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now the former president trump is pushing back on the "new york times" report. in a statement he says the fund-raising efforts were all done legally, and he adds, quote, many people were so enthusiastic that they gave over and over and in certain cases where they gave too much we would promptly refund their contribution or overall dispute rate was less than 1% of total

they are mega people, trump loyalists. trump has backed both of them. the swamp are trying to bring down ron desantis and matt gaetz. host: what do you think about the accusations against matt gaetz? you have -- guest: you have this jailhouse snitch sitting in trial awaiting trial on sex trafficking. he will say whatever he's got to say tuesday shave time off of his sentence. the story went for about a week and have. i'm not seen any proof that shows any of these are true. host: what makes you believe he is not guilty? guest: in america you are innocent until your proven guilty. i am not going to convict a man in the court of public opinion. i'm not seen one woman come forward. where is the 17-year-old girl that he supposedly trafficked at that is 19 now? there is a story that he went to president trump that he went for an advance pardon and that is fake news. host: our guest is buying crack and if you want to ask them questions about the issue of florida politics, national politics, you can give us a call and let us know. for republicans (202) 748-8001

theer trump businesses. which is remarkable given of courseof all of the fuss they made about hillary clinton. there were early reports that senior white house officials were using what we call disappearing message apps. two of them basically you get a message on your phone, and as you are reading literally as your scrolling vanishes. so that no record is preserved. along with some historians and other government actually challenge that practice in court and was nott successful. we know that people like jared kushner were frequent users of another application called whatsapp. it is far from clear again that was on his personal device, whether or not he transfer those messages with all the metadata and attachments to an official e-mail account. and we know, again this was the >> of w a lawsuit that crew and others are brought, we know the president really resisted creating records in the first place. for example, the multiple times he met with putin he took steps to make sure no records weree created. he did

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

and i watched mitch mcconnell flip from being very anti-trump after january 6th to pretty pro-trump now. mcconnell has said he would also support trump if he was the nominee in 2024 as well. so what you see is where the real party is not the elected officials but the base and the local activists. and they told the party, we're a trump party. if you're republican, it means you support donald trump and now you have seen the nikki haleys, the mcconnells and so on flip back because the party activists told them they had to. >> yeah. and it just shows the value you can put in any of those words for a former president for all the talk of what he would do, he's around but he's not loud. he's not on television that much. he's not on the internet that much. they're just afraid of the hold he has. that's why that autopsy analysis makes sense. thanks for being here. >> good to see you. >> yes, sir. >>> coming up, there is late-breaking news on the doj suing roger stone. also, new heat on ted cruz. we will get into why he keeps finding himself in these controversies. >>> and something very special

trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! >> invade the capitol building! let's take the capitol! >> take the capitol! >> take the capitol! >> take the capitol right now! >> joining us now, laurence tribe, university professor of constitutional law emeritus at harvard law school. he's won 35 cases in the united states supreme court. thank you for joining us. i've been eager to get your analysis of these police officer lawsuits, because they're of a kind of less legally complicated sort than what the members of congress have filed. this seems like a much more traditional tort after an injury suffered because of someone else's reckless conduct. >> exactly. the lawsuits filed by the congressmen, including representative swalwell and representative thompson are very strong. they rely on laws going back to the civil war era. slightly complicated, insurrection, rebellion, not terms that juries are necessarily familiar with. and the question of whether members of congress have what is called standin

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

the trump campaign chairman in 2016 was paul manafort, recently pardoned by president trump after trump lost reelection. manafort was described in the mueller report as having sent private, non-public, sensitive campaign polling data, internal campaign polling data from the trump campaign to this guy konstantin kilimnik to help trump. why did paul manafort give kilimnick that secret trump polling data in the summer of 2016? we don't know. the mueller team didn't explain. they described kilimnick as associated with russian intelligence but they never described why manafort was giving campaign intelligence to him. the senate committee described kilimnick bluntly as somebody who was a russian intelligence officer, let's just cut to the chase. but as to why trump's campaign chair was giving a russian intelligence officer sensitive internal campaign polling data during the campaign? the senate intelligence committee said they couldn't tell. quote, on numerous occasions manafort sought to secretly share internal campaign information with kilimnick. the committee was unable to reliably determi

