Cleanliness Of News Today

that will do it for me on this addition of alex witt reports, who is enjoying some well- deserved time off . thank you for watching. we will see you again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. next, the beat: weekend peer hello, im ari melber covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30, 2024 , is now etched in all of our collective experiences. the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the date a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from f...

Surprised. i did not think -- >> you are surprised? interesting. >> -- really. i said, the verdict is in? i could not believe it. i was sure there would be people on that jury who were trump supporters and we know the trump rule is you dont have to deal with facts. you just, kind of, do your own thing. and for them to come in and do this, i think its a change in the whole spirit of the times. and i think not only does trump have to deal with that, but i think this country has to deal with it. he...

There were 2200 murders a year. its down 83%. all crime is down. but in this cavalier way, you know, its not that way. well, he is wrong and i think we are going to see the evaporation of that camouflage that he has been living in. and thats the other side of this. we are going to see, and we saw it this morning, he actually prepared a series of untruths to try to defend himself. and i know him very well having done three books and spending the last year of his presidency talking to him, and thi...

Think over a period i would apologize. heres the thing, im never wrong. now, thats part of the camouflage, the cleanliness of, well, we know better. we joke about these things. the dagger has been put in this with this indictment, and conviction. and just today, this morning, hes talking -- and this is, again, the way he deals with the reality. this morning he talks about violent crime in new york city. he said at all levels its awful. nobodys ever seen it this bad. now, the facts are back in 19...