rory kennedy, thank you for your candor about that. is a sensitive subject but i understand the passion and support you have for president biden. the documentary is absolutely extraordinary. it is riveting and for all of you as i thank you for joining us, this hbo docu-series is available to stream right now on max. >>> a huge day on capitol hill today, counting down to some final votes, what did they get done? and the judge in the hush money case delivers a direct order to donald trump and he didn't appear happy about it. the latest from those inside the courtroom. e latest from those inside the courtroom. ♪♪ an all-in-one cleaning tool that gives you a mop and bucket clean in half the time ♪♪ our cleaning pad has hundreds of scrubbing strips that absorb and lock dirt away, ♪♪ and it has a 360-degree swivel head that goes places a regular mop just can't. so, you can clean your home, faster than ever. ♪♪ don't mop harder, mop smarter, with the swiffer powermop. ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one

rory kennedy, this feels timely.with drug addiction, celebrities like jane fonda and such hanging around. and then it morphed into lots of guns, basically a cult of personality, women essentially being abused, it's sound familiar in a weird way and i'm not sure why. how did this all come apart? >> well, we are very excited to be finally sharing the sin anon fix this evening on hbo. i became fascinated with the story as you say. it started as this really progressive forward thinking drug rehabilitation program in 1958 out of santa monica. chuck dietrich led the organization. he had come from aa. he had gone to meetings all of his life or for many years. and he didn't feel like those meetings were confrauntational enough. he want tded to get to something different. he started having aa type meetings at his house where you could confront people instead of just telling your stories. you could say, idisagree with you and you could be angry and express your emotion and drug users started coming in and they were staying and

thank you so much, rory kennedy.lly excite body this synanon documentary on hbo max debuting tonight. thank you. >> take care. >>> and race to reopen. acting labor secretary julie sue joining me to discuss the huge task of reopening the port of baltimore. how long will it take? how many people, 8,000 immediately, will be out of work. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." rts. hey little bear bear. ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm gonna love you forever ♪ ♪ ♪ c'mon, bear. ♪ ♪ ♪ you don't...you don't have to worry... ♪ ♪ be by your side... i'll be there... ♪ ♪ with my arms wrapped around... ♪ >>> this weekend workers used a giant crane to remove the first piece of the mangled steel from the remains of the fallen francis scott key bridge, the first step to fully reopening the port. but that will take a long time. earlier today the captain of the port established a small, temporary channel to allow smaller ships into the harbor. president biden will head to baltimore this friday, the white house announced, to view the wreckage. joining me

because that's not how it started. >> george: rory kennedy joins us now.fornia at the time, in 1958. there was nowhere for these folks to go. there were no drug treatment programs in the united states. people went to jail or to mental hospitals where they died. and the leader of this so called cult brought them in, had an innovative program and saved a lot of lives. >> george: what drew people to him? what was the source of his power? >> well, he had come from aa. he had been an alcoholic. his experience going to aa programs, which he did for many years and got a lot out of them. but he felt like they weren't confrontational enough and people were able to tell their stories, but he didn't feel like those stories were always so authentic and wanted to challenge people and have people challenge him. so he started these programs out of his home, basically, where they were like aa programs but you could attack people. you could challenge people. i think in addition to that, he was enormously charismatic and people were drawn to him. they came in. they wanted t

. >> well, i appreciate that, rory kennedy. best of luck with the documentary. you can watch it tonight at hbo. that is tonight's readout. inside tonight with jen psaki starts now. >> good evening from washington, i'm michael steele in for my friend jen psaki who is wrapping up a well deserved vacation and will be back with you next week. we have a lot to cover tonight so settle in. i do want to begin with a headline. trump employs images of violence as political fuel for reelection fight. now you might be thinking, yeah, i saw this over the weekend. after all, donald trump posted a video on his social media depicting president biden with his hands and feet tied up in the back of a pickup truck. and at the same time on that same site, trump not only lashed out at the judge presiding over his trial but also at the judge's daughter. so yeah, i would say he is employing images of violence in his reelection fight right now. that headline is not from over the weekend. it is from september of 2020, almost four full years ago. and the fact that it very well could have

that he would run as an independent carried tweeted a statement cosine by siblings rory joe, the second and kathleen kennedy townsend, calling the move, quote perilous for america bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision, or judgment today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. we denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country the rift was front and center just as rfk jr. gain ballot access in the critical state of michigan under the banner of the natural law party biden has been reveling in the families endorsement writing in the washington post, tyler pager observed that president biden grew up admiring the kennedys and that the bidens saw the kennedys as wealthy, attractive irish catholics as quote the embodiment of the american dream consequently, when the family recently united around biden, the president labeled it one of the best days of his campaign. and the event with the president was not the extent of this alliance as the hill noted from rally and kennedy's family around president biden to dumping opposition research an

kennedy. [cheers and applause] i am joined here today with my sisters kathleen and rory, with joe and chris andax. [cheers and applause] and with my hero, president joe biden. [cheers and applause] president biden has said very movingly that his long career in public service was prompted by a speech my father, robert kennedy, gave in indianapolis on april 4, 19 68, the night martin luther king was murdered. two days later, along with my parents and siblings, i sat in the den of our home in northern virginia and watched in horror as washington burned. daddy left the room and he got in his car. maybe 15 minutes later, we were all still glued to the tv. and suddenly, daddy was on the news. in the midst of the mayhem, trying to put out the flames of pain, fear, and rage in the wake of dr. king's death, that was an incredible lesson to me as an eight-year-old child. he showed us that when everyone else is running away from the flames of the anguish and despair, leaders run towards them. and that is who joe biden is. [applause] he is the first sitting president in our history who has traveled to an a