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You know how weve been doing our where is hillary segment and show video of where hillary is that day . You dont get to watch the show that much. Well, its a okay, actually, tonight is the first night. Okay, good its the first night were going to do it. I was think i must have been nodding out for that. Youve missed nothing. And we have exclusive video of where hillary was today. Very nice. Do you know where she was . No. Okay, thats why theres a 10 00 show, rachel where is hillary . And we have exclusive video supplied, rachel, supplied by the youngest odonnell correspondent ever to supply msnbc with any video. Not kelly odonnell. Not kelly odonnell. I am on the edge of my seat. Youngest ever, like a year younger than you. Or more, maybe. [ laughter ] all right, you got me. Rachel, thats why we have a 10 00 show. We have a 10 00 show for a lot of reasons, my friend. Thank you, rachel. Good night, lawrence. We will close the show tonight with the wisdom of Ruth Bader Ginsburg but first we will wade through trump worlds troubling contacts with russia concentrating on the Jeff Sessions chapter of that scandal and we will consider the question what would Jeff Sessions have done differently today if he knew he was guilty of perjury. Big news out of the kremlin sorry, i misread that. White house. We have the southern white house in florida and we get a lot of work done. Blasting old pictures, senator Chuck Schumer with Vladimir Putin. And he even enjoyed a krispy kreme doughnut. Nancy pelosi with the Russian Ambassador in 2010. You were one of the first people to call for Jeff Sessions to resign. For him to say well, i was just meeting with him with. I do remember saying i had gone to russia with a church group in 1991. Its beyond naive, its almost pathetic. Almost pathetic. There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not russian intelligence were colluding with the Trump Campaign. Do such transcripts exist . I have not seen them, i believe they exist. Wow, thats news. Were not even six weeks into the Trump Presidency and people in his own party are already talking about a special prosecutor. Its like youre on a third date with someone and youre already introducing them to your divorce lawyer. 6 so youre the recently confirmed attorney general of the United States and you are suddenly suspected of perjury in your confirmation hearing and you absolutely did not perjure yourself. What do you do . Immediately offer to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary committee to prove you did not commit perjury in your confirmation hearing . And this is important to you as attorney general of the United States because you are going to be overseeing countless perjury prosecutions because you will be seeing perjury prosecutions everyday. Some will need your guidance, most wont. But when federal prosecutors consult you on perjury prosecutions, you dont want any of them in that room to be wondering if you yourself are guilty of perjury as they all now have a right to do including the attorney general of washington, d. C. Who has the authority to prosecute you, the attorney general, for perjury. Jeff sessions didnt do that today. He didnt volunteer to testify to the Judiciary Committee to clear his name. What would you do if if you were suspected of perjury and you knew what you said under oath does fit the Legal Definition of perjury . What would you do when almost half of the members of the Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the chairman demanding that you be called back to testify to the judiciary committ committee. Youd have to offer to at least submit socalled corrections to the record in writing to the Judiciary Committee and if you were guilty of perjury you wouldnt want to be in the open verbal cross fire of the Judiciary Committee again but giving them something in writing, something your friends on the committee could claim absolve you of any guilty would be the least you could do and that is what Jeff Sessions announced he would do today. The least he could do. What if he were chairman of the snu Senate Judiciary committee and you voted to confirm an attorney general now suspected of perjury, what would you do . If you were sure he was not guilty and you wanted to prove that you would summon him to answer him back. Youd give him the forum to prove he was not guilty of perjury. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley did not do that today. What would you do if you were chairman of the Judiciary Committee and you recently confirmed a friend of yours to be attorney general and that attorney general was suspected of committing perjury in his confirmation hearing. What would you do . What would you do if you thought your friend would be dangerously close to the line of perjury or went over that line and committed the crime of perjury and you wanted to get him through the crisis unscathed. You would not invite your friend back into the open cross fire of the Judiciary Committee hearing and if members demanded you bring the attorney general back for more questioning you would protect your friend, you would refuse to do it. Thats what Chuck Grassley did today. Chuck grassley refused to recall