we begin what may lie ahead for donald trump in 2021. what legal exposure he'll face after he leaves office in january. this is our special report on the criminal, legal exposure that potentially faces donald trump when he leaves office. most presidents depart with less pressing concerns. they're focussed on their memoirs, the presidential libraries. very few actually leave with this active talk about potential prosecution. that was the case for nixon who cut off the real risk of potential federal prosecution by engineering the pardon from his successor. now you have donald trump stoking some similar intrigue by talking up the more extreme measure of trying to pardon himself. now, why does donald trump even think he needs a federal pardon? only he knows. to be as fair as possible, the evidence suggests it would not be for russian collusion for example because after all the scrutiny on that issue the mueller probe did not conclude that donald trump criminally conspired with russia. a self-pardon wouldn't address any state issues in new yo

i'm referring to conviction of donald trump's long-time lawyer michael cohen for providing donald trump's payments in exchange for the silence of stormy daniels. remember, cohen went to jail for that crime, among others. federal prosecutors said it was all to benefit trump and i can tell you we have a very relevant guest for this discussion. a man who would be a key witness in any such case, michael cohen himself. cohen was convicted for his work on behalf of individual one, donald trump. and if trump was a knowing party to that crime, legally, he could still face potential prosecution, i mean, technically, he could, because the deadline has not yet run for that kind of campaign finance violation. now, you may recall this whole case, it began with a secret. donald trump paying daniels to hide their encounters which date back to 2006. and the legal problems came when trump and cohen acted around the 2016 election. and there's stronger evidence here than in most stories. that is to say, if you're talking to people about, oh, should trump be charged or not, in some of those stories or cases,

since election day, donald trump has left the work of the presidency to joe biden while donald trump has golfed and conned people out of more money and more money in contributions to his mythical challenge to the election result, which he continues to use as his latest money-raising gimmick, including a fund-raising email sent first thing this morning with the subject line, "i'm not giving up." donald trump gave up working on a covid relief bill that congress passed last week. and then after the bill was passed by the house and the senate and sent to the president, only then did donald trump decide he didn't like something in the bill, he wanted to change the $600 payments in the bill, raise those to $2,000 payments, which democrats immediately agreed to. a way for a president to achieve a goal like that is to veto the bill providing the $600 payment and demand congress send a new one with the $2,000 payment. instead, trump signed the bill, but he delayed his signing of the bill long enough to interrupt unemployment payments to people all over the country who will lose a week of unem

since election day, donald trump has left the work of the presidency to joe biden while donald trump has golfed and con conned people out of more money and more money in contributions to his mythical challenge to the election result which he continues to use as his latest money-raising gimmick, including a fund-raising email sent first thing this morning with the subject line "i'm not giving up." donald trump gave up working on a covid relief bill that congress passed last week. and after the bill was passed by the house and the senate and sent to the president, only then did donald trump decide he didn't like something in the bill, he wanted to change the $600 payments in the bill, raise those to $2,000 payments, which democrats immediately agreed to. a way for a president to achieve a goal like that is to veto the bill providing the $600 payment and demand congress send one with the $2,000 payment. trump signed the bill, but he delayed his signing of the bill long enough to interrupt unemployment payments to people all over the country who will lose a week of unemployment benefits

and neither can donald trump. while the lame duck president may be considering pardons for himself, his pals and his family members, those pardons don't provide protections against any charges at the state or local level. and there's a lot of reporting to suggest that significant legal trouble awaits trump once he's out of office and no longer immune from prosecution. joining our conversation, david k. johnson, a tax expert, a pulitzer prize-winning investigator reporter and author of "the making of donald trump." andrew weissmann is still with us. i want to understand what you both think donald trump understands. you first, david, about his exposure in these new york investigations. >> oh, donald knows very well, nicolle, that he is likely to be indicted on business insurance banking and tax fraud by the state of new york. and let's remember, he has been tried twice, civilly, for tax fraud and lost both cases and he was shown in one of those cases to be a forger. donald knows that these are very dangerous cases f

