- donald. donald trump. - donald trump is? - yeah, thick skin. he's-- - thick skin? he gets mad if a celebrity makes fun of him on twitter. - he's the real-life tony stark. they should call him president iron man. - well, tony stark gave a shit about science. - (laughs) uh... - of course, you can't be a true superhero without some tragic flaws. - sometimes i don't like what he tweets. - i don't 100% agree with the way the guy talks. - admittedly, his personality is a bit rough around the edges. - if he's doing a good job, why can't you just vote for him? yeah, he's an ass sometimes. - all right, we'll end on that last part. i think it's something we can all agree on. - he is an ass sometimes, but that's him. - that's him, right? ♪ nothing could stop a trump rally. not bad weather, not a looming impeachment trial, not a full-time job as leader of the free world, and definitely not covid-19. even at the height of the pandemic, the trump rallies still drew a crowd, because trump rallies are worth it. just ask anyone who isn't herman cain. besides, there's simple effec

it's happened now twice to donald trump. based on your knowledge of sdny, and we quoted you earlier, where do you see a raid like this figuring into an open probe? >> well, as he's saying, it is highly unusual. raids on lawyers' offices are unusual in the first instance. i have seen it done a couple of times, both on the defense side. i represented michael cohen who i know will be on later and michael avenatti, both of whom had their offices raided. and there is a lot of steps in the process. i was on the other side for many years of the u.s. attorney's office. i had to sign off on these kinds of warrants. and the u.s. attorney has to sign off. the assistant attorney general and the deputy. and these almost assuredly line up to the level of the attorney general. so it is a very big deal. typically the standard is probably cause. in this case there was no doubt a much higher standard. i don't know if it rises to beyond a reasonable doubt, but these lawyers at the u.s. attorneys office have been waiting a long time. they have

against donald trump for inciting the insurrection. professor tribe finds the police officers have a simpler and more emotionally more powerful case as described. officer hemby was crushed by the doors trying to hold the insurrectionists back. over and over he tried to tell them that the doors opened outward, and pressing him into the door would do no good. but they screamed, fight for trump, stop the steal, and various other slogans as they struck him with their fists and whatever they had in their hands. things were being thrown at him, and he was sprayed with chemicals. a surge slammed officer blassingame against a stone column. he struck his spine and the back of his head and was unable to move. people were yelling into his face, calling him the n-word repeatedly and throughout the attack. he lost count of how many times the racial slur was hurled at him. he is haunted by the memory. the sensory impacts, sights, sounds, smells, even tastes of the attack remain close to the surface. the trump mob made it very clear for the juries in

donald trump, they just want to keep riding the trump train. let's remember, this is a guy who ran for president and failed to get over 47% of the vote plus. what's happening here is a doubling down on donald trump is their forever leader and so many of the decisions that political leaders are making in the republican party is based on newsmax, oann, and sean hannity and 10% to 15% of the country which is the activist wing of the republican party. and so as a democrat, the healthiest thing we need as a country is for the republican party to heal itself and become more competitive because we are going to live under constant threat of this democracy vanishing. they have fully embraced autocracy now. there's a lot of odious parts of the bill in georgia but the state legislature saying no matter what the voters say, if we don't like the outcome, we can overturn it. similar efforts in arizona. this is a very dark time for democracy. there's no optimism in the republican party right now. it's all darkness and grievance and blame game. it's about as f

that's donald trump. he denies, denies, denies it, it's a trick that obviously he learned very well at a very young age from roy cohn. >> do you think allen weisselberg has made the connection to cooperate with investigators? >> only if he has half a brain, because allen weisselberg was involved in every single transaction, financial, that related to the trump organization. every penny, not every dollar, every single penny that came into the trump organization and every single penny that went out crossed allen weisselberg's desk. they used to say, you know, donald and allen were like frica and frac. it's not just allen. this is what the southern district did to me as well. they said if i didn't plead guilty, they were filing an 85-page indictment against me that would include me and my wife. and there was no way that i would put him at risk. and they were going to do the same thing with allen weisselberg, and his sons, who both had contact with the trump organization. barry running the rinks, both wallman

