that verdict in the hulk hogan case, that was almost a year ago. gawker, indeed, as designed, went bankrupt, disappeared off the face of the earth last year. in the meantime, last year, peter thiel took on a prominent role in the donald trump presidential campaign, including speaking at the republican national convention, while gawker was in the midst of firing all of its staff and its founder was filing for personal bankruptcy. after trump won the election, peter thiel reportedly got to work helping to staff up the new administration and helping organize meetings for the new president and the tech community, his old allies in silicon valley. at one point, peter thiel potentially floated himself as a potential supreme court nominee. oh, really, that wasark day. even tugh he hn't taken on a formal job title in the new administration, he did give the new president one very granular, very specific, very human gift. he gave him his lawyer. he gave the president that lawyer who he used to disappear gawker, the one he used to invent this novel aggressive

hulk hogan in the 1980s and 1990s was well known as a wrestler. he was probably the highest-profile star they had. i don't know how you quantify that. but that's how it seemed to me as a skid. but a wrestling career can't last forever and even though he was a huge deal in the '80s and '90s, maybe even a little further than that, he had faded from the spotlight for a while when in 2012 he briefly became famous again for not wrestling but, forgive me, for a sex tape. the web site gawker, which was proudly pro fine, they did a lot of celebrity coverage and good serious journalism but gawker in 2012 desided to publish snippets of a tapenhich hulk hogan could be seen having sex with someone who was not his wife who was, in fact, somebody else's wife and no, i'm not going to show you images from the tape, you can use your imagination or not, i don't know if you've eaten. it existed. hulk hogan had his personal lawyer threaten gawker and tell them they needed to take that tape down but gawker didn't take it down. but then lucky for hulk hogan it turned o

this for instance was the hulk hogan theme song. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> hulk hogan was an all amere karngs can, heommercials to eat right and take their vitamins. he was a good guy. if you are going to have good guys, you need to have bad guys. on the way other end of the spectrum from hulk hogan, among the greatest villains, the million dollar man, he was supposed to be hated by wrestling fans, hulk hogan's theme song about being an honorable american. this was the million dollar man's theme song. ♪ ♪ everybody's got price everybody's gonna pay because the million dollar man always gets his way ♪ >>> ted d icibiase would stick $100 bill in his mouth after beating him in the ring. >> you are a pretty young boy to bounce a basketball $10015 times in a row to kick the ball away after the 14th bounce. and by not paying off, ted di a dibiase you broke his heart. >> as heroic as hulk hogan was, that is how villainous the million dollar man. today is his 58th birthday, happy birthday, mr. million. that troublesome rich guy leg g leg a see. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me.

that's how big the man was. >> hulk hogan? >> very large.erful man. >> you're a big guy. >> yeah, i'm above average. >> 6'4", armed, a trained police officer, inside a police car. the 18-year-old, he says, he struggled with is also 6'4", but to the officer, he seemed like hulk hogan and the officer comparatively was a child. to the officer, that young man seemed like a demon. he told the grand jury after he started shooting brown, the officer said he kept shooting shots at him because of the way michael brown looked to him after he started shooting him. he said the teenager, after he was shot, looked like he, quote, he was almost bulking up to run through the shots. like it was making him mad that i'm shooting at him. bulking up to run through the shots. officer darren wilson was afraid for his life, he says. he says that was his defense. he thought he met hulk hogan a larger than life threat he could stop only by shooting, and even then this demon he saw would keep going through the shots by somehow bulking himself up to make himself immune

he thought that he met hulk hogan. a larger-than-life threat.nd even then, that he would somehow bulk himself up to make himself immune to the shots because he was so angered by him. gunfire only made him angry, this demon. we are two decades out from the super-predator panic from the mid-'90s. we now know that that was just a racial fantasy. the fact that that was two decades ago and there hasn't been a policy since doesn't mean that that fantasy is still gone. when you've only have one hand, you're not doing anything as fast as you used to. do you need help? what is that? swiffer dusters. i can extend it so i don't have to get on the step stool. it's like a dirt magnet just like my kids. i think swiffer definitely gave me some of that time back. ugh... ...heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. he's just like you. except .... he's in a commercial. he got

