ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
filing with 11 people and i was like that scans in a nation with 30 million people. i think the rest of the folks are like i don t need to go through every book in my kid s library. please make me less involved. enough e-mails. that s for another show. thank you, chris, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. today for only the second time in american history a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. now, the first time was last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. and now today mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again virtually by videoconference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary because donald trump
or is this all of a sudden that we re seeing all of this? i think it s all of those things. so, first of all, neo-nazi symbolism and the swastika, the sort of regalia of the nazi regime has been very popular in the militant right since at least the late 1970s, early 1980s, which is when neo-nazi klansmen, and a number of previously disparate groups joined together. from the 1980s forward that movement used symbols alongside things like the klan robe and hood, burning crosses and other familiar white supremacist trappings all for the same purpose, which was to recruit and rad cualize and wage a war on the federal government. this culminated in that period in the oklahoma city bombing in
northam has been clinging to his job since it came out that his med school yearbook page featured a photo of a man in black face next tie man in a klan robe. apparently he saw the movie blacks clansmen and thought hey, that s two good costumes. last nightways president trump s state of the union address to congress. there wasn t a lot of new information that came out of speech but trump did confirm that he ll be meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un in vietnam later this month. meeting with kim jong-un around valentine s day. looks like someone s trying to make vladimir putin jealous. the person i enjid most last night wouldn t donald trump, it was josh trump. he s the cute kid who the president invited because he gets bullied for his last name. but it turns out, he fell asleep during trump s speech. oh, man, the donald must have
published northam s 1984 medical school page which featured this racist photo. not long after, every major media outlet confirmed the photo s au authenticity and norm lost a lot of support. he said maybe it is him, whether it was the one in the klan robe or the blackface. then saturday a different story. i m deeply sorry. i cannot change the decisions i made, nor can i undo the harm my behavior caused then and today. i believe then and now that i am not either of the people in that photo. cnn s dan merica is in virginia, the capital there. dan, i know you have some news coming out of the governor s office this morning. what can you tell us? reporter: the governor had two key meetings this morning. he had an all-cabinet meeting