Been legitimately unprecedented in american politics as numerous republicans who stood by donald trump and looked past his lack of service, racism, sexism, insults and ignorance, after all that, election day 30 days away, they have finally decided enough is enough. The catalyst, a tape released friday in which trump is heard using crude language to, among other things, to boast about his ability to sexually assault women. Because, quote, when youre a star, they let you do it. Friday night trump issued this video in response. Ive never said im a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that im not. Ive said and done things i regret. The words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words dont reflect who i am. I said it. I was wrong, and i apologize. Trump goes on in that video to claim Hillary Clinton intimidated women after they were allegedly adequately assaulted by bill clinton in a likely preview of trumps debate strate
Acquittal that was pushed and celebrated by President Trump. The president had been an outspoken defender of gallagher during the trial, ordering the navy to allow gallagher to keep his rank. Now witnesses that were once quoted in trial are speaking out, suggesting gallaghers misconduct was evil and toxic. Today, the weekly, a tv series from New York Times has exclusively obtained navy interviews with s. E. A. L. Team members that accused gallagher of misconduct in the first place. Kate snow has more on this. We want to warn you, what youre about to see is disturbing. I saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12yearold kid. Reporter this morning, tapes never before seen in public, members of the navy s. E. A. L. Team seven, speaking on camera with military investigators about their platoon leader, eddie gallagher. The guy got crazier and crazier. Reporter it is a trove of information, obtained exclusively by the weekly. You could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. One after a
Three. But he still has to go up against nine other opponents. This morning former secretary of housing and urban Development Julian castro qualifying as the tenth democratic candidate to be on that stage in houston. Lets bring in Msnbc National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki with new numbers. First, is there a cutoff date . Do you have to reach the criterion by a certain date . Excellent question and the answer is august 28th. Were basically in the last week. Thats why one of the reasons why this new poll, this is from our buddies over at cnn, why this is so important. It is part of the criteria the dnc is using to decide who gets to be on that stage for the next debate in september. You mentioned Julian Castro by getting 2 in this poll that hits the magic number. You need to have 2 in four polls by august 28th. So he was coming within one week of the deadline. He hits the number in this poll. He joins the stage. The big question mark over the next week plus heading to that au
you have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, trump voters, that you re not just it s a very high bar. it is a high bar. you re not just trying to reverse the last election. we may not get there. chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler on making the case for impeachment. joining me now, john harwood cnbc s editor-at-large. john, before we get to impeachment, i want to get your reaction to the list of document request by the house judiciary committee. some people include his son, chief financial whizzalen wildli whiz alen weisselberg, what does this signify to you? they are not bound by the