so donald trump doesn't care that's dividing the party. he wants to get everybody behind him and everybody that speaks out against him. he thinks that's the way to move forward. it's a way for him, fund raise, all of that. but it's destroying the republican party. donald trump really doesn't care. >> i want to refer you from the "new york times". i thought this was incredibly interesting, this quote. it speaks also to what joe biden is doing with when it comes to infrastructure and hitting a bipartisan mark here. it resists. it's important the republican party puts donald trump as far into the past as possible said this investor in california who has given million to gop candidates and would annual give to republican lawmakers who voted to impeach mr. trump. hef goes on, if joe biden does not insure major pieces of legislation has bipartisan support, it is he that will bear more support than any republican donors ever could for resurrecting mr. trump's political future and fortune. honestly, it's a quote i don't quite understand, this view

no protection except donald trump and now that donald trump is out of the white house, he's left to fend for himself. >> yes, but everything is very trumpy here, right? so, his new criminal defense lawyer, along with isabel, he actually represents the trump organization in the pending cy vance investigation and so there is all things with a common denominator of trump here. the crisis communications pr firm, those are all trump supporters and so i would not be surprised to learn that there is some behind the scenes involvement by donald trump in terms of maybe shepherding matt gaetz to somebody like mark, but it is attorney general bill barr, let's not forget, who in 2020 had to sign off on this investigation, and so a.g. barr knew about this as recently as last year. >> all right, nbc's amanda golden, katie phang, thank you both, guys. really appreciate it. >>> and in just a matter of hours, former president trump is set to give a keynote address at a closed door gop retreat in palm beach, florida. the gathering of donors and potential 2024 contenders in the former president's back

he had said everything he did was for donald trump. what do you think this means for trump? trump made it impossible to think of all this situation without trump in it and as you just pointed out quite rightly, whatever rudy giuliani was doing, he was doing it at the request of donald trump, that's why he was in ukraine. he was there, he was operating without actual -- president trump does not have the authority to name some private citizens to replace his state department, that was problematic. rudy was not just communicating with people that were pushing propaganda, rudy was trying to remove somebody who had the most ideal reputation, enormous integrity. when he talks about it, he basically is lying. as we just pointed out, he lies about every aspect of this case. every aspect of this situation. i think trump is going to go down with rudy the more rudy keeps lying outrageously a bt not just his conduct but the integrity of the justice department. >> abby, this is the thing. this does raise huge risk for trump. rudy knows a lot and he could be staring at the least. this lob

we know that donald trump does not e-mail. in order to charge donald trump particularly with tax fraud case and bank fraud, you are going to need a cooperating witness. it is a for sure thing that's what you will need in order to prove any cases against him. that's why weisselberg seems to be a key professional defendant or potential witness. without someone like him, i think it is very hard to make the case against donald trump. >> daniel, thank you so much for your expertise on the working of criminal prosecutions in new york. >> my pleasure, lawrence. >> thank you for having me. >> congressman was in the garden today. ten people were murdered in a super market. >> last month, congress magoose, joins us next. magoose, joins us next. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette ♪♪ (car horn) ♪♪ (splash) ♪♪ turn today's dreams into tomo

rudy guiliani and donald trump have had their wires crossed throughout the trump administration, and rudy was a key figure in both impeachments involving donald trump, and let's remember there are two guiliani associates are under indictment, and part of that case relates to money from fraud guarantee, and that's the name of the company, and for reasons we don't quite know, and that could be part of what the southern district is investigating here. >> david, the political circle of life, if you will here, is quite remarkable. many americans know rudy guiliani as being mr. trump's personal attorney, and he's also known as the new york mayor, and he was being tough on crime and tough on the mob federal prosecutor in the attorney's office in new york that just served a search warrant on him? >> i don't know many people that have served as the u.s. attorney that later in life gets a search warrant executed in some investigation. but you are right to note the trajectory here. think about what we are talking about. rudy guiliani was the image of law and order at the beginning of his politi

is still donald trump's party, still finding ways to pay donald trump money. a veteran of the reagan and bush administration. great to see you guys. jason, give me your assessment. how much power does donald trump still have over the republican party? he has all of the power until they come up with another leader. josh hawley, ted cruz, none have the charisma or reputation of donald trump. it is not uncommon for the last president from the party to be the party leader. he is disgraced and hated with a large chunk of the population. i don't know why republicans keep going to the same well. i don't think they have a lot of ideas. we saw that last fall. they literally had no party platform other than reaffirming their loyalty to donald trump. they will stick with it as long as they can. what they can't accomplish in the ballot box, trump is the number one way to get it done. >> you have a message with the group that you work with. i want to play just a little bit of it. >> lindsey graham, ron johnson. they are go to mar-a-lago to kiss donald trump's ring. to pled

