start dates for at least one of the trials against donald j trump. other legal cases against the former president appearing to reach an inflection point. trump's classified documents trial is set to begin may 24th, 2024. by that time, trump could be the apparent republican nominee for president. and according to a target letter from special counsel jack smith, trump revealed to the world this week that he received it. he could also be facing additional federal charges, related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news learning this weekends that smith's team recently contacted georgia governor brian kemp, a spokesperson for camp confirmed. though the client to comment further. and as trump faces a blow back

from the big lie, vice president kamala harris traveled to florida to push back against falsehoods being pushed by another republican presidential candidate, governor ron desantis. education department that he's over this week approved a new curriculum that radically relates black history in america, suggesting enslaved people are acquiring useful skills while in bondage. we will have more on friday's war on black history with the president of -- university ahead. plus we'll talk about how the supreme court's ban on race based affirmative action will affect americas historically black colleges and universities. all of that, on politics nation tonight. joining me now is florida state senator shevrin jones.

a democrat, a public school teacher, and a member of president biden's board of advisers on historically black colleges and universities. our state senator jones, thank you for joining us tonight as we start with the continuing war on black history in your state under governor ron desantis, and his state board of education. which this week approved a curriculum that has claimed some black american slaves, they say benefited from slavery, because they learned useful skills while in bondage. this morning, the white house confirmed to nbc news that vice president kamala harris personally made the decision to fly last-minute to jacksonville yesterday, explicitly to address the new black history standards. she had a lot to say, let's take a listen to some of it. >> they dare to push propaganda

to our children. this is the united states of america, we're not supposed to do that. we know the history, and let us not let these politicians who are trying to divide our country when. because you see, what they are doing, what they are doing, is they are creating these unnecessary debates. this is unnecessary, to debate whether enslaved people benefited from slavery. are you kidding me? are we supposed to debate that? >> anything you'd like to add to that as both a state senator and a public school teacher? >> first, thanks for having me rev. this is no different than the conversation that you and i had when you came to tallahassee in

january, with the a been -- through the college board. this idea that slavery was a benefit to enslaved is absolutely asinine. teaching that they gained skills from slavery totally implies that they didn't have skills to begin with, which is insane. they brought a lot of knowledge and we're not even compensated for. and as a public school teacher, i can tell you that there is no teachers that are out there that are indoctrinating children. teachers are actually teaching to a curriculum. this is a narrative that has continuously been created across the country and right now within the state of florida that ron desantis and the republicans continue to push. push their narrative of wokeism, and continue to discriminate and biggest free that they push. >> senator, as you said, we have a big rally that you and i went and others this year around this governor here. they have done another major,

in my opinion, insult and you and i and others are talking of this week doing another mass rally. but aside from the mass rallies, governor desantis has since responded to the vice presidents comments, tweeting yesterday quote, democrats like kamala harris have to lie about florida's educational standards to cover for their agenda of indoctrinating students and pushing sexual topics onto children. florida stands in their way, and we will continue to expose their agenda and their lies. and quote. that's a nasty thing from the governor. but then you have eye -- over black history and i was taught in florida for the last five months, and will be there in the coming days. and like i said, i was with you in february when i came down to lead a protest there with you of the state house over his

refusal to allow an ap african american studies course in high schools. so what is your reaction to this latest battle with desantis board of education, state senator? you know rev, i'll be very clear with you that the republicans continue to teach, to top out of both sides of their mouth. the administration, they tried to bolster their claims, citing a number of black americans who they claim benefited from their enslavement. this is them trying to walk back their comments based off of the standard. but still, the problem is many of the individuals who were never enslaved in the first place was on his list. others like booker t. washington became successful late in life, long after their emancipation. in spite of their time as a slave, not because of it. and so the republicans, governor desantis, the board of education, they know what

they're doing. they're gaslighting, they're trying to take us down a rabbit hole, they're trying to totally deter us from talking about the real issues that we need to be speaking about, like property insurance. like the rising cost of living in florida. like the florida housing crisis that we are dealing with. like the proficiency level of reading that we totally neglected in the education department. this is what they're not talking about, so they wanted us to be solely on these issues right here, so they don't talk about the things that actually matter. >> i want to come back to vice president harris's criticism of the decision to speak in florida yesterday, and i can attest to that because i was called late thursday to say she was gone. we reached out to someone to say that she was coming, and she confirmed that she went and nbc news confirming that the vice president told -- that she wanted to go to jacksonville the very next day to protest the states education standards. which had only been released the day before.