donald trump is the loser. loser. loser. >> i would say this is america, but that would be insulting to childish gambino. was that a low-key reference to drake's "over"? >> for trump, yes, it's over. >> makes me think of dr. dre's the chronic. >> let me say it the way biggie smalls would say it, even when i was wrong, i got my point across. >> when the ladies run this, yes, we do. >> isn't that why drake says no new friends? wasn't it pusha t who said i believe there is a god above me, i'm just the god of everything else? >> uh-huh. >> why don't we see if we have michael steele. i'm dialing for guests. >> i was hoping for joy reid. but go ahead. >> this is a disaster. >> whenever i see a hurricane and 125-mile-per-hour wind, hang onto a pole. >> it's the only thing democrats and republicans can agree on. >> do you have time, though, for a bad, passover joke? >> do you have a favorite economist joke? >> you know the rapper 50 cent, right? given recent inflation, his name is now 64 cent. >> oh. >> it's so like dorky dad

trump and donald trump. is this destined to be paralysed with division? chris, in new york, welcome to heart talk. —— acro one. donald trump has not yet conceded and is your newsmax network not prepared to acknowledgejoe biden did win the election, he is the president—elect? biden did win the election, he is the president-elect? yes. and it has been our consistent statement all along on election night when the president was in a very close contest in six states where it is 1% or less, two of the states were half percent in georgia was a quarter of a percent, we said that we should allow the president to contest these legally through recount some of the challenges and he has been doing that and we would accept the state certifications in each case to declare the winner because the race was so close and most of the media did this backin and most of the media did this back in the 2000 elections with al gore and theyjust decided they wanted to anointjoe biden and and we have been we have been sticking with

donald trump is the loser. loser. loser. >> i would say this is america, but that would be insulting to childish gambino. was that a low-key reference to drake's "over"? >> for trump, yes, it's over. >> makes me think of dr. dre's the chronic. >> the truth hurts it. >> let me say it the way biggie smalls would say it, even when i was wrong, i got my point across. >> when the ladies run this, yes, we do. >> isn't that why drake says no new friends? wasn't it pusha t who said i believe there is a god above me, i'm just the god of everything else? >> uh-huh. >> why don't we see if we have michael steele. i'm dialing for guests. >> i was hoping for joy reid. but go ahead. >> this is a disaster. >> whenever i see a hurricane and 125-mile-per-hour wind, hang onto a pole. >> you do have a nice head of hair. >> it's the only thing democrats and republicans can agree on. >> do you have time, though, for a bad, passover joke? >> do you have a favorite economist joke? >> you know the rapper 50 cent, right? given recent inflation

>> donald trump was complicit in this conduct. he should face liability for the conduct. >> the weight of evidence will get great e but it's so overwhelming now. >> you think it's nefarious. >> it's a campaign violation, this is the finding of the prosecutors, directing his lawyer to pay hush money to corrupt an american election. >> was the nation"national enqu acting as the arm of donald trump and michael cohen, and is there something wrong with that. >> we strongly suspect those were. >> those parties said they had lots of proof. mr. avenatti who you just saw there, he initially forced a lot of this into the public square but was indicted on other unrelated crimes for which he awaits trial. in fairness, there are other legal reasons why this kind of case against donald trump might not hold out if pursued. take the relatively exampleov o edwards, charged on a similar theory but he avoided conviction making the argument that whatever bad things he did, the goal was not violating the campaign finance laws. he was acquitted. the ru

trump puede salir ganando >> si salimos con un proyecto de ley de dos mil dólares donald trump saldrá heróico los que quedan mal son los republicanos >> casi 24 horas que el presidente de estados unidos, donald trump torpediara el acuerdo los republicanos no dicen nada >> el presidente de estados unidos, donald trump vetó hoy la ley anual de política de defensa lleva siendo analizada 60 años el presidente de estados unidos, donald trump dice que sería un regalo para china y rusia que no respetan los veteranos esta ley fue aprobada por márgenes amplios en la cámara y en el senado como para anular el veto del presidente de estados unidos, donald trump paulina >> cristina seguimos a la espera gracias por la información saludos hasta washington , de washington vamos a méxico donde llegaron las primeras dosis de pfizer contra el coronavirus (covid-19) los contagios y las muertes se han disparado este mes la vacunación debe comenzar mañana y raúl nos tiene los detalles >> bajó del cielo con el regalo más espreado del avión salió un contenedor con las vacunas congeladas contr

