including two americans have been killed by armed gangs in haiti. david and natalie lloyd were gunned down alongside an unnamed third member of their group. since the assassination of haiti's president three years ago, gangs have controlled the nation's capital. new legal action to report from uvalde, texas, as families gather for a vigil friday marking the second anniversary of the tragic robb elementary shooting. lawsuits filed against meta as well as the videogame maker of call of duty. the suit claims the team gunman was able to practice using an assault style rifle by playing the videogame and then became radicalized by social media. 19 children and two teachers were killed in that mass shooting. for the first time since the deadly bridge collapse, cruise ships can enter and leave the port of baltimore. a royal caribbean cruise ship will be first to leave the port today on a five day cruise to

bermuda. four years since the killing of george floyd, in our next hour, a look at how much has not changed. plus, he sure likes his papers. in moments, what to make of all those stacks of printouts donald trump holds when he speaks to reporters. a good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. begin with president joe biden wrapping up his commencement address to the u.s. military academy in west point, new york, with a promise to keep american soldiers out of the war in ukraine. >> there's never been a time in history where we've asked our military to do so many different things in so many different places around the world, all at the same time. there are no american soldiers in the war in ukraine. i'm determined to keep it that way. but we are standing strong with ukraine and we will stand with them.

>> and breaking news in donald trump's classified documents case, special counselor jack smith is calling out trump's claims that fbi agents were planning to assassinate him during their search of his home at mar-a-lago. smith filed a motion late yesterday saying the statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct that federal law enforcement agents, mostly suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him. smith added the false statements expose fbi agents to danger. we have reporters and analysts covering all of these new developments. we're going to begin with nbc's julie tsirkin. what is prosecutor jack smith asking for? i understand merrick garland has now taken from's comments very seriously, so what was his response? >> that's exactly right, alex. jack smith overnight filing the first of its kind motion in this specific case, the classified documents case, alluding of course or concerning the search that happened at mar-a-lago two years ago in august 2022, when authorities grabbed hundreds of classified documents that were in the possession of the former president illegally. so you have overnight jack

smith actually asking the judge overseeing that case, judge eileen cannon, to limit, to impose a sort of modified gag order on what donald trump can and cannot say when it comes to law enforcement, in terms of the public statements that he makes. this comes of course after this week the former president falsely insinuated that president joe biden may have ordered an assassination attempt on him when fbi agents were conducting that search. he said, quote, that bidens locked and loaded, referring to that specific remark. so of course you have merrick garland and the fbi pushing back on these claims that trump is making her. take a listen to what garland had to say about this, right after trump made those comments. >> that allegation is false. and it is extremely dangerous. the document that is being referred to in the allegation is a justice department standard policy limiting the use of force. as the fbi advises, it is part

of a standard operations plan for searches and in fact, it was even used in the consensual search of president biden's home. >> so merrick garland there drawing parallel, of course, saying that the same exact practices the fbi took in the former president -- in the search of the former president's residence, they also did in the search of president biden's willington, delaware home in his classified documents case, an because of this that special counsel jack smith in a statement in his filing last night said that trump's mischaracterization not only endangers the law enforcement officials that were there on that day, ones as well that are working to prosecute this case now, but it also, quote, threatened the integrity of these very proceedings, meaning this trial, which was on hold indefinitely, it seems. >> julie tsirkin on capitol hill, thank you for that. we're going to the right to harry lennon, former federal

prosecutor, former deputy assistant attorney general, now host of the podcast hockey feds. as a former high-ranking doj official what is your interpretation of jack smith's motion? >> it's very well taken, alex, and this is a whopper even by trumpian standards because it's precisely wrong. the standard circular here is actually meant to keep things safer and inhibit the use of force except when there's really a deadly danger to agents, and its pernicious. it's dangerous because it makes people who are going to be the subject of searches in the future think oh, they're coming at me with deadly force. that's exactly the kind of circumstance that can prompt standoffs with fbi and endanger the lives of agents. so merrick garland is not looking to wade into these disputes generally, but what trump said was so both off-base and dangerous, he had two. so smith is rightly saying that look, he can't do this anymore.

