because it is for the people. we have to make sure that we protect it at home. laura: in the swamp defense. didn t congress just pass a stock sales ban? no. we have a statement criticizing the democratic leadership for not calling up the stock bill. i m strictly focused on winning the next election. i don t know what her statement is. [question inaudible] you have to have the votes to bring it up. we ll see. we don t go from one day to the next. laura: i have to call paul. the bill is still stuck on pelosi s desk. why? could it have anything to do with the fact that they ve got ten very, very rich during her time in office? of course not. no wonder people are so cynical about government today. no wonder the democrats are in freak-out mode over the possibility of a trump second term. remember, he s already pledged a top-down reform of the civil service. he wants it all cleaned up and cleaned out of political bias and favoritism. now imagine that. a government th
times over the years, and every time he joined us, he helped us achieve our main goal, to get better and smarter. that was easy for him. ben white was the very best. i will forever be grateful for the knowledge he shared with us, bought more than anything, for his friendship. this is a hard and competitive business and having a friend in this business like ben was a gift and i will treasure our friendship forever. our condolences go out to his entire family and all those who are grateful to know and love him. thank you, ben. i will miss you and on that note, i wish you all a very safe and good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with it. if they were into reality. so, that s an issue. what makes this all even more di
the republican party s front-runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 3 that is4 the reality the republican party must now grapple with, if they were into reality. so that sre an issue. what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has precisely zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted by a case brought by a new york city prosecutor whoas does not repor to president biden. facing another ten criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases against trump was brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from nor coordinates with president f bidench so donald trump has reacted in a way he traditionally does when reality does not fit with his preferred reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases
the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with that. if they were into reality. that is an issue. but what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted in the case brought by a new york city prosecutor who does not report president biden. trump is facing another 10 criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases were brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from coordinates with president biden. so donald trump has reacted the way he traditionally does when reality does not fit his preferred narrative. he lies about it. he claims that president biden is the one who is really pulling the strings. these are all biden cases. this is using the justice department to go af
the hearts of many people and the prospect of having someone in the oval office who is sympathetic to vladimir putin is probably terrifying. you mentioned that germany is planning for the possibility of a trump second term. talk more about their thinking and why they seem so positive that this is his race to lose. the german foreign ministry, after trump won the first selection and sometime in the middle of that first term, they realized they needed to rethink their approach to america. like a lot of western governments, they have plans for dealing with developments in places like china or russia. but because the alliance with the u.s. has been so close, they never felt like they had to do that.