donald trump was nothing. he was just a guy he would make these boring speeches until he went on the view and made his comment about barack obama's birth certificate. he shot to the top of the polls precisely because of that. when you talk to trump man, they sayo a they hated barack obama so much that they were willing to attack him because of a lie. republicans were willing to support donald trump because he won the republican nomination based on that lie. republicans 90% of think donald trump is not a racist, but 85% of democrats do. we as a country do not care about facts, so long as partisan identity politics are part of the discussion. they cannot accept he is a racist. that is why you have people like paul ryan saying, yes, the man is a racist but at least he is not hillary clinton. at least he is not a democrat. host: all right, terrence. guest: that is something i have observed as well. i like paul ryan. i have written columns about some of his ideas. he's a thinking conservative. and not against compr

it is a marked contrast from donald trump's cabinet. biden ran on this very tiring step. >> both from vice president to supreme court to cabinet positions to every major position in the white house. >> a lot of voters say they are going to hold him to it. we will keep reporting on the facts so you know the score. we will be back with one more update. e update how did you find great-grandma's recipe? we're related to them? we're portuguese? i thought we were hungarian? grandpa, can you tell me the story again? behind every question is a story waiting to be discovered. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent futu

election from donald trump. and the people with trump merch and guns ow side jocelyn benson's home were very scary looking as they chanted "stop the steal." but in the end, they simply stopped chanting and went home. earlier tonight jocelyn benson said, "i am proud to stand guard over our voters." michigan state representative, cynthia johnson, a detroit democrat, has received threatening phone calls including one that threatened lynching. now, i will not play for you the audio of that call, which is filled with racist poison and includes the very specific threat of lynching from the woman making that profane, threatening phone call. other democrats in michigan have also been threatened. michigan's governor, gretchen whitmer, was the subject of a kidnap-and-murder conspiracy that was perpetrated by informers and led to the arrest of 14 people on federal and state charges, it was penetrated. today governor whitmer said this. >> i want to end by discussing the recent threats against the secretary of state, jocelyn

election from donald trump. and the people with trump merch and guns outside jocelyn benson's home were very scary looking as they chanted "stop the steal." but in the end, they simply stopped chanting and went home. earlier tonight jocelyn benson said, "i am proud to stand guard over our voters." michigan state representative, cynthia johnson, a detroit democrat, has received threatening phone calls including one that threatened lynching. now, i will not play for you the audio of that call, which is filled with racist poison and includes the very specific threat of lynching from the woman making that profane, threatening phone call. other democrats in michigan have also been threatened. michigan's governor, gretchen whitmer, was the subject of a kidnap-and-murder conspiracy that was penetrated by informers and led to the arrest of 14 people on federal and state charges, it was today governor whitmer said this. >> i want to end by discussing the recent threats against the secretary of state, jocelyn benson, repr

donald trump. no major huang in tbank in the d do business with donald trump. he didn't tell banks the truth about his finances, he didn't make good on his debts. they ended up taking masses losses and then they all walked away from him. but for deutsche bank. and that has been one of the $10 million questions sitting around donald trump, why did this one bank continue to do business with him. even after in the mid 2000s when one of his chicago projects ask a under stress, trump sued deutsche bank to avoid paying them back for a massive loan on that plot aroperty and yet they doing business with him. and they transferred everything into the private bank and run by rosemary blalec. and deutsche bank has had a lot of problems themselves with regulatory issues. it has always been a target in the last several years from regulators. and law enforcement officials. the bank has worked hard to get past those problem, but all of those occurred when donald trump was their client. and everything that happened

they made a lot of money on donald trump and covering donald trump from a negative perspective. i'd like hardtalk and the bbc to do a story about all these people that profited big—time by being very critical of the president. right now, i'm really focused on you and your news network, and i am mindful that... i get that. ..while the election was unfolding and the post—election was unfolding, america was also grappling with a terrible, terrible crisis, the coronavirus crisis — the death toll now beyond 300,000. i'm also looking at the way you've covered that. while you're prioritising trump's fight against the election result, you're also, in terms of the presenters and their opinions on your network, suggesting that there is something very strange about coronavirus. two of your presenters have called it a "scamdemic", and have explicitly linked it to a democratic plan to rig the election. again, i ask you, when you hear that on your own network, do you intervene and tell them to stop? can you give me the specifics? because this is — anybody that watches our network know

