end up winding up doing to our fellow on one side of the scale is the current situation in venezuela which is quite dire as it is in cuba, right? what would we do to even the scales to get to the point of what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation, as would be really. a quarter of venezuela is gone. staggering, thank you my friend as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008 america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him please. to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country we both love. john mccain gently but firmly admonishing the crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time th
Hi there. Its 4 00 in new york. Buckle up. Witness number nine in the people of the state of new york versus donald trump was unlike any moment of this trial weve seen so far, unlike any witness in this trial weve seen. This is a trial thats seen twists and turns and drama. On the stand today, hope hicks, the Silent Trump Insider who was by Donald Trumps side for years from before he ascending down the Escalaors At Trump Tower and during the president s time in white house. A visibly and nervous hope hicks who began to cry as crossexamination began. Hope hicks described the Meltdown Inside Trump world over the release of the access Hollywood Tape. She was the first person in the campaign to know about it when she got an email from a reporter with the Washington Post. He was seeking comment from her. Hicks sent the email to other staffers including Kellyanne Conway and steve bannon. One, need to hear the tape to be sure. Two, deny, deny, deny. Hope hicks said there was consensus the tap
Good to be with you, im alex witt in for katy tur. Lets go to the courthouse, joining us from outside the courtroom, Nbc News National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, 3 00 p. M. Eastern, catch us up on todays testimony and what is happening right now. Reporter Hope Hicks Integral to the prosecution here, alex, connecting the dots, and i want to talk to you first about a moment that just took place regarding the article in january 2018 that came out, revealing the payoff to Stormy Daniels from Michael Cohen, and how hope hicks framed that payoff, and let me read the verbiage inside the courtroom. Can you describe the conversation and hope hicks saying this, it was the day after michael told the New York Times he made a payment without trumps knowledge and trump said he spoke to michael and he paid this woman to protect from a false allegation and michael had done it to protect him and had not told him anything about it. I had known cohen for three and a half years. I did not know mich
and to that point, tim, jemele, i d ask you i think tim makes a point people need to be reminded how bad things were. and there seems to be this collective i m not calling it amnesia but a sort of down-playing of january 6th, which we certainly saw on stage last night. but trump was asked about 2024, and let s just play the sound first. this is trump reacting to a question about the 2024 election. if you are the republican nominee and you were in that 2024 race, will you commit tonight to accepting the results of the 2024 election? yes, i think it s an honest election, absolutely i would. i m old enough to remember if that s the thing trump said about 2020. if you have forgotten what he said on january 6th in 2020, here s another data point. this guy is going to try to do it again in 2024. i think people forget, too, he said this in 2016 as well.