. tonight on "the reidout" -- >> how is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization? in the midst of these atrocities that there was some benefit. >> vice president kamala harris

in florida today, with a blistering rebuke of republicans for new standards requiring students to be taught about the positive aspects of slavery. also tonight, donald trump learns when his classified documents trial will begin. and it could make for a very interesting start to the general election campaign. plus, the desantis reboot. in hollywood, they reboot shows and movies if they were really popular the first time. the problem for desantis is he's not popular and the reboot looks a lot like the original failed sitcom. but we begin tonight with major developments in the many criminal cases against donald trump. earlier today, florida judge aileen cannon ruled the trial will begin on may 20th, 2024. in between the december start date that the justice department asked for and a post election

date which trump's lawyers wanted. but even though cannon didn't immediately cave to trump's request, her timeframe could still prove complicated. given the political calendar. on may 20th, all but six states will have had their primary elections. meaning we will probably already know who the republican nominee for president is. and if that nominee is trump, which is very likely, then having a may trial will no doubt lead to cries of election interference and calls for further delays. but even as the twice impeached, twice indicted former president is clearly counting on that friendly judge and the friendly florida district to help him avoid conviction, he's not exactly out of the woods. especially as another indictment from jack smith's office could come at any moment. this one relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and today, we're learning new details about what exactly the special counsel wanted to know from william russell, trump's personal aide who testified

before the grand jury yesterday. nbc news has learned that prosecutors questioned russell about trump's state of mind during and after the 2020 election period. which russell probably knows a thing or two about. a source tells nbc that he would often informally engage in conversations with trump and other key staff, including mark meadows in the west wing and in the oval office. not to mention he was with trump for much of the day on january 6th. you can see him here with the former president at the ellipse. and while russell has previously testified before the grand jury, notably, he never testified before the house select january 6th committee, meaning he could potentially have key information about trump's thinking on and leading up to that day that we have not yet heard. meanwhile, there's breaking news tonight, "the washington post" is reporting that the special counsel also reached out to georgia governor brian kemp for information about trump's efforts to overturn the election results in that state. the governor's office confirmed

the special counsel's contact but would not comment any further. joining me is congressman eric swalwell of california, and glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst, and host of the justice matters podcast. i wl ask the congressman with my apologies to defer to the lawyer in just this case. i know you're a lawyer too. i want to ask glenn a question before i get to you, congressman, if you don't mind. because i want to go back to the aileen cannon of it. this date, glenn, that she has set in may, seems to me like an alley-oop in favor of trump. this is why. in may, it will probably be known whether he's the nominee, and if he's the nominee, you can bet he's going to go back to aileen cannon and say, this prosecution can't continue. i'm the nominee. this is the current administration attempting to weaponize the government against their opponent. is that how you see it? this looks like a first step to

doing what trump asked. how do you see it? >> of course, donald trump and his team of lawyers will make that ask of judge cannon. you're absolutely right, joy. but if judge cannon can sit fair, impartially, and independently, and she's an honest broker of the law, here's what she should say. i set this trial date ten months in advance to give you all enough time to do what you needed to do, to prepare to defend donald trump at trial. guess what. i already knew there was going to be a presidential election in november 2024, when i set a may 2024 trial date. folks, we're going to trial. here's what i'll say, joy. when federal judges set trial dates, particularly so far in advance, i mean, nearly a year for goodness sake.

