That is our show for tonight, now it is time for the last word with my friend, good evening. Excellent show, nice to see you and have yourself an excellent weekend. Thanks, alex. Men at sometimes are masters of their fate, the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings. If you are a lover of shakespeare, that passage from Julius Caesar might be on your mind right now because this week we saw mega faithful republicans make the latest trump pilgrimage, at the trial of a man accused of Making Hush Money payments to the former star, Stormy Daniels to stop her from going public with their affair during the 2016 election. And we saw these Republicans Indoctrinated by trump, do this not once, not even twice, but three times. Three times. Monday, tuesday and yesterday, three different groups of the brigade, most of the members of the legislative branch of our federal government skipped out on their day jobs to do donald trump spitting and attacked this nations criminal J
fans are hoping for another surprises, like taylor s version album releases and after last night a talk of whether travis kelce will pop up on stage again. that is all well and good. but more ian rad nick for me. thank you for letting us end on that happy note. deadline: white house starts right now. howdy friends. aloha and namaste. it is 4:00 p.m. in new york city. i m john heilemann in for nicolle wallace. we re t minus 72 hours and change away from the spectacle of sitting american presidents debating a former american president, the latter of whom just to spice things up, also happened to be a 43 four time criminal, a scoff law, with 34 scarlet f s across his wrap sheet. if donald trump gets his way, the first and maybe only presidential debate of 2024 this thursday in atlanta will be less lincoln douglas or even krend nixon than randy savage versus ricky the dragon steamboat. those are wrestlers for the record. the chain of events that led president biden to fa
wolf blitzer, let me start with you. this is something that a lot of critics have said is a subject changer because we had real bad jobs news on friday and that just it riveted people throughout the weekend. is this an effort to change the narrative? it may be, in part, because the white house clearly believes this is a winning political issue for the president. he is going to make the point that for 98% of the american people, there will be no increase in their taxes. individuals making $200,000 or less a year. families making $250,000 or less, they will see no increase whatsoever. if nothing is done, everyone s taxes go up starting january 1st 2013, that s the so-called fiscal cliff. for 2% making more than that, they will go back to the tax rates that occurred during the clinton administration before the bush tax rates went into effect, 2001 and 2003. they will go back up to 39.6% from 35 or 36% right now. so, he will say these people can afford it. they will pay a lit