Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Here in new york. Day 581 of the trump administration, and just tonight a short time ago, in fact, new legal troubles potentially for the president on a new front. Well let the New York Times tell it. Quote, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two Senior Company officials in connection with Michael Cohens Hush Money Payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials of the matter. A State Investigation would settle on how the company accounted for its reimbursements to mr. Cohen for the 130,000 he paid to the actress, stephanie clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, closed quote. Mostly along those same lines a big story today had to do with a long time friend of the president who has apparently turned on him. The publisher of the national
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we mentioned this before the break. president trump is attracting attention and draw agcriticism after what he said on twitter that was probably intended to do both. he in effect endorsed what has long been a white nationalist conspiracy theory. it all started with this tweet in which trump writes that he s asked his secretary of state mike pompeo to closely study the south africa land and farm seizures and the large scale killing of farmers. you ll note the mention there of fox news and tucker carlson true 0 form, his tweet came following this segment last night on fox news. the president of south africa has begun and you pay have seen this in the press seizing lands from his own citizens without compensation because they re the wrong skin color, that is the definition of racism, nothing to see here says mike pompeo state department.
asked his secretary of state mike pompeo to closely study the south africa land and farm seizures and the large scale killing of farmers. you ll note the mention there of fox news and tucker carlson true to form, his tweet came following this segment last night on fox news. the president of south africa has begun and you may have seen this in the press seizing lands from his own citizens without compensation because they re the wrong skin color. that is literally the definition of racism. nothing to sear here says mike pompeo s state department. it s totally okay for south africa to steal property for racist reasons. to be clear while this is complicated no private land has been seized. and there is no large scale killing of farmers going on in south africa. in fact, reuters reports, if you can believe this, quote farm murders are actually at a
we mentioned this before the break. president trump is attracting attention and draw agcriticism after what he said on twitter that was probably intended to do both. he in effect endorsed what has long been a white nationalist conspiracy theory. it all started with this tweet in which trump writes that he s asked his secretary of state mike pompeo to closely study the south africa land and farm seizures and the large scale killing of farmers. you ll note the mention there of fox news and tucker carlson true 0 form, his tweet came following this segment last night on fox news. the president of south africa has begun and you pay have seen this in the press seizing lands from his own citizens without compensation because they re the wrong skin color, that is the definition of racism, nothing to see here says mike pompeo state department. it s totally okay for south africa to steal property for racist reasons. to be clear, while this is complicated, no private land has been seized.
begins executing people, seizing lands. and my aunt, she was still there and she fought in the counterrevolution against castro. she would with her friends burn down sugar cane fields and she ended up being thrown in prison and tortured by castro s goons. how do you feel now, or do you think about we re opening up diplomatic relations. we re going to have an ambassador there. will you ever go to cuba as long as fidel and raul are running the place? you know, i don t know. would you go back as a principal while they re still there? i disagree with the obama administration s approach to opening up cuba. i think it s the same type of approach that this administration has had to russia and to iran, that it s dealing with our enemies with weakness. i think the consequence a lot of people not everybody i agree there s some people on the left who may take that point of view. i don t know what obama believes but a lot of people believe opening up to cuba to freedom