this is not the first time we've seen the vice president make a last-minute travel decision, to speak on matters of importance to her as a biden harris campaign surrogate, a member of the campaign's advisory board, which you are. what do you make of the vice presidents -- your states new miseducation standards? >> first, i am grateful and i think the vice president for coming. she has been committed to florida, and i know some people think that the president and the vice president have totally given up on the state of florida, but truth be told, they have not. the president and the vice president have remained and they continue to remain committed to saying what -- that was to restore the soul of this nation. and that was to make sure that we unify this country outside of a party who have, for the last 40 years with their -- try to divide us. coming to florida, just going to show what a mess desantis is

here in his elected free state of florida. and -- no one is safe these days in florida. not the lgbtq community, not black people, not mickey mouse, and not even bud light. and the list has gotten even longer since the last time you and i spoke about this nonsense a few months ago. >> absolutely. senator, we are seeing republican officials and lawmakers waste no time in using the supreme court's recent decision to overturn affirmative action. to go after race based inclusion policies, not just on our college campuses, but in the workplace. threatening even the biggest private employees with legal action if they continue race based diversity efforts. your governor has led way in privacy corporations on their social stances under the guise of combatting wokeness. watching that combat get exploited in other states, what

is your message, do you have a message to state democrats around the country about fighting back against this? >> well, i have seen this for all the democrats and all the allies, for the african american community, for lgbtq people, this is our moment to speak. this is our moment to stand up, because what republicans are trying to do, this isn't just about them trying to rewrite history. in florida and so many other places in the country, they're trying to wipe away anything that contradicts the carefully tracked it narrative that desantis and republicans are creating, and that includes black history. yes, we always need to make sure that we stand firm and strong on the things that we identify with, but we need to make sure that the people know who's truly whiting for them. they need to know that we are the ones who want to put money back in their pockets. we are the ones that want to fight for their children and their future. we have to make sure that message is clear to them, because the ones that are -- we are wide awake. and i can't wait until you and i and so many others do it

again to push back on these policies that republicans across this country are pushing. >> you won't be waiting long. we are definitely going to be doing that. state senator phil shevrin jones, thank you for joining me. we want to turn now to do wayne a. i. frederick, president of howard university i. thank you for joining me today, mister president. >> thanks for having me reverend sharpton. >> i want to start with your take on the controversies surrounding the race curriculum in florida. you were with the vice president and heard what he had to say, but i want to get your taste specifically on the new social studies curriculum, which includes lessons on how enslaved black people quote, developed skills that could be used to quote, personal benefit. according to a copy of the states academic rules, i'm quoting from the rules themselves, what could these lessons properly entail and what do you think this push for the next new set of standards

is really all about? >> i think it's insulting, number one, and number two, i think it's revisionist history. i think trying to rewrite the history of the black experience in america to such falsehoods is an extreme insult to departments that have been made since week -- and to suggest that the benefit from slavery, those skills, et cetera, -- the history of black people was after the enslavement. they ensured black people had gone on long before that, and the skills that were bought here, the knowledge base and that erosion of that and erosion of peoples identity to slavery, is being misrepresented. and i think that that's an insult. and i think that in today's time and the contemporary experience that we're having, for young people of all races,

i think it is an extreme injustice to not let them know, so that we don't repeat that history. to the way that we live today, and i think there is a lot of danger in that. >> and i think it's unfair, not only for black young people as you said, young people. young white and black, because if young whites feel that there was some narrative estates or some thing that we picked up skills, then they would feel when it comes to affirmative action and reparations and others, what are people talking about? they benefited from it. it's a distortion that young people of any race need to be educated or missed educated by. and in the wake of the supreme court decision, let me go there for a minute. to strike down on affirmative action, leaders of historically black universities are considering changing some of their admission practices and are anticipating becoming more