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

it's not just about trump anymore. there's a whole series of republicans who might just well run for president in 2024 and maybe they don't run if trump does. but there are other folks in the party, people like ron desantis, the governor of florida, and mike pence, the former vice president, all potentially planning their own runs for president. it seems unlikely pence would challenge trump directly, but these other groups starting are the building blocks to have a political operation in place to potentially run for president on his own right. >> before we let you go, we know congressman matt gaetz has been a trump loyalist through and through. he's facing his own investigation, several of them, doj and house ethics investigation. did trump mention gaetz at all last night? >> to the best of my knowledge, he did not. he did call out several of his most loyal supporters. jim jordan, mark meadows. i was not told he mentioned gaetz. i can't disprove it for certain but i don't think he mentioned matt gaetz, even as gaetz ga

donald trump. i think the party still has a huge challenge. liz cheney is waving her arms desperately for the party to deal with it and deal with it now. i didn'tly. >> eugene daniels and robert gibbs, we will return. >>> we're talking about the pentagon. we'll tell you about it after a quick break. pentagon we'll tell you about it after a quick break. and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. before discovering nexium 24hr usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? this is our block. our

and the trump organization. now, allen weisselberg has a couple of sons, but the one that we're focusing on is a guy by the name of barry weisselberg. barry was married for 14 years to jennifer weisselberg. so, why do we care about jennifer weisselberg? well, she just turned over three boxes and a laptop to cy vance's office and investigators that included financial documents, account statements, credit card statements, bank account statements, that included not only her ex-husband's stuff but allen weisselberg's stuff, because apparently, barry and his dad, allen, had joint accounts together. and what they're doing is they're trying to build and what i think in my legal opinion, the cy vance's office is trying to build a legal case against allen weisselberg's son. and in order to do that, that would then incentivize allen weisselberg to flip on donald trump. allen weisselberg has declared his complete and utter loyalty to donald trump and the trump organization, but as i previously wrote in a column for msnbc o

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

a con artist, as my fellow guest noted, promoting trump casinos, trump universities, trump mother-in-laws, and the trump administration which ended up being a scam and we know the trump campaign was a scam. donald trump once told me in office -- an oval office meeting that he believed even if he didn't have a reason to sue someone, it was good to sue them because you got them to settle and do what you wanted. my suggestion for people who have been affected by this is maybe they should consider using donald trump's own advice and suing him back. but we'll see what happens. >> what an oval office conversation. >> thank you both for being here. >>> coming up, impending disaster. hundreds of millions of radioactive wastewater is on the brink of flooding neighborhoods in florida. the race to contain this next. >>> tonight nbc news senior national correspondent kate snow investigates for-profit companies that run youth homes. it's a system some say profits off of and has failed many vulnerable children. so, what is being done to fix it? you can watch "children that pay" tonight at 10:00 p.m. ea

>> donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. the president of the united states, thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money, as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. i concluded that don jr. was referring to that june 2016 trump tower meeting about dirt on hillary, with the russian representatives when he walked behind his dad's desk that day. and that mr. trump knew that was the meeting that don jr. was talking about when he said, that's good, let me know. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> joining us now is michael cohen. he's the author of a book about his time with the ex-president, it's called, "disloyal: a memoir, a true story of the former personal attorney to donald j. trump." he also hosts the podcast, mea culpa. thank you so much for spending some time with us to

trump in a way that might upset him, is this story going to be all about trump, mr. mccarthy asked after back-to-back questions on him. and then liz cheney, does not seem to have a liberal bone in herbody and is now essentially being shunned by her party because she voted to impeach the former president after inciting a deadly insurrection. and we have a piece on the fall-out of the vote and the party's fear of trump's rath. colleagues confided that the party is happy to move on from trump but saying it in public was a different story. it risked getting the liz cheney treatment. that cheney was willing to face trump's wrath called attention to the fact that most of them were not. a writer at large for the "new york times" magazine joins me now. robert, one thing that came through in the great piece as i was reading it and it's something that i think you have tweeted about, is that i think a lot of us who, you know, consume media across all sorts of landscapes and are not steeped in right wing media. donald trump is off twitter and he is not in the white house and giv

trump supporters listen to trump and pretty much only to trump. this is that one of those officials tells me. this officials says i see operation warp speed tipping towards failure and it concerns me. if we don't move half the people into the vaccinated column we're most likely not going to reach community immunity and if we don't reach it then the president's vaccine legacy is dead. last week former president trump said on fox news he mention that had he had been asked to make a psa and very briefly he said i'll do it. however, we all know the former president changes his mind and that's hardly a -- a commitment to actually making the psa these former officials are looking for a commitment. jake. >> it's so odd, elizabeth. trump himself got vaccinated in january but did it secretly. we didn't find out until much, much later. what do health experts think about if he had televised his getting that shot in january whether the u.s. would be in a better place? >> if he had televised it and if he had released that, made it part of a psa, that would hav