they expect that to be a firm trial date. the flipside of that coin is we all know the congressman knows from being a prosecutor, i know, trial dates get pushed. this one shouldn't get pushed for 100 reasons. let's hope judge cannon is an honest broker of the law, and she forces folks to go to trial in may. >> can we just put up the three dates that were up on the screen. i want to put them back up for the congressman. you know the folks on the other side who sit on something called the weaponization committee and all these other committees where they're really just, as you have said, the legal firm for donald trump. you're going to have in may, on may 20th, this classified documents trial hopefully begin without delay. you go to july and we're at the republican national convention, then a presidential election in november. it seems to me that there is zero chance that republicans will not attempt to use that calendar, congressman, to try to

claim that this whole prosecution should be -- should go away. and i don't see how they don't do it, and how do you think that winds up playing out? >> well, as we have seen in the first seven months of speaker mccarthy's leadership, his entire agenda is about protecting donald trump. that will continue into next year. it's not about lowering the cost of health care or reducing gun violence in our community or making college more affordable. it's entirely about protecting donald trump. and that will be put into high gear next year. but i want to make a point. jack smith can't make this prosecutor, glenn knows why, but we can make this point. which is if donald trump was so innocent, and this prosecution was so rigged, wouldn't an innocent person subjected to a rigged prosecution crawl through glass and walk over fire to exercise their speedy trial right? someone who is innocent as donald trump claims he is would

not want to delay justice. the whole point of a speedy trial, right, which he could use and go to trial pretty quickly, is to protect people who are wrongfully accused. so he's sure acting like a guilty person. >> you know, it's a really good point, glenn. except that he then would have to claim that he's equally innocent in like half a dozen case. he's got the case in new york. let's do that calendar. here's another calendar. october 2nd, 2023, the ag civil trial. the e. jean carroll trial in which he defamed her again. january 29, 2024, federal class action lawsuit trial, this is the new york case, another new york case. the new york hush money trial is going to take place march 25th, and may 20th, you have this trial. they all can't be speedy trials. they all can't take place at the same time. how does this wind up getting sequenced, do you think the. >> his prosecutor dance card

couldn't be fuller. i think there will have to be some at least communication, maybe not coordination or cooperation among the various jurisdictions, but at least some communication. they're going to need to prioritize these trials. now, let me tell you, i was a federal prosecutor for 30 years, and the prevailing wisdom is the feds will ordinarily try to go to trial first. now, that is no disrespect intended to state prosecutors or district attorneys. i think everybody recognizes that the federal government has more resources, the federal government has an unrivaled conviction rate. i can argue both sides of whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but they do because they only take the strongest cases to trial. i have a feeling the district attorneys might be happy to lay back and let the feds go first. i have always maintained that even though donald trump committed lots of state crimes and lots of federal crimes, he's a federal problem. and a federal problem can only be solved with a federal

prosecution, though i am thrilled that fani willis is in it game, and that d.a. bragg is in the game. they're vindicating important rights of the citizens in their jurisdictions. but there's going to have to be some communication to prioritize donald trump's criminal trials. >> does that apply also, now that we know that the special counsel is speaking to brian kemp or has spoken to brian kemp, what does that indicate? we still don't know a date for a prosecutorial decision from fani willis. >> it just shows that jack smith is casting the widest possible investigative net. he's got to look at what trump and lindsey graham and mark meadows and others did down in georgia, just as he has to look to the other battleground states, where there were fake electors, where there was donald trump hauling governors and pressuring them. so this is jack smith continuing to solve the investigative

problem in front of him. >> this is steve bannon and roger stone talking about what donald trump was going to do before the election even happened. >> what trump's going to do is declare victory. he's going to declare victory. and that doesn't mean he's the winner. >> i suspect it will still be up in the air. when that happened, the key thing to do is to claim victory. possession is nine tenths of the law. sorry, over, we won. you're wrong. >> giving away the game. we now know based on a rolling stone reporting that this trump war room we heard a lot about at the willard hotel was the subject of particular interest for the january 6th committee's investigation for its role as the hub of the trump campaign's attempts to block the counting of electoral votes on january 6th. they used the so called command center why pressuring vice president pence to reject the electors and encourage state legislatures to send the fake

