And i get it. In an age where Congress Approval Rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. That was Eliot Spitzer to a t. But when New Yorkers sent the sheriff of Wall Street to the governors mansion, we all learned The Hard Way that white knights can have dark secrets. Spitzer was caught breaking his own Sex Work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. Eliot spitzer blazed a trail through New York that had him in Spitting Distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. This will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the New York you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so theres this honest politician named Eliot Spitzer, a white knight, new York Official with a reputation so pristine, they called him mr. Clean. He rose up the ranks from Attorney General to governor by taking down the mafia as well as Wall Street banks. These are
Tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. And i get it. In an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. That was eliot spitzer to a t. But when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. Spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. Eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. This will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest politician named
Honest with the public the real mark sanford was able to shake the perfection of the past and start building a new story. Even if it took him a long walk along the appalachian trail to get there being from philadelphia, i have an inherent distrust of anything that comes from new jersey. Although i do acknowledge that the garden state punches way above its weight when it comes to political scandals in 2004, the democratic governor of new jersey, jim agree be stepped into a press room just like this and became an overnight sensation when he admitted to a gay a fair and resigned in the same speech the governor coming out of the closet was genuinely shocking. A career killer at that time. Looking back though, i can t help but feel that we were also quick to embrace the headline that we may have forgotten to dig a little deeper because the reason why jim agreement resigned is a lot more complicated than we remember new jersey america s communal jacuzzi or cesspool, depending on who you ask
Our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world and streaming on cnn max, i m michael holmes. Appreciate your company coming up here on the program, bracing for beryl, the storm is a hurricane. Once again, as it rolls towards the texas this coastline democrats still divided over joe biden will tell you who the latest star to join the call for the u. S. President about out of the 2024 race and the center begins to fold in france. So voters deliver a win for the country s leftwing parties and a stinging rebuke reviewed of cnn newsroom with michael holmes. And we begin this hour with hurricane beryl, which has gained strength in the past few hours from a tropical storm to a category one hurricane. And it is expected to make landfall in southern texas in the hours ahead. In its latest advisory, prediction center issued a tornado so watch related to beryl impacting more than 7 million people residents along the texas coast are being urged not to underestimate this
Mark milley saying today that getting americans out is the singular focus of the biden administration. The situation is still very dangerous, very dynamic and fluid and we can be proud of those executing this mission. They re currently in harm s way. That needs to be our focus. There will be plenty of time to do aars but right now our mission is to secure that air field, defend that air field and evacuate those faithful to us. There will be many postmortems on this topic but right now is not that time. There s troops at risk and we the united states military and fully intend to successfully evacuate all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan. They are our priority number one. In addition we intend to evacuate those supporting us for years and won t leave them behind. Milley s comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. The airport in kabul. The tali