for donald trump. a spokesperson for donald trump today issued a statement today that donald trump said hitler did a lot of good things. ku klux klan members love donald trump. the former klan leader supported donald trump's run for presidency in 2016 that what became the controversy of the day for the trump campaign in 2016, donald trump pretend not to know who david duke is or what he thinks. but that didn't bother david duke at all. because david duke knew that that was what a winning politician was going to have to say in a situation like that. so the racists who love donald trump because they believe he is one of them have never believed his denials about being one of them. they just see that as something donald trump, a smart politician, has to say. but they believe that they know where donald trump's heart is. america's klansmen, america's nazis believe that donald trump has in his heart what they have in theirs. sheer hatred. so they will be cheered tonight with the news reports that they will

yet they knew that and saw every word donald trump said and they went out there and defied donald trump tonight and they did it in large numbers. and mitch mcconnell's vote, by the way, one thing that occurred to me, one reason for his vote is not just getting the bridge in kentucky that he desperately needs but also protecting his members who have been threatened by donald trump to show that the actual republican leader of the senate is on board with this bill also at this stage. >> you suggested something at the beginning that i agree with which is i think the intervention helped the democrats put this together. couple days ago i got a text from a top democratic aide who said will the republicans follow donald trump? or will they try to make a deal? and i think this might be significant, you know, donald trump will have a lot of power in that party. there are a lot of republican rank and file who will vote with donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that a very close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs

in trump tower, the donald trump in the white house, the donald trump in mar-a-lago. he is the same person, he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how donald trump fills his day, or changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is that the presidency changes whoever occupies the office. but i don't think that's been true about donald trump. he has remained singularly donald trump, and i think that is another curious point, is that he doesn't have to be the president to yet be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point, because it is not -- it is not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump, whatever that character is, whatever role that actor -- which is what he is in many respects -- is playing. host: a couple more calls. we go to shirley in north carolina. good morning. caller: i don't think john will trump -- donald trump is crazy. he might be narcissistic, but the biden white house is -- guest: is it possible that i could interrupt you before u.s. your question, just

donald trump will have a lot of power in the party, a lot of rank and file who will vote for donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that, ever close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs. now, even among some of his working class supporters, who basically like transportation bills. they like building roads, they like the jobs that are involved here. i also think that mcconnell may have been persuaded by the idea that, if they are going to attack the -- bill, they might not be completing restriction us on this. maybe they're full obstruction strategy also died tonight. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> great to be with you, thanks. >> coming up, we will be joined by congresswoman susan wildes. she was with president biden today in her congressional district in pennsylvania when he got the word, that the senate had reached a deal on infrastructure. infrastructure you look a little lost. i can't find my hotel. oh. oh! ♪♪ this is not normal. no. ♪♪ so? ♪♪ right? g

and so the candidates for liability here included donald trump's children, obviously include donald trump himself. who is word tonight as they read this indictment? >> anybody in the upper ranks of this very small organization who advised donald trump or participated in any of these scams alongside allen why sober. the trump organization has scores of llc under his umbrella, i suspect the trump corporation is another one of these entities. typically there weren't a lot of people on top of that food chain, it was a company that existed on paper, it usually included allen weisselberg and some consolation of the three children. so to the extent that an indicted coup conspirator number one as someone in the trump corporation and that mirror a third trump organization typically construct, it's possible that the children are in danger there. i think the other issue that will come on very soon with the weight of this indictment is people will start to wrap one another out. this is an organization we talked about this before. there's not a lot of loyalty, everyone understand that trump saves his

that is why donald trump thinks. some people do or deserve that for daring to vote, and daring to vote against him. when you find republicans who are troubled by donald trump's cruelty, but still voted for him, they talk about the things they agree with trump on like, tax cuts, or supreme court justices isn't bad. they invariably say something like, trump did a lot of good things. exactly what donald trump said about adolf hitler. leading off our discussion tonight, is adam serwer author of the cruelty is the point. also with us jelani cobb professor of university have journalism at columbia and an analyst. so jelani cobb i want to begin with you, the people have been following donald trump four years, and following his cruelty, they will, on both sides of this, not be surprised to hear him quoted as saying that he admires hitler for a lot of good things, he says. >> yeah, it is an extraordinary statement. on the other hand, we did not a private regulation for john kelly, a man who after all, spends a great deal of t