electors in. this is rolling stone reporting, not independently confirmed by nbc. however, we do know who was in that room, congressman. steve bannon, mike flynn, roger stone, bernard kerik, boris epshteyn, reedy giuliani, and some were using oath keepers as secret security. what do umake of this war room piece of the investigation? >> this ain't my parents' republican party. i was raised by two republicans who told me about the values of ronald reagan. i didn't agree with them, obviously, but they were rooted in principles. when you listen, you know, to bannon and stone, it's a party of violence. it's a party of chaos. it's a party of grievances and a party that's trying to win through substraction, by taking away your rights, by taking away your freedom and your votes. that's what they're going to run the same playbook in 2024, but joy, your viewers should rest assured that the people who support that, that number is

shrinking. and that since donald trump was elected in 2016, we won in '18, '20, beat expectations in '22, won the wisconsin supreme court just recently, won in jacksonville, florida. we're on a winning streak because people want competence and community over chaos. so i'm confident we're in the right direction. and they're going to be in the dust bins of history. >> last word to you, glenn. do you think anybody in that war room ought to be worried about jack smith? >> i would be surprised if we didn't see their names on an indictment perhaps as part of a conspiracy to defraud or commit offenses against the united states by trying to rob the american voters of their free and fair elections. so i think they better look out. >> congressman eric swalwell, who respectfully has revealed himself to have been a reverse alex p. keaton. republican parents, liberal democratic son. so it's the reverse of that

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war against young people. an extreme attack on how they think, exist, speak, and especially how they understand the world they live in. those attacks reached new heights this week when the florida department of education released shocking new guidelines on how u.s. history, particularly around racial violence, is taught. florida middle school students will now be taught that slavery gave black people a personal benefit, because they developed beneficial job skills. high school students will now be taught that black people were also perpetrators of violence during white spremsis massacres like the one in rosewood florida in 1923 when a white mob destroyed the town and murdered many of its residents. the state's education department is doing this in a public school system where 64% of its students are people of color. late today, vice president kamala harris traveled to jacksonville, florida, to talk about what slavery was really

about. >> it involved torture. it involved taking a baby from their mother. it involved some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world. they dare to push propaganda to our children. this is the united states of america. we're not supposed to do that. they insult us in an attempt to gaslight us. and we will not have it. >> now, i should note, we invited the florida education department to have a representative come on this show to discuss this issue tonight but we did not get a reponce. to the florida board of education as well as education commissioner manny diaz, please note our invitation still stands. joining me now is chevron jones,

and state senator, i know you serve on the education committee, so you have been watching this happen. you know, up close. one of the many ironies of what's happening here is that the law that requires that african american history be taught in the state of florida was passed based on paying reparations or at least on recognizing the rosewood massacre itself. that is what sparked the law that says they have to teach african american history. what do you make of the fact they said, yeah, you have to teach it, but it has to be as the vice president called it, propaganda? >> well, first, joy, thank you for having me. let's also point out that we're talking about the same department that back in january rejected the curriculum for a.p. african american studies for being too woke. this is the same administration that said black history brought no value. republicans continue to speak out of both sides of their mouth, not just on this issue

but various issues. it's not surprising we land right here once again. even in the standards writing the department of education presented and they voted unanimously on, that this has come about and this is the direction this board of education has gone on. i want to make it clear to everyone, i think you made it clear and so many others have made it clear, there was no benefit to slavery. there was no benefit at all to it. and also want to point out the fact that all of this is disingenuous, totally disengaging from the process and what we as a legislative body should be doing in this moment, considering the fact of the many issues we as a state should be dealing with to make sure our children are learning accurate history. >> yeah, what was the benefit of forced breeding? of raping enslaved women and then owning their children as a breeding strategy and also just as a form of venality? what was the benefit of taking black enslaved children and

putting them by the water so gators could come so they could hunt gators and using them as literally gator bait and putting that on postcards. that the savagery that took place, yet your state would now like to teach that acts of violence against african americans has to be taught alongside claiming it is african americans who were causing the violence. and that's not limited to the 1908 atlanta race riot, 1919 washington, d.c. race riot, 1920 massacre, 1921 tulsa massacre, 1923 rosewood massacre. they kept happening over and over again. and i wanted you to comment on this, please, senator. florida is a place where already 35% of these students are white in public school, but 20.9% are black, 36.4% are latino. 2.8% are asian. and 4.1% are two or more races. when the vice president says it's propaganda, they're trying to propagandize nonwhite

