morning joe weekend pick it was another fast-moving newsweek . here are conversations you might have missed. president biden and the vice president rallied in philadelphia, the event was the launch of the outreach to black voters. because black americans voted we our president and vice president of the united states, that is because of you, that is not hyperbole. that is because of you. with your vote in 2024 we will make donald trump a loser again. when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time. you have got it, kid. you have got it . i have shown you who i am and trump is show you he is. today he is pandering for your vote so he can win for himself, not for you. donald trump i have a message for you, not in our house and not on our watch. america has always been a place where we work towards a perfect unit where those are excluded in the past are included today. i still believe that. i am still optimistic but i need you. my question is a simple one . ar
better to most people . it is not in on the level argument, as my mother would say, but it is working to some degree so president biden is using his time and resources to reach out to communities of color, that is where they need to make up ground, to bring those voters home, show them there is a reason to vote for president biden. it was a big crowd yesterday. what work does the president and vice president need to do to earn back the trust? i think they have to continue to do in terms of showing up. the vice president has been on this economic opportunity tour and it is specifically tailored to speak directly to, not just black voters, but black men specifically and black business owners, talking about what the
time to see how you responded to the survey question at smerconish.com this week. should president biden aid the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems to ukraine? here s the result. a lot of voting. 32,000 and change. the yeses, 90-10. it fits with a pattern. for the last three weeks, we ve been all about ukraine and the questions have been one of the degree of involvement, what level of militaristic support. and the results are the same. heavy voting and a lot of support for doing more. from the world of social media, what do we have? smerconish, don t give me the stoop to his level argument. you will never beat a bully turning the other cheek. the issue there is should big pharma say, guess what, we re not going to deliver medications or medical devices so long as this invasion of ukraine continues because there s been a
it s very interesting. good evening. let s discuss. i m going to start with you, renato. the defense team is saying that the case isn t about murder or drug cartels or a madoff-style ponzi scheme. they re arguing for a lighter sentence in the d.c. case. what do you make of their argument here? you know, i have been representing clients now for years, and before that i spent a decade as a federal prosecutor. and when you re in the white collar criminal defense world, you know your clients in real trouble when your argument is, well, he didn t kill anybody. that s basically the lowest level argument when you re a criminal defense attorney. you got nothing. you don t have the facts. you don t have the law. you have no sympathy on your side. so you say, well, he didn t kill anybody. nobody died is the other one, right? yeah. there you go. pretty much. yeah. that s what this is. the whole dissenting memo seemed like a desperate plea for a pardon.
so let s figure out why they re doing this. it s very interesting. good evening. let s discuss. i m going to start with you, renato. the defense team is saying that the case isn t about murder or drug cartels or a madoff style ponsi scheme. they re arguing for a lighter sentence in the d.c. case. what do you make of their argument here? you know, i have been representing clients now for years, and before that i spent a decade as a federal prosecutor. and when you re in the white collar criminal defense world, you know your clients in real trouble when your argument is, well, he didn t kill anybody. that s basically the lowest level argument when you re a criminal defense attorney. you got nothing. you don t have the facts. you don t have the law. you have no sympathy on your side. so you say, well, he didn t kill anybody. nobody died is the other one, right? yeah. there you go. pretty much. yeah. that s what this is.