hice has been all in on trump's election lie and endorsed by donald trump. in arizona, a state representative named mark finchum wants the job. >> arizona state representative mark finchum is with u

senator from arkansas was trump before trump. he is an immigration hawk, opposed to unfettered free trade. what he lacks in panache he makes up for indiscipline and strategic planning, but those were not big strong suits for donald trump and did not seem to matter and getting him elected. -- seem to matter in getting him elected. guest: that is a good passage you pulled. presidential candidates can only use what they have. all of them have challenges. all of them have a potential fatal flaw. it's all about timing and who your competition is. i think that donald trump in 2016 against a competent and charismatic democratic nominee, somebody who would not destroy their resume with a problem the way hillary clinton's confidence and strength was shattered by having that secret server in her basement when she was secretary of state, donald trump would have ended up losing that election. for all of his strengths, and he has many political strengths in -- he did not minister win the national popular vote either time and even though that

trump was furious. he wasur furious and yelled at esper, you're taking away my authority. >> he would not be pushed around and he shoved his statement trump sitting at the resolute desk, this is what i said, understand, don't misinterpret it. this was ones of the many instruments were milley said my god, there's a mental decline here. there is a danger there was a wonderful phrase for which i will read. for milley, this is the darkest moment of theoretical possibility. in other words, the moment was dark but the testimony was theoretical but then it became real when you mix it with the trump personality and rash irrational raging. what esper and milley realized on this, they checkmated -- we worked together for years. i think there's a place where you keep the boss from doing what will be damaged to the institution or even the boss. ... >> what was goingas on there, there was a lot of, there was no trust so you have the moment after moment, i do want dwell on this too much but in miller's office and he

about trump and the final days of the trump administration. it also has chapters about about joe biden and the incoming biden administration. when you read you switch from one to the other it's almost like you're talking about two different countries. everything is crazy and one country and work the way you kind of think government and washington orcs no matter which party is in charge is that a fair characterization of the contrast not just to fascinating individuals into countries as well. >> i would not phrase it particularly that way their intertwined stories we begin the book with the millie moment january 8. you understand the days after the insurrection. we also wanted to answer the question in our reporting, how did we get there and where's this nation going? we go back to charlottesville back to biden's decision to run here and twice before 88, 2008, never found his footing at any of this races in any meaningful way. he had this ambition he decided t to run spurned by the belief what is happening in the country, white supremacy march

of 2016. >> a big win for president trump in florida. >> trump was in a decent mood until fox called arizona for biden. >> the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. >> he believed what he was being told by some advisers after he won florida which was this is looking good for us, this is looking just like 2016. these states that were supposed to go for biden are going for you. and then we got to the arizona call, and it all fell apart. >> it's a significant victory for joe biden, as i say the first flip of the night in the presidential race. >> the fox news decision desk made that call hours before the "associated press" and days before the major news networks. >> people were sending me what people were saying on social media, and it was this sort of, you know, psychotic murderous rage about us, and we don't do anything. we're just the weathermen. i'm just telling you where the storm is going. i don't make the weather. >> he started calling talent at fox and urging them to retract it. >> right, as though it was the call that

and after trump left office. they left special counsel john durham in place at the justice department, in the wake of the trump administration. during an open-ended investigation, into everybody who took part in the russia investigation. the trump administration and bill barr in particular, viewed the investigation as an insult by scandal, they had jim john durham to investigate and try to find crimes among people who were involved in the investigation, and that's where he has been doing ever since. special counsel john durham brought an indictment a few weeks ago -- about the trump organization having some sort of apparent surreptitious contact, with a kremlin connected bank during the 2016 election. it was kind of an obscure allegation, it never really caught that much public attention, it was court of a complex idea. never really took off in the public, mind for example it was never furthered in the mueller investigation, mueller didn't mention it at all. center intelligence committee did look into, it they ju

you knew trump had very powerful friends, you knew trump had very powerfulfriends, had a you knew trump had very powerful friends, had a very powerful friends, had a very powerful movement. did you think very hard before choosing to go so public? itunieiiii think very hard before choosing to go so public?— to go so public? well look, because — to go so public? well look, because i _ to go so public? well look, because i had _ to go so public? well look, because i had gone - to go so public? well look, because i had gone into . to go so public? well look, | because i had gone into the administration in the first instance, and that was a tough decision as well, i did have to think about that, i had a lot of people they don't do it, some people said they wouldn't speak to me again if i did and they haven't, and so irrespective of what i was preparing to do in terms of thinking about national security, there was a lot of people really worried about trump himself and the kind of damage that he was likely to do to the united states which we have actually seen. having already made that dec

