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off to, me welcome everyone. im yasmin vossoughian. zelenskyy in japan for the g7 summit. he is getting major news on his arrival about what the u.s. and its allies are willing to provide his country. president biden is balancing global diplomacy with the debt ceiling standoff back home. frustrations are growing as the possibility of a default is looming. we should not give it to a ransom note. already, without defaulting, which is where the freedom caucus would like us to go, clearly,...

disney world in announcing that youre going to run for president. ron desantis, enjoy that ride. >> alex, ive got a problem little struggle through here in this program. it is similar to the problem that i have with putting the words fox and news anywhere near each other. if i do, i feel like im telling a lie. its just not true. there is a congressional committee now where i cannot bring myself to say the name of the committee and i have to report on it tonight. >> i bet i know each co...

worked for giuliani for two years. in a 70-page complaint filed in state court on monday, she said that after giuliani hired her in january 2019, he sexually assaulted and harassed her, refused to pay her wages and often made sexist, racist, and anti-semitic remarks. she has recordings of numerous interactions, laying out a litany of shocking incidents, involving sexual misconduct. we have decided to spare you some of those details. it also contains, though, this bomb shell allegation ...

consequences. thats 2000-plus jobs being welcomed back with open arms to the golden state. a desantis presidential election announcement is expected next week. ill see you tomorrow. now time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. the las>> the story you just rd could not be subtitled, it is hard out there for a republican, because when the party stands for absolutely nothing, what do you do next? its not that hard to remember. when one of the things that they...

To redouble their own efforts and the consequences, everybody knows now when she is planning to do this. >> i also want to talk about rudy giuliani, the former presidents attorney targeted in the georgia investigation. hes also accused in this lawsuit of selling pardons. and i want to read, actually want to play for you giulianis comments to that. and then we will talk. >> we owe, thats total -- i would not sell a pardon, i prop prosecuted more bribery than any living human being. everyone knows...

Strangest group of lawyers in american legal history. their job is to publicly support insupportable lies until they just cant. they own eventually leave donald trump, including the ones that served him in government. after they leave, none of them have a good word to say about donald trump. michael cohen went from lying to donald trump to exposing his lies when he pleaded guilty to conspiring with donald trump in a criminal conspiracy to deliver $130,000 in the hush money payments to stormy dan...

Giuliani accused of offering to sell Trump pardons for $2 million each in new lawsuit. The suit includes allegations of sexual assault and harassment, as well as wage theft and

Counsel and believed if he stayed on message he would be taken care of. after cohen began cooperating with the government, president trump criticized him, calling him a rat, and suggested his family members had committed crimes. during manaforts prosecution, president trump stated manafort was being treated unfairly, and he could receive a pardon. i remember when the tape came out. i believe it was my colleague kristen welker, and trump was on the driveway of the white house. you never know why ...

And the abuse of the use of pardons, which is a pretty broad use provided in the constitution, is deeply troubling. he promised -- he says he was joking -- his aides who expressed concern that some of what he was asking them to do was against the law. he said, well, ill pardon you. dont worry about it. go ahead and do it anyhow. if that is accurate, he is urging staff members to commit violations of law, crimes, in return for which hell promise them a pardon. that is itself potentially criminal ...

The president. >> potentially impeachable? >> absolutely. you know, we had a governor of, i think, tennessee, you know, a number of years ago who went to jail for selling pardons, for offering pardons in exchange for something of value. and thats what president trump is doing here if this story is accurate. >> all right, jerry connelly, democratic congressman from virginia, thank you very much for being with us tonight. do appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> up next, reaction from a former ...