Have a good weekend. Today was day four, day four of testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president. Trumps lawyers were able to finish crossexamining the lead witness, Tabloid Publisher and trump insider david pecker. We will talk about how that went in just a second, but today we got to see the prosecution second witness. Someone who worked closely with donald trump for decades, including on tv. Hi, good morning, this is mr. Trumps office. Hi, good morning. Mr. Trump would like to meet you at 9 00 at tavern on the green. Good morning, it is rhona calling. Mr. Trump is meeting with Miss Universe at trump model management. Do you think youll be ready . We can do it. Thanks, rhona. Thanks, rhona. Rhona graff, Donald Trumps longtime executive assistant and occasional costar on The Apprentice. The prosecution appears to have called her because she is the person who handled trumps calendar and contacts and email, which trump himself does not use. Ms. Graf appeared in court und
said these people are not going to leave the issue to them, they re going bring it here. the shah was overthrown in a violent revolution. in his place stepped a militant cleric, the ayatollah khamenei and many americans were to get a taste for the first time of radical islam. when the shah exiled and sick with cancer begged to enter the u.s. for medical treatment, carter reluctantly agreed. but his compassion would carry a monumental price tag. the angry iranians breached the walls of the american embassy. an emergency meet was called at the state department. it was a long table set up in the operations center and there were speaker phones set up along the table. each one was connected to a different part of the embassy. those lines were left open. and what happened in the course of the morning is that one after
lead a bible verse. and little known outside of georgia. but carter embraced those shortcomings and turned them to his advantage. he appeared on what s my line sure celebrities had no idea who he was. but his face would be televised nationally. i can rule out that you are a government official of any kind, can t i? no. oh, you! his campaign commercials made fun with the fact that americans were just hearing of him. jimmy who? jimmy carter. jimmy who? i don t know who he is. jimmy carter is running for what? i told my bosses at nbc, i said you know you need to pay attention to this guy. jimmy carter. i said you focus on his accent. but these people are serious. and they mainly you know, just dismissed it and they said, he s not from washington. to the party elite in washington, carter was
killed in an altercation. at least 18 people killed in a train derailment in taiwan. 170 others injured in that disaster. now back to headliners: jimmy carter. coming into office, jimmy carter knew that americans were enduring an ugly period of recession and inflation and gasoline shortages. his white house wanted to show respect for the hard-scrabble times. i can t match the admiration. white house events would be modest affairs. the presidential yacht got put up for auction. 9-year-old amy became the first child of a president to enroll in a local public school. in over 70 years. and carter would dispense with the imperial flourishes. after his inauguration, there would be no more hail to the chief. ladies and gentlemen hi, everybody. i did away with all the
and things like that. tensions in the capital across the country increased. when the second middle east oil crisis hit in 1979. i need gas. bringing with it a vicious return of empty gas stations. heating oil shortages. and skyrocketing prices. here was jimmy carter who had promised to take on the energy crisis, and yet, here we were again, waiting in these mile-long gas lines. people ran out of fuel. sometimes they turned violent. there were murders and stabbings. and a sense that washington was incompetent. and americans more and more became dissatisfied with its leadership. where is our leadership out of the washington, d.c. with his poll numbers plummeting to record low levels and inflation rising into double digits, carter knew he had to do more than come up with new policy proposals, he had to address the country s increasing sense of doom. by july of 1979 carter was