forever mark him as the nation s first former president to face criminal charges your initial reaction. yeah, it is surely that so we ve been what, anticipating some such events for a few years. and here it finally comes. it s now going to be the new normal, nicole that is we now are looking ahead at all kinds of litigation and pretrial challenges trump has apparently committed himself to a kind of vitriolic, nasty prosecution bashing. i think it s very interesting. bragg impressively held his own counsel here the table was completely set once they invited trump to testify. and we were wondering what would happen after that. so we had costello, whom trump asked to the grand jury to hear. and then they didn t even call michael cohen back i think they consider confident
welcome back to state of the union. the republican national committee this week announced its first presidential debate, scheduled for august in milwaukee. what we do not know is what the party will require of candidates in order to participate in that debate. here with me now exclusively for her first interview since she was re-elected chair of the republican national committee is rana mcdaniel. thank you so much. congratulations. fourth term. thank you. fourth term. thank you to be with you. it was a tougher than expected re-election campaign and race. it really exposed some pretty deep divisions in your party. what lessons did you take away from it? i ran on a unity platform and about bringing the party together and we can t be so vicious and vitriolic with each other that we don t want to support each other in the end. and i chose to run that way. i won 2-1. and i m already working to bring the committee together. but i think this is a symbol of
scheduled for august in milwaukee, but we do not yet know is what the party will require of candidates in order to participate in that debate. with me now exclusively for her first interview since she was re-elected chair of the republican national committee is ronna mcdaniel. thank you so much. congratulations. fourth term? thank you, fourth term. good to be with you. it was a tougher than expected re-election campaign and race. it exposed pretty deep divisions in your party. what lessons did you take away? you know, i ran on a unity platform and about bringing the party together, and we can t be so vicious and vitriolic with each other that we don t want to support each other in the end, and i chose to run that way. in the end i won 2-1, and i am working to bring the community together and i think this is a symbol of our party. we can t be attacking each other so much, we have to beat the democrats and we have to beat joe biden in 2024 and we might have divisive parties and
we ve got guns. we ve got individuals completely unhinged. we have rhetoric from the leader of the party that keeps getting more and more vitriolic. we do what we can, we don t listen to what he s saying all the time, but, you know, and that s just not good enough, and so we re entering into a mode where as you take away education from schools, you deny people the history and the reality of this nation, and then you just keep seething in fear and anger, it leads to this type of politic. and i genuinely don t think, until the republican party can get themselves back on track and become a party again and not a borderline cult, i don t know if we ll see a decrease in this type of behavior. i m afraid we re going to have this type of conversation again soon. associate professor of political science at fordham university, thank you as always. up next on way too early, we ll preview president biden s trip to survey the damage in areas of california devastated by a recent strain of extr
i don t intend to exaggerate my own significance, of course. well, we ll talk about. but for some reasons, yeah. we ll talk about your significance, mr bondarev. let us begin that by discussing your decision in may of last year to notjust quit your post as a diplomat in geneva, working on arms control issues, representing the russian government at the united nations in geneva. not just that, but also to leave with the most vitriolic condemnation of what you saw as vladimir putin s entirely unjustified aggression in ukraine. how difficult a decision was that to make? how long did it take you to reach that decision? well, first of all, it was it was both easy and hard. easy, because, from the very beginning, i realised that