[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it
His wife killed someone with her car and the damage to the car was enough that she wanted another car. And so the story of that bribe car in the indictment has just become very very dark. We will get to that later in this hour tonight. But it is mentioned in the indictment that there was a car accident but it doesnt say in the indictment that she actually killed someone. We have now learned all of that just today. That story, the more we learn about it the more we hear the details, it gets more depressing and distressing. I cant imagine that it gets worse from here. This is bad is any such story has been. Well get to that later in the hour. It is a gruesome chapter. In their life. I will be watching, lawrence. Thank you, alex. Thank you. Today the day after a judge issued a gag order directly to donald trump, who was sitting right in front of the judge, in a new york courtroom, donald trump decided to leave that courtroom and leave town. Thats how well that gag order worked. New York S
Well. Tonight, pena looking unbeatable, and just nine months to go until the paris olympics. Megan fitzgerald, nbc news, antwerp, belgium. It is absolutely awesome to see simone back in action, feeling good and kicking butt. And on that note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see at the end of tomorrow. Today, in the Fulton County election interference case, Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second lawyer to leave giulianis georgia team this week alone. They are departures come on the heels of mr. Giulianis former lawyer and longtime friend suing him last month for allegedly unpaid legal bills. We have known for a while now that all is not well in giuliani land. He has huge legal bills. He is reportedly very short on cash. And now, to add to those troubles, there is a new story out today that, at first, feels kind of like it ha
I dont know the solution. But thats the problem. 200 representatives voted to keep Kevin Mccarthy in power. Right, yeah. The number of republicans in his own party who actually vastly outnumbers those who did it. Yeah. Maybe some of them can talk to him about it at some point we will see. Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. Today, in a Fulton County election interference case, Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second lawyer to leave giulianis georgia team this week alone. They are departures come on the heels of mr. Giulianis former lawyer and longtime friend suing him last month for allegedly unpaid legal bills. We have known for a while now that all is not well in giuliani land. He has huge legal bills. He is reportedly very short on cash. And now, to add to those troubles, there is a new story out today that, at first, feels kind of like it has been ripped from the tabloids. But ultimately, it could have se
Car in the indictment has just become very very dark. We will get to that later in this hour tonight. But it is mentioned in the indictment that there was a car accident, but it doesnt say in the indictment that she actually killed someone. We have now learned all of that just today. That story, the more we learn about it, the more we hear the details, it gets more depressing and distressing. I cant imagine that it gets worse from here. This is as bad as any such story has been. Well get to that later in the hour. It is a gruesome chapter in their life. I will be watching, lawrence. Thank you, alex. Thank you. Today, the day after a judge issued a gag order directly to donald trump, who was sitting right in front of the judge in a new york courtroom, donald trump decided to leave that courtroom and leave town. Thats how well that gag order worked. New york states Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against donald trump, told the news media the donald trump