kenneth Mackenzie our testifying before the House Foreign Affairs. Thats right. Both laid some blame for the chaos on the State Department. And its choice not to call for evacuations soon enough. Lets listen back in im not sure even today about the accuracy of all those numbers are they in jail dead . Some of them i think some were killed afghans. I dont know about the american, i dont think americans were, but i think some of the afghans were tracked down that wor
and say that skin color determined. turn hard not to do that. the answer to that has official backtracking today. i will speak to the reverend, al sharpton, about the controversy coming up. we also continue to follow the dangerously putting millions risk this weekend across the country. a billion dollars up for grabs in the next few days as jackpots for the two biggest lottery is in the country reach stratospheric heights. more on the head, as well. more on that and the new york times we ve been talking about back in 2018. former president trump inquiring about pursuing an irs investigation into two fbi officials, lisa stroke and page this is coming from a sworn statement from trump s former chief of staff, john kelly. joining me now the reporter that broke that story new york times washington correspondent and msnbc washington correspondent, michael schmidt. michael, always great to talk to you. thank you for joining us on a saturday afternoon. give us a sense of more of
for abortion rights. and to witness the states democratic governor, roy cooper veto the 12-week abortion ban that the republican-controlled state legislature passed in the first week of may. now north carolina republicans claim that the bill was, quote, a mainstream approach to regulating abortion, but critics say it is full of hidden restrictions and medically unnecessary obstacles that take in together were we dramatically reduce access to abortion and cause women s health clinics across the state to shut down. but the fact that republicans are trying to market this extreme abortion ban as reasonable and mainstream is important. it s part of a larger national effort will cancel determine unacceptable abortion ban standard that they could enact without politically backfiring on them. for the most, where they ve been unsuccessful in this regard. again, the majority of americans support abortion rights. opposed this is importing the criminalization of women and their doctors
jonathan at mar-a-largo. jonathan, how are things looking there? yeah, hi there, neil. joe tacopina, one of the lawyers representing president trump says he plans to file several motions to dismiss on this case on multiple grounds. one being selective prosecution. in his speech last night at mar-a-largo, mr. trump had harsh words for alvin bragg. take a listen. the criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information. for which he should be prosecuted or at a minimum he should resign. yesterday mr. trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records including transactions associated with alleged hush money payments to adult film actress stormy daniels. a federal appeals court in california has ruled that daniels must pay more than $120,000 in legal fees that mr. trump accumulated defending himself against her defamation lawsuit against him that ended up being dismissed in 2018. neil, in his mar-a