i would have to do an optimistic story. and then what. thanks, my. friend as always. thanks to you at home for being here this evening. it was four days before the 2016 election, when the wall street journal published this report national enquirer shielded donald trump from playboy model s affair allegation. the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would ve been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump s access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had announced the fbi was
all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow it was four days before the 2016 election when the wall street journal published this report national enquirer shielded donald trump from playboy model s affair allegation. the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would ve been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump s access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had anno
them. guide our legislature with your wisdom and truth, as they seek to meet the requirements of the united states constitution. lord inspire them to seize this opportunity, to demonstrate to the nation, and world how the democratic process can be done properly and in an orderly manner. help them to remember, that history is a faithful stenographer. and so are you. we pray in your sovereign name, amen. the fact that we even have a senate chaplain at the house chaplain, it s kind of a weird thing, it s a bit of a contradiction in a country in which separation of church and state is a constitutional hallmark, even james madison came to believe it wasn t entirely closure. but a chaplain opened every day of congressional business starting with the continental congress, 1774, and the tradition has continued. the way this contradictions been resolved over the years, is whatever his or her specific termination, personally, and there will be christian, the chaplin praise and leads
either. if you re david valadao, who won a swing district for the central valley of california, these are not things you want to talk about. you want to talk about all those things that have joe biden s popularity where remains right now, which is really low. yeah, and kate, obviously you just left working in president biden s orbit. he was asked by fox news is jackie heinrich about this today. he clearly heard the question, but kept moving along and did not comment on it. i mean, what does the white house do now in response to this? because mccarthy is making clear that this is the clearest he s been on they re pursuing something like this. well, the white house will stay the course, which is to say, allow mccarthy, the republican, donald trump, to continue to demonstrate that this is what they re gonna focus on, why the president is going to focus on jobs, wages, helping the middle class. i think for the white house, you know, this is something that has been an attempted attack t
they were on the is telling people you need to get out by five or 26, it s not shaping up like you re going to pose a. i think it will be trump, or is gonna be someone who is espousing a lot of trump has brought to the republican party over the last six or seven years. you ve seen, obviously, governor desantis is making decisions to pair down practically his campaign. but you see him continuing to double down on these positions, like he did last friday on african slavery, excuse me, that overhaul they have, yeah. thank. you so, you see him to get you to double down on these really stream position. so, i think his campaign, he s got to make a decision. if he s really rebooting, is he trying to present himself to an electorate that is much more moderate than the core of their flipping party? so, i think that s gonna be really interesting to watch. we ll see what it looks like. kate bedingfield, doug heye, thank you both. a terrifying moment on the battle court played out yest