all my love, tommy. he was a poet, he was a playwright, he was a political activist, he was a second—year student at harvard law school. the sky was the limit in terms of what he was going to be able to contribute to us but he was drowning in pain and we lost him on the last day of 2020. we have wanted to continue to act in ways that would be befitting his memory and his spirit and it would make him proud of what we are doing. so we wanted to tell the world about him and his remarkable essays and poetry and writings. and we wanted to continue to struggle for the things he believed in. as you were suggesting, the trauma over loss of tommy very quickly merged with the trauma of the january six insurrection and attempted coup in the congress of the united states by donald trump and his supporters. as i tell it in this book that i've written, these two traumas really converged in my life and are inextricably interwoven in my psyche. yeah, i have the book right in front of me, congressman. unthinkable, it's

tommy died of suicide. initially in the congressman's mind those two unthinkable events were distinct and unconnected yet as we learn from his book. they turned out to be linked in important ways that became clear to him over time the journey to find purposeful positive action amid, personal grief and despair and how a nation might make a similar journey from trauma to purposeful positive action is the story of this poignant profound and beautiful book. and thinkable was written. i understand in the wee hours of the morning over many many months. it's not only a deeply personal memoir and a testimonial about the urgent task of saving democracy. it is also congressman raskins. thank you to the thousands of people who reached out to him his wife sarah and his daughters hannah and tabitha after tommy's passing to many others who expressed appreciation for his service as an impeachment manager and leader in congress to his constituents in maryland's 8th district and to the countless people from speaker pelosi t

about tommy? flynn: really just kind of everything that you've been going through this week. ♪ well, our family suffered a terrible catastrophe on the last day of 2020. ummm, but my dear boy is very, very close to our hearts and on our minds, and we've been deluged with emails and food and love and messages from around the world. and in truth, i haven't been sleeping a lot since since we've been without tommy. flynn: yeah. ♪ jamie raskin: tommy had been fighting depression for several years. i mean, normally he was just the happiest, most ebullient energetic person you could ever hope to meet. but he was suffering from depression, and it was serious. the last night i got to spend with him, we had dinner together. we played some boggle, which was his big game and we watched some stuff on tv and we talked about going for a hike the next day. i gave him a hug goodnight, told him i loved him. he told me he loved me. and that was the last time i saw him alive. gay stolberg: how are you coping? jami

[ applause ] >> jimmy: you have a very active imagination, tommy. thank you, tommy. everything all right? >> everything all right, everything all right? do nawt condescend to me, awrite? i will kick your shriveled old balls up and down the neighborhood! from winchester to winchendon, from mattapan to mattapoisset, from ponkapaug public golf course to pompanesset beach! wah, wah, wah! >> jimmy: please don't cry. >> child services, if yah watchin', this perv from hollywood is saying tom brady won't travel through time to have sex with my ma! >> jimmy: please stop. please stop crying. oh, you're peeing. i think the diaper's loose. there's something going on. i'm sorry. don't cry. >> fa real? ya sorry? >> jimmy: i am sorry, yeah. >> you mean it? >> jimmy: yeah, i do mean it. >> you apologize? >> jimmy: i apologize, i'm sorry. >> bahahahahhaaa. gotcha, you friggin -- [ bleep ]. go pats! >> jimmy: thank you, tommy brady fitzpatrick. he's a baby with a very, very, very dirty mouth. >> [ bleep ]. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we have a good show for you tonight. from "ab

that is listed on his imdb. >> i think it's "tommy's penis." we talked about maybe -- i was making a strong push for chris evans at one point because i liked the marvel reference there. but i think that was too much. >> jimmy: why does the penis have a shield? >> yeah, exactly. >> jimmy: wow. >> we could have used chris evans' penis too. >> jimmy: i know you get asked about your mother a lot. and in fact, your parents have been on this television show. >> yes. speaking of penises. >> jimmy: i find them very entertaining. your mother is very open as far as sex stuff goes. >> yeah. >> jimmy: think about a week and a half ago, this is something that your mom tweeted. and i'd like to share this with the audience here. she wrote on twitter -- you know how when you give blood you get a little badge that says i gave blood today. there should be one that says i had great sex today, ha ha ha. [ applause ] and then you -- you responded with these words. >> burn this app to the ground, yeah. [ laughter ] >> it's gross. i don't know. but it's such a mom tw

