folks, for the appeal. yet another trump associate is heading to prison. broke. humiliated, and begging for money. also, the republican front-runner himself was on the witness stand today, for all of three minutes, as the defense rests in the e. jean carroll defamation case. plus, the horrifying post-roe consequences. nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape in the 14 states with abortion bans. but we begin tonight in new york, where donald trump fresh off his new hampshire primary victory, making him the all but certain republican presidential nominee, addressed a much smaller crowd today. a nine-member federal jury in the second civil defamation trial brought by writer e. jean carroll. separate jury last year found trump liable for both sexually abusing carroll in the late 1990s and defaming her in recent years. yeah, let s just take a moment to remember that. the presumptive republican presidential nominee is someone who has been found liable for sexual abuse. he was mia du
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Does not change even as this Story Changes dramatically. We know there could be legal consequences. That aside, are there political . Well, thats one of the interesting things because weve weve seen these tweets over the past couple of days. This tweet about Jeff Sessions which a lot of legal analysts and experts have said, boy, that could really do you damage in a court of law, that could be obstruction, that could contradict the other statements. But in the court of Public Opinion and what President Trump believes and what his advisers believe is that attacking this investigation is really the best way to succeed in that court of Public Opinion. And there was definitely a shift after the Michael Cohen raid and weve seen in recent months about the president racheting up his attacks on this Mueller Investigation and im told that is because he very much believes and his lawyers advised him that this as a sitt
you re exactly right. this is all, in the words of the white house, reinvigorating the partnerships between the united states and african countries, 50 countries on that continent represented here at the summit as it wraps up today and the pred president will be speaking there again shortly. the investments announced over the course of this visit, $55 billion from the u.s. to that region to help support investments in agriculture and health systems, beyond that, focusing on issues like trade and infrastructure, and security, and beyond. and that s what the president s closing message was to the african nations and he had an important message in speaking earlier today. one of them is the president calling on there being an african union as a permanent member. the african union as a permanent member of the g-20 going forward. only a matter of months ago, the president had called on reforming of the united nations security council, so that africa would be represented there permanently a
We have breaking news for you on our politics leeld. brand-new recordings being revealed for the first time of republican house leader kevin mccarthy denouncing then president trump in some of the harshest language we have heard yet. the audio comes two days after the january 6th insurrection during a call in which mccarthy called the pred s actions atrocious and totally wrong, unquote, and expressed his desire to insure a smooth transition to the biden administration. the audio was obtained by new york times political correspondents jonathan martin and alex burns. take a listen. what the predsident did is atrocious and totally wrong. you re 12 days away. the one point i make with biden,
I don t think the timing of the tweet is coincidental. he tweets this as the broader picture of his financial dealings with russia, his indebtedness to russia and his motive is coming into sharper focus. remember back to friday morning where the president had that series of tweets attacking the investigation, and lo and behold, that afternoon. shan wu, in terms of the pred s reaction to all this, beyond this long-term campaign to undermine the credibility of the mueller investigation, which is having some effect with his supporters, is a sort of general winging it mentality, and the washington post said this about the president s team. you would expect a war room to be assembled here. they said the following. rart than building a war room to manage the intersecting crises as past administrations have done, the trump white house is understaffed, stuck in a bunker mentality, and largely resigned to a plan to wing it. will that be enough to defend this president? no, it won t.