Im stephen sackur. For more than two decades, the anc has been south africas impregnable political structure, but now cracks are appearing. At least 30 anc mps defied the party whip and supported a No Confidence Motion against party leader and National President , jacob zuma. Cue bitter recriminations. My guest today is pravin gordhan, the man President Zuma sacked as Finance Minister in controversial circumstances earlier this year. Does the anc need to be broken up to enable south africa to thrive . Pravin gordhan, in johannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Long distance as it might be. Lets consider what is happening in your country today and particularly the fallout from the motion of No Confidence against president jacob zuma, which didnt succeed, but got 177 votes, which was significant. It clearly included a substantial number of anc mps. How toxic is the atmosphere inside the anc as a result of that vote . There certainly is an active debate and d
Im stephen sackur. For more than two decades, the anc has been south africas impregnable political structure, but now cracks are appearing. At least 30 anc mps defied the party whip and supported a No Confidence Motion against party leader and National President , jacob zuma. Cue bitter recriminations. My guest today is pravin gordhan, the man President Zuma sacked as Finance Minister in controversial circumstances earlier this year. Does the anc need to be broken up to enable south africa to thrive . Pravin gordhan, in johannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Long distance as it might be. Lets consider what is happening in your country today and particularly the fallout from the motion of No Confidence against president jacob zuma, which didnt succeed, but got 177 votes, which was significant. It clearly included a substantial number of anc mps. How toxic is the atmosphere inside the anc as a result of that vote . There certainly is an active debate and d
The avoiding talking about ending his Nuclear Program. Sixth, dont try to be friends with kim jongun. He killed his uncle, his halfbrother and hundreds of others. He is a despot. Those people up in canada, by the way, are our friends. And thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. Msnbcs special coverage of the summit with Brian Williams and Rachel Maddow starts right now. Two volatile leaders. They have tested each other. Rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. Theyve taunted each other. Kim jongun issued a direct response. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u. S. Dotard with fire. Now, theyre moments away from meeting for the first time facetoface. I hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents a bright new future to the world. With the stability of the region and the world on the line i dont think i have to prepare very much. Will their summit bring us closer to peace or peril . This is an msnbc special report. The United States north Ko
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. They could control the Trump Presidency have completely surrendered to the Trump Presidency. They all appear completely brainwashed now. We have never seen anything like this in american politics. And Today Is The Day that the president needed them to all be brainwashed. Senator ted cruz said absolutely nothing today, not one word, when donald trump had his fifth avenue moment, when donald trump publically obstructed justice today, which he did in more than one way, which we will get into a moment. Not one word from ted cruz about that today. And here is what that same ted cruz said about the president two years ago. This man is a pathological liar. He doesnt know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a
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