children to make them believe that slavery was a good thing. and i wonder for what reason. can you speculate on why they want black children to believe that slavery was good? >> i can't speculate on why they're doing this. but i also can tell you that you see what's happening in florida and across the country of this narrative that's being pushed. it's really because this is not a policy issue. this is a power struggle that we're seeing right now. this isn't just about the rewriting of history. florida is trying to wipe away anything that contradicts the carefully crafted narrative that desantis is creating and that includes black history. here's my thing. so desantis doesn't want teachers to teach black history in the classroom, then i'll put my teaching hat on for two seconds and do it recognize here. it wasn't an accident that vice president harris chose jacksonville to do her visit. that's a historically black

neighborhood that became a safe haven for recently freed slaves due to the relative safety it offered with union troops located nearby. so florida has a great deal of history. i think we should also point out that florida was one of the last states, one of the last states to move forward when it comes to desegregation. so what we're seeing in florida, this is a national issue that we're dealing with, joy. this is a national problem that we're dealing with. we have the potential right now to raise a generation of children who don't know who they are, who don't know where they come from, and who do not know their history. we have to stand firm on this. i'm not just talking about black people have to stand firm. our allies have to stand firm because history is history. whether you're a jewish american, whether you're a chinese american, everyone's history is important. whether you feel comfortable or uncomfortable, it doesn't matter. you cannot tie a bow on bad

american -- what happened in american history and say it was good. it wasn't. lynching wasn't good. red lining wasn't good. all the things that happened in america needs to be taught and children need to know the truth. >> absolutely. you have to wonder why the people who are passing these laws don't assume their children if they're white will not identify with the people who were heroic in history. their assume their children are going to identify with the enslavers so they're trying to make the enslavers look good. they're doing it because they want to raise a generation of people who will be conservative enough to give them their damn tax cuts. to give them the money they want and the deregulation they want and they're terrified of young people because young people already are woke. too late. florida state senator jones, thank you very much. thank you very much, my friend. still ahead, alabama republicans ignore a supreme court ruling to redraw their congressional map. disenfranchising more black

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hey, america. did you know that you can ignore the supreme court? i didn't either until today when the alabama legislature which was ordered by the supreme court to draw a second and majority

black congressional district didn't do that. if only we had known you can just ignore sam alito, clarence and friends a year ago when they overturned roe v. wade. late today, the republican controlled alabama legislature passed a map with just one majority black seat in direct defiance of the nation's highest court. instead, they opted to choose betwee a district that is 42% black and another option with a district that is tlat% black. the joint legislature chose the second option, surprise surprise. a senate approved map with a district that is less than four tenths african american. i'm not a math girl, but i do know enough to know that 38% is well short of a majority. earlier this week, alabama's senate president pro tem said i know the process has moved through the three judge panel and then to the supreme court, and they have given an order that we need to redo the map, so here we are. it doesn't mean we're excited about it, but we're going to do our job. what it didn't say is that he isn't doing what they were ordered to do.

here's why. a second black majority congressional district in alabama would jeopardize the republican majority in the united states house of representatives. which explains why speaker kevin mccarthy called alabama republican legislature -- legislators and told them he is concerned about maintaining his house majority. joining me now is evan milligan, executive director of alabama forward, and a plaintiff in merril v. milligan, which challenged the alabama maps. and attorney markelias, cohost of the defending democracy podcast. we should point out mark is not representing evan and the organization. i do want to start with you, evan. good to see you again. i want to get your reaction to what former attorney general eric holder has called electoral apartheid in your state. >> thank you, joy. good to see you again. it was definitely disappointing to experience the state's

