i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. the supreme court comprised by appoint east of former president donald trump ended a most consequential term. scotus on voting rights, affirmative action, student loans and adoption. this on top of last year s rulings concerns abortion, guns, religion and climate change. yesterday, the court released a much anticipated opinion concerning speech and gay rights. at issue, a colorado business seeking permission not to work for same-sex wedding couples, only this time it wasn t the baker. this case was decided in 2018 when jack phillips refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. then the court decided for the baker, but didn t determine whether a business owner s speech writes can justify refusing service to gay couples. well, five miles from the colorado baker is a graphic artist named lorie smith who will join me momentarily. she said she didn t want to create any same-sex wedding message at odds with her religious beliefs. she neve
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
country s president, alexander lukashenko. mr prigozhin issued an audio statement on monday but has not been seen in public since saturday. a little early in a moscow president putin thanked his security forces for protecting the country at last weekend, silently had stopped a civil war. the fsb have confirmed though that a criminal case against wagner has been dropped. the defence ministry says, the group will have to hand over heavy weapons and equipment. this was putin a little ealier. translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders of translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders of the - are the true defenders of the motherland, who in a difficult time for the country together with their comrades in arms stood in the way of the unrest, which inevitably would have resulted in chaos. you protected the constitution, the lies and the safety of our people. you save our form turmoil. and the s
advice is simple. you ve run a very smart campaign, you ve never backed down. but now the focus should almost exclusively shift to the general election. the democrats are going to stop at nothing, they see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. and if they can, they are going to game the system or maybe even cheat. whoa, what now? that was not foxes laura angrum in december of 2020. that was fox host laura ingraham this week, january, the year 2024. despite no evidence of election fraud last time around, and having to make $787 million to settle a defamation case based on their 2020 election lies. fox appears to be priming their audience once again to believe that if donald trump loses in 2024, it s because the democrats cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laurin graham. now turning to joe biden. what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa, about a third of iowa rep
they are night owls, obviously. yeah, okay. you get the justins, we get the alexander twins. okay that s the way we will leave it. thank you, alex. have a good show! thanks. tonight, there is a new trump defense, bravado. votto is a spanish word which, and current american english, usage means boasting, exaggerating, which, in legal terms, means lying. so, the new trump defense tonight is i was lying. on this program, we pledge to bring to you, as soon as it is available, as soon as we have already done, every word of donald trump s defense in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump, in which donald trump stands accused of 37 counts of violating federal law, including the espionage act, and his illegal possession of government documents, including highly classified documents. today, donald trump answered questions about the two minute audio recording that flooded cable news last night, including this program. the audio recording seems to review