idiot is watching it. at this point in time, what is known as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain and if we have something to think about, so much the better. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere with the media. you have a responsibility to give the audience what it tendon to say. for years, the 60s, which end in a few hours have a reputation which is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv news coverage is better, not worse, we developed more demanding standards. when i look at the tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. mort was allowed than had been before. it was the last decade where it was a camp fire television, there was one in the living room. i m going to watch an all- black show for a change. where will you find one? here s one. young people were
good evening, i m mehdi hasan, tomorrow morning the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on our capitol. will hold its second public hearing, if it s anything at all at the first hearing, it s set to be explosive. tomorrow the panel will zero in on trump s lies, his efforts to spread debunked claims about the 2020 election, witnesses include b.j. pak, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia fire him for not backing his election lies. i ll schmidt, the republican city commissioner of philadelphia, that there wasn t fraud in his city. and bill stepien, and trump s 2020 campaign manager, in thursday s hearing and everybody seen video interviews, we learned the former president s inner circle as well where the big lie was just that. alive. attorney general bill barr revealed that he told his boss, allegations of election fraud were quote, bs. trump s own daughter of rank agreed with that assessment. putting the committee that she respect
surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff
Welcome to prime time weekend, lets get right to the weeks top stories. With less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first expresident of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobsters playbook. The expresident , going after the daughter of the new york judge, judge merchan, who is overseeing the criminal hush money case. In typical trump fashion, his attacks have been filled with foaming at the mouth rage and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of disinformation for good measure. The expresident accusing the judges daughter of sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. Court officials quickly knocked that down, but trump hasnt stopped going after the judges daughter. He has posted about her at least four times since tuesday morning. Trumps attacks began one day after judge merchan imposed a gag order on donald trump, prohibiting him from lashing out against
Slowed the prosecution and asked trump friendly questions about potential problems with prosecuting a president. If you listened to that argument or read about it, you may have noticed it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. While up the east coast and actual trial of an actual former president was Going Forward and the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and what we are going to get into tonight in this first week of the new york trial. It seems to undercut the suppose it concern of the trump appointed justices that hypothetically, someday, somehow, in the future trials of president s are a very bad thing, when they are actually already happening. The first week of this trial shows not only that it is possible, but also gave us the first evidence backed, in court, binding version of the d. A. S story and we put together a brisk ride through what we are learning. The prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Drew