decision to obey two -- to disobey, sorry, two court orders but it's not surprising. we look over the history of our state, we see a pretty complex intense relationship between often leaders in our state and then the federal courts and the federal government. and i think it's important for those alabamans who live here and who might even be watching now to understand that there are actors in our past who when faced with this decision of what to do with regards to federal court orders that they might not fully agree with, there has been another trend, not only to move against the rights of black alabamans but there's been one that has embraced, you know, our relationship with the federal court. i want to mention, we think of this incident made me think of governor george wallace standing in the doorway of university of alabama to block ms. vivian

malone's admission, but there was general henry graham who complied with president kennedy's order to federalize the troops and ordered governor wallace to stem aside. it was not an easy decision for general graham to make. there were things he stood to lose. he could have refused that. if he had done so, it would have led to even more civil unrest and probably a greater scale of violence. but he complied then. he complied with supervising the troops that provided protection for the freedom riders and for those who participated in the selma to montgomery march in 1964. that is the tradition i had hoped our legislators had leaned into. it's disappointing they didn't, but we have that tradition as advocates and as alabamans that we will continue to lean into to push our state in the right

direction. >> and i will note that vivian malone was the sister-in-law of eric holder, and so he has a personal connection to it, just so people don't think this was ancient history. will your organization file a lawsuit about the new maps? >> well, our organization is not necessarily a plaintiff in the case, but several of our staff and members of the organization are, and ldf has been representing us very ably there, and we will challenge the map that was passed by our state today. >> evan milligan, keep up the fight. thank you. really appreciate you being here. >> good to be with you again. >> thank you. let me turn to mark elias. this is what governor kay ivey said about the redistricting map. and she issued this statement. following the u.s. supreme court order, i called the alabama legislature into a special session to readdress our congressional map. the legislature knows our state, our people, and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups.

and i am pleased that they answered the call to remain focus and produce new districts ahead of the court deadline. hmm. let's put up the map. it doesn't seem like it follows the law, as she's claiming it did. chief justice john roberts was very clear in his majority opinion on allen v. milligan, milligan v. allen, under the court's precedence, a district is not equally open when minority voters face substantial racial discrimination in the state. and he's not even for voting rights. that's how he ruled. what do you make of this definance, this massive resistance? >> this isn't that complicated. they're just breaking the law. you can have a whole lot of conversations about what this politician said or that politician. the fact is alabama broke the law when they drafted the map to begin with. they got sued. thaw protested, they thought

they were going to win because they had a three-judge panel with two trump appointees. they lost. they went to the supreme court, they lost. now when faced with having to comply with the law, which is by the way, not that complicated, right, like a majority minority means 50%. it can't be 38% and be more than 50%. they just decided they're not going to follow the law. so what's going to happen now is there's not going to have to be a new lawsuit. what's going to happen now is the federal district court panel is going to draw their own new map. they're going to say 38% is not greater than 50%. they didn't do what they were told to. we'll draw a map. >> well, let me ask you this, because it's very blat wantly political. you have kevin mccarthy calling. you have tommy tuberville calling, because they're concerned about losing the house. this is now an interesting kind of intervention for self gain. your thoughts. >> look, there was an era when this would have been out of

bounds, the subject of a scandal in washington, d.c. if you had a house majority leader or a house speaker in this case calling a state legislature telling them to violate a federal court order. let's just take that, there's an era not that long ago, that would have been in and of itself a scandal, but republicans have only one plan for 2024. they're going to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat. the voter suppression is making it harder to vote. they're rigging the maps. election subversion is about cheating, and it's a national disgrace that an entire political party now doesn't just whisper that quietly, they shout it out loud. >> it is about fear of the other voters, the average, the sort of median age of white americans is 48. the median age of african americans is 27. for other nonwhite groups it's even younger. mark elias, thank you very much. >> pudding fingers meanwhile, ron desantis, decides to reboot

his struggling campaign by, hold on, suing bud light? what in the snow white high boots? ron, you're doing it wrong. we'll be right back.

