Herbert hoover in the 1928 election so al smith was not the first catholic president but he was the first catholic nominee for president. This dinner, which is a benefit for Catholic Charities here in new york city, has ended up becoming a really important thing in american president ial politics. Honestly, the biggest reason it is really important is because of its timing. There are other dinners like this. The gridiron dinner in washington or the alfalfa dinner or the correspondence dinner. There are other dinners that are fancy politics proms, essentially. Where you get a sitting president or very highlevel politician showing up in tuxedos and gowns and telling jokes and sharing stages with people they otherwise would not be sharing stages with. That happens. Right . There are those events in washington and elsewhere around the country. But this one that you are looking at right here is different. Because this one happens now. A couple of weeks before the election. And its always ti
For it, a lobbyist helped arrange a 100,000 trim to morocco for guess who. Epa chief scott pruitt. That very same lobbyist now has a 40,000 a month contract with the moroccan government. Pretty swampy huh . The president s longtime doctor goes off claiming the president s men raided his office and revealed what we all expected about his glowing review of President Trumps health. That letter that showed up in times about his health, he wrote it himself. You know that. Yeah. He wrote it himself. Thats for real today. We begin with Robert Mueller issuing a warning to the president , testify or else. Now, the threat of a subpoena is adding new drama and adding new details. I have a great team to break all of it down. But first, i want to explain why this is such a big deal. Up to this point, we had understood that muellers team and the president s team were investigating a possibility of an interview. According to the Washington Post those investigations got very heated during a meeting ba
For hundreds of gold star families. He speaks to the catalyst behind it all, actor gary sinise. Stay tuned for that incredibly moving report. Its going to bring tears to your eyes. It did when i first thought. First, black robe resistance. Thats the focus of tonights angle. If you are like most americans, you grew up with a special sense of reverence for judges. Watching films or reading books, regular folks have seen countless portrayals of judges as consummate professionals who set their own personal opinions aside and objectively weigh the merits of each case. Since there has been no previous violation of the statute, theres no precedent to guide the bench passing sentence. The witness will address this court as judge or your honor. Im quite certain. Since the United States government declares this man to be santa claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed. Laura i get goose bumps every time. Of course then theres the real world for certain judges act more like political
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