that s why the world works with servicenow. former president trump was interviewed by sean hannity on fox news and when hannity brought up trump s claim he declassified the documents at mar-a-lago, he gave an interesting explanation. is there a process? what was your process to there doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, but if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. [ laughter ] hannity was like, i get it, you re going to plead insanity. now it s making sense. welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 in the morning tong west coast as you look at los angeles, 9:00 in the east on this friday, september 23rd. a busy hour ahead, including the new pressure on donald trump s legal team to prove in a court of law the allegation trump has been making in public that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. there is also new reporting showing
find twitter because the billionaire is worried about losing money. he s waffling. he s weak. i ll walk through the evidence for you tonight. we begin with a very serious story. a story that we continue to cover as the nation continues to reel from what we all see and live through, the epidemic of gun violence. this is important. i ll tell what you it is so you know what you re about to deal with, because it s gut-wrenching. new testimony out of washington from victims families out of buffalo and uvalde including an 11-year-old survivor s stunning video. nia cerillo describes how the gunman murdered her teachers and classmates right in front of you her and how she survived, covering herself in blood to pretend she was dead. and then she went to go out the door and he was in the hallway and they made contact. then he went into the other classroom and then he went there s a door between our classrooms and he went to there and shot my teacher and killed my teacher, shot h
presence on the scene. that s one event at the festival between october 7th and 9th. visit our website at newyorker.com and look at the events we have them. they re fantastic. hope to see you out there. cant wait to see it. we ll talk more when you come back on the show next week. for young journalists, you should know that s not how it happens. no. you sit at your desk and bono calls and says come to my gigantic apartment for a pr pitch. no. great to see you, willie. all the best. you as well. the special master appointed to review the documents the fbi seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and club has given former president trump s legal team until next friday to back up trump s allegation the fbi planted evidence during the search last month. he s been making that claim in interviews and on social media, but his lawyers have yet to officially make that argument in
conservatives. many conservatives spend weeks cheering musk. they believed his claims that he was on this mission to help them. and they were wrong. they were wrong because musk was wrong and because he was misleading. all of this offers a key lesson in how to deal with billionaires, both right now and going forward. and it brings us to my special report for you right now. the evidence shows musk s agenda is to make money and consolidate power. that s legal. it s guided his pursuit of twitter from the start. but like a politician or like a canny billionaire, his pr pitch was a different message, claiming he wanted to fix twitter and advance true free speech. and many republicans believed that pitch and even rallied around it, believing that this business deal was about free speech and not about, well, business. corporations can mix business with some ideology on the margins but business will come
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The PR pitch was brazen: Eric Metaxas, it declared, is “America’s #1 Bad Christian.” The Christian writer and radio host has been promoting doubts about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, including ata prayer rally he emceed on the National Mall in December. Metaxas has tweeted “martial rhetoric” in defense of former President Donald Trump, his publicist wrote cheerfully. He even appeared ina
Metaxas told me he didn’t know that this is how he’s being pitched to journalists, but he doesn’t hate it. “That’s hilarious!” he said when I described the email. “I take that as a high compliment.” He has leaned into his reputation as a staunch Trump defender. During a November episode of Metaxas’s radio show, Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano put Trump on speakerphone. “I’d be happy to die in this fight. This is a fight for everything. God is with us,” Metaxas told the president.