and his family has to know that he took the coward's way out, and they raised a coward.'d use other words, but it's tv and it's just not appropriate. >> in the years since gabby's murder, her family is now hoping her story can help other people, too. >> the messages all the time from people saying, i didn't realize i was in a bad relationship or potentially violent relationship until i saw her story. i saw it. i got help and i safely got out, and if it wasn't for her, i wouldn't. i wouldn't be here today. >> they've started gabby petito foundation in her memory, with the goal of supporting organizations that work to locate missing persons and assist victims of domestic violence, and helping to enact change with the passage of the gabby petito act in florida, which helped reshape how law violence investigations in the state. >> gabby is there every step of the way with us. every time we go on a conference, we come here. she sends us more of those signs. so i know she's guiding us. i know she's with us, and i can i can feel her presence. >> our thanks to eva for much more

and who is that fool and coward? well, emile.gns that motion in that was made last night in the. southern district of new york to drop this case, along. >> with. >> two other career. prosecutors who, you know, hard to know exactly what their. >> motives were, but. >> it sounds like he was really exerting quite a lot of pressure at doj to get somebody to step up. otherwise, he was threatening to fire all of them. so under extreme coercion. >> it. >> sounds like he got two other people to sign on to this. but ultimately he filed a notice of appearance. he's going to have to stand up in court and. defend why this is actually in good faith. >> and it's so. >> plainly not. i mean, you see, really with danielle sassoon and hagan scotten versus emile beauvais, who also was at the southern district of new york, really. >> a tale of two. >> s.d.n.y prosecutors. you have the one side where they are backing up their prosecutors, backing up their team. >> they are sacrificing. what would have been a really easy. >> path for them to potential

one saying dismissing the case would only be carried out by a fool or a coward. the stunning protest starting with danielle sassoon, the u.s. attorney in manhattan who accused the justice department and adams of negotiating a quid pro quo, dumping the case in exchange for the mayor's help with president trump's immigration crackdown. today adams denied it. >> i didn't do anything wrong. throughout the entire ordeal i said one thing. my attorney will handle the legal part. i'm going to handle running the city. >> reporter: adams appeared with trump's border czar, tom holman, clearing federal immigration agents to once again operate in the city's jail complex at rikers island. holman leaning on the mayor to follow through -- if he doesn't come through, i'll be back in new york city and we won't be sitting on a couch, i'll be in his office up his butt saying, where the hell? >> reporter: the democratic mayor campaigned for a reprieve, flying to florida to meet with trump, attending his inauguration, telling deputies not to criticize trump. whether adams was guilty w

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i mean, are they are they the cowards? >> um, so when, uh, mr. scott wrote that letter, he might have anticipated this scenario that seems to have unfolded. and so these two other individuals who then do step forward to sign it, two things are happening potentially, which is there's some reporting that they do it in order for their entire team not to have to resign or be fired. and so that's a different reason for us not to use the word collaborating and not collaborating with mr.. >> it could be protecting people who didn't have the ability to quit their jobs. >> that's right. so they're trying to protect the entire public integrity unit of the main justice. in some ways, that might be a good outcome that the people who are trying to do the right thing are still there. and the document that is submitted, they get emil bove to sign it, which is very unusual. we have the second highest person in the justice department signing. >> perhaps their way of proving we did this for this reason, and we're going to force you to do something. so outside the

scott and today saying, only a fool or a coward would do such a thing. and as i mentioned, he had clerked for roberts. he had clerked for kavanaugh. what do you make about how all this went down? >> well, the whole episode is saturated with corruption. >> the case itself. >> is about the corruption of the mayor and not only the u.s. attorney's office in new york, but a grand jury in new york found that there was. probable cause to bring multiple counts of criminal corruption against the mayor. so that was proceeding. apace until donald trump made a deal with him, a corrupt bargain. essentially. if you come on to my political team, we will drop these charges against you. that's extraordinary. and it's obviously illegal, and it is corrupt. and so that's why you have this, you know, chain of dominoes falling, you know, falling after u.s. attorney sassoon is saying, no way. this is the scalia clerk, the federalist society activist who said, this is, you know, completely corrupt and unacceptable. i won't do it. then they got rid of the office of public integr