donald trump was also very late to this. whether that's because his heart wasn't fully in it and it's only a scam and a fund-raising mechanism or if it's because he's just disorganized, a closer election and someone willing to plan this way earlier, you might have had a much bigger constitutional crisis, which i think people need to keep in mind as they make up their own minds about what we want to do coming out of this era. appreciate both of you kicking off the coverage tonight. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> thank you both. >> when we return in just 30 seconds, we get into this year of reckoning on justice, a special report on how our culture and music have gotten us through tough times. that's in tonight's program. >>> also, trump insiders speaking out, a former aide saying the white house has turned into a total, quote, crazy town. but first, michael cohen, live. back on "the beat" on trump's pardons in 30 seconds. [lea] i'm a retired art teacher. [steve] we met online about 10 years ago. as i got older, my hearing wa

it was live by donald trump. it will do all the damage and danger that the democratic senator, chris krebs and the washington post said it would. this seems to be the new battlefield for the disinformation stream being pumped into trump's voters. >> well, i think what you got was a taste of what's to come. how a former president trump will use the other media outlets, one maybe he builds himself, to stage this type of narrative. look, the reality is very stark and america needs to get a grip on this, especially our press needs to get a grip on this. donald trump will run a side-by-side presidential campaign against the biden administration. he will, you know, create sort of an off the book white house, if you will, if he can using rallies, using own, using whatever networks he can sucker in to carrying the coverage that he wants to get and keep himself in front of the american public. when you have united states senators playing to this particular narrative by, you know, assisting and setting up these type of sto

donald trump's bid to overturn the u.s. presidential election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. bill barr told the associated press that the justice department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome. where president elect joe biden be trumped 53062232 votes in the electoral college. and more than 6000000 in the popular vote. well, alan fisher is following events from the white house considering what a big supporter of the president bill barr always has been. what has the response been from the trumpet ministration and his legal team? well, there are people thing, the billboard is going to get fired because donald trump has since the election been talking about widespread voter fraud. he said in an interview on sunday that he believed the department of justice billboards, the partment and the f.b.i. could have been involved in some sort of conspiracy to steal the election away f

putting against donald trump then said the want to vote against donald trump but i don't want to send my party at your company and message so i will the senator in texas and go down the ballot and vote for a republican texas house members and karen is right because in texas democrats thought they had a chance to take control of the texas house for the first time since 2001 and on the state wide race on the strength of biden that he can in texas and it didn't happen because they try get trump out of office but the state on - - the same time it like a congressman and republican senators. perhaps some of that went on. >>. >> looking at the numbers for both we surprised at these record turnouts? >> and he said 81 million people would vote i thought it would be both sides not just for one candidate. 155million people voting i think in the last election increase was surprising to me away i expected more people were over trump and more for biden but not with the increase. people wanted to vote. and briefly to address the other question you just asked , one of the things you saw with a split

now we have the statement from donald trump and imight add, statement from donald trump and i might add, one from bill barr says any time when the country is so deeply divided its incumbent on all levels of government, all agencies acting within their purview to do all we can to ensure the integrity of elections and promote public confidence in the outcome. giving a little bit of leeway to the president and his claims but not going that extra mile donald trump wants to confirm allegations of voter fraud. results from electoral colleges in all but one us state giving him, joe biden has won the state—by—state electoral college vote that formally determines the us presidency, coinciding with the us recording it's 300,000 corona death. the number was just after the first vaccine was administered to a citizen. sandra lindsay — an intensive care nurse in new york — got herjab on camera in an effort to help boost public confidence in the vaccine. she said she hoped this was the beginning of the end of a long, painful period. nick bryant reports. this was a made for television moment st

donald trump entered office facing accusations he was an aua autrocrat or worse, it's clear to know donald trump is leaving office making a sustained l literal attempt to be an auto cat dictator demanding election fraud, pursuing possible criminal plots to overturn the election and clashing with republicans that followed the law, meaning he's asking them to break the law that certified results in states that biden won including georgia. we have an important guest joinijoin joining us in a moment offering insight including the president lashing out about the republican governor pressuring him to call off the election which is not legal. election officials are also there responding to the climate, responding to the rhetoric, responding to the view now voiced openly by republicans that the president is increasing the risk of violence against them, that's the context for something you may have seen that's worth watching more than once, if you haven't, you need to see it now, a bracing response from a top election official in georgia echoing across the political world on accountability. >> mr.

