i'm ari melber signing off our special trump on trial. keep it locked right here on msnbc. tonight on "the reidout" -- >> the expectation is next week

that i'm on. and i'm kind of looking forward to it because, again, can't be finished with something unless you start it. >> michael cohen is set to take the stand monday in trump's criminal trial. trump's lawyers will call him a liar, but cohen's story has been consistent. and corroborated by the other prosecution witnesses. also tonight, trump is getting the old band back together. a rogue's gallery of crooks including convicted felon turned pardon bad guy for hire, paul manafort, who used to do the dirty work for putin's russia and congo among other autocrats. and more recently, has reportedly been shaking his tin cup for china. plus, trump used to call rfk jr. a very smart person, but now, he's in a state of panic that junior is winning over some of his anti-vacc maga base.

we begin tonight with a man best summarized by the great robert nesta marley. your best enemy could be your best friend and your best friend your worst enemy, which brings us to one of donald trump's most important hires. a hire he now seems to bitterly regret, michael cohen. for 12 years cohen was trump's personal attorney, known as trump's fixer, his pit bull and one of his go-to surrogates when trump entered politics. >> there's no shake-up. look at the words that you use and you blast at the bottom in your banner. shake-up, overhaul, dramatic, desperate measures. there are no desperate measures. >> so you say it's not a shake-up. but you guys are down. and it makes sense -- >> says who? >> polls. most of them. all of them? >> says who? >> polls.

i just told you. i answered your question. >> which polls? >> all of them. >> his loyalty was nearly boundless to the point that cohen said he would have taken a bullet for trump. who else would have taken out funds from his own home equity loan to make a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star on trump's behalf so she would stay quiet about their alleged one-night stand. who else would have gone to pressen because of those very acts protecting the boss. then when cohen went to jail and unlike other trump cronies like trump organization business manager allen weisselberg or overseer paul manafort, who we'll get to a bit later in the show, cohen wasn't all too happy to do time for the donald. instead, he had his mea culpa moment and came clean. in fact, his testimony to congress in 2019 is what set off the criminal trial that trump is facing today. >> i am providing a copy of a

$35,000 check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august 1st of 2017. when he was president of the united states. pursuant to the cover-up which was the basis of my guilty plea to reimburse me. the word used by mr. trump's tv lawyer for the illegal hush money i paid on his behalf. this $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year while he was president. >> and as you would expect, trump no longer holds cohen in such high regard. calling him a rat and a liar. since 2019, cohen has not only continued to tell all in interviews, podcasts, and his own books and podcasts. he's remained consistent in his story, perhaps the most consistent of anyone regarding these events. and on monday, he will begin

telling that story again to the 12-member jury in trump's hush money election interference trial in new york city. perhaps the most anticipated witness in this case. it is expected that he will remain on the stand for most of the week, and is one of only two remaining witnesses for the prosecution. it's expected that when trump's lawyers get their chance to cross-examine cohen, they will try to do to him what they tried to do to stormy daniels, attacking his credibility and going on the attack. expect them to call him a liar and a criminal and someone who can't be trusted, but the problem is, he lied but for trump. he committed crimes, for trump. and the reality is, just about everything cohen will likely say next week will have already been corroborated through documentary evidence and other witness testimony provided over the past three weeks. that is what we saw today in the courtroom with multiple witnesses who were brought in to verify various pieces of

evidence likely to be used next week. there were analysts for at&t and verizon brought in to authenticate phone records relating to cohen's cell phone and that of keith davidson, stormy daniels' former lawyer and former trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberg. two paralegals were brought in to testify about some of them-president trump's social media postings that prosecutors say were an effort to influence cohen and other people he was concerned could cause him legal problems. they also introduced phone and business records including a summary chart of the 11 invoices, 12 vouchers and 11 checks that make up the 34 business records prosecutors allege were falsified, which brings us back to where we started, to michael cohen. he may very well be trump's most dangerous hire because he's the witness who knows everything, where the proverbial bodies are buried and who buried them. and trump knows it. joining me is lisa reuben, and

