pittsburgh pirates in an 8-1 win over the dodgers. today he got his first start at third base. the news continues. cnn prime time with michael smerconish starts now. thank you. he was once a politician but it wasn t until he pumped up the volume on talk tv that this provocateur defined today s era of politics. i m michael smerconish in new york. [ crowd chanting ] for nearly three decades, that was the chant heard over the course you have more than 4,000 episodes. controversial, unapologetically brash, rowdy words used in the headlines covering the news of jerry springer s passing. my favorite from the bbc. era era defining. he truly ushered in an era of television that no one in the world had ever seen before and i argue set the stage for today s political landscape. springer was 79. his family says he died peacefully today. at his home in suburban chicago after a brief illness. reports are that he had cancer. the son of holocaust refugees, he became a global sensati
trust joe biden to hire the best team to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no, and i imagine it is for most of you, then neither man is really capable of serving as a us senator or the u.s. president . at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him. and of course, this is exactly what s happening in both cases. now, here we are four months later, sadly vindicated, wondering how two women closest to sick men in declining health can even live with themselves. both jill biden and jazelle fetterman know better than anyone how unfit to serve their husbands are now. as bad as both men have looked and sounded at various times to the rest of us , imagine how bad they are behind closed doors. but of course, these women lie to themselves and then they lie to us. how will this episode affect the campaign and his upcoming schedule? and as soon as he s back , he ll be back on the trail. i don t think it s going to affect the president s campaign
another beating, the dow sinking into the bank that set off the crisis, silicon valley, not cut like goldman sachs. the banks work from hold culture is partly to blame for the collapse? or not. a story you see first out front. the chinese president xi jingpin facing record unemployment and unrest, how could this figure into a potential invasion of taiwan? it a good evening. out front tonight, new video just in. these are ukrainian soldiers shooting down a russian fighter jet. what i am about to show you i think will stand out to you, for the fact that the act appears to be so easy for ukrainians to take out a russian fighter jet that it almost takes him by surprise. so, here it is. what you are looking at is a ukrainian using a surface to air missile. so, shooting from the ground here, takes about three seconds to reach his target and the white circle, you see it, then the clash or explosion there, the soldiers reaction is total shock. it hit the plane. [ bleep ] as i sai
between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
bring russia to its senses . that s the message the french president emmanuel macron has delivered on thursday to the man who can, maybe, influence vladimir putin, the chinese leader xi jinping. applying pressure on ukraine isn t an an easy sell after years of worsening relations between the west and china, and president xi s recent visit to moscow. here s some of what president macron had to say. decades of peace in europe. i know i can count on you to bring russia to its senses and everyone to the negotiating table. but we need to find a lasting peace. that is to say, a peace that respects internationally recognised borders and avoids any form of escalation. what i meant to say was applying russia, not on ukraine. the president of the european commission is also in bejing with emmanuel macron in what s being framed by some as a good cop bad cop scenario. with ursula von der leyen taking the tough stance. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment dir