donald trump is not going to be the donald trump that we know, the powerful donald trump, the oz donald trump, in the next 18 months. watch. we're still in the final, final residue, the despicable residue of the last four years, but he will not be this larger than life character a year or two from now. >> i want to agree with you, and i just -- i know there's a lot of feeling, especially among viewers of our hour, that we should move on, and i think the newsworthiness of what he does in the final 50 days is here, the new administration is here, but i think you're right, when he's some two-bit talk show host on a podcast that no one can find in the apple store, then i'm sure you will right, we will not care. donnie, mara, wonderful to see both of you and mara, congrats on your run. >>> after a break, a scathing rebuke from a conservative stronghold. the latest review of donald trump's final days. the medicare enrollment deadline is monday, which means time is running out to pick a medicare plan. with so many changes, do you know if your plan is still the right fit? having the wrong plan

donald trump lost this election. why do we hear five minutes after it's made official by california about bill barr? the president is trying to step on the headline, frankly, and that's significant too but in the context of the day's big news, that's a distraction compared to what really happened which is that yet again donald trump lost this election. i don't know how many times he wants to lose it but he lost it again today. >> right, the battering ram of the losses including that supreme court dismissal which was just as embarrassing and complete a rejection as you can get friday really underscores what's going on and it's a reminder, professor murray, of how the alternate reality of trumpism may try to persist far longer than january 20th. here was stephen miller who is one of the longest serving white house aides to this president. take a look. >> as we speak today an ultimate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to congress. this will ensure that al

donald trump's bid to overturn the u.s. presidential election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud william bar told the associated press that the justice department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome president elect joe biden big trial 53062232 votes in the electoral college by more than 6000000 in the popular vote. i spoke to a white house correspondent alan fischer alum is or perhaps was one of donald trump's biggest supporters and he was at the white house today might we expect this to impact his future. well let's be honest we've all been watching the twitter feed of donald trump for the last couple of hours expect him to announce that bilbo has been fired because we know that a couple of weeks ago when the head of this cyber security election unit said this was the most secure election in american history which went against what donald trump has been saying for days he end

because donald trump said so. this is the definition of an autocracy and once you understand that the gop itself has become an autocracy, it becomes easy to understand a lot of what is going on. an autocratic gop all in on donald trump's attempt to wreck our democracy is where we start this hour with our most favorite friends. former rnc chairman michael steele is here, also joining us former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. michael steele, i know we're ten train stops past the prize, but where is the condemnation from anyone who wants to continue to say that they govern in a democracy. >> well, they're not governing in this democracy. they haven't been governing for a while now. they've ceded that. you're talking about a party that has no ideology morings that couldn't sit in a room to come up with a platform to decide and define for the country who we would be and what we would say to the country in this most previous election cycle. so, the realities are one of, you know, as the secretary of state said,

donald trump. you had him trying to interfere from beginning to end and we're now when we're going to show this for you, you're now even going getting publications like the national review -- >> yeah. >> who called up the president a few times in the post election -- post election period. but just saying enough is enough. "the wall street journal" editorial page. even brought themselves to saying as much a week or two ago. so everybody knows the gig's up. but for some reason, republican senators and mitch mcconnell just can't let those words cross -- >> but talk about the height of needy. talking about while he's certificating on television like i must stop this and then having the guy not take his call publicly. that's in trump's mind, that's painful. as willie mentioned, the state's most hotly battleground states have now certificated the -- certified the election results. the state of arizona certified its election results yesterday. solidifying joe biden's win and clearing the way for mark kell

this is donald trump's party. for more on the future of donald trump's party, the gop, tina nguyen is a white house reporter at politico where she covers maga world. jennifer is it a former chair of the new hampshire party who announced this month she's leaving the party over gop efforts to overturn the election result. tia, let me start with you. is it donald trump's party as matt gaetz says? it sure looks like it from where i'm sitting. >> it's a strange situation because you can't quite tell where the party ends and where donald trump's supporters begin. while you have members who are 100% republicans and pro democrat, you have a giant section of republicans who are saying, okay, we maybe need to move on and just deal with the biden presidency. let's certify the results in congress next week and say, okay, biden won because here are the votes. or they can indulge in a fantasy and say that donald trump isn't going to leave the white house and what we can do is somehow manipulate the rules of congress to do so. a