andrew weissmann, msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. thank you both for being here. lisa, did i properly summarize what happened in court today? >> you did. it was a not very eventful day. and yet, a consequential one at the same time. summary witnesses, as andrew probably knows better than just about anyone, are really effective vehicle for helping the jury understand lots of data that otherwise they would have to synthesize and compile themselves. summary witnesses is what allows you to connect the dots, sometimes in a helpful visual format. that's what happened today. that one exhibit that shows the 34 different documents that are alleged to have been falsified and which count of the felonies allege they correspondent to and whether they're a ledger or a check or an invoice, count on the jury to rely upon that and look at it again and again as they deliberate. that's the sort of thing that will be an immensely helpful tool for them, even if it was dull for folks like me to listen

to in court. >> you didn't so we didn't have to. andrew, i kind of think of these cases, these trials, and tell me if i'm wrong as a former prosecutor, it's kind of like the 3-6-3 in the movie. you start the journey, you get these initial witnesses on. people like david pecker who set the stage and make it make sense. then you have the dynamic escalation, stormy daniels. you get to the heart of the thing he wanted to suppress, and you got that drama. now we get to the dynamic estrangement. this is him versus the guy who used to be his guy. they were building up to this moment. >> this is inherently dramatic. and we have so many examples in our history of this. i was thinking about john gotti from my background. john gotti, the boss of the gambino family, and his underboss. and enron, there was the chief financial officer who turned state's evident against the ceo, ken lay, and jeff skilling.

more recently, you talked about paul manafort. rick gates who was his number two flipping. there's something inherently dramatic. there's something where you have sort of a broken loyalty that goes on. you have to deal as a prosecutor with sort of those conflicted emotions of the witness. because they once were very close. but there's nobody, as you said, who knows the inside details better. but when you're dealing with somebody who's an insider in a sort of criminal conspiracy that means by definition they have baggage because they committed crimes with the defendant. so as we used to say, it cannot be the case when you're arguing to a jury, it cannot be the case that you get to commit crimes and then you say, but you called my conspirator to the stand so i can't be guilty because you can't believe that person. so the prosecution is doing what you're supposed to do, which is, as you said, they have amassed so much corroboration. i mean, to me, it's almost as if michael cohen doesn't say, you

know, we all anticipate, that would be the implausible thing. because i think in many ways the jury just wants to hear it. but they already know it. >> lisa, you have been in there every day. if you think about it, from the standpoint of the jurors, assess the job that the prosecution has done in telling the story? because they need to lay out the very -- there's lurid details but those aren't really the point. the sex wasn't the point. they had to prove these business records were falsified. how well have they done building up to tell that story. that's what michael cohen has to attest to? >> the falsification of the documents themselves, they have documented and papered extensively. however, think about it as making like a 12,000-piece jigsaw puzzle and those pieces are scattered all over the table now. when you ask how well have prosecutors drawn that narrative, it's had closing argument that's going to allow me to answer that question. all the pieces of the puzzle are on the table. whether the jury can connect

them yet is harder to say. particularly when they deliberately interrupted some of the duller testimony with some of the more fiery moments to make sure that the jurors stayed engage. for example, stormy daniels' testimony didn't come narratively in terms of chronologist. they interrupted the people who were testifying about the falsification of business records to bring you the story of stormy daniels. but i believe their building blocks are very much there. >> let's give a preview of what the jury -- we don't get to hear it. i'm incensed we don't get to hear this trial. so we're going to play you a little more. you who watch the show know we have had michael cohen on a lot. >> one of the things that i didn't want to be out there is, well, is michael cohen credible? well, everybody is entitled to have their opinion. i believe the answer to that is yes. but i don't even want that

question to come up. and so when you start doing -- when you start bringing documents and emails and text messages and other documentary evidence to the table, it's impossible for that statement not to be valid or validated. >> he's been listening to you, obviously. you have been saying this. everything he says, there's a pose of paper attached. they have put the paper in front of the jury in advance. >> yes. this is what -- that is absolutely true. and a good defense lawyer is going to nibble around the edges. and let me give you an example of a piece of baggage that is unusual and is going to be difficult, and i'm going to be fascinated to see how the prosecution deals with it. in the civil fraud trial where there was just a result against donald trump, michael cohen testified. to be fair, the judge said he was credible and said i find