donald trump approved this. it was donald trump's decision. and without that evidence, you can't have criminal culpability. i think we also have to remember that, you know, in all likelihood, this is the first -- the first stage, the first round of what will be when the grand jury sits for another four, four and a half months, it's the prosecutors clearly are bringing a first round of charges against the trump organization, some corporate -- we don't know if it's the trump organization at the parent level or a subsidiary level. unknown until tomorrow. but they're bringing this first round of charges. but it's, from what i have been hearing, it sounds like this is not the end. this indictment is a first round and the investigation is continuing and presumably will be looking at things like bank fraud, insurance fraud, falsification of books and records, perhaps the stormy daniels payment. there is a lot for them to still do. >> thank you very much for your guidance on this tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. nice to be her

donald trump incited this mob here and i'm convinced if donald trump did not do that, these folks otherwise never would have come. so but for donald trump january 6th does not happen. second, lawrence, and this is important for your viewers. we can all play a role by going through the fbi twitter and facebook accounts and reposting and re-tweeting these videos and play our own civic duty in making sure that those who participated that day are held accountable. i can't re-tweet those videos enough to try and do my part to bring them to justice. >> your book is about the impeachments of donald trump, the second impeachment was all about one day, it was all about january 6th and i guess in other ways, in evidentiary terms, it was also about what led up to it, and donald trump and others communication with this crowd that precedes january 6th. >> that's right. also, lawrence, that this was entirely predictable for nearly 20 days leading up to the 6th, donald trump's campaign and associates had spent $50 million on stop the steal campaign ads, and they stopped paying for them on the 6th. so they

is donald trump and donald trump jr. and eric trump and ivanka trump. that is a tremendous problem for the entire family. finally, i just think we need to point out that there were two things that were bad for donald trump today. one was this indictment, which as elie's been going through is very lengthy, very detailed. but the other is, to bring it back to washington, nancy pelosi announced the select committee on january 6th today. liz cheney, a very conservative republican, agreed to be on that committee. these two things are going to be happening at the same time no matter how many exclamation points donald trump wants to make in these statements. >> jen rogers, now that you have heard all the details or what we have been able to consume from the indictment and from inside the courtroom, is this what you were expecting today? >> well, it's a little more than i was expecting in the sense that, you know, they did charge more crimes than i was expecting. and hearing from michael cohen leads me to believe more than i did

trump be donald trump as much as he can be. i was kind of very he didn't coverage because that's the fact that that and that rejected again. well folks, unfortunately were out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance. i'm a professor. one word, it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, listen, it's a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line? millions and millions of americans still believe that donald trump is their great white hope for them. he's a straight talker who doesn't abide by the rules. doesn't care about traditional lines between conservative and liberal, or democrat, and republican and he does whatever he likes. they love it, trump is rude and obnoxious, and you could care less about your feelings. maybe t

donald trump not really meaningfully changed from the donald trump and trump tower to the donald trump in the white house to the donald trump and mar-a-lago. he is the same person. he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how he feels his day for changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is the residency changes whoever occupies the office. i don't think that is been true about donald trump he has remained singularly donald trump. it's another curious point is that he does not have to be the president to be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point. it is not donald trump it's not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump whatever that character is. whatever role that actor which is what he is in many respects is played very. >> a couple more calls will go to shirley and north carolina good morning. >> good morning. >> caller: i do not think donald trump is crazy but he might be narcissistic. but, the biden white house. >> can i -- make is it possible i could interrupt you before you ask

