a.m. out we i m lipid see riser at msnbc headquarters in new york heightened anticipation as we watch for a potentially unprecedented decision from a new york grand jury about whether to indict trump. his former fixer, michael cohen, could head back to the grand jury today as a rebuttal witness. that s because they re about to hear from a different unexpected witness today, robert costello, michael cohen s former legal adviser. looming over the decision, the former president s statement over the weekend that he expects to be arrested tomorrow. with uncertainly swirling, prominent republicans including the speaker of the house are coming to his defense. it doesn t matter what side of the issue you re on it doesn t matter if this was president trump or if this was a democrat there should be equal justice in america, and stop going after people because you have political differences. also this hour, a high-stakes meeting in moscow between chinese leader xi jinping and russia
and probably most are, but at some level the people who run the democratic party weren t upset at all. they were thrilled. here was an issue for them to run in the midterm elections, an issue perfectly suited to a party that had nothing to talk about. are they going to brag about joe biden? i don t think so. it s abortion, they re going to take your abortions away. that was the democratic message for the midterm elections, coming up in just a few days, but there was a problem with the messaging. so covid had just ended, and people not being entirely stupid still remembered this very same democratic party, the same people, had forced the entire population to wear paper masks like children, and then to take the shot as a condition of going outside. so women have the right to control their own bodies? hmm. they used to tell us that. then they fired thousands of nurses for refusing to submit to an experimental vaccine. so the phrase my body my choice had been, as we say in the
frankly, president xi is smart, thoughtful and strategic, unlike his junior partner putin who is impulsive, foolish and showing himself to be holding a losing hand of cards here so xi will, like all smart strategists, try to keep all his options at play. he ll position himself as a global peacemaker. he ll push this 12-point chinese peace plan the u.s. would be very smart, and i think you ll hear this from admiral kirby, my good friend, later today, we re not going to be publicly putting huge amounts of pressure on china here we re going to be asking china to do the right thing, to restrain vladimir putin. all of that will be part of a small smart u.s. strategy that keeps chien in in play between the two sides. i think we can manage that. xi has promoted himself as peacemaker, but given there s
admittedly pretty smart strategists who figure out what the issues are in the democratic party so misjudge this one? they forgot that not everyone in america is as miserable as they are. in fact, there are still plenty of people in this country, believe it or not, who have happy marriages. there s still people who love their kids and their grandchildren. still people consider babies a blessing, not just an obstacle to better vacation. now some of those people, maybe a lot of those people, might consider themselves, quote, pro-choice, but they re hardly abortion. they don t think abortion is a positive good. it s not. they don t consider it liberation. they definitely don t see abortion as janet yellen recently claimed as the answer to our national economic problem. she said that. so here s how it works. janet yellen gets rich giving speeches to the companies she regulates. that s corruption, but never charged. she s still free. in fact, she s the treasury
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