against donald trump and find michael cohen told the truth. however, when michael cohen testified under oath, he said when i pled guilty to one of the crimes, i pled guilty to y lied. i lied to the federal judge when i said i was guilty because i'm not guilty. he then asked that federal judge to reduce his sentence so he's no longer on what's called supervised release. the judge says no because you either lied according to you, you either lied to a federal judge when you pled guilty or you were lying to the state judge, but they can't both be true. >> can that come into this case? >> yes. the reason is because his general credibility is at issue. but of course, the state's going to say, you know what, who cares? maybe he lied in one of those. he's corroborated here. >> by everything that's said. >> just because somebody has lied in the past doesn't mean he's lying now. and how you know that is every

single thing, they have done such a good job of pointing out all of the ways he's corroborated, including by evidence he couldn't have known existed. you know, he early on said, you know, i got paid double the amount, and they sent me the checks. this is how it was done. well, low and behold, allen weisselberg and jeff mcconney, the internal trump org financial people, wrote down notes of the conversation they were having that michael cohen was not part of. >> absolutely. >> and the bank statement, i might add. can i say one other thing? there are a couple things that michael cohen is going to say for which there aren't pieces of paper. the most important one of those is michael cohen testifying about a meeting that he and donald trump had in the oval office in february of 2017. michael cohen has been talking about that meeting since he testified before congress in 2019. but nobody else was there. and the reason we know that is because if anybody else had been there, that person would have shown up at this trial, and they

haven't yet. and so michael cohen is going to say, when i was in the oval office in february of 2017, donald trump assured me the checks were coming. that conversation is proof positive that donald trump knew that he was repaying me. he was in on the suppression of stormy daniels' story, and he was in on the way we were going to masquerade the payments. but there isn't a piece of paper for that. there's only michael cohen, which is why shoring him up on all the other things he has to say is so important, because if the jury says, well, there's corroborating evidence for x, y, and z. that one will make more sense. >> we're not letting these guys go. think about it during the commercial break f i was a juror, i would want to know why allen weisselberg is not testifying. i want you to explain to the audience. much more on the highly anticipated michael cohen testimony on monday. stay with us. how leaffilter is different from every other gutter protection on the market. with leaffilters, patented filter technology,

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okay, the whole reason we're here is because of this basic claim. >> mr. trump is a conman. he asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair and to lie about it to his wife. which i did. mr. trump directed me to use my own personal funds from a home equity line of credit to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign. >> today, donald trump sits in a

courtroom facing 34 counts of falsifying business records to make that happen. david pecker, the former ceo of american media ink and former publisher of "national enquirer" testified he, trump, and cohen engaged in an illegal conspiracy to catch and kill stories in order to influence the 2016 presidential election. he told prosecutors that he told trump and cohen, he would be the eyes and ears of the campaign and would notify cohen when there were issues. he then testified that a day after the "access hollywood" tape was released, he got a call about stormy daniels wanting to tell her story. he told his colleague, i don't want the "national enquirer" to be associated with a porn star. hope hicks testified that the campaign was in crisis mode and trump was looking to mitigate the damage, and since ami didn't want to buy the story, they made sure michael cohen could take care of it. stormy daniels' lawyer testified he was connected to cohen via

david pecker's deputy and read the text he got about it. connecting you both in regards to that business opportunity, spoke to the client this a.m., and they're confirmed to proceed. opportunity. so for those of you keeping track, cohen's first claim sure seems to be corroborated by three key witnesses and then there was this claim. >> what was the purpose of spreading the reimbursements to you over the 12 monthly installments? >> that was in order to hide what the payment was. i obviously wanted the money in one shot, would have preferred it that way. in order to be able to put it onto the books, allen weisselberg made the decision that it should be paid over the 12 months so that it would look like a retainer. >> did mr. trump know about this reimbursement method? >> he knew about everything, yes. >> how has that held up? pretty well, actually. the prosecutors were able to show that that very payment plan laid out in handwritten notes by former trump organization

