Pete we begIn wIth a fox news alert. Israel scorIng a major vIctIm agaInst hezbollah. The Idf confIrms the Terror Groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Is dead after a massIve strIke In beIrut. WIll rIght now smoke Is rIsIng after that the cIty after over 140 Idf strIkes sInce last nIght. And Irans Supreme Leader Is callIng on the people of lebanon to rIse up agaInst Israel. Rachel our own Nate Foy Is lIve on the ground In tel avIv. NatIve, good mornIng. Reporter nate, good mornIng. Reporter good mornIng, guys. Irans Supreme Leader Is out wIth a new statement accordIng to reuters reactIng to the strIke that the Idf says kIlled Hassan Nas Allah yesterday In beIrut nasrallah, sayIng that the future of The MIddle East wIll be determIned by the forces of the recess dance, and It wIll be led, he says, by hezbollah. But what hezbollah looks lIke wIthout Nas Aal La remaIns to be seen. The TerrorIst OrganIzatIon has not put out a statement sInce Yesterdays StrIke that happened In the early evenIng
politicsnation. tonight s lead, a solemn anniversary. it has been four years to the day since and ceramicists stormed the u.s. capitol in former president donald trump s name. and despite the horrors of that day, very little has changed in our politics. capital rioters are still being brought to justice three years later. just this morning, three january 6th fugitives were arrested by the fbi in florida. and with just days before our first presidential nominating contest of this election year, the u.s. supreme court will soon decide whether colorado and other states can legally bar trump from the appellate over his january 6th conduct. though that conduct hasn t stopped much of the republican party from circling around trump as your choice for president. a reality that president biden, in his first campaign event of 2024 last night, cost a historic, existential threat to our union. democracies still americas secret calls, the most urgent question of our time. donald t
capitol hill, the first rule of the d.c. fight club is talking way too much about this d.c. fight club. we ll dive into the political theater turned physical, and what s really happening on the hill. plus, trump trial timeline, judge in the mar-a-lago classified documents trial appears to throw a legal lifeline to the twice impeached, four-time indicted, disgraced one term ex president. pressure sign a least one of trump s criminal trials will be delayed until after the 2024 presidential election. and the santos aga. scathing ethics reports revealed a controversial republican congressman, who can t pay money on botox, luxury items, and only vance. all this and more, coming up. good saturday morning to you all, i m katie phang. we begin today s show in washington, d.c., where despite republican dissension, lawmakers narrowly avoided a government shutdown. again, and for now. thursday night, president biden signed the funding bill passed by both the house and the senate, wi
events of january 6th for two years. but even beyond washington, the right-wing forces trump has emboldened our hostile as ever to social progress. that hostility on display this week in the forest resignation of harvard president claudine gay and in part by hid fund manager blackmon, who i pick it this week as head of national action network. the president of historically black morehouse college joins me later to discuss the impact of gay s alistair and we ll at mains for black educators everywhere. but we begin tonight with a lasting impacts of january 6th. joining me now, congresswoman zoe lofgren. a democrat of california. she served on the house select committee investigating the
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It’s Not Only Trump on Trial
The Senate must pass judgment on his methods and on all who aspire to adopt his methods as their own in the political contests ahead.
February 12, 2021
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On the second day of the impeachment trial, the House managers laid the case that violence was integral from the very start of the political career of Donald Trump. From his first days as a candidate in 2015, Trump incited, invited, glorified, and condoned violence by his supporters. As the coronavirus pandemic weighed upon the country and his own reelection hopes dwindled Trump’s turn to violence became more extreme.