Ben platt. Musical guest brittany howard, and the legendary roots crew its the tonight show at home edition. Steve and now, heres jimmy. Jimmy hi, everybody. Thank you so much for watching our show im jimmy fallon, welcome to the tonight show. Here we go time to get some news, and it isnt good the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Is at its highest level since the peak in april. Yup, apparently the rising numbers in america have forced other countries to make a tough decision the European Union is considering a ban on travelers from the u. S. Over the coronavirus failures jimmy yeah, the european leaders disapprove of trumps handling of the virus. Right now, the only ones who approves of trumps handling of the virus is the virus thats right europe is banning americans from entering. Even worse, europe was like, how do we put this . Um, this has nothing to do with the pandemic we just hate americans okay byebye. When europe said theyd block americans from entering trump
Monday morning when crossexamined amination continues in the prosecution certainly has its work cut out for them. The lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Court has just ramped up for the de and Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial. It is a day you should remember because if if donald trump, the former president is acquitted the History Books may well point to Michael Cohens testimony today as the biggest reason cohens crossexamination will resume. Next week, were told after he endured hours of brutal questioning on The Stand Today, trumps Defense Attorney todd blanche laid out cohens past lies under oath, and then introduced evidence claiming that cohen has also lied in this trial under oath cohen previously testified on tuesday, i believe, about a key october 2016 phone call. He says he had with donald trump about the hush money reimbursement. But todd blanche today reveal Text Messages and a call log from that day tha
and he was in 2020, it s true, this is not the joe biden of 2020. which is why you are hearing so many people ask, is this the only option. does the democratic party have to nominate him at the convention, and if not, who could possibly take his place? to be clear. president biden by the numbers alone has had a highly successful presidency. he has gotten a lot done, and made a lot of bipartisan deals that would have arguably eluded another president. but it is increasingly clear he can t exactly sell it. so is there a person who can take all of that and pitch themselves as the best person to extend that record. we have some of the names being thrown around. we have the polling on where those people stand and what an explanation about what an open convention would look like, what the process is from an expert who knows. first, there s also the open question of whether president biden can turn things around. and perhaps the best argument for that was the president biden we just
About his new zen outlook on life and he walks straight in this guy in front of him. Peace and love. And he nearly falls over. Im like are you drunk, man . [laughter] yeah. Thanks, man. See you later, buddy. Announcer and now a tmz pop quiz for whom ab you blake the blast sheep of the campaign if your alleged husbands sexting with a 15yearold somehow led to the probing of Hillary Clintons emails. What do you do now . We got jordan out trickortreating in new york city. Announcer well, thats nice. Theres uma. Theres the boy. Theyre protected by a swat officer. Probably just some dude in a costume. But still, meantime hillarys back on the campaign trail and houmas been left behind. So heres the thing, youre houma and you got a little kid trickortreating, and youre laying low so you have to weigh the president ial election against your kid. She has to go. She has to go. Do you think she would try to raise them with her son saying why mommy cant go . Announcer and now a spook question hallo
Identification. Kansas secretary of state chris kovach among our guests. And the end of the road is near for the self selfproclaimed hugger. San diego mayor. Bradley manning wants to be chesley as he pursues tax payer funded gender reassignment their peak from is leavenworth prison cell. The ateam takes the ball of that and a great deal more. We begin tonight with another possible reason the president s Foreign Policy is so incoherent and ineffective that members of his own administration seem uninformed. Todays state Department News featured a shocking contradiction from spokesperson jan saki. Take a listen. The red line is the use of c. W. Cover chemical weapons. That was crossed a couple of months ago. The president took action which we talked about the time. Lou confident in her assessment that syria had already crossed that red line. The Obama Administration and responded. Until a few moments later when she offered up this blatant contradiction. We still believe that they dont hav