Also the man who led the british inquiry into the iraq war speaks out. Sirjohn chilcot tells the bbc the former Prime Minister tony blair was emotionally involved in the argument and relied more on beliefs than facts. And its a beach day for the leaders of israel and india. Well tell you why they are hitting the waves. I am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. There is a monument in Krazinksi Square In Warsaw that commemorates the polish uprising of 19114, which liberated the city from nazi occupation. A classic triumph of good over evil. Today donald trump stood in front of that monument to evoke a new struggle the battle for Western Civilisation. And it that moment the american president committed himself to standing with europe. The fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive, do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost . Do we have enough respect for oui cost . Do we have enough respect for our citizens to p
This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right . So that was the mechanism. Each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. A different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. That was how they started out. But then in 1961, ibm changed all of that. Ibm invented a whole new kind of elect
after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history. but without cameras in the courtroom, americans never got to see the evidence for themselves. they didn t get to see trumps eyes close and his mouth go slack as he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony, firsthand. i didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom, seemingly in anger, as he butted heads with one particularly truculent witness. instead, americans have to rely on word from the few reporters who were actually in the room, making notes, writing down, committing to memory the things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. take a look. that was something to behold. i could hear gasps all around me . i wasn t sure we are going to get to a place where we had any guilty verdict against donald trump, let alone all 34 count
Found other producers and camera operators and everything and just got in line and stood in line for a long time. i will say, the thing i learned was, it is not what you are wearing that makes a difference. it is what you are wearing on your feet, because where you are going to get cold is through the soles of your dress shoes. you idiot, why didn t you wear sneakers. people don t understand it s not like you walk up to the courthouse and whisk you in. you line up outside across the street from center street because they anticipate a number of people showing up, so you have three different lines. it is almost like flying on an airline where they put you in a group of different people. there are two courtrooms, they look identical. the only difference is the judge and jury aren t in the overflow. the overflow room holds over
Something that i really did want to witness for myself. having worked in the mueller investigation and, you know, we could not charge the sitting president, then donald trump, that was a department of justice reel. now in a full-fledged criminal case it was kind of remarkable. i thought there d be a lot of people there, a lot of pro-trump people in particular, and there really weren t. and then found my nbc fam, found the spot where we do stand-up, found all the producers and camera operators and everything and then just got in line and stood in line for a really long time. i will say the thing that i learned was it is not what you are wearing that makes a difference, it is what you are wearing on your feet, because where you are going to get cold is through the soles of your dress shoes, you idiot, why didn t you wear sneakers? so people understand, it s not that you walk up to the courthouse and they whisk you in and it s this easy, breezy kind