Leaving from washington, i am washington steel in for my friend jen psaki. Shes wrapping up a well deserved vacation and will be with you next week. We have a lot to cover tonight, so settle in. I do want to begin with a headline. Trump employs images of violence as political fuel for reelection fight. You might be thinking, yeah, i saw this over the weekend. After all, donald trump posted a video on his social media site depicting President Biden with his hands and feet tied up in the back of a pickup truck. At the same time on that same site, trump not only lashed out at the judge presiding over his new york criminal trial, but also at the judges daughter. So, yeah. I would say he is employing images of violence in his re election fight right now. Folks, that headline is not from over the weekend. Its from September Of 2020 almost four full years ago. And the fact that it very well could have been published today should serve as a stark reminder that donald trump has always been this
Progress Laura Coates Live next on cnn Closed Captioning is brought to you by skechers. Go walk pants skechers go won pants are breathable and flexible with a comfy, soft feel. Plus they have front and rear pockets, including a hidden zip security bucket, dry skin the entrez affordable. Go walk pants Donald Trumps eyes and ears open, his mouth, and man oh man. Did he have a lot to say . Okay, well take you inside david pecker is testimony. The catch and kill scheme at the heart of this trial, and the gag order that donald trump may have just violated. Again, tonight im Laura Coates Live all right. David pecker took this stan for now, a second day today, he took the jury inside the august 2015 trump tower meeting with trump and Michael Cohen. Now that was two months after donald trump came down, that escalator and announced that he was going to run for the white house when pecker testifies, of course, he says thats when the catch and kill scheme began. It goes inside the room where all
A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
this is the 76th anniversary of this event. i want you to know i wasn t there because i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the word let freedom ring. president biden with some jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house yesterday. meanwhile his campaign is facing calls from fellow democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest in the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appear to be centered on a pause in the fighting in gaza. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get isto this morning, and we ll begin with new polling that shows americans overwhelmingly supporting boosting security at the southern bord