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the proof is in the pudding. i think the left views me as a threat. i'm definitely doing better than everybody else. >> okay, i'm sorry. ron desantis really say the word pudding? does anyone on his campaign actually like him because he's not getting good advice, y'all. lord have mercy. revolting eating habits aside. that was a laughable claim from governor destroy florida that he's doing better than everybody else. he completely ignores the fact his anti-woke robot act is offputting. even to republicans. he's stuck in second place in the polls, drifting further and further behind trump over time, and his campaign is not in good shape. morale is down right low according to a source who said, quote, the the tire campaign is on the brink. the campaign is apparently planning a reboot, supposedly with fewer big speeches and more of a national focus, but ron doesn't seem to have gotten the menu. he's launching an inquiry into bud light's parent company to punish them for the wokeness

violation of partnering with an influencer who had nerve to be trans, which ronny no likey. >> we're going to be launching an inquiry about bud light, and it could be something that leads to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the florida pension fund because at the end of the day, there's got to be penalties for when you put business aside to focus on your social agenda at the expense of hard working people. >> wow, wow. so people don't like it when someone's social agenda is pushed on them? weird. desantis is claiming that florida pepgz holders suffers when conservatives boycotted bud light. it's not the first stunt he's pulled with the pension. he already made a big deal over prohibiting state investments in companies that pursue diversity or inclusion or demonstrate a concern for the planet not burning up. if he's concerned about the pension, he might want to

address the fact that his financing are not in good shape, reportedly losing $200 million due to investments in russia, which they lost due to russia's invasion in ukraine, which he wouldn't be bothered to oppose. joining me is david jolly, msnbc political analyst, and christina greer, professor of political science at fordham university. it falls to you, david, to explain how this reboot is going. >> look, ron desantis is frustrated that america tonight doesn't want to be florida. and america doesn't want florida's governor, so he's trying to reinvent himself. the problem as you know well is who ron desantis would have to become to be a successful presidential candidate he's simply incapable of. he would have to be a republican strong on national security, a republican who is shepherding a resilient economy with ladders of opportunity for all people, and a republican that thinks politicians should stay out of

your curriculum, out of your bedroom and out of your family's decisions. none of that is who ron desantis can be. he's cast himself as a pat robertson candidate from the '80s. the only thing he has going for him is time. he does have six months to try to rebrand. but right now, the rebrand is as bad as the launch. >> you know, typically, if you're a governor running for president, they're doing it on the basis of their stewardship of their state. his state is losing construction workers, field hands on farms are fleeing the state because of the immigration law. there's malaria afoot. they have malaria now rampant in the state and no public health director to stop it. now they just decided that students need to learn that slavery, slavery was great. great job training for the blacks. your thoughts. >> right, well, joy, governors usually try to tout executive experience, saying i led the state, and we have all these record accomplishments because voters go to the polls based on

economics. we can't say that about the state of florida. he's having a very difficult case making that to the rest of the republican party and i would add one more element to david's layout, republican like a candidate with a little personality. we have seen time and time again, ron desantis is smug, arrogant, and seems disinterested in having to go through the business of campaigning, and there are a lot of people in his party that want to see him in that donald trump, george bushesque of having fun with them, being their friend. >> well he also eats pudding with his fingers, which is disgusting. let's go to robert f. kennedy jr., the other would-be president. here he is, actually, let's play john f. kennedy's grandson, jack schlossberg, speaking about rfk jr. >> he's trading in on camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories, and conflict for personal gain and fame. i have listened to him. i know him.

i have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president. what i do know is his candidacy is an embarrassment. >> here's why this young man might be saying that. here is robert f. kennedy jr.>>t that it is ethnically -- covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune are ashkenazi jews and chinese. and we don't know if folks deliberately targeted that or not. >> he then denied he said that, but it's on tape. >> he simply sounds like a republican, which i think is the amazing kind of political analysis of this.