and donald trump is not going anywhere. the loser is the republican party who will not be able to rebuild themselves without having to take him on, head on. they need to grow a backbone because whether it's now or a year from now the only way they're going to be able to re-establish the party is they're going to have to get in the ring and beat donald trump down and take him out of the political -- out of the discussion of legitimate policies. otherwise he's going to continue to side line them as a party and continue to embellish himself because he just can't help it. he needs the attention. >> rev, what are you bracing for in terms of his pardons which are expected to be plentiful? obviously anyone who needs a pardon is already in trouble with the law, but they're not expected to be the run of the mill kind of folks that were mistreated by the criminal justice system. what are you expecting? >> i'm expecting he's going to pardon those that have been loyal to him, that have paid homage to him, watch the attorney general in

caos en washington, el presidente donald trump se niega a firmar el nuevo paquete de ayuda econÓmico y los legisladores no se ponen de acuerdo sobre la asistencia directa que necesita millones de personas. muchos piensan que ya son legÍtimos. la mesa de gallo mÁs solitaria y ante pocos fieles y adelantada para respetar el toque de queda en italia. comenzamos. >> buenas tardes. millones de estadounidenses luchan por ponercomida en sus mesas, el presidente donald trump se ha negado a firmar el paquete de asistencia y los legisladores no se ponen de acuerdo sobre uno de los puntos mÁs controvertidos que es de la asistencia directa. exigen que se envÍen $2000 por persona, pero los republicanos solamente quiere que sean 600, desde washington nos amplÍan. >> el caos en el congreso continÚa, millones van a perder los beneficios desempleo, el presidente donald trump no afirma nuevo paquete de estÍmulo econÓmico. avanzar una legislaciÓn que aumentarÍa $2000 de los pagos directos como lo exigido el presidente donald trump. los demÓcratas querÍa que se aprobara la medida con consens

donald trump then turned the circular fir9 barr over a series of events that didn't meet donald trump's expectations for continued loyalty to donald trump. but if you could -- what donald trump thinks bill barr signed up for and falling out of favor from among other things refusing to project the lie that donald trump has sold to 126 republican members of congress and millions of his own supporters that this election was somehow stolen from him. there was some reporting in "the new york times" about a week ago that bill barr was considering leaving. and then even this weekend some more reporting that he might want to go before the holidays to spend more time, i think the quote we just read from donald trump, celebrating christmas in a pandemic, i'm not sure what that looks like. maybe he makes the family eggnog. john meacham, my question to you, is it possible that there is conduct that has been projected in reporting in axy os, on the "the new york times" an the washington time about donald trump's attempt to pardon himself and his own personal attorney rudy giuliani, that bill barr ju

president donald trump has signed into law a $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief package that would deliver money directly to businesses and individual taxpayers president retreated from his fret to veto the bill and from his demand that congress increase stimulus checks from $600.00 per adult to 2000 that's something democrats pushed for and his own democrats own republican party opposed the delay of almost a week meant that unemployment benefits lapsed for millions of people and threatened a government shutdown. go over to our correspondent in washington oliver going to have you with us this relief package has been a long time coming what is in it exactly and for whom. so we're talking about a more than 2 trillion dollar. u.s. dollar relief package william $900000000000.00 u.s. dollars in direct aid and $1.00 trillion to fund government agencies so large amounts of money in the 2nd relief package since the pandemic began so mostly that money is used to provide financial support for businesses for unemployed individuals as well as for families and then every religious person would receive

it's not just about donald trump. it's about things that other members of his administration might have done that have been exposed during the course of this administration. we don't know about ivanka. we don't know what trade issues she may have been involved with or how her and jared kushner made $80 million while still in the white house. there sore many different instances where they are legally exposed at the state level. you'll have republicans that try to defend it with crazy distracting lawsuits but a lot of democrats at the state level and, hey, maybe even an anti-trump republican in one of these states. maybe in virginia. maybe in maryland. i'll take a pot shot at trump because i want to establish i'm a new kind of republican going forward. >> jason stays with me. dan, about 30 seconds left. i have to save time for dr. fauci. on the flip side, what do you say to critics across the country, maga supporters who say, oh, cy vance who you worked with, new york democrat type. just wants to torture donald trump. t

over and over it's all about donald trump. i'm glad it's going to end on january 20th, but the message that he sent and the danger of this stuff becoming normal is a very real danger. i think we have to send a message to the american people that none of this is okay. this is not okay. it wasn't okay prior to 2016, and it's not okay right now. we have to make sure we're getting folks in place that can actually push back on this and reset those norms to where they have been prior to 2016 in the trump era so we can actually engage in this rebuilding of our country. >> well, on this day before christmas eve, let's at least remember and thank those servicemembers who are out there around the world keeping america safe regardless of the politics going on at home. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us. congressman jason crow of colorado was a former army ranger. >>> up next, speaker pelosi versus donald trump. while americans are hiding from the president's veto threat on covid relief, pelosi is running circles ar

