he could be convicted. and how does the biden campaign plan to meet this moment. i will talk with michael tyler. on thursday evening a jury of 12 americans delivered a verdict finding the former president guilty on 34 accounts. and that was historic. no former president has ever been criminally tried let alone convicted. but it was also important because it confirms that the legal system has the capacity to hold any american accountable no matter who they are. and while it s proof that the legal system functions as it should, it exposed how broken the republican party is right now. in the aftermath of the conviction, the majority of the party lined up behind him to attack the judicial system. take mike johnson. he s second in line for the presidency. he called the verdict absurd and said his friends on the supreme court should overturn the conviction. i believe the supreme court should step in. this is dangerous to our system. the justices on the court, i know many of the
possibly return to the white house despite in impeached and indicted and convicted of a crime. immediately after the jury delivered the verdict on thursday, the former president began his disinformation campaign for might outside the courtroom. he has sought to undermine the conviction by proclaiming the real verdict will be on november 5th by the people. trump speeches are short on substance. sometimes they can be revealing of his mental state, especially after big moments like this. the morning after the jury convicted him, he gave remarks from trump tower. but instead of beginning with comments about the trial, he opened with the xenophobia claim. when you look at our country what is happening where millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just south america, from africa and asia and the middle east, and they are coming in from jails and prisons and they are coming in from mental institutions and insane asylum s. this has been par
But cannot markets after the holiday weekend, feature showing it lower to flat opening for the market. Premarket s p flood down more than eight. European markets remain closer to asia overnight. Gains in the shanghai, the hang seng was closed. But then again, the crib to a currency bounces back whether it can retain its shine. Well talk about it. Controversy over it congresswoman seed in the air. United apologizing after booting a firstclass passenger for Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson lee. Airline response to the growing outrage over that move. The retail rebound weve seen christmas shoppers give pretty married this Holiday Season. All the numbers became pretty darn good. Their rush to a trillion, while baron says apple could hit the number in 2018. Jumanji sings into the Christmas Box office. We will see whether its enough to force the last jedi off the top spot. All of that coming up through the former Lieutenant Governor of new york. Betsy mccaughey is here, former fbi joint Terror
So hell, tell us, was there anything in this memo we werent expecting . For the most part the memo centers around what republicans are calling evidence of andtical bias in the fbi doj against President Trump and in favor of democrats. It is highly disputed and controversial. It is distorted information selectively chosen it mostly involves and centers around the five applications for carter page, if former Trump Campaign advisor with russian ties. The argument that devon nunez, the republican chairman of the House Committee and author of this memo is making is that the steel dossier is controversial and made allegations that ended up being true, such as the over arching allegation of russia tried to meddle in the election in 2016. It also included salacious claims against President Trump that has not been validated and what is being argued is that the use of that still dossier as a basis for five applications to surveilled carter page was improper and abuse of power. That justcounter b
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] it is great to have you here. With longstanding friends of the center it is a pleasure to be here today and what has been a terrific project much of the last three years at the Miller Center with a firstyear project we are now one year and one week into the President Trump administration and we started to plan this effort in the spring of 2015 shortly after i arrived at the center but it really came from the center itself. There was a real question when i came in as a new director how we think about the upcoming three years with president ial elections almost two years out from when i had arrived and we thought about taking the extraordinary Historical Archive that we have built and her own scholars and network and with future administrations. After several weeks of planning we came back with this idea of the governing council to build human, Financial Support support for the effort. It has been a Terrific Team effort to bring togethe