Tapper in 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. In 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rockstar his reputation as a Budget Slashing Deficit Hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person the search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of leinz that coined the phrase to hide the Appalachian Trail. But it also revealed something deeper. How even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of the human being and counterintuiti vely, when the world was crashing down around him, bearing at all might have been the sound have you, as political move of mark sanford is career its monday, night. Do you know where your governor is . Thats what the citizens have South Carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of mr. Tonight in South Carolina. The states governor, mark sanford dis
Is me. Well see if he shows up in these debates. Governor christie, thank you for joining us tonight. Abby, thank you and good luck. Thank you very much for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now. He laura. Hey, good to see you. Looking good there. You noticed, thank you, you look at yourself. So informative. Well see right back here tomorrow. A high stakes president ial trip, a Hostage Video, and the tragic effects of the war being felt right here at home. That is tonight on laura coates live. Now, if you thought for a moment that what was happening in israel and with gaza would not affect what is happening here at home, you are sadly mistaken. As the sun rises on yet another day of war in the middle east an american president is now preparing to head that way. Weve already had a secretary of state, secretary of defense, theyve already gone to the region. Lets add word to that, theyve now gone to the now dangerous region and were in the middle of airstrikes and bombin
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outside the courthouse but, yesterday, the biden campaign held the surprise event there. i don t understand that. we will tell you who was there and dig into that campaign strategy. also ahead, the latest from gaza where israeli forces are moving into the city of rafah. it comes days after an israeli air strike ignited a deadly fire at a camp for displaced palestinians. let s dive in to our top story. after 21 days of heated testimony, the defense and the prosecution delivered closing arguments yesterday in donald trump s criminal hush money trial. nbc news laura jarrett has a recap. the first trial of an american president soon in the hands of seven men and five women. prosecutors closing their case arguing former president trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election to pull the wool over voter s eyes, they say, by ordering the payoff of stormy daniels and covering it all up. they tried to establish a pattern of mr. trump damaging stories
that is tonight s hello, new york. thank you for joining us at townhall for this very special edition of why is this happening. he is talk, he is smart, please give a warm welcome to my colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. thank you. hey, oh, stop. how are you? good. thank you. thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you. that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. that was a really hard 20 seconds for me, so thank you. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, we have probably talk more about democracy in the last four or five years that and all of my time as a journalist before that. even that as a topic seems a little weird. america is the democracy and there is a certain kind of history your talk that is a certain part of american civic culture, deeply, almost kind of civic religion which roughly goes to the following. the founders rebelled against t