trump's, the trump organization and other people. i really don't want to get into the sum and substance of the topics. though, many have been already discussed and provided and information provided by the press because i really want to respect the process and respect mark pomeranz who has a heck of a job in front of him. he complimented the trump organization on the hiring of a very well seasoned criminal defense attorney. but the problem for him, the problem for donald trump and the trump organization is that the truth is the truth and that the truth will always come out, to which case it doesn't matter who your lawyer is. you may have mark mukasi, which is the lawyer trump recommended now to matt gaetz. what's the difference? i mean, the bottom line is the documents, the records exist. you know, one of the things nicole wallace talked about was that i had flipped. first of all, i didn't flip. that's actually inaccurate. i pled guilty. but when i was providing the testimony, ari, i was providing it under oath. i was providing it bas

trump's. and i don't think there are many sweaty palms right now in the federal southern district of new york prosecutors offices as they anticipate the outcome of what giuliani's going to do. i think donald trump thinks he can keep every republican in line, but i don't think rudy, who's a guy accused of illegally lobbying for a foreign government, is going to put much stock in the idea of loyalty. so this is bad news for giuliani and for trump. >> katie, the president with a straight face and much sincerity said he did not know in advance about this raid until he read the public reports of it. there is, we should point out, no reason to doubt that. that would indicate a sea change back to the way the department of justice has traditionally been run, the wall between the white house and doj. it would certainly mark a sea change between the first regime you covered, that of bill barr, et al., and the current justice department, would it not? >> absolutely. so you have to keep in mind that since

>> well, we know donald trump is only going to look out for donald trump. he has his own legal troubles facing him, so he has no time for someone like matt gaetz. the first article of the constitution is the legislative branch, so we know for the framers intended for this to be a branch to uphold democracy. he does not have a lot of long-standing friends. we're seeing that people within the republican party are trying to move away from this right wing extremist notion that donald trump solidified in four years and try to become a little more moderate so they actually have a future moving forward in 2022 and 2024. matt gaetz is not part of that plan. why would you cast your lot with someone facing possible pedophilia charges and other charges when the republicans have bigger fish to fry when they're trying to win back state houses and push forward a different type of agenda. this is a distraction for someone they barely know, and they're not willing to sort of risk their own reputation for someone like him. >> yeah. and, michael, when somebody says that they

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

donald trump comes out of that. the fox-ification of trump. >> for all the peel who say trump corrupted the republican party -- i mean, this is the exhibit a that trump didn't kprupt the party. trump was a symptom of a larger sickness that happened in the party. >> not the cause, yeah. >> and boehner is writing about sort of the foundation that was all right sort of fertile for somebody like sarah palin, and trump, and others to sort of harness that populist nativist outrage that became the trump presidency. >> guys, i have got to get your -- >> fox news was trying to be sort of a destroyer to get attention in hyper partisan media rather than having any interest in actually, you know, governing. >> shabsolutely. i want to squeeze this in. this has been the most bizarre thing i have seen in the last 48 hours. this tweet by republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green. probably not mentioned in the boehner book but if he writes a sequel she would be. it is a video of her working out. this is my covid protection. it

at a trump country club there. it says, the organization praised gaetz as one of the few members of congress willing to stand up and fight on behalf of president trump and his america first agenda. it is likely we won't hear any facts on this case. >> probably not, but they will be listening keenly, because matt gaetz is always making admissions. he is his own worst enemy. so you know what? let him continue to talk because he's only providing more evidence for investigators and prosecutors. >> glenn kirschner, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, major league baseball is moving the all-star game west from atlanta to denver, colorado and that provoked a bunch of lies from republicans today about election laws in colorado. the new governor of the all-star game, colorado governor jared polis will join us next. polis will join us next. erently. wet teddy bears! wet teddy bears here! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ [music

