this is about donald trump. as most thing in donald trump, life has been about donald trump. this isn't. yeah, to answer your question about my right. let me, let me go to your, your job. that good is that good? george trump is synonymous with america. america is synonymous with trump. that's an interesting proposition. what do you think, george? it's an absolute disaster. come on with any more and empirical evidence of that. and then the question, you know, it gets back to what mike was saying, washington about that he sucks the oxygen out of the room. this again, this is the problem going back to 2015 is that there's no other republican, it's long, big enough to give them a fight. go back to the primary. they're calling people losers. the 5th, they're fighting and no one ever stood up to him. he stood there and he made mincemeat out of 15 opponents in the primers of 2016 till now mentioned economy gets, you know, the wedding, his parents every time they feel that trumps people are going to come after him until someone else can come out and say hey guys, here's a set of prin

just ask them to describe donald trump. ♪ - trump is my hero president. - trump is kind of a force. - his aura came in the room before he did. - donald trump is our first rock star superhero president. - he's a very tall man. little bit shorter than yourself. very big man. uh, nice, big hands. - he's a man for all the people, i think. he didn't need this job whatsoever either. the white house is honestly like a downgrade from his penthouse suite and everything. - yeah, it feels like it's a downgrade for america too. - he's just a peaceful person in general, i think. - and he puts those protesters down like that. - yes. - which causes peace pretty quickly. - yeah. - he's got skin that is-- is about as thick as it gets and-- - don-- who does? - 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. - s

and donald trump jr. accepted this without dispute in terms of the papers to be ready for arguments for the end of july. what are you hoping you will be able to learn if you get to that point and you can say here is my list of what i want. >> i mean it is a long list and we'll get to dario friscovery. we want to know what donald trump was saying and thinking and who was was in his ears and part of the decision making. we know he spoke to a number of congressman and senators that day and the violence and the deaths was happening at the capitol. we need to know that. given the republicans' refusal to engage with the january 6th commission, it seems all the more important that we have the ability to ask people questions and look at documents and figure out what was happening that day. >> phillip, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, erin. >>> next, george p. bush is about to make a major political announcement at this hour. he's the only bush cozying up to trump despite trump's attack on his fath

we're talking about the trump organization being criminally indicted, different than trump university and simple penalty case. if they're convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, that is really quite an extreme thing. unlikely for some of the other things, lot of people around trump accused of things, trump pretends not to know him or michael cohen. can't do that about the trump organization. that is literally the organization that president trump built and his children run. so it is harder for him to run away from it. the other thing i would say, even smaller indictments couldn't undermine the trump organization financing, it is rumored the trump organization is leveraged with billions of dollars in debt. many times loan agreements say the loan can be called if the organization is indicted. that could put another squeeze on donald trump apart and beyond the law itself. >> that's a possibility and it would depend on individual banks if hands aren't forced. joan, final question to you big picture is more metaphysical. are you ready for that one? >> whoa, yeah. >> how as society do you thin

is trump standing in his way? yes. if trump runs again, he stands in his way. by teasing it, he is still standing in his way. he is standing in everyone's way. this is the dance of is trump in control with the republican -- of the republican party? it certainly looks that way. making targets out of folks like liz cheney and some other republicans that voted for his second impeachment. i don't know if he is the roadblock or the leader, however you want to coin that. he is the defective nominee until he says no. i think everyone is operating under that assumption. host: he is fundraising in new hampshire for the new hampshire republican party. what is his record as a fundraiser? tom: he became very good at fundraising. this is something i explored in the book and it helped me understand him and the primaries -- the shadows in the primary presidential campaigns, all the major candidates look good. if you rewind back to november of 2008 when john boehner, the house majority leader pulls him into leadership, and one things pence is tasked with is raising money for t

three years before trump lost the 2020 election. this is just who donald trump is. this is who donald trump has always been, a man unmoored by morality, principle and any sense of fair play, a man only looking out for himself. so now you know what i mean. if you're not paying close attention you might think we're talking about 2019 trump, but 2021 trump is actually worse because it always gets worse with trump. we never find out that some undemocratic order was less undemocratic than we first imagined. and that's what house judiciary chairman jerry nadler knows and fears. tonight chairman nadler said, quote, my concern at this hour is that the corruption may run deeper than has already been reported, end quote. because it always gets worse with trump. and as this inspector general investigation goes forward, there's a good chance that we'll learn about more heinous acts committed by trump and his administration. that's the thing about trump. you kind of figure that most of his democracy destroying efforts were done and they were done out in the open because so many

