This our, Princeton University professor eddie glaude talks to me about President Bidens graduation speech at morehouse. The interview in just a few moments. A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome everyone to politico reports. First two political headlines. Here is what is happening right now. President biden arrived in atlanta a short time ago. He will attend Campaign Events later today and is expected to deliver the Commencement Speech at Morehouse College tomorrow. Earlier today, The White House released photos of a friday meeting with members of the divine nine historically africanamerican sororities and fraternities. Biden also spoke at the National Museum of African American history and culture. Together, the naacp and this museum are monuments to the power of black history to black history is American History. It is american. It is a really important thing to continue. We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history,
Democracy at stake, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court hold in their hands the power to forever alter the trajectory of our country. How they rule on cases having to do with january 6th, violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power, will echo for generations. So not only is it reasonable for us to expect those nine human beings to go about their process impartially, its vital that they are seen and perceived as being impartial appearance. The mere appearance of bias could strain our trust in an honest result for these cases, which is why todays news isnt just disturbing, its scary. The New York Times cites photos and interviews with neighbors in reporting that in 2021, days before president joe bidens inauguration as president , days after the deadly attack on the United States capitol of january 6th, neighbors of conservative Justice Samuel alito noticed something on his lawn, an upside down american flag, a symbol commonly used in those days by Trump Supporters
Case and what the jury will need to decide. Russia and china agree to tighten military ties and deepen their Economic Partnership after talks in beijing. What will washingtons response to that be . And police in slovakia have charged a man with the Attempted Murder of the Prime Minister, robert fico. The Prime Minister remains in a serious but stable condition. Good evening. Michael cohen once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. The prosection is hoping that in this case he is their silver bullet, but he has faced a withering day of Cross Examination as trumps lawyers worked hard this afternoon to demolish his credibility. Questioned the notion that Michael Cohen is a reformed man interested in justice. Putting to him the many lies he had told in defence of his former employer. He testified he lied out of loyalty and to protect the former presient when he was his personal counsel. At the heart of the case is a payment trump made to cohen in 2016 a reimbursement, say the prose
Deadline white house starts right now. Hi, everyone, welcome to wednesday, a critical chapter in the trial of the expresident is coming to a close. Questions now swirl about what happens next n trump election interference trial. Todd blanche failed to land any significant blows to Michael Cohens credibility, something theyre desperate to do after he was put in the center of the scheme to catch and kill negative stories that could have hurt Donald Trumps campaign. He told the jury that the president himself signed off on the plan to hide the expenses. Todd blanche started this way, these are literally the first words out of the his mouth. You and i have never spoken or met, have we . To which cohen replied, we have not. Todd blanche, but you know who i am . Cohen answers, i do blanche asking, on april 23rd, so after the trial started in this case, you went on tiktok and called me a, quote, Crying Little cohen supplies that might be something i would say. Blanche went on to defend mr. Co
He was once the former president s lawyer and fixer but he spent the day on the Stand Outlining how he made a payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, to stop her talking about a relationship she claimed she had with mr trump. The defence is expected to stress mr cohens criminal record and openly stated dislike of his ex boss. Nada tawfik was at the trial in new york and gave us this update. Michael cohen and his testimony is crucial to this case, prosecutors hope that the conversation that Michael Cohen are shared between him and donald trump directly tie his former boss to the Hush Money Payments and to the allegations that trump falsified business records. Michael cohen testified that everything was done with mr trumps sign off, he said the donald trump even ran for president , he warned Michael Cohen to be prepared for negative stories that a lot of women would come forward. When they eventually did, Michael Cohen says the Stormy Daniels story was one he feared could be c