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Interviews with political figures. Man, on the first day of law school whose name was norman francis. Norman was better looking, faster, smarter than everybody else. I asked my father. Well he informed me. Taught what it was look to walk in somebody elses shoes. He said i Wasnt Just Fighting for norman. I was fighting for my right to be with my friend. And weep just kind of group in that ethos. I scant remember, i had written in the book. A number of examples throughout our life. White people ha...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Manafort. That is a fact. That is news. That is legally concerning for donald trump and politically concerning as confessions are not a great message heading into the midterms. But donald trump has his own plan. While he didnt know this trial of this Campaign Trial would be on track for a verdict heading into labor day, which is of course a key time for the midterms, he has long known he has his own pla...

Midterms because trump believes its return to the headlines will help republicans win votes. There it is. Today donald trump reupping his attacks on nfl players over the kneeling. This is on a friday heading into the anniversary of course of that Charlottesville White power rally. Were not going to read the tweet tonight from the president attacking the players in last nights game because it is not particularly newsworthy and were not going to show you all the headlines it sparked. You can imagi...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Lets go to Geoff Bennett joining us live from the white house. Geoff, tell us about the president s reaction to omarosa. You saw the president during a photo op at his bedminster estate and asked by members of press pool to respond to the Bombshell Allegations by her new book and you saw his response there was to call her a low life. Although we should make clear that she was one of the president s first hires here at the w...

Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Thats something that i think is very foreign. I guarantee it, chris, even though he koops, hes smart enough, Michael Cohen, not to say he was present at any meeting in which the president said i have an arrangement with the russians. Witnesses dont do that. Why not . If the question of collusion is on a scale one to ten, hell move it up to seven. Hell say, well, the president says he has a good arrangement wit...

The president. whether it is members of congress or not. those are the issues people talk about all the time. >> well i agree with your last guest. take it to the republicans, hes nuts. hes a felon and he is nuts. and say it over and over again. you dont have to give anything anymore. okay, he is old. fine, move on. everybody knows that in a straight up race, joe biden should be president ten million times before donald trump should ever see the oval office as a guest again. this is not even clo...

Really dangerous for our countries. so this kind of rhetoric is nuts. >> jedi go to jail over the top. >> that rhetoric is over the top. im not excusing, im not excusing donald trumps language at all what im pointing out is that i cant even understand is language i dont im pointing out is that this is a dangerous precedent. if you dont think republican das republican attorney generals, i going to turn this around. they will. and what i saw in congress was i saw two impeachments that were unwarra...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday warned against critics of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) airstrikes on Gaza drawing a “dangerous false equivalency” between Israel and Hamas, which he called an “evil organization.” Schumer, who returned from a bipartisan congressional trip to Israel, said he traveled there over the weekend to push…

Platform, and what i can say. how do you not be honest about what happened? charles, how do you not be honest about the fact that this white man drove 40 miles to target black people? how do you not have, how do you reconcile those concepts? >> that construct that you just described in terms of the inability, or the resistance to honesty is exactly what got us here, katie. we have a lot for false equivalencys to enter into this dialogue, and create space that legitimizes hates, that legitimize i...

But we all know what kind of an era we live in. its not whats real. its how people feel. do you share that concern? >> yeah, i do. theres a false equivalency that some republicans are trying to draw. theres a difference between former president trump being indicted so many times ive lost count now and -- >> soon to be four potentially to help you out. >> -- and then hunter biden, the son of the current president -- >> its not equivalent. >> its not an equivalency. let the investigation take plac...