donald trump loves controversy. he loves to be on cover of mag magazines, loves to be the center of attention. i think the champion of spirit participation trophy that he got there is just a way to satisfy him. because there are two things for sure that many republicans understand. you cannot get on the wrong side of donald trump because he will take out vendettas against you. he will use social media against you. it had impact your fund-raising. and for those with positions within the party, it could impact your position in the party. more importantly for the future this party we need to work on keeping him on board or his supporters on board and also winning back those that we lost due to his tone and tenor in the white house. that's the key, is growing what he brought to the table but also doing what we can to get those who have turned away. and the key to that is sticking and looking at policies and not people with personalities, such as donald trump. >> anna navarro, alice did -- >> what speaks -- what speaks s

trump and get associated with donald trump. it -- it's -- i don't agree with this idea, like, what happened to america's mayor and the former-u.s. attorney in southern district of new york? well, he's just changed, fundamentally. i don't think that's true. i think, what we see is that donald trump as the great revealer. donald trump is the great revealer. donald trump hasn't caused these people to be what they are. donald trump reveals them to be who -- what they are. and i think that's rudy giuliani. i think, what we're seeing of rudy giuliani, in this and what happened in this raid. and everything that he's done in the big lie that he spun out about voter fraud. and all the things he's done. and the allegations that he's made, and trying to use information from a foreign country. all of those things, he's done. basically, tell us who -- who rudy giuliani is. and again, goes back to my original point. is that donald trump may be hanging out playing golf in mar-a-lago or wherever he happens to be. but donald trump, "game of thr

said donald trump must be held accountable. and it's not like he said it whispering to staff members. he said it on the floor of the united states house of representatives. and he's been backtracking ever since, running down to mar-a-lago, getting his picture with donald trump, kissing up to donald trump, showing just how weak he is as a leader. backing down from protecting -- >> there's no line for him. >> backing down from protecting his own members in the house of representatives. that's just who he is. and republicans, as we said said, as i said yesterday, apparently love following weak leaders. so that's where we are. >> yeah, a lot of republicans said a lot of things in the terror of that day. remember lindsey graham's moment on the floor of senate, he said, i'm out, i'm not doing this anywhere. and then he was back to mar-a-lago as soon as he could be. this strikes me as the height of false equivalency or whataboutism. that overrunning the capital is the same thing as antifa in portland is trarnlgs. as you say, what happ

>> well, i always thought of matt gaetz as donald trump's mini-me. he was a member of congress looking to troll on behalf of donald trump. he used to put up press releases any time donald trump said something positive about him. he thought that was big news. so he was really a leader of the trumpiest of the trump members of the house. and, so, he had a future in this, maybe a future on a conservative network, maybe a future leading some of these people in congress more so. but it is quite interesting that the investigation was begun by the trump justice department when trump attorney general bill barr was in george, when bill barr has instituted or told guidances to the justice department to be very careful when it comes to looking at elected officials. so that, you know, again you want to be careful and we should

trump, supports donald trump. do you suspect that his influence th wane or continue? >> i think we can see his influence waning and waning fast. he has become a kind of cultural totem, like refusing to wear a mask, like carrying a gun everywhere. it's a way -- saying you're for donald trump is a way of -- people do it to offend people who seem too pie yus or too bossy. but you can see that donald trump's problems, his lack of attention, his laziness, his corruption, those have become real obstacles to his power outside of politics. he's going to have tremendous legal problems. i think it's waning. he also insists everything be about himself. 2022 should be a pretty good republican year. the democrats have the presidency. that usually generates a reaction. the map isfavorable. and they've got all of these gerrymandering opportunities. but donald trump insists the elon must be a referendum on how great he was. he's going to try to assert primary challenges to let's keep talking about me forever. if republicans keep