and the trump organization were liable for trump university's misdeeds. so he doesn't always swim off. it's just that no one has really come at him this hard that often. as for cohen being the only one to turn, well, he's the only one or one of the only ones who's actually been indicted in trump's inner circle. when things are actually hitting you and you're actually really seeing the prospect of being convicted of a crime, people's tune can change. so i think we're way too early to say that he's going to turn or not turn. i think once he's indicted, we could see a very different situation arise. >> if he's indicted -- >> if he's indicted. if weisselberg is indicted, we could see a very different story. >> yeah. well, i'm going to let michael respond to you, because the orator that he is i'm sure he has rebuttal cooking. but weisselberg is someone that you dealt with in this manner. i'm reading here and he oversaw the spending decisions at trump u., the online program and the deposition in the case speaks to that. there are experts here who say money man

donald trump is not going away. trumpism and corruption manifests itself and others in government right now. >> elle? >> i don't know why you don't come into the justice department on day one and your first order is everything stops. everything that you were doing for that corrupt man stops now, and we're going to rebuild it from the ground up. this investigation is good. that investigation was clearly corrupt. you are fired. you, maybe you can stay. you, get out and go directly to jail. do not pass go. do not collect $200. i don't know why that's not happening, except i do and that's exactly what michelle said. it is because merrick garland is an institutionist. he wants things to work the way they are supposed to work. he was not picked to come in fire breathing and clean house and rip the staff of trump off of our country. >> you are saying that new york times readers say sometimes, that we say sometimes on "the beat," what michelle said. right? if you take what michelle said, which i think is exactly the diagnos

what do you want to hear from trump? >> i want to hear trump say i'm going to fix it. i'm going back in and i'm going to fix it. >> trump is going to the border, who gets it right? >> trump, of course. >> you are out here today. why are you out here? >> i love trump and i used to be a democrat actually until 2009 and i woke up. >> sean: here with more, fox news contributor david webb. the case speaks for itself. what's interesting to me, i would look at three issues. number one, the voter integrity issues, the things i always talk about, voter i.d., voter verification, chain of custody, partisan observers observed, updated voter rolls and then i would argue as the president did in his speech, prosecute the case against new green deal socialism and what the america first make america great again agenda is all about and we get not only the house and play but we've got important senate races including ohio, florida, georgia, north and south carolina, new hampshire, wisconsin, arizona, a lot of big races. >> there's a lot out there and you talk about the tale of the tape.

they wanted more trump. isn't the whole thing trump's fault? our media echo system has become so focused on blaming trump and some republican lawmakers that we've lost sight of the massive failures here. such as as the new york times noted, the fbi memo the day before, january 5th, warning of people traveling to washington for war, never made its way to top law enforcement officials, such as as the washington post noted, a series of omissions and miscommunications by the capitol police that kept vital information from reaching frontline officers. omissions? i'm so tired of hearing that this agency or that police department had the intel ant didn't notify other agencies about the threats. this is sheer incompetence. the assault on our democracy could have been prevented. i'm not saying the former president's role shouldn't be part of the scrutiny. if national guard troops were called out before the attack, not afterward, the violent that seared into our collective memory could have been avoided. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie

trump lost the election. they were deceived into believing the presidency had been stolen, their country was threatened. they had come to washington to fight for what they thought was right. >> they feel they're the heroic revolutionary courageous worry -- warriors saving democracy. >> they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, dec december guysed as patriotism fed by their members of congress, their television shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been pre predi predictable. you know, we saw people who had been whipped up into believing an election was being stolen and then being told it would happen straight away. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> that threat continues to this day driven by lies that threaten our democracy. how did millions believe a network so deep, so vast they would ignite an insurrection to final the answers we have to go into that sea of people. see through their eyes. >> i hate i lost so many friends and i hate my famil

