i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
thank you. appreciate you very much coming up, with an indictment apparently right around the corner, trump s attorney is dropping hints about a potential defense strategy, or our legal expert will explain the melania defense and why it might not work for the donald. lomita feed is 101 years old. when covid hit, we had some challenges. i heard about the payroll tax refund that allowed us to keep the people that have been here taking care of us. learn more at getrefunds.com.
he made this with personal funds to prevent something coming out false but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. that s not a campaign finance violation. not by any stretch with signs pointing to manhattan district attorney alvin bragg brings charges against donald trump over the stormy daniels hush money payments it appears trump and his lawyers are throwing a hail mary pass for their defense or perhaps more specifically, a hail melania, claiming it was all done to protect the sanctity of his third marriage. the hush money payments michael cohen made on trump s behalf had nothing to do with the fact the 2016 presidential election was just days away or trump was limping into the final stretch following the release of the infamous access hollywood tape where he claimed he could grab women by the you know where, according to that strategry, is that melania knew about the affair, and what trump was up to
were a republican. you know, i m old enough to remember that republicans had a pretty hard line against russia at one point they were the hawkish party, they were the party that said we have to take a firm stand against things like the axis of evil when it came to places like iraq and north korea trump obviously changed that he aligned the party with north korea. he was friendly with kim jong-un. he s aligned the party with trump, and you have seen this change in ron desantis, who was going after president obama for not being tough enough on putin when it came to territorial ambitions but then he changed. he ran for president, and he got money from the same people who were giving trump money. ron desantis had to return a political contribution that he received from two soviet born businessmen who were accused of funneling foreign cash into u.s. elections to increase their
simultaneously point out that yeah, we do need there is a problem in this country. not the problem that republicans like to say, but the problem is that the will of the people are not getting heard. yeah, and this is a journalistic challenge i m so glad you re here today with us, gilani, because i hear in this business people talking about desantis in this very dry way that says he s different from trump, he is a turn from trump. and that republican voters want trump policies without the trump drama. they never specify which policies they mean because trump s policies were a massive tax cut for the rich, but other than that, attacking lgbtq people, saying they shouldn t serve in the military, attacking muslims, it was racism you know, the policies that seem to get the right going were policies that were hate-based policies that s what seemed to make the right happy because he hated the right people, quote/unquote. when it comes to desantis, this