how is donald trump paid? what's the payment scheme within that business for donald trump, himself? and that's something we don't learn anything about in this indictment, so far. >> but i bet we are going to learn about it, before too long. >> it looks like it's coming. looks like that is what's ahead of us. thank you, rachel. >> thank you, laurchs. >> thank you. >>> once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime. according to an indictment by a manhattan-grand jury. unsealed today, in court, in manhattan. we have already seen donald trump's signature on checks written in the commission of a federal crime. here is donald trump's signature in a check to michael cohen, as part of the criminal payoff scheme to prevent stormy daniels from telling the ugly truth of what happened when she was alone in a hotel room with donald trump. that criminal scheme, of course, completely, fell apart. michael cohen went to prison for that criminal scheme. stormy daniels went on "60 minutes" and told the story of that night, including donald trump comparing her to his d

and let donald trump be donald trump as much as he can be. i was kind of very he didn't coverage because that's the fact that that and that rejected again. well folks, unfortunately we're out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance on the professor. one word it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, listen, it's a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line? millions and millions of americans still believe that donald trump is their great white hope for them. he's a straight talker who doesn't abide by the rules. doesn't care about traditional lines between conservative and liberal, or democrat, and republican and he does whatever he likes. they love it, trump is rude and obnoxious, and you could care less about your feelings. maybe t

donald trump also mentioned these words exactly. education for your grandchildren, i don't even know, do you have to? this anyone even know? the answer to that stuff? we he posed that tax question to his sadly ranger and people in the audience. want to know if they know whether you have to pay taxes on $347,000 in private school tuition payments for your grandchildren. here's someone who donald trump can ask about that. >> i know more about taxes than any human being that god ever created we. >> ellen weisselberg is doing whatever a criminal defendant is supposed to do, he's not saying a public word, not one. allen weisselberg as he remains silent, he watches donald trump will, help the prosecutors who are trying to put ellen weisselberg in prison. it may also be donald trump's continued public ranting is part of why joe biden's job approval polls are so strong, continued contrast with donald trump probably helps joe biden and those president biden's continued leadership in the most important job the president can have, we making am

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and let donald trump be donald trump as much as he can be. i was kind of very he didn't coverage because that's the fact that that and they rejected again. well folks, unfortunately were out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance on the professor. one word it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, this is a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line? millions and millions of americans still believe that donald trump is their great white hope for them. he's a straight talker who doesn't abide by the rules. doesn't care about traditional lines between conservative and liberal, or democrat, and republican and he does whatever he likes. they love it, trump is rude and obnoxious, and you could care less about your feelings. maybe that's

donald trump not really meaningfully changed from the donald trump and trump tower to the donald trump in the white house to the donald trump and mar-a-lago. he is the same person. he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how he feels his day for changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is the residency changes whoever occupies the office. i don't think that is been true about donald trump he has remained singularly donald trump. it's another curious point is that he does not have to be the president to be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point. it is not donald trump it's not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump whatever that character is. whatever role that actor which is what he is in many respects is played very. >> a couple more calls will go to shirley and north carolina good morning. >> good morning. >> caller: i do not think donald trump is crazy but he might be narcissistic. but, the biden white house. >> can i -- make is it possible i could interrupt you before you ask

they live in fear of donald trump coming after them. donald trump saying they are ill legitimate. donald trump saying they are the enemy. the point about this piece that i wrote the other day was that donald trump remains very powerful and democrats would like to think that he is out. he's gone away. he's in exile. he's been humiliated. forget about it. this is all more meat for why he will run again. he must run again. just call it revenge. he needs his revenge. >> let me ask you one more question before we get to your book. do you think either of the candidates that i mentioned or anybody else who could get 70 million votes in this country in terms of republican? >> not as long as donald trump still ambulatory. >> okay. let's get to the book. i mentioned fire and fury. given his reaction to that book, were you surprised to even get an interview with him for this book. why do you think he did it? >> i was flabbergasted. in fact, i didn't even ask for the interview. he heard that i was writing this book and as this was related to me, the person who told him, he said that guy gets

