workers, the labor costs will go up. >> your reporting said the head of security was actually told there were workers potentially working there in legal documents. >> that's right. one of the things the trump organization said is we didn't know. we didn't know there are all these people working for. they fooled us. we found this police report from back in 2011 where a bedminster p.d. cop and a suspect is an undocumented immigrant. the cop discovers this and tells the head of security, i'll here because you have an employee in this accident and here undocumented. nothing seems to have happened after that. >> thank you so much. appreciate you joining me tonight. thank you. that is all for "all in" this evening. catch me for "a.m. joy." thank you very much, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy friday. we'll start with an update on the story we have been covering since just about exactly this

time last night when we last left the million mile an hour on the blink wildly spring out of control carousal that's the news cycle now. jeff bezos, the founder of amazon.com and founder of "the washington post" just published what he says were the extortion threats he received from a supermarket tab loid to the president's campaign in 2016. the president's long-time law r lawyer, of course, is about to start a fairly long prison sentence for his role in the felonies that lawyer himself, michael cohen and federal prosecutors that worked that case put in writing, in court materials and said in court that the president himself was not just the beneficiary of that l

illegal payment scheme but directed the commission of those crimes for which michael cohen is going to prison. the other party who prosecutors say took part in the crimes was the supermarket tabloid and that escaped prosecution and its executives and officers escaped prosecution for their role in the felony scheme because they cooperated with prosecutors under terms that were laid out in this non-prosecution agreement, which prosecutors have since made public, and we can tell from this non-prosecution agreement that we can read that this tabloid cooperated with prosecutors to help them build that felony case that implicates the president and that is sending the president's lawyer to jail in order to participate with prosecutors in that in order to help them build their case. the tabloid itself had to come clean with the federal and empl

prosecutors, as part of the deal is off and that would mean everything they confessed to, all of it would lose its shield from prosecution. so last night, as we reported,

jeff bezos, owner of the washington post published what he says is his correspondence from that same tabloid. the senior editor telling mr. bezos, the tabloid will publish embarrassing naked pictures of him unless he does what they dema demand. after bezos went public, after that bizarre turn in our lives as americans which happened this time last night, today multiple news outlets reported that in fact, as we had anticipated last night, the federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york are now on this, the same prosecutors who did that deal with the tabloid, with american media, the parent company of that tabloid, the same prosecutors who did that deal and secured that cooperation as part of the prosecution of the felony charges involving the president's campaign, multiple news outlets report the same prosecutors are now reviewing this alleged extortion attempt

by the tabloid and its executives to see if that effort constitutes a crime, constitutes the sort of thing that would break the terms of that non-prosecution deal. if that non-prosecution deal has been breached because the tabloid committed a crime in this extortion effort or anything else they have done, then the non-prosecution deal will be off and everything that tabloid, its officers and employees provided to prosecutors along the course of this case will instantly become fair gail fme for an indictment officers or employees and on top of that, every piece of information they provided to prosecutors as part of that earlier cooperation effort, everything they handed over, every single thing they told them will be presumed admissible in court against them. so you think about like being caught up in something like this. on the one hand, you're excited to get a cooperation deal,

you're excited to get a non-prosecution agreement but the terms of those kinds of deals are ownerous and if you break those deals, everything is against you. the government, the prosecutors you make that deal with hold it over you. in a way that is almost impossible to fight against. so we could see this coming last night. but again, this is a big deal. multiple news outlets confirming that prosecutors in the southern district of new york are now pursuing this. and today the "wall street journal" also added some really important reporting on another big piece of this and this is the part of this story i think a lot of people felt like oh, that's too hard to understand or that's too complex or part of this that i don't get. i'll set that aside. today the "wall street journal" made it super obvious and plain because today the "wall street journal" described efforts by the government of saudi arabia to especially buy themselves

good western media coverage. to buy good western media coverage for themselves and bad western media coverage for their enemies. the "wall street journal" describes how the saudi government, in particularly, the saudi crown prince that took over the saudi government, they essentially have been lining up really lucrative well paid media partnerships with a bunch of western media outlets including bloomberg and vice and the independent and the u.k. and others. and that is really clarifying reporting today because there have previously been accounts that ami, the parent company of the supermarket tabloid that that's up in the trump campaign finance felonies now caught up in the jeff bay sezos thing, th are previous reports that company ami was working on a very similar sort of expensive deal with the saudi government, a very rich deal with the saudis, and that never really made sense. what would the saudis want to do