trump. >> i think it was leaks from the intelligence committee, house version, and i think that they leaked it. i think probably schiff leaked it. schiff leaked it, in my opinion. and he shouldn't be leaking things like that. that's a terrible thing to do. >> what we now know about what the trump justice department did raises severe questions, including this one. whether this crossed the line from a legitimate leak investigation into an abuse of government power and just this past week there have been a number of revelations about conduct at the trump doj that raised questions including about whether it goes too far in its efforts to investigate leaks that angered mr. trump. "wall street journal" white house reporter with us, and abby phillip, and "washington post" congressional reporter as well. this is a tough subject. i want to start with what we heard there. because the president was never shy. like him or not, watching at home, he was transparent all the time about what he liked, and wh

but 2021 trump is actually worse. because it always gets worse with trump. we never find out there's some undemocratic order was less and democratic than we for smidgen. and that's what house judiciary chairman jerry nadler knows and fears. tonight, chairman nadler said quote, my concern at this hour is that the corruption may run deeper than has already been reported. end quote. because it always gets worse with trump. and as this inspector general investigation goes forward, there's a good chance that will learn about more heinous acts committed by trump and his administration. that's the thing about trump. you kind of figure that most of his democracy destroying efforts were done. and they were done out in the open. because so many of them were. apparently, many were carried out the kind close doors, because he knew and those around him knew, that they were wrong. so we need this investigation to learn more about the efforts to obtain the records of democrats in congress, and reporters. who we've learned over the last few weeks, we're also targeted in the

the trump media hate that. hate milley, though milley was a trump appointee. some people were worried he was too loyal to trump. he did the right thing. he is standing up to republicans in congress now and defending the military's, you know, various policies. and they just can't stand it. >> gentlemen, stay with us. i am going to fit in a break. we will continue our discussion on the other side and, indeed, coming up, the coming revenge tour kicking off with a grievance rally of sorts in ohio. we have got that to look forward to. we have got that to look ford to good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. -and i'm gonna -- -eh, eh, eh. -donny, no. -oh. right now, she's not thinking about her work -and i'm g

donald trump. remember, it was stalker maggie haberman and "the new york times" partisan socialist pacts, won the pulitzer prize in 2018 for the russia collusion coverage which of course turned out to be completely and totally false based on bad sources, bad information, bad journalism, bad writing, and total fake news left wing partisan radical agenda. i will ask again, maggie, when will you admit your mistakes and correct the record, return the fake pulitzer and admit who you are?ll you become a full-time donald trump stalker and you're not covering joe biden the way you covered donald trump. you are not capable of it. she stalks trump and gives biden a pass. it just like "the new york times" colleagues they just all can't seem to quit donald trump. the mob, the media, they miss trump more than anybody else in the country. may be other stalkers at "the new york times," her colleagues, maybe they want to get trump bobbleheads for them so they can put pins in it at night. here's a headline. let's s

as much as he claims he dislikes trump, boy, does he love the trump republicans. the reality is trump republicans pliant in the orders. the real monster is mitch mcconnell. >> always strong >> you mentioned the skrer ri the gerrymandering. republicans have half the seats. they represent 43% of the state. it is not just the senate or the house. state legislatures are also tilted. so, james baldwi said not everything at its face can be changed but nothing can be changed that's not faced. how much do joe biden and democrats understand this reality to change it that way or how much of it is actually changing the under lying structure. if and when you have less gerrymandering and you may have broader participation. when joe biden talked about how he didn't want a budget or reconciliation that got through elderly care or other priorities. it was actually the truth. it was the only way democrats are going to get their priorities through was through a partisan process. i do think one of the major problems in d.c. is we have to one hand unite the country. on the other hand

was saying, and what trump wanted. trump was ranting and raving and private about how the powers of the justice department should be used to go after the press, to go after his rivals. and he was open about that. he is not going to you know, question the authenticity of that reporting. this is something he really, really wanted. and he was exerting enormous pressure on the department when this happened. >> but it is one thing to know president trump was, as you say, demanding the justice department be used as a political tool against his enemies, that they use their immense power, investigative power and otherwise, to punish and investigate his enemies at his win. it's one thing to know that about him, and another to know the justice department was doing the stuff. that this did not land on deaf ears. under two different trump attorneys general stuff like this happened. one of the things i've sort of audibly gasped when i got to the end of your article, was the note, the list of names of people who were involved in the