selective as they brace for an influx in applicants. can you speak more to this as president of one of the most prestigious hbcus in the country? in fact, one of your -- is the vice president of the united states. >> reverend sharpton, this is a major concern. hbcu already carries an outside -- of what we bring to the country. howard particularly in particular is a more african american school than any other institution. over the past few decades, we have sent more -- from our undergrad programs. we have sent more than stanford, m.i.t., harvard, and yale combined. when you look at resources of those four institutions and compare them to ours, were carrying an outsized burden. and so what we are doing already and that inputs us for what we do is already significant. howard university received its

largest number of applications this last admission cycle, and we'll have our last census this coming fall. to now have a greater influx of applications is not necessarily what we need, especially if we don't have the funds to support them. the other thing that i am concerned about, because the supreme court ruling, basically said you can't use race in the admissions decision, is we can actually now have lawsuits for students who are not black, who did not get into howard university. and it's under false claims. and i'll give you one example of that. we have 11,000 applications starting for a medical school, we are the fifth most selective medical school in the country. we get a diverse pool of applicants. as a matter of fact, i think more than 50% of our applicants are actually no one black students. and therefore those students do not get in to our university, based on merit. we do now begin out frivolous

lawsuits claiming it's because of race. and so we are on a slippery slope in my humble opinion. about what we could be faced with 50 suspicions are not adequately looked at. and hopefully, potentially, reversed in the coming, in the near future. the other concern i have is eric diversification of many fields, which our hbcus already. do we only represent 3% of higher education institutions, -- we provide a 40% of african americans with degrees in this country -- we can really significant view of diversity in many many fields as a result of this decision. >> that is very important, 3% of universities and colleges, yet 22% we provide, 20% of black's, they go on in these fields that can seriously be impacted by this decision. let me ask you about another

issue that is very serious, questioning universities, liberal arts college in connecticut, and even they have announced it's ending its legacy admissions. which has historically given its advantage to children of -- just weeks after the supreme court struck down affirmative action and they came to this conclusion. he's highly selected university and colleges have also dropped -- including -- and john hopkins. talk to me more about the precedent this sets going forward for other colleges and universities following the end of affirmative action. >> yeah, this is a very interesting issue, because you have to remember that a legacy admissions means that there is some history of having fine milley members, to set, reveler succeeded with you. having attended these institutions. the reason why this is a concern as well, is that especially when you look at hbcus, again, the number of

incidents students we have your first time college is significant. those students who do not get an opportunity to get an advantage because of legacy, it's for the disadvantage. so for example, i like to use myself. when i came to -- in 1980, eight i had no family member who had previously attended howard, university. and i had to get in based on my own merit. i had no one to make a phone call. i had no one who had previously made a donation to the institution. and that opportunity, i got -- as a 16-year-old coming from a trinidad and tobago with -- wasn't enormous one that would change generations of my family, potentially. these legacy admissions, while intended to foster and cultivate a certain type of quality, also takes away opportunity from others. so what happens to that kid in montgomery, alabama, who is a first time in college student. very high gpa, very high marriage scores. but doesn't have that person do

kind of grease the wheels. and i think it has been a travesty that we have used. it is something that during my tenure at howard, people work really closely on a try to be careful about. we don't have like the admissions. but we do track how many students -- do get in. and that religious is still significant. but it primarily is from a cultivation of those students themselves by their parents -- to apply and potentially get to our university. and i think that's it's something that all selective institutions should be looking at to make sure that we continue to have a level playing field. >> that's a very serious issue, particularly when in our community, many of our parents, grandparents, great grandparents couldn't go to school because of segregation laws. and certainly couldn't get donations. [inaudible] -- legal history. howard university -- >> coming up, one southern

state defies the supreme court. and passes another gerrymandered map that will almost certainly dilute the power of black voters. later we will discuss what it will take to stop the second assault on the vote, next. but first, my colleague, jessica layton, with today's top stories. jessica? >> hi, reverend, al and thank. you stories we are watching closely at this hour. demonstrators in israel ended their four-day long track to jerusalem to protest prime minister benjamin netanyahu's proposed overhaul of the judiciary. critics say the changes put the nation on a road to authoritarianism. netanyahu and his allies say the changes will stop unelected judges from abusing their power. dozens of former security chief have signed a letter, calling for a stop to the plan. while some military reservists say that they will not report for duty as a protest. south korea's joint chiefs of staff say it is working with