to the committee an attorney general suspected of perjuring himself. If chairman grassley wanted to make Jeff Sessions look guilty of perjury today he did everything he could to fuel that suspicion by refusing his own Committee Members demands that he bring Jeff Sessions back for more testimony. If he wanted to add to that that he is guilty of perjury he did everything right. He did nothing to lessen the suspicions about the possibility that there was something criminal in his hearing, perjury. And the man who appointed Jeff Sessions and delivered the russian influence peddling scandal to washington in which Jeff Sessions is now implicated behaved as he always does when not sluggishly reading a teleprompter in the chamber of the house of representatives. He behaved like a clown. The president of the United States took to twitter where he demonstrated his cognitive difficulty in spelling in what may be his declining years. Le with the entire wuss staff there to help him it took him three full attempts to spell the word hereby correctly. It appears in his imbecilic tweet where he seems to be indicating that anyone meeting with any russian at any time is scandalous. It is impossible for President Trump to get himself or closest advisers in the Trump Campaign and in the white house out of the quicksand of their own russian entanglements some of which may have been illegal so he thinks he can drag any democrat into that quicksand. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer, anyone whos ever met with a russian official, or the Russian Ambassador even though its within their normal duties and responsibilities. What the tantrum tweeter in the white house is hoping for that his followers have never shown any interest in fact or detail will give the same answer entanglements in russia that they have given to me. They always say the same thing when you point out Donald Trumps lies to donald trump supporters. They always say all politicians do it, they all lie. They dont defend donald trump, they know hes a liar. They like where his lies are leading, whether it be about building a wall or tax cuts or banning muslims from entering the United States. Donald trump is now in the business of trying to convince those people that they all do it. They all have the same kind of meets with russian. Its meetings with russians that may have in any way affected the last president ial election. That is the essence of the crippling scandal that the Trump Administration sinks deeper into everyd everyday. Its a purely trumpian scandal, a purely republican scandal and Jeff Sessions is holding on for daef life as attorney general with fourpurely republican help. Republican Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee who has no more questions. Republican donald trump who only has questions for nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer and people completely uninvolved in the investigation of contacts with russia during and after the president ial campaign. President trump cannot tweet his way out of this investigation. Remember when he tweeted how he would win the Trump University lawsuit before he completely sur re surrendered in the lawsuit and would pay 25 million to the unfortunate victims of his fraud . Remember when he threatened he would sue all of the women who accused him of Sexual Assault . He hasnt sued them and he never will. Trump tweets, trump threats have never meant anything in an investigation of donald trump and they dont now so we now have the highestranking federal prosecutor in the land the attorney general of the United States presiding over every federal prosecution in the country, everyday and everyday he does that he is now suspected of being a felon himself. Joining us now, david frum, Senior Editor for the atlantic. Jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and also the senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and expert on russia who recently returned from ukraine. Adrian, i suspect i will now be tweeted about by donald trump having met on television. One step removed. We know what donald trump is trying to do. Saying anybody with a russian name, anybody from ukraine who any American Government official meets with is what the same as what Michael Flynn did, what Jared Kushner did, what Jeff Sessions did. I think Jeff Sessions has a perjury issue, i dont think he has a russia issue. It was a legitimate function of his role in the Armed Services committee. But it was not a legitimate function of his role to discuss the election and campaign with the ambassador. I think the the real reason why there is this great tension is that there is a huge number of these informal back door constant dialogues with the russian side and then there are these very strange comments from donald trump showing a great proclivity to get along with russia. On one level it shows the amateurism but on the other hand it shows there is a lot of smoke there and there is obviously this deep interest in parsing out exactly and unpacking everything that has happened and certainly there is a suspicion that there was some signaling to the russians that, wink, wink, well get this right, well have a special relationship even before the American People gave them the