what donald trump do? he tweets out support and encourages and furtheren cites what's happening. >> it comes as donald trump with house republican leader mccarthy discussing an attempt to return to office. does it surprise you how many people choose to stand with trump despite all of this? have you become so accustomed to it? if so what does that say? >> i think you have a problem with the republican elected officials are lying to the republican voters and then they say the voters believe the lies but they have been fed the lies by the politicians. mccarthy started to say this is not okay. this is not who we are as america. we don't do insurrections but democratic elections and the person with more votes wins that election and we do not do violence associated with politics here especially in 2021. the concern that i have in this moment is that this could happen again because of the complicity of elected republicans save adam kimzinger and liz cheney because they speak truth to power and speaking to the imp

donald trump of prove this. it was donald trump's decision. without that evidence, you can't have criminal culpability. i think we also have to remember that, in all likelihood, this is the first stage. the first round of what will be when the grand jury sits for the four, four and a half months, it's the prosecutors -- clearly are bringing a first round of charges against the trump organization. we don't know if it's the trump organization at the parent level or subsidiary level. unknown until tomorrow. but they're bring in this first round of charges. from what i've been hearing, it sounds like this is not the end. this indictment is a first round. and the investigation is continuing. presumably will be looking at things like bank fraud, insurance fraud, falsification of books and records. perhaps the stormy daniels payment. there's a lot i think for them still to do. >> adam kaufman, thank you very much for your guidance on this tonight. we really appreciate. >> thank you, lawrence. nice to be here. >> thank you. joining us now is democrati

and let donald trump be donald trump as much as he can be . i was kind of very, he didn't average the fact that that and that rejected again, well folks, unfortunately were out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance. i'm a professor, one word, it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, this is a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line? millions and millions of americans still believe that donald trump is their great white hope for them. he's a straight talker who doesn't abide by the rules. doesn't care about traditional lines between conservative and liberal, or democrat, and republican and he does whatever he likes. they love it, trump is rude and obnoxious, and you could care less about your feelings. maybe that's really what tr

fix it, donald j trump's catastrophic final year. it comes out tomorrow wherever fine books are sold. good evening to you both and congratulations for this smattering of advance reviews that we read this afternoon. and tonight, carol, tell us about the last thing we raised here. trump's regret over not calling out the military following the murder of george floyd, during the blm protests and a subset of that question, who was gonna tell him if he wanted the second marines or the 82nd or the 101st to take positions in the city of seattle? >> wow, brian. that is a two part question. it's important. let me deal with the first part first. you know, because you've covered this administration and did very well at 11:00. the president, the former president, barely regrets anything and in fact in our interview with donald trump, phil and i learned that he really doesn't regret anything about 2020 except for one thing. though it was one of the most catastrophic years we've seen in our history, his big regret is that he didn't unleash active d

wolf, how can you say that donald trump was crazy and have no plan this is another hit job, donald trump's policies were working. unemployment was at an all-time low, rebuilt the military, treaty deals with china, he had the best policy. the best policies the country has ever seen and it was working and you ignore that and say trump is a jerk. people need to wake up, hating on the man about the best president we've ever had, the biggest movement, millions of followers if you say everybody's stupid. >> any response? >> my only response is that this is the third book i'veth writte, i've spoken to everyone around the president including the president at great length so i am reflecting the experience the people around him have had in the expense i've had, spending a great deal of time with these people and i will say that the policies if you like the former president policies, they largely came from forces other than the president himself, not concerned with policies who had very little interest in politics, certainly absent manager in the executive branch and who was a man -- who exists in th

in a state that donald trump won. are we now really relocating elections for the sake of it or once you've glommed on to the big lie you can't get off that train, you just have to keep counting votes? >> yes. from the very beginning, during the rioters session when it started in january, it became clear to me and many of my fellow democratic colleagues in the texas house that republican leadership would attempt to pass some sort of harmful voting suppression legislation that was based on the big lie. that somehow donald trump actually won the election in 2020. and when we spoke up about it, we were dismissed, we were disrespected, and now a by filing this bill, they are even with -- they are not denying their intention here anymore. texas republicans are pushing this narrative even further. they also want to get an endorsement from the former disgrace of a president for the primary races. so this is all what it is, they are putting politics over people. >> it's very strange representative johnson, because the things t

