Tonight mccormick plays president obama and will look back on his time in the white house and his place in the pages of american history. The president and first family arriving at ohare on air fore one and crowds have been lining up since early this morning. Some were in grant park. Not far from here for the victory rally eight years ago. Tonight will be the book end to that moment and it is a big night in more than one respect with developments and even seismic developments involving his successor, donald trump. Michelle kosinski joins us to start it off. What do we expect from president obama tonight . It sounds like he is going to take a page or several from his early speeches in chicago. He will try to impart optimism and inspire people. Even coming off of this bruising election. With america realing for it. Divisions laid pretty bare. This was a defeat for him too. His legacy is under fierce attack. He wants to leave on an optimistic note. From the few excerpts released, he wants
Ronan farrows extraordinary reporting indicate that the knowledge was very widespread in that company. Well, and, i mean, the fact that we now have to parse what was a joke, what was a rumor, what was witnessed, what was known about, what was covered up, that level the level of complicity and knowledge is quite a number in terms of how close people were to the story and how breakable it was before it finally made its way into print. So this is a story that obviously is a story about Harvey Weinstein. But its also a story about everybody who had contact with these allegations from when they started, and why it took this long for it all to come out. And there was massive coverup system built within the company in aiding and abetting system built within the company, even bigger than the descriptions of what we roughly know about how things worked in fox news. And the thing that i find that makes me want to do additional reporting on this, and actually specifically makes me want to talk to
New outlets took a shot at that story over the course of more than a decade. Jodi kantor is the one who finally did it and got it to press. Jodi kantor is here tonight. So its a big show tonight. Over the past few weeks, there have been increasingly detailed and frequent reports about some ethics trouble for a number of trump cabinet secretaries, including interior secretary ryan zinke. Reports have found that he charged the taxpayers to fly him on private jets to do things like give an inspirational speech to a hockey team owned by his biggest contributor and to fly him to an awesome snorkeling tour that he took in the environmevirgin islands. And he also charged taxpayers to fly him to a ski recourt asort awesome sounding steak house in alaska. Almost all were for him to attend republican political fundraisers. Hes allowed to go to political fundraisers, only if he does it on his own time and his own dime. We, the taxpayers, are not supposed to be paying for him to do it. So far the
About it, trust me. Google bill kos by rape. Its not funny. It has more results than han bell burris. So thats a clip from a comedy set from han balance burris three years ago this week in philadelphia. And that joke that hes making there at the end about all the Online Search results you will find, more than even youll get from googling han balance burriss name if you google bill kos by and rape, he was right about that. There were lots of allegations about bill kos by circulating more or less informally for years. And you can google that stuff. I mean, so much so at the time that burris had been regularly referencing those allegations about bill kos by in his stand up act, and it was just sort of obscure enough that some of the laughter would be incredulous and wild and thats a crazy thing to say and some people recognizing it and thinking, oh, yeah, i have heard that. He had been doing it for a while, but for some reason when he did it it that specific night october 26, 2014 in phil
Harassment and assault allegations against him. She broke the story in the New York Times, its become a supernova in the news. Lots of different reporters and news outlets took a shot at that story over the course of a decade. Jodi kantor is the one who got it to press. Youve seen the impact. There are been increased reports of including ryan zinky. Charged taxpayers to fly him on private jets to give inspirational speech to hockey team owned by his biggest contributor and to fly to awesome sounding snorkeling tour to the Virgin Islands before the hurricanes hit. Also charged zinke to fly to ski resort and alaska. For him to attend republican political fundraisers. Member of the cabinet, federal agency, allowed to go to political fundraisers but only on his own time and dime. We the taxpayers are not supposed to be baying for him to do that. So far the republicans shown little appetite for anything. Flagrant waste and junkets but congress hasnt shown appetite to Police Members of the T