chris: we'll ask former trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski, now head of a trump super pac, where the former president plans to take the republican party. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. then -- >> now's the time to build on a foundation we've laid. all the progress is undeniable. it is not assured. chris: president biden and senate republicans try to bridge their divide over infrastructure. but with congress split over so many issues, we'll sit down with the man in the middle on capitol hill, senator joe manchin and how he plans to break the log jam. plus, new controversy over the origins of covid-19 puts dr. fauci in the line of fire. we'll ask our sunday panel about the growing backlash. and our power players of the week, wise words for the class of 2021. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. well, former president trump made one of his highest profile public appearances last night since leaving office in january, addressing the north carolina state gop convention, he called out president biden on the economy and dr. ant

the emails did not come directly from trump, because as we know, trump acts like a mob boss. he doesn't give orders. he speaks in code. and he certainly doesn't leave a paper trail. which is why a white house assistant emailed rosen with a draft legal brief that trump wanted them to file with the supreme court. while then chief of staff mark meadows on january 1st sent rosen a youtube video link about a conspiracy theory involving people in italy supposedly manipulating u.s. votes through satellites. rosen forwarded that email to then acting attorney general, richard donahue, who responded, quote, pure insanity. none of this should surprise you. we saw with our own eyeballs the ways trump tried to upend our democracy while bill barr lied and schemed to make trump's autocratic fantasies come true. it is, however, another layer of proof in what's now a myriad of hearings and panels, many which overlap, surrounding the anti-democratic rot that defined the trump presidency and which still impacts us today. this afternoon, in one of two congressional hearings on the security failu

to cozy up to trump. president macron took is the mantle of the -- they're macron, like biden, a very tactile politics, but we remember that famous for youo from 2018 in canada, i believe, where you saw chancellor merkel and other western leaders to try to exhort trump to sign to the communique, and he simply wouldn't do it, so there's more convivality than others. i want to put up that picture and talk about it further with you. look at this. it's a very memorable tans there. all the leaders standing there, leaning in, angela merkel there, donald trump his arms crossed, almost in a defiant, like i'm daring you kind of thing. maybe he's just listening. i don't want to read too much into that, but reading into those optics, how important is that in terms of setting a tone? >> i think it's fair enough to read a load. remember, it was when donald trump left that g7 meetings, he was on the plane to go and meet the north korean leader. he left early, didn't sign on the communique and sentence off angry tweets

guest: are you talking about joe biden or president trump? caller: who do you think i'm talking about? guest: i ask, because joe biden initially was getting rent from the secret service when he was vice president. we uncovered that and investigated that. other media have investigated that the secret service paid trump for the use of his facilities, which is something that happens in the ordinary course. host: the amount that the secret service paid overtime, was it about what any president over a course of four years, about what they would spend four their needs to cover a president when he traveled? guest: you know, it depends on where the president is traveling. he was staying in mar-a-lago, so you have to pay mar-a-lago prices. they use hotels around there, presumably. when president obama flew to hawaii for his extensive vacationing the prices were significant, for obvious reasons , it being in hawaii, to put up secret service to protect him. host: let's go to jimmy in virginia on the independent line. caller: yes, good morning and thank

all staying glued to trump. president biden has been trying hard to work with republicans on his agenda. it seems to be getting him nowhere. no done deal yet. we have heard from moderate democratic senator joe manchin who is key here. he is still holding out hope for bipartisanship. listen. >> we're going to make the senate work the way it was intended to work. i'm totally committed to that. i'm not throwing caution to the wind. i have never desired to do that. i've listened to everybody's point of view. but the bottom line is this country has got to unite. we can't divide it. >> reporter: but remember, mcconnell said this in may. >> 100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration. >> bill, do you really think republicans are going to give an inch? >> not many inches or at least not on a lot of key issues. the question is whether joe manchin and president biden ultimately are letting this play out in a way that shows people they did their best. went the extra mile for bipartisanship. but they are willing