howie: you were with donald trump at cpac. he continues to promote, despite media pushback and i get several e-mails a day from him to this effect, his unproven conventions that the election was stolen. how does that help the republican party move forward. >> if we don't have integrity in the election cycle, we will never have a republic. we've seen the secretary of state of georgia has said and confirmed that thousands of ballots have been uncovered that he didn't know about. howie, this republic, this constitutional republic was founded on one man, one vote. we have to be able to vote properly. we have to make sure we count those votes properly. and we have to make sure that only legal citizens are voting. it is paramount to the very republic that we sit in every day and what the president has said and what he has asked for is an honest and fair assessment of what took place in november and i don't know why that's a republican or democrat ideal. that should be an american ideal. howie: i'll note that bill barr's justice depa

i am going to go out on 11 and say that if it was donald trump -- on a limb and if that was donald trump and blood rep. dent: said that, it would be a different response. probably a little different, do you ever think that maybe vladimir is thrilled to negotiate against adults? he is getting everything he wants, right? he got a pipeline from russia, for russia, he is making billions from the eu. joe biden says the eu is the background -- backbone of nato, we spent 70% of their budget protecting them from the russians they are evicting with the pipeline. america first went down the toilet with this administration, folks. despite what we see going on on a daily basis, despite all of that, there is a circle and running. -- there is a silver lining. [applause] i am sorry. i am sorry. i do not want to be canceled. democratic presidential hopeful. i heard this from brian potato head on cnn. if they post this on social media, they will dig me for misinformation because i did not include democratic presidential hopeful which that was accurate, right? michael is going away for a couple of years,

donald trump's catastrophic final year. generating a lot of headlines, even though it doesn't come out until tomorrow. phil's co-author will join us a bit later for a full conversation about it. also with us, amy stoddard, washington journalist, for real clear politics and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she also happens to be one of the co-hosts of the podcast sisters-in-law. good evening and welcome to you all. and phillip, i would like to begin with you and your beat. this new virus surge. let's take political consequences, the disappointment aspect of it out of the conversation and dwell on public health. i am guessing that biden west wing is about to address this with some urgency. >> certainly. and we've seen the biden administration and the health officials throughout the government speak with increasing urgency in recent weeks about what the cdc is calling the pandemic of the unvaccinated. the fact that so many americans, tens of millions of americans, many of them in red, republican leaning states won't be vaccin

because donald trump doesn't care. donald trump doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself what's going to happen. all of a sudden you're going to have donald trump standing up saying, what -- it's like the shaggy song, it wasn't me. next thing you know he's going to turn around and be pointing, allen, you should have known. you're my cfo. understand allen weisselberg is not a cpa, he's a bookkeeper. then what they're going to do knowing frick and frack, they're going to point around to mazers, the accountant. say you knew this and you should have been warning us because that's all that they're good at is deflecting their i will legalities on to somebody else. it wasn't me, it's him. if it's not him, look at him. donald doesn't care if it's going to be al land or the accountants at mazers or someone else. it doesn't matter as long as it's not him. it's an amazing -- it's an amazing way about him, you know, where, again, he'd rather be his children than be himself. >> we had a prosecutor on earlier who sai

president donald j. 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 warriors saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, december december -- da skiezed as patriotism fed by their members of congress, their television shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been 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. so you've got radicalization and mobilization. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> that threat continues to this day driven by lies that endanger our democracy. how did millions believe a network so deep, so vast they would ignite an insurrection to find the answers we have to go into that sea of people. see through their eyes. this is t

before he was elected, donald trump _ point? before he was elected, donald trump maintained - point? before he was elected, donald trump maintained hisl point? before he was elected, i donald trump maintained his tax records were under audit and they are apparently still under ordered at the time he left office. two years ago, the us justice department turned down a request by the house ways and means committee looking into donald trump's tax affairs, for the treasury to be compelled to release those documents, those tax documents. well now, the biden administration has reversed that decision. , six years worth of donald trump's tax records. democrats have welcomed the move, republicans have to mount state. will we get to see the documents anytime soon? that is very doubtful. it is likely that donald trump will fight this vision through the courts and it will ultimately be, the vote on whether to release these documents to a wider audience, ultimately of course to the public at large.— public at large. david, you mentioned _ p