it's not just the proceedings. some of these agents are going to be witnesses as well and we know that once he made a statement and one of his lone wolf supporters was shooting up an fbi office in cincinnati thereafter. it's a true danger for current agents when he makes comments like this. it will be very interesting. one last thing, cannon is now forced to confront, a, the lie of it, there is no two ways about it, and the danger of it. so unless she somehow finds a way not to rule, she's going to really have to confront the bona fides of her patron here and acknowledge that he's done something false and dangerous. >> let me add to this, because in smith's motion he highlights extensive planning that took place ahead of the search, including setting a date when donald trump would be away from mar-a-lago. he wasn't even there. and then he adds this --,

quote, a plan for contingencies, which in fact never came to pass, about with whom to communicate if trump were to arrive on the scene. what do you read into that? >> it's so clear that it's the opposite of what he's saying. you do this all the time. look, a search is a dangerous situation for agents. you need to come at it with full force in order to immediately take control of the situation. but they think it through specifically here so as not to have a confrontation with trump. so as i say, even by the standards of donald trump, this one is 180 degrees wrong and so an altar lie and a pernicious one, a dangerous one. >> okay, don't go too far, my friend, because i'm going to have you back shortly to talk about the trump trial so we'll see you then. let's go now to the holiday travel rush underway this memorial day weekend. experts predicted is the busiest in two decades. aaa says close to 44 million americans are traveling his weekend, a record number of

them will be driving. but severe weather could put some holiday plans at risk. that doesn't look good. millions are facing more tornado warnings and possibly damaging hail and nbc's maya eaglin is tracking all the travel rush for us from the turnpike in secaucus, new jersey. so thank you for being here. aaa says new york city is one of the top destinations, in fact, for tourists this week and. so the question has to be asked, how are things looking where you are? because you're just a couple miles away from manhattan. >> hey alex, yeah, we're right here on the jersey turnpike. things are just starting to slow down as you can kind of see behind me. we know millions of americans are expecting to travel this holiday weekend. take a look at some of these numbers to get just an idea about how many people are hitting the road. we know 43.8 million americans are traveling 50 miles or more. 38 .4 million or 87% of those travelers are going to be driving, and that's a 4% increase from 2023 point these

numbers are also nearly matching 2005's record of 44 million travelers, and that's all according to aaa. let's look at the gas prices because the national average right now is $3.60. that's a little higher than last year and you know what, we spoke to some people fueling up their cars, fueling up on snacks and stretching their legs as they took a pit stop for their road trip. take a listen to what they had to say. >> traffic has been really bad. it's backed up and it's taken us a long time to get there, so we decided to stop and get starbucks. >> it was pretty good except for some portion right outside of new york, washington. it is always a lot of traveling all the time but so far everything is really good. >> yeah. >> so alex, as you can see, some people excited to hit the road but not looking forward to this traffic, and we know right

now is actually the worst time to drive. experts are saying between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., if you can stay home, that might be your best bet to avoid travel, as the unofficial start to summer kicks off and we can see it on the roads here. >> you've got the living proof. thank you very much, maya eaglin from secaucus. burning question -- what is the deal with donald trump and all his papers he carries in and out of court? we got some answers when we are back in 90 seconds.

now to the week ahead in donald trump's hush money criminal trial.

trump will be back in court tuesday for closing arguments, then jury instructions, jury deliberations and possibly a verdict. and when he returns tuesday, you might once again to him doing this -- flipping through and waving around stacks of paper outside the courthouse. "the washington post" has reported on why he might be doing this but my next guest i'm sure could tell us why. harry littman is back with me and joining us now, suzanne craig, investigate a reporter with the new york times. they both covered this trial extensively and frankly exhaustively from the courtroom. welcome to you both. harry, before we get to the waving around of the documents, for those who have not read your column, you're already making a verdict prediction. you wrote that trump's team did not provide a story compelling enough to leave jurors with reasonable doubt. but harry, how does that square with the prosecution's obligation now? >> it's really well taken. it only takes one to make a hung jury. you have two beyond a reasonable doubt, highest

standard in the law. but in my experience, alex, what really matters to a jury is a comparison of stories. i think it won't be enough to say, did cohen light one one or more occasions, which i think there's no real strong proof of. i think he held up very well but in general i think they'll make a relative judgment, who is lying and who is telling the truth, and trump, by the way, took on much more than he needed to, including saying he never had sex with stormy daniels. and when you compare them up in the jury room, i think the prosecution story hangs together very well across many different witnesses and evidence and the defense story is it's not clear. something like some of the witnesses shouldn't be believed but there's no really narrative plot line to kind of hang onto unless they pull something out of the hat on tuesday but i can't see what it would be.