jared krishna's father and donald trump's former campaign manager paul not afford are among those getting presidential pardons in the latest list. hello there i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up and the boils over in southern england thousands of truck drivers awaiting in poor conditions to be tested for the grown a virus. south korea implements its toughest ever measures to contain covert 19 forcing the closure of tourist sites across the country. and chinese regulators announce an anti monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant ali baba. u.s. president donald trump has issued another wave of pardons granting clemency to more of his allies he's now pardoned 26 people including his 2016 campaign chairman paul metaphors and roger stone his longtime adviser and friend he also pardoned charles cushman that's the father of his son in law jared kushner this is the 2nd list of presidential pardons in as many days tanzi has more for us now from washington d.c. . the major attention is being given to those connected to the russia great investigation. it all trumps son

donald trump is confused. >> hmm. so going back to the question of that the president raised whether the covid relief bill is doing enough tore americans. shared views. tulsi gabbard saying the bill leaves crumbs for those who need help most. alexandra ocasio ortiz, didn-co enough time to read the bill. >> what happened, white house kept saying no, not additional amounts for the stimulus. offered $500. we were able to get it up to $600 but hid the fact donald trump wanted $2,000. something going on in the white house hiding this information from congress. >> so you're saying that the white house was telling you something that did not reflect what the president wanted? or is it possible the white house was negotiating without consulting the president, and then just bringing him in at the end? do we know how that's been typical handled over the last four years? >> a great point. certainly possible secretary mnuchin we negotiated with was making stuff up. his views rather than the president's. we'll never know. at this p

it's not donald trump is a good actor here but i think very occasionally, donald trump will stumble on the right position for the wrong reasons. >> yeah, correct on that point, too. joyce, let's look at january 6th for a moment because that's the third aspect of trump world if you want to look at it like that right now. he's trying to undermine democracy. he's been doing it since the election. now he's trying to derail the certification of joe biden on january the 6th. any legal basis to what he is trying to do? >> no, there really isn't. we've seen this trajectory since the night of the election where trump continues to be, as jason points out, the chaos president. his goal is to destabilize and create uncertainty so whether that's letting federal workers go home tonight not knowing if there will be a new budget command or trying to leave the american people with the perception that he might still find something last gasp way of winning this election. trump is all in it for the chaos. but he won't be successful in overturning the results of this election, the american people have spok

to me this is donald trump's big moment. i am of the belief that with all the dissension, some republicans irritated at him and some republicans in georgia might not vote because he doesn't like -- they need donald trump to pull out georgia. if he does that he will go out on a winning note. whatever else happens on the other votes if he does that he will go out on a winning note. if he doesn't he will be blamed and the interesting thing in this race, the opposite of to bonemeal, all politics is local. all politics is nationally in these races. joe biden is a nonentity. john ossoff had fewer voters than joe biden. it will confirm he has no coattails as we saw in november. bret: senator josh holly from missouri signing onto this effort to challenge the election results. what does that mean big picture come january 6th? >> it means nothing in terms of joe biden being sworn in but it is the third issue we are talking about where republicans are forced to do something difficult in early january. republicans would rather avoid dea

donald trump planned to do that, donald trump thought it was in the bag. because he put three of those justices on the supreme court. today the united states supreme court refused to even consider, even hear or consider a case brought to invalidate millions of mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. donald trump was expecting his united states supreme court to issue an historic opinion invalidating pennsylvania's mail-in ballots and instead -- instead -- he got this. this piece of paper. i'm not sure if the light can show you this correctly, but it's this tiny little piece of print here. that's the whole thing. this is the supreme court's way of saying, you are out of your mind. it is an order from the supreme court. it does not have any justices' names attached as the authors of the order, which means it is a unanimous order of the united states supreme court. and it simply says the request to hear the case by the supreme court is denied. they don't even bother to give a reason for the denial because the case itself is so preposterous, so insulting to them, that