with this tabloid and national enquirer company? is that that valuable to the saudi government? it makes a lot more sense in the context of the saudi government trying to buy itself western media partnerships of all kinds with all different kinds of media in order to improve their image in the west and hurt their enemies. if ami is just one piece of that effort by the saudi government, that makes more sense. and ami's efforts to pursue that kind of a lucrative partnership deal with the saudi government would explain why they started publishing weird stuff like this, this booklet, this we love saudi arabia, it's a magic kingdom booklet that ami started putting on the nation"national enquirer" supermarket checkout lines, used to looking over at the "national enquirer" thing and seeing terrible photo shop jobs that make angelina jolie look like an alien or all caps

how hillary clinton has 40 different diseases and she's definitely going to jail, that's what you're used to seeing on the cover of the "national enquir enquirer." instead there was a random glossy booklet how wonderful and hand some the saudi crown prince is. there is no ads. it's literally a gigantic brochure for how beautiful and wonderful saudi arabia is. it was weird but makes sense. if they were demonstrating the kind of product they could produce to promote the saudi crown prince and government if the price is right and one of the biggest problems that saudi arabia has in the western world, one of the biggest problems in the western media is the bipartisan and international outrage over the murder of a washington post journalist named jamal khashoggi who is a critic of the saudi government and murdered inside a saudi

consulate last year under circumstances that indicate saudi government involvement at the highest level. and no news outlet has beat the drum louder or harder against saudi arabia and the crown prince for that murder than the paper that employed that murdered columnist, "the washington post." which is owned by jeff bezos who has lately been threatened with naked picture, mass humiliation by this tabloid that is not only caught up already in a felony scheme to do illegal political favors for the u.s. president, they have recently been caught swimming backstroke in the lap of the saudi crown prince including reportedly getting help from the white house to facilitate the saudi contacts and giving the white house his blessing to an ami saudi arabia deal. ick. nice world we live in. covering our national politics

now feels like covering like our cane nscandals, this is our whie house now. this is our national politics. abc news reports tonight that donors to president trump's e reelection campaign have surprised been paying for something they might not have known they were paying for, the trump e reelection tap pain campaign is tapped by jared kushner to help pay for legal fees. presumably jared kushner could afford to pay for his own lawyers himself but why bother when you can have the little people pay those bills for you? jared kushner is the son and air of the kushner real estate family fortune and married into the trump family real estate r fortune but the people paying his legal bills are those buying

red baseball hits saying make america great again and inspired by push siayii america great again and inspired by push siaying e-mails to say e $5. the president will build the wall if you send $5. what those donations are actually going toward is, you know, putting another car in the garage of jared kushner's expensive lawyers, buying them for office space, giving those partners at those law firms bigger businesses for working for jared. that's what trump campaign donors are paying for. would you like to make your donation rekeoccur every month? maybe that's better than what we learned about the rnc, the national republican party. cnbc reports today that rnc funds are being used in an on going way to pay the president's long-time former body guard keith shiller $15,000 a month he's getting and for no

discernible reason. before the rnc chose the location for next year's republican national convention, the nominating convention, which will be in charlotte, north carolina, keith shiller was reportedly on the payroll for $15,000 a month because he was advising the rnc on security aspects how they told make their choice for which city and which site would be the most appropriate for the republican national convention. but that decision is done now. charlotte was announced as the choice for the convention last july but keith shiller is getting paid $15,000 a month every month for nobody quite knows what now. i mean, at least for awhile they tried to justify the payments with the rnc site selection thing but since then, like how do they even -- there snis not even a cover story and part of the reason this may be a problem for the rnc, keith shriller has been called to testify before

one party in congress investigating the matter but been called in to speak with the special counsel as somebody who was a body man and body guard for then candidate and then president trump, keith shiller might be an important witness. if the rnc is randomly paying $15,000 a month now in an on going way for no decembe discer work, there may be questions whether he's being paid in conjunction with his testimony or lack therefore. there is no inherent problem with somebody on the payroll getting called as witness but there might be a problem if someone is put on the payroll because they have been called as a witness. today roger stone made an unusual plea to the federal judge hearing his case in washington d.c. that judge is the same judge who has handled the case mueller brought against russian

