Welcome to primetime weekends. I am nicolle wallace. Lets get to the top stories. Alvin bragg steam cut to the heart of the case in that questioning of david. David pecker. They said, quote, is it true, sir, was that your purpose in walking out the Karen Mcdonnell starry mcdougall story . The answer from david pecker, yes. He added, the actual purpose was to acquire Lifetime Rights so the story was not published by any news organization. David pecker said it was standard to suppress stories to help a friend, but this was catch and kill in order to influence a president ial election. Now, with court adjourned for the weekend, it also we will have key testimony still ahead. We start the hour with our most favorite reporters and friends, two who were inside the courtroom today, Investigative Reporter Suzanne Craig and former attorney and Deputy Assistant attorney carrie whitman. Lucky for us, you can check out that you can never leave and you are still here as a friend. Lets start with yo
You are right that it challenges what is animating peoples minds and discourse and the things they are hearing. I hope they hear more about the economic transformations as well. Come back anytime. Faiz shakir, one of my favorite people to talk about good news and bad news. Thank you for your time tonight. That is our time tonight. Now it is time for the last word. A fantastic discussion to end the week. Have a great show. Today was a special day for defendant trump, not because it was the eighth day of a historic criminal trial, the sorts of which has never been seen in this country. Today was also the birthday of Donald Trumps third and current wife, melania trump. She did not support her husband in court. Instead she stayed in florida. She had seven other days of this trial that were not her birthday and neither she nor any other member of the trump family have set with donald trump in the trial so far, but melanias birthday was such a big deal to donald trump that he used his first
Antiisrael protests continued at colleges across the country this week as the growing Campus Unrest threatens to complicate joe bidens reelection bid. The president is scrambling to shore up support among his progressive base with a focus on abortion rights, Student Loan Forgiveness and climate change, but his handling of the israelhamas if war is being closely watched by Younger Voters and arabamericans in key swing states. Both President Biden and former President Donald Trump weighed in on the protests this week. I condemn the antisemitic protests, thats why ive set up a program dealing with that the. I also condemn voters who dont understand whats going on with the palestinians. Whats gown on at the College Level at these colleges, column ya, nyu and others is a disclass, and its a its really on biden. He has the wrong signal, hes got the wrong tone, hes got the wrong words. He doesnt know who hes backing, and its a mess. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists and Fox Ne
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Might be for the future president if they have that. What i am more worried about you seem to be worried about the president being chilled. I think we would have a really significant Opposite Problem if the president wasnt chilled. If someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, i am trying to understand what the disincentive is wrong turning the oval office into the seat of Criminal Activity in this country. In a moment i will be joined by former Trump Council and former white House Counsel in the Nixon Administration who was central to the last case the Supreme Court in deciding on if president s are above the law. And the transcript that just came out from today. We will hear from arthur and jeffrey and jessica, investigative counsel, and senior legal analysis and jim who was in court today. A lot of billable hours right here