Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off, which for me is, are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. And its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charges are about him inciting an insurrection against the u. S. Government. And what rutenberg and his colleagues just filled in is a lot of the details about how they knew exactly what they were setting up. How they organized it and how it was a coordinated t
Host the washington journal from march 8. The houses expected in at 9 00 a. M. Today, so a two hour program. Fohear from you about last nigs state of the union speech in which President Biden not only spoke about current events, suc, and reproduction rights, but drew comparisons with the donald p his name. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. If you want to text us, you can do that at 202 7488003. You can also post on our social media sites. Facebook at facebook. Com cspan and you can post on x at cspanwj. When it comes to the length of last nights speech, the Washington Examiner picks it up with their story this morning saying that the president ke, from their estimation, one hour and nine minutes. It is the secondlongest address to congress so far, they add. The leng o speech was of topic of interest because of the questions surrounding mr. Bidens age and mental acuity adding that hen general. The length of the remarks was closely monitored. The takeaways from axios from
Someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because you would be in jail. After all those years of lock her up, trump and his rapidly shrinking inner circle dont see the hypocrisy of whining about the possibility of trump going to prison. As his lawyers test out long shot defenses for the serious charges he faces. And vindication is complete in tennessee. The two expelled state reps win special elections to keep their seats. One of them, justin j. Pearson, joins me tonight. We begin tonight with one of the most striking aspects of Donald Trumps third arraignment yesterday. Besides the fact that a former president of the United States has been arraigned for crimes three times. And it is that all of his frenzied truth social posts and for all of his republican speechifying and about political prosecution, the man who showed up in a washington courtroom on thursday was basically alone. None of his family came to support him, no melania, no ivan
tonight on the reidout give the president some money to fight this [ bleep ]. this is going to destroy america. we re going to fight back at the ballot box we re not going to give in how does this end? trump wins in court and he wins the election that s how this ends for their exalted twice impeached indicted leader, donald trump as we learn much more about the charges he likely faces and how his arraignment will play out on tuesday. michael cohen, trump s longtime fixer who went to prison for his role in these same alleged crimes joins me tonight. plus, the same republicans who scream about states rights are now trying to intimidate a local prosecutor manhattan d.a. alvin bragg the truth is trump is being treated just like any other accused criminal and significantly better than, i don t know, say the central park five but we begin tonight on this new day in our country, a day that shows to the world that no one, not even a former president, is above the law. the
lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. remind our lawmakers of the words of the british statesman, edmund burke. all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. senate chaplain barry black appealing to lawmakers to do something about gun violence. but one of the party has made it clear where they stand. and it is not with american children who just want to grow up. a republican congressman admitting today we re not going to fix it. also tonight, trump s goons wanted to murder him. so why is it taking a court order to force mike pence to testify about his life and death ordeal on january 6th? and gone are the days of a functioning house of representatives. kevin mccarthy has handed the keys to the insurrection caucus which has no agenda except punishing their political opponents and doing the dirty work for donald trump. former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, widely considering on