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for today, i'm alicia menendez, thank you for spending part of your saturday with us. be sure to follow the show on twitter, on instagram, and tiktok. that's at alicia on msnbc. that's how you will know that things like our sisters in law full hour, i'll see you here tomorrow. same time, same place, for more american voices. but for now, i handed over to charles blow who is in tonight for amy and -- hello charles. >> hello alicia, thank you so much. good evening and welcome to ayman. much >> tonight, failure to launch. two republican-led smear campaigns in with our member, plus stunning allegations, a new lawsuit against rudy giuliani includes accusations of bribes and gives an inside look at his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. then, fighting back. meet the free speech organization that is soon to block rhonda sentences efforts to ban books in florida schools. i'm charles blow in for ayman muddying. let's get started.
>> retail of two challenges. president biden heading home from the g7 at durr a show of support for ukraine and standing firm on the debt ceiling showdown at home. >> we sat in the room with all the leaders from mitch mcconnell on. and they said we will not default. i'm assuming that we mean what we say and we'll figure out a way to not have to default. >> congressman gregory meeks of the house financial services and a house foreign affairs committees joins me live to respond. the widening racist him scott and rhonda scent is prepared to join the republican primary field. senator tammy duckworth, with the national co-chairs of the biden campaign, joins me live to discuss that and much more.
the naacp is issuing a travel advisory for the state of florida. the civil rights organization said that florida is openly hostile to african americans, people of color, and lgbtq+ individuals. and said the decision comes in response to rhonda sentences attempts to erase black history. they also listed specific pieces of legislation they feel violates civil rights, adding desantis's actions are in direct conflict with the democratic ideals our union was founded upon. it was unusual for an organization to issue a travel advisory, the naacp is not unheard of. back in 2017, they issued a travel advisory for missouri after a controversial bill was passed there. the list of republicans hoping to take on president biden for the white house continues to grow with two more names expected to be added this week.
and cared for by the best parents she could ever possibly have. bob and barbara legally adopted their little princess four years later. in the fall of 1973. and it was shortly after that, said barbara, when shirley and renee showed up at her door. >> and the kids play together. and we visited together. as she asked if rhonda could come spend the night with her with rene. and it took me a while to give an answer to that. i really had to think about that hard. i'm one of these tenderhearted people, and they said well, i want her to know her sister. >> sister? why yes. barbara told rhonda she and renee were half sisters. barr daughters of the same mother, who work the streets. barbara said that by then, she didn't trust shirley with rhonda. but --
>> i want rhonda to know her sister. i wanted her to have family. i asked bob and he said no, she couldn't at first. and he relented, let her go. and next morning we went to get her, and they were gone. >> and they didn't come back. bob i'm barbara call the police right away of course. but here's what they said they were told. that the police could do nothing for them. since they had allowed rhonda to leave with shirley, they were on their own. and so, desperate they said, they started their own search. this coverage shirley had taken the girls to relative house, several states away. but when they got there, it was too late. all that remained sitting on the porch where the little red shoes rhonda wore the day she was kidnapped. it was hopeless. they returned to their
while disney did not name governor rhonda scientist as the reason that it decided to pull the plug, the announcement comes amid an escalating feud between the florida governor and disney over the company's opposition to the states education law known as don't say gay. it restricts in class discussion of gender and sexual orientation in florida public schools. despite desantis promoting and pushing for, and signing that law, today he blamed all of those things except himself. given disney's financial straits. he said, following market cap and declining stock price, it's unsurprising that disney would restructure the business operations and canceled and successful adventures. the reality here is that desantis has likely caused his own state more than 2000 high paying jobs. jobs that would be appreciated elsewhere, like california. governor gavin newsom today said that is turns out visit bigoted talk policies have
construction of its lake campus. this is a huge hit to florida's economy. the project was valued at nearly a billion a billion dollars, expected to bring 2000 new jobs to the state of florida. white collar jobs, many of them relocated from california. california, with its average yearly salaries of $120,000. while disney did not name governor rhonda scientist as the reason that it decided to pull the plug, the announcement comes amid an escalating feud between the florida governor and disney over the company's opposition to the states education law known as don't say gay. it restricts in class discussion of gender and sexual orientation in florida public schools. despite desantis promoting and pushing for, and signing that law, today he blamed all of those things except himself. given disney's financial straits. he said, following market cap and declining stock price, it's unsurprising that disney would
some of the endorsed candidates in 22. this is a very close race. but i think many people think beshear amazingly is somewhat favored in deep red kentucky because he has established enough of an identity separate from his own party. >> interesting. so donald trump's pick, not rhonda sentences choice. who won the kentucky primary for the gop. just as the florida governor is preparing to officially launch his presidential campaign by the end of this month, the polls are not looking great for desantis. he has lost a lot of ground. and there will be a very crowded field by the time everyone announces their leadership intentions. but desantis seems to be the only rival whom might have even a small chance of toppling trump. how do you expect this will all play out? >> well, desantis is unquestionably a much diminished figure today from what he was on the morning after the election. when as we noted, most of trump's endorsed candidates in
republicans are the ones the only adults in the room. but we're going to find a way to get this done. >> brian: now it's the president and kevin mccarthy with the staffs out is akim jeffries and out is senator schumer. congressman, thanks so much. appreciate it. have a great day. >> thank you. is it. >> brian: still ahead the co-founder of chatgpt urging lawmakers to regulate his own product. issuing this dire warning on a.i. >> if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. >> steve: okay. tech industry expert rhonda deteary is going to join us. she is next on "fox & friends." hey, rhonda. >> ainsley: hey, rhonda. ♪ ♪ these are the days when anything goes ♪ every day is a winding road ♪
rhonda. and here is writer kumal along with his dad and sister wishing mom vema a happy mother's day. all right. pete, over to you. pete: happy mother's today to all. a thank you, rachel. florida governor ron desantis stumps in iowa yesterday, second trip to the state in recent months, as speculation continues to grow whether he will enter the gop primary race. but "the new york times" claims that if desantis is going to enter the race, he is limping to the starting line saying desantis and his allies are retooling his expected run for the white house after a series of missteps and miscalculations allowed donald j. trump the define the 2024 the republican race. so what cogop voters think at this moment? joining us now, two retirees, stan who supports trump, and doug who supports desantis.