controller jeff mcconney and former financial officer allen weisselberg. mcconney testified he was told by weisselberg trump was reimbursing his lawyer. a former accountant testified weisselberg was a person who had his hands in everything but would run financial decisions by trump. which leads to this. >> sitting president trump in the oval office for the first time. he says to me something to the effect of, don't worry, michael. your january and february reimbursement checks are coming. >> and yesterday, we heard from madeleine westerhoutwesterhout, personal testimony when he was president who testified his trump's personal signing of checks. back with me are lisa reuben and andrew weissmann. that is the case basically for it being an illegal sort of scheme. i want to hit you with just really quickly before you react to that, somewhat breaking news. i don't know why trump's truth social is breaking news, but he

tweeted out judge merchan refused to put a gag order on the truly out of control people. only the president, the presidential candidate, me, mistrial. thoughts? >> well, one of those people is a criminal defendant. and judge merchan made that point when this was raised saying, i don't have power over all of the united states. you are a defendant. that is why there is a gag order. and so that is the critical difference. also, just to be clear, nothing about that gag order prevents donald trump from making any and all claims about joseph biden, his administration, talking about politics. he can even and has attacked the judge and the lead prosecutor. the d.a. so this idea that it's like, you can run for office and not engage in attacking jurors and witnesses. shocker. >> and apparently, the judge has

asked michael cohen to refrain from doing interviews and talking. but again, he's not the one under the gag order. he already went to jail for this crime. they were actually in the crime together. that's a key point. >> the other key difference is one of these people has a track record of threatening people in ways that really jeopardizes their safety and the other does not or the other two do not, because the former president is talking both about michael cohen and stormy daniels. i'm not aware of any situation in which a person's life has been threatened as a result of something that michael cohen or stormy daniels has said publicly, but i'm very aware of people who have been indicted and arrested for making threats against people, including people who are and have administered trump represented cases. tanya chutkan, letitia james, judge arthur engoron. >> fani willis. >> multiple people under arrest and indictment for making threats about those people, as a result of the defendant's own statements here. it's a combination of the fact the judge has jurisdiction.

also, he has a track record here that's worth taking note of. >> by the way, if he wants to answer these people, he certainly could testify, couldn't he? he could get on the stand and refute them in person. but he ain't gonna do that, is he? >> this is such a donald trump tactic, which is he's happy to say things where there's no accountability. and that is the reason he didn't come into the mueller investigation, as i know all too well. we're still waiting even though he said he wanted to. didn't testify in either of the impeachment hearings. he wanted to say it's the perfect call and everything is great. refused to testify under oath about it. is refusing to try and delay every possible criminal trial. >> including this one. >> exactly. that's because if he wants to say, for instance, michael cohen is not telling the truth, or he wants to say, have his lawyers say in the opening, stormy daniels is not telling the truth. that's not evidence. you know what would be evidence of that? if he hopped on the stand and testified to it. until he does this, this is not

disputed. we have one person who said it under oath and we don't have counterevidence. >> let's preview what the defense is going do. shortly after getting caught in 2018, you will learn that michael cohen made a decision. his decision was to blame president trump for virtually all of his problems. he had been eventually disbarred as an attorney. he's a convicted felon, also a convicted perjurer. he's an admitted liar for many years going back before president trump became president, even before michael cohen started working for the trump organization. you'll learn michael cohen was obsessed with president trump. he's obsessed with president trump even to this day. that's what they're going to do, say he's obsessed with trump thoughts. >> can we go back to andrew's face. >> i'm like, obsessed with trump is not a particularly fruitful line. yes, it's fine to point out he has lied and he has lied under oath. it's not great when he's lying under oath to congress.

there is no reason that michael cohen had any personal advantage in doing that. >> in any of it. >> the only reason for that, which was lying about donald trump's businesses in russia, was to protect him. >> and every time they're like, michael cohen is a liar? i'm like, about what? michael cohen is a criminal. for who? >> that question, always the answer is donald trump. lisa reuben, thank you. andrew weissmann is sticking with us. coming up, i think we have seen this movie before. donald trump is doing his best to reboot the 2016 election forever and ever with the same old nefarious cast of characters and now paul manafort is back to haunt us all. that's up after the break. r the.