cowards in uniform. before his nomination, mr. patel was an endless source of outrageous conspiracy theories that benefited president trump, claiming that january 6 was, quote, never an insurrection, quote-unquote, and that the f.b.i. was, quote, planning january 6 for a year, planning january 6 for a year, he said of the f.b.i. it's not only dangerous, but what he's doing is irresponsible. mr. patel has even gone so far as producing and selling recordings of songs performed by the january 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers. mr. patel calls these rioters political prisoners. patel's sympathies are clearly for the convicted mobsters and not the police who were their victims. and now he wants to be the director of the number one criminal investigative agency in the world. i was there that day on january 6 as many of my colleagues standing here with me. those insurrectionists are not political prisoners. they were rioters on a mission from donald trump. before even being confirmed as f.b.i. director, mr. patel was alre

and today, their names will be tied to their crimes and their coward is forever. let me say their names for the record, eric bowman of shul advance island, south carolina. patrick bryant of palms, south carolina. john osborne of charleston, south carolina. and brian musgrave of fort mill, south carolina. let me be loud and clear, i would never allow any woman or underaged girl anywhere near any of you. when you incapacitate women, it's against the law. when you sexually assault women, it's called rape. if you film women without their knowledge without their permission and without their consent, it's called voyeurism and makes you a peeping tom and it is illegal. when you and your business partners like these, all business partners, when you and your business partners pay each other and you sexually abuse women, it's called sex trafficking. and it is against the law. and if by definition makes you a sex trafficker. witness intimidation is also illegal. to eric bowman, patrick bryant, brian musgrave and john osborne, you have bought yourself a one-way ticket to hell

cowards? risking their lives as well, some of them battered and beaten by the mobsters who came into the capital. mr. patel claims that the fbi agency was planning january 6 for a year. he said the fbi was planning january 6 for a year. that is a quote. he has gone so far as to coproduce and sell is occult recordings of a song performed by january 6 rioters in jail, who violently assaulted police officers. he has described this choir as " political prisoners." political prisoners. but at least six members pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers on january 6. all six have been pardoned by president trump. here are some of those people who received link it clemency by president trump on his first day in office and the second term. julian keeter, assaulted capitol police officers with cap -- with pepper spray, incapacitating three. ryan nichols, prayed pepper spray on multiple police officers after the attack. he posted on facebook and i quote "yes, i am calling for violence and i will

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so they found their fool and their coward to do just that. speak to us what this says in light of everything else that we've already talked about, that's happening. you now have, you know, this situation with the mayor avoiding prosecution because he's apparently, through his lawyers, offered up a quid pro quo deal where he will allow the president's immigration team to run amok in new york. for what what what what does he get out of it? oh that's right. they're not going to prosecute him. >> yeah. look, i think that when the history of this time is written, you know, oftentimes we think about history being written about big events, you know, elections or protests or. >> wars. >> but history is also embodied. >> oftentimes in what. >> is in writing, in letters. you know, george washington's first address was not. >> actually. >> i'm sorry, george washington's farewell address was not. actually something he delivered orally. >> it was a. >> letter that he wrote to the american people. albert einstein. >> wrote a famous letter. >> to fdr. >> wa

what do we do when hagen scott resigned, when he said, you can you can find some fool or coward who can do this. he ended by saying, and that was never going to be me. that's like a scene from a movie. there are americans right now who are standing up in the judiciary, in the court system, in the public, in the civil service, none on the republican side of congress, but who are standing up to this? what can we do? >> well. >> we can stand. >> up to it in a lot of ways. as it turns out, somebody was found. there were 22 career members of the justice department. they were threatened by emile bove. one of you had better sign this corrupt. and he's pretty much admitted on fox news that he didn't mean to, that it was corrupt. one of you had better sign this corrupt motion to dismiss or you're all fired. and at first they stood together and that's what they should have done. until finally, a guy named ed sullivan, edward sullivan, who was about to retire anyway, said, oh, i'll volunteer. i'll take the hit. he's no, he's no profile in courage. the fact is that to preserve his pension, purporte

resigned writing "i expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a cowardwas never going to be me." by friday night seven members in total of the justice department had resigned. and that's tonight's "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. good night. have a great weekend. great wee. >>> right now on cbs news bay area, all-star weekend has tipped off with a jam packed schedule of events, local businesses all looking to take advantage of those big crowds. >>> we are live inside one of the big attractions as basketball fans from all over the world get a chance to get in on the action. >>> the storm has moved on, but dozens of people in the south bay have been flooded out of their apartments. one man tells us how he felt powerless to stop the water from rushing in. >> i tried to save what i could. within a couple minutes i was up to almost my ankles in water in the house. >>> some incredible images out of southern california where massive mudslides have covered roads and trapped cars, how neighborhoods are trying to dig out. >>> from cbs news bay area, th