the u.s. to analyze the latest show of aggression from north korea. south korea's government says the north fired several rounds of cruise missiles into the yellow sea early saturday. south korea says it is not sure how many missiles were fired or how far they had flown. and people living in and vacationing on an island -- as the island enters day five of this large wildfire. greece as a whole was experiencing temperatures as high as 113 degrees in some places. and that has prompted the government to close major archaeological sites, including the acropolis. i am jessica layton, more politicsnation with reverend al sharpton after the break.

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week that florida governor ron desantis kicked off a reboot of his campaign, pivoting away from florida to a more national focus. instead, as we have been reporting, the governor's -- department of education is trying to rewrite black history. and that is not the only outlandish game that they have been brewing in the sunshine state this week. governor desantis, who already uses his office to go after migrants, the lgbtq community, and disney, now has a new target. take a listen. >> so we are going to be launching an inquiry about bug

light and -- 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 has got to be penalties for when you put business aside to focus on your social agenda at the expense of hardworking people. >> the legal theory behind the possible lawsuit is as water down and tasteless as light beer itself. according to the governor, florida's preaching pension fund is worth 180 billion dollars. and has just over philly $50 million in stock in the a b -- company that owns bug light. that is just 0.0 to 8% of the funds total portfolio. the lawsuit could serve the to further evaluate the stock, which has been under pressure since the consumer boycott of bud light began in the spring.

over an online marketing video featuring a transgender influencer that was less than a minute long. governor desantis wasn't very concerned about the pension fund when in april he said that he would never drink bug light again. he only brings the issue up now, as he is slipping in the polls and thirst-ing for a headline. all of this sounds like a desperate candidate who knows the last call is coming for his campaign. governor desantis hoped to be sensible alternative to trump, instead he has revealed himself as an impersonal politician whose only play is to push culture war grievances that appeal only to the most angry and bitter of american voters. a writer for the atlantic puts it this way, quote, the florida governor is in trump plus confidence, he is trump minus jokes. that is no laughing matter.

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let's turn to my panel, kelly heiman, attorney and legal panelist. and april ryan, washington's white house bureau chief for thegrio. and an msnbc contributor. kelly, we have a trial date set for jack smith's classified documents investigation of donald trump. may 2024. nearly the d presidential primary season. when we can probably expect to know who the gop nominee will be. and based on current projections, we have good reason to think that it will be donald trump. does it help or hurt candidate trump to be on trial, as we enter general election season? i mean, how does someone seriously run a presidential campaign facing this many

felony charges? and possibly more on may of next year. >> absolutely, that's an interesting point. we have to look at this from a legal standpoint, these are serious legal actions that have been brought against him. he was indicted. that means that a grand jury, based on the evidence that was heard, believed that there was a serious -- from the standpoint of it hurts him? yes, it does hurt him. but there will be interesting to see when the trial date comes around, whether his defense attorneys ask for the trial to be expended after the fact that the presidential election happened -- to benefit him. because they definitely hurts him who have this information and potentially be indicted. >> but would it not, i want to go to you, april, as well on this. what is not also her to tell voters that you may have a president that, when there is a

national emergency, he may be in court all day because the defendant can't waive his presence in a criminal trial even if it is virtual. i suppose it happens in the world, and the president is tied up sitting at a defense table or sitting virtually there. that could be a very serious national security risk. -- third and thus far most serious indictment looming over donald trump who revealed this week but he received a target letter to special counsel jack smith's january 6th investigation. that letter named three federal statutes that trump could be facing charges over. i wonder, april, since you have been in the briefing room with trump many times before, while he was under pressure, albeit nothing like what he is facing now. do these legal rules we can him and shift his focus? or does that embolden him and