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i can't say what a demon looks like. >> hulk hogan, a demon.terizations, does that sound anywhere like your son? teenagers can be different. but does that sound like the son you knew? >> no. that doesn't sound like anyone that i know. >> why do you think he would say that? >> because it sounds good to him. he wanted to add insult to injury. he is disrespectful. >> michael's death sparked a movement all over the country. the president is talking about it. michael would have said what about this? if he saw the president of the united states and people all over the country holding up his name? >> i think he would be overwhelmed and ecstatic, happy and eager to do something more to keep them talking about him. >> what do you think his legacy would be? what do you hope he would be remembered for? >> i hope he would be remembered for the good and everything that we present to you about our son. because no one knew him as well as we did. and everybody thinks that they know him and they don't. they really don't. >> mr. crump, before we go, the hulk hog

he thought that he met hulk hogan. a larger-than-life threat. and even then, that he would somehow bulk himself up to make himself immune to the shots because he was so angered by him. gunfire only made him angry, this demon. we are two decades out from the super-predator panic from the mid '90s. we now know that that was just a racial fantd sill. the fact that that was two decades ago and there hasn't been a policy since doesn't mean that that fantasy is still gone. that that fantasy is still gone. .. a 10,000 gallon water fish tank. otherwise... he do what you do. drives to work, listens to his music, ...get's caught up in a wire-based headphone situation. uhmm. i know you seen that. so like you... he went and did something about it. and now he walks into work like a boss... like who? you. there you go aj. exclusively at verizon. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours... and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? aleve, proven bet

>> do you remember that, the hulk paying back a favor in the real world that trump spent so much timeof pro wrestling? we are joined by former vh1 programming chief and reality show guru michael hirschorn, who writes, can't explain this election. writing, quote, the final ratings won't be in until november. >> i did a show with hulk for five seasons, and he was the nicest guy. so i don't know what happened there. >> okay. well, explain. >> well, i think -- i think, you know, the reason i wrote the piece was to sort of think about under any normal understanding of politics or why someone would succeed in becoming president or not, trump should be 20, 30 points under water. why is he not? why are the things that used to matter not important anymore? and i think we've moved into like a weird time where politics has always been downstream from culture and culture now is in this weird place where things that are real and things that are fake are kind of intermingling. trump does fantastically well in that space, and anyone who seems like a traditional old-school politician, looks kind of o

hulk hogan and president of the ufc, dana white. you may know white from the 2022 incident caught on camera when he physically assaulted his wife at a nightclub in mexico. and kid rock of course. he also played the 1996 rnc. with the performance of a nearly 25-year-old song. that is the new republican party. mckay coppins is a staff writer for the atlantic who joins us live. george conway is a conservative lawyer and former republican here with us in new york. mckay, we will start with you because you are in the arena right now. it is an important part of the unity that yes, there is unity in the republican party. it is unity born of a successful purge of any remnant of dissident factions. >> trump's supporters and allies are pretty proud of that fact. conversations i was having just hours ago with some of the delegates, they were kind of saying to me, i am sure glad mitt romney is not here. they were like i don't think he would fare too well here and then they started listing off some of the same republicans you just named and were

charles harder was the lawyer in the hulk hogan case when hulk hogan sued the website gawker.les harder, lawyer, and hulk hogan, they prevailed in that lawsuit against gawker. they won a $140 million judgment against gawker, a judgment that bankrupted that entire media company and shut down gawker.com. and you may remember, what we learned at the end of that case. which is where that case came from. silicon valley billionaire peter teal secretly financed the hulk hogan lawsuit with the expressed purpose of destroying gawker and put it out of business because peter teal had a personal grudge against gawker. he didn't like the way they covered him and he's a billionaire so he used his limitless resources to drive them out of existence. and per teal is w a member of donald trump's presidential transition team. he's the guy who convened the -- his new bosses round table of tech executives a few days ago where the president-elect thanked him for doing such a good job of picking and choosing which companies got to come to that meeting. the fis laird dee of the united states is using