larry: i love how she calls him little tommy. i wish he was going to continue playing just because i think the nfl, sports are better with tom brady in it. but i do respect the fact that he squeezed every single ounce that he had in his body and gave it to age 44, blowing away, much like spencer. losing every ounce of his abilities to keep going. >> sometimes, all of us folks have to walk away. but seriously, you cannot keep enough superlatives on tom brady. i hesitate to sing this for a long time, because i'm a huge joe montana fan, but tom brady is the greatest of all time. you have to give him credit. >> was not an earthquake in walnut creek? i'm kidding. i agree with you. a lot of people are jealous of him for i don't know why. >> he's perfect, that's why. >> he has the perfect jawline, the perfect hair. you and i've talked about it a lot. he has the perfect life i guess if you want a supermodel wife. he's also got three kids that are nine to 14. and you want to be there during those ages. >> i am with giselle. you got nothin

our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy'

our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy'

i thought tommy was with me. i felt him in my heart, in my chest. those were scary days because we did not know which way things were going. the extreme right websites were continuing to agitate war, finishing the job. there were death threats flying all over the place. i felt then, as i do now, that democracy is on the line and in danger. you know, for most of the history of our species, people have lived under kings and queens and bullies like donald trump. democracy, as lincoln said, a very fragile experiment and every generation has to ask whether government of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from the earth because it could easildo that in the enemies of democracy all over the world, including in america, including people like steve bannon, are agitating the destruction of democracy or what they call the deep state. the deep state based on government by the people as opposed to dictators and would be dictators like donald trump. amy: are we going to see donald trump come before the committee? and are we going to see public

all my love, tommy. on january 6th, congressman raskin, a former constitutional law professor, return to capitol hill to do is constitutional duty and vote to certify the results of the 2020 election. and this unthinkable turn of events in congressman raskin's life at the dawn of 2021 was captured by congressman raskin 's longtime friend, filmmaker madeleine carter. madeleine carter joins us now. she is the director of love and the constitution, which premiers this sunday at 10 pm eastern on msnbc. the film is a powerful portrait of finding purpose in grief. but it is not the story you expected to be telling, covering congressman raskin. tell us how you came to be there with your camera when this happened. >> well, originally, when jamie and donald trump actually both started their first terms in office in january 2017, and that is when jamie became my congressman, and pretty much from day one, jamie started being a trump god fly and i thought i would really like to make a film about jamie and trump. and

tommy, tommy, tommy, tom brady. yeah. as we reported yesterday, he officially retired in this morning. we're actually hearing from the people who coached him as he grew up locally here in san mateo, some people may not realize it may be forgotten is very and hometown hero. what sarah high, where he stood out early as a star athlete kron four's rob nesbitt, talk to some of his former coaches and teachers. >> tom brady has plenty of nicknames. but here at serra high school, he was referred to as touch down tommy. they're pretty proud here of the quarterbacks accomplishments and show nothing but support of his decision to retire. tom brady made plays like this often throwing 624 passing touchdowns in his 22 year career in the nfl. 2 decades with the new england patriots and 2 years with tampa bay earning 7 super bowl championships always answering no to questions about calling it quits. ever coming back. we're coming. know that until tuesday morning when number 12 officially announced his retirement on instagram. the social

tommy. tommy. i like hearing that. >> i love that. i would like to visit with my teachers from fourth grade. do it like larry. dan: you are in the principal's office most of the time. larry: we have two quarterbacks we are saying good lie to come tom brady and jimmy garoppolo. psoriasis really messes with you. try. hope. fail. i felt defeated. the pain, the stares. no one should suffer like that. i said, enough. i started cosentyx®. five years clear. four years clear. five years and counting. cosentyx works fast. for clear skin that can last. real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections some serious, and a lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, or if you've had a vaccine or plan to. tell your doctor if your crohn's disease symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. best move i ever made. i feel so much better. see me. ask yo

