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for marijuana position is a massive be fd. too many lives have been upended by our failed approach to marijuana. it s time we right these wrongs. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the herschel walker story keeps getting worse for herschel walker. earlier this week, of course, the daily beast first reported that walker, the trump endorsed the republican nominee for georgia s senate seat, had paid for a woman s abortion in 2009. the report contains a lots of contemporaneous evidence that has not been reviewed by us here at nbc news. it included the literal receipt for the procedure, that check walker sent to a woman, and even they get well card walker apparently mailed her, complete with what sure looks like his signature. now, as we ve said, nbc news is not independently verified the stories, this is a the daily beast or. walker vehemently denied the allegation when it first broke. he said he had no idea who the woman making ....
could be. that seems a little difficult to believe, though, because according to a new report in the daily beast, and that woman who says walker paid for her abortion is also the mother of one of his children. again, nbc news has also not verified this most recent report. in a statement, walker said there was no truth to it or any other daily peace report. to be clear, there s absolutely nothing wrong with a woman chosing to terminate a pregnancy, nothing wrong with that person s partner offering to pay for the procedure. the problem comes when the partner in question, herschel walker, is running on one of the most extreme, anti-abortion platforms in the country months after the supreme court got rid of roe. walker said he supports a national abortion ban without any exceptions, including for rape and incest. he has compared abortion to murder. it is that crushing hypocrisy with real world consequences that inspired the mother of one of his children to come forward with ....
Which sticks out like a thumb into the persian gulf right off the coast of saudi arabia, right next to the United Arab Emirates. And of course america has complicated and textured relationships with every major country in the middle east. But with qatar we do have this one very special thing. In that weve got this huge air base there. There are a ton of activeduty service members, American Service members, who live there all the time. Right . That special thing about us and qatar was what made it a weirder than usual moment in the Trump Presidency when just a few months after he was sworn in, President Trump summoned the courage to try to pronounce qatar live and in front of some cameras, i think for the very first time ever. The reason that he decided he ....
In the roger stone trial where prosecutors linked his alleged crimes right to donald trump. I love wikileaks. All in starts right now. E good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Well, its here. One week from today the house impeachment committees will kick off public impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States for just the fourth time in american history. Its not a niche story anymore. If people feel like they could not keep up with the inner workings of a complicated political drama, next week these hearings will be broadcast into every american home. If theres one thing we know about the president it is how utterly obsessed he is with his image on television. Hearings are going to play out g live in real time. We are all going to get to see the whole thing. So watch out for that next week. Today we also woke up in a world in which we got our first test of the politics of impeachment. For months the polit ....
American personnel. And it is all the more striking the size and the import of the space given what a small place it is in. Because this huge u. S. Air base is located in the tiny nation of qatar. This really big american outpost in that very small country, which sticks out like a thumb into the persian gulf right off the coast of saudi arabia, right next to the United Arab Emirates. And of course america has complicated and textured relationships with every major country in the middle east. But with qatar we do have this one very special thing. In that weve got this huge air base there. There are a ton of activeduty service members, American Service members, who live there all the time. Right . That special thing about us and qatar was what made it a weirder than usual moment in the Trump Presidency when just ....