hulking bodyguard watching his every move.e's ron paul in a car, hulking bodyguard just outside of car, checking everything out. ron paul's bodyguard in 2012 was so excellent, so omnipresent, he was essentially part of the presidential ticket. you want me? you get him too, likely at 18 inches or less away from me. that was 2012. this is now. hey, you look familiar! that is rand paul, son of ron, walking offstage after announcing this week that he is running for president. not dad this time, him. and yes, he has apparently inherited dad's awesome bodyguard. perhaps the paul family got him on a long-term multi-generational lease. so, having a very experienced ginormous personal bodyguard at your disposal, who has already been in the trenches of a presidential campaign, that is one good thing for rand paul, about taking dad's entire presidential campaign apparatus. but with the good also comes the bad. during rand paul's presidential announcement event, you might have noticed that the camera kept panning up to the bleachers on st

he has hulk hogan and both of them were at the republican national convention.actor dean cain and hercules actor kevin sorbo and dennis quaid of parent trap same. i can't speak from anybody else but i come from a place called 2024. there we were calling all of those dudes washed. the big question is what is it worth?'s how much of a difference can these endorsements make in a presidential election regardless of how popular or relevant a person may be elsewhere? and they said if you are one of the most famous influential women in the world, you may be able to sway the presidential election a little and if not the effect may be a bit more limited and am not talking about taylor swift. we will talk about her in a minute. i am talking about oprah, who back in 2007 endorsed barack obama. >> for the very first time in my life, i feel compelled to stand up and to speak out for the man who i believe has a new vision for america. i am not here to tell you what to think. i am here to ask you to think. seriously. >> oprah winfrey is an example of an endorsement that made a

. >> i get that, susan, but hulk hogan? it felt more like, last call in vegas, then it did, you know, showtime on the main stage here at radio city. it did not seem like trump was at the top of his game last night? >> the hulk hogan thing was in some respects a very fitting opening to the finale of this convention because it was a joke, it was a circus. and some people might buy tickets to that show, my guess is that most people wouldn't buy tickets to that show. it's not taylor swift, and it's probably not a majority either, of young people or people in this country who want to go to that show. i did find, it was an interesting contrast in this year's convention from eight years ago say in cleveland, when there was still a sense of a party whose future and soul was up for grabs. there was a fight still on at the republican convention back when trump became the nominee. ted cruz gave that speech and said vote your conscience and said wouldn't endorse trump and then you have this time, it was a less friction filled atmospher

has, and at the end of the cross-examination, this pseudonym, david dennison, it was all used for hulk hogan. we'll get the significance of that in a moment. yasmin vossoughian, thank you very much. joining us now, former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock, and msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian. so redirect is beginning. steinglass is questioning davidson. we'll get updates as they come in. let's end where i ended. this is what you brought up coming to air that this pseudonym, david dennison was used in the past. does that matter? >> it does matter. if the prosecution is saying we know this is donald trump, that was his pseudonym, it apparently was also hulk hogans. what the whole cross-examination, redirect, and probably a re-cross was to show that this witness is not very credible or not likable, and i'm surprised that the prosecution didn't bring up some of this witness's bad acts on the direct examination. like, for instance, he was involved in the federal investigation, involved with what he did as hulk hogan. that could have come up under direct examination s

it turns out that hulk hogan had help.l was secretly funding hulk hogan's if aviation of privacy lawsuit against gawker. teal said the company built its business on humiliating people for sport. gawker media president spoke out for the first time about it on cnbc. >> it becomes a story about the power of the billionaire class, particularly the power of the billionaire class in silicone valley. they have money. they have wealth. they have anonymity. they have special purpose vehicles. they have offshore accounts. they exercise their power from behind the sense. it's more important than ever to have an independent -- >> let's bring in our legal expert. i have a couple of things to ask you about. let's start with what we just presented. so gawker. secretly funding this lawsuit. that's allowed, right? he can be behind the scenes funding. >> this is technically legal but a bomb shell. i've been covering this case for years now, hulk hogan suing gawker in several venues and then won $140 million enough to bankrupt the company. g

