after the supreme court had ruled in the students favor, in 1992, more than a dozen students from prairie view a&m got indicted, got criminally charged for illegally voting. originally, it was reported that 14 students were indicted. ultimately it was actually 19 students who got indicted. they re indicted for illegally voting. they were not illegally voting. they were voting from their residential address, which was the school, the college at which they resided. but the county just decided you know what? that looks illegal to us. 19 students indicted. clearly, an effort to keep students at this school from voting in the 1992 election. ultimately, the department of justice sent a nasty letter to county officials. amid that pressure from washington, amid the uproar over the students being indicted, see that photo there quoting public enemy, remember, it was 1992. ultimately, after the uproar all those indictments did get
are over. wow, must be nice. a third of the seats in the u.s. senate are up this election, so lots of incumbent senators of course want to head home to campaign instead of being stuck in washington doing all that dumb voting on stuff, a and all the other boring senate stuff they don t like. the deal they reached to go home for the election seems like a cheap deal for the republicans. as part of this deal, democrats agreed they would speed the approval of 15 male trump-appointed federal judges. a new list of 15 in exchange for that s what they re giving, the democrats are giving, we re going to speed through 15 judges you want for lifetime appointments. we get in response the right to go home now. that seems to be the whole deal. if something seems off to you about that, you re right. i mean, obviously it hurts democratic incumbents as much as
president. but then three days after trump s inauguration, lobbyists working for the saudi government went out of their way to make sure the american press reported they were spending almost $300,000 to put up a gigantic saudi entourage at the trump hotel in washington. the trump hotel in manhattan has sort of been on hard times recently. its revenues have declined for two straight years. but in the first few months of this year, that hotel turned its fortunes around, basically got bailed out. for the first time in years, revenue at the trump hotel in manhattan increased thanks specifically to a very, very, very profligate and expensive visit from the saudi crown prince and his entourage, too. donald trump has a business history and a business present with saudi arabia, ask that s the kind of thing we never have had to factor in before when considering why a president was acting a specific way toward a specific country. other presidents didn t keep
us. 19 students indicted. clearly an effort to keep students at that school from voting in the 1992 election. ultimately, the department of justice sent a nasty letter to county officials amid that pressure from washington, amid the uproar over the students being indicted see that photo there, quoting, public enemy? remember, it was 1992. ultimately after the uproar, all those indictments did get dismissed, but waller county wasn t done. in 2003, the county d.a. published an article in the newspaper pledged in the local paper that he would indict any students who voted for criminal voter fraud. that was 2003. 2006, in the election that s year, hundreds of prairie view students had their votes challenged. again, on the basis of the fact that those students had committed the grieve us voting grime of trying to vote while
washington. so the public relations battle is turning tonight. and i think, if i were to predict, i would guess there would be some move by riyadh, by crown prince muhammad bin salman to respond to this in the next few days. david kirkpatrick, international correspondent for the new york times . the uh author of into the hands of the soldiers. in the middle east standing up until well past dark for us. appreciate it. we have a lot more to get to tonight. do stay with us. liberty mutual accident forgiveness means