he's been an ally of trump and having an ally will be helpful to trump if he runs again. they don't want to give up the leverage to say, yes, we'll vote for you as speaker. they want to be able to prod him to behave how they want, and it's going to be a delicate balancing act when he was under fire for not defending these republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill. he turned around and defended gosar. >> trump is volatile. there's the understatement of the year, trump is volatile and unpredictable. this is from mike rogers, another republican quoted in your piece. if trump came out against him, it would be ugly. one of the things we watch, we know trump is unhappy because kevin mccarthy has not cracked down. 1300 voters voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill but trump said if i'm not present, you're not supposed to do anything. to your point, does mccarthy do something that trump blows up about? >> we'll have to see in the months ahead, but you know who will be running the show on capitol hill for the next couple months? the right wing of the republican party

some of the best books about trump were not really about trump at all. they were about the larger history and the larger questions that his presidency raised. so in that sense, i say keep them coming. >> the book is "what were we thinking." a now out in paperback, "the washington post" carlos lozada. thank you for coming back on the show. >>> up next, a new look at why the american health care system is failing women, specifically women of color. how one author nearly became a maternal mortality statistic herself. we'll be right back. herself. we'll be right back. firefighter maggie gronewald knows how to handle dry weather... ...and dry, cracked skin. new gold bond advanced healing ointment. restore healthy skin, with no sticky feeling. gold bond. champion your skin. ♪ ♪ with noamazing...eling. jerry, you've got to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks ...it gets a little old. [thud] [clunk] [ding] ugh... carl is saving big, holiday shopping at amazon. so now, he's free to become... choirmaster carl. bogeys on your six, limu. they need customi

look there are people loyal to trump or trump's remaining power. but if they had been abusive, terrible horrible bosses to people is there likely there will be people who want to turn on bannon and put the screws on him? is that something that the d.o.j. has access to? >> i have been on a lot of tv with both of you guys, i don't think i have ever disagreed with you. but i have got to disagree with both of you. jason, the idea that bannon is like the emperor in sfwarz or like dollar bill in billions -- those people are competent in what they do. they know -- they actually get evil done. bannon is a joke. he's kind of like trump. he has the anti-midas touch, everything he touches turns into -- you know what the word is. so, absolutely, jason, i think, like, the most important point here is that if you are trump or if you are frankly anyone else in january 6th, you have got to worry that bannon could turn against you. this is not a guy known for his loyalty. so it's always about what's in it for himself. there is no, like, underlying principle as curt

during trump's lame duck period, trump went out of his way to stuff the top echelons of the pentagon with trump loyal appointees that had no kind of experience that would qualify them for those kinds of senior jobs. these people were above all, and in some cases, exclusively known as trump loyalists. they had worked for mike flynn who had worked for the fringiest and weirdest trump warriors in congress. people who worked for like congressman devin nunes. what did trump want with those guys all that time, that he spent all that time during the lame duck period stuffing the pentagon with them. what did he think they were going to do there? in jonathan karl's book, he explains how one of those trump appointees who we spent a long time trying to figure out what he was doing at the pentagon, one of the things he was doing in his last days at the pentagon, he was fielding mike flynn's phone calls after the election. he was telling mike flynn that he needed to use his senior seat at pentagon to overturn the election. he said, we need you, flynn told him. he said there was going to be an epi

senator from arkansas was trump before trump. he is an immigration hawk, opposed to unfettered free trade. what he lacks in panache he makes up for indiscipline and strategic planning, but those were not big strong suits for donald trump and did not seem to matter and getting him elected. -- seem to matter in getting him elected. guest: that is a good passage you pulled. presidential candidates can only use what they have. all of them have challenges. all of them have a potential fatal flaw. it's all about timing and who your competition is. i think that donald trump in 2016 against a competent and charismatic democratic nominee, somebody who would not destroy their resume with a problem the way hillary clinton's confidence and strength was shattered by having that secret server in her basement when she was secretary of state, donald trump would have ended up losing that election. for all of his strengths, and he has many political strengths in -- he did not minister win the national popular vote either time and even though that