bullies are cowards at core. so what am i afraid of that they are going to use data that they are legally not allowed to use to act as a bully. so what does that mean for my home state of illinois, where our governor pritzker has been very forceful in calling him out? if they take control of the stop payments, does illinois all of a sudden not get their medicaid reimbursement money? what does it do for, you know, someone, you know, we've already seen him take security details away from liz cheney, right? while releasing people who attack cops out into the public, if they're willing to do that and threaten that, well, what might they do to someone who's on a fixed income but have the strength of their convictions? what they know is that every time we have faced crises like these in our, in our history, inevitably the movements that have toppled tyranny have been led by people who had gotten to a point where they had nothing left to lose. the parkland students who survived, the mamie tills of the world, right? if t

lead prosecutor in eric adams' case resigned today, saying anyone who didn't press forward was a cowardo that, over implication that politics is at play here? pres. trump: i don't know about it, i'm not involved in that. these are mostly people from the previous administration, you understand, so they were not going to be there anyway. they would be gone or dismissed. they know on tuesday they are all going to be dismissed. the whole country is going to be. you come in and you put new people in. when you say resigned, they were going to be gone anyway. i know nothing about the individual case. they didn't feel it was much of a case. they also didn't feel it was unfair with the election. i would know that better than anybody. i was weaponized more than any human being in the history probably of the world. i won the election in a landslide, winning all seven swing states, popular vote, everything else, because the people got it. it was weaponized and i was weaponized literally weeks before the election. but i think there is also something to be said, i read that, something to be said abou

megan scott. >> and he. >> found the fool and he found the coward. it was emile beauvais himself. >> you know, katie benner at this instance. right? to your point, there's this internal kind of struggle that's happening at the doj. but then there's also the external messaging that you talk about, which is trump taking and capturing this idea and saying that the rule of law is now his as he defines it. so is the message that he's sending out to the people. it's not so much his opponents or the people that are resisting him, but maybe to the supporters that are on the fence about whether or not i should get my hands dirty, isn't he now sending out the message, it's okay, get your hands dirty because i got your back. >> i have your back or i'll punish. >> you. >> if you don't. and i think that one of the things we've seen, and when we think about the way the public has reacted to donald trump, we think about the way that politicians, whether it's congress or local politicians, have reacted to him. everybody continually asks the question, how can the rul

and, i mean, this may have been a case where the person who stepped forward was not the fool or coward, but more of the fall guy. here's what we know. people familiar with meetings that took place today tell us that emil bove, the acting deputy attorney general, had summoned those who were left in the public integrity section. that's after five people resigned last night when they refused to sign this motion to dismiss. so they had this meeting with them. he said he needed one career person to step forward and to sign the document. now, after beauvais left, the team still met and talked together. they considered a range of options, sources tell us, including a mass resignation. but then it was one longtime member of the team, someone close to retirement, ed sullivan, who said that he would step forward and sign the document. now on the document, he is also joined by the acting head of the criminal division, tony bacon, as well as emil bove signature himself. but this was an act that was perhaps seen to help save the team instead of leading and end the crisis. instead of leading to more

she's a coward. she's an absolute coward. i loved every minute of it. >> and greg doesn't want to be a feminist. you're forcing him to be a feminist. >> that is true. >> against his will. >> i hate it. >> you can join trudeau. he's the ultimate feminist, in his own words. self-declared. look, the left may find gender complicated, but the american people do not. a washington post poll from 2023 found 34% think that biological men should be in women's sports, 34%. right. okay, so that's 2023. well, fast forward to trump his executive order on this 63% approve, according to marquette. so why is the left choosing to die on the hill of a 7030 issue? go read the new york times. undecided voters. i'm just going to quote one two sentences. i shocked myself when i voted for trump. no one tell my family i think i became radicalized was the word she used on the issue of men and women's sports. that ad said kamala represents they them. trump represents you. that was so compelling, so die on the hill of this issue. janet mills, you walked

this, but i suppose eventually they'll find someone who is enough of a quote fool, or enough of a coward to file your motion. it was never going to be me. that was just one of the protests in reference to the motion, which, late in the 6 p.m. hour east coast friday night, has now been filed. that does it for us. the reidout with joy reid starts now. hi, joy. >> how are you. >> doing, ari? >> and yes, here. >> it is. we are twinning. it is quite a day. >> been quite. >> a day in legal terms and every other. >> way. >> it is. >> as always. >> thank you. stay on it. >> have a good weekend as well. >> thank you. have a great one. >> all right. >> thank you all for. >> joining us as well tonight. >> we have. >> a lot to get to. >> as you. >> can imagine, in the next hour. >> of. the reidout. >> including the start of. >> mass firings. >> of federal. >> employees. >> possibly hundreds of thousands of people put out. >> of work by donald trump. >> and elon musk. plus, america's shame. >> on the. >> world stage as jd vance and pete hegseth blunder their way through the munich security conference