i go, "i went to tommy bahama last night." and he goes, "me, too! i go, "how about that piÑa colada cake?" he goes, "incredible." he goes, "i can't believe there's two cups of rum in it. [ audience ohs ] so i got my kids drunk [ laughter ] so i'm turning myself in to the local hawaiian authorities right after taping >> seth: hey, we're gonna be right back after this, and we're gonna talk more about your great new show that's ike barinholtz, everybody. stick around [ cheers and applause ♪ ( ♪♪ ) woman: come on. ( ♪♪ ) (heavy breathing) of all the different people we've met, in all the different places we've been, (clock ticking) this (cheering) is always the same. ( ♪♪ ) one simple gesture. a universal language. (man speaking indinstinctly) one shared will to fly. turns out, the ends of the earth (children cheering) are not that far apart. ( ♪♪ ) with age comes more... get more with neutrogena® retinol pro plus. a powerful .05% retinol that's also gentle on skin. for wrinkles results in one week. neutrogena®. for people with skin

but the film is also about jamie's love and his incredible loss of tommy and that the love he has for constitutional democracy is really i think what's getting him through this awful period in his life. >> what did it mean to be able to capture such intimate moments of this congressman and what he was going through in his life, knowing now what has taken place? >> well, i actually have known jamie since he was 16. we were both in the same class at harvard together. so i think we both felt comfortable with each other and i think that enabled me to get a much deeper and more intimate perspective into jamie's life than your average documentarian. i also followed him for four years. this is a very long project. by the time these awful events of tommy's death on january 6th came along, i had already been following jamie for three and a half years. >> what was it like, though, to have to watch him to make that decision, to lead the second impeachment trial during a huge time for this country, a very devastating time for this country, but knowing also internally what he was dealing with and

it's nine years since tommy shall first rode into town. since then, peaky blinders has come a global phenomenon on. now it's time to say farewell to tommy and the shelby clan, at least for a while. season six will be the last on the small screen. but the man whose creation this is has plans to start making a big—screen sequel in his home city with fellow brumbies have taken the show to their hearts. birmingham is a hard place to please, and arejust birmingham is a hard place to please, and are just fair that people will say well, this is a tough but it seems to have really, you know, struck a chord in birmingham and i think that hadn't been for that, it wouldn't have struck a chord elsewhere. it needed to be, you know, appreciated in its home town. ~ know, appreciated in its home town. ., ., , ., town. most of what you see on the show _ town. most of what you see on the show never _ town. most of what you see on the show never happen, - town. most of what you see on the show never happen, it's i the show never happen, it's completely mad

. >> i will throw tommy brady's name out that tommy brady would have never done that. tommy brady showed a lot of love and compassion. i was sad for him but also happy. life is so sure. he is able not to spend time with his family. reggie: it is the way she says tommy brady. brady's donations to the school led to the creation of the brady family science center. he has had video chats with the students who dressed up to support him when he is playing in the super bowl. kumasi: that's cute. a teenager who got the attention of elon musk for a twitter account that tracks his private jet now has a job offer. according to the new york post, an orlando-based pride or -- private charter from has offered a job to the 19-year-old but he says he is not sure if he is going to accept that. he originally rejected a $5,000 offer from moss to delete the twitter account and ask for a 50,000, but must then block all social media accounts connected to sweeney. reggie: this young man won't accept any kind of offer. kumasi: i am not upset. know your worth. reggie: he's ready to negotiate.

it's nine years since tommy shelby first rode into town. since then, peaky blinders has become a global phenomenon. now it's time to say farewell to tommy and the shelby clan, at least for a while. season six will be the last on the small screen. but the man whose creation this is has plans to start making a big—screen sequel in his home city, where fellow brummies have taken the show to their hearts. birmingham is a hard place to please. brummies are hard people to satisfy. and ijust feared that people would say, this isn't us. but it seems to have really, you know, struck a chord in birmingham. most of what you see in the show never happened, it is completely made up. of course it is a drama, it is a fiction. but there are some elements of truth in there too and there were real criminals called the peaky blinders who operated in this part of birmingham. and this was one of them. edward derrick. it was here in this birmingham backstreet that the first attack took place in march 1890 by men who were called peaky blinders. and this is his