fight for trump! fight for trump! >>> as court losses piled up and inauguration day crept closer, trump hoped that u.s. attorney general bill barr with the might of the department of justice behind him would back him and add credence to his fraudulent crimes. >> where is the doj and fib in all of this, mr. president? >> is the doj investigating? >> missing in action. can't tell you where they are. >> bill barr was investigating. >> bill barr issued a memo that told prosecutors around the country that they could take overt steps to look into allegations of fraud. this is something the department traditionally didn't do until votes for certified. it was absolutely seen as putting pressure on prosecutors around the country to at least say publically, or have signs that they were investigating voter fraud. bill barr was looking for it and the truth was it was not there and he eventually came to realize that. >> in an interview with the associated press, barr publicly contradicted trump's baseless certific

talking about being a traitor to donald trump's and donald trump's wishes and donald trump's cause so, you know, you can't imagine this happening under a bush administration. you can easily imagine this happening with trump as the leader of the party, his personality. his viciousness and his crazy n.e.t. has entirely infected this party and we saw that visited on all of us on january 6th and this is part of the phone call and god hips all in terms of what could happen next. >> republicans did not deal with this during the trump campaign starting in 2015 when he started to say things like i'd punch him or drag him out of here, when people stood up at his rallies, they have not dealt it during the trump presidency or not dealt with it since the attack on the capitol on insurrection day and they don't do it within their own family. we'll show you a screen shot. this is paul ghostary, republican congressman of arizona who thinks it's funny. you see the face of alexandria ocasio-cortez and see the face of paul gosar. this is a doctored animated video in which if we hit play and we won't do

you'll run against donald trump? >> yes. >> okay. >> it seems like every other gop potential candidate falls look a lawn chair when they get that question. they feel like their loyalty will benefit them if trump decides not to run. that's bananas. they should know trump is only loyal to himself. christie is applying experience to the problem. he's probably known backing donald was a bad idea since his body language at the rambling press conference. despite supporting trump for most of the administration, christie did speak up on january 6th and hasn't stopped. but much of the rest of the gop is suffering from stockholm syndrome. they think their captor is their savior. he's not. by any objective measure donald trump is a drag on the republican party. not strong. he's self-evidently weak. two-time popular vote loser, in addition to being the delusional seditionist. because republicans are afraid of his base, they either can't see it or won't admit it. take a look at that win by glenn youngkin. he didn't want to be see

trump-labeled property. >>> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. ♪♪ >>> and good evening once again. day 300 of the biden administration. one-time trump campaign manager, white house strategist and maga megaphone steve bannon surrendered to the fbi today, days after being in contempt of criminal charges for defying a subpoena from the january 6 committee. he livestreamed his arrival. >> i want you guys to folk on us the message. this is all noise, that's signal. >> this is bannon's first court appearance. in this case he did not enter a plea for the two misdemeanor counts of attempt by congress. that's expected thursday when he will appear before another federal judge. bannon was released without bail but had to surrender his passport and must check in weekly with court officials. after today's hearing, he and his lawyer david showen, who represented trump, you'll recall, in the second impeachment trial, went on the attack. >> this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, nanc

it wasn't about black male or holding anything over trump other than trump seeming to like him. seeming to talk about him in favorable terms. i found that really disturbing. it was a counterintelligence risk. something that we all think putin may have on trump if he can beat that easily manipulated, you are in enormous trouble. >> coming in to ask. arguing to the extension, involved in overreach and russian relations with the west. especially since russia is more regional than a world power. >> certainly, i mean, it was not just in overreach, it was actually a threat. you know, my earlier, you know, when i was starting out, i actually did not think that it was advisable to enlarge nato. who was i at that point? i was doing my work. working as a research assistant. i was not in a position. but, more prominent people who i work with very closely, the famous, you know, famous diplomat who wrote the telegram did not think about enlarging the great idea. my thesis for my phd's. actually holding the job to the reagan era. she also did not think interesting enough that expanding nato w

