we start injapan, where leaders of some of the world s most powerful democracies are gathered at the g7 summit. on saturday, the focus has primarily been on one man: volodymyr zelensky. the ukrainian president is in hiroshima, in person. you can seem sitting next to the indian prime minister and other partner countries, and also presidentjoe biden awaiting his meeting with president zelensky and also justin trudeau. many others as part of the g7, including rishi sunak. we will continue covering that summit. you see him here taking part in a so called family photo. it s part of a multi day diplomatic tour to solidify support for an expected spring counter offensive against russia. later, mr zelensky will address the leaders and is expected to meet directly with presidentjoe biden. earlier, french president emmanuel macron said zelensky s presence at the g7 is a way to build peace and emphasized the need for a solution to the conflict based on international law. and new comme
For Donald Trumps hush money trial. Several jurors were let go yesterday, saying they could not be impartial. House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to reveal a package of bills for aid, a move already meeting resistance from some republicans. Heres how you can comment on either or both of those topics. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to give your thoughts on either the former president s trial or efforts to find ukraine and israel and want to text us, you can do that at 202 7488003. You can post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or you can post on x, cspanwj. From the bbc, kind of a round up of yesterdays events in new york considering the former president and his hush money trial. They report dozens of potential jurors have been ruled out of Donald Trumps unprecedented trial on impartiality grounds. Just ahead of the 2016 election, which he won. 60 of 96 potential jurors were quick to say they couldnt be impartial after the procee
Candidates make their way through the crowd. So what they are doing right now is that they are both seated inside the stadium. They are, indeed, watching the Football Game, trying to take part in the spectacle of all of this. The undercurrent of all of this is their rivalry, the president ial politics rivalry. Desantis is seated in the crowd with iowas popular republican governor, donald trump is seated inside a stadium box. Now ahead of entering this particular stadium, what we saw is more of the sort of rubbing elbows with the students, trying to pose for the best president ial picture in this caucus state. They were tailgating, donald trump was at a Tailgating Party at a fraternity where he was signing footballs, he was throwing footballs. He even flipped some burgers. And as he walked around the stadium and walked into the stadium, he was greeted by very loud cheering. Desantis, same thing. Also trying to tailgate, meet with people. He had a number of Campaign Stops ahead of coming
Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. What just happened . What did we miss . The things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didnt. Host was there a seminal moment . Was it years in the making . With the 2016 . Guest i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. He came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over thi
That is what led me to predict in advance that donald trump would be president when so many others couldnt see that. Think you get a different picture than this sort of stereo type thats bandied about commonly. Tall the smear into election 2016. Were there campaigns going on sub rosa. Totally. I think 2016 was the epitomy of all the culmination of factors, whether its social media, these smear groups, the smear industry in washington, dc that has grown to huge levels. All the tactics, everything came into play in 2016 and more money was spent, i mean, just gazillions, more actually by Hillary Clinton and her supporters than on donald trump, far more, and yet i guess the lesson is, even though in my view, as i say in the book, the liberal side and the Hillary Clinton side tended to permeate the press and the narrative against trump was ubiquitous and yet he won so i guess commentary of that is that despite all the money spent, despite many republicans, democrats and the media against do