by state and federal authorities, extortion of hulk hogan?says, that's true. by 2016, you had familiarized yourself with where that line was. you did everything you could to get as close to the line without crossing it. davidson says, i did everything i could to make sure my activities were lawful. they talk about lindsay lohan, you represented someone who leaked treatment of her at a rehab facility. you had connections with tmz at the time. davidson says, yes, i did. you helped miss holland get paid in connection with that, with the lindsay lohan story. davidson said, i don't recall. she was your client at some point. davidson says, yes. you are describing a few different instances. then there's a point in which they become more contentious saying, fair to say your memory is a little fuzzy around many of these events? davidson says, i had over 1,500 clients in my career. goes on to say, i don't remember a settlement from 13 years ago. do you remember extracting another settlement from mr. sheen? davidson says, there was no extraction. you go

he's got kid rock and he's got wrestler hulk hogan.he republican national convention and, and he's also being backed by superman actor dean cain. kevin sorbo and dennis quaid of, wait for it, parent trap fame. i can't speak -- i come from a place of 2024 and their, we were recalling all of those dudes washed. but what is it actually worth? how much of a difference can these endorsements actually make in a presidential election, regardless of how popular or how relevant a person may be elsewhere? as vox puts it, as you are one of the most famous influential woman in the world, you may be able to sway a presidential election a little. if not, the effect might be a bit more limited. no, i'm not talking about taylor swift. we are going to talk about her in a minute, calm down. i'm talking about oprah winfrey, who, back in 2007, endorsed brock obama. -- barack obama. >> for the very first time in my life, i feel compelled to stand up and to speak out for the man who i believe has a new vision for america. i am not here to tell you what to t

. >> a racist rant lands hulk hogan in hot water. >> it's tough. >> "all in" starts right now. good evening from no i'm chris hayes. police today identified the two women killed in last night's shooting attack at a crowded point of view theater in lafayette, louisiana, where a gunman injured nine people 33-year-old jillian johnson played the ukelee in an all women country band. 21 yeerd mayci breaux starting radiology school her sister says breaux had taught her to be a good person. people are seeking an explanation for the violence, something to make sense of why it happened t. gunman john russell hauser who took his own life after the attack had a history of mental illness, described as a history of mental abuse. last night's attack marked the second time if six weeks a gunman opened fire in public dylann roof killing 19 african-americans in a church. mohammed abdullahazeez. now john russell hauser. these killers had different political beliefs and motivations and almost nothing in common except for two things. they were all men and they all had access to guns. yesterday in a

hulk.> yeah, let's try for the incredible hulk. that looks a little more macho. >> st. louis pummeled pittsburgh 13-0. the coach overheard saying to his players after he'll have to pump you up. >> i like to pump you up. >> right there. the cards are a game and a half back from first. >>> she has 17. she has cancer. she wants to meet tennis star roger federer. she waited a year and he gave her her wish. he flew her to london, even volleyed with her at wimbledon center court. she said later, quote, i love you and i will never, ever forget this day, end be quote. way to go. good guy. >> absolutely. >>> on the seventh inning stretch, got a hot dog, maybe a beer. nah, that's a snore. how about propose to your girlfriend? yeah, you. >> i love these stories. >> would you say yes? >> sure. i don't know, depends on the guy. i don't know this guy. >> well, she does and -- >> thankfully. >> if you like that idea, fenway only allows one proposal per game. you have to move quick. you have to move quick