they have subpoenaed the trump 2020 campaign manager bill stepien, trump campaign communications chief, jason miller, the disgraced former new york city police commissioner, exconvict bernie caric, john eastman who devised the strategy that was the reason trump summoned his supporters to washington on january 6th. he's the one that basically wrote the strategy that said vice president mike pence magically had the power to overturn the election on january 6th. also a trump campaign staffer named angela mccallum, she was according to the committee subpoenaed because she apparently called state lawmakers in at least one state and told them on behalf of the trump campaign that they should appoint trump electors, even though trump had lost in that state, lost in michigan. all six of these trump world officials have been subpoenaed today, and along with the subpoenas, they got letters providing supporting documentation about what their alleged roles were laying the groundwork for the january 6th attack. these six people are being asked to hand over documents and records within the next coupl

trump was furious. he was furious and he yelled at esper you are taking we might authorities. >> he would not be pushed around and the unabashedly shoved his statesman at trump was sitting at the resolute desk. this is what i said. understand, don't misinterpret it. so this is one of the many incidents where milley just said, my god, there is a mental decline here. there is a danger and he had a wonderful phrase for it, which i want to read i don't ruin it. for milley said, this is the absolute darkest moment of theoretical possibility. in other words, the moment was dark but the possibility was theoretical, but then it became real when you mix it with the trump personality and this irrational raging. so what esper and milley realized -- on this, that they had actually checkmated -- i mean, we worked together for years. there's a point where you -- you keep the boss from doing what we be damage to the institution or even the boss, and they believe they checkmated trump on bringing the combat troops to w

you know donald trump well enough. you covered him long enough to know he would never say in advance take away all the drama and announce 12 days in advance he wasn't coming, unless he knew he was about to be disinvited. the reason mcconnell was disinviting him is very revealing. he believed that trump would have one more chance to disrupt the transition of power. >> it's so interesting to see mccarthy as an outlier from the other leaders and your reporting, i mean, a lot of the time my jaw was on the table. but this section, i want you to do the story-telling about why mccarthy maintains his loyalty to trump. that he saw people who stood up for the country and tried to stand up for the truth as losers, he will never been honored with statues on the mall. talk about that reporting. >> i recounted when mccarthy saw him on the mall january 2nd the day of the raffensberger call in washington. he was out for a walk. i was out. i took a walk almost the entire length of the mall. mccarthy has not announced what he was going

same thing with donald trump. does he want to run and lose again, we don't know so that's why this chatter is happening and also because his numbers have dropped. also because he is a vice president who's historically pretty unpopular. howard: she unfairly gets bad press. >> she does. howard: she partially does. she partially can be politically clumsy. >> i always say there is too many hours to fill with stuff to talk about and you got to talk about something and this is a war in the democratic, not just whether or not whether he will run, but people are worried he's the only person that could be donald trump. howard: on that point when we go to the republican side and trump has given every indication he will run and his team put leaked to political and memo showing him ahead of biden in five key states. is the press anymore certain even though donald trump could absolutely easily win the republican nomination that he will do this at the age of 78 >> i don't think there's any certainty there, but i think that is s

that is basically were trump was at this point and were trump ended up in 2018. it looks really dangerous. there are a few differences. this year, compared to previous, at least the last four. redistricting year, which in fort lee for democrats, it is more peril than upside for them. we have different coalitions and voting patterns this election then we have in previous elections. every elector is different every year. so doing sort of a deep dive on that i think will be important in understanding who turns out traditionally and midterm elections, especially now that democrats are doing much better with white college-educated voters who tend to be big -- consistent voters. finally, the trump factor. he was not much of a factor in virginia or new jersey, he was disciplined. that might not be so easy to pull off come 2022. so i will leave it at that and go on to the rest of the panel. >> thank you, that is a great start. up next, chris. he is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where he follows voting trends, public opinion and american media. he i

trump knew he was the one person willing to do anything trump wanted. mcentee and his enforcers made the disastrous last weeks of the trump presidency possible. they backed the president's manic drive to overturn the election and helped set the stage for the january 6th assault on the capitol. just days before january 6th, mcentee sent pence's office an absurd memo making the case that pence would be following thomas jefferson's example if he used his power to declare trump the winner of the 2020 election. carol, i know he came up in your travels, your research along with phil for your first and second books. tell us more about this young man who is about to be better known. >> mcentee was indeed a university of connecticut football player. he had also an amazing ability to win in electronic gambling, which got him into trouble with the national security clearances early in the administration. he rose like a meteor in the trump white house because he had the quality that donald trump values more than anything else, which is, you know, basically blind lo

