appointee, investigating the missing text messages. plus, new details about trump lawyers, talk into the justice department about january 6th. blas i know everyone is talking about political pawn, and politics, but that is far from this courtroom. the truly unacceptable sentencing of britney griner. nearly a decade in a russian prison. plus, a verdict reached in the alex jones defamation trial. you are saying that everything is true, but it isn t. your beliefs do not make it true. that is what we are doing here. the millions of dollars he owes for his sandy hook lies. when all in starts, right now. good evening, from washington d.c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. cast your mind back to two years ago. the summer of 2020, donald trump, still an office. federal agents, being sent into american cities like portland, and seattle, and using war tactics against protesters for racial justice. i was in this seat, filling in for chris hayes, for the first time. we sh
but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. his excellency, more market duffy, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un charter and then pretending to wrap it up. it should not be called the security council. it should be called the terror council. muammar gaddafi made no mention of the pan am bombing over locker b, or [inaudible] president kennedy. we want to know who killed him. somebody by the name of lee harvey. and then another, jack route ruby, killed harvey. why did he kill him? [inaudible] the un and the white house. i would try to wouldn t try to better part of the afternoon. the speech from the libyan dictator muammar gaddafi was weird. weird, weird. he called for the un headquarters to be relocated to libya so
new american leader was making his first appearance at the annual united nations general assembly. president barack obama was just eight months into his first term, and the un meeting was his big debut on the global diplomatic stage he and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, were greeted warmly by american allies as they announced a more cooperative approach to international affairs as opposed to the with us or against us attitude of the prior administration. president obama was not the only world leader attending his very first un general assembly that day. another first timer got almost as much attention as obama. but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. his excellency, moama gadafi, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un c
is? what if the question isn t are we really going to do this, are we going to maybe elect a convicted felon running explicitly on a platform that ends the american experiment in democracy but on a more basic level should we be asking a different question like is he all right? watch as the presumptive republican presidential nominee celebrates a deadly domestic terrorist attack he helped incite on the united states capitol, as he openly shows contempt for and toward his own supporters standing in front of him, as he rambles on and on and on and on about sharks of all things in rants so bizarre that unhinged doesn t come close to capturing it. he just came up. are the teleprompters not working? said not even a little bit! great job. and then i don t pay the company that does it, right? and then i end up with a story, trump doesn t pay. i don t pay contractors that do a [ bleep ] job. and that s a [ bleep ] job. that s a [ bleep ] job. this is the worst border in the hist
welcome to bbc news. the 45th president of the united states, donald trump, has used his first hours in office to start unpicking his predecessor s policies. he s targeted obamaca re, ordering officials to reduce the ‘economic burden‘ of the affordable healthcare plan, but hasn t said what he ll replace it with. the revamped white house website is also now highlighting mr trump s new six issue agenda. energy, foreign policy, jobs and growth, military, law enforcement and trade deals. some observers point out that it makes no mention of civil rights, healthca re or climate change. the new president s cabinet is beginning to take shape. retired generaljames mattis has been sworn in as defence secretary. and john kelly, a retired marine corps general, has also been sworn in as the head of homeland security. however mike pompeo, president trump s choice as director of the cia hasn t been sworn in yet after his confirmation was delayed by the us senate. the russian government