there is a tricky legal issue embedded which maybe we'll get to. just on the basic level, whom the jury believes and do they have a reason for a reasonable doubt, i think the prosecution is theirs to lose. >> so we have this defense, suzanne. they're going to go first in the closing arguments. did todd blanche's really fiery aspiration of:'s lies, did that have a lasting impact on the jury and could cohen's history be disqualifying enough to create the doubt that trump needs? >> interesting because some of this does hang on the believability of michael cohen and whether the jury can at least believe some of what he said. i thought -- when i think back to michael: i think two things. i think he did a good job not losing his temper. he was a great witness for the government, so i kind of think what we just not coming in, i

remember cy vance in an interview before the trial started. he's the former prosecutor in manhattan. he had said he thought he was a hand grenade, i think were the words that he used, and they decided not to bring the case. i thought cohen was really good but i do think donald trump's attorneys, todd blanche, he handled the cross-examination, that he did land some punches. i think they could be effective. i think they probably -- if he didn't know michael cohen was a liar and a cheat, and he's admitted to these things before, you know now, you know a lot of details about it, i think -- what i think about the mistake that was made, though, i thought todd blanche did a pretty good job but then donald trump's lawyers decided, instead of just letting it rest and saying we are not going to mount a defense, they called two witnesses, primarily one that i think sort of backfired on them, and that was bob costello. without getting into a lot of the details about that, what i remember about it, what the

jury probably remembers is how disrespectful he was to the judge to the point where the judge went and cleared the courtroom. so i'm sort of wondering, when i think back to michael cohen, i think he did, i thought, a pretty good job. they landed some punches but what i left with was thinking well, bob costello, what was that all about and why did they call him when they didn't have to call him? i think it backfired on them. >> that may be a concern since they've had that to percolate on for the last seven days, frankly, or it will be seven days on tuesday. terry, trump on social media overnight, he made references to a legal expense to a lawyer. does this tell you how his defense team plans to tell the jury that this was all just a legal expense? i'm going to ask, is the case that simple? >> not only isn't it that simple, this is -- at this point they put it all together but they have to anchor it in the evidence that the jury has heard, and what the jury has

heard is exactly the opposite. they've heard that trump told hope hicks, an unimpeachable witness, that this was a reimbursement based on the $130,000 payment, they heard essentially the same from david pecker, the same thing essentially in the handwriting from ellen weisselberg. so you can't just get up in trumpian fashion and makeup a tall tale. it's got to be anchored in the evidence. that evidence is not there. and another piece of evidence that isn't there, that could've been there story, i think, is this was all done for melania's sake. that i think has been pretty well foreclosed by the evidence, not to mention her not being in court the whole time. so as always, lawyers have to play by different rules than trump but trump forces the decisions on them and in almost

every case, like what susan was just talking about with the calling of costello, it has backfired spectacularly when they've been forced to play by his decisions. >> let's talk about trump outside the court with those stacks of paper. you've covered him for a long time. why do you think he's doing this? what's it all about? >> i have to say he loves news clippings. he sends them, famously, to people. he'll see an article he likes and he'll his black sharpie out and he will write something on it and send it to somebody, either friend or foe, but i've talked to people over the decades who have gotten a news clipping from him signed and i think this was an extension of that. it's a visual aid. it's outside of the courtroom. he's holding court and he's got analysis, news articles in front of him that sort of do his talking for him, and he'll read -- they're usually

conservative commentators that are saying something favorable to him. i think he's flashing them around just as a great visual aid. >> do you think it's just marketing, harry, or is there something legal, a legal aspect to it all? >> no legal aspect. as always, he lives in his little silo. again, going back to bob costello, who is he to trump? one of the small few people who are 100% for him. in the same way, he's got this 32-year-old agent in these papers, anything good about trump and then he stands up and tries to counter the narrative that's been in trial when he gets up there and you know he did this, remembering mar-a- lago, picking up a piece of paper that happened to be classified and about iran. he likes to -- it's sort of his visual aspect of people are saying, a thing he loves to do,

