Insisted on it in all of her hotels and that s why you should come and stay at her hotel. Sort of a familiar stick, i know. But it worked for her in the 19 eighties. Until it didn t. Turns out, despite being a billionaire, despite not only the image of immense wealth, but the actuality of it, leona and her husband had engaged in a number of chiselling text cheats, including, having a whole bunch of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut her private home it was renovations on that home including by putting it a dance floor, but she built the renovations to the hotel company she had the helmsley hotel company paid to do the renovation on her private home that had for her the double benefit of her not having to pay for those renovations herself and, also, her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense. Even though they weren t. It was just stuff she wanted personally. She went to prison. The trial where she got convicted, probably made her even more famous
favor of even allowing debate on the legislation. put another way, all 50 republican senators voted no. while states are back home working hard to suppress the vote or certain votes, should we say, there s not a republican in the senate who wants to even allow a debate on this topic. an angry majority leader spoke moments after the vote was announced. senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history alongside donald trump, the big lie, and voter suppression. today, every single democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote in america. the republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights. this vote, i m ashamed to say, is evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. in an unusual move, vice president harris presided over the senate during tonight s vote. afterwards, she vowed democrats will continue pushing f
Region warns it will run out of vaccines in a few days. More on the deepening crisis ahead. We begin in jerusalem, where sounds of eastern prayers filled al aqsa mosque in a moment of peace before violence erupted in the city for a second straight night. Tensions hit a fever pitch in east jerusalem over possible evictions of palestinian families. An aid organization says at least 100 palestinians were injured by rubber bullets and stun grenades fired by police. Police say they were trying to disperse crowds of people who were throwing stones and fires. I want to bring in hadas gold. What s happening right now? reporter: well, last night was almost almost which is the holiest night of ramadan for muslims and there were dollars across east jerusalem. I m standing outside of damascus gate. This is one of the main entrances to the old city of jerusalem for muslims. This was the scene of some of those clashes last night. There was also some unrest in sheikh jarrah which is the neighborhood
[cheers and applause] greg: as we turn a corner on covid, what new crisis is the media consumed with? shark attacks? alien invasions? invasions? see and then cnn s disastrous ratings which are now officially lower than the odds that cats marriage lasts a month. [laughs] the new york times dives headfirst into the evils of bathing. Yes, bathing. Covid has shown that bathing daily is not only not unnecessary, it s evil. The pigpen is finally vindicated. I m old. No wonder the media adores antifa, the filthy scum. It it seems bathing harms the planet. They could ve said that bathing is racist, because most bars of soap are white. It s called ivory, not ebony. That is racist. We will be right back. The article starts by offering anecdotal evidence that the pandemic is causing people to be a plus the proof, parents planing about their smelly teenage kids. Talk about hardhitting data. By that logic, the pandemic also cause acne and terrible taste in music. By the way, teenagers are like chee