so did donald trump. trump's action is really guilty of crimes against democracy. it's not just about screwing his enemies but getting everything he wants for himself for his own political ends for his own financial gain and family. he'll undermine a very basic premise of democracy as would now a republican party that is in debt to donald trump and these activities there is a conspiracy, on going conspiracy by trump and those around him and the high ark key of the republican fparty to undermine democracy. >> to your point, there is another key difference between nixon and trump. in the nixon era, there were republicans that stood up to richard nixon. >> not only stood up. richard nixon was about to be impeached and convicted and forced to leave office. that's why he resigned. what do we have ccarthy that ar co-cons co-conspirators. look what they are doing to keep people from voting so that donald trump or his arepublican party that's an authoritarian undemocratic party, what is the goal here? it is not to further democracy. it's to undermine it and trump's whole p

trump is highly leveraged. in his business, he's got huge mortgages, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. and when those loans come due, in the coming years, he will have to refinance those loans. and so, criminal charges will affect that process. he was, already, having trouble because of the january 6th, devastating his reputation even further. and now, criminal charges? i mean, that's a whole, new ball game. so this is a really serious deal and you have a lot of people, you have a core group of people, who pre-covid, were driving in, commuting in to trump tower to work there. and i am sure they are all under a tremendous amount of pressure right now. it's not just trump. it's his children. and it's the core group of officers, legal team, secretaries. and then, of course, the employees around the world that this could affect. >> was the trump organization -- was the former president, allen weisselberg, so on and so forth, all the folks involved, at all, caught off guard? or do they see this coming? >> i th

bill barr was the most popular person in the trump cabinet among the trump faithful. all those people who now believed the election was stolen. when i think is significant, how those words play with those people. if even bill barr -- even the guy that stood behind trump, and called the russia investigation effectively a witch hunt just like trump, did that guy took the time, looked into all this and says my god, there is nothing here. not just the statement, but into the details and saying, the ballots that you saw in the suitcase getting pulled out of the table in georgia, here's why that's a ridiculous thing. he knows the answers, he knows how to answer with people. the question, as well and have any impact? not much has had an impact on the loyal trump base. he is not mincing words. he's saying it is all bs. know >> and ashley parker, you've got the last word, is there any way to measure the level of what concern and trump will get a world of word is about to come down on the manhattan da. >> the way that you know measure that his twitter count was taken away, publ

week that trump believes it. that trump really is telling people that he believes he will be reinstated as president by august, this summer. after that reporting from maggie haberman at the new york times, a pro trump columnist at a conservative magazine today confirmed that indeed, trump believes he is going to be reinstated as president. he earnestly believes it. he's telling people that. he's also telling everyone that republicans senators who lost in november, they will be reinstated, to. martha mcsally in arizona. and david perdue in georgia. they will get their senate seats back. just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's put back in power, and all the republicans get an ousted. the washington post now confirming this basic reporting as well. that trump insists he is going to be reinstated as president. it's insane, right? but it is also working for them right now. it is working for them among trump supporters and among republicans. most of whom do now believe that the 2020 election was a rea

he likes it when trump quotes him. he needs that job and, boy, has he tried to earn it but earn it on trump's terms. point number two is about the work. wiseleberg is the eyes and ears of trump org. he knows everything. he's literally the, quote, only nonfamily member tasked to help don jr. and eric run the company during trump's one-term presidency. >> allen weisselberg managed the trust and the two boys, don jr. and eric, were the ones that were allegedly managing the company, but alan was the gatekeeper. now mind you, each and every day they would send information back to donald in the white house who, of course, was signing still checks on behalf of the trump organization. >> those checks ranged from the mundane to the salacious including money for a now convicted crime, the hush money in the 2016 campaign which included sham invoices which cohen and trump agreed would be set up by alan, the alan in question, allen weisselberg, the name on the now infamous recorded 2016 call. >> and i've spoken to allen wiseleberg

it had nothing to do with donald trump or politics. it was a case involving an alleged russian sex trafficking investigation. and that was how that originated for. >> from the oig report involving bruce ohr. had received much but same information through direct contact with steel, ohr did not advise supervisors on the deputy general about contacts with steele and simp southern about his wife's work for fusion gps or acting as conduit until the office of the deputy attorney general leadership confronted ohr about his activities in late 2017. is that correct? >> i don't know. i mean, i don't have any reason to dispute it. but i just -- i don't know about the internal workings of the doj and i'm not really qualify today pass judgment. i would just add for the sake of completeness that the ig found that he hadn't violated -- he hadn't violated any rules or policies or committed any transgressions, ultimately left with labeling that a lapse in judgment and obviously in hindsight, you know, that's the ig's job, to judge things in hindsight.