mandate to conduct. Candidate trump at the microphone at his rally publicly asked russia to please fd Hillary Clintons emails and release th. Right, and the sessions meeting with the Russian Ambassador in washington has been the focus of this story so far but he met with him in cleveland when he went there by his own admission. At the convention . At the republican convention. He said he was not going there as a senator, he paid for it through campaign funds, his travel and accommodations. He was there as a representative of the Trump Campaign, meeting with the Russian Ambassador in clevela cleveland. Hes indicated to reporters that they did gossip and he said ad as you indicated last night i dont recall the substance of that gossip so its clear they had some kind of substance. The only way well get to the bottom is with a special prosecutor and i think this is like like likely to happen. So a guy named Rod Rosenstein is having confirmation hearings on tuesday that are very, very important. Hes the u. S. Attorney in baltimore whos been nominated to be Deputy Attorney general. It will be up to him to announce whether theres a special prosecutor or not in this case. Presumably the democrats and i hope some republicans will not confirm him unless he commits to appointing a special prosecutor. And from that hearing next week certainly special prosecutor from the democrats perspective is what it will be about from start to finish. I think sessions, whether it amounts to perjury, im not going to guess. He spoke untruthfully. The reason he spoke that is because he sensed the russia story was dangerous and didnt want to go near it. Hes not part of the trump russia scandal it strongly looks like. And if you go after him and i understandbly liberal minded people have other reasons for being upset about him, but he will not draw you toward the center of the russia story, hell draw you away. Meanwhile, the call for a special prosecutor is a grave mistake. Law fair blog recommended a select committee. Ive talked about some kind of independent outside body. You want to know the facts and a lot of the facts are not crimes. If donald trump was laundering money for the russian for the russians in the 1990s, thats not a crime. And a special prosecutor has to look away. You want to know about that. Its not a crime for americans like Paul Manafort to have intense conversations with people inside russia. You want to know whether that happened or not, you want to know who in the trump organization, was it just roger stone who was a whacko or more serious people . Did Jared Kushner have those conversations . None of those things are crime and if they come before a special prosecutor, the special prosecutor must look away. You want to analyze the security risk. You want to know are there people who dont have the best interest of the United States at the center of the u. S. Government. But, david, the problem is we have a long history of commission commissions ending up as a bunch of mush and even the idea of getting an independent commission at this point is dicey because its usually the president and congress that appoints the commission. The president isnt going to do it, the republicans arent going to do it so the only place they have leverage is the nomination of the Deputy Attorney general and all they need is three republican votes to prevechblt him from being confirmed unless he signs off on a real investigation and yes maybe this should also be a commission but why not at least first look to see whether there is law breaking in this case. But what if what we have is a massive series of security violations, we not want to let th outrun the knowledge but what if u have compromises of National Sovereignty but no crimes . And the special prosecutor has to spend two years and say i havent found anything and then people get a the functional equivalent of a clean bill of health when the country is still in danger. What is your sense of where the center of this story is is. I dont think the center is with Jeff Sessions. Maybe procedurally the question of his relationship to his colleagues in the senate. But in terms of his view historically hes been the hawk, he supported lethal weapons to ukraine. He was more hawkish than the Obama Administration on these questions. He supported sanctions. So he could be someone who tried to explain that donald trump was well intentioned, he was trying to suck up to the candidate and position himself for this job or some other job but i dont think the the russians wouldnt have looked at him as a mark with whom to influence policy because they would have recorded him as someone they dont want in power. They may have been gathering some intelligence, they may have been gathering game him that hes the guy on the inner circle to figure out what are the influences around trump and how can we push him further into the direction of accommodating russia and of making a deal that gives russia sort of sanction for some of the aggressive actions its taken over the last three years under putin. Jonathan alter, a quick word about Jared Kushner who has allowed certainly falsehoods to be put out about about contacts with russians because he never included himself in anything the Trump Transition