intelligence officers from the gru and not a coincidence that roger stone's case is being handled by that same judge doing the gru case. specifically prosecutors indicted that his case is kpl explicitly related to the case number on the indictment and all those gru intelligence. they are related cases. roger stone and it sort of makes sense. this is a legal analysis but observing it but roger stone is accused of lying to congress about his interactions with the entity that distributed the documents stolen from the democratic party and clinton campaign by the gru. logically makes sense the judge hearing the case about the gru stealing that stuff, that judge

would also end up hearing the case about any potential american involvement in disseminating the stolen material or lying to congress to try to obscure that. well, roger stone and his lawyers today contested that in court arguing that this shouldn't be the judge on his case and his case should never have been linked to that indictment of those russian military officers in the gru. they argued that there is no link between these cases and quote, there is no nexus of any kind between these two cases. and again, i'm not a lawyer and don't have special insight into this case but might i suggest that roger stone hill selmself previously suggested actually there is quite a nexus between himself and that other case about the gru like for example when the gru indictment was unsealed and he immediately volunteered to multiple news outlets at the time of the indictment, hey, that's me. hey, i'm in that, i'm the u.s. person whose mentioned in that mueller indictment of all those

gru officers. literally when all those gru guys were charged by mueller, roger stone came out to say to anyone who would listen that he wanted everyone to know he's in that indictment. that u.s. personal in that indictment, that's him. i'm in that. i'm part of that now that he's been formally charged with multiple felonies and prosecutors agree and say yes, sir, you are in that indictment, you are related to that russian military intelligence case, today his lawyers tried to tell the court he has nothing to do with it. there is no nexus here. why is he being mentioned in congestion with that case? another filing in federal court today in the case of maria

butina and on behalf of the russian government ahead of the 2016 election. maria butina was arrested and charged last summer in july in december she pled guilty and agreed to start cooperating. today her defense team and prosecuto prosecutors, both sides of her case jointly filed this request with the court to delay her next appearance and delay any move toward the se tentsing in her case telling the judge today the defendant's cooperation is not yet complete and the parties are not prepared to advice the court about potential sentencing dates. so she was due in court and the defense prand prosecutors are asking the judge to delay the appearance to allow further time for cooperation until february 26th, which is two and a half

weeks from now. oddly specific amount of time. i'm not sure what they expect to happen from now and two weeks from now that will allow her case to go forward but i'll note they are putting her case off until february 26th, house intelligence just put off michael cohen's testimony until february 28th. as of february 28th, it will be clear he can go. what's going to happen between now and february 26th and february 28th? i don't know. of course, all day long today, the acting attorney general matthew whitaker testified in open session if you glued your eyeballs to the whitaker hearing, you knew what it was like. if you didn't spend the entire day watching, i'll give you a cool, crisp, refreshing taste of what that hearing was like today. ah. i don't know if matthew whitaker

was especially thirsty or conscience of hydration. i always forget to drink water. i wish i was this good. one of our producers pulled just the clips of him drinking water and it goes on forever. it's like a lusong for your kidy health. at one point he had three bottles going at the same time and later in the hearing, there was a brand change because he drank all there was of one kind of water so they had to melt a new glaciers for him and new label. if you were worried he would run out entirely and depleted all of the stash before the end of the hearing, up pops another stash. that's almost empty. there is more. don't worry. hydration -- here comes more. yeah, situation is fine. he's going to be okay. we learned why the took the acting attorney general to answer questions before congress because he had most of them

ahead of time. every time mr. whitaker was asked to give a simple answer to a direct question, what we found today was that a lot of extra stuff came out, the same stuff over and over and over again. >> thank you for that question. congressman, thank you for that question. congress man, i'm not going into specifics of the briefing. i'm not going to characterize that investigation. i'm not going to comment about my conversations with the president, congressman, i can understand that this is an important issue to you. congressman, i can tell this is an important issue for you. i don't have visibility as i sit here today. as i sit here today, i don't know off the top of my head. as i sit here today, i have no idea as i sit here today. >> can you guess what was on his flash cards for prep? as i sit here today, i can tell you how he hoped to get out of answering questions important to you, congressman.

we did get a half type and to get to that, you had to boil off a ton of nonsense. here is the reduction of actual information in matt whitaker's testimony today. to get there you have to cut out non-sense water drinking so what we did here is just cut this down to the question whitaker was asked and what he got around to saying in answer to the question. >> yes or no, since your appointment as acting attorney general, have you been briefed on criminal or counter intelligence matters within the special counsel's per view. >> i have been briefed. >> at any point have you communicated any information you learned in the briefing to president trump? >> to answer your question, i have not talked to the president of the united states about the special counsel investigation. >> the answer is no, thank you. any other white house official? >> i have no talked about the investigation with senior white house officials.