donald trump won texas boy just 5.5 points last year. so what does this challenge from the right mean for greg abbott but more broadly texas republicans and republicans across the country. kristin solis anderson and tim miller, former spokesman for the republican national committee now writer at large for bulwark and both join me right now. kristin, i'll start with you. i know abbott has faced a lot of political headwinds. the handling of the freeze in texas hurt him quite a bit. i don't think that from the perspective of the median voter that he has like been too liberal and so i just wonder what incentive structure it creates for republican politicians when you see someone like allen west primarying abbott from the right. what it means for how he's going to conduct the governance of texas going forward? >> well, the incentive structure is that if you're running for office, it gives you a way to raise money, it gives you attention, it gives you prominence so there are lots of incentives for running for office. in some ways allen west pr

donald trump is aloon. donald trump is -- is crazy. >> we saw part of this show, today, actually in this extraordinary hearing in michigan. where a federal judge is, now, considering sanctions against all of the trump lawyers who were involved in the michigan litigation. that would ban them from ever practicing law in michigan, again. you have passages in your book about -- about how donald trump picks up these kinds of lawyers. you -- you talk about him, actually, randomly asking people, do you know any good lawyers? i -- i won't quote the book. the passages are extraordinary, when you read them. but he is just kind of wandering around asking people about lawyers. >> um, and -- and it's important to note that he actually has good lawyers. there are good lawyers in the white house. there are good lawyers on the campaign. and they refused to have anything to do with this. so, he has to go out and find the -- the only lawyers that he can find, who will do this are, you know, along with -- with -- with rudy gi

michael cohen would take donald trump down. this could be the end for donald trump. criminal charges against donald trump. they keep setting their sights up high, trying to put the bull's-eye directly on donald trump. when the bull's-eye falls short, news doesn't add up what they hoped it would, they keep the story alive anyway, don't they? it could lead to his eventual flipping. howie: he could flip and that would be trouble for trump. but you're not suggesting -- you're not suggesting it is not a legitimate story when this criminal indictment, whether it is warranted or not against a company of the former president of the united states? >> it is a legitimate story but so too is hunter biden. and that is what i object to. i object to the press saying it's a legitimate story when it is about a republican especially donald trump, it is but don't extend that same type of coverage to joe biden or people around him, in this case joe biden's son. howie: donald trump's pretty constant stream of complaints about an election he contends is stolen get a lot of media coverage.

trump really only works for donald trump. trey gowdy was going to be the next trump, it didn't work out for him. there is no new jordan, it is lebron. are these republicans eventually going to figure out you can't recreate the special sauce of t career and recognize they'll have to find their own path? if you have a choice between the real thing and the fake thing, i don't know how many republicans will get that excited about ron desantis. >> i think it's going to take seeing dozens of not hundreds of political careers going up in flames trying to recapture that magic that only trump can afford. i don't think that's the case. and what's unique here is, for all of desantis' problems and challenges, he's a very cunning political person. he rides into the governor's mansion strictly on his fealty and imitation act of trump and in essence won that support by kissing up to trump all throughout the 2018 cycle. it was said he ran his campaign for governor out of the trump hotel in washington. but he and the other contenders that are

this was a referendum on donald trump. whereas when you look back to the 2016 election, we saw that both candidates were viewed negatively and in some ways it was a referendum on both sides. in 2020, it really was all about donald trump. host: let's talk to robert who was calling from mesa, arizona on the republican line. good morning. caller: i just wanted to say that the eisenhower republican in my 60's. we organized in maricopa county, the one that's going through this cyber ninja audit even though we have gone through two audits and a court cases and they produced no evidence of any kind of fraud. we used absentee ballots. we have been doing that since 2002. more than 17% of our population uses those ballots and always has. we organized in this state against the tea party libertarians and the qanon freaks. we were part of the lincoln project and let's vote and we deliberately make sure that we turned out as many people. a lot of people changed over to independent in 2018 because they could not handle what was going on