[applause] [indiscernible] >> trump, trump, trump [chanting] >> president trump is my president, too. as a matter of fact, he is the greatest president this country has ever had. and he should be our president right now. but the democrats stole the election. [booing] >> that's right. they attract -- attacked president trump for four years, didn't they? they had their they -- they had their fake russian collusion conspiracy theory, they had the dirty rotten media with eyes on him everything will day. -- every single day. and the democrats schemed and his scheme, anything they could to stop our great president trump from putting america first. but you know something, he did it anyway, didn't he? god bless him. well, you know, there is a new bad guy washington, d.c.. her name is congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. [applause] >> i think they don't like me for the same reason they did not like president trump. i love you, too. that is a badge of honor i will wear, i did not go to washington, d.c. to make friends. i did not go there to join the club. you want to know why i went? to drain

they might appoint donald trump. if you were a betting man, what would you say the odds are that donald trump is speaker of the house and second in line for the presidency come january 2023? >> well, i don't think that's going to happen because i don't think republicans are going to win the house in the mid terms in 2022 and part of the reason why is because of conversations like this. the worst thing you can do in an election is give your opponents motivation to show up and vote and turn out and anything hinting at donald trump returning to power will motivate the democratic base so much. i mean, this is the gift that keeps on giving. at this point democrats just let republicans implode upon themselves. the fact that kevin mccarthy has to spend any time answering a question like that because donald trump has put that out into the atmosphere just tells you the ton of problems that they are going to have and it's only going to get worse as donald trump continues to hit the stumps doing those rallies and speaking whate

>> this is part of the attack on truth by the trump administration and trump's gop. science is quintessentially about a search for the truth. and they wish to try to rewrite this portion of history because hundreds of thousands of people died under trump's incompetent watch. all of the mixed messaging on wearing masks, all of the dysfunction around producing the tests and rolling out the tests, the whole kind of trumpian world view that if you don't test people and they don't find a virus therefore the virus doesn't exist. look, fauci is speaking out about that, about the mistakes we made and how costly they were. so no wonder they're going after fauci. yes, they do want to rewrite history and they want to make the pandemic response some kind of glorious success when we had among the worst responses in the world. part of it is trying to resurrect donald trump, trying to help a campaign in 2024. and whitewash his record. they've done this, or tried, in so many other areas. they're trying on the insurrection, to make it a normal tourist day. and they're trying to rewri

>> i do. >> when you look at donald trump and the trump organization, do you see the outlines of a case here? is this something where we've talked about this with other people on the program, so viewers may be familiar, the current attorney general as a candidate was pretty clear in telling voters she saw a problem with donald trump without prejudging cases. that's the whole reason there's a race in the first place, voters get a sense of where you're headed. what do you view as the potential legal exposure of donald trump? is that something you're able to stand up to? or should voters see you as a blank slate? >> i think the worst thing would be to say something on the campaign trail which would suggest anything other than complete impartiality, and putting themselves in a position where they may face a recusal motion or removal of jurisdiction. i've been very committed to making sure it's clear that you have the experience to take over that case and all the other pending cases. i will tell you the senior-most adviser for mire campaign was the former assistant district attorney who hand

and president trump. okay, the -- i don't know of any trump that got paid a penny from any oligarch in russia, but i do know a guy by the name of hunter, with no experience, that got three and a half million dollars from a russian oligarch. the former first lady of moscow. how is it the media can get it all upside down and backwards? you've got to help me out with that. >> yeah, the president's son gets paid by russian oligarch, the wife, and you have joe biden taking off sanctions at approving a pipeline. i'm old enough to remember when the press called that collusion. but it is a whole different set of rules for this guy. you ask the right question, sean come in your monologue: what did we gain -- what did america gai? nothing from the spirit that is on top of the sanctions and the pipeline, contrast this with mr. reagan, who said "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, with mr. trump, who said america first all the time, and joe biden, what can we do about climate change, what can we do, what do we to giv

