welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
thanks, alex. tonight president biden is walking into a fund raiser in san francisco right about now where he will continue scto bui his big lead over donald trump in campaign fundraising. before the president left for california yesterday, this was the second single most childish question the white house press corps delivered. mr. president, good afternoon, sir, you re going to california is this about coming for a plan b for 2024, does gavin need to stand by? are you ready? yes. i m looking at you when i came to tell you was, i told you we would be announcing sanctions on russia, we will have a major package announced friday, i ll be happy to sit with you all in doing that. who would you rather challenge in november, nikki haley or donald trump? i don t care. and they don t care, they don t care, that joe biden just described the serious work that he is doing in the oval office behind closed doors developing a new package oof sanctions against russia fo
welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand, they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to lone donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical president for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city, and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company or. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cashed himself as a winner. now, he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks loved h
trump and you make it a larger issue. jennifer palmieri, my friend, thank you for joining me tonight, i appreciate your time. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we have tremaine lee joining us here at the end of the hour, that s what we have to look forward to. i will be looking for to it as well. thanks, alex. tonight president biden is walking into a fund raiser in san francisco right about now where he will continue to build his big lead over donald trump in campaign fundraising. before the president left for california yesterday, this was the second single most childish question the white house press corps delivered. mister president, good afternoon, sir, you re going to california is this about coming for a plan b for 2024, this gavin need to stand by? are you ready? yes. i m looking at you when i came to tell you was, i told you we would be announci
autobiography to orphans. who paying my student loans. i was recently looking at that famous jfk inauguration speech. ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. i great line, right? [ applause ] really, a gutsy line for a politician. think about it. it s his first day in the office. he says my fellow americans, don t look at me. you want something done, do it yourself. that is refreshing isn t it? that s what i want to hear more of. from now on, when i m looking at candidates, i only have one thing on my wish list. give me this one thing and all the other things fall in place. give me freedom. it s sad that we have to say that. it supposed to be a given. remember the constitution? the first amendment is all about freedom. there s a reason the founding fathers put it first. thanks all the while of white guys. [ applause ] the bureaucrats in charge said freedom is great. it would have to wait. we re in a climate crisis. we re in a health