. >> coward to file your motion. >> but it was never going to be me. >> then acting u.s. attorney for the southern district of. >> new york, danielle sassoon, accusing mayor adams attorneys. of pushing. >> for a quid. >> pro quo. on behalf. >> of their client. in her. >> letter to attorney general pam bondi. >> she outlined their suggestion. >> that the mayor would assist with immigration enforcement in exchange for a dismissal. adams strongly denied. >> those allegations today in. >> a statement, and this morning, adams defended himself on fox news alongside what appeared to be almost like his handler. trump's border czar, tom homan. take a listen. >> imagine him going inside saying that the only way mayor adams is going to assist in immigration, which i was calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges. that's quid pro quo. that's a crime. >> if he doesn't come through. >> i'll be back. >> in new york city and we. >> won't be sitting on a couch. i'll be in his office up, up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to? >> unbelievable. >> adams has.

prosecutors in the story from the southern district of new york saying that they might find some coward the deputy attorney general wanted him to do. but he said that was never going to be me. i want to talk about what the right thing to do is in times like this, when we come back, stay with us. you're watching msnbc. >> my eyes, they're dry, uncomfortable. looking for extra hydration. now there's blink neutral tears. it works differently than drops. blink neutral tears is a once daily supplement clinically proven to hydrate from within, helping your eyes produce more of their own tears to promote lasting, continuous relief. you'll feel day after day. try blink neutral day after day. try blink neutral tears a different way to supp nature knows best. that's why new chapter vitamins... ...follows her example. with key vitamins, minerals, herbs, and whole food ingredients... ...crafted to work with your body. ♪♪ bringing the power of nature... ...into your new chapter. hate and extremism in the united states are on the rise. in fact, there are more than 1400 hate groups in our country toda

way out the door, he accused top leaders of the justice department of looking for a, quote, fool or coward to carry out their orders. this afternoon, we're going to hear from both mayor adams and president trump about this case. but let's start with cnn's jeff zeleny and evan perez. evan, walk us through where this case against adams stands right now. it's a corruption case against the sitting mayor of new york. but trump's justice department is trying to dismiss it. >> right, jake? well, right now we're still technically at a standoff. we we expect and the justice department says that they expect that at some point today, they are going to finally file the paperwork to dismiss this case. now, how we got here and what happens between this hour, and then we will see. right. but at this hour, we expect that that dismissal will come at some point. we began the day, jake, with six people who had resigned, including the the top acting, the acting u.s. attorney in southern district, district of new york, who resigned yesterday and accused the justice department, the leadership of the justice dep

. >> coward. phony. >> okay. just listen. >> no.ten. >> there was some great rom coms, and they stand the test of time and they make you feel good, and you pop them on and you can turn off and just have your popcorn and go. and that, for me, is a lot of what entertainment is. >> and now, two decades later, murray defying the laws of aging, stripping it down in the merry gentlemen. >> good. when it's cold. >> with the support of an enthusiastic millennial fan base, these actors have stood the test of time. >> social media plays a significant role. you know, when it comes to relating to the it girls and it guys of today, people get to talk directly to their fans, and sometimes fans get to talk directly to the icons that they love so much. >> very successful red carpet. we talked to everyone. it was a lot of fun. i hope you all have a blessed week. take care. god bless. >> for lopez, he's come a long way from the halls of bayside high in saved by the bell. >> what does this tell you? >> i've been in this business now for 41 years, beli

speaker, i rise today to call up the cowards who think

facism survives only so long as the evil at the top is supported by cowards down below and will look the other way for some exchange of a proximity of power. is the republican party going to stand up for the american people and anti-semites or will they sit cowardly with their leaders. the world is watching, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today with great pride to recognize two remarkable athletes in our community, c.j. guarder johnson of the philadelphia eagles and ja'waun taylor of the chiefs who are facing off this weekend in super bowl lix. mr. haridopolos: these athletes who were cousins started their journey at cocoa high school and now they're taking opposite sides of the field in the biggest game of the year. their story is one of hard work, perseverance and excellence,