even if it's not -- a lot of people are saying. that's what those papers are. >> okay. last question to you, suzanne, i've asked you for predictions before and i recall you telling me you don't like making them, but do you have one for this verdict? harry has gone on record, that's all i'm just saying. >> i'm glad you asked me this because i want to talk a little bit about the hung jury. it's interesting. i had a friend over this morning to of course knows i've been covering the trial and she was on a jury. i said well how did it go. she said we got into the jury room and we talked for two days and one of the jurors said i'm just not going to change my mind and my friend said i'm not changing my mind and it ended up in a hung jury. right, and i thought it's really interesting because it doesn't happen very often. i've read 5% of the time it could be lower. but you don't often think about hung juries because they are quite rare, in this case, just given the nature of the case, you could see one juror just digging in. we don't know but a lot of people are talking about the hung jury so i wanted to

mention that. i'm not sure that that's where it's going to go. i think that there is a lot of evidence in this case that would lead reasonable minds to believe that there could be a guilty verdict. but we really don't know. but i'm sort of just intrigued on the hung jury and i could see in this sort of case that it's pretty rare that it may happen or there's a higher than normal chance, anyways. >> i can't tell you how glad i am that i'm sitting down with you having said that, because there would obviously be a potential to retry this case if that happens and i'm like, come on. anyway, that's all i have to say. >> i thought my friend was pretty instructive just on two people dig in and that's it. >> that happens. you can see it. you say they deliberated for two days and then they finally said we are not going to get any -- we are past this. you have to just give it up at that point. >> you think about just getting 12 people to agree is hard. >> especially these days. >> of course it's right but one thing of being in the courtroom

lets you do is look at the jury and generally you look for someone who seems to be separating themselves out, sort of socially. i've looked hard for that person and haven't seen it. not to say it won't happen. always a risk in a trial. >> i'm not predicting and i just wanted to sort of go there and have the discussion. >> wring it out there, absolutely good discussion. >> it's a lot of money. >> we know. >> we have a side bet, don't tell anybody. >> i'm not in on it. come on, you guys. suzanne and harry, thank you both so very much. if you're not doing it this weekend, someone you know shirley is, whether they are playing philadelphia freedom on idot 76 or maybe thinking about the hotel california at l.a.x., the first big summer holiday getaway of 2024, next. next. the totally torqued-out crossover. choose advil liqui-gels for faster, stronger

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>> on what is expected to be the busiest memorial day travel

weekend in two decades, more severe weather is on the way for millions of americans. there is potential tonight for strong storms and violent tornadoes in oklahoma and much of the midwest, in fact. nbc news's mora barrett is in chicago for us. things look beautiful there but overall, how has the weather impacted travel this weekend, morrow? >> alex, on one hand when you look at this day here in chicago, it looks like this in a lot of the east coast as well, why wouldn't you want to travel? you probably see the sailboats, the jet skis behind me, people on the beach. for a lot of folks i talked to, they say maybe i'll go up to michigan or wisconsin for a day trip, but it's beautiful here so why would i leave. that was the sentiment. i spoke with a pair of siblings, it was actually cute, they were here for a brother and sister weekend here in chicago and they said it wasn't even a question to leave for the weekend. here with some of our conversation. >> if it's nice out, chicago is the place to be. can't go anywhere else. all summer long we'll be at the beach, hanging out in the city, the hitting the local spots.

>> but even so, 44 million people traveling this weekend. as you noted, nikki, the busiest memorial day weekend in 20 years. a lot of people refraining from traveling because of gas prices. it's still up five cents from last year even though it did fall a little bit, the national average at $3.61 now the weather is going to be a big factor, as well. 17 million people across the midwest and the south acing even more severe weather after a week of tornadoes that we saw in states like iowa and nebraska but this risk is going to be for even more severe tornadoes, potentially some damaging hail, and that's why we've already seen thousands of canceled flights today, already thousands of delayed flights, i should say. 8000 delayed flights yesterday so that's just inevitable when it comes to the holiday weekend. traffic obviously a factor as well but even here in chicago, unfortunately we are expecting some thunderstorms tomorrow as people start making their way

