with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. it is here for the favorite is gonna join us this hour. he is of course the miracle worker of ohio, the only democrat who seems to be able to get elected statewide in ohio and i think he has much to teach us about how to win in november for democrats. the recipe to the secret sauce for democrats. and alex, i don t know if you have a policy on this. maybe you do. what s your policy when a guest shows up in formal wear. i celebrated, lawrence. mine is just no comment, no questions. black tie, where have you been, i don t think that it s i think it s because you expect your guests to arrive like. that it throws me every time. and that s all i m going to say about it, okay? i am not going to,. and we ll know who the guest is momentarily. the audience will figure it out. they can ask their own questions on twitter. who knows. i ll be watching. thanks alex. have a good show. we ha
michael steele. these are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump s attorney and e. jean carroll s defamation case renewing calls for a mistrial. congressman jim hines is here to discuss the improving biden economy, and we are just 72 hours from primary day in new hampshire where the states could not be higher for republicans in for this country. grab your coffee, settle, and welcome to the weekend. we begin this hour with newly-released video from donald trump s april 2023 deposition and the new york civil trial trial against him and his company. during the interview, trump not only bragged about his finances and his brand, but also claimed his presidency save the planet from a quote, nuclear holocaust. you re too busy for the company? anyway, yeah. i can say, it another way of saying. it i was very busy. i consider this the most important job in the world, saving millions of jobs. i think we would ve had nuclear holocaust if i didn t deal with n
well, thank you for joining us today, the lead with jake tapper starts right now. donald trump, nikki haley, new hampshire, tomorrow, the lead starts right now. can you hear that sound? [ cheering ] that is the sound of a 2 person race. and then there were 2, nikki haley hanging on as the lone candidate taking on donald trump, facing a uphill battle going into tomorrow s primary, and john king with his all over the map series, asking trump loyalists why they are so eager to vote for him again. nearly a year since a freight train crashed at palestine, ohio, how people feel about promises to make sure they re not living amongst a dangerous toxic site. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper, the 2024 lead, the final hours before the first of the nation primary, new hampshire voters, going to the polls, setting it for the november presidential election, only 2 major republican candidates left, nikki haley is making her last minute pitch in five campaign events, trying
pay taxes in the tune of $1 hundred thousand in 2017 and 2018. gary shapely claims the true number is almost 600,000 for 2017 and even more than that for 2018. he says the plea deal essentially lets hunter off the hook. there is still outstanding tax due owing above that 620,000 because of this deal they ll never recoup. the most substantive felony charges were left off the table, which would have been evasion, for 14, false return for 18 and 19. julie: he says his team was prevented from looking into things that could have led them to president biden. the president on the topic deny, deny and deny again. president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. i don t know what he was doing. i did not know he was on the board of that company. i have oaf never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters. i ve never discussed with my son or brother or anything else having to do with their businesses. julie: it shows hunte
majority so now might north carolina lawmakers have a chance to rethink their stance on all of this. the question is, will they take it? that is the show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. they didn t take their last opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on i loved your conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you re worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. i believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doe