well, tmz, however, reveals at the end of the tape hulk's best friend is bragging that the footage wase wrestler tells tmz he plans to explore legal options. >> i dare you on top that disturbing story. >> i'll try. a little less disturbing, but -- kardashian and kanye west. reports say they have been shopping around for a miami mansion in the 7 to $10 million range. >>> finally, wikileaks busts julian assange who has been hold up in equador's london embassy to avoid extradition has had an unlikely visitor. that's right. on tuesday lady gaga was in the neighborhood promoting her perfume. why not, she stopped in. the two reportedly had a dinner during a five-hour visit. five hours. >> i'm not going to get sucked into the kardashian wedding like i it last time. >> you'll openly admit it. thank you, bill. stay tuned, way too early with willie geist starts right now. >>> one day now ahead of the vice presidential debate in kentucky, and we have some new state by state poll numbers that show more of the presidential debate effect. even as bill clinton hits the stump in vegas on cut into the

the list of previous recipients include andy griffith, yogi bear remarks bill clinton and hulk hogan.on the same list as hulk hogan," he tells the company. >>> shawn parker is making a new part in politics. until now he has given mostly to democrats. >>> it looks like the bible won't be the official state book of louisiana as some had hoped. republican congressman thomas carmody told the statehouses going to shelf the measure at least for now. >>> could splurging be the key to life? well, first lady michelle obama thinks so. according to the associated press she told a group of child reporters "how would you appreciate vegetables if you never had chocolate? you couldn't live without a little chocolate, a little french fries" and former president george h.w. bush is offering supporters to join in on his guilty pleasure, socks. yes, a new fund-raiser features rn krch rnc striped socks signed by the prez himself. >>> on late night with seth meyers, john mccain talked about his decision to come on "saturday night live" three days before the 2008 election. he says it was a chance to reach

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it was like a 5-year-old holding on to hulk hogan. that's how big this man was. >> hulk hogan. >> he was very large. very powerful man. >> you're pretty large. >> yeah i'm above average. >> we also heard from his father that spoke to al sharpton on politics nation. >> they crucified his character. for people that don't even know my son, they probably wish they did because the things that they were saying is just terrible. it's terrible. >> now the eyes of the world are on ferguson following the grand jury decision not to indict officer wilson. when asked about the unrest in ferguson a spokesperson for the chinese says there's no such thing as perfection when it comes to human rights no matter which country you're in. >> the guardian ran the headline ferguson ablaze after michael brown verdict. this swear zone now. in germany the fact that so many people between new york and loss angels he is are convinced that justice has not been administered is another tragedy and the russian foreign minister issued a statement saying recent develop

it's not as if anybody's surprised hulk hogan ripped his shirt off. that's what he does. tony tells roast jokes. what's shocking these things are usually happening in a small austin comedy club or back rooms. but this happened at madser square garden and suddenly said trump, vance. and suddenly the secret's out. it's laughable to me almost like donald trump didn't know what they were getting there. we were joking, we didn't know -- now, you know, i know. >> we were told from people at these rallies and aren't familiar with the tony sets down in austin that this is the kind of stuff that resonates with young men, dana white and hulk hogan might see passe or sort of like sideshows, but this is ginning up young men who might feel marginalized. you see the enthusiasm. is that an assessment of the merit, of the value of these people at those events, correct? >> i mean this excites some men, not all men. kind of the worst men, not to be por jorative about it, but if this what gets you going, i think you need a hobby or learn how to play guitar -- i do have empathy for -- >> you

i don't care if he is hulk hogan. if this is his training and people in this country want train, you know how you have change, you stop shooting unarmed teenagers, that's how you have change, somehow we got to get to that point. now we have a conversation talking about acts of violence and how bad they are, we know all that. but what brought us to where we are now. we have a grand jury that has accepted the fact had because this guy was big and because this officer was scared, he didn't know what to do, so he had to fire. in testimony he doesn't know how many times he did fire. but we've been told twelve. daryl, your reaction to wilson's demon defense. described the victim as he looked like a demon. how could this sell to the grand jury in your opinion? >> well, the problem we have here is in process. without question when we asked that this prosecutor be removed that a special prosecutor be appointed we knew this was not the right guy for this case. we are aware of a close relationship between officer wilson and this

