america s experience including this from june of 2017 wooden and eastern time it was compared to. now quote well back with us again tonight, pulitzer prize-winning conservative columnist for george will, author of this book, american happiness and discontents that. george, i want to begin right back with the quote i just read, the hijacking of the party. what s in your view made it susceptible, made it so ripe, for a hijacking and then some, a hostile takeover. the republican party looking
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life. i know her mother forgives daniel. which is pretty remarkable that she would do that in court. it is. could you do such a thing? one day i ll forgive him. i m not ready yet. and then the judge turned to daniel. did not mince words. what s very clear to me mr. clay, you re a liar, a rapist, and a killer. it is the sentence of this court that you be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. and a postscript. chelsea was not daniel s only victim. shortly before his arrest, daniel sexually assaulted another young woman. in june of 2017, he was tried and convicted in that case too. we have no doubt that if he wasn t in custody right now, if we wouldn t be able to identify that he s the one that did this to chelsea, that there would be other victims, whether it be sexual assaults, more murders. we re just glad that he s off the streets and can t do this
polls, 43% say the right direction. a year ago during the protests, during covid, all that, it was just 22%. june of 2017, 34%. you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the obama administration when 43% of americans said that we were on the right direction. this is the highest number in a decade, over a decade, in fact. it s interesting to me because in june of 2017, the economy was ostensibly doing well still adding jobs, et cetera, et cetera, only 34%. now it s 43%. that s a big gap. is there a partisan divide? there is. is the country going in the right direction, wrong track? these are the right direction numbers. what do we see? look at this. 73% of democrats say yes, we re going in the right direction. 38% of independents. just 11% of republicans, not a huge surprise. compare that to where we were last year. the big number here we take away is the independence jumped from 16% in june of 2020 to now 38%, and democrats at 73, much higher
it s a hot market or not. no doubt another big disappointment for all the mob in the media especially fake cnn and that is the topic of tonight s opening monologue. beginning in 2015, the network s president, we called him affectionately mr. potato head, jeff zucker cashed in on the left s anti-trump. as a result, faqs, journalism took a backseat has the anti-trump radical conspiracy theories, the hoax, the rumors, the smears dominated coverage 24/7 for over three years and that worked breathlessly telling their viewers that the president of the united states donald trump colluded with russia to steal the election read hillary is the only one we know of that had a dirty russian disinformation dossier. they didn t spend much time on that. in june of 2017, three fake news