attorney bragg for giving donald the opportunity to come in to tell his story. knowing donald as well as i do, understand that he doesn t tell the truth. it s one thing to turn around and to lie on your untruth social. it s another thing to turn around and lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect she s going to be coming. after decades of screwing over creditors and employees and lawyers and the american people, how rich would it be if an extramarital affair with a porn actress is what finally sinks donald trump? also tonight, leonard leo played a large role in pushing the courts to the far right. now, he thinks the rest of american society needs a hard right turn. but he has a fundamental misunderstanding of why the right is losing the culture wars. and tonight, state of disunion. how political powers being wielding in states with one-party control. in tennessee, republicans are using it like a club. and attacking the lgbtq community. but it s a much different story in
culture wars, and they want to win the culture wars. i think if you look around the country, some of the causes they support are achieving great success, if you look, for example, at a package of legislation recently introduced in florida. so it s something that we sort of looked at and thought, this is something that deserves to be understood and taken seriously. and the thing is, i will point out, to bring you into this, i look at the group of people, evan baer who is the teneo cofounder who says we need to take back the culture from this left-wing elite. and he did he s the one who told the story about the harvard club. he graduated from princeton, yale, and harvard. the members of the group includes aides to ron desantis, j.d. vance, josh hawley. the people involved in it, josh hawley, stanford, yale. elise stefanik, harvard. j.d. vance, yale.
he told potential donors in a private video that he plans to crush liberal dominance on wall street, in silicon valley, and in books, schools, and sports, and hollywood. a federalist society for everything. this is how the right thinks they can take the culture back. as ridiculous as it sounds, they have a lot of money and a lot of republican heavy hitter onboard. joining me is propublica s andrea bernstein, one of the reporters who broke the story, along with torraye, host of masters of the game on the grillo, and my friend. thank you for being here. let me start with you, ms. bernstein. let me play a quick sound bite of leonard leo so people can kind of hear him talk. here he is. i spent close to 30 years if not more helping to build the conservative legal movement. and at some point or another, you know, i just said to myself, if this can work for law, why can t it work for lots of other areas of american culture and
in democratic controlled michigan. and we begin tonight with a saga of with the soggy of stormy daniels. a story that started a long time ago, in 2006, to be exact. it was the year adult film actress daniels, whose legal name is stephanie clifford, said she met donald trump at a celebrity golf tournament, and that the two allegedly began an affair. trump was married to melania by then. daniels was 27 years old at the time, and trump was 60. there had been whispers of the affair for a while. remember, trump was a real estate mogul and tabloid darling back then. but what was once gossipy tea became a problem, a huge problem, when trump the apprentice star became trump the american president. in 2018, the wall street journal reported that longtime trump fixer michael cohen had arranged a $130,000 payment before the 2016 election as part
shown donald trump has lied about everything in his records. i think what s going to happen here is they may combine more with this indictment. it may not just be donald trump. it may be weisselberg on this count. it also could be other activities that relate to the operation of the trump organization. if the d.a. is really smart, they ll cherry pick the two or three best lies they have got in the bank records, in the company records, and they ll use those as the basis for other violations so that they can put it all together and show a jury that what this guy has done is really corrupted his entire company, corrupted the businesses he s dealt with, and has lied to banks and others in order to get his way. including the tax authorities, which i think is another big part of this indictment. it s historic stuff. and it hasn t happened before. it s a huge story, and wow.