on election night 2020. >> tommy. >> hey. >> are you staying up or are you going to sleep? >> i don't know, dad. >> i don't think so. i'd be willing to put money on it. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> it's a win-win for me because if trump wins i get money. if trump loses i get biden. >> all right. love you, kiddo. bye. my kids were so freaked out that trump might win. everybody's so freaked out. it's going to be a long night. trump is going to be suing -- we're going to win this narrowly and then trump is going to be fighting it every step along way. i mean, buckle up. it's going to -- we'll be fighting about this until we get into the new congress. we'll be fighting about it until january 6th. >> that new documentary "love & the constitution" debuts on sunday february 6th, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. do not miss it it. i'm alicia menendez. good night. good night o hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ (vo) america's most reliable network is going ultra! wwith verizon 5g ultra wi

with it like tommy was with him. he was very, very generous with the other impeachment managers and very thoughtful. he really analyzed what they all did and what they're best at and he gave them roles so that they could be the best that they could be. and i think he put together a really fantastic team for the impeachment. he also really was very, very focused on, you know, carrying out that duty. and i think it helped him emotionally to think like in some ways i'm doing this for tommy. >> you know, julie, one of the things that stays with me from the congressman's floor speech is what he said about his daughter tabitha, that she said dad, i don't know that i ever want to come back to the capitol and i think there were a lot of people in the building that day who had that feeling of i want to put as much distance from myself and what i have just endured as possible, for you as a public servant, as someone who went back to the work, who chose to go back to the work, how did that change your commitment to the work its

our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy'

they shared a post not long after tommy's post with a letter saying look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. if you are struggling there are resources available to you. this number on the screen is available 24/7. 800-273-8255. we'll have more of that documentary sunday night right here on msnbc >>> the growing backlash against spotify with the company ceo defending the company for keeping joe rogan. saying on a company earnings call we won't change our policies based on a creator or based on the media response. he said he's happy with the response. i want to bring in nbc news tech coordinator jacob ward. talk to me on the report on nbc and the earnings call and this morning. >> reporter: especially hard tone with investors there saying that joe rogan is extraordinarily valuable thing to spotify and said that as you pointed out will not be pushed to take action making a veiled reference to neil young who among many others said he wants the music off spotify until they change the situation and did point out that he has not been communicative about the information c

. >> all right, tommy, what's up, man? >> yeah, tommy reached out and said hey, look, i'm having some issues on my property, can you take a look? i remember as a kid riding to orangeburg with my grandparents, and back then it was maurice's piggy park restaurant. maurice put up a sign in his restaurant that says the government may say we have to serve niggers, but we're going to take that money and send it to the kkk. when they bought that property, the flag was there, they knew was there. what they didn't know was what the culture was like here in south carolina, more specifically in orangeburg. ♪ ♪ >> orangeburg is a majority african-american town. >> it's 60% black, according to the 2010 census. i might be in the minority. >> there's a racial divide in orangeburg, and i guess that's got a lot to do with its history. i feel like they sometimes feel like we've done something wrong to them even though that's happened years ago. >> even though i do see whites and blacks all around, and they can be in the same vicinity, e

i think we know and think he's younger than jimmy g certainly younger than tommy. be. sports director jason dumas says all that and more coming up. >> also while saying i'm on a miami highway, quiet driver fired a gun through the windows of his own car during rush hour traffic. ur eyes. beautiful on the outside, but if you have diabetes, there can be some not-so-pretty stuff going on inside. it's true, if you have diabetes, you know high blood sugar is the root of the problem. but that excess sugar can cause the blood vessels to be seriously damaged. and when that happens, this could happen: vision loss or even blindness. that's right, diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness for adults in the u.s. but even though you can't see it, there is something you can do about it. remember this: now is the time to get your eyes checked. eye care is an incredibly important part of your long-term diabetes management. see a path forward with actions and treatments a retina specialist can provide that may help your eyes and protect against vision loss. just say to yourse

tommy hicks. [applause] >> thank you. how do you follow that? thank you for your leadership, your vision. you have been an incredible partner. let's give her a hand one more time. [applause] good morning rnc. it is great to be here with you today. i hope you have had a wonderful time here in salt lake. thank you to our host city and our host members. carson, bruce, and annmarie. thank you for your hospitality. as ronna said, thank you to our incredible staff. especially to my team. [applause] all of you make us all look good so we appreciate it. this is a huge year for our country. a huge year for our party. the american people have watched one year of one party democrat rule in washington d.c. they hate it. they are hungry for change and our party will deliver the winds to take back congress, to fire nancy pelosi, and deliver the process of saving this country by putting a check on joe biden's failed presidency. god put us here for a reason. everybody at the rnc understands the important mission in front of us. this is truly a fight for the hea

