tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
you don t officially recognize the aging process. tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday gonna leave it at that it s paul metaphors birthda tomorrow there you go. a big deal so, rachel. i have baltimore a new story that we ve had four years. i ve just been struggling in the last tournaments to figure out how to say this publicly in my memoirs, this will b much more specific okay. no one involved really is still alive, except me i went to the world series i baltimore. years after former governor of maryland, as you pointed out the vice president was force to resign because of the crime he committed in baltimore. and maryland, when he was governor so, i met at the world series, as can happen, depending on wh you re with, someone i wil call very, very highly placed, at the very top level of wha they used to call organize crime in baltimore and found myself that night at the best italian restaurant in baltimore, whereupon back gu who was incredibly charming an was ju
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco
all right, that is going to do it for us tonight i promise you alex wagner will be back in the chair next week when she was like for vacation thing for having me here las night and tonight. i will see you again for m regularly scheduled rachel matters on monday. now it s time for the last wor with lawrence gantz. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. this is a show that, you know,
and fact three is th reimbursement of that illega hush money scheme that donal trump directed and was done in the oval office out of a personal checking account of the sitting president of the united states, donald trump. let me repeat that 12, or rather 11, 35,000 check were written out from personal bank account, to form the trust of a company, on personally for donald trump, t pay back the hush money that was legally paid by michae cohen. so, those are the three things that federal prosecutors hav found. you don t have to believe me you don t have to believ michael cohen. and i guess the final thing will say to you is this is not about michael cohen s testimony, lawrence there are many, many documents many corroborating witnesses emails, text messages, days, hours, months where we ve sa with the prosecutors and through documents, corroborating substantia evidence that donald trump i being charged with the crime o paying illegal hush money.