[ cheers and applause ] i grew up coming to this place so many times. And, this, tonight, is special. I thought about, when i was coming in backstage, ive been on this stage with Godfather Of Soul, james brown, who was like a father to me, and michael jackson, the list goes on. But, tonight, you will have Something Special at the apollo, because you will have two icons that are going to talk about their work, and talk about what they do in this country that is so needed at this time today could not be a better night at the apollo. This is not just a great show, tonight, this is history. So [ cheers and applause ] so, it is my honor and my pleasure that, i cant bring you tonight the Godfather Of Soul [ laughter ] but i bring you the godmother of woke [ cheers and applause ] Rachel Maddow. [ cheers and applause ] i got you on that one. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] wow, how are you doing . We love you, rachel. [ cheers and applause ] i am so nervous [ laugh
demonstrators. why? to be clear, there is still anti-war protesters going out in the streets and over 15,000 russians have been arrested, which is very brave, given the extreme punishments they re facing. but the reason people say that putin might be worried about pro war protests is because he has been so successful in brainwashing and propagandizing to his people. he has been telling them for months that the goal of russia is to dismember ukraine, to change its government, to win back land to russia, to make it cease existing in the form it existed before the war. and now that it seems like russia may be dropping some of its demands, we ll see if they really are, but there were hints of it at last week s negotiations, there were huge outcry including among people who were very public, very loyal, very important, including the head of chechnya, the head of russia today, saying publicly
counsel, testified today that president nixon knew about the watergate cover-up. dean read through a 245-page statement to ease the war demonstrators. wiretapping of newsmen. the proposal of the brookings institution. spying on kennedy and democrats. haldeman and ehrlich ann orders to set up a payoff fund. perjury plans. a fictitious investigation. when you look at all this crap we re taking, wouldn t it really be better for the country to just check out and no, seriously. i don t i mean that. because i you see, i m not at my best. i ve got to be at my best and that means fighting this damn battle. fighting it all out. there was a surprise witness at the watergate hearings today, and he made a dramatic
now you see donald trump adopting the silent majority motif for his own campaign. that s what nixon used in 1969 to go after the anti-vietnam war demonstrators so there s an interesting note of history connecting trump with nixon. would you call that a posthumous endorsement? well, i don t know who it helps. i don t know who nixon s constituency is at this point. exactly. but nevertheless, it s the same workers that nixon was trying to win over during 68 and 72 that donald trump is reaching out to people fed up with hue better humphrey, lyndon johnson, and you see trump trying to generate momentum by being feds up with the obama people. thank you. appreciate all of you joining us this evening. thank you.
i was in some anti-war demonstration is in the vietnam war. i remember the big march on the pentagon, although there was thousands and thousands of middle of the road people there who thought the war was a mistake, weren t particularly ideological, there were old reds there, old liberals, old communist is in that group. should war demonstrators have demonstrate aid intelligence them, old line lefties that had shown up to be under the umbrella. do you always as members of a