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many women in this country feel they can't afford their lives. their husbands can't afford to pay for the family's bills. they're going to hear the message. that's how we're going to appeal to them. >> paul manafort is back. that's his take of how donald trump's sexist attack on hillary clinton would go over at the republican convention in 2016. you remember manafort, who helped steal the ukrainian election for a putin ally. all before becoming trump's campaign chairman in 2016. the same guy who got sentenced

to nearly eight years in prison after robert mueller's team led by prosecutor andrew weissmann convicted him on bank and tax fraud charges. manafort also struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction. and who in 2020, a bipartisan senate intelligence committee report called a grave counterintelligence threat. revealing that during the 2016 race, he passed proprietary trump campaign information to a former business associate who was a russian intelligence officer, aka a spy. paul manafort was serving out his time at home due to covid, when donald trump pardoned him in his final weeks in the white house. trump also partered manafort's former business associate, roger stone, also convicted of multiple felonies. in march we learned trump was eyeing bringing back the grave intelligence threat manafort for yet another campaign role. now we're learning manafort has resumed his dark arts in a way that seems like a problem.

"the washington post" reports in the year since his pardon, he's quietly resumed his international consulting business, including an effort two years ago assisting the launch of a streaming platform in china, endorsed by the chinese government. and now, he's moving closer to a significant role at the republican national convention, expected to be involved in organizing the convention committees and helping to manage the party's platform process. because apparently 2016 will never end. >> back with me is andrew weissmann, and joining me is david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, what could go wrong bringing manafort wrong? >> a grave counterintelligence threat running your convention for you. absolutely nothing. but you know, this is kind of like a mob deal. you know, trump apparently wants to bring back because he went to jail for trump. andrew knows this better than i did, did not become a cooperating witness, and trump sees him, i guess, as a stand-up

guy. this stand-up guy, as "the washington post" reported, and as i also reported today, was working just two years ago after getting his pardon for this deal which was tied to the chinese regime and was based on working with a chinese telecom company that the trump administration has said was a national security threat because it was linked to the chinese military. so this is the guy, we have known this for decades now, right, andrew, who will do anything for a buck, but the fact that he's still in the running now to get back into the trump campaign, i want to say it's shocking, but actually it's not. >> no, it's not. andrew. just remind us please, this is something who has never cooperated. he never had a mea culpa. he went right to jail for trump. >> absolutely. big picture, in 2016, shame still mattered. in 2016 in august, he had to

resign because of the whole kerfuffle and the news about what he had done in ukraine and who he was working for and the problem of a so-called black book and the financial dealings. and it was too much of a liability. fast forward to where we are today. where just so everyone is clear, this is not -- there's no issue of like, oh, this is some witch hunt. he was somehow railroaded. a jury found him guilty of eight felonies. he then admitted, pled to, his own mouth saying i am guilty of a slew of other crimes, including working for foreign governments and operations without declaring it in violation of american law. but also tax fraud, bank fraud. i mean, just as the judge said, so many lies. now, it's acceptable to say, oh, you know who i want for my campaign to help coordinate to

do this? >> that guy. >> that person. leave aside all the china stuff. that's bad, but it's unbelievable, there's no shame. >> none at all. and david, i recall, i'm old enough to remember the one thing they changed in the platform with mr. manafort on the job was the plank in the republican campaign that said we support ukraine against russian aggression. that's the only thing they wanted changed. this guy at the time was passing information to a russian spy. dream with me. we have to start using our lurid imaginations. what on earth could donald trump want him to get into this time? >> but also remember, beyond what happened at the convention, paul manafort was working with his russian intelligence official friend during the campaign and later, after the campaign, to push a peace plan for ukraine. but it was a pro-putin peace plan that would give putin what he wanted in ukraine.