hulk hogan. >> the rock. >> right, this is a very testosterone-heavy, you know, ticket.harris are two tough women. my instinct is, ooh, i don't know that would work. against this ticket it would. i think it changes the conversation in the fall. >> i also think generation seekers -- >> the safe picks are going to be governors. >> yeah. >> andy bashir is a safe pick, mark kelly, maybe a josh shapiro is a safe pick. bashir, two-time senator, son of a politician. easiest person to put on a ticket if you're building aen airplane that takes off, he's safe. >> i'm giving an argument from whitmer a politically engaged family. >> right. >> and here's one for thing for whitmer she actually comes from a swing state. >> fair enough. >> getting doom and gloom, talking about inflation and using headlines and audio. all right. get ready for tonight. gentlemen, thank you very much. >>> still ahead what the fbi says it has learned about the internet search by the shooter. >>> plus, what went wrong? calls for the secret service director to step down. jeh johnson joins us in what should ha

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he described him as looking like a demon and like hulk hogan. what came to my mind was in the case of the police officers who beat rodney king, they said the same thing. that he was in control of the situation. there ways in which these troeps with african-american men and their criminality and their size was not challenged in the testimony. that's why implicit bias of police officers and prosecutors and has to be explored. it goes to a point made earlier at the top of your program. it can be having diversity on the police force, but in jurisdictions where the population of the police forces african-american in cities like baltimore, you have the issues. these are internalized ideas that we have about who is criminal and who is not and dangerous and not. the 19-year-old was his same size was so painful. it was incredibly painful to the patients. >>> are there is an investigation that has to reach a standard of a civil rights case. what options do they have as a civil suit. >> they can file a civil suit. reverend sharpton referred to this also. h

because when i was in wrestling in the '80s, i tried to unionize wrestling, and it was hulk hogan who from under me. hulling hogan went to vince mcmahon, ratted me out, and subsequently later on cost me my job. so it doesn't surprise me to see hogan with the republicans, because hogan's as anti-union as you can get. there still is not a union in professional wrestling. the reason i tried to do it, i was on an elevator and ran into gene up-shaw, the great tackle guard from the oakland raider, and big gene raised his finger up and looked at me and said, you boys need to form a union. i tried to do it, and it was hulk hogan who ratted me out to vince mcmahon, and i was fired and lost my job. >> now, before i let you go, all of us have some history with trump. you recruited trump to run for the reform party ticket in 2000, which he did briefly before you both left the party. and trump has borrowed heavily from your strategic playbook, leaning into his celebrity name recognition and focussing on issues that appeal to working class people, especially young men. so i have to ask you, is the

>> that was pretty bad and i grew up watching wrestling like hulk hogan, special delivery jones.were like heroes of mine as a kid. i knew his sort of political leanings and heard him talk before. so i had grown in my disappointment kind of how he presents. i think his name is terry. so for all of the conversation that conservatives have about people not wanting to use certain pronouns or want to be addressed certain ways, we've grown up addressing terry as hulk hogan and so, you know, for him to come and sort of present this bravado on this toxic masculinity, i was like it's bad. it works for them, but it was just -- i was like i don't want to see this. >> you really know your wrestling. >> the same way i didn't want to see clint eastwood talk about barack obama as an empty chair. i was like come on. we didn't need that. >>> still ahead, some historic milestones for social justice in 2024. we have more of the revvies coming up for you and more light hearted moments from the year. >> thank you for coming to visit me in my cage at the zoo. i'm really enjoying these post court press

hulk against a 5-year-old boy.ress that. >> a first-year law student, reverend al, would have done a better job of cross-examining the killer of an unarmed person than the prosecutor's office did. he was, the police officer, 6'4", 210 pounds, and michael was 6'6", 292 pounds. they both were big guys, but he said he felt like a 5-year-old child having to fight hulk hogan, and nobody challenged him on that. when you think about he's saying his injuries, these terrible injuries, and you remember initially it was leaked he had a blow-out orbital fracture to his eye socket. and then we see these pictures and attorney gray and i, we couldn't believe the pictures, because we said there's nothing wrong with him. it looks like it's just blush on him. and the prosecutor never addressed that, reverend al. never said one word about this isn't consistent, the physical evidence isn't consistent with the beatdown you say you got. you have to question, what was the prosecutor's prerogative here. >> the standard in the federal cour