the candidates are defining themselves as like 100% pro trump, 80% pro trump. it seems like, you know, christie is trying to move away from 100%, but you can be sure the democrats are going to remind everyone that chris christie was involved in debate preparation. the poor guy got covid because he was indulging in the same craziness of not wearing masks in public events that the president was displaying. so, you know, parties out of power always try to define themselves in new ways, and we'll see how christie does with his book. >> we'll see if this has anything to do, too, with his own bid perhaps 2024. >>> lastly, so, a federal court dismissed a case that was brought by the ftc against facebook. this is a really big deal. >> it's a really big deal. the most important way you can tell it's a big deal is facebook's stock which is high to start with, went up 5% after the case was dismissed. the question is, under anti-trust law, can you limit the power, the scope, the size of facebook and all the other big tech companies, amazon, microsoft, apple? and this court

including this donald trump. that is what the "boston globe" editorial board is doing, it is called future-proofing the presidency. it is arguing that allowing him to go unpunished could set a far more dangerous precedent than having trump stand trial. to reform the presidency so the last four years are never repeated, the country must go beyond passing laws. not even the president is above them. this come in the wake of "the new york times" report yesterday revealing that prosecutors subpoenaed apple for data in the accounts of at least two democrats with aides and family members. one was a minor. all told the records of at least a dozen people were seized in 2017 and early 2018 including those of representative adam schiff and eric swalwell in california who said in an interview thursday night his data had been subpoena. we know the trump doj seized phone records of reporters at the "new york times," cnn, the "washington post," imposed a gag order on cnn and the "times." when you put all this together, eric sch

we haven't done that in the trump trump administration. >> general barry mccaffrey, it's always good to see you. it's in the middle of the night where you are so you either got up or stayed up for this. >> only me and my golden retriever are up in seattle. >> faithful dog. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> making up is hard to do. president biden is not new to the international community, of course, but will those long-term relationships with foreign leaders be enough to repair the united states' strained alliances that the general just talked about? this is "msnbc reports." as you charge ahead. illuminating the way forward. a light maker. recognizing that the impact you make, comes from the energy you create. introducing the all-electric lyriq. lighting the way. ♪ ♪ there's interest you accrue, and interests you pursue. plans for the long term, and plans for a long weekend. at thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. to learn more, text thrive to 444555, or visit thrivent.com. age before beauty? why not both? visibly diminish wrinkled skin in... crepe corrector lot

so the question becomes, why can't they dump trump? their standard bearer can't get on facebook or twitter. how is he supposed to lead the republican party? i don't think there is a good answer tom question. >> appreciate it. joined now by presidential historian doris kearns goodwin. the author on too many good books including leadership in turbulent times. >> always great to have you. on as a presidential historian, what is it like to hear a former president of the united states is such a threat that he is not allowed to use the platform for two more years. even then the so-called experts will discuss whether the risk to public safety has receded. it is funding. >> it is stunning indeed. even to me who have lived with my guys through the civil war, the turn of the 20th century, the great depression, the early days of world war ii, through a whole series of unprecedented events, probably more in the last five years than through all the 50 years that i studied my guys. just think. 2016 election and the outcome that we never expected. th

trump: to go thanks. we did a great job of getting gowns and masks and all the different equipment that we are building equipment complex equipment, the most complex. getting it out to the states because the coverage was on the states. and i handed her coverage pray there is nothing. we had practically nothing in this country and now it has been rebuilt. we did a great job. we did very little credit for doing the great job we did. and as you know, is a federalist, it shouldn't be up to the governor. some governors were fantastic. i could write a great book. some were less than fantastic. and some were absolutely terrible. ron did a great job, texas did a great job, so many -- it's interesting, they did a really great job. the most lockdown state and the whole country is michigan and michigan is the worst in the country. >> sean: how did you get warp speed? what was the mandate that pushed these companies to do something that had never been done before? >> mr. trump: i was told by dr. fauci and by many peo

more intelligent than trump. that is a pretty low bar. >> fair. >> but here's the thing. i actually believe that one of the reasons congress has ceded so much power is because congress has become so dysfunctional. unless and until the members of congress decide to start legislating again, to actually weighing in. now, in the trump administration congress blocked his funding for the wall. by the way, that wouldn't have been possible if republicans had supported funding the wall in the senate but there was a huge number of republicans in the senate that didn't want to fund that wall. the president did it anyway and suffered no consequences. you're right, joy. this has been a march toward unfettered, unaccountable power in the presidency. this incident ought to be the spark that really wakes up the republicans and makes them realize that if they don't speak up now they really are beginning to come completely irrelevant in this. what good is having power if you can't do anything with it because you have a presidency