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tonight donald trump may need to get ready for a hostile crowd when he addresses the libertarian convention in washington. that is indicated how he may be received. as politico reports, punches were thrown and obscenities flew and some delegates suggested they may protest his speech. nbc's emma barnett is at that convention in washington, d.c. do you think donald trump needs to prepare for some potential doing this evening? >> normally when donald trump addresses a large crowd, he's met with a sea of people wearing those red maga hats who are absolutely thrilled to see him and have waited in line all day just to hear him speak. but here at the national liberty convention, that might not necessarily be the case. last night vivek ramaswamy, a strong trump ally, was here speaking to the crowd that the former president will also be addressing tomorrow. take a listen to what happened. >> the question is, do you want to get 3% or shoot for that as a stretchable or do you

actually want to change this country by working together? and i will tell you this, i'm speaking to you as a libertarian at my own core. i have gotten to know donald trump over the course of the last several years and the last several months and you're going to hear from him tomorrow night, and the question is, do you want to influence the next administration or don't you? >> alex, so as you heard there, there were some people in the audience who were brewing vivek ramaswamy, and when i was speaking to a lot of voters before they took the stage, a lot of them are libertarians, obviously, at the libertarian convention, and they told me that they don't like either trump or biden. they say that both republican and democratic parties are cut from the same cloth and for

context, that's because libertarians uphold liberty as a core value and one of the voters i spoke to today told me he's a second amendment absolutist and he doesn't believe trump went far enough to protect the second amendment, so those are the kind of voters that trump is expected to address tonight. >> interesting. okay. thank you to emma for that. joining forces or at least burying the hatchet, trump says nikki haley will be, quote, on our team in some form after his primary rival endorsed the former president wednesday. i want to bring in don helical bridge, director of paid leave for all, and victoria difrancesco soto, msnbc contributor and dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. welcome to you both. victoria, you first hear. does nikki haley -- doesn't she now play into the vp conversation, and i'm curious what you think on our team means . campaign? administration? cabinet? what do you see as realistic given the history between these two? >> alex, i think it's all of the above. with trump you expect the unexpected. that being said, nikki haley is a very savvy, strategic politico and i think she says

that if she wants to maintain a foot in the political world that she had to bury the hatchet, and go beyond that and actually endorsed donald trump. so i think that there is the possibility of her serving in the administration. you know, is that a vp? that might be a stretch given how contentious they were during the campaign. but maybe you revisit the secretary of state, something that was on the table in 2016, or at the very least allows her to carry forward her political career, her political aspirations post 2024 point >> so that's my question to you, don. do you think haley's endorsement is actually less about 2024 and more about 2028? is her turnaround to not alienate trump and his base? >> i think it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out, how far she goes to the extremes of this party, and of trump. i think that we've seen this

playing against the party in some circumstances, and so she's saying i should vote for him but she was also one of the last persons standing in the primary challenge, saying he was unfit, mentally unfit, dangerous, that chaos followed wherever he went. so to what degree will a self called moderate make those trades for her political future? the party that i think is becoming increasingly at the margins. >> it's interesting, victoria, because republican consultant rob stutzman wrote that he believes biden can win over haley voters and his ideas included getting more aggressive at the border, pledging to put republicans in his cabinet, taking on hooton and then going after isolationists. when you consider all that, is that an effective strategy? >> i think there's a whole lot of diversity within that of nikki haley voters. i think that there are the liz cheney type, the ones who are disgusted by donald trump and there's no way that they'll

vote him and will actually cross over and vote for joe biden. i think there are folks there who may just spit it out and say, you know what, i can't stomach either one of them, and then there may be those who follow what nikki haley is doing, those who are ardent supporters and are with her no matter what, so if she's going for trump, they are, too. i think to pinpoint one of those three reactions is really hard without deep focus group data, which they may have at this point. >> so trump's recent fundraising email blared biden's doj was authorized to shoot me and of course he's referencing the fbi search of mar-a-lago in 2022. the truth is the fbi follows standard procedure with every search including the fbi search of president biden's home, and there's another point to make here -- donald trump wasn't even at mar-a-lago when the fbi was there. prosecutors now are trying to limit that kind of talk, which brings me to the bloomberg morning consult poll finding nearly half of voters across seven key swing states say they expect at least some violence

