tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. the riddell confounding the democratic party. just what exactly does joe biden plan to do? drop out or keep on running new reporting captures the mood and the mindset of a defiant president. angry a donors who want to push him out the door, angry at senators and congressmen, angry nancy pelosi who according to the new york times, he views as an instigator, angry at former president obama, who he sees as a puppet master, that also from the new york times donors are tightening the screws i m told the democratic donors are sending an unambiguous message that not a penny will flow to biden or even to the candidates down-ballot until things change at the top but look, calling these tea leaves are charitable to tea leaves. it s a riddle wrapped inside of an enigma projected on a rubik s cube is all this public pressure, even working, or is the president just digging in, at least for now? he is dug in and his
in a near impossible position to succeed. and the pandemic has further exposed the racial disparities. black folks are getting the covid-19 virus at a much higher rate than white folks. if you don t see how the killing of george floyd and the protests that followed are tied to reparations, well, then you may need to go back and watch every single episode of united shades of america. then you ll discover we are way past time for reparations. did you just get naked for beads? it s not even mardi gras. most people coming to new orleans, they come for this. music, party. weirdly colored drinks loaded with alcohol. but this isn t the whole story of new orleans. it s a big, vibrant city with a lot of stories to tell. we re not here to talk about the parties. we re talking about reparations. you might want to fix yourself a stiff drink. as the race for 2020 starts to heat up, so is the debate over reparations for slavery. oh, it s coming, everybody. chris knows it. rep
show up before congress or face contempt charges. and the committee investigating the investigation has demanded to see him and they say they re done waiting. me mea meadows said he would not until executive privilege. brand new audio of former president trump defending supporters who threaten to to hang former vice president mike pence. were you worried about him in that siege? . no. i thought he was well protected. and i heard he was in good shape. i heard he was in very good shape. but, but you heard those chants. that was terrible. he could have well, the people were very angry. they were saying hang mike pence. it s common sense, jon, it s common sense that you re supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? with us now, cnn legal analyst, retired ambassador, norman eisen, the house judiciary special counsel in former president trump s first impeachment trial. he was p
fatally shoot two people and wound a third during unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. there were people right there [ sobbing ]. take a deep breath, kyle. his mother also cried as she watched the testimony. moments ago we heard from a man who was also shot by kyle rittenhouse that nice and was the only one to survive. listen. to me it seemed like a child who had just gotten caught doing something he wasn t supposed to, more upset that he was caught and less upset about what he had done and what he had taken and the numerous lives that he affected through his actions that night. let s bring in cnn s shimon prokupecz. he s live in kenosha, wisconsin, covering this trial from the start. this, shimon, was by far the most dramatic day we ve seen. reporter: yeah, the most dramatic, most riveting. it was a highly anticipated moment. kyle rittenhouse was expected to testify. certainly him taking the stand is going to come down as one of the biggest days of this trial he tol