Any moment president trump is going to take the stage at the nassau coliseum out on long island. This is his first rally since the second attempt at his life. Now, mind you, this is a state that trump lost by 21 percent in 2016. And by 23% in 2020. But, at the age of 78 he is still a hometown boy. And even with all the legal abuse he has endured there, he still loves new york. And before heading out to the rally, he even stopped by a bar that supports cryptocurrency in lower manhattan. That was great to see. Mingling with the folks there trump is the first g. O. P. Presidential candidate since reagan in 1980 to make a real run for new york. What s your message for new york? i love new york. I always loved new york. And we re going to give new york a big play. I leave here i mean you see the crowds and it s so friendly. I love new york. I think we have a real chance of winning. We will work your mayor and governor and do a lot of great things for new york. We want to do that and we have
in the cross fire as the war between israel and hamas escalates, and questions of mount about gaza s future. former congresswoman jane harmon is here to discuss. trump s on trial, don jr. prepares to return to the stand in the new york civil fraud trial while his father suffers a setback in florida, for now. charles coleman junior will be here with insights on what it all means. and, spotlight los angeles, mayor karen bass tells me about her old efforts to ease the homeless crisis in los angeles, and how she is helping other big city mayors meet the challenge. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. this week started with democrats hair on fire. on monday a new york times poll showed presidential biden trailing donald trump in five out of six key battleground states. by tuesday night, voters had their say, and it was not good news for republicans. they were trounced at the polls on election night, after voters in ohio, kentucky, and virginia soundly rejected candida
americans who do acts of civic work for the day. when you hear the president say he s the least racist person that reporters have ever interviewed, i m wondering what you thought. i don t know. i think when someone has to say they are the least racist person that we know or that we ve seen, nine times of out ten they re pretty racist. one of the things donald trump is having difficulty doing is understanding his past, understanding that many of us are not fooled by anything that he does today. his words about dr. king, they fall on deaf ears. he doesn t understand dr. king s legacy. the fact that he s playing golf today doesn t surprise anyone. dr. king s legacy was combatting racism and militarism. donald trump is racist. let s not get that wrong. but what we re trying to do is break down the systemic racism
don t have the votes. that s a 52-48 majority the republicans have in the senate, clearly not enough. well, they have to keep working, wolf. i mean, they have to roll up their sleeves and keep working. they have to come up with another amendment. i think lindsey graham has an amendment. i think they have to work on lisa murkowski to get her on the right side of the health care debate. i don t think this is over. i think they can get this done. and obviously, coming together as a party is something that i think we have had too much difficulty doing. so that was priebus talking about his greatest disappointment as chief of staff. he was really someone that the white house brought on and that his biggest asset was supposed to be that he knows how the levers work in washington. he has connections on capitol hill. he s very close with house speaker paul ryan but that wasn t something that could get done. you saw that with the failure of the health care bill this week. now, john kelly ta
they have to roll up their sleeves and keep coe working. they have to come up with another amendment. i think lindsey graham has another amendment. they have to work on lisa murkowski and see if we can get her on the right side of the health care debate. i don t think this is over. i think they can get this done. and obviously coming together as a party is something that i think we ve had too much difficulty doing. so as you can see there, fred, health care was something that was definitely on reince priebus mind. he was brought into this white house with the understanding that his biggest asset was that he was very close to people on capitol hill. he has a very close relationship with house speaker paul ryan. and the white house is really hopeful he would be someone who was in this white house with a lot of outsiders that he would be the insider who could really tell them which levers to pull to do what and how to navigate washington. and i don t think he did that for that white