give him fire? >> reverend, al this is a very intricate question that you are asking. because donald trump is very complex, as you will know. privately, he is very concerned, but publicly he wants the window, the appearance of strength. he is going to go out and speak in boldness, and even tell people, look, we have to have kind of the same scenario january 6th. at the same, time he's very concerned. at issue, it's about those who are supporting him still. we are making him right now in the -- view, the leader of the republican view when it comes to this presidential candidate contest right now. yosemite people who believe at this point that it is a witch hunt against donald trump. some of the charges that the indictments that came down first happened to deal with sex or something along that line in those two situations, e. jean carroll as well as the stormy daniels. the most serious issues are coming later. and if these were serious issues, i wonder what the

mindset would have been for those who are still supporting donald john trump, the former impeached, impeached, indicted, indicted, how many times? president of the united states. >> kelly, jack smith's investigation appears to be close to the indictment stage. what is your reaction when you saw a target letter go out to trump, and the three federal statutes being looked at. do you get the sense that the doj is covering all of the bases? >> i think the doj is serving justice. it's serving the american people. they are investigating this allegation. bringing them before the grand jury. and the grand jury is making the determination of whether to indict him based on the evidence presented to them. no one is above the law, and that is what is great about our justice system. >> april, a new article explains how the republican party and most of trump's rivals for the 2024 gop

presidential nomination is tracking off the news of a potential third indictment for the former president, as more of the same. one gop senator who's backed trump's efforts to overturn biden's 2020 victory says, quote, i think it shows that politicians lie and they know they are lying, the liar knows, the people knows he's lying. and the people that are being lied to, they are being lied to. that is the political reality in 2023, unquote. april, how concerning is it that republicans excuse trump's bad behavior and defend him? >> well, reverend al, as you know, and so many of us know, to include the republicans in leadership, that donald trump broke that rule of law. he has been found to be a liar. yet and still, he carried out the missions of core principles of the republican party. you know? some of that being, how many

supreme court justices did he put on that bench in the high court? you know, the cause of, that we are seeing the overturning of rules and laws that republicans really had a problem with, let's say, roe v. wade overturned, let's talk about affirmative action and college admissions. overturned. and there are potentially could be more. he did exactly what, you know, they wanted to do. even though it might have been unpolished and rash. and not lacking a lot of, lacking a lot of control. but he did. what they're seeing is, okay, this is donald trump. in the meantime, i will turn a blind eye. and kind of downplayed what he did, because he didn't want him to do that. >> kelly hymen and april ryan, thank you both for being with us. coming, up state attorneys across the country send a strong message to america's fortune 100 diversity matters,

diversity matters, is the message. message.

welcome back to politicsnation, the ripple effects of the supreme court's ruling three weeks ago, ending race based college affirmative action, are already impacting life beyond just our campuses. nearly 2000 democratic attorney general's -- nation's top 100 companies to stay the cause on diversity

this week. responding to a immediate push by republican a.g.'s have attempted to believe those same companies, into doing away with race based inclusion measures. using the courts affirmative action decision as an excuse to do so. joining me, now nevada attorney general erin ford, a democrat, and one of the signers of this week's letter. attorney general forward, thank you for joining us tonight. this week, you joined 20 democratic attorney generals on a letter urging diversity practices to be maintained at the nation's top 100 companies, which were threatened last week by over a dozen republican attorney generals. in a letter calling on those companies to and race based policy under the supreme court's recent ruling on college affirmative action. of course, as that decision came down a few weeks ago, we have already seen where

republican lawmakers and officials have targeted race based policies, beyond just college admissions, beyond just our universities. and now it is pushing into our workforce. our contracts back, many of us in the struggle feared it would. including this week's letter. how america's democratic a.g.'s pushing back on this? >> well, reverend, thank you so much for having me on. you've used some very apropos wards. the headline earlier said intimidate, you said threaten. and that is exactly what 13 of my republican colleagues are doing to fortune 100 companies. and indeed, country bunnies across the. nation last, week 13 of my republican -- fortune hundred companies trying to apply the -- supreme court case on affirmative action to diversity programs and corporations. they are showing their true colors, reverend, they are anti-diversity, they are anti business, and they are anti-economy. these republicans, they laid out a series of what is clearly