Team campaign released and he knew he himself had these contacts. And there are so many avenues to pursue for reporters. Rachel maddow talked about meetings between trump and a russian fertilizer king that happened on a regular basis. Jared kushner has huge real te interest himself. And the trump organizations other connections, which trumps son said a few years ago they had a disproportionate amount of russian investment. But we need somebody with subpoena power. The press is doing a great job so far. Its not enough. We cant subpoena anybody. It feels like we are at the tip of the iceberg. Thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate it. Jonathan alter, adrian, david frum. Coming up, the russian perspective on Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Thats next. 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What was Vladimir Putin hoping for in that meeting between his ambassador and thensenator Jeff Sessions and what did he get . The man who promoted the ambassador to that job offers his view next. Want longer lasting heartburn relief . Try. Duo fusion duo fusion goes to work in seconds and lasts up to 12 hours. Tums only lasts up to 3. For longer lasting relief. In one chewable tablet try duo fusion from the makers of zantac an unwitting agent of the russian federation, thats how mike morrell described donald trump back in august a month before thenTrump Campaign policy adviser senator Jeff Sessions met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in his senate office. Today an Rhea Mitchell spoke to the man who once promoted ambassador kislyak to be his deputy before Vladimir Putin came to power. Former russian minister andre kosirev explained what he thinks happened after the ambassador left Jeff Sessions office in september. The first plan he would report that sessions didnt tell him to stop the hacking. To stop the interference into american domestic policies. Thats the message which kislyak, being professional, would mention the first in his cable, that in the Arms Service Committee i was not even not even reproached for that matter not to say putin warning that you dont do these things, that america will retaliate with the full force. What would Vladimir Putin sitting in the kremlin think when he get this is report back from his ambassador, they didnt even mention it. Thats the message, that i can get away from that or maybe even have a sympathy on that side. Joining us now, evan mcmullin, former cia operative and former independent president ial candidate, currently the cofounder of stand up republican. Also back with us, adrian carrot in the ski. Adrian, what do you make of that interpretation of what the ambassadors report would be. If that was the nature of the conversation it would probably be a woo woo. And when Jeff Sessions decided to share with us some of the details of what was said stressing i dont recall three times for any of the interesting details, one detail that he did not offer was, oh, i told them stop interfering in this election, stop your hacking in the United States right now. He could have said the other day that hed said that, he didnt. No, i think thats right. But, i mean, look, its very clear that mr. Sessions was positioning himself to have a post in the upcoming Trump Administration. So he was going to go where the signals were going. I mean this week. He may not have raised this issue for that reason. I see what you mean. So for his future with the administration if possible if the president ial candidate is signaling go for it. Jeff sessions candidate was on the stage in the rallies begging the russians to do more. Right, absolutely. And that sends a very clear signal to everybody in the campaign that its open game on the american democracy for russia and i think thats something his top Campaign Advisers already knew but obviously its highly concerning and theres more there. Adrian, his memories were of comments about a visit he made to russia in 1991 with a church group. He remembered all sorts of details that felt convenient yesterday when he was talking about it but he didnt remember the details of saying dont do this hacking. One of the participants in that scussion, the Russian Ambassador. Now controls the outcome here. The Russian Ambassador owns the attorney general of the United States. The Russian Ambassador tomorrow could say heres what he said in that meeting and it could condemn Jeff Sessions or not. Its completely up to the Russian Ambassador. Well, theres also the question of whether yes, he potentially could but what is the credibility of the Russian Ambassador . I dont think we should take it definitively if he exonerates or implicates him that this is anything but a russian operation. Thats the whole problem with these contacts that there was a lot of i wouldnt say in the case of senator sessions but in the case of other members of the campaign theres an informality in which relationships were structured. people on the Foreign Affairs advisers to the campaign who never met with the president who had side meetings with the russians. The russians saw this as a great mine data mining. They were building relationships for the future administration. They didnt know how it would turn out. But its