this was after he had taken over crimea. so manafort has this record of trying to influence donald trump on behalf of russia. or in the interest of russia. now he has a tie to a deal in china. they say he's no longer involved in this, but this guy clearly will do anything for a buck. and as the senate intelligence committee report, 2020, came out, bipartisan when marco rubio was chairing the committee, said he was talking to a russian intelligence officer who might have been involved in the hacking and leaking operation that the russians attacked the 2016 campaign over. so when trump calls it a hoax, says there's no collusion, you go to that report and type in paul manafort. he was working with at least one russian while he was the campaign chairman. so andrew is exactly right. we have gone into this territory where kind of nothing matters. and the very idea that you can bring in this self-confessed

felon who is being called a counterintelligence threat and who has done all this lobbying and sleazy work into the height of a presidential campaign, i mean, i don't know what that says about us as a country, but i know what it says about donald trump. >> doesn't say anything good. on another note, steve bannon, andrew, he went to an appeals court to try to overturn his conviction for defying the january 6th probe. he lost the conviction. he will probably spend the election behind bars. maybe there is justice and karma left in the world. >> for people who want to see justice and accountability, that was good news. it was a unanimous decision. bannon was sentenced to four months in jail. many think it's too low. but he has been not only found guilty, but it's been now affirmed on appeal. he might seek to try to play that out. it seems very unlikely at this point that the supreme court or the court of appeals will hear

it, so he is likely now to see the inside of a jail cell. >> well, unless he's buddies with clarence and alito, he might get a break. you never know. >> he needs three more, though. >> we'll see what happens. andrew, thank you for spending so much time with us. david corn, thank you both, my friends. >> coming up next, after gleefully promoting rfk jr. as a spoiler for biden, trump is now realizing rfk's candidacy may be siphoning off his anti-vaxx voters so he's panicking. stay with us. h us at bombas, we're obsessed with comfort. softness. quality. because your basic things should be your best things. one purchased equals one donated. visit bombas.com and get 20% off your first order.

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the fact is, he is a radical left person. so republicans, get it out of your mind that you're going to vote for this guy because he's conservative. he's not. i would even take biden over junior because our country would last about a year or two longer than it would with junior. >> oh, donald. poor you, honey. that was the former president last night, posting a close to five-minute rant, five minutes about rfk jr., and it sounds like he's getting a little nervous. a little concerned, a little anxious that the bizarro world member of the kennedy clan is pulling from his base. i wonder why. >> for those of you that want to vote because you think he's an anti-vaxer, he's not really an anti-vaxxer. that's only his political moment. >> when you look at the increasing ranks of anti-vaccine

maga republicans, those are the voters and potential voters trump is appealing to. those are the voters who make up his base. those are also the voters rfk jr. pulled from trump, someone who is anti-vaxx, anti-science. joining us now is basil smikle, and molly jung fast. i give it to you, molly. fox. >> they thought they had the perfect plan. because his last name was kennedy. and it was like, no one ever thought through past that. so then, they were like, all of the reasons he's famous are trump things. anti-vaxx, anti-science, totally weird. i mean, and so, and he also has a worm in his brain, which they left in. it's a dead worm. it's still in there. >> the thing about it is, if a worm gets into your brain and your brain cannot sustain it, and therefore it dies, it might say more about you than the

worm. that's all i'm saying. >> you know what, you're absolutely right. that's great wisdom. >> at this point, does the biden campaign need to start paying to get him on the ballot in every state? >> that would be a great strategy. i always thought rfk would pull from donald trump because of everything we talked about. he's always been that guy. this is not just this moment. he's always been that person. the fact he's even going to the sort of libertarian conference, convention, and is challenging donald trump to debate him at that cup vention. >> come on. >> on the flip side, those democrats supporting joe biden looked at covid, saw what donald trump did, and saw what joe biden did. >> yes. >> and said, you know what, government can work if you have the right people in charge. and that is the message that joe biden needs to bring. >> and covid is the reason that trump lost, because people went, oh, you killed 1 million people. on the other side, there's a way not to talk about this.