>> have you been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel. >> there is no event, no decision that is required me to take any action and i have not interfered in any way with the special counsel's investigation. >> so, bottom line, matthew whitaker says he has been briefed on the mueller investigation. he says he hasn't told the president about that briefing. nor has he told other senior officials at the white house about that briefing and he says he hasn't interfered with the special counsel's investigation and other than that, he wouldn't answer anything else. so that's it. here is your six hours back. that said, i should mention there was actually one other thing that we did learn from him today. you might remember what matthew whitaker's job was before trump named him acting attorney general, part of what he did to prepare himself before becoming president trump's choice to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer, part of his preparation for that job is that he was associated with a company

called world patent marketing. world patent marketing was ordered to pay a $26 million fine for being a giant scam. it's reportedly the subject of an active fbi investigation as potential criminal fraud scheme. today matthew whitaker confirmed for the first time he is recused from any on going doj investigation into that company that he was affiliated with. he said quote, i am recused from the investigation into that company so we learned that today, as well, if they end up arresting everything associated with that firm. he as attorney general will not be called upon to sign off on his arrest. good to know. it's basically been kind of a rock them, sock them robot news day friday today. a lot of developments and news breaking all day long. tonight, of course, one of the things we're watching close is the now exploding scandal in virginia politics as the

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we just got this tape in tonight from virginia from the public library in arlington, virginia. this is patrick hope who is tonight calling for the lieutenant governor of the state of virginia, a fellow democrat, calling on him to step down or else. >> the lieutenant governor is facing multiple credible allegations of sexual assault. i believe these women. he needs to resign immediately. should the lieutenant governor fail to do so on monday, i tend to introduce articles of impeachment on lieutenant

governor justin fairfax. >> this time last week, we were tracking the avalanche of calls for the democratic governor of virginia ralph northam to resign in the wake of the racist pictures in his medical school yearbook. there were initial expectations that northam would have to resign but he thus far has not and he reiterated that he will not resign and he will not consider resigning. now tonight, it is lieutenant governor justin fairfax, also a democrat, also now buried under an avalanche of calls for resignation because today a second woman has come forward alleging that the lieutenant governor sexual assaulted her and the first allegation against lieutenant governor was from a woman who says he sexual assaulted her in 2004 at the democratic national convention. the second allegation today was from a woman who says he assaulted her while they were both under graduates at duke university four years earlier in 2000. so in terms of the landscape

here, we spent the last week watching these calls for the governor, ralph northam to resign, right? wide spread calls, both parties, democrats in virginia and across the country but until now the issue on the lieutenant governor, fairfax was fluid with the lieutenant governor being completely firm in the public statements denying any wrongdoing, not even entertaining the idea of resigning or there being anything wrong with his conduct whatsoever. very few people in the democratic party were coming out and saying out right that fairfax had a big enough problem here, that he definitely needed to go. that is what it was before tonight but that has now all changed tonight. because tonight there is a joint statement from the democrats in the virginia house and the democrats in the virginia senate calling for lieutenant governor fairfax to go. it is short and sharp and it lands like a punch in the gut. quote, due to the serious nature of these allegations, we believe

lieutenant governor fairfax can no longer fulfill his duties to the commonwealth. he needs to address this as a write vis private citizen. the time has come for him to step down. full stop. that is a big change in this story. with that joint statement from every democrat in the house and senate, from every democrat in the virginia legislature, that is a change. add growing list of democratic u.s. senators and the former governor of virginia, democratic governor terry and member of justin fairfax' only team that helped him just get elected lieutenant governor. we don't know what will happen in terms of the evolution against fairfax that continues to deny everything. but the political landscape has changed a lot when it comes to his ability to stay in office and we'll have a live report coming up from virginia next. stay with us. coming up from virginia next stay with us