not going very well for mr. Putin. What were seeing is this scrutiny is backfiring on putin because the entire intelligence establishment, the entire media and a very large portion of the legislative branch are watching this intently, want to get to the bottom of absolutely every kind of contact and thats the last possible thing mr. Putin would want and i think in a sense it constrains trump today from pursuing an accommodationalist line with russia because he is now under such a degree of suspicion that he was that he had some kind of a hidden relationship with the russians. Yeah, removing the sanctions tomorrow is a little more awkward than the Trump Transition Team might have thought. Evan, as a former cia operative, a scenario in which the attorney general of the United States is in effect indebted to the Russian Ambassador to stick with the attorney generals story about what happened in that conversation. Well, look, the Russian Ambassador as an intelligence operator is skilled in compromising people, in the beginning in very settle ways, this is how it works. Somebody divulges something they shouldnt at a time when they shouldnt and then theyre compromised and that compromise can lead to bigger compromises and so forth. We dont know if that happened and i want to be very clear about that. We dont know what the nature of the discussion was. Youre right the ambassador holds some cards but there were also other people in the room and when there are other people in the room, its difficult for anything too untoward to happen. The bigger issue here is that a. G. Sessions lied under oath to the senate about his meetings with russian officials. Thats the bigger concern. Like david frum said in the previous segment. I dont think this is the core of where we should be focusing. The core is donald trump himself. But i want to say another thing about whether putin is happy about whats happening or not. Its true that maybe this is backfiring in a way that isnt going to end well. And actually i think thats the case. Im optimistic our country is going to learn a range of les n lessons as a result of this episode and well be better for in the the end but in the near term, putin has succeeded in making our democracy look a little bit off. And this is what putins goal is. He wants to make us look worse to make his autocratic style of leadership look more appeal ing well have to leave it there for tonight, adrian karatnycky, and evan mcmullin. Thank you. Coming up, who is winning . The institutions empowered to resist the presidency or donald trump . And tonights last word goes to Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. What are you doing . Getting your quarter back. Fountains dont earn interest, david. You know i work at ally. I was being romantic. You know what i find romantic . A robust annual percentage yield thats what i find romantic. This is literally throwing your money away. I think its over there. That way . Yeah, a little further up. What year was that quarter . What year is that one . 98 thats the one. You got it nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Ally. Do it right. Lets get out of that water. Watry. Duo fusiong heartburn relief . Ally. Do it right. Duo fusion goes to work in seconds and lasts up to 12 hours. 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Just ask your doctor about taltz. The day after donald trump was elected i told you that the constitution is more powerful than the president. The congress, the judiciary, the First Amendment that protects newspapers and protesters all more powerful than the president. So almost halfway through Donald Trumps first 100 days, whos winning . Joining us now, zerlina maxwell, director of progressive programming for sirius xm, Jonathan Alter and david frum, zerlina, who is winning . I think institutions are winning at this moment. Thats because essentially the best spotlight on things that are going on in the government that the public needs to know is the press right now. I think the last year weve seen a reinvigoration in the press. The Washington Post is hiring dozens of reporters, the New York Times hiring dozens of folks and thats good for the country because we need to know what our government is doing and theres plenty of fodder for journalists to uncover in this particular administration. And you see in donald trump utter confusion that, as he puts it, the Washington Post and the nework times are allowed to do this. This is a guy who spent decades trafficking in gossip items with playing his own publicist. He was trading off stuff and then hes also stunned that the judiciary has a role, that he could write an executive order that could be reviewed by a mir judge in seattle and that could stop everything. That seems to be news to him. Well, this is what happens when you elect someone who has never Held Public Office and doesnt understand necessarily the function of government. I want to defend people who never Held Public Office and are not utter imbeciles. Its not that donald trump is a business guy who hasnt Held Public Office, its just that hes too often an ignoramus. I was being nice. You were. He doesnt read the constitution he swore to uphold. And the institution to the presidency has been hurt