the lead starts right now. for the first time since the start of britain s war, ukraine will be getting an aid package from the u.s. that includes cluster munitions, bonds that are banned by most countries. president biden gave an exclusive interview where he tried to defend that controversial decision, and the special counsel zeroes in on an oval office meeting during donald trump s final days in office, a meeting described as nuts. follow-up from the exclusive cnn reporting and what it tells us about the investigation into trump in january 6 and a possible third indictment of mr. trump. there then, he survived the taliban and decades of war working as an interpreter in afghanistan during the war, only to be shot and killed while driving a lift in the united states. the latest on the search for suspects. welcome to the lead. we start today with our worldly deadly cluster munitions or bombs, a lethal weapon that can disperse hundreds of smaller explosives over an area up to
another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
she s so southern she s president of the smoky and the bandit fan club. fox business anchor david mcdowell. he used to rock. now he s in the aarp. comedian jim she knows reporting like hunter knows snorting. new york post busy reporter moynihan and by age 5 he was reminding his classmates to tip the weight staff. writer and comedian jode devito. it s time for this. greg s leftovers. yes. it s leftovers. when i read the jokes we didn t use this week. just like greg does this this is my first time reading these. here we go. a viral video is facing online backlash after a construction worker was seen kicking a food delivery robot. the robot is facing a battery charge. earlier this week twitter uses voted for elon must to come resign as his company s c.e.o. although a subsequent report revealed that 90% of the votes came from hunter biden s laptop. [laughter] actor robert deniro was shocked to find his apartment being robbed on woman. usually when a black woman ta
i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st
you also see the advent of the nerd. screech: hey lisa, my horoscope says that we re destined to dance together. lisa: my horoscope says, beware of dorks. alice leppert: but there s sort of this lost puppy aspect to screech that takes him from a caricature of you know, just the nerd, to someone that the viewer actually roots for. jacqueline coley: then with fresh prince, carlton was the first one of the first black nerds on screen. carlton: wait till we come downstairs in those tuxes. people may not think we re twins but i ll bet they think we re brothers. will: you know, i don t think you have to worry about anybody mistaking you for a brother. danny: i always loved carlton, just the way he was true to himself. group: go carlton! go carlton! gerrad hall: a lot of these outsider characters, they were just a sidekick of sorts, but once you start to get into the 90s, geeks are becoming more and more part of the national conversation.