It's Monday, October 20th.
I'm Todd Zwellick, in for Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
the show where only a king has the power to make George Santos a queen for a day.
On today's show,
the Trump administration continues to inflict pain on everyday Americans as leverage and is still ongoing government shutdown.
Israel and Hamas exchange deadly fire in Gaza, threatening the ceasefire.
President Donald Trump accuses the president of Colombia of being a drug dealer
while he continues to unilaterally kill people on boats in the Caribbean.
And Ukraine steps up attacks inside Russia as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky waits for an answer.
on American cruise missiles.
But let's start with the massive turnout at Saturday's anti-Trump rallies.
Millions of Americans took to the streets over the weekend for the No Kings protests.
demonstrating against Donald Trump and his authoritarian vives.
Organizers said that more than 7 million people turned out to more than 2,700 pro-democracy rallies in rural towns and major cities all across America.
It was the second wave of protests organized by the No Kings Network of Progressive Organizations.
The protests were almost completely peaceful.
And that's not the framing Republicans were looking for.
Last week on Capitol Hill,
GOP lawmakers predicted hate America demonstrations filled with pro-Hamas radicals.
In New York City, where more than 100,000 people demonstrated, the NYPD reported zero arrests.