and that is border problems caused by donald trump. make no mistake, if you have a pulse, whether you make aa million dollars a year or $100 a year, i am telling you tonight your bank account will suffer under joe's proposals and all of biden's radical environmental policies, you will be helping to pay for if at all even possible. let's break it down. now, if passed, high income earners are going to have 40% of their income wiped out by the federal government immediately.a they invest that money and capital gains, they will take another bite at the apple. that's not all. 50% more. the corporate tax rate. we are going to go after those greedy corporations. yeah, that tax goes up significantly. but let's be clear what joe is not telling you. large corporations, they are not going to eat joe's tax increase and take the loss. not even a little bit. corporations will do what they always do. they will pass those costs onto you and the consumer, the american people, meaning almost anything you buy, any service you used, willne be more expensi

donald trump is the leader of the republican party. and the energy in the republican party is not with the john danforths and the gentlelady from wyoming, liz cheney. the energy, when you look beyond donald trump, is with people like marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert out of colorado. these are incredibly nonsubstantive people, they're not people of achievement or accomplishment before they got to congress. they got to congress by being willing to say the craziest thing, the loudest, for the longest period of time, and it got them elected. i don't know what you do if you're a republican. i know as a democrat, you need to be prepared for electoral battles with them in 2022 and beyond. i warn democrats, like i do on this program quite regularly, we can enjoy the moment of schadenfreude with the downfall of the republican party, but we should be paying attention to our infrastructure and building and preparing ourselves for the future. >> susan, trump reportedly praised the people who attended his save america rally on january 6 be

the gop is still donald trump's party. the clearest proof of that, it's still finding ways to pay donald trump money. back with us tonight, jason johnson, campaign veteran and journalist. bill krystol, a veteran of the reagan and bush administrations and editor at large of the bulwark. jason, give me your assessment. how much power does donald trump still have over the republican party? >> he has all the power until they can come up with another leader. the people who are the supposed heir apparents of donald trump, josh hawley, ted cruz, desantis, none of them have the charisma or "q" rating or reputation of donald trump. it's not uncommon for the last president from that party to be the party leader. the problem is, he's hated, disgraced, and loathed by a large part of the population. so i don't know why republicans keep going to the same well. but i don't think they have a lot of ideas. and we saw that last fall. they literally had no party platform other than reaffirming their loyalty to donald trump. >> you have a mes

they're choosing donald trump. donald trump didn't choose any of them. you could take or leave any of them. this affirmative selection of him to be their leader, they have to boost him up. he doesn't have a platform on which to communicate. they're propping him up to continue to lead them. why go out of their way to perpetuate that dysfunctional relationship that now distributes to a domestic violence extremism threat in the country? >> because where do you go? where else during at this point? for normal people, yeah, you would go somewhere else, you would back away from it. kevin mccarthy has been given opportunity after opportunity to set a different course, to raise a different narrative. but the reality, he wants to be speaker of the house, this is the path to take to get there, if the moment should come, donald trump is not going to be there for kevin mccarthy because donald trump will find somebody else more legitimately trumpian than the speaker of the house. these folks put themselves out there for someone that doesn't care about them, would not

donald trump atacÓ duramente el lÍder republicano del senado. lo calificÓ de tonto. el ataque fue por certificar la derrota electoral. segÚn cnn los 350 donantes le aplaudieron con entusiasmo. la reuniÓn se vio en el club del expresidente. decenas de cortes alrededor del paÍs certificaron que no hubo ningÚn robo. [habla en inglÉs] sabe muy bien que perdieron y por la mayor diferencia en la historia segÚn reaccionaron los demÓcratas. es inÉdito que tres meses despuÉs un expresidente de estados unidos participe de forma tan activa, pero no todos fueron aplausos para donald trump entre los republicanos. el expresidente estÁ usando el mismo lenguaje que sabe que provocÓ la violencia el 6 de enero dijo en referencia al asalto al capitolio que provocÓ cinco muertes. Él divide y me preocupa, no nos ayuda. el expresidente republicano de la cÁmara baja culpa en su Último libre a donald trump del asalto al capitolio, incitÓ al ataque y alegÓ fraude sin ninguna evidencia tambiÉn calificÓ al senador por texas y dijo que es la persona mÁs miserable que jamÁs