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donald trump sent to attack the capital. testimony came with no warning today, as it was broadcast live. we can now warn you that this testimony includes racist language attributed to the trump mob. >> i told him to leave the capital, and the response they yelled was no man, this is our. house president trump invited us here. we're here to stop the steal. joe biden is not the president. nobody voted for joe biden. i responded, well i voted for joe biden. does my vote not count? am i nobody? that prompted a torrent of racial epithets. i like to keep politics out of my job. and in this instance i said, i voted for joe biden. am i nobody? r joe biden. that prompted a torrent of racial epithets. one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, you hear that guys? this [bleep] voted for joe biden. then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people joined in screaming, boo, [bleep] [bleep]! no one had ever, ever called me a [bleep] while wearing the uniform of the capitol police officer. in the days following the attempted insurrection, other black o

in trump tower, the donald trump in the white house, the donald trump in mar-a-lago. he is the same person, he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how donald trump fills his day, or changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is that the presidency changes whoever occupies the office. but i don't think that's been true about donald trump. he has remained singularly donald trump, and i think that is another curious point, is that he doesn't have to be the president to yet be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point, because it is not -- it is not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump, whatever that character is, whatever role that actor -- which is what he is in many respects -- is playing. host: a couple more calls. we go to shirley in north carolina. good morning. caller: i don't think john will trump -- donald trump is crazy. he might be narcissistic, but the biden white house is -- guest: is it possible that i could interrupt you before u.s. your question, just

adam is talking about donald trump. and the twice impeached former president gives up the game on stage. >> you didn't pay tax on the car. i don't even know -- do you have to? does anyone know the answer to that stuff? >> david cay johnston has answers to all this stuff and he joins me on a super sized addition of all in starting now. good evening from chicago, i'm chris hayes. happy 4th of july. as the nation celebrates independence day this long weekend, we are also about to mark six months since the insurrection at the capitol in january. the department of justice has now arrested more than 500 people in connection with the attack. we are tracking a lot of different developments in those overlapping investigations. over the weekend, we have new details in the case of a former virginia police officer who, we should note, is not the only former police officer named thomas robertson. he is facing multiple charges after allegedly participating in the january 6th insurrection. according to prosecutors, robertson and anoth

paulina: el dÍa de hoy donald trump participÓ en un mitin polÍtico. pablo gato nos presenta las palabras del ex mandatario. pablo: el mitin tiene un significado especial. es en el condado de maricopa donde se apoya un recuento de votos de la pasada elecciÓn. donald trump los felicito y volviÓ a acusar falsamente de fraudulentas esas elecciones. biden ganÓ el estado de arizona. paradÓjicamente el diario the washington post reporta que de todo el dinero de donald trump no ha dedicado nada a pagar ese recuento. esos recuentos tiene la intenciÓn de intimidar a funcionarios y votantes. >> es antidemocrÁtico, se deberÍa ampliar para que el mayor nÚmero de personas tuvieran el acceso al derecho. pablo: arizona tiene frontera con mÉxico y donald trump volviÓ a criticar a la administraciÓn de biden por su polÍtica migratoria. dijo que Él contuvo es inmigraciÓn y que ahora el paÍs estÁ inundado de indocumentados. biden dijo que la polÍtica migratoria de donald trump era inhumanidad y hay hasta ilegal. el ex presidente volviÓ a tomar crÉdito p

organization that donald trump didn't know about. he has basically testified to that. but you've made the point you have to be able to actually connect the dots. >> yeah. as a prosecutor, alisyn, you cannot stand up in front of a jury and say, come on, folks, he must have known, he had to know. that's what the burden of proof is about, that's what proving the case beyond a reasonable doubt is about. that's not enough. you need specific proof. you need a document, you need a witness who can say, he knew about this, he was part of it. also, speaking of michael cohen, alisyn, i think it is an appropriate occasion in thinking about donald trump's sort of lack of accountability to think of all of the people around donald trump who have been criminally charged, in some cases convicted, gone to prison. we have michael cohen, paul manafort, roger stone, michael flynn, steve bannon, on down the line, and now you add allen weisselberg to that list. it is really remarkable to see how many people around donald trump have taken falls, yet he has