around the election. is it any wonder when we hear trump's rhetoric? >> i think from has a long history, sadly, of projecting and of accusing others of doing exactly what he himself has done or wants to do. we know that he has already incited insurrection. we know that he has already called for the hanging of his vice president. we know that he has said he may not accept the results of the election. so if it was not so terrifying, it would almost be funny, the amount of projection happening here, accusing the president of inciting any kind of violence when this is what voters know is at risk, what's on the ballot is democracy itself. and i think they're right to be concerned, and we are right to consider these mistakes. >> victoria, over 24 hours this week trump provided what the new york times called at least a temporary cure to what democrats referred to as trump amnesia, forgetting how tumultuous and extreme his term

was. he reposted a video emphasizing a unified right, hinted at restricting contraception, rehired a campaign agent who's been accused of sexual harassment, not to mention his criminal cases. will this impact voters at some point as they are reminded what trump is all about? >> alex, it will. it is the easy answer. but how it affects them, that's where the devil is in the details. so i think the unified right comment very much is about mobilizing that base that is at the far extreme of his party and so that is beyond the dog whistle, a bullhorn that says i hear you, icu, i'm still with you. in terms of the contraception issue, i think that leads to moderate in the republican party and that is something that can give them pause and potentially get them to stay home or cross party lines. so very different messages here. one nailing down the base, the

other actually pushing folks within the big tent away and it is chaos. and i think in general, again, for those few voters on the fence, this reminder of chaos is not a good thing. >> okay, don holcomb bridge, victoria difrancesco soto, ladies, thank you very much. four years ago the world was outraged and demanded action. so what changed? the answer next. answer next.

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today marks four years

since the murder of george floyd in minneapolis and the beginning of a massive push for police reform across the country. nbc's yamiche alcindor has more on what's changed since 2020 and what's stalled. >> alex, to mark the fourth anniversary of the murder of george floyd, i spoke with his family and looked into how efforts at criminal justice reform have fared in recent years. >> reporter: four years ago across the country, protests erupted after millions watched video showing the murder of george floyd. in the aftermath, widespread calls for a national reckoning on racism and police violence. for floyd's brother, for lowness, the outcry for justice was touching. >> so many people, they felt the same pain all across the world. >> reporter: but since then, some of those efforts for change including the federal george floyd justice in policing act have stalled or been reversed. >> what is making you emotional as you think of this? >> it different.

it's really like you don't have the understanding of how you can sit there and witness that somebody murdered your brother, and four years later it still hasn't been any change. like what is it going to take? >> reporter: in recent years, many red states and some blue states and dc passed a tough on crime policies. when it comes to new measures, critics say florida is ground zero. >> we want to have florida be a law and order state. we don't want to abuse of law and order but we want more law and order. >> reporter: since 2020, republican governor ron desantis has signed several bills into law. among them, a law that may curtail protests, a law that limits the power of civilian please review boards and mandate that anyone filming first responders stay 25 feet away when asked. republican state representative alex rizzo sponsored the so- called halo bill. >> some critics of the bill that you sponsored, the halo bill, say it's an unclear

unfair backlash to the filming of george floyd and if that bill were in minnesota we might not have seen the murder of george floyd on film. what do you make of that? >> i don't agree. i think that you can still film that incident, probably still would've been filmed so what this does is allow for a safe space for the first responder to go ahead and perform their duty. >> reporter: the debate flared up in march when miami police shot donald armstrong after his mother called to get him help during a mental health crisis. police say armstrong was waiting a sharp object. his lawyer says he was holding a small conductor baton. armstrong is now paralyzed and in jail. armstrong's attorney plans to file a civil suit against the city but said he wants the resolved misdemeanor provision violation charge quickly so armstrong can get help. preston baldwin, who lived a block away from armstrong, filmed the shooting on his cell phone from roughly 100 feet away. >> it's heavy because it's like dude, that really could be me. like i could be this guy.

could be you, could be your friend, could be your cousin. >> reporter: for thelonius floyd and his wife, keita, it was their family. >> it seems like everybody is trying to say they're not as angry as they used to be but we are. we lost george. >> i'm going to continue to turn my pain into purpose and this bill needs to be passed because my brother's blood is all on this bill. >> now thelonius floyd and his wife keita are determined to keep pushing. meanwhile in florida, the bill curtailing police civilian review boards is set to go into effect this summer. rodney jacobs was the head of miami's civilian investigate of paneling told me he worries academic the work they are doing to hold police accountable and their efforts to bridge the gap between law enforcement and communities. still, rachel gilmer, a leader in a social justice group called the dream defenders tells me she believes a pushback on criminal justice reforms and efforts at tackling racism is a testament to the power of the vision for change. >> okay, yamiche alcindor. powerful piece. thank you.

