marc morial president of the national urban league, and republican strategist sara fagan. you all for being here. >> thank you. >> it's a very busy sunday. kelly, let me start with you. the biden campaign raised $10 million after the state of the union address after delivering a speech that frankly, fired up his base and now he's barnstorming key states. how are his allies feeling about this reset? >> they feel that that money is showing the attempt to show the vigor really worked. they view march as a building and scaling time where they will try to make sure they have their volunteers, their organization, their state parties. and later for the persuasion, if there's a weekend structure in politics, that's what they're talking about. springing forward into building those key groups that will help support the campaign going forward. initially, they feel strong about how the president performed and they know they've got to take that on the road. >> they sure do. and, eugene, yesterday with these dueling events in georgia, it showed how brutal and combative this campaign is

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[applause] >> let's give■ it up again for president marc morial. for the prescription. the national urban league is committed to defending the integrity and intent of the civil rights act while expanding its protection americans. and at this critical moment for our democracy, our institutions seek to advance the quality of k backwards. and to discuss this call to action, we've invited an outstanding panel of influential thought leaders and social justice activists. and let's meet them right now. starting with the the presid ceo of the national coalition on black civic participation and convener of the black women's roundtable, give it up for melanie campbell. our friend and our sister. [applause] >> now let's welcome the president and chief executive officer of the national council of negro women, doctor siobhan bradley. [applause] >> welcome to the stage the president and ceo of the columbia urban league, j.c. [applause] now, , let's welcome back moderate this amazing panel and discussion, president and ceo marc morial. [applause] >> thank you all

thank, you marc morial, for that really good conversation. we appreciate it. that will do it for me on this edition of alex witt reports. i'll see you tomorrow again at one pm eastern. up next, the beat weekend. he b. >>> welcome to the beat weekend. i am ari melber. let's get right into the headlines. jack smith making new pitch on behalf of the doj on what donald trump must be put on trial before the election. if that sounds like a familiar issue, just remember, jack smith has more than one case against defendant trump. the defendant was done and in federal court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial and the other jack smith case. billy and the way, we discussed a big coup case and the supreme court slowing that down. this is the classified documents case. you probably remember. both and they are saying over at the doj there is nothing in their roles or process which prevents this trial, on the documents, from occurring and weeks even days before the election. remember, it is trump as a defendant who has been killed in both

. >> president and ceo of the national urban league, marc morial, thank you.ut now, and rev, thank you. we'll be watching tomorrow. california residents are hunkering down as a historic blizzard buries the lake tahoe region. up to 12 feet of snow could fall on the highest peaks of the sierra nevada mountains between now and sunday. 12 feet, which could also see wind speeds up to 110 miles per hour. the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. this is a look this morning from the east peak of the mountain range, avalanche warnings are also in effect for the area through sunday morning. we're also following the massive wildfires in the texas panhandle. the smoke house creek fire merged with another massive blaze and is now the largest, most damaging fire in the state's history with over a million acres burned. so far two deaths have been recorded. the fire is only 3% contained. we'll be following that. >>> and coming up, he reads 887 pages of plans for donald trump's second term just so we don't have to. yes, we'll discuss what "new york times" opinion columnist ca