Welcome to msnbc State Of The Union covers. Tonight, President Joe Biden gave a rousing speech a few feet from where we are now. In the country is that an Inflection Point with democracy at threat at home and abroad. Heres how he opened his speech, invoking fdr in 1941, telling him congress, hitler was on the march. This was no ordinary time. Freedom and democracy, were under assault in the world. Tonight, i come to the same chamber to address the nation. Now it is weak who face in a president at moment. Yes, my present tonight is a wakeup congress and let the American People know this is no ordinary moment either. Not since president lincoln and the civil war, have freedom and democracy, at home as it is safe. What makes it rare, they are under attack at home and overseas. That was just the beginning. President biden drew a sharp contrast for former President Trump from democracy, tax cuts, to reproductive rights. The American People support the right to choose, i promise you i will r
Right now. I love arizona and i am so proud of what weve delivered. Because i choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, i will leave the senate at this end of this year. Joining us now is msnbc political contributor, jake sherman. How much does this change the dynamics of the senate Going Forward . Drastically. Number one, theres a lot to unpack. Sinema says she chooses compromise. She was part of a lot of compromises in the last three or four years. A variety of compromises including gun legislation. She was part of every major compromise on capitol hill. Number two, this becomes a twoway race between lake and gallego. A head to head race between a republican and democratic where no independent is going to be siphoning off votes. Number three, a real Pick Up Opportunity for either party i guess. Sinema was an independent, but republicans feel as though lake now has a real chance. Democrats feel like gallego has it in the bag. So choose your adventu
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
how convenient. meanwhile, hunter s child support payments, the little girl in arkansas, innocent little four-year-old girl that he and joe and jill biden have completely abandon. anyway, the childcare payments were reduced a reported 75%. the girl does not get to take her dad s name. which might be a blessing in disguise. congrats to the bidens. we know they are probably overjoyed tonight. but one day joe and jill biden s granddaughter will know that her grandfather was the president of the united states and completely abandoned and disowned her. we will get to that. coming up we will hear from the attorney representing rapper kodak black who was sentenced to more than three years in prison. he was charged with the same federal robins climb a zero experience hunter biden. 46 months in jail. he also will hear from john solomon. he has exclusive new details from the irs whistleblower who accused the feds of giving hunter preferential treatment. but first tonight we begin with
you know, there s a word for what happened in new york, in a courtroom today. and that word is a latin term. it s bonkers. tonight, on laura coates live. i have been waiting to talk to you guys about this all day. what a day in court today. donald trump clashing with the judge, loudly talking during e. jean carroll s testimony. loud enough to be heard two rows away. claiming it is a witch hunt and a con job. shaking his head, throwing his hands up in the air. i do that, too. it was quite a performance. one that didn t fool the judge, not even for a millisecond or a new york minute, i guess you say. here is something you usually don t hear in a courtroom. the judge says he hopes he won t have to kick trump out of court. and trump responded, i would love it. the judge, i know you would. of course, he likely would. his goal is not maybe to win in court. it s to win at the campaign. frankly, if we re being honest, it s working with him and the polls. let s not forget. this is a