basically wrong, then quote, you'll eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion. no system of ordered liberty can allow the government to use the carrot of dismissing charges or the stick for a separate political agenda, the letter states. and he goes on to invoke what could be donald trump's point of view. call this a sort of more ignorant or benign friendly explanation that even if trump wants to treat this like a transaction that is wrong, he says, i can even understand how trump's background in business and politics might enable seeing this as a good, if distasteful, deal. but any assistant u.s. attorney would know that's wrong. that is just one of the warnings from one of the several now resigned prosecutors. six in all. and this is all coming out of the s.d.n.y, where trump has had so much of a focus. the mayor was accused of offering essentially a bribery deal to trump, that he gets preferential treatment, which he otherwise wouldn't get, to dismiss this case. and then the mayor would help trump politically on immigration in new york. t

cowards in uniform. before his nomination mr. patel was an endless source of outrageous conspiracy theories that benefit president trump claiming that january 6th was, quote, never an insurrection quote unquote that the fbi was, quote, planning january 6th for a year. planning january 6th for a year he said the fbi is not only dangerous but what he's doing is irresponsible. mr. patel is even gone so far as producing and selling, recordings of songs performed by the january 6th rioters who violently assaulted police officers. mr. pennsylvania peel calls these rioters political prisoners. patel sympathies are clearly for the convicted mobsters and not the police who were their victims. and now he wants to be director of the number one criminal investigative agency in the world. i was there that day as many my colleagues stand with me those insurrectionist are not political prisoners they were rioters on a mission from donald trump. before even being confirmed as if fbi director mr. patel was already seekin

the europeans, 25 and 27 european leaders are conformist and cowards and they're shaking in their boots today as to what the americans will do. if america pulls out a supporting ukraine and says, boys of george, they know very well that they will drop football. they have no ability to provide equipment, provide manpower to provide the air covered. and the intelligence in real time intelligence that has been provided button states insurance, they are unable to assist ukraine in any significant way. absent american participation, there are 2 at of 27 national leaders who are ahead of the rest in facing reality. and they are not friends approaching. they are simply realists. so the, the meeting that took place last weekend between the uh, the far right of these years of europe, which includes of course, the re but then i. and so do you need from literally uh they have take cards from the positions of donald trump. and so there is a bit more distance as high levels within europe, i think is a matter of, of the future is airport crack. finally, since everyone is not running for cover in the

that advice, then i expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion. but it was never going to be me. as adams now faces growing calls to step down, the pressure he faces when it comes to supporting mr. trump's immigration objectives on full display as the mayor and trump's border czar tom homan appeared together this morning on fox. >> if he doesn't come through, i'll be back in new york city and we won't be sitting on a couch. i'll be in his office saying where the hell is the agreement we came to? >> reporter: adams pushing back on the idea of any quid pro quo, saying tonight, i want to be crystal clear with new yorkers, i never offered nor did anyone offer on my behalf any trade of my authority as your mayor for an end to my case, never. still, the case touches off an upheaval within the department with at least seven prosecutors quitting, including those in manhattan with sterling conservative credentials. >> so laura, what could happen next in this case? >> even if the justice department doesn't want to move forward here, a f

not just because of the destruction due to the conflict and the fact that the hamas cowards hide undergroundso because there are unexploded munitions. there are all kinds of weapons including hamas weapons in the location and that all has to be cleaned up. president trump has offered to go in and be a part of that solution. if other country is willing to step forward and do it themselves, that would be great, but no one seems to be rushing forward to do that. that has to happen. it's a reality. gaza right now has unexploded munitions, lots of rockets, and weapons, and other things that hamas was using there. that needs to be dealt with, and it's very difficult to do that when you have populations on top of you. if some other country is willing to step forward and do that job themselves, then i encourage them to do so. but it seems to me that there are a lot of countries in the world that like to express concern about gaza and about the palestinian people, but very few have been willing in the past to do anything concrete about it. so, i think president trump is trying to stir that and hopefu

resignation said "i expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward your motion. but it was never going to be me." tom dupree served in george w. bush's department of justice. what do you make of this back and forth, this mass resignation wave? >> well, it's reminiscent of the nixon era, where you saw the president basically try to find someone who would carry out his orders in the justice department and had to go through several officials before he finally was able to find someone who would carry it out. >> reporter: the president today denied any involvement. >> well, i don't know about it. i mean, obviously i'm not involved in that. >> reporter: further fueling the controersy, adams appeared side-by-side with trump's border czar in media interviews today after denying his team offered a quid pro quo to work with trump's team on immigration to get the case dropped. some fear the trump administration is sending a loud message to 93 federal prosecutors nationwide in communities big and small from seattle to st. louis to savannah to scranton. don't cro