a thinly veiled and thinly disguised threats against companies who have made it a priority of theirs to have a diverse workforce, that affects the bottom line because it helps to better serve their diverse constituencies. this week, under my leadership and with the colleagues and the -- we send a message back loud and clear that the person who makes our nation great, who that it is indeed lawful to cooperations to engage in dei, we stand next to them as they attempt to do so. >> now staying with the courts decision on affirmative action, have you already seen it impact colleges and universities in nevada? one of the most diverse states with this largest city of las vegas. one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the country. what are you seeing as state a.g., three weeks after that decision. >> thank you for mentioning, about because it is my home state, and we are one of the most diverse states in the

country. we wouldn't be the world class definition that we are without people from around the country and indeed around the world. now calling our state home. and so to your question about how it is affecting our colleges and universities, it is, not they will remain engaged and improving the diversity numbers in our colleges and universities. they have already indicated that they will not be deterred by this last supreme court decision. to be sure, they will follow the, law but they will encourage and continue to look to build a strong diverse communities in our educational system. i think across the nation, you are seeing comparable efforts, i saw earlier your statement about collagen messages i think it was. and it's likewise looking to and legacy programs. at the same time continuing diversity oriented programming. so i think that is important to know as. >> well alabama has refused to comply with the supreme court's ruling last month, that the state's 2020 congressional voting map drawn by the states gop dominated legislature was

intended to dilute its black vote by drawing just one majority black district out of seven. a ruling demanded that a second majority black district to be drawn to be in compliance with the voting rights act. on friday, the state passed a new map with a second district that is only about 40% black. the state's governor approved it. attorney general forward, how does the biden administration compel alabama to comply? and where are we as a nation when republican state legislators in a state along covered by the voting rights act can simply refuse a high court ruling. a high court that is mostly right-wing, it can defy them on a voting map? >> reverend, we have seen this before, right? we have seen certain states, other states in particular refused to obey orders, legislative orders for supreme court orders. and, you know, there are

unfortunately consequences that will have to be asserted in that regard. but let's be clear, this is a coordinated attack. you have alabama disobeying a supreme court order. you have florida now trying to rewrite our educational history. you have 13 republican attorneys general attacking diversity, specifically as it relates to african americans and their corporations. and you have congress attacking diversity in our military. this is a coordinated effort that must be met with a similar coordinated attack, and a coordinated approach. we have won't stand idly by as democratic attorneys general. and we encourage others to get engaged and get involved, to push, back and let people know that the opposite of progressive, which they call a bad word, is regressive. and that is exactly what is happening. here they are trying to stop the progress we have made over years and revert and regress back to times where they had more control and less diversity in these arenas.

and we will not go backwards in this fight. >> several members about a state gop were outed as having participated in a so-called fake electors scheme. to hand the state to donald trump in 2020. your office spent months investigating that scheme. but cannot bring charges against the actors because there was no state law empowering you to do so. he backed a state bill, vetoed last month by your republican governor, that would have criminalized the submission of a false electors. a few weeks ago after that veto, two of the state gop officials testified before a grand jury in jack smith's january 6th probe. trump is trying to win nevada for the third time as a presidential candidate. despite losing the first two attempts. your thoughts on trump's impact on your state? >> well, look, i think trump's impact on our states undeniable. , he has an impact, there's

infighting happening within the republican party. i am discouraged by the fact that the republican governor vetoed a bill that could hold accountable people who engage in the fake electoral process, going forward. you are correct that i testified on that bill. unfortunately, as you have indicated, it was vetoed. the infighting ongoing right now relates to whether there is going to be a primary or a caucus here in our state. which of the person who ran against me last time around suing our state to say that they shouldn't be required to hold a primary, unless they can hold a caucus. which is that the best of mr. trump himself. they lost that lawsuit, as they are always prone to do. but the point is that that is indicative of what is happening in the republican party right now. and that is all because of the impact that mr. trump has had here in our state. >> attorney general a ron ford of nevada, thank you for being with us. up next, my final thoughts, stay with us.

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watching all see you back here tomorrow at five pm eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton, hello everyone, i'm alicia menendez. this is saturday we are on indictment to watch, as the justice department sprawling election interference investigation nears closer and closer to donald trump. trump says he has received a target letter from the doj, prosecutors have been busy