we can qualitatively breakdown the his comments and realize how absurd they are, but i honestly believe with conviction, if rfk junior was running in the republican primary he might be leading rhonda santas. it's exactly the type of republican disruptor that that party embraces. he speaks their language. i have no idea why he is running as a democrat. >> you know what, christina? david, i agree with him. i actually think that he might be the one person that could beat donald trump in the primary in republican primary. >> right, well, to add to david's point, though, he sounds like a republican, he sounds like somebody who spends a lot of time doing debris search on the internet, and that's where the republican party is right there, just filled with conspiracy theories and really insulting theories about not just covid but about racial science and who deserves to be in the country who is deserving. so sadly there are quite a few americans who are attracted to

not just the kennedy name, but some of these conspiracy theories that are unfortunately becoming more mainstream because they are repeated consistently and told by wealthy people and people we see on the news on a daily basis. >> is that what it will take, david, to rescue your former priority? does somebody with a name need to come forward, but who is actually coherent and lucid a bit? what will it take to reverse? or is it just too late? is the party just dead? >> i don't know if it can be re-reversed. what on trump i should in and ron desantis, this post truth, post fact, post ideology party, may embrace the whack jobs and the crazies. and one who can catch fire other ones when. the reason rhonda sanders has to win right now, and likely won't, is because this is kari lake's party for years from now. this republican party is moving downhill at a fast clip. >> we're out of time. i did once a rest of peace to the great tony bennett, not

only a legend but a civil rights legend as well. we want to mention that he did pass. rest in peace, donie bennett. dave and christine after he rounded we kick off the weekend, but playing who won the week, that's next. that's next.

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the end is not of another week which means it's time it's time to play our favorite game. i, as here's the music. who won the week?

back with me former congressman david jolly and christina greer. christina, lady ladies first. who won the week? >> my favorite by you barbie from the best city in the world, baltimore. and i he about angel reese, who got her high school basketball court dedicated to her. she also got keys to the city. and she managed to do a fund-raiser for women's basketball to go to her former all of matter. >> i love her. she is adorable and brilliant as a track star. love that. good choice. david jolly, it falls to you to who in your mind, when the week? >> joy, i'm so excited about this week's winner of the week because it is you and the readout team, celebrating your third anniversary of the readout. listen, you made history when you launched in the 7:00 hour. you have loyal msnbc viewers who trust you and your team every night to deliver the truth, and even over a fox news they can't quit you if you drop tooth bombs on you. the world is watching to a read in the readout team three years

after your lunch. congratulations. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. i appreciate that. you are good friend and a good fan. a member of our family. we have all family on their shoulder, and you're a big part of it, both of you are part of our family. so thank you very much. and this team is awesome, so backups to the readout team. it is the best team in the whole world. i love them very much. thank you. so, my who won the week's, and wearing a bit of the clue from mine. it is delta sigma fainter sorority incorporated. my wonderful beautiful sorority, and they're all in indianapolis now. there are celebrating the 56th national convention. it was wonderful. kamala harris gave a rip-roaring speech. she is from aka from alpha kappa alpha -- and you came to visit to be part of the divine nine black girl magic and she, that's how i knew she was pop and mad about that florida curriculum because she said all the words about it. also yesterday was sheryl

johnson got a standing ovation. if you guys remember during kevin mccarthy's speaker vote, the amazing clerk charles johnson was honored. they inducted six new honorary members, including someone who will be familiar to people who watch this network. but also the big star was justice ketanji brown jackson, who was inducted as an honorary member of the delta sigma theater sorority incorporated. that was the big news that broke that she is now our sweet so roar, and we're so excited. dave jolly, christina greer, thank you very much deltas, you won the week. that's the week. all in with chris hayes starts now. now. >> good evening from new york. i'm ali velshi in for chris hayes. as voting is underway from to determine the republican nominee for president in 2024, donald trump is going to be on trial.