of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
hello, i am re: millbrook covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30th, 2024 is now etched in all of our collective experiences, the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from citizens, symbols cases, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and unprecedented to federal indictments, the president who delayed accountability on all those cases over many years which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing found, he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after nine hours of deliberations, they unanimously found him guilty on all counts, as you know by now. a former president convicted of felony crimes for the first time in our nations history. the news broke. we will be revisiting that tonight and going forward with special guests and new information. this is a time if there ever were a time t
you have done work in storytelling, directing, political activism, we will put up the photos and images we are seeing around the country. it is easy in the era we are living now, the means, i m starting right up with a game of thrones mean. it is easy for us to get caught in this narrowly, when it is possibly, as bob woodward told us, this could be oh broad thing. your thoughts? well, you talk about it as a story. this is just the first step of the story that has been percolating since donald trump entered the political sphere. he has been here, you know, since he came down the escalator, he has been taking a wrecking ball to the rule of law and constitution. as you pointed out earlier in the program, he has been impeached a couple times. we have seen not only the conviction, but a couple
watching this yesterday, it was alternative history of the saturday night massacre, those clips you just played just now where you have this, you know, who would have thought, back at the time when we were watching this in realtime, you could see from the outside something weird was going on in the justice department. there was reporting contemporaneous that trump was trying to make another change. there had been one change of leadership that you could see was totally political, and nobody knew what was going on behind closed doors. what we didn t know was the scene that played out, the extraordinary, attempt by all of these lawyers, many of whom people were skeptical of at the time, who thought they were trump stooges to begin with, as it turned out, whatever you think about their past performance or other things they did in the course of the trump administration. at the moment of truth, they decided that the rule of law and constitution, and reputations and legal standing were more i
now the republicans are getting ready to go to wawar. i don t want democrats getting ready to go to sleep. this is not over. this is just beginning. and those members you re talking about, they need all of the people who watch this show who have been hopeful that the house democrats would live up to our responsibilities. we need your help. it is now time for everyone to get in the game, and there s a role to play. make your voices heard, get involved, be active because the republicans are going to war against those members you just spoke about. and they are not getting tired, believe me. they are just getting started. right now there are ads running, they re in the mail and online and i m really hoping that democrats understand now is the time to get active. and all americans of good faith who believe in the rule of law and constitution, you need to stand up right now. congressman, you know, one of the points i m going to make at the end of this hour is that,