tommy if, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. i want to get your take on where this memo has now taken us within the city when it comes to prosecution that the d.a.'s office is now clarifying that if you use a knife in a robbery, that constitutes a felony. have you ever seen guidance like that before? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. thank god they're recognized that -- recognizing that. i don't know how they ever got away from that, that you can use a gun and a knife in a robbery and it's not going to be prosecuted as a felony? that's a crazy idea. i don't know how they even got to that. i really believe the t.a. is changing course -- the d.a. is changing course because the d.a. and the president who was just here this week, i think they just realized finally that the defund the police movement is one of the craziest ideas this country has ever had. rich: now, the president has said and said in his comments when he was in new york earlier this week that the answer is not to defund the police, and to make it clear,

i have to thank tommy, our cochairmen. our new finance chair could not be with us. are tremendous chief of staff richard walters. chief operating officer tina tajackson, deputy chief of staf, chief counsel justin reamer and the whole legal office, please give them a round of applause. [applause]. you all know them well, mariana herrera and her member services team. let's thank them. [cheers and applause] i have a group that helps me and you deal with them all the time and i want to thank them for all they do. hannah cox, hannah ray, ansley auburn and shannon fisher who helped with the chairman's office. thank you to all of you. [applause]. our great rnc officers ron kaufman, vicki, kyle, thank you for all you do and every single staffer in this room and dc and across the country, thank you t for all you are doing to lead us to victory in november. i have to thank my family. they were here earlier my husband, patrick, is the best husband in the world. i love him so much. please tell him i said that. we are going on 23 years married.ha we got married in salt lake city

but here at serra high school, he was referred to as touch down tommy. they're pretty proud here of the quarterbacks accomplishments and show nothing but support of his decision to retire. >> tom brady made plays like this often throwing 624 passing touchdowns in his 22 year career in the nfl. 2 decades with the new england patriots and 2 years with tampa bay earning 7 super bowl championships always answering no to questions about calling it quits. ever coming back. we're coming. know that until tuesday morning when number 12 officially announced his retirement on instagram. forty-niners head coach kyle shanahan called brady the best football player ever after hearing the need such a better coach and >> its own people. better players. has big effect on this game. is anyone the social media post came as somewhat of a surprise to mike the delhi who coach brady in summer league baseball at serra high school. we've always expected like when he wins the super bowl. that is going to walk off on this grand stage. but to his credit, he did it on his own terms f

stock market who could blame tommy zhang for making a play for matchup it's time to risk less, to make more "options actions" starts right now. >> it's been a busy week of big tech earnings. alphabet and amazon seem to get all the love, both companies surging after reporting, but did they both really deserve it? carter, start to unpack this idea for us. >> yeah, i mean so much going on for starters two weeks ago we were playing google the down side looking for a netflix-type drop, a facebook-type drop and indeed it did the opposite we're looking for a pairs trade of google relative to amazon these are ratio charts you're going to see now the first chart it's just looking at one stock versus the other, divide it if you will, and the direction of the line is all you need to know so this is google's relative performance to amazon. and google's been outperforming as amazon's gone sideways, that's obvious and then it broke out of this formation. and then with today's strengthening fallen back into the formation. now, look at the next chart. the same ratio just a bit longer term and then loo

the case went cold and unfortunately, and regretfully this the tommy least the weren't. who was the assailant. he did the same thing to another young lady just 2 months after that. she lit and because she lived, she is the reason why we know what we know to day. and it took that long, but even her, nobody paid attention to her case either. again, i'm so i'm sorry, i just wanted to kind of take on what i'm on. i just point about the, you know, reaching out to media outlets and them just not carrying bag as such. a common thing i see in the story that i tell of these families, particularly of the missing women, reaching out to the local media and them just kind of just like this is really not that interesting of a story for us. and that is, it's sad because they, you know, that's their 1st um, you know, the place they go is to their local media. and i think that there's also a difference between the local media covering it and the national media covering it . a lot of times the local media will pick up these stories, but it stays within the conte vines of the small town or