donald trump has a bit of a head start. he has hired a new criminal defense lawyer as the manhattan district attorney has now suspended documents from the former daughter in law of trump's accountant. former manhattan prosecutor and lead counsel to the house during donald trump's first impeachment inquiry, daniel goldman, will join us next. join us next. >>> as we continue to return to classrooms... parents like me want to make sure we're doing it safely. especially in the underserved communities hardest hit by covid. trust me, no one wants to get back to classroom learning more than teachers like me. using common sense safety measures like masks, physical distancing, and proper ventilation. safety is why we're prioritizing vaccinations for educators. because working with our local communities... we will all get through this together, safely. it's okay that you don't want to be first: you aren't. second covid vaccine. it's okay to have questions: everyone deserves answers. i'm wary that there isn't enough information. it's

we have huge deficits from donald trump and no investment. what you are seeing right now with joe biden is he understands that he will be spending money, but here is the difference between what he will do with the deficit versus donald trump. the deficit he creates is called an investment. it is an investment that grows taxes, gross income, grows the economy, brings back manufacturing jobs, and those 11,000 jobs that he got rid of because of the pipeline, he will create millions of jobs. do the cost benefit analysis. here is how you evaluate joe biden. do the damn math. you can afford your childcare, access to health care, you have got a good job, they raise the minimum wage, and your country and community and your schools are better. you are healthier and you have a job and you have less debt for your kids for college. if that makes a difference in your life, then joe biden is a wild success in the republicans were a failure. host: let me bring up something he brought up, immigration. how is the immigration handling this at the border and ar

trump or at the end of the day, a lot of people voted for him because he was not donald trump her on the first point, he is doing well. we've a president now who we do not have to think about all the time, that is a major contrast. when you look at covid response, it seems we are doing well. the u.s. is doing very well when you compare to the rest of the world when it comes to vaccination rates, our case numbers are not great, but i think those will come down. the one caveat that i would offer is that joe biden has a habit of lowso he is kind of alg himself to be graded on a particularly favorable curve and we will see how long that works out. my personal view is that the electorates may start tiring of that or may start factoring into their assessments, but when i ask friends and family, they keep telling me as long as he continues to not be donald trump, he can basically do what he wants. >> i would love to get your take on it, but if donald trump had won the election, would we have had kind of final four competing and the winners get the covid vaccines, but i would be interested t

donald trump is really focused on getting revenge. he has gone after people in his party that are key to actually the republicans taking back the house, the senate and possibly the white house. he's not focused on what's best for the party. donald trump is focused on what's best for him. you ask about the role he's going to play. he's going to go after anyone he thinks wronged him, those who voted to impeach him as well as those vocal about what happened on january 6th. >> a veteran republican fund-raiser in texas told "the new york times" that trump's lingering presence on the political scene is a tremendous complication. that's how this person worded it. why does the party feel obligated to keep him around, particularly because he's the losing candidate? >> donald trump has managed to do something that i don't believe anyone has been able to do in the history of politics. donald trump has actually hijacked the gop, and he doesn't really care about the party, but he has control over the party. it's almost like an abusive relationship

but donald trump, game of thrones reference here, donald trump is like the mad king. and when the mad king was ended, when the reign of the mad king was ended, it doesn't solve the problem. it actually unleashed a bigger problem. >> exacerbated. >> and rudy giuliani is part of that bigger poison that exists in america today. >> you just said about rudy giuliani what i have been saying since, you know, he came on the scene as it relates to donald trump, and everyone was saying, what happened to america's mayor? i'm like, do you guys remember before 9/11, the rudy giuliani before then? he got this moment. it was awful that it happened, but where he had to step up as mayor, right? what choice did he have? who wasn't going to give him money and funding for what happened in new york? so i completely agree with you. matthew, i got to go. but thank you. it's always a pleasure having you on. one day we can talk about better things, i hope. thank you very much for helping us out. >> you too, man. god bless, don. >> you too. thank you very much. >>> president biden responding t

kowtowing to putin and what does putin have on donald trump. will: with all due respect, mo, that's not the responsible way to approach the story at the moment. the story was below weak from the start but it was told with certainty. it was told with condemnation. you heard the clips. the statements by major media members were that donald trump knew of its veracity and in a dereliction of duty, a completely amoral position dismissed the story as he didn't care of american soldiers. we can't sit here today and go, well, it's possible that it's true. there's very little to know evidence. low to moderate confidence to be clear in government terms means it's nonsense. it's in the -- not real. i can't defend something is not existent because i can't prove in negative. in journalism, your burden is to prove a positive. when you point your finger on television and make accusation, back it up. they didn't even try. howie: let me get mo's response. >> i'm not disagreeing that there was a breathless rush to deal with this story back in the time. i actuall