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bad news for donald trump's wallet this week as shares of trump media fell more than 10% on tuesday, a day after the company, which owns truth social, reported a net loss of more than $327 million in the first order of 2024 point this on just $770,000 of revenue. joining me now, david cay johnston, distinguished visiting lecturer at the syracuse college of law. he's also the author of the big cheat, how donald trump fleeced america, enriched himself and his family. welcome, my friend. how big a problem is this? can you explain for some layman's terms, quickly, how losing millions on thousands of actual revenue, how that even works. is that the stock that still has a huge market value?

is it really valuable? there's a lot of questions here. >> it's not at all valuable and the people who own it at the current price, if they don't sell out, will eventually be wiped out. the 300-plus million is not a cash charge, but even so, the company is losing money hand over fist and its revenues are barely in the millions of dollars. so there's no support here for a company worth four, five, six, at one point $8 billion. this is all fans of donald trump and others hoping to exploit the company and in some cases to sell it short so they can collect when the price falls to near zero. >> so look, there's more bad financial news for trump. the irs claimed he took improper tax rates for his condo in chicago and losing that could be over $100 million, especially with his legal fees. can he afford that? what kind of damage could that

do to him? >> it would do tremendous damage to him. this is not the first time donald has cheated this way by claiming deductions. he claims his trump tower hotel was worth nothing, essentially, and then put it into another company that he has and began depreciating the value of the company. donald has fabricated more than five dozen businesses that don't exist and take intact losses for them and he's been tried twice for income tax fraud. civil fraud, not criminal, and in both cases he lost. >> let's get to this new film. i'm sure you've heard about it. it's called the apprentice. of course it's about donald trump and it premiered at the cannes film festival to great reviews. about an eight minutes standing ovation. it stores jeremy cohen as roy cohen and it tracks trump's early years in his career and

business relationship with cohen and david, i know you said that cohen taught trump how to get away with lying. what might people learn from this movie? and again, it's not an official biopic, right? but it's going along the lines of his life. >> the film is based on reporting by gabe sherman, who was an excellent journalist. previously did a very powerful book about roger ailes, who ran fox, and donald is trying to suppress this film by threatening to sue. he won't get anywhere in u.s. courts but he might in british courts because they have different rules. but he also suppressed the 1991 film about him that covered basically the same ground. his relationship to the notorious roy cohn, who was senator joe mccarthy's attack dog, and donald has said he admires him greatly and considers in his second father. and it was roy cohn who taught him the way to act when law enforcement comes after you is attack, attack, attack, they're corrupt, they're dishonest,

you're as pure as a new fallen snow. >> so okay, trump's team sends this cease and desist and they've called the film pure fiction, and even have called it election interference by hollywood elites. so the movie does not have a u.s. distributor yet. could there be legal liability for these filmmakers? and by the way, doesn't the trump team threatening you to sue, does that only elevate the movie and make people want to see it? >> i think this is a classic example of where donald's reaction is going to make more people want to see the movie than would otherwise, and it might delay distribution here in the u.s. but as a legal matter, donald will have zero success in american courts trying to suppress the film, which i'm sure carefully follows the published, known record, the court record in the matters concerning his life, just as my books to. donald has threatened to sue me innumerable times that he's never done it because he knows he'll lose, because i have my fax down solid. >> speaking of blues, when it

goes back to the stock, is donald trump going to lose money on this or is he going to make money on this? what do you think? >> he can't sell any shares until sometime in september, and the company might still be valuable at that point. of course if he sells any shares, that would be a signal to the market to dump the stock, but a company that has essentially no revenue, no revenue of any consequence, doesn't, and it keeps losing money, doesn't have a future. and i feel badly for the trump fans. i've seen many of them interviewed on tv and heard some on the radio who think this stock will be worth a huge fortune in the future. i don't see how that's possible, especially if trump doesn't get back to the white house. house. >> okay, david k. johnson. it is