Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end
Our families safer, and our planet cleaner. To help us get there, americas plastic makers are investing billions of dollars to create Innovative Products and new Recycling Technologies for sustainable change. Because when you push for smarter solutions, big things can happen. John live look a New York City reformer President Trump will soon head back to court for his criminal trial. His former aide hope hicks returned to the witness stand. Welcome back to our two of America Reports im john roberts in washington a big friday. Sandra yeah sending lots of news i am sandra smith, hicks is the prosecutions ninths witness and of the former president s closest aides and was Press Secretary during the campaign. Reporting that she was visibly nervous and even said to so when she began the testimony. And set it out loud at o one point. John the Prosecution Question Hicks about david pecker and peppered with stories that were published in the final days of the campaign. Nate foy is live outside t
room. i ll see you bright and early tomorrow and around the world to a special report here in the situation room the trump trial today i m wolf blitzer were following breaking news, right now. the prosecution in donald trump s criminal trial is getting the last word before the judge sends the case to jurors who will decide the former president s faith prosecutor, joshua steinglass, pressing on with his marathon closing arguments trying to counter attacks. that a star witness, michael cohen made during the trump team s summation earlier today. cnn s kara scannell has been inside the courtroom all day. she s joining us now. she s outside qarrah bring us up to speed on this climactic moment in this truly historic trial what prosecutor joshua steinglass is now entering his third hour of these closing arguments in his focus right now is on the payments. this is the heart of the case. the repayment to michael cohen, and how it was booked in donald trump s company s books and re
prosecutors. the same prosecutors who charged michael cohen. that s why he is sitting in jail. they didn t charge hope hicks and they had this information. here s where i see it playing out, steph, in congress, for hope hicks, not necessarily in the courts. we know hope hicks has already appeared before congress and asserted a bogus privilege. absolute immunity. that battle will move into the courts. congress had to take it. the courts will decide there is no such thing. she ll return to congress and she ll have to testify truthfully or invoke her 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. congress will have to decide whether to immunize her. i predict they will. then she has to give up the president unless she wants to be held in contempt or perjure herself. it is a long road and we re all frustrated but that is where i see the road map taking us as a result of what we learned today. joyce, it s a long road. it s one that thus far doesn t hope hicks doesn t seem to mind
basic, obvious, constitutionally empowered oversight, has any of that been met by this administration? most of it has not. that s why you saw the oversight committee actually hold wilbur ross in contempt. we are getting some movement from attorney general bill barr, so now they are letting members of the house judiciary committee and house intel committee review the underlying evidence. so we re getting some movement there. for most lines of inquiry, we re getting total obstruction boy the trump administration. now, to this doctrine of absolute immunity, jerry nadler said the white house is having this doctrine of absolute immunity, which we will destroy in court. i have never heard of that. what is that? what the white house is asserting is that hope hicks doesn t have to say a single thing about her time in the white house. that s pat ept patently absurd. so we would ask some questions like where is your office located? objection.