it's fun to talk about the pink floyd angle of him, it is a pink floyd song, but here's a way to not do it. this is a guy named mike conlin of georgia. you either die a kennedy with a hole in your brain or live long enough to become a kennedy with a hole in the brain. that was his tweet about this situation. he's the same guy who was cheering the ole miss frat boy making monkey sounds at a black woman. a winner. >> i'm shocked a white guy from the south is racist and anti-science. >> also, when the family gets on tv to say don't vote for this kid. >> the entire family. >> speaking of the south, joe biden is going to go to the south. he's going to the great state of georgia. it is a great state. he's going to be delivering the commencement at morehouse. it could get ugly, weird.

a lot of protests and they're not just at harvard, yale, and the ivies. it's also at the black ivies, at all of the different schools around the country, different schools. and in hbcus as well. two hbcus have canceled joe biden's u.n. ambassador from speaking. she's been canceled in two different colleges. xavier college being one in new orleans. >> i was at morehouse about a month ago and talked to students and faculty about this very issue. you know, they understand the assignment. the assignment is, there are two agendas that are available when they go vote. they're going to vote for a pro-rights agenda. they're going to vote for an agenda that martin luther king would have supported, but they also don't want to be used as props. they're very clear about that.

we need to take a hard look. don't come down here and use this as a prop without you helping us figure it out. >> the white house has a huge burden. he has the speech of his life in georgia. >> this is a guy that we have seen be behind and come from head. hbcus are such an important part of biden world and of america. they need them. we need them. we want to be a multiracial democracy. >> at this point, why doesn't he just say, i am running. the former prime minister said that then he should do it. >> interesting people in israel protesting everyday. >> he is the worst thing that has happened israel in his entire history. the worst prime minister ever.

let me play lindsey graham. why not? >> if we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the state of israel at a time of peril, we will pay a price. this is obscene and absurd. give israel what they need to fight the war they can't afford to lose. this is hiroshima, nagasaki on steroids. >> he didn't stop there. >> israels asked to turn the war fighting over to the united states. let us plan how to do this, not you. that is a huge mistake. i trust israel more than i trust -- . >> he is the black secretary of defense. >> this is now part of the standard line.

>> did not democrats save the funding to >> i have no idea what he is talking about. he didn't do this kind of investigation within his own party. >> the idea of -- the military is a standard thing that trumpets brought on. >> the goal has always been the same. they work together for freedom. my grandfather did it. this is what we do. we have a long history of working together and all the right wants to do. >> they don't even understand the movement. jewish students are a big part of it. a huge part of it. it isn't just palestinian kids of muslim kids in blackheads. you can't stop that movement by screaming at them. lindsey graham has no influence.

>> i had students take my class from the protest. if you center the student voice, they are protesting the war. >> there is a long history. the previous wars were not in their face every day. >> guess what we are going to do, play our favorite game when we come back. we come back. 's

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we made it to the end of another week. that means it is time to play our favorite game, who won the week? with me, you may not know, i don't know what any of them are. i am told to to go to 1st. i'm going to basil first. >> i have a holdup jeffries here. it is not in his job description but he is saving the job of republicans fear it seems as though he is the only thing holding government together. every time there's a problem on the other side of the aisle, they have to go to hakeem jeffries to settle the score. i don't know if that is in his job description. it is a lesson in leadership. >> future speaker. >> research shows there is this thing where if you are at the bottom the ticket can help the

top. it is called reverse cocktails. amanda littman had poehling. it shows a 2% bump if you have local candidates. that is why if you're watching this and freaking out, the school board and the dogcatcher , they can lift it up. >> you know my answer. you have talked to me of the last week you know i am obsessed with -- when i tell you, don't mess with the man that had a pulitzer. kendrick lamarr, won the week and the other guy should retire and let it go. that is it, thank you. tonight on all and.