among men. he has been in ukraine and in bordering countries for five straight weeks covering the war, hosting the show, hosting his own shrill. he s been doing incredible work literally around the clock. all the while, just being a great and generous and upstanding person, and a great coworker to everyone here works with. i m telling you, you should be so lucky to ever have a coworker as great as ali velshi. we are incredibly lucky to have him here at msnbc, and i m really grateful that he home things so ably while i was gone. i sort of feel like i have a big shoe to fill coming back, we haven t won a good job he s been doing. but i am back, i said when i love before that i might eventually be taking another hiatus later on this year. that things were fluid, we d be taking it one step at a time. that s also true-ish. but, one of the things i realize while i was on hiatus working on these other projects
big shoe to fill coming back, we haven t won a good job he s been doing. but i am back, i said when i love before that i might eventually be taking another hiatus later on this year. that things were fluid, we d be taking it one step at a time. that s also true-ish. but, one of the things i realize while i was on hiatus working on these other projects these past few weeks, one of the things i realized is that i actually don t really need another hiatus. this one was great, but i think only need the one. or do still have all these other irons in the fire, all these other things i m working on that i want to bring to fruition. none of them are fast, all of them take a long time, i m still working on all of them. but i don t think i need another big stretch of time off. so here s the plan. i m back, i m gonna be here all this month monday through thursday night. now, for big news events, like
no surprise. he doesn t discuss the merits. he doesn t give any plausibility deniability. he doesn t define what the action was and why it s okay. he goes right to division. these are democrats. it s a witch-hunt, it s about dividing the country. but think about it, if he didn t do any of this, if he didn t know anything about this, why doesn t he say that, why doesn t he argue the merits? why doesn t he tell you what the government is getting wrong? think about that. his attorneys allege that this has never happened before, nobody has ever gone after anybody like this. listen. these charges are unprecedented. these cases are always resolved in the civil context. the irs has never made a case like this. if the name of the company was something else, i don t think these charges would have been brought. true-ish. what does that mean? it s either true or not. no, it s about degree. cases like this, not paying taxes, are often settled or often held to the civil and pled out, you come u
doesn t he say that, why doesn t he argue the merits? why doesn t he tell you what the government is getting wrong? his attorneys allege that this has never happened before, nobody has ever gone after anybody like this. listen these charges are unprecedented. these cases are always resolved in the civil context. the irs has never made a case like this. if the name of the company was something else, i don t think these charges would have been brought. true-ish. what does that mean? it s about degree. cases like this, not paying taxes, are often settled or often held to the civil and pled out, you come up with a deal, you settle it. what about when you refuse to? what about when you refuse to work with the government? the irs or the da has never gone after people for tax fraud? of course they have, especially when they re noncompliant as is the case here. you re going to hear from someone tonight who helped
retribution. then made it clear he s still digging in on his demand for a border wall, even as another shutdown looms. in the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall. but the proper wall never got built. i will get it built. so, new term. true-ish. it is true that the democrats and republicans have voted for physical barriers time and time again. but a proper wall never got built. what does that mean? i would suggest, nothing. but david gergen, s.e. cupp, chris cillizza, thanks for being with us at this hour. david, let s get our head straight. true-ish, democrats have never been strangers to border security or physical barriers. n it s always been bollard