justice samuel alito - and no one else there s no other birthdays o that day [laughter thank, you my friend thank you and thank you at-home for joining us this. our i m happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo are stuck with me. i apologize, alex wagner we ll be back next week. but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. - believe you and i have all received copies of the statement that i read to the court, in open court as i said in that statement, the reason that i have changed my decision to fight thi matter is because i now believ it would be against th national interest and have a brutalizing effect on my family, that s had a long two-year struggle concerning this matte
tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
it s not even the only pending case involving trump in th state of new york. at some point this coming week donald trump is expected t travel back to new york from florida to be deposed in relation to a civil lawsui filed by the new york attorney general, letitia james last september, james filed 250 million dollar lawsuit against trump, his three eldes children, and the trum organization, accusing them of fraudulent business practices. in an earlier deposition for james s investigation last summer, trump refused to answe most questions, pleading the fifth more than 400 times. then, on april 25th of thi year, just 16 days from now, a trial is scheduled to begin in one of the two civil lawsuit that been filed against trum by the author and columnist, e jean carroll a few years ago, carol published a book in which sh accused the former president o raping her in the dressing roo of a luxury manhatta department store in the mi 1990s. trump denied careles accusations, saying they
least in abrams and i will pay catherine, thank you for being with us. happy to be here. happy easter thank you, and you. i m trying to put some meat on the bones of all of the things that are happening with donald trump. everybody watched hi indictment, his arrest, hi arraignment in new york. and then the next hearing in that case isn t december a some point what happens with that case an everything else i describe between now and the next tim donald trump is scheduled to b in court you re right, he is swirlin in legal issues around him civil and criminal on the manhattan case, the nex date is december 4th but in between that, there might be litigation, in fact there will be litigation i know the arrangements, the prosecutors said that they wanted to protect order, under new york state law, the defens is entitled to almos everything that s in the prosecutors file that is the law. this prosecutor said, you know what there is some sense but have materials that we don t trus the fo
april, at one point during the fall of roe v. wade, lindsey graham have proposed a nationa anti abortion law, a federal law. and mitch mcconnell had said, think most members of my conference prefer that this be dealt with at the state level. on one hand this was lindsey graham saying i don t want t touch this thing i don t want to catch this this fall of roe v. wade but the other, giving back t the states, which used to soun quite innocuous, and ver american, it is not turned out very well. the states have demonstrated what they do when you, when yo hand them the right to control women s bodies right, exactly. and this is, this is going bac to something i know people - this is really controversial for people the issue of states right, it everything, everything is goin back to states right voting rights, so many other issues it s about what the state does even this gun legislation issue, gun measures but when it comes to abortion, this nation is broken in fractured. we have safe stat