on november 24th when donald trump and matt gaetz were pretending that donald trump would be president for life he went on fox to prepare for what he hoped would be pars for everyone. >> he should pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has to. you can see from the radical left a bloodlust that will only be quenched with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the american people. i think the president ought to wield the pardon power effectively and robustly. >> "new york times" reports that it is unclear whether congressman gaetz or the white house knew that he you was the subject of a sex trafficking investigation approved by trump attorney general william barr at the time that he was asking for the pardon. mr. gaetz didn't tell white house aides that he was under investigation when potential sex trafficking violations were being investigated. congressman gaetz denied he has violated any laws. joining us is a career federal prosecutor and now legal analyst. now this is so striking, this notion that while matt gaetz

it's not about whether q believes in trump or not. we want everybody to realize there is something wrong with the status quo. this movement isn't just limited to japan. it's a global movement. that's why i joined. >> reporter: qanon in japan shows how easily unfounded claims can move from the darkest corners of the internet to draw in people from around the world. in january, twitter suspended the accounts of the members we spoke to. they say they've now moved to other platforms and are recruiting offline, including jay here, who is a financial consultant and travels across japan to recruit, spreading misinformation along the way. >> it's been one of the most self-sustaining communities and resilient. the major danger of qanon is just an undermining of voices that are intended to deliver public information. >> reporter: q army japan flynn members tell cnn their numbers have increased during the pandemic. they say they have members across the country, male, female, rich and poor. experts say recent actions from social media companies a

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well, trump world found out. turns out on the trump server, the server from germany, it was the real election results as seen on this map obtained by a dude on twitter. and as you can see in this map, donald trump secretly won the election with more than 400 electoral votes including the electoral votes in california which in reality is a state trump lost by nearly 30 points. but the secret server in germany tells a different story. of all the trump world conspiracy theories after the election, this one about the german servers and the military thing was definitely the most baroque and maybe the most insane. and here's a sitting member of congress, congressman louie zboemt,, gohmer promoting this, on facebook, also on conservative tv channel called newsmax. it was also featured on one america news. they even broadcast a picture of the map that was supposedly found on the servers that were seized in the raid. the map showed, among other things, that trump won california. the company that got hit with this conspira

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

that is what trump world. it is and of course, trump world is still essentially in control in the republican party. but today felt like a minefield in terms of stories like that. these things left behind that we are still mired and as a country that we sort of can't escape the stink of as a country. even as the country is trying to take off a new different erection. for example, today the united state supreme court, the court in its infinite wisdom assigned to justice brett kavanaugh the task of writing the majority opinion in a sweeping new ruling that essentially reinstates sentences of life without parole for kids. there was no outright rule banning that that -- life without parole for juvenile offenders -- but there was strong settled supreme court precedent making that sentence only available in a very narrow circumstances. people convicted of crimes that occurred while they were children. justice kavanaugh's opinion today blows that up. it blows up all that precedent. which is one thing on its own terms,

trump said, enough is enough. time for the republican party to actually stand with its voters and effect a platform that is more closely aligned with what these voters want. immigration, trade, on foreign policy -- trump's foreign policy -- i think mike anton of the claremont institute would describe it as "jacksonian." what that means is his instincts are to be more reserved, to have a more nation-state, national interest, realistic credential foreign policy. but when provoked, you lash out and let them know who is boss. we saw that in the trump presidency, the action of the targeted killings of qassem soleimani, abu bakr al-baghdadi and so forth. similarly, on economic issues in general -- holding trade aside -- trump understood intuitively that the voter was not necessarily a devotee of friedrich hayek or milton friedman. the difference is -- and it gets back to the george h.w. bush speech, the conception of conservatism viewed the free market as an instrumental means towards the ends of the flourishing of comm

donald trump is no longer president so the others ride off with their pardons from trump but giuliani has no protection and clearly narrowing in on him seriously. >> we talk to congressman schiff after this so thank you for starting us off. we'll talk about it here. thanks to all three for starting us off. >>> someone who knows just how sbi cattily tied to the ukraine rudy giuliani really is. congressman adam schiff will be our guest. >>> and we are a few hours away from president biden's first address to a joint session of congress as the opposition party with an assist from conservative media desperately attempting and failing to beat him back throwing everything from beef, books and dr. seuss his way. >>> plus some advice from a former republican to democrats hoping to capitalize on the popularity of president biden's agenda. focus on the suburbs and make the gop own the insurrection. all that and more when we continue after a quick break. don't go anywhere. where. [doorbell rings] thanks, baby. yeah, we 'bout to get spicy for this virtual date. spicy like them pajama pants. hey, t

