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carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered ....
acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. independent legal experts say that s not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case dropped? i will speak to former top cia attorney jeff smith about the legal strategy. are more republican politicians, including some rivals, now willing to criticize donald trump s handling of national secrets? the handling of classified materials is a very serious matter. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. this indictment contains serious charges. i can t defend what is alleged. the former president has a right to his day in court. i know he pled not guilty. i ....
a federal grand jury indicting former president donald trump for allegedly violaing the espionage act, conspiracy to obstruct and making false statements in connection to more than 100 classified documents he retained and did not turn over after leaving office. the former president facing criminal charges months after being indicted by manhattan s district attorney in connection to a hush money scandal. all while widening his lead in republican presidential primary polls in the race to face joe biden in 2024. a lot of developments in just the last few hours. at this hour, there are big changes to the trump legal team. the lawyer who spoke for mr. trump throughout last night and this morning is resigning, along with his fellow attorney, replaced by todd blanche as leader of the upcoming defense in federal court. breaking this hour, trump writing in a social media post that walt nauta, who worked at mar-a-lago, after working in the trump white house, is also under ind ....
i interrupt you with i m sorry to interrupt you, we re going to go with leticia janes. howard: and new york s democratic attorney general who had postponed her press conference until biden was off the air, announced a civil suit against donald trump, his adult children and the trump organization. donald trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system. howard: and that is the trump-obsessed media environment we all live in. msnbc spent hours and hours talking about almost nothing other than the suit against trump which he denounced as a political witch hunt calling leticia james a fraud. cnn was more balanced but devoted plenty of time to the lawsuit including an interview with michael to cohen who showed up on hsnbc as well. fox news covered the story but much less than its rivals. as for the president, russia and ukraine, i m sure by now joe biden is accustomed to being blown off the screen by the for ....
Biden Administration Breaks Self-Imposed Migrant Cap for Second Consecutive Month August s migrant pool included thousands of single men, internal ....