at any moment, the president and first lady, as we can see entering the helicopter, will depart to visit an american cemetery a half hour outside of paris they will lay a wreath to honor u.s. troops killed in world war i. notably, and 2018, donald trump canceled the trip to the same cemetery. the white house blamed bad weather at the time. trump s then chief of staff later revealed that trump didn t want to go because he viewed the dead soldiers as quote suckers and losers. joining us as our msnbc political analyst. the former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. welcome. i m wondering what you think about, obviously the trip to france, the president wrapping it up. i wonder what you think of how this has unfolded from the big speech he gave thursday through his appearance at the state dinner yesterday and then now today. this split screen engagement with the former president in 2018. i thought he performed admirably well and did a careful bal
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case. and secondly, we argued that all of the evidence that we had amassed had shown that john thomson was innocent of the liuzza murder. michael and gordon filed their appeal in february of 2002. five months later they received the decision. i ll never forget it, a reporter called and said, what do you think about this decision? and i asked her to read it to me, and i said, skip to the end, skip to the end. the last line read, conviction and sentence reversed. i called gordon into my office. i couldn t get the words out. i remember it was july 17th, 4:30 in the afternoon, i i was tongue tied i said, i couldn t he said, new trial? i said yes. we hugged, we were ecstatic. as michael and gordon began preparing for the retrial, they got an unsolicited offer from the d.a. s office, harry connick senior had retired and the new d.a. ran for office on an anti-corruption campaign.
conviction had been used to keep john from being able to testify in his own defense in the murder case. and secondly, we argued that all of the evidence that we had amassed had shown that john thomson was innocent of the liuzza murder. michael and gordon filed their appeal in february of 2002. five months later they received the decision. i ll never forget it, a reporter called and said, what do you think about this decision? and i asked her to read it to me, and i said, skip to the end, skip to the end. the last line read, conviction and sentence reversed. i called gordon into my office. i couldn t get the words out. i remember it was july 17th, 4:30 in the afternoon, i i was tongue tied i said, i couldn t he said, new trial? i said yes. we hugged, we were ecstatic. as michael and gordon began preparing for the retrial, they got an unsolicited offer from the d.a. s office, harry connick
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