he said what every trump justice said in court. trump-appointed. no widespread voter fraud. nobody found widespread voter fraud. and raffensperger, as secretary of state, has also been chair of the state board of elections. now the legislature that was criticizing him during the recounts is going to pick the chair of the board and a majority of the members. the secretary of state becomes a non-voting member. the state board is going to have the authority to take over local election boards under certain circumstances. again, my greatest concern and the concern of a lot of people. and last fall when georgia's governor faced pressure from president trump to intervene in vote counting, he said the secretary of state had the authority over elections cannot be overwritten. the new law gives some of that authority to the legislature, which has been under republican control now for almost two decades. that may be the scenario that president trump was looking for in other battleground states last fall. that's when trump invited top michigan republicans to the white house just days be

trump voters support the dream act and trump voters believe that kids who were brought into the country through their no fault of their own have right to deserve citizenship and emphasize the word earn and hostile to immigrant population is inaccurate, howie. the press' responsibility particularly now with conditions this difficult to tell the truth and tell it accurately and in this case on immigration, they're not accurately communicating where trump voters really stand on the issue. howie: fascinating. i would also say that the border is the one issue where the media have been by in large pretty tough on president biden and his handling or lack of handling of the mess, but i also sense that the coverage is starting to fade a bit because the story has gotten a bit old and not much has changed, your thoughts? frank: that may be the case, the issue right now this is a long-term challenge and we have to find a way to separate the border security from the immigration itself. the american people believe that the system is broken that there should be a legal, lawful way for those who want t

they were good for trump. they were good for giuliani. it is only when the attempted winners become the losers that it wears risk. it makes me go back to the question of why he didn't pardon giuliani before he left office, didn't pardon other people. >> why? >> it seemed like that was about to happen at the end. now you think to yourself, huh, these people really are at risk of being prosecuted. they missed their chance. >> right. it is as if the timing of the things you do for trump is the most important thing because he had no sense of shame or guilt or anything about pardoning so many around him. this will go down in many ways as more extreme than watergate with regard to the coverup. whether the underlying crimes are the same. but the coverup was all in the open. people like matt gaetz were reportedly seeking pardons, but giuliani didn't get one. it is all a story that's clearly not over. we wanted your legal journalistic take in addition to mr. cohen's experience as a participant. thank you for being part

>> well, of course, congressman gaetz wants to make this all about trump and the anti-trump fervor. trying to associate himself with the trump base, of whom he's been a leading champion in the last four years. saying it's all political, all the same kind of persecution that they went after the president that the supporters all admire. the problem is, he's not actually been embraced by many of the figures in trump's world. trump himself has only issued a two-sentence statement saying, no, he didn't directly ask me for a blanket pardon. he didn't say he believed him or that he's being unfairly treated. he didn't come to congressman gaetz's defense in any way. you see the congressman trying to put himself in that position as yet another victim, that people are out to get him like the trump view. >> and for everybody who hasn't been following the story, this comes on the heels of joel greenberg, the seminole county tax collector. his lawyer suggesting he'll make a deal with prosecutors, saying i'm sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. michael cohen issuing a kind of war

compared to trump, higher than trump started off as president, higher than trump ever got as president. if we take a step back to all modern presidents, we're going back to gerald ford since after watergate, here's how they stacked up 100 days in. this is the average approval rating. here the biden number falls near the bottom of the list. the trump number is at the very bottom. gerald ford came in in the summer of '74. in those first 100 days he pardoned richard nixon and that's why his number was so low. otherwise it's biden, trump. carter a democrat, reagan a republican. you used to have just in general more robust approval ratings early on in a presidency. one thing that's changed over time when you dig into these numbers, check this out. this is the approval rating from members of the other party, meaning if you look at biden right now, on average 11% of republicans say they approve of the job he's doing as president. when you look at donald trump, it was 9% of democrats. very few. basically around 10% members of the other party approving of the president. it didn't used to always

trump: i was told by dr. fauci and by many people the quickest you are going to have the vaccine is three years. and it could be five years. it could be longer than that and it could also not happen. and then i got involved. i said that's ridiculous. i got involved with the fda. they hate me so badly and i understand it. >> sean: give me a list of people that hate you. but you are okay with that. >> mr. trump: we are helping people. we are saving tens of millions of people with the vaccine. so, i pushed them. they had all of the statutory periods.im they have to go a certain speed. if we had it done in less than 9 months, it would have taken minimum three years. i don't think they ever would have had -- >> sean: didn't you back them up financially as well? >> mr. trump: but yes. but i did two things. i backed the companies that financially. pfizer didn't want to admit it. no, pfizer is really income okay? i will give you a little breaking news. pfizer is in with the fda and what the fda did with johnson & joh

