orders on the u.s. capitol grounds on january 6th. listen, you just hang in there, donald trump told the woman, who was found guilty on a misdemeanor charge of resisting police efforts to clear grounds. you guys are going to be okay. trump, who is campaigning in new hampshire, then agreed to sign the backpack she said she carried to the capitol complex on the day of the interruption of the congressional proceedings to certify trump s loss in the 2020 election. just hours before the ex-president and gop front-runner literally embraced an insurrectionist, you can t make that up territory now, a member of the mob that chanted hang mike pence a watershed moment took place someplace else. as we reported yesterday during this hour, the former vp mike pence testified before a federal grand jury. the new york times posted, it s not clear what testimony he provided thursday, but prosecutors were surely interested in pence s accounts of his interactions with trump, and trump ad
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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Penalties are even higher, the evidence is even more volume nous, or will he cut his losses, cut a deal and tell what he knows if anything about potential collusion between donald trump and the Russian Election interference effort . Let me bring in the panel now. I want to get to my legal experts, more of my legal experts. By the way, a little more breaking news, the Cohen Hearing is officially over. Sentencing is scheduled for December 12th for his guilty plea at 11 00 a. M. Hes out on 500,000 bail which was cosigned by his wife and a second person. Were going to go there. But Donald Fryman is is on Air Force One on his way to West Virginia to prepare for a rally for the West Virginia senate race. How is he feeling . We think hes emotionally and politically in as much of a corner psychologically as hes been since hes become president of the United States. Hes worked very hard to get at
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it is critical that we pay attention to it. quote, we have become so inoured, so numb to stories about trump s behavior that it is tempting to minimize this case. after all, it s just one of many. who can keep straight the gusher of allegations, indictments that are actual and impending. it s simile another sorted example of trump s behavior, unmoored and yet unpunished. the adult film star paid off, the play boy model whose tale of an affair with trump was done and we need to remind ourselves of how far trump has dragged ourselves down into the gutter reduced to his level of tawdry entitlement. the account was not only about a former president, it is also about a man who by all measures seems poised to claim his