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 knight, new york official with a reputation so pristine, they called him mr. clean. he rose up the ranks from attorney general to governor by taking down the mafia as well as wall stre
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
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 inner workings of american political power. ladies and gentlemen, meet rod blagojevich. it was early morning,
he had this fear of getting older, being relevant, and then i got out of hand hello and welcome to our viewers, joining us here in the united states around the world and streaming us on cnn max, i m rosemary church, just ahead. donald trump s last remaining republican rival picks up her first primary winner of the year. but with super tuesday on the horizon with nikki haley really be able to make up any real ground and the us presidential race us vice president kamala harris increases pressure on israel, calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. and long lines and moscow as hundreds of people continue queuing up to mourn alexey navalny and lay flowers at his grave live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church good to have you with us, and we begin here in the united states, states, where a jam packed week of political events is about to unfold americans will cause crucial votes. and here, a critical speech as they sought through the possible c
the gop dominated house voting to expel two young democratic lawmakers they taken part in a gun protest jones representative justin pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared it struck me. surreal. i m like that s my home state legislature. i used to work in that building and now it s being broadcast all around the world i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasn t really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. expelling state legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout american history presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. it s clear that he wants to be expelled. he and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. a mutiny, which to this body into th