Manu raju begins right now breaking News Welcome to inside politics. Im Manu Raju in for Dana Bash were following major Breaking News on multiple fronts. First moments ago, new York Citys mayor indicted prosecutors, just announced five pub, Federal Public Corruption charges against eric adams, being Bribery And Wire fraud and moments from now, new York Appeals court will hear arguments in Donald Trumps push to overturn a civil Fraud Judgment that could unravel his Business Empire and cost him happen 1 1 Billion and then theres hurricane helene, 86 Million people are on alert as it rapidly intensifies and officials warn of lifethreatening Storm Surges will bring you updates from our team on the ground its better. To hear later this hour from the Fema Director at the White House but i want to start with a High Stakes appeal setting for Donald Trump former president , Fighting A 454 Million fine after Judge Arthur engoron ruled that he carried out a yearslong scheme of inflating assets tr
i have been a fan of brand for decades ever since his talk show big brothers big mouth it is show that was so outrageous legal wouldn t even let us show it. which sucks but even at the start of his career he was aw brilliant brain in search ofucks food at a time when the shelves were bare but now most abrupt change in any career since o.j. simpson. [laughter] brand was a great comedian, successful actor, bigger than most rock stars it helped that he looked like rases putin had sex with janis joplin and play rock stars in movies because he was better at it than they were and before sober proved no amount of drugs could take himug down so comedian movie star married to hyperarctic and tall and handsome and inspired me to get hair plugs on my chests. and what does he do? h he walks away from it, he walks away from it like hunter biden strolling away from a strippers baby. literally he lets it go. and for what e to dleo a podcast because you know we don t have enough of them.
the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
jesse: joe biden is a legend in his own mind and doesn t think he is going anywhere. it s not like he lost his fast ball. he never had one. is he already a lame duck. the most unpopular president of all time and he just caught covid. more on that in a moment. and in a new quinnipiac poll, 71% of americans are against biden running for a second term. with more than half of democrats saying he has got to go. with friends like that, who needs enemies? because those numbers are awful. his own teams is telling him to go home. but, can you blame them? everything is expensive and more dangerous. the country is a mess. the first lady just called hispanics tacos and that was after hispanics started ditching the president. only 19 percent of hispanics approve of the job joe is doing. and only 21% of plenels approve. and joe s policies are crippling black americans. i think for african-american voters in particular, there is a special heart break because, first of all, the pain is