for two editions we ask questions about what sort of qualities and attributes to make them more or less supportive for a candidate for congress. it is clear what issues they like to lead the way. for republicans the most favor l terrain is the economy and inflation. increasing oil production. that s popular and republicans know this. because it s all over the campaign advertising. joe biden and steve are spending like drunken sailors. i won t raise taxes. biden s bad decisions are costing families $5,000 a year. i won t take it. no amount of buy one get one free deals can overcome. thanks a lot, biden. i ll lower your costs. for democrats it s on positions held by republicans. looking at the nbc polls voters are not crazy about beginning donald trump s by lie about 2020 and candidates who would like to overturn roe v. wade. republican state governments give examples on rights under jeopardy. oklahoma lawmakers passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the count
msnbc political analyst elise georgia jordan. reporter: let s have a show of hands. who is going to vote in the primary? everyone s going to vote in the primary. who is going to vote for brian kemp? i m undecided. i m undecided, too. is anyone definitely going to vote for david perdue? i m more leaning that way. reporter: why are you leaning that way? because perdue is a true businessman and we need somebody who knows how to run a business and i think if he had that ability, you can run a state because a state is a business. despite an enthusiastic support are here and there, purdue has been all but abandoned by trump. according to several republicans who have spoken to him, he is ready to wash his hands of the georgia primary and distance himself from perdue before the votes are even counted. instead donald trump appears to be focused on his candidate in the too close to call republican senate primary in pennsylvania. tv s dr. oz is holding on to a razor th
And lets just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. Lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. Diane perry has been serving as counsel for Michael Cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony. We will talk to her in a moment. Her client, Michael Cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of crossexamination. From the beginning, we have known that putting Michael Cohen on the Witness Stand was a high risk and high reward proposition for the prosecution. On one hand, he is the central player. After all, he paid Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket pick he said he did it at Donald Trumps direction and said donald trump was fully aware of the plan to cover it up. Those are the key details. At the same time, cohen is a convicted felon who pled guilty to lying to congress and making false statements to a bank. Not to mention he spent over a decade doing trumps dirty work. And th
No part in this. We all know that trumps promise to testify was just dishonest bravado, and now the defense has begun its case, its becoming increasingly clear that trump will not be called. Plus, a whole lot of things happened while i was on vacation, including the news that an upside down distress flag flew over Supreme Court justice sam alitos home. Tonight, ill explain why alito and others are in such distress that they think they need a trump dictatorship to solve their problems. But we begin tonight with these five words from the prosecution in Donald Trumps hush money election interference trial. Your honor, the people rest. After 15 days and 21 witnesses, the prosecution handed over the reins to the defense who began making their case this afternoon, beginning with testimony from Robert Costello, a criminal lawyer with ties to rudy giuliani. Costello was in talks to represent trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in 2018, as cohen faced federal indictment for taking out the very
it would be outrage. it s insulting and shows what he thinks of us and he does think of us. i come from new york like he does. every chance he got including central park five he supported the criminalizing of plax. he called for the death of five innocent black men. that s what he thinks of us. the irony he has someone sitting there applauding it. while would you tell president- elect benefits have benefited under your four years in office. he cannot say that because it didn t happen. as you look at that scene yesterday. barbershop set up in donald trump not there calling in on speakerphone and saying what he said yesterday, what you see in that? what i like to say is not appropriate for national television so i will say this. and reverend churchman is sitting there. what i see there is folks love to throw the term pandering around when it comes to democrats and black voters. what donald trump is doing is a level of insult and pandering and out not sure about who he