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and donald trump, cornered, and donald trump unable to control the flow of information, is donald trump who becomes more radically inept. and -- and unwired. and -- and i think, this is only going to get more unpooled as this goes on. >> donald trump, throughout his life, as you ever reported, has been sued for all sorts of things he's done in business. he always tried to wear the other side down, with increasing legal bills. he is now being sued by two capitol police officers for the injuries they suffered in the attack on the capitol. they are -- if they can survive the procedural challenges that all civil suits face, in order to get to a jury. actually, get it to a jury in washington, d.c. a washington, d.c. is going to be offered the opportunity to visit an unlimited amount of punitive damages on donald trump for the attack on the capitol that injured these police officers. that will -- there are more of these lawsuits coming. i see a world in which he could be bankrupted by the lawsuits that just come out of the attack on the capitol. >> well, the first thing to remember is he coul

the difference is donald trump is no longer president. it's not his hand-selected appointed attorney general that he's going to try and apply some political pressure to here. when joe biden was choosing attorney general, you may recall, part of the debate about whether it should be merrick garland, or someone with more political experience, like doug jones from alabama, while garland is seen by both republicans and democrats as a real straight shooter through all his years on the bench and political pressure is probably something he will be pretty impervious to. so while rudy giuliani and donald trump may go back to that playbook of saying this is a pure biden administration partisan witch-hunt, the fact that merrick garland is at the top of the justice department, he was put there so that kind of argument would likely not gain traction. >> so, abby, in july of 2018, right after michael cohen's home and office were raided by federal investigators, and he of course also was personal attorney for president trump, i sat down with rudy giulia

>> we thought the bottom was donald trump. we discovered there was more silt and soot below donald trump, which is the base of the republican party. i've said all along donald trump doesn't cause the republican party to become what they were. they became what they were, and donald trump was the result of it, of what they are. i think, you know, what is incredibly amazing for me, i thought for one brief shining moment we could all agree that insurrection at the capitol is bad, defending the constitution is good, but it seems at this point in time there's an element of american society, which what republicans like kevin mccarthy, ted cruz, and the nut from georgia and the nut from colorado, are are responding to. they're responding to a constituency in america, because we're so polarized, because jurisdictions are so divided, because things are jerry mandered, because things don't flow in a way that the mid extreme voter can really fundamentally participate in a general election. they're instigated by those voters. so the cleanu

trump was dismissed as locker room talk and first thing i thought of was roy moore, donald trump created the playbook, stand by, deny and as long as you're denying it, just push through and try to withstand the political fallout. that's exactly what you're seeing matt gaetz doing even though donald trump himself is not defending him here. it really -- there was a time not long ago this would have ended a political career, charges this serious, would have ended a political career. that is no longer the case, and this turnaround game, putting it back on democrats, cancel culture, all this other stuff that's nonsense, it's just attack mode. that is what republicans have right now. >> a.b., what is happening, what is the party preparing for in terms of its response either as a party or in terms of congressional leadership, what are they thinking right now? >> kevin mccarthy, house minority leader, wants to wait until the facts come out. all waiting to see what donald trump will say about matt gaetz to be sure, but not going to take action on his committee assignments until and unless there's

enough is enough with donald trump. after what they say take place on january 6th and all the information that has come out since then and what happened inside of that building. even the information that we reported out today, vice president mike pence essentially saying, clear the capitol. but with that, i wonder, do you think 2022 is going to be the real tipping point to see if donald trump has true longevity? >> well, it will be one test, obviously, because what he has decided to do is to try to purge the party of those who opposed him, right? he's made a point of sponsoring and encouraging primary challenges to those handful of democrats who voted to impeach him or refuse to support him at the senate trial. he's made clear that he wants to have, you know, retribution, in effect, for those who were not toeing the line and 2022 will provide at least a little bit of a test to that. it won't be the be-all and end-all. what we'll really have to see is if he decides to run in 2024. i don't think he will. i don't think he'