if you think you're going to put donald trump back in office because putin did endorse trump just a few days ago, that's never going to happen again. but as long as joe biden is in office, the system that was put in place in the 1940s to stand up against the previous russian government, the soviet union, can always be brought back to bear. the one thing the russians cannot stand is the very fact they are not a rich country. they are run we an oligarchy that has a lot of money, but they are a very poor country. sanctions, we really don't want them to impact the individual russian. we want to go after the rich oligarch. that's one thing the united states is very good at. going after their wallet. >> interesting. we have seen an official photo taken of the first lady and the president with that group of veterans. malcolm, i know i'm going to have you talk about that which is being investigated with the department of justice in just a little bit. it is sort of fun to watch the interactions amongst the leaders. i'm going to ask our director. let's take this picture and put it down in the cor

fast forward to trump. trump was able to suborn the justice department. we're going to find out about the threshold, if there really was one, or the predicate that the justice department's prosecutors used to seek a subpoena against sitting members of congress. let's just step back for a minute. this was renewed. the executive branch was spying on congress. just think about the implications of that. that is deep attack on our separation of powers doctrine, and is extremely, extremely troubling, given that the trump administration kept fighting for executive privilege while now apparently or clearly spying on congress. >> let that sink in about the idea of while you had not one, but two impeachments, the idea that this was an available tactic. john, are you surprised? again, we don't know all of the ins and outs of this investigation, the factual predicate that led to it. we have a lot to learn, that's true. but you mentioned the idea of nixon being rebuffed at different turns and tim talking about the irs preventing certain behavior. would you be surprise

trump prizes it. weisselberg has been with the trump family for the bulk of his career, trump's eyes and ears, according to confidential sources, while he is busy being trump. and weisselberg is no amarosa. he avoided most of trump's media appearances and flashy sizzle say for a single appearance we saw over 15 years ago. >> replacing george this week is my chief financial officer allen weisselberg. and you think george is tough? wait until you see allen. >> allen? >> i felt that andy losing his communication was a serious matter. if this was a military maneuver, he could lose an entire baaal on. >> yeah. well, it wasn't a military maneuver. it was a reality show. but the point stands that donald trump didn't just rely on weisselberg behind the scenes or just for writing checks. he actually made him the only non-family member to help don jr. and eric run the entire company during trump's one-term presidency. before that, for key financial decisions, they were using only two people in the room, trump a

trump is in the words of the "new york times" domminished and trump worthy. people in trump's circle are joking that his most senior adviser is a host on the america news network and on the phone all of the time and bob is cheerleading for the arizona audit and trump has been relying on her for that. so there is one america that never heard of christina bob and never will. she's an on obscure channel and doesn't even have nealson ratings but trump is hanging on her every word and that is why i say trump is worth five minutes, not the whole hour. but trumpism is still newsworthy for the reasons we just listed, the denialism, the vaccine hesitancy and the big lie that continues every day. and i know a lot of people don't want to hear it any more but when trump is telling friends that he might get reinstated, that is a news story. let me bring back dan abrams. tell me if i'm wrong. maybe all of this reinstatement stuff should have been ignored by the president this week. >> absolutely not. i think it is absolutely newsworthy and that is the distinction, right. w

trump's legal team confirming they did meet with the da prosecutor and the trump's lawyers. trump organization denied any wrong-doing. this does not come out of thin air. there is been signs that we have been reporting on right here on "the beat." they were just waiting at the clock. prosecutors looking at all sorts of ways to squeeze including indicting potentially the entire company. we reported right here on "the beat" that indicting the entire company is in the da's tool box. >> prosecutors are scrutinizing and probing the trump organization the same way they have mafia organization. >> you can go further and try to indicts the trump org or indicted staff. >> given the policy or all his administration, the trump organization -- >> even if donald trump himself is not ever indicted. there are another way that prosecutors can indict the entire trump org -- >> there you have it. we are showing you the reporting because sometimes what seems familiar been reported out as a legal path. given all the issues of unprecedented prospect of indicting a former president, this could be