listen. i was focused on my craft. was that selfish probably but that s where my energy was. jesse: fans didn t tune in to sports for politics. jordan s focus was on his game, winning. and entertaining the fans every night by just being the best he could. and he wound up with six rings this way. and fans didn t love him. they always did respect him. you see, jordan understood something that most people today don t. people need a get away from all the politics and division. whether it s with sports comedy, music, or whatever. the majority of us just want a diversification to turn off all the noise. but when large companies start fighting the culture wars and ignoring the mission, which is business, people start looking for alternatives. it s that simple. and good leaders understand that. they know it s not worth sinking into the woke muck just do make a handful of people happy. no one is ever happy and no one ever respects people that cave. today, the streaming service net
sensitive site expiration is done. to be thanks very much, we appreciate it. kristen o leary is the former director of hostage recovery for the united states. he s a senior vice president of global affairs for the group. coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. i ll speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. ruth joins me. then, with israel and hezbollah trading fire over lebanon s threatens to spill over into the region. we ll go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. plus, lbj and by the former vice prime minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. with wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, global leadership is critical. we re facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the world s war. legal peri
implications of the israel-hamas war. as war three strikes he s out republican jim jordan drops jim jordan as the house triggering more chaos. how robert garcia, of the democrats what they think about this. and double trouble. two of donald trump s codefendants suddenly plead guilty in the georgia elections interference case, and could testify against him. why the twice impeached four times indicted on 91 counts former president who is out on bail and bond, four jurisdictions should be very, very afraid. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. capehart, this is the saturday show. the two freed hostages spoke last night with president biden, who pledged his full support, as they recover. in a press briefing yesterday, secretary of state, anthony blinken, said the state department is working to identify ten other americans who are still unaccounted for. joining me from tel aviv, nbc news foreign correspondent, kelly, thank you for being here this morning. why were onl
by cnn contradicts pentagon reports about that chaotic afghanistan withdrawal and the explosion outside the kabul airport, 13 u.s. service members were killed in that blast, hundred grids are dozens at least of afghan, some of the goldstar families are now accusing the pentagon of telling lies. and leading this hour as the new york hush money cover up it s picks back up tomorrow in new york, a change in tactics from donald trump s legal team were told when it comes to adult film actress and director stormy daniels being back on the stand. let s go to cnn paul read in new york and paula, the defense cross-examination of stormy daniels, we were told it originally was expected to be fairly brief, but but sources are telling you that s changed why? yeah. they have a while to go at this point. and the reason they want to spend more time here is because they were surprised that in her testimony, she raised the possibility that the sexual encounter was not consensual, something th
let s get started. tonight we begin with breaking developments on the burgeoning efforts to oust kevin mccarthy from his role of speaker of the house. this morning far-right republican matt gaetz vowed to file a so-called motion to vacate. that s a move to event the speaker. he says he s going to do that in the coming days. saying, quote, we need to rebuff the band-aid. i think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. according to politico, some house president conservatives predict there is at least a dozen gop members ready to support the motion to vacate against mccarthy. now to progressive democrats have indicated their support as well. shortly after the announcement from gaetz, congresswoman alexdria ocasio-cortez shows she would, quote, absolutely voted for a motion to vacate it. she left the door open in negotiations if mccarthy came to democrats for help. also said it s not up to democrats to save republicans from themselves. just hours ago on t