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hulk hogan, because i'm obsessed, hulk hogan peter thiel connection, talking about the j.d.ce selection as trump's running mate, j.d. vance went to iraq as united states marine, retired as a corporal in the marine corps. he went to the ohio state, he then went to yale law school, wrote his autobiography. all of the jobs he had were jobs given to him by peter thiel . peter thiel is a person who effectively single-handedly funded his senate campaign, peter thiel is the one introduced him to donald trump, peter thiel played a large role convincing trump to pick j.d. vance as his running mate. peter thiel kind of adopted hulk hogan. peter thiel had a grudge against a very snarky, aggressive media outlet called gawker because he did not like the way they covered him in silicon valley and elements of his personal life. one hulk hogan -- >> you can say tape, sex tape, peter dr. bankrolled aggressive and creative campaign designed -- >> that was the weird thing, to avenge mr. hogans having been done wrong by this media outlet . it was specifically designed, not just to get redress f

hulk hogan, crazy voice. he sounded like some kind of disney version of a wrestling star making a political speech. it was really weird to see it in person. >> maybe he is a really big star in the strange parallel universe we seem to have found ourselves in. or at least for one night. susan, thank you for your time tonight. jesse and george, please stick around. we have a lot more to get to, tonight including new reporting on the behind the scenes negotiations in the democratic party. we'll discuss that. later this hour, donald trump praised the florida judge who threw out his classified documents case. what the special council did this week that could potentially make trump's good feelings about that somewhat short lived. stay with us. at short lived. stay with us. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. [♪♪] voltare

and in contrast to say hulk hogan or apprentice reruns, beyonce is very now.t this week team usa debuting her official support with a slide show for the paris olympics. you can see there. and beyonce devoted fans basically across the world in every demographic and age group. pop culture is a language young people speak fluently. they were key to the winning coalition. harris knows she needs them now. and most voters don't like it if it's fake posturing. i will note there are maga fans claim they're cool with jd vance going from calling trump, quote, america's hitler to now being on the ticket, but generally, honesty is better. and we can see the signs that harris comes by her moment, this music and cultural moment pretty honestly. before there were any indications she might be atop the ticket this year, she was very tapped into beyonce as i mentioned. she used her platform to elevate artists and art forms that washington has long ignored. she rejected the d.c. controversy talk about hip hop and hosted her own 50th celebration for the art form. we reported that

i like to call it sort of hulk hogan populism.if you remember that scene when hulk hogan ripped his shirt off. yeah. it's like i'm with you guys exactly how somehow vaguely, you know, drilling for oil and tariffs will lead to prosperity. >> we're going to bring down grocery prices somehow. >> he's won. >> so he no longer needs to continue that charade. >> and he could focus on his priority, which is making elon musk the first trillionaire. right. which is making sure that the billionaires that he's going to have on his billionaire row are satisfied. right. and i have a sneaky suspicion that when it comes down to it, that will be his mandate, ensuring that those tax cuts go through. and when that happens, many people, including some people who voted for him, will begin to understand what the true intentions of donald trump, maga and his billionaire backers are. >> and i think there's going to be some rifts in his voter coalition. >> and i think there might even be some rifts in his billionaire coalition. right. >> these are men wit

