tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest po
personnel and the white house is extending the existing travel ban saying international travel should be open in a, quote, safe and sustainable manner. on capitol hill, today congressman adam kinzinger is officially the second republican to accept house speaker nancy pelosi s invitation to join the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. that s just ahead of the panel s first hearing tomorrow, when it will hear from police officers who defended the capitol that day. i ll be talking to house majority leader stanley hoyer on all of this straight ahead. in this hour, tom barrack, long-time friend and chair of the former president s inaugural committee will be back inside a federal courtroom in book lin for an arraignment following his arraignment in los angeles, where he posted a $250 million bond. i ll be speaking with kerstin gillibrand about the infrastructure talks and about a lengthy and years battle to revolutionize how the military prosecutes sexua
then an emotional day in court as witnesses recount what happened to george floyd after derek chauvin pinned him down. george was motionless, limp and chauvin seemed very he was in resting state meaning, like, he just rested his knee on his neck then as covid-19 cases surge in wisconsin, republicans shot down the governor s mask mandate. while in pennsylvania, infrastructure week finally arrives. it is big, yes. it is bold, yes. and we can get it done when all in starts now. good evening. if you ve been following the news today, you probably heard a lot about the justice department investigation into republican congressman matt gaetz over potential sex trafficking sigh tied to a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl which he denies there are lots of crazy developments on this store i y we re going to bring you all of them but first, we thought it would be worth reminding you who matt gaetz was before he was under investigation. this guy is really somethi
-no, but i mean, like, -you can t hurt me, man. tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begi
united states of scandal is next for our country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy we sure do love a strong man from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality, and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest politician named eliot spitzer, a white knig