the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
on a friday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 554 of the trump administration, and the president escalates the war on his former lawyer and confidante, michael cohen, while denying that he had any advanced knowledge about that june 2016 meeting in trump tower. a source has told nbc news cohen is willing to tell robert mueller that donald trump jr. informed his father about the meeting before it took place. trump s son had that meeting with several russians after he was told they were coming prepared with damaging information about hillary clinton. well, today the president responded with this so, the fake news doesn t waste my time with dumb questions, no, i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. taxi cabs, maybe? we ll explain that one. he even retained bill and crooked hillary s lawyer.
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Witness just like any other. that is a big deal. and we lose sight of the moments given we have so many of them day after day it seems. on the other hand, the grand jury is about as mundane a process a any legal one. there is not a lot of pomp and circumstance. it is literally like going to the dmv and it happens every single day in courtrooms or clouss across the country. and we can t forget that. he s still at the end of the day just a witness. now, one with very important job and with a lot of proximity to someone who is being investigated by the justice department. but he s still just a witness providing testimony just like anybody else, just like an eyewitness or a guy cleaning mar-a-lago or anything else, testifying about the things that they saw or heard. and he has sort of downplayed his what he s known and his discussions with donald trump. this is how mike pence has discussed his his interactions with the former president. i obviously have nothing to hide. i ve been s
When congress then repealed the individual mandate the tax went away. that is the underpinning. like pulling a stepladder from underneath a guy cleaning out his gutter. he falls. that should happen to obamacare. this should go back to the supreme court. i don t like one single federal judge decides a district for the whole country. if he makes a decision, it should go up to the appellate court and ultimately decided at the federal level. let s let it do that when it gets there, john roberts said it was a tax, that saved obamacare in the beginning. without being designated as a tax, even though you can t force people to buy an individual product on the marketplace and that was the crux of what the argument against obamacare was. take that away, it collapses. that is what the judge ruled. he is exactly right. he didn t have a choice, whether he liked it or not. it was a proper legal decision. now it will go back to the
yeah. there has never been a national security adviser who is so blatantly and openly political in this way. i mean, john bolton just came out and used witch hunt right out there, as if this was a legitimate way of doing governance in his position. it s dimly looked down upon, believe me. there s a lot of people in the community, and i m sure, throughout the political world who just were astonished at this. but russia has to be delighted, because now this means the narrative of the entirety of the trump administration from top to bottom in, you know, from, in every aspect of government, from national security all the way over to the guy cleaning at the gsa, everything is now a witch hunt, and that, of course, plays to our opponents. clint, i have to read you a headline from the new york times tonight, david sanger s