cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how, even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feel just like new. # plink plink, plink plink. laughter. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here. on this programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity, and your first choice is your parents. yes. tell me about your parents. well, first of all, they, um, were very innovative and able to improvise, because, of course, if you live in the woods and there aren t any shops, you have to be, and they were both very outdoorsy. but they also allowed us to make messes in our rooms and didn t make us clean them up. by messes, i mean project
sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. former president trump call for protests has law enforcement officials in new york preparing for a week of uncertainty. in a social media post, trump said that he expects to be a arrested on tuesday in a role in a hush money payment to stormy daniels before the election. in the statement trump urged supporters to protest and take our nation back and dialed up the rhetoric with a follow-up post saying, we just can t allow this any more. we must save america. protest, protest, protest. they are alarming similar for the calls for protest prior to the january 6, 2021 insurrection and has new york police officers and officials bracing for whatever may happen. joining me to discuss all of this, ron brownstein is a senior political analyst and a senior editor for the atlantic. jonathan wackrow is a former secret service agent. gentlemen, good to see you both. so ron, let me begin with you. and your reaction to trump s claim that he will be arrested t
orange one, things are worse than ever and cnn has the means to prove it. that is it, means. memes. what your uncle sense on facebook after convincing everyone he is the only one who has seen them. they are tiresome. the crying mike michael jordan meme. the distracted boyfriend meme. even joe biden falling off his bike became a meme. of course you can forget this mean. [lau[chuckles. [laughter] or this one. yeah. and of course, this one. [laughter] [laughs] yeah. but apparently means our net memes are now into of white supremacy. that is according to cnn. whites sharing memes with black people in them is racist because if there s one thing racist love, it is looking at black people. seen and calls it digital blackface. it is sad where there is not racism, cnn just has to invent it. they are so desperate for relevance that they will push division any way they can. seen and.com writer writes digital blackface is where white people co-op black expressions or culture to co
Theres no way to unring the bell in our view. Blanche also accused the prosecution of purposely trying to embarrass trump. And trying to enflame the jury following a conversation between the prosecution and Stormy Daniels. Her testimony has now been different after the lunch break. Shorter answers. Less narrative. Lets get right to it. Back with us, nbc news correspondent, Vaughn Hillyard and joining us for the hour, former fbi General Counsel and nyu law professor, andrew weissman, adam pollack and amy parnes. Okay, vaughn, catch us up on whats going inside right this very second. Reporter theyve been going back and forth over that period of time between august of, October Of 2016 when daniels entered into that 130,000 agreement to keep her story silent with cohen. She believed he was a party up until March Of 2018 when she appeared on 60 minutes and publicly detailed the encounter in 2006. It was not until the Wall Street Journal story by the Wall Street Journal in January Of 2018 in
Up my Constitutional Rights have been taken away from a. But every single expert, every legal scholar, ever respected scholar has said this is no case, there is no case here. This is just a political witch hunt. Election interference this is the way they think they will get elected but i guess based on what i am looking at john former President Donald Trump sounding off on his way into court this morning as a third day of testimony underway in his new york Criminal Trial. I am john roberts in washington we will be watching this for the next two hours. B2 what a day it is im sandra smith in new york this is america report. The prosecution picking up where it left off on tuesday with more questions for experts witness David Fentanyl the National Enquirer reported telling about trumps alleged affair with Karen Mcdougal and the efforts to give that from going public. John the manhattan d. A. s office also accusing President Trump of violating the courts gag order again as we await a decisi