If. O, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the Peril Ous Fight oer the ramparts we watched were so glal antly gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the Home Of The Brave if. Pete we may have ended with a father or grandfather with two babies, but today is mothers day. It is sunday, may 12th, year of our lord 2024, and i hope all the mothers out there know how much we love them, because we all have a mother. And happy mothers day to you. Rachel you said times 29 . 35. [laughter] pete by the end of the show. Charlie, great to have you. Wills slacking off charlie yeah, see how bad i screw it up. Pete you with wont,. Charlie not as bad as he does [laughter] pete he yous up screws up monstrously on sundays. Charlie
Ever criminal trial of an American Expresident started the day. Opening statements this morning in a Downtown Manhattan courthouse in donald j. Trumps criminal case. They made the Opening Statements to the jury and the six alternates. It is about a conspiracy of the expresident and his allies to interfere in the 2016 election. The negative stories about donald trump. The attorney for the prosecution, matthew spoke about a 2015 meeting in trump tower between donald trump, his former fixer, Michael Cohen, and a man named david. The negative stories about Donald Trumps relationships with women was allegedly hashed. It is a scheme commonly referred to as catch and kill. He said in the wake of the release of the access Hollywood Tape which was a political earthquake, Michael Cohen paid former Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels 130,000 to keep her alleged affair with donald trump silent. According to reporting from the courtroom, he said this. At trumps direction, mike cohen negotiated a deal to
Moved forward with plans to overhaul the nations tax code. Senator joe manchin was among those present and he joins me now from the capital. Senator, welcome. Im pleased to have you back after seeing you this morning. Senator manchin charlie, its always good to be with you. Im enjoying being with you tonight as well as this morning. Charlie take me inside the dinner last night, not only with the content and not only with who said what about what, but also your feeling about where the president s mindset is and what the atmospherics were. Senator manchin it was a very good dinner with a very lively discussion. It was very productive. This is the first time ive been invited to the white house to have a sitdown kind of semi private dinner to talk only about policy with the president. I was very honored. It was very rewarding to do that. There were six other colleagues of mine. We had four republicans, orrin hatch, the dean of our delegation in that room last night. Then you had john thune
39 . Joining me is the chief correspondent at the washington post, thank you for doing this. Everyone is asking the same question of you and everyone else. To hear it from you is important. These hundredss beginningng into the to the time we are now in this presidency . It with somess caution because it is only 100 days. We address it with some concern because of the kinds of problems the trump team at the president have run into. I think it is a little premature as it always is at this stage to draw conclusions about what this ultimately means for his presidency. But they have done a lot of things wrong. Theyve got some things that they can point to, that they will point to as successes. It but this has been a very rough and rocky first hundred days for them. Successes include the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice. Some say be syrian air strike was a success. What else . Their would say that from point of view, some of the things they have done on the immigration front. Put asid
39 . Joining me is the chief correspondent at the washington post, thank you for doing this. Everyone is asking the same question of you and everyone else. To hear it from you is important. These hundredss beginningng into the to the time we are now in this presidency . It with somess caution because it is only 100 days. We address it with some concern because of the kinds of problems the trump team at the president have run into. I think it is a little premature as it always is at this stage to draw conclusions about what this ultimately means for his presidency. But they have done a lot of things wrong. Theyve got some things that they can point to, that they will point to as successes. It but this has been a very rough and rocky first hundred days for them. Successes include the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice. Some say be syrian air strike was a success. What else . Their would say that from point of view, some of the things they have done on the immigration front. Put asid