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amid wide spread calls for the governor of virginia to resign amid racist photos in his yearbook and the lieutenant governor facing a second allegation of sexual assault, the first one from a woman who says he assaulted her in 2004 and another woman says he assaulted her in 2000 when under graduates, amid this turmoil in virginia about the democratic leadership of that state, we're still watching the reactions and the responses roll in tonight, lieutenant governor himself has

denied the latest allegations like he denied the first allegations. he's calling this a vicious and coordinated smear campaign orchestrated against him. just in the last pfew minutes, bobby scott called for an investigation and says if the allegations are true, the lieutenant governor should step down immediately and this is just in, actually, the virginia legislative black caucus a few minutes ago says this, quote, in light of the most recent sexual assault allegations against lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the virginia legislative black caucus believes it's best for the lieutenant governor fairfax to step down from his position. we remain steadfast in our conviction that every allegation of sexual assault or misconduct be treated with the utmost seriousness while we believe that anyone accused of such a harmful act must receive the due process prescribed by the constitution, we cannot see it in the best interest of the commonwealth of virginia for the lieutenant governor to remain in his role. as i mentioned, this is a fast

developing story tonight. joining us now is a member of the house of delegates and house democratic caucus chair. delegate herring, thank you for joining us. this story is moving very quickly. >> thank you for having me, rachel. it is a difficult time. >> let me get your top line r x reaction. let's not talk about governor northam for a second and the allegations against him. what is your overall assessment about the allegations and how he's handled these allegations thus far? >> right. my assessment is, you know, victims need to be heard. they are very serious allegations. while the governor is awarded due process, he can serve while that is happening. remaining in office is not good, not good for the commonwealth and he needs to step down, step

aside because it's just bringing harm to the commonwealth and we have people who are still governing in our chambers, right and almost finished with session, and we're working hard and that house chamber and this serves as a distraction and we need to get back to the task at hand. >> you are the democratic caucus chair in the house of delegates. i wonder if you could give us any window into the decision making process, into what is happening among you and your colleagues to come up with this decision today to put out this blunt, short statement from all democrats in the house and the senate in the legislature calling for him to leave his post. what was that process like? were those discussions like? >> i can just tell you this, is that we take the allegations seriously and we want to also be consistent, many of us have called out kavanaugh, right, when there are allegations.

because we believe in preserving the integrity of the government institutio institutions, courts, legislatures and that's most important. i also go back to the task at hand where we've just passed a budget. we're working on a tax issue in the legislature and so we need to focus on the task and work ahead of us. and looking forward for virginians. there is so much to do. >> this story about lieutenant governor fairfax is obviously not happen incoing in a vacuum. the raye racist photos and the way he handled it has not softened the wide spread calls for his rest neigh. he tonight is saying he absolutely will not resign and not entertaining that as a possibility. how do you weigh these against each other? should they be handled as separate matters that should be

considered independently or are these one story to you in terms of how to do what's right for the state of virginia? >> well, they are certainly separate issues, separate matters. one is race and one is sexual assault. each man has their own decision to make. but i ask the this of them and i have -- i'm glad i have this opportunity. it is not what is best for you, but it's what is best for our commonwealth. there are children who go to school that still need to be fed, facing food shaming in the cafeteria. they don't have food at lunch. there are virginians working hard every day, and we deserve to give them our best, so it is not what they want but what is best for our commonwealth. >> charniele herring, the chair of the house democratic caucus amid these fast-moving developments tonight, thank you for helping us understand what is going on. >> again, what we're following,

breaking news the black legislative caucus in virginia and the democrats in the state legislature in the house and senate are calling on the lieutenant governor of virginia to resign as he faces a second serious sexual assault allegation. he is denying any wrongdoing in regard to either of these allegations, but it does feel like the walls are closing in on him in terms of his political support in the state. as of right now, both he and governor ralph northam are resisting and rejecting all calls for resignation. much more tonight. very busy news night. stay with us. .

the execution was scheduled for 6:00 p.m. and dominique ray had one request. he asked to have his spiritual advisor by his side instead of the chaplain. he wanted to honor his muslim faith as he died. to make sure that the very last

words he uttered on earth were a testimony to his faith. the prison warden said no to that. alabama's prison policy is that yes, you can have a member of the clergy there with you when you die when prison staff kill you, but by member of the gl clergy, they only mean a christian chaplain because the only member of the clergy they allow is the christian chaplain employed by the prison and they argue that this is for security reasons. when dominique found out this would be the circumstances of his death, his lawyer filed a legal challenge. ray and his lawyer said by not allowing the muslim advisor, the prosecutor treated inmates differently according to their faith. it favored christian inmates by allowing their faith leader by nobody else of any other faith. the federal appeals court

