To be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be American People but to the american congress. There are at least two audiences, if not more for this address. For these big addresses. The president needs to win over the people in the room, and just as importantly, win over those watching on television. The numbers of those watching on television have declined by almost 50 in the last few decades. President pays attention to his ratings, so it will be interesting to see how many people to tune into this. The president. I think it is crucial in this address, he really has to start legislating. He has not introduced any legislation yet. A lot of Members Of Congress have expressed concern about him not pushing hard enough, championing things for. Has done a lot of Executive Orders but not a lot of policies. Here is the joint session of congress, the floor of congress. You have members of the senate and the House Of Representa
That delay, that gap is it really interesting. Because we know this isnt the only information that american intelligence had about possible russian attempts to influence the election. So there it were other channels coming in at the same time. Also highlights the degree to which the fbi was put in an almost impossible position later in the campaign. We know they had this information or some of this information. We knew there was the Ongoing Investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. You have the fbi essentially meant to it be a nonpolitical organization in possession of damming fascinating pieces of evidence, if not smoking guns, in either case, trying to decide how to play it, how aggressively to pursue their investigation and what political risks there are for a nonpartisan Law Enforcement agency to be perceived as putting its fingers on the scale if any of this nfrngs came out in the last few weeks. Again, another piece, not the full picture, but justins to provide context for hous
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. A source familiar tells us that weisselbergs interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on Michael Cohen and the Hush Money Payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. Weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, hes referred to as executive one, who arranged 420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. He wrote please pay from the truth, post to Legal Expenses when he forwarded the invoices to another executive. Its very clear that hes played a key role. Athena how big a there et to President Trump is it that prosecutors are talking to weisselberg . This is certainly a big deal. Were talking about a person who has been working for trump for decades. He is the chief finance officer
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the pentagon, as old as 85, as young as just 2 years old. Lights illuminated the sky, though, Late Last Night in tribute here. Theyre going to be turned on again this afternoon in honor of the people who died. For a lot of people involved the wounds have not healed even 15 years after. Its the sight of the twin towers collapsing is too painful for many to watch. Victims without graves, now memorialized as names on that permanent memorial that i know so many people have seen there in new york. Most people when they lose someone, they have a grave to go to and that brings them closer to that person. But for us, this is our parents grave. So it brings us closer and makes us feel connected to that parent. A lot of our parents bodies werent found after 9 11. So that literally could be where our fathers bodies lay to this day. It is a memorial, but its our grave. We can go there and communicate with
comparison of 80 years ago these were ordinary young men from communities all around the country who were called to action and that today, although there isn t an active combat operation in which americans are called, that individual americans are called to recognize the threat to democracy. so i expect the president will try to put it in personal terms, that it s not just the sweeping ideas of democracy or the image of the united states, but it is a personal responsibility on the part of individual americans. so it is a window for the president to be able to talk about these issues, which resonate in a lot of the topics, a lot of the concerns and, yes, the election season back home, but they are larger than that, so appropriate for a world stage moment for the president where he is, in fact, the leader of the great power of the planet, the united states, and at the same time in that heated, difficult, contentious, and in some ways very unpredictable campaign season that we see at home