Saturday, april 13th, and you are watching velshi on msnbc. I am filling in for my friend ali velshi. In two days the country will witness something that literally never happened before the first criminal trial of a former president of the united face of america. This coming monday, it is the beginning of Donald Trumps hush money trial. It may also be the only case it goes to court before election day. The man who was widely expected to be the star witness in the trial Michael Cohen sat down exclusively with the morning cast of my colleagues from the weekend and he had this to say about how we should be thinking about the case. The prosecutors are going to put forth their case and im just the narrator and rest assured, alvin bragg and the prosecutor a team over at the District Attorney of new yorks office would not have brought this case unless they thought they were going to be successful. So far, trumpet his legal team have been pretty successful in their delight. There is no trial s
in the house. taking on civil rights in 1963, 64 was highly risky. we have to look at that period through the lens of the early 60s, not through the lens of 2021. quite frankly, in 2020 and 2021, we still see the fault lines in significant ways. but at that point, the south was a south of two different worlds. there were people who fought with every breath in their body to maintain those two societies. i draw the line in the dust and past the gauntlet and i say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. the challenge in a democracy
suffer an even greater punishment than the freedom riders. reporters gathered at the birmingham bus station to await the arrival of the second bus. a mob of club-wielding segregationists waited there too. the bus came in. they collected around it. they dragged about six of the passengers out, both negro and white. they took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them, began hitting them with lead pipes. at that point someone behind me whispered in my ear and said, someone here has identified you from having seen you on television. they re hunting for you now. you better get out. and i say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. the segregationist power understood that the press doing its job had become their enemy. we would like to have all the
freedom rider, that he would suffer an even greater punishment than the freedom riders. reporters gathered at the birmingham bus station to await the arrival of the second bus. a mob of club-wielding segregationists waited there too. the bus came in. they collected around it. they dragged about six of the passengers out, both negro and white. they took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them, began hitting them with lead pipes. at that point someone behind me whispered in my ear and said, someone here has identified you from having seen you on television. they re hunting for you now. you better get out. and i say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. the segregationist power understood that the press doing its job had become their enemy. we would like to have all the
neck country. all right. all right. and here it s kind of i don t know how to say this without. just say it. kind of uppity country. uppity. i like that uppity country i know what you mean. that s i think people outside here would not realize there is lo brow and uppity country. there is a big difference. there is a big difference. i will say i ve had the best bowl of shrimp appear grits near mobile. near here. down the street at mama. just say the word. i ll see you later you guys do rock paper scissors. who hosts the show. excuse me i got to get shrimp and zblits our realize our country has a democraticed relationship with alabama first of all this is this. i say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. and we came way too close to