so we're all working to do what we can to keep tommy's spirit alive. the girls share a memorial fund that we set up, more than $1 million in contributions have come from around the world, and they have been investing it in earthquake relief in haiti and relief for refugees from afghanistan as well as for, you know, human rights groups and animal welfare groups, and we're also working -- and this is what i'm centrally involved in -- to defend our democratic institutions and values against the continuing threats of authoritarian destabilization of our democracy. >> woodruff: and y i want to ask you about your work on the january 6th committee. i was struck in the book that you wrote that you were asked to take on this most difficult assignment at a time when you were going through such a terrible personal trauma and, yet, you talked about how having to deal with them both made it possible, in a way. >> well, you know, i wasn't really eating, i wasn't sleeping well, i was kind of drowning in my grief when speaker pelosi asked me to become the lead impeach

harvard law school closed physically and tommy came back to live with us. he was on zoom doing his classes and it is a very strange and isolating time. >> tragically, tommy died by suicide at the end of 2020, only days before congressman raskin was task to lead the impeachment trial against donald trump. we all know that story. michael, back to you. how does one even begin to cope with the trauma of losing a child and an insurrection in tandem. >> it is hard. it's hard. and i've gotten to know jamie over the years. through our political battles and our alliances. and it is a real pleasure to recruit him now in this democracy space. i appreciate the leadership that he is bringing to this. at the same time, he paid a price. that isolation for his son was devastating. and his son is one of hundreds of thousands who carried out that burden. and tried to cope with this and live with it. and it speaks a lot to how that aspect of covid is something that is often lost on leadership. that people get caught up in the numbers. what percentage of that, how much of this

[applause] >> thank you tommy. now it's time for the treasurer's report and it's my pleasure to announce ron for his report. >> we have a lot to cover so i'm going to heed the words that god said when he made me. keep it short. he overachieved. i'm proud to stand before you this morning to report that our business, the republican national committee has become $1 billion plus, i say again, $1 billion plus over these past five years. you can report back to your donors, report back to cities, report back to your volunteers and the grassroots that chairman ronna and her team has put together the best funded, best run well organized political operation in the history ofour great nation . for this we must first thank kinzinger and tommy, finance director elise dickens and her team for their incredible fundraising efforts e. the good thing about fundraising, you don't have to struggle for words to explain it. somehow 1.3 billion speaks for itself. [applause] and you need to thank our great budget chairman glenn mccall and

got them to make sure to and tommy got the grades they wanted them to get, you are set back for the rest of your life and this is clearly unfair. i also couldn't believe, i think it was fit was the figure of grades that actually provides, so —— that are actually revised, so the sample of a—levels that roll it out to make sure they were fair so tiny that you could not really see them change at all and i think there clearly needs to be some sort of investigation but try telling that to students who might also be at university, having secured these excellent grades, that they could be “p excellent grades, that they could be up for review. that is incredibly contentious, no school will want to tell their parents that, it is a really hard one but i don't know what you do about this now, but it is clearly unfair.— is clearly unfair. yes, let's end there. features _ is clearly unfair. yes, let's end there. features writer -- i is clearly unfair. yes, let's end | there. features writer -- james is clearly unfair. yes, let's end i there. features writer -- james and there. feature

do you believe tommy, this has to do directly with what's going on with ukraine, or would this meeting have happened anyways? i think it would have happened anyway, because biden is still trying to get back into the iran nuclear deal that was disavowed by president trump in 2018 except for the past year. the around the iranians have made it abundantly cleared and what they expect us to do is rejoined deal. and washington has been trying to condition that with some sort of iranian behavior. and aaron saying, no your to was violated the deal. we're not going to do anything until you get back into compliance. so it's been a nonstarter all along. but i think the rumors that this is being done to offset gas supply are meant to bolster the war hawks in washington and, and tell the europeans that all we've got your back except again, they don't. well and that's the thing. rushes officially responded to the us proposal on ukraine. we see that had just come out. but that being said, do you think that they're watching? could they even care right now? what's going on between united states and the