Seriously, im more excited than a Guy Seeing Beetlejuice with lauren boebert. Im more excited than a jets fan during the first three plays of the season. Youve got to be kidding me in case youve forgotten, im jimmy. Ive been off the air five months. Weve been gone so long. Weve been gone so long, the bachelor is now a grandfather. Its been a long time since our last late show. We looked at the calendar today, and check my math on this, i believe we have been off the air for 154 indictments. A look at some of the late night shows which returned to tv for the first time in five months. We have a lot to get to this morning, including a recap of day one in Donald Trumps Civil Fraud Trial in New York City. Part of that is the Punishment Phase. Well tell you about the moment that seemed to enrage the former president. Also ahead, the latest on Kevin Mccarthys Speakership Battle as a far right Republican Forces a vote in the house to decide his fate, whether he keeps his job as speaker or whe
Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. But hes not a commentator anymore. Hes the president of the United States. So theres a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. Theres an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. A federal government whose Justice System he described yesterday as a Laughing Stock and a joke. Well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any
pronouncements. This is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. Its an improvisational act. Theres
Boy. Jeanie moss. Cnn. New york. And dont forget you can watch anywhere. Anderson starts next. We begin tonight with the president yet begin saying something that turns out not to be true and the white house covering for him. The white house official confirmed to cnn the west wing tried to after the president said this in the rose garden last week when asked why he hadnt said anything about the four u. S. Soldiers killed. Ive written them personal letters. Theyve been sent or theyre going out today but we were doing the weekend. That was monday. On tuesday, the president said this on a radio interview. I have called i believe everybody but certainly ill use the word virtually everybody where during the last month something happened. Keeping hip honest he hadnt called virtually everybody and in an email changed by role the president tweeted in response. Explain what he said. Thats right, anderson. And point out we tried to ask the question this all day long in response to the widow of
Alert the day care staff. He recently called the white house an adult day care center. I didnt make any of this up. Kasie hunt joins us live now. So the president is heading to capitol hill in the next hour for what is supposed to be a, quote, unity lunch with gop senators focusing on the tax cut plan. How awkward might this get . Reporter i have to tell you, ali, ive been roaming the halls of capitol hill for some years now. I havent seen anything like this before where you have the powerful head of a very Important Committee at a time when not only do we have americans deployed overseas but are potentially face iing at th least the possibility of war with north korea and you have the president and head of that Committee Trading Insults back and forth on twitter and of course for the tv cameras. Those words that Senator Corker
Senator Corker gave voice to a lot of peoples expectations that this will be more of a photo op than anything for the president of the United States. Because i
Werent all excited about voting for roy moore once this came out, even a weak endorsement from trump might get those people excited. Alabama is very much trump country. Reporter no one here seems to think that trumps backing is any game changer, not in a state where voters take pride in putting a thumb in the eye of the establishment, even the republican establishment. Even if all of these allegations were proven definitively to be positive, i would still vote for him over doug jones. What were getting nationally is, oh, alabamans would vote for a pedophile over a liberal democrat. In this circumstance, yes. Reporter now lets get to the bad news coming out of the Roy Moore Campaign and that is the Communications Director, thats john rodgers, suddenly called it quits. The campaign is trying to downplay this, saying this was a decision they reached last friday. However, they also say its because of the intense Media Scrutiny that they felt they needed a more experienced hand
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