and it may prove to be bad news for donald trump. now we're learning a lot about what giuliani faces. the feds executed a lawful search warrant, which means a judge determined they have reason to believe that giuliani has evidence of a crime. investigators seizing his phone and other electronics including his laptop and ipad. the building doorman escorted the feds into giuliani's new york city apartment. we know the probe includes alleged crimes regarding the first election plot that got trump impeached back in the day, the og impeachment. it was a sorted and failed effort to get ukraine, a foreign country to meddle in our election by ginning up a fake investigation to attack the bidens. giuliani's talks with a conservative writer who pushed that ukraine dirt, according to "the wall street journal." it probed giuliani's odd attempts to hype that writer who now figures into this probe for pushing ukraine conspiracy theories about democrats. >> the ukrainians brought me substantial evidence of ukrainian collusion. put them all on tape.

that donald trump is scared today? >> oh, i know so. i mean, he was afraid even when they raided my home and my law office because donald trump cares about only one person, and i say it all the time. he cares about only himself. so, he doesn't care that they raided rudy's home. he doesn't care that they raided rudy law office. what is it going to do to affect me is all that he's thinking right now. what did stupid rudy do? what did stupid rudy write? what sort of text messages or emails, what sort of stupid things was rudy up to that's now going to implicate me? because donald knows he has enough trouble right now between tish james and the attorney general's office as well as cy vance and the district attorney's office here in new york, forgetting about georgia, forgetting about d.c. with the pick, forgetting about all these other litigations. how about the dozens or so from women with assault cases? he knows that he has all sorts of legal issues. he didn't need more. that's one thing i can sayassur you. he definitely

because only donald trump seems to be doing donald trump. but donald trump is certainly trying to get -- keep his grips on a certain message out there that he cannot do because he's no longer on twitter. >> yeah. we're going to have you continue to follow that institute because that is quite stunning, that revelation. don, since you're the resident voting rights expert, there has been an issue, this headline, the gop's gradual descent into replacement theory and nativist dog whistles. what's the replacement theory? >> so, it's the idea that we did not see this in 1985 but social science knew it was happening. it's the idea that very soon in our lifetimes this country will be a nonmajority white plurality, if you will. the growth energy right now on the gop, of course not all republicans but the loudest segments of republican political leadership is actively trying to prevent that from happening. what you saw on january 6th was a visceral knee-jerk reaction with people trying to install politicians and keep those out of place who would instal

you have used the word in connection with donald trump. how much thought did you give to the consequences of using that word? well, i mean, to be very clear, when we talk about fascism, we're not talking about something, which is in a laboratory somewhere, you know, in some kind of an experiment, we're talking about a current of thought and action, which was very much present in the united states and europe. it didn't win everywhere. it won in some places, but it was present pretty much everywhere. in the 1920s and 1930s, the germans were inspired by the americans, notjust the other way around. fascism is an international trend and it's still with us. now, with mr trump, what i said very specifically was post truth, which is his way of carrying out politics, is pre—fascism. that is to say, if by way of technology and talent, you clear the field of the idea of factuality, you're opening the way for the big lie. and the big lie is the trap that people fall into and leads them to do things like, for example, violently storm a parliament, wh

bush than she did for donald trump. but it is still colored by her view that the war in iraq was such a mistake, carried such a cost for the country. i think she continues to have a pretty tough judgment on george w. bush as a president. host: in the closing days of his administration, 2008, the financial meltdown and the need for what was then the largest bailout package we had seen. in hindsight, it does not look so big compared to the recent one. what was her role in negotiating a successful bailout? guest: at that point, the president in the speaker of the house had not spoken in months because of their division over the iraq war. the economy faced financial meltdown and it became crucial to get a huge and quite unpopular bill through congress to help bail out the banks. she and john boehner, who -- we sigh very young john boehner in the earlier clip. they each agreed they would provide half of their caucuses to pass the tax assets relief package. republicans did not deliver on their vote. not even close. she delive