by hiss a sen his ascension to public office. I dont think the congress has been covering itself in glory. You have a lot of republicans who are not exactly profiles in courage at this time of character testing. You have others who are stepping up, vy conservative republicans who understand that constitution and country comes before party. But too many dont. Civil society, on the other hand, which is a kind of an institution, our nonprofits, thats very strong and responding very strongly. And the American Public is supporting things like the aclu which is just bringing in huge amounts of money. Supporting things like propublica or d. C. Report that broke this big story tonight that are doing Investigative Journalism outside of the main news organizations so thats a good sign our Civil Society is strong. And on the protest front, it is on a scale that we havent seen since the vietnam war. Lets look at paul ryan today trying to deal with his motorcade and protesters who dont like what hes doing with the Affordable Care act. Lets look at this. [ boos ] coward coward david frum, the Affordable Care act is nowhere to be seen. The revision of it, that is, repeal of it that the republicans are talking about, wherever that document is no one can find it except maybe paul ryan but a lot of people dont like what they see, theyre taking that protest directly to the republican legislators in a similar way that opponents of the Affordable Care act took it to democrats when they were trying to legislate it and here it is, that unbridled use of the First Amendment by protesters reaching into the legislative process. Mark me down as a warrior, i dont share the optimism of the rest of the panel. I dont think the institutions are winning. The its important when you think about the media its important to remember far and away the most Important Media institution in the country is facebook, not the New York Times or cnn or msnbc or any traditional institutions, thats how most americans get their news, especially most younger americans. The president h been buffeted with a series of credibly established charges, each of which in advance would have been regarded as absolutely devastating. Back in the summer we said well, its true donald trump is receiving this aid from the russians but if it were ever shown that people on his campaign or called the russians back that would be curtains, that would be alger hiss on steroids. We now know that thats true and the congress has stood by the president. American institutions are basically storm proofed against president ial misconduct. But what they are not storm proofed against is president ial misconduct enabled by the congress. And because the congress is to date standing with the president , youre seeing a corrosion of these institutions and while there are brave Truth Tellers in the intelligence agencies talking to news organizations they can found and silenced and they can be silenced they can be set to ulan bator, they can be separated if their spouses have government careers their spouses can be put 5,000 miles apart and people can be driven out of government. And if the trump people dont know whos leaking, the russians do and they will tell them. You know, youre right that sometimes leakers can be caught, david, but most of the time theyre not. And president s being frustrated by leakers goes back a long way, remember Ronald Reagan said ive had it up to my keister with leaks and Richard Nixon created the plumbers unit to find the leakers and it goes back before franklin roosevelt. They never actually find them because there are more leakers than one would imagine and penal leak for a huge variety of reasons. Heres the difference with nixon. The nixon parallel does not hold. Richard nixon was president during a time of extraordinary economic strain, gas prices rising, high unemployment, high inflation and a defeated war. The job market is pretty good. The stock market is popping. And i agree that trump could get reelected and survive this. The policies that most upset the viewers of msnbc, especially immigration enforcement, are popular. My guess is that six months from today Donald Trumps numbers will be higher not lower than they are today. Zerlina, a quick last word. I dont think. So i think when you see families being ripped apart on television, that will lower his Approval Ratings even more. Now congress as it goes down congress is eventually going to stand up for themselves. To expect congress to jump in 50 days isnt much. Lets get 100, lets get a couple hundred days in. David frum, zerlina maxwell, Jonathan Alter, thank you for joining us. Coming up next, how some of our wisest political observers saw the week. The late night comedians get their say. vo what if this didnt have to happen . I didnt see it. vo what if we could go back . What if our car. Could stop itself . In iihs frontend crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. Not toyota. Not honda. Not ford. The allnew subaru impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. Youthats why you drink ensure. Sidelined. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. Hi, im frank. I take movantik for oic, opioidinduced constipation. Had a bad back injury, my doctor prescribed opioids which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up bigtime. Tried prunes, laxatives, still constipated. Had to talk to my doctor. 