i want to begin tonight by throwing it back to june 16th, 2015. i day that most americans, and most around the world would probably remember. then businessman donald trump came down to the golden escalator in trump tower to announce that he was running for the republican nomination for president. i want to warn you that we will be playing a couple of moments from the former president tonight, which is not typical an american voices. tonight is an exception. it is important for you to be reminded of exactly what donald trump said that day. specifically, this about mexican immigrants. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they are rapists, and some, i assume, they were good people. trump s racist opinions were well known before that moment, his role as lead against barack obama, the tax on the exonerated five before that. as a candidate for president of the united states, saying people who come to our country that was built by immigrants are rapists, well, that
report focusing on what s at stake for ordinary turks. a passenger opens the door of a commercial plane in mid air. hello, i m matthew, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in ukraine, where a russian missile attack on a health clinic in the city of dnipro has killed at least three people and injured 25. this video, posted on social media by the regional governor and verified by the bbc, shows severe damage at the clinic, with firefighters battling to put out a blaze engulfing the three storey building. the local governor says, two children are among those injured. writing on telegram in response to the attack on a medical facility. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says russian terrorists once again confirm their status of fighters against everything humane and honest. the strike on dnipro came during another night of russian missile and drone attacks. ukraine says most were shot down. an oil depo
ahead. possible indictment of a former president trump. wall street journal is today reporting this, that special counsel jack smith has all but finished obtaining his evidence into whether donald trump mishandled evidence at the mar-a-lago. and some of the trump close associates are bracing for his indictment. they say that clashes within the trump legal team have led to the departure of a delawyer. and the wall street journal goes on to report that jack smith appears to be tying up loose ends saying in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump s florida home from top aides to maintenance staff. they have pressed witnesses on questions that appear to hone in on specific elements that they need to show to include a crime. and questions aimed at undermining potential defenses that trump could raise reports are that the special counsel as assembled evidence and much of that appears to obliterate many ofhe argume
a month away, marking the first-time primary voters will get to weigh in on their party s nominee for the white house. as things stand right now, a biden trump rematches on the horizon. according to new polling, that could spell trouble for president biden. a survey by morning consult, bloomberg, of a hypothetical 2024 election matchup shows donald trump narrowly beating biden in seven swing states. that same poll reveals that biden is losing support from a key constituency, black voters, with only 62% saying they would vote for the president. now, 62% sounds like a lot, right? well, let me put that number into perspective. in 2020, president biden won 87% of the black vote. a slide and black support is deeply concerning because every democrat elected president has committed a coalition of voters to win the white house. here s why. no democrat running for president has won the white house, the white vote, the white vote since 1964. because of a, african american voters have b
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and