trump got in 2016 and donald trump looked like he had a mandate. he called that 306 win a landslide and proceeded to govern and implement really relentless policies that harmed particular communities which ironically turned out in record numbers to put joe biden in the white house instead. and i think it's important for us all to remember that context as well because joe biden is speaking for the millions -- 81 million americans who sent a clear message of rebuke to this president, not just for what he's done in the past but what he's doing in the present and i think the 100 or so republicans who signed on to essentially overturn the will of the majority of the american people have demonstrated that they don't bleach elieve in this dem as much as the people who saved it do. >> let's listen to that passage where joe biden reminds us that donald trump said 306 in the electoral college is a landslide. >> together vice president elect harris and i earned 306 electoral votes, well exceeding the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory. 306 electoral

their leader, donald trump. and so i vacillate almost on an hourly basis on whether or not the media should give one iota more to the president and his rantings. and there is still security value in understanding what he's saying. you might not give it any coverage on msnbc and they decide to shut it down. but he's messaging the people who will carry out the violence and we need to know that. it better not be a surprise to us. so that sadly still merits coverage because only if a security perspective, we need to know where this journey is headed. >> you know, i mean, bob costa, i grapple the same thing and i think ashley parker hit the nail on the head as to why. trump has become more radicalized and described him turning into the more radicalized outlets so he's having a conversation with his supporters over a news max. ez easier to ignore but probably more dangerous than any other point in his presidentsy. is this not the off-ramps of the republicans that privately called him a scum bag after the access hollyw

trump as president, and the fourth ballot is for donald j. trump. >> idaho, its four electoral votes going for president trump. >>> we're following everything, but we're also following another major, major historic moment, the new coronavirus vaccine. jake, back to you. >> that's right, wolf. we are expecting soon a press conference from health and human services secretary alex azar and surgeon general jerome adams. they're speaking alongside faculty and administrators at gw medical hospital. as part of the ceremonial covid vaccine kickoff event, let's bring in sanjay gupta if we can. obviously we're still in the thick of the pandemic, really there is a light at the end of the tunnel. >> yeah, very much it feels that way. i think it's sort of the contrasting sort of images. you've got the real, i think, honest hope of the vaccine that is becoming increasingly clear, and we're seeing people get the vaccine, we've seen health care workers in these places working so hard for so many months to get the vaccine. it's already being rolled out in som

donald trump's bid to overturn the u.s. presidential election result has suffered another major blow. but the attorney general saying there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. william bell told the associated press that the justice department investigation has in his words, not seen ford on a scale that could have affected a different outcome. president elect joe biden be trumped 53062232 votes in the electoral college and more than 6000000 in the popular vote. but speak now to our white house correspondent, alan fischer. alan where you barr is or perhaps was one of donald trump's biggest supporters. there must be a particular sort of sting in this one for the president. well know, for honest i think a lot of people would expect him to be fired in the last couple of hours. he was here on the white house count this for a meeting that was described by the department of justice as routine. he was with the president for about an hour and then he left that before the election, bill barr was saying that voter fraud could wel

joe biden can't be president it was a long awaited speech by donald trump supporters donald trump himself said it was the most important speech ever in a 46 minute address donald trump repeated his longstanding allegations of fraud and argued that essentially the u.s. presidential election was not valid that there were millions of illegal votes cast he called for the u.s. supreme court to step in and overturn the election results in several key states it is a travesty that in the year 2020 we do not have any means of verifying the eligibility of those who cast ballots and an election and such an important election it is or determining who they are whether they live in the state or whether they are even american citizens. we have no idea donald trump repeated the allegation that there were irregularities and anomalies when it came to dominion voting systems this is a voting machine company he also raised the allegation that people who died were registered to vote and people voted in their places furthermore he accused democrat run cities of having widespread corruption and said the democra

donald trump's idea of $2,000 payments. speaker nancy pelosi passed a bill through the house of representatives with bipartisan support, $2,000 payments, and today mitch mcconnell refused to allow a vote on that bill on the senate floor and georgia's republican senators did not object in any way to mitch mcconnell blocking a vote on the $2,000 payments that they pretend that they support. democratic candidate for senate jon ossoff running against senator perdue said this. the people have needed help, but for the past year, david perdue has opposed all direct relief for working georgians even while he cashed out personally on the pandemic by trading medical stocks. he hasn't had a change of heart. he's exclusively focused on his own political survival. democratic candidate for senate raphael warnock running against senator loeffler said this. kelly loeffler made clear her priorities when she sold $3 million of her own stock while downplaying the pandemic, called unemployment relief counterproductive and then waited nearly ni