the trump campaign chairman was paul manafort, he was recently pardoned by donald trump. he was described in the report as having a shared polling data, internal campaign data to this guy paul manafort konstantin kilimnik during the summer of 2016 while they were working to try to influence the election to help trump. why did paul manafort give konstantin kilimnik that secret polling data in the summer of 2016? we don't know. at least we didn't know. the mueller team didn't explain. they described him as associated with russian intelligence. but they never said why paul manafort was giving a campaign to this guy associated with the russian intelligence. that is how mueller left it. and then the senate intelligence committee looked at it too and they couldn't explain, and they went further in describing konstantin kilimnik bluntly as a intelligence officer. they said that he was associated with russian intelligence, we but they say that he is just a russian officer. as to why trump's campaign chair was giving a russian intelligence officer sensitive internal polling data d

so now, dance camino, who works for president trump, just because you work for president trump, you can't post on facebook. why is anybody on facebook anymore that is a conservative? it's time to leave if you are not wanted there. >> it's amazing. when you look at the span, it not only applies, sean, to your point, to the 45th president of the united states, who they are trying to erase from historyus but also all campaign accounts and all former surrogates of the president. that is a very deep list here that we are talking about. meanwhile, i just went on facebook right before we went on here and i am seeing speeches by louis farrakhan, who refers to he says i'm not anti-semite. i'm anti-termite. that's okay. but you can't have a benign interview that the former president of the united states did.ha i asked him, what did he say during that interview that is so offensive that you have to hide the sensitivities of the people that are on facebook, the billions that are on there? for facebook to do this, even george orwell is probably watching this from somewhere and saying yeah, that is pre

perpetrated by trump's b.s. derek chauvin claiming those famous words of george floyd's "i can't breathe" resisting arrest. matt gaetz saw a pardon from trump. would you do that if you had not done anything wrong? let's go "out front." good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight, one of the people charged after storming the u.s. capitol agreed to help the justice department in its case against the proud boys' leadership. according to an attorney familiar to the case, it could lead to more severe charges against those allegedly involved in the insurrection. that comes with grave charges for anyone blamed for the insurrection. john boehner is putting the blame on trump for the deadly attack. boehner writes in his book. "trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, per perpetuated b.s." again, to be clear of the significance of this. the former republican speaker calling the insurrection actual terrorism brought on my members of his own party. people he served with like congr

what happened under the trump administration? if they have to revert back to those policies, it will be a nasty face plant for them, don't you think? >> they won't give donald trump credit for anything. i think they found themselves in a bit of a sticky spot here. the way to fix this is what donald trump actually did. you just heard from tom homan, all the people who work at the border say under president trump our border was the most secure it had been in decades. we have the exclusion. -- we havethe solution. but we know they are not going to give him credit for it and they don't want to go that route. because then donald trump would be right and that would be a disaster. this is bad for america and bad for the world by and large. dan: thanks for joining us. we really appreciate it. your kids still aren't allowed in school. but kids coming across illegally are getting in-person instruction. first a big congrats to jesse. jesse and his wife emma are the proud parents of a baby boy named jesse bailey watters, jr. huge congrats. d

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at one point, donald trump, jr., even suggested a more accurate name would be the trump political action conference. >> how's it going, cpac? [ cheers ] or i heard someone earlier phrase it a little bit better. tpac it's what it feels like, guys. >> seth: tpac? even they didn't know what to do with that. you couldn't think of anything lamer? i think tpac is the name of a pink eye medication. tpac sounds like the name of an off brand tupac hologram at a festival that couldn't get the rights to use his real name. "welcome to the cowchella festival, please welcome tpac, singing his classic song 'california hugs.' at another point kimberly guilfoyle suggested trump would accomplish more as the next president than biden would accomplish as the actual president. >> i will confidently say that president trump from his desk at mar-a-lago will accomplish more for america in the next four years than joe biden and kamala harris could ever dream of >> seth: have you ever even seen him at his desk at mar-a-lago? he looks like a tourist posing for a photo at letterman's old desk he's just holding a pe