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That im on. And im kind of looking forward to it because, again, cant be finished with something unless you start it. Michael cohen is set to take the stand monday in trumps criminal trial. Trumps lawyers will call him a liar, but cohens story has been consistent. And corroborated by the other prosecution witnesses. Also tonight, trump is getting the old band back together. A rogues gallery of crooks including Convicted Felon turned pardon bad guy for hire, Paul Manafort, who used to do the dirty work for putins russia and congo among other autocrats. And more recently, has reportedly been sha...

The molders of trailblazers and visionaries and public servants. you know it. you know it better than anyone. hbcus have helped produce 40% of all the black engineers in america. 50% of all the black lawyers in america. 70% of all the black doctors and dentists in america. and 80% of all the black judges in america. folks, i see hbcu excellence every single day in my administration, and i'm not exaggerating. vice president harris, my cabinet, michael reagan, administrator of epa, senior white house staff, staff across my entire generation. graduates -- i'm here to congratulate you, but also to...

You served as obama's executive director on hbcus. why are hbcus so typically underfunded? >> this is a very exciting time to be at an hbcu. i started my clear in louisiana in 2002 and i've been at howard university for the last 16 years and i remember when i came to an hbcu, there was also a question of, are hbcus still relevant and that used to irk me so bad. i always said we can't be in a posture of trying to defend our relevance, we have to assert our excellence. i think the nation is starting to understand that there's a value proposition in hbcus, that the output from white institutions ...

The president of benedict college has the been an amazing hbcu president. she's done work in leading this college in the future. this event was an event that was supposed to be a bipartisan event. whatever it boiled down to be. and i think that there are many people who have concerns, valid concerns, about the direction this country's going in and whether or not president trump, going on that stage with the backdrop of an hbcu or not. and i know that kamala harris is saying we can do maore. hbcus have to be -- historically black colleges and universities have to continue to be the place where ...

That struck me as we started talking to folks about hbcus, i thought, initially, that, you know, 2014, the changing face of america, post-racial america. i thought that there would be a lot of folks who would say, you know what, we're at a point now where we don't really need hbcus as much as we did. a lot of black students, they can go to predominant universities. i found quite the opposite. folks -- a lot of folks, especially down in your neck of the woods, have said that today more than ever we need hbcus. why do you think that is? >> because it's a fact. we see what's going on at the unive...