bye. victor blackwell, vicky lawrence. thank you, everyone for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. president joe biden in a major prime time speech, did you see it? saying he is battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling america s institutions in court, and we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24 minute speech calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he doesn t mean all republicans. too much of what s happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. now, i want to be very clear [ applause ] very clear upfront. not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i ve been able
my cholesterol is borderline. so i take garlique to help maintain healthy cholesterol safely and naturally. and it s odor free. i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. it has been a big night, however you look at it, and they re still more to come, with that in mind, i will hand it over to don lemon. this is don lemon tonight. and we have two big stories to tell you about. president joe biden in a major primetime speech, did you see it? saying he s battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling americas institutions in court. we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24-minute speech, calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he does not mean all republicans. too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism t
what does the president want to know? did he ask about ukraine s efforts to battle corruption? of course not. did he ask how the war with russia was going? not a chance. on the phone, his voice loud enough, president trump asked sondland, is he s going to do the investigation? the answer was clear. he ensured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it and that he would do anything you asked him to. if that wasn t telling enough, my colleagues, in a conversation that followed, an american diplomat dining with sondland asked if it was true that president trump didn t give a blank about ukraine, sondland agreed, saying the president cared only about big stuff. the diplomat noted that there
was big stuff in ukraine, like a war with russia. sondland replied that the president cared only about big stuff that benefits him personally. like the biden investigation that mr. giuliani was pushing. in that short conversation, we learned everything we need to know about the 45th presid
Distinguished professor of vanderbi vanderbilt divinity school, michael eric dyson. i ask you to step back with me for a moment. how do you see the confluence of all these events? it s great to be on with you. it s an extraordinary moment. i had the great honor to speak at the 60th anniversary march on saturday. it was remarkable. think about it. dr. king stood at the sunlit summit of expectation in august 28th, 1963, as a 34-year-old man, and echoed across the century and into our own, a demand for justice rooted deeply in the american dream. at that point, he was anreinvend himself and the nation in him. to think that march was held on
What turned up the temperature? what brought this coward to the boiling point? we re in an environment now where there s the expectation of grievance and hate for political gain. and we need to understand the wide reach of who s responsible for this. i think that s the first thing. the second thing is that we have to tell ourselves about your story about the march on washington. this extraordinary moment of august 28th 1963, is actually claimed by political violence. not only that extraordinary march in may of 1963, and in birmingham, where we saw bull connor bring up the fire hoses and the dogs, those dogs and fire hoses were directed towards children, amen. that was a children s march. and we think about the courage of who shot down on june 11th, right? when we think about that moment and we think about george wallace on june 11th, standing in front of the university of alabama, declaring his