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the first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. the second.is eliot spitzer. every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fund-raisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emails so many emails. but for all those little fish throwing $100 to their local race, it s the whales those campaign fund-raisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. and when they donate $25,000, $100,000, a million dollars, they want a favor.or 10. it should be obvious that s corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political deals toe the bribery line every single day. and we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois governor hadn t flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented audio recordings that shined a bright light on the i ....
i truly hope this man ends up prison. cohen says sounds right. nicolle wallace will pick it up from here. thank you as well. all of our guests that have joined us including duncan, we will see you back here on thursday afternoon when we re going to do it all over again. don t go anywhere. deadline: white house starts right now. hi, everyone. we have a packed house. it s 4:00 in new york. after putting donald trump in the room where it happened, where that allegedly criminal scheme to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election was hatched, the ex-president s former fixer michael cohen today closed the loop on the story that often sounds like it is straight out of a bad mafia movie. cohen describing donald trump operating like a mob boss who became president of the united states using a back channel to keep cohen quiet and loyal and cohen describing going to prison and ultimately breaking with donald trump. the man he served for more than a de ....
ended up getting indicted. newly released court transcripts show his outbursts earned him a stern rebuke from judge juan merchan. judge merchan saying to trump s attorney, todd blanchethis, i understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually, and that s contemptuous and has the potential to intimidate the witness and the jury can see that. trump s attorney, mr. blanche, quote, i will talk to him. judge mer shonn speaking to the court, so i am speaking at the bench because i don t want to embarrass him. mr. blanche, i will talk to him. the judge, you need to speak to him. i won t tolerate that. mr. blanche, i will talk to him. now, one of the moments that inspired that and angered trump so much was stormy daniels description of part of their encounter in a hotel room in 2006. for reference here s how she described it on camera for 60 minutes in all its cringeworthy glory. it started off all about him ....
fake news, just fake news, i refuse to accept it. and onto the next question, here we go. are, looking forward to the debates. have a good weekend. today was day leavening the first criminal trial of a former american president, the prosecution called to the witness stand one of donald trump s closest confidants, hope hicks, communications director and longtime aide. hicks was constantly by trump s side navigating each crisis that came his way. and that was why prosecutors used hicks testimony to take the jury all the way back to one of the most important and memorable moments the 2016 campaign. as a warning, this next part is vulgar. i bought some to text in case i start kissing her. you know, i m automatically attracted to beautiful kissing them, it s like a magnet. and they let you do it, you can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ] the access hollywood tape. a recording of donald trump in 2005, openly advocating sexual assault, bragging about his abi ....
welcome back to the weekend. alicia menendez and michael steele . week 14 of the election interference trial wrapped up with a new star witness and some devastating bombshells. the former communications director spent many hours on the stand and went into details about how they have managed these scandals that plagued the trump campaign. joining us mal, katie phang, and susanne craig. i saw you fact checking. newly you can tell that phang was still working. katie, this was a big week in this trial. keith davidson, how did you see this week ending up from the way that it began? i do not think that a lot of people knew the impact that hope hicks would have, so close to trump that there would be this protective veneer and she threw down some information that i think really helped the prosecution s case, how do you see this case? this week was a mixed bag, all good for the prosecution. there are a lot of us that are looking for the marquis maine witnesses. the custodian ....