the stage for another debate. voters took to the polls and sent a clear message, hands off my body, my books and my rights. on monday, donald trump was called the stand to testify in a 250 million dollar civil fraud trial that could break up his family s business empire. predictably he was he gave long winded responses and avoided answering questions directly. instead he took that opportunity to disparage laetitia james. this woman, the internee general of new york who brought that lawsuit. the judge presiding over the case who will hand out the punishment against the company. at multiple points on monday, he had to ask the former presidents attorneys to control their client when trump was on the stand. at one, point when asked about one of his properties, trump declared, quote, i m not a windmill person. which was odd because nobody asked him about windmills. during another line of questioning s about his financial statements from 2021, trump replied, quote, i was so busy
donald trump s lawyer arranging $130,000 payment to a former adult film star. he reportedly did so in october, 2016. one month before the election. s story breaking news here in new york city. a grand jury has voted to indict former president trump. former commander-in-chief, now a criminal defendant. these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who you are. we have officially begun the first criminal trial of a former president in the united states. i am not going to be getting a fair trial. it is a very sad thing. he seems old and tired and mad. the first witness in this criminal trial is now taking the stand. echo was right there beginning of trump s plan to keep his relationship with stormy daniels a secret. hope hicks on the stand. she just started crying. tissues came out. stormy daniels testified in vivid detail about their alleged sexual encounter. lawyers have argued she is lying. michael cullen was called to the witness stand to t
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
we have to be realistic with. no supreme court justice is ever going to recuse themselves and must absolutely have to. i know this sounds sassy, but it is actually serious. his other argument about these flags was oh, it wasn t me. it was my wife. but i am being serious. you are married, katie. can you envision a scenario where your spouse does something publicly that puts your absolute livelihood at risk and you say to them you have to stop doing this and they say i m going to get back to you in two days? is that plausible in any national world? certainly not in my marriage. if i could jump in on this. as somebody who constantly does things publicly that humiliates my spouse, i can tell you that when it comes to something like supreme court justices, there may be a heightened burden for the spouse as well is the justice. absolutely. you have to say look, there is some good things that come with marrying me and some bad things. and the bad things are that you can t get into a
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