Never seen before. Things that have never happened on the stage of large protests like this. No adults were allowed to speak. No politicians were on that stage. Many politicians requested speaking slots. They were all turned down. The oldest speakers on the stage today were high school seniors. The youngest was 9yearold Yolanda Renee king. The granddaughter of Martin Luther king junior. During two of the speeches, students from Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, we saw things we never seen from speakers on stanls like this. Emma gonzalez bravely and fiercely held the stage in the middle of her speech for six minutes and 20 seconds of silence in which she forced the audience to experience the passage of the exact amount of time that a mass murderer used to kill 17 people in her high school in parkland, florida on february 14th. We saw samantha break down in the middle of her speech and turn away from the podium and throw up. She bent over and vomited repeatedly and then she survived
Daniels story. Until now at least Michael Cohens story was clear, it wasnt plausible, wasnt believable but it was at least relatively coherent. To recap, Michael Cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that Michael Cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated, as cohen put it, a 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. Now, the money came out of cohens pocket allegedly, taken from a home equity line of credit we were told. The president had not repaid it. In fact, mr. Trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. Nothing to do with squelching an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. On wednesday night Rudy Guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. Its not Campaign Money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through a law firm. Fun
Jean eugene scott is a msnbc contribu contributor, and reporter for washington post. And so, lets get to you, bet betsy, with the president s newest attorney Rudy Giuliani going on fox news and changing what we knew this week. Yes, it was a softball on fox news reporter, and he not only said that the president knew about the payments of Stormy Daniels, but that the president had paid him back to recompensate him back for the payments he made. That is a shock allegation, and also came on the first day that emmitt flood, a lowkey, but extraordinarily well powerhouse Washington Attorney joined the president s inside white house legal team. And emmitt flood certainly had a interesting first day on the job, and in the wake of that, we saw a number of different responses from the white house, and ultimately the white house seems to have settled back on some of the original narratives which is this idea that the president didnt know that the payment was being made and when it was made, and th
And that is that is i dont i dont im not sure i even have a theory. What is Paul Manafort up to . What is the lying about . Once he entered a Cooperation Agreement with the special prosecutor . Well, i just had the chairman of the Intelligence Committee adam schiff here, and he said something very interesting. He said that in the judges ruling today, the way the judge described the way Paul Manafort had intentionally lied, he pointed at language from i believe the that hearing that we had partially unredacted within the past few days, last week, that everybodys been trying to read between the black boxes in there. He was essentially suggesting that manafort may have lied about his Ongoing Communications with kilimnik, this guy linked to russian intelligence, because if that had come out, that would be so dangerous and so bad for President Trump that it would ruin manaforts chance manaforts chances for a pardon. So he had to lie to prosecutors about that because telling the truth to pro
Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. Thats the first time legislation has passed in that committee since 1993. Background checks are supported by 10,000 of the american public. Even nra members in gigantic numbers prefer background checks as the policy they would like to see in america. This thing polls through the roof, but it takes this long to get it through. And, rachel, as you know, the breaking news during your hour was that the same Judiciary Committee wants to hear from Matthew Whitaker again. Mmmhmm. The socalled acting attorney general wanting to clarify some of the things apparently theyre not satisfied with what he said in that hearing. And we luckily have a member of the Judiciary Committee we good. Eric swalwell, who can fill us in on that. And rachel, can you help me with something . And that is that is i dont i dont im not sure i even have a theory. What is Paul Manafort up to . What is the lying about . Once he entered a Cooperatio