has there been any response from donald trump the trump organisation?— donald trump the trump organisation? not so far, although _ organisation? not so far, although what _ organisation? not so far, although what we - organisation? not so far, although what we are - organisation? not so far, - although what we are hearing is that democrats are of course be pleased with this, they have welcomed this move, the house speaker trent —— nancy pelosi says access to the tax returns of donald trump was a matter of national security, as she put it, because it which i might on what she called donald trump's troubling conflicts of interest. republicans, though, have denounced this move by the us justice have denounced this move by the usjustice department, calling it "politically motivated" and saying it could lead to open season on the tax returns of future political candidates. david willis joining us from la. thanks very much. the israeli foreign minister yair lapid has called for a harsh response after two crew members were killed in an attack on an israe

know, donald trump was basically telling people, okay. justice department, you drive this car. crash it through the windows of the bank window and the vault. and i'll take it from here. so much damage would have happened, had the justice department carried this out. i shudder to think of what more would have happened on january 6th. a day that i lived through, as well as my colleagues and the whole nation lived through. and a lot of people remain traumatized, as a consequence. >> congressman, good to see you tonight. there will be some interesting reading for you and your fellow committee members. congressman raja krishnamoorthi. >>> much more to get to on this friday night. including a live conversation with beto o'rourke and reverend william barber. up next, we are going to be talking with an emergency room doctor from one of the states hardest hit by covid right now. stay with us. hardest hit by covid right now stay with us battling sensitive skin, we switched to tide hygienic clean free. it's gentle on her skin, and out cleans our old

donald trump won texas by just 5.5 points last year. so what does this challenge from the right mean for greg abbott but more broadly texas republicans and republicans across the country. kristin solis anderson and tim miller, former spokesman for the republican national committee now writer at large for bulwark and both join me right now. kristin, i'll start with you. i know abbott has faced a lot of political headwinds. the handling of the freeze in texas hurt him quite a bit. i don't think that from the perspective of the median voter that he has like been too liberal and so i just wonder what incentive structure it creates for republican politicians when you see someone like allen west primarying abbott from the right. what it means for how he's going to conduct the governance of texas going forward? >> well, the incentive structure is that if you're running for office, it gives you a way to raise money, it gives you attention, it gives you prominence so there are lots of incentives for running for office. short of being interested

i can tell you that the idea that all of this is going is donald trump's cfo or 15 years and donald trump had no idea where the extra money was going -- that looks to many sources of an unlikely theory. it is different from what we heard from the former colleague that joined us tonight. >> everything had to go through mr. trump. he knew everything and had to be approved by mr. trump. >> he knew about everything, does not mean he wrote anything down. he avoids e-mails and electronics. that's why weisselberg is so critical to provide -- many people would be checking e-mails or tax about approvals or records that say yes, do that. yes, move the money over. yes, lie about whether it is income. yes, that'll make us more profitable because we won't pay taxes. prosecutors may miss all those yeses, they may need weisselberg to unearth new details they don't yet know. >> donald trump himself famously does not use e-mails or text, does allen weisselberg use e-mails or texts? >> i have given the da an e-mail they did not know about. >> so what's the answer? does he use e-mail and texts? >> donald? >

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jim jordan was speaking to donald trump about the attack at the capitol happened. he could not be on the committee investigating the attack, because as congressman liz cheney said he could be a material witness called to testify. at some people out in the open, resaul saw it. when all else failed, when he could not enlist the justice department. when he did not have enough votes in congress, the last thing left to him was the more than. so he used the mob. a violent insurrection. a failed coup we saw was his final attempt after he tried everything else, but he's not done trump. devlin barrett covers the fbi. he has been covering handwritten notes published today. i wonder if you can give us context on donald trump and the context for this note-taking. >> right. we reported earlier this week this conversation was a part of a pattern going on at the time. trump regularly calling rosen, who was serving as the acting tomorrow because bill barr had just left the department and trump kept calling him and talking about this voter fraud and these various things he had hear