Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to
Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to
Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to
Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for the Special Edition of why is this happening. Hes incisive. He is big hearted, hes very, very smart. Admit it, he is taller than you expected. Give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, chris hayes. [applause] thank you. Stop it. How are you . Good. Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down. Thank you, its extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Its a very hard 20 seconds for me. Thanks for cutting it short. Le pen fits very amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. Ive got my family here. Tonight we are going to talk about democracy. That word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had talked about all of my time as a journalist before that. Even that as a topic seems very weird. Americas a democracy, and there is a certain kind of history that we are taught as a part of the Mystery Civic Culture totally. Even civi
,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that as a topic seems weird, we know americas democracy. Ther