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When asked if he read the letter trump said havent even read my immigration policy. Obama officials sought to preserve evidence of Russian Election meddling. I do believe theres one large piece of evidence sitting in the ol office right now. Attorney general Jeff Sessions held a press Conference Today and recused himself from investigations into the trump ice campaign ties of russia. Said trump may i also be recused . I dont like it here and i want to do other stuff. Every time we dig deeper into trumps campaign, it seems like theres a new person connected to the russians, first it was manafort, then flynn, the whole thing is like one of those russian nesting dolls. [ laughter ] every time one person goes away, someone else pops out. You cant possibly know if hes lying on purpose. You can stephen you can. Hes lying on purpose. You want to know how . How . Because he constantly says the phrase believe me. [ laughter ] despite the allegations, President Trump says he has total confidence in Jeff Sessions. Thats what he said. Total confidence. In other words, trump is waiting until the week end to fire him. Coming up, Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets tonights last word with an assist from supermodels. And where is hillary . We have the exclusive video of where Hillary Clinton was today. Me to reach my goals. e so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating whats within me with onceweekly trulicity. Trulicity is not insulin. It helps activate my body to do what its supposed to do release its own insulin. Trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. I take it once a week, and it works 27. It comes in an easytouse pen and i may even lose a little weight. Trulicity is a onceweekly injectable prescription medicine to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. Trulicity is not insulin. 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And so peter beard took the first professional photograph of iman who almost instantly became more world famous than peter beard. Peter beards photographs skyrocket in value over the following decades and people have ended up in court fighting over rights to them more than once, most recently last week in manhattan where Justice Charles ramos presided over the conclusion of a twoyear legal battle between peter beard and the colctor of his work. E judge ruled in favor of peter beard and void it had sale of a Million Dollars in art work. The New York Post reports the judge announced his intention to keep his own copies of the images that were entered into evidence, including an erotic photo of a model. Im not throwing out the pictures. I have one of miss white scantily dressed the judge said in open court referring to Natalie White. The image of Natalie White with her head back smoking a cigarette is in the judges chambers. Thank you, New York Post. Now, this is the spot where we would show you that photograph which wed have to do some pixelation on but even msnbc cannot afford the rights to display a peter beard photograph, even for a second. Adds it happens, peter beards model Natalie White was herself the subject of another court case this year, she was convicted in federal court in washington, d. C. Of defacing federal property last summer. Natalie white painted era now on the steps of the capital in water based paint that was easily washed away. She did that after walking 250 miles from new york city to washington, d. C. To draw attention to and express her support of the equal rights amendment for women which came close to ratification in 1982 and has been virtually ignored since. The judge in Natalie Whites case recognized it was an act of civil disobedience, fined her 50 and barred her for six months from going near the capital unless it is to mee with members of congress and others to lobby for the passage of the equal rights amendment. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said if there was one amendment she could add to the constitution it would be the equal rights amendment. Natalie white, now an artist in her own right with exhibitions in new york galleries included in a recent gallery show this statement by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Every constitution written since the end of world war ii includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal statu stature. Ours does not. I have three granddaughters, id like them to be able to take out their constitution and say here is a basic premise of our system that men and women are persons of equal citizenship stature. Tonight on all in. Did you meet Sergei Kislyak in cleveland . Did you caulk to him . Im not going to deny i talked with him. An administration plagued by deception. I dont recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way. Did they just get caught in a new lie . Why did you soften the gop platform on ukraine . I wasnt involved in that. Tonight, as the white house pushes back, new reporting about russians, ukraine and what transpired at the republican convention. Plus, billion to following