The most important election of our lifetime. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im laura coates in Washington Dc. Its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of these states. State of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done on trump tried to deny democracy. I say were donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person, its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping
Witnesses. Just because my own story touches on everything these three write about, i recommend all the books. Theyre wonderful. I and ellie native, which is something that does not surprise people as much as it used to, but my family came from the louisiana, from new orleans. My father came in 1942 during the war, and this kind of to margarets book. My family did not talk a whole lot about what happened in the south. You just did not hear a lot. I put it together over the course of my life, really. As an essayist, i always tried to sort of dove right i dont know write about the history of black folk and about my own individual life, which is very hard to do. I think im still trying to put those pieces together, so all these books speak to that effort, i think, by black people to continue to do that. We are in the era of black lives matter, which is the same campaign we have been running for a very long time. I think of dr. King in 1968. His last campaign for the sanitation workers in
Next, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go in to achieving happiness. This is about an hour. Thank you, jonathan quite a lot actually. Its always great to be back at the Nixon Library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of nixons birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come offing. As many of you know, in late 1988, the phone rang. I was searching for president reagan and his administration. On the other end this president nixon asking me to come back to your belinda to oversee construction of the library for a couple years. So i was very, very pleased to do so. It was a shining jewel and anyone watching on cspan across the United States who has never been to the Nixon Library, you want to come here. Its an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also extra or a lead, the small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measure in decades that achievement, not hours of achievement, but a truly signif
Grievances. Here is president donald trump. We have to talk about it to find out whats going on because the press, honestly, is out of control. To be honest, i inherited a mess. Its a mess. At home and abroad. A mess. This administration is running like a finetuned machine. From a lastminute press conference to a new cabinet nomination, it has been a whirlwind, not just day, id say the last two hours at the white house. Our team is all in place to help us make sense of all of it and break it down. The obvious starting place is at the white house. My colleague Kelly Odonnell is is there for us this afternoon. Reporter it was a theater, it was emotion, there were facts in there as well and some news was made on a variety of policy subjects. Thing tas will probably get less attention. But as you pointed out, this began as a means to introduce a new nominee for department of labor. Yet he was not here. Which is also unusual. Alexander acosta, who will be the president s choice after the fa