essentially. this was our brand. the vice president, joe biden, was directly involved. do we walk away from that or do you get answers for that? because nobody outside of washington is gonna view this as a family matter. bill: professor, thanks for being on the phone. and in person in quick order. gillian, good to be with you. gillian: likewise, bill, appreciate having me as your wing guy today, appreciate it. bill: trace gallagher in for martha today. thanks. i m trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. right now, breaking brand new information as you have heard around the transcribed testimony of hunter biden s former long-time associate devin archer answering questions behind closed doors on capitol hill right now about his business dealings with the president s son. republicans are probing for evidence to contradict what president biden has long
work, 16-19 years old, peaked in august 1978. i had a great summer job in the august 1978 and everyone i knew tried to get a summer job and work. i think it s a few things. one, i don t i hate to say it, i don t want to sound like the guy, like the grumpy old man, but i just know a guy today whose son works for him, he s teaching him construction, and they had a big beef. so the sun quit. [laughter] and i hear this from people anecdotally all the time, they just can t take too much criticism. even if it is constructive criticism. so, very fragile. very fragile. particularly the men. young boys, young teenagers. i don t understand it. there are jobs out there purely look at these tiktok videos, everybody is putting some new gear, everyone wants to have a nice fit, everyone is like, hey, check out what i ve got. so, they want things. and i just i can t figure it out. i really can t.
destination, fox weather will live along the tennessee river, hello, will. hello, mike, that s right, everybody trying to find a place to stay cool and for thousands of people and especially here in landlock, tennessee that means heading out to the river and even sitting on at a creek. this is the tennessee river marina, largest river destinations out here and it is busy season. game on for so many of thighs boaters and staff at the marina. i spoke with the owner of the marina. all the staff is here and there s no place that they would rather be. if you had to choose between the river right here or the beach, what do you choose? this is my beach right here at the river. so best of both worlds. we ve got we had a live band last night, dj friday and we had an acoustic guy today. this is a live venue venue
to go to trial with dominion voting systems, he abruptly reversed course and greenlit a massive 800 million dollar settlement with dominion, and now today, he has abruptly pushed out tucker carlson, the highest rated host on fox news. joining us now is ben smith, he s editor in chief and former media columnist for the new york times. he s been with us for the long time and his latest book is traffic, genius rivalry and delusion in the billion dollar race to go viral. it comes out next week. ben, is nice to see you, thanks for being here. nice to see, rachel. thank you for having me on. it is a head spinning day. it has been a head spinning day, and norah to cope with it and to get my show produced and on the air, i put seated to stop staying attention to all new developments as soon as the sun got to a certain type this guy today. so first, let me just ask you if there s any new reporting, any new important understanding about what actually has happened today. you know, the answe
o mara, former federal prosecutor jessica roth. mark, let s start with what we heard in randi s piece about the final rebuttal witness, that forensics expert pushing back against the defense s crime scene expert who claimed that the shooter was likely shorter than alex murdaugh. what did you make of the testimony from this guy today? i thought it was very good because i thought the rebuttal to what the defense was suggesting was spot on. the defense was suggesting one very static way where it couldn t have been somebody 6 4 . but the whole situation is so dynamic. and i thought the presentation by that witness and the prosecutor, i thought it just came across very well and really discounted what the defense is trying to come up with, with their one view of how it couldn t have happened. jessica, what did you think about it? and also, the fact that it was the attorney general doing the questioning? so i thought that the prosecution s rebuttal case, especially that last witness we