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. >> yes, not a good one and sexy hulk hogan. >> oh my goodness. >> i love the bad halloween fashion. is good. i love it. >> it's an excuse to look at all the other sexy costumes. >> that's true. i want to take you internationally to take demonstrations, get together, dancers of thrillers. 150 getting together in a shopping mall at instan bubul. they also did it in the philippines and mexico in the spirit of michael jackson. >> love those. >> way too early starts right now. >>> check on it and they pick him off. >> two nights in a row world series game ends with something that's never happened in the history of baseball. this time it works out for the red sox as the world series is guaranteed to go at least six games. jailbreak in oklahoma. what in oklahoma went down in classic hollywood fashion. details on how four men busted out. >> and rip lou reed. from velvet underground to the wild side he was a rock and roll icon. the life of a legend, dead at the age of 71. this is "way too early." >>> good morning, everybody. monday, october 28th. what would a mcdonald's hamburger taste like

phil and hulk hogan. out there, just anger and bad jokes that do not play and jokes that are offensive and racist and feel like mad scribblings by mediocre men, if that is your final offer, that is your team, party, that is 18,000 people but somehow he made 18,000 people and the event and the party seem tiny. >> we were talking before the segment began about the commodian that made the most racist garbage comments -- comedian that made the most racist garbage comments. >> i don't know him personally. >> you are familiar with his work. he is not, he was not secret or surprising. this is what you are expecting. not surprising that hulk hog an ripped his shirts off. he is a roast host. the thing that is shocking it is usually happening in a small austin comedy club or back rooms at maga events. in front of him it said trump/vance. the secret is out. it is laughable to me like trump did not know what they were getting. of course, they pretend. we were just joking, no, you know, i know, and i am not vetting th

ask for a clearer articulation of the demonization of black masculinity comparing michael brown to hulk. you infant alinfantalize yourse make him the man. there are studies out there that say many see black kids older than they are, so there is a loss of innocence in black masculinity. on the other hand there's a lack of humanitiy here. you see both those forces here. the lack of humanity and the innocence of this human being and putting it together michael brown looks like a horrible figament. others might resonate with that even though they may be ashamed to say so and rarely articulate it. >> this officer's testimony also talks about the notion according to the officer that brown came up and said, i'm paraphrasing to be less vulger but essentially you're too afraid to shoot me, you're not going to do that, what are you going to do. that's a very menacing approach. >> literally, menace to society. >> we weren't there but what the grand jurors have to say is does that sound realistic. many in the community would say unarmed individually don't typically run up to cops in the middle of t

as a result, you had amber rose , dana white, hulk hogan, kid rock.f it was designed to show the maga is fun and donald trump is comfortable with your celebrity culture. the problem is, if you like that stuff, that type of entertainment, there is nothing in the convention to keep you hooked or glued or in any way enticed to vote for donald trump and maga . >> i want to extend the joker analogy, joe, i think you will admit is pretty strong, the other thing the joker does across many of the batman universes, is make a bet his depravity actually reflects gotham or society, if he wants people to kill and die for no reason, others will join the christopher nolan version has the famous scene where they try to get people to blow each other up. the idea that we are all as bad as the joker, the great uplift of that film, the universe in different versions of the film is, as chai knows, we are not, not as bad as our worst day or the worst villain, for at a time has the spotlight or power. i wonder how that analogy chai offers plays with a long-term speech, whic

as hulk hogan didn't have the same legal responsibility as things he did as a real person. and we're all in breaking news mode. i don't want to go beyond what we heard. that it would go forward under the real name which is public than under a fictitious one. >> i'm a lawyer but i can't do it more than on tv. she knows more than i do. i think you'll be able to sort through this. i did want to reiterate that point that jill just made. the nonconsensual sex should weigh much more heavily than this. do remember many people have gone down before. i'm thinking of governor elliott spitzer and amber and david vitter and the madam. the paid for kind can get you in an awful lot of trouble too. it is just that donald trump says he can walk down fifth avenue and shoot someone and it won't matter. these charges have not mattered. whether the accumulation of them will matter, we will see. now the republican party is the trump party ever since the rose garden ceremony. he is an exquisite president according to paul ryan and blessed according to orrin hatch. so we don't know. i don't know