right-wingers in his own party. congressman james clyburn, assistant democratic leader, joins me live to discuss what s going on. fast truck. fulton county d.a. fani willis wants to set donald trump s georgia trial for august 5th, 2024. how that could shake up his bid for the white house, just three weeks after the republican convention. and exactly three months before election day. and, buyer you rustin. the march on washington finally gets his due, in the critically acclaimed movie, rustin. the star of the movie, colman domingo, joins me live to discuss his top score worthy performance. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. s is the saturday show. this morning, the federal government is open, for now. late thursday night, president biden signed a short term funding bill into law just one day before the deadline. but the please, hold the applause. the stopgap law, with the laddered ctiing resolution, kicks the cado the road until next year. funding some fed
tarts right now. greetings everyone, you are watching symone. republicans may officially be in charge of the house of representatives. but democrats, they appear to be the only party interested in doing any governing. what are republicans doing? while they are trying to start fights with each other. and, even with a witness to the committee hearing. are they just to emotional to lead? and don t forget, congressman george santos facing potential expulsion, again. we will dig into a historically weird, wild, and just unfortunate week on capitol hill. plus, fulton county d.a. fani willis sets a date for donald trump s georgia election, interference trial. a few months before election day. what that means for him legally, and politically. and, why it is so hard for judges to rein in trump s dangerous trial rhetoric. and, tiktok is back in the hot seat folks, after hosts sympathizing with terrorists of some of bin laden went viral. how do we get here? and, what is tiktok doing abo
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evening now, good we would have more on how she, find what is going on with the hospital with a reporter that you and i both, and who has been to that hospital, and reported their extensively. our own that is later on in the hour thank you my friend, and thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. i want to start tonight with what i think is an incredibly good point made yesterday by a republican congressman, a member of the freedom conch conference. no less here is what texas conservative chip roy had to say, to his colleagues. one thing, i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing, one that i can go campaign on and say we did. . one! anybody sitting in the complex, you want to come down to the floor it can explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the republican majority has done, besides well, i guess it s not as bad as the democrats? congressman roy is correct on two fronts here. first off, the republican -controlled house of represe
look, he is. i mean, he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that s based on a form of government totally different than ours. president biden s last answer there might have been a bit awkward but true after what was otherwise a productive meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping. we ll have more from their first face-to-face talks in a year. i will say, mika. yeah? i know i don t interrupt, but i will in this case. that clip is burying the lead. what do we got? oh, well yeah. we had a meeting that i thought went extraordinarily well. fortunately, we have the wise man here who can tell us and the wise woman who can tell us what they think. oh, good. i, for one, loved hearing what was said there, and i love the fact that they understand that the united states and china, whether either side likes it or not, is we re going to be, in effect, running a large part of the planet over the next half century, as far as the economy, the