agreed, or at least they stayed that execution so they could consider it. that happened on wednesday of this week, two days ago but lawyers for the state of alabama filed an emergency petition asking the u.s. supreme court to step in and let the execution move forward and last night in a 5-4 decision they did that. the justices voted to let the execution go forward as planned. justi justice kagan wrote a three-page descent quoting from that. she says this court -- excuse me, today this court reverses that decision as an abuse of discretion and permits mr. ray's execution to go forward. given the gravity of this situation, that decision profoundly wrong. the clearest command of the establishment clause this court has held is that one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another but the state's policy does just that. under that policy a christian prisoner may have a minister of

his faith accompany him to the execution chamber to say his last rights but whether islam, judaism or any other, he may not die with a minister of his faith by his side. that treatment goes against the establishment clause's core principle of denomination neutrality. dominique ray was executed in alabama at 10:12 p.m. without his spiritual advisor. could have had a chaplain because only christians get their faith leader and last night the supreme court blessed that. joining us is senior editor and legal correspondent of slate.com. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i i'm n'm not a lawyer. i don't know anything about the law. this strikes me as third grade level outrageous. like a third grader learning about the constitution and the establishment clause and not

being an official religion in the united states and no discrimination allowed on the basis of faith, you would invent this as a case to show. >> i have to say nothing shocks me, really. this shocked me. this is stomach churning because this is the supreme court that held itself out when you think about lhobby lobby, the sisters the cake baker. >> religious freedom. >> and the core sole value we care about, nobody's religious freedom gets quashed by the state no matter what the other third party interests are. here the only third party interest is that the prison wants to kill him really fast. that's it. that's the value here. not the health and gay couples in colorado being allowed to marry. no, the prison wants to go fast. that's the value. the kounvalue and that's good enough, that's good enough and this is not frosting a cake, rachel.

this is a person's exit from life wanting the pastor of his choice to be with him. >> having been advised by the prison in terms of my reading about this case, having been advised that allowed to have a member of the clergy with him. not learning until just days before they were priming the chamber to kill him that in his case that would not include a member of his own faith. that would include a member of a completely different faith and that was his only choice. he didn't know that until the end. >> he said, can i see the written policy. they wouldn't show him the written policy. to the extent he knew anything, he knew what you just said is i get someone of my own faith. he did what he had to do at january which is file the appropriate motions and the court said too late. should are done this in november. >> that it was too late even though there was no way he could have known about this. >> they felt he should have known about it. >> it's staggering. >> i want to ask you about

another major ruling in the supreme court. 5-4 decision. that was a bit of a surprise especially the way it fell on abortion rights and law in louisiana that was designed to make it very hard for any abortion provider to do business in the state. what do you make of this ruling? >> it was another stay. we don't have any decision on the merits. we have the same thing. we have an emergency stay application that comes up to the court and the court gives us a one pager. again, we don't know anything on the merits. we know in 2014 louisiana passes this admitting privileges law. it's identical to the one struck down. >> the texas law. doctors need admitting privileges at a hospital 30 miles away. this was the thing in 2016, the supreme court said this helps women not at all. it adds a tremendous burden and

so go away. yet, louisiana and the district judge in this louisiana case 112-page findings of facts establishing the same thing. this doesn't help women's health. these doctors is tried to get admitted privileges. they can't get them. clinics with close. probably two clinics will close. lit it will be one doctor left. one clinic in the state of louisiana. he says i'm going to enjoin this thing. it can't go into effect. the appeals court that covers texas and louisiana, this september said no, we're good with it. he was wrong. this is really super different from texas. he is sort of wrong on facts and the doctors didn't try hard enough to get admitting privileges. we're on. the supreme court surprised a lot of people. john roberts voting with the liberals. they didn't decide to take the case. they'll probably have to take the case but at least the law is

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thanks for being with us on fairly wild friday news night tonight nap will do it for us now. we'll see you again on monday. good evening. i have so many questions but it's friday. i'll let you go home. >> god bless you. see you monday. >> see you soon. we begin with breaking news tonight on these explosive blackmail allegations against trump ally, david pecker by jeff bezos. one of the daily best editors who has been all over this story is here with me momentarilmomen. the context i want to go through. as you probably know as you're watching the news, there's serious implications in all of this for donald trump. today, bloomberg news reports the allegations against trump ally david pecker could blow up his