president donald trump getting scrubbed from facebook in line with the bill quip placed on donald trump's facebook an instagram account says a content posted in the voice of donald trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the account donald trump is not the president anymore and you sunning himself in florida so why exactly is it so dangerous for people to hear his interpretation of world events and just like that we are one step closer to wilson 1984 wow joe biden keeps repeating that big tack are his allies in his efforts to create a world where everyone has freedom of speech and the united states is spreading human rights across the planet but some are saying that a social media purge of a former president sets a dangerous precedent it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about because of anybody who thinks. yesterday was donald trump who was banned and tomorrow could be somebody else who has a different very different point of view so i don't like giving that much power to a handful of high tech people but the devil is obviously in the details and it's some

it was unforgivable what donald trump did and that donald trump was an idiot. he couldn't -- >> he was very clear. >> he could not have been harsher to people close to him and even now weeks later, a month or two later, his attitude for people around him who i've talked to is, what do you expect me to do? if i want to be speaker of the house, i have to have donald trump support. so he went down and kissed the ring and he's very clear. it's not like he's saying in private the same thing he's saying publicly and private, he's blasting donald trump but he's just extraordinarily cynical about it and says what do you want me to do? if i want to be speaker of the house i have to have this guy on my side. >> yeah. during the course of the second impeachment trial, we got news and word of that now infamous call that mccarthy had with trump in which trump basically said i guess i care more about the election than you do, kevin. that was a time where mccarthy could have made his first pivot away from trump. he could have stood up in that moment, made the calculation, emb

trump -- from the 21% that donald trump had reduced it to, up to 28%. that increase is still less than what the corporate tax rate was before the trump tax cut before, the corporate rate was 35%. i never remember seeing tax increases increase the popularity of anything today joe biden promised that the benefits of this infrastructure plan will be felt all across america >> there is talent, innovation everywhere and this plan connects that talent through cities, small towns, rural communities, through our businesses and our universities, through our entrepreneurs, union workers all across america we have to move now. because i am convinced that if we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back and say, this was the moment that america won the future >> and in the city with the most bridges in the whole world, joe biden, of course, emphasized bridges. >> it will fix the nation's ten most economically significant bridges in america that require replacement. remember that bridge that went down we got ten most economically significant bridges with mor

trump so i think on the 1st front with regard to the donald trump point obviously he's doing very well there's a strong contrast i think everybody gets that amongst other things we have a president now he we don't have to think about all the time i think that's a pretty major contrast when you're looking at covert response it also seems that we're doing pretty well the u.s. is doing very well when you compare to the rest of the world with regard to our vaccination rates obviously our case numbers aren't great but as her community is approached i think those are going to come down the one caveat that i would offer to this is that joe biden has a habit of setting benchmarks and targets rather low to the point where they should be easily met or exceeded and so i think in some cases he's kind of allowing himself to be graded on a particularly favorable occurred and we'll see how long that works out my personal view is that the electorate may sort of start tiring of that or may start factoring that into their access ments of how he's doing when i ask friends and family they keep telling me

there are new developments in donald trump's legal battles. "the daily beast" is reporting there are two grand juries issuing subpoenas demanding documents and recordings related to the investigation in georgia. that is the strongest because of the trophy of evidence against trump, and even as trump already faces civil lawsuits from congressional members eric swalwell and bennie thompson for his involvement in inciting the riot on capitol hill new lawsuits have been filed by two capitol police officers for physical and emotional injuries suffered from the riot. the suit accuses trump of, quote, directing assault and battery, aiding and abetting assault and battery, directing intentional inflick shon of emotional arrest. one associate is saying there's about a zero percent chance of criminal liability for the president based on what he said on january 6th and close to the same thing for any civil liability though perhaps they shouldn't write off the lawsuit yet. one brought by a 17-year capitol police officer. the other claims the officer was a

but caitlyn jenner supported donald trump for many years. there is even an iconic and some would say disgusting photograph of caitlynjenner disgusting photograph of caitlyn jenner driving disgusting photograph of caitlynjenner driving her car in malibu with the top down, wearing her make america great cap. 0therthan wearing her make america great cap. other than winning wearing her make america great cap. 0therthan winning in wearing her make america great cap. other than winning in the olympics and starring in a reality tv show and being a good public speaker, i don't see how caitlynjenner has demonstrated the ability to get things done on a business level. she is not a respected business person or inspirational leader that can get people to do things. but can get, you know, action across party lines and things done. i don't know, i'm not confident in her, she does not have my support. in confident in her, she does not have my summ— have my support. in my -- in one word. — have my support. in my -- in one word, would _ have my support.