donald trump -- you know him. what are his reactions to these kind of turns of events? >> i think, you know, he keeps oh, he has other people fighting his battles for him. he does not like to be hounded. his first response will always be to denigrate or try to undermine faith in the people who are pursuing him. and then when push comes to shove he gradually unwinds. if he has to end up getting into a situation where he's going to be deposed or he has to testify in front of a jury, he is going to completely unspool and do real damage to himself. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. and coming up congresswoman katie porter will join us next with the latest, the happening right now on the negotiations tonight among house democrats that speaker pelosi hopes will allow votes on the biden infrastructure legislation in the house. those votes are now scheduled for tomorrow. or are they scheduled? is it something they're just hoping for? katie porter has the answers next. the an

they have subpoenaed the trump 2020 campaign manager, trump national security adviser mike flynn. trump campaign communications chief jason miller. the disgraced former new york city police commissioner,er york city police commissioner/ ex-convict bernie kerik, john eastman who devised the strategy that was the reason trump summoned his supporters to washington on january 6th. he's the one that basically wrote the strategy that said vice president mike pence magically had the power to overturn the election on january 6th. also a trump campaign staffer named angela mccallum, she was u according to the committee subpoenaed because she apparently called state lawmakers in at least one state and told them on behalf of the trump campaign that they should appoint trump electors, even though trump had lost in that state, lost in michigan.to b ctn all six of these trump world officials have been subpoenaed today, and along with the subpoenas, they got letters providing supporting documentation about what their alleged roles were laying the groundwork for the january 6th attack.le these si

heist has been all in on trump's election lie and endorsed by donald trump. in arizona, a state representative named mark finchim wants the job. that seat is being vacated by a democrat. >> arizona state representative mark is with us tonight and what a job he's done. mark. >> he's already received the endorsement of donald trump. he has said over and over again that this was a fraudulent election. he's called for decertification. he's got a descent chance to win this primary. if we have people like that in these key positions moving forward, i think we are in danger. >> eight of the ten house republicans who voted for impeachment are facing primary challenges from republicans endorsed by trump or energized by him including lids cheney. >> donald trump is very vocally supporting your defeat. are you worried? >> no. i intend to win. >> you could lose. you're saying you won't but anything is possible. if you lose your career because of this position you're taking, will it have been worth it? >> well, i will no matter what happens never stop fighting for the con

during trump's lame duck period, trump went out of his way to stuff the top echelons of the pentagon with trump loyal appointees that had no kind of experience for those jobs. these people were above all, and in some cases, exclusively known as trump loyalists. they had worked for mike flynn who had worked for the fringiest and weirdest people. he spent all that time during the lame duck period stuffing the pentagon with them. what did he think they were going to do there? in jonathan karl's book, he explained that one of the trump appointees, one of the things he was doing in his last days at the pentagon, he was fielding mike flynn's phone calls after the election. he was telling mike flynn that he needed to use his senior seat at pentagon to overturn the election. he said, we need you, flynn told him. he said there was going to be an epic showdown over the election results. he said he needed to get orders signed, that balance localities needed to be seized, and that extraordinary and cohen had enormous respect for flynn. he thought his old boss sounded manic. shortly after flynn c

terry mcauliffe ran against donald trump. glenn youngkin ran away from donald trump. he ran harder. he ran harder in the suburbs. he ran harder in the rural colonies. -- counties. he ran harder in areas where donald trump didn't do so well. it was a classic ground game that i think allowed him to overcome terry's lack of message, and the fact that he had a significant head wind. there's this notion that democrats needed a wakeup call. we have had that wakeup call. we just don't know what time it is, and i think the time is we need to be more unified when we go before the american people and tell them what we're doing and not about the sausage making. >> and i was struck. if you drove through northern virginia before election day, where you never saw a trump sign in 2020, there were youngkin signs everywhere. so this was different. >> campaign operatives hate the yard sign polling, but, you know, the last couple of -- >> it worked, didn't it? >> they have been fairly accurate. 2016, people kept talking about the yard signs. look. i think that you can over and under-read what happened

you knew trump had very powerfulfriends, had a very powerful movement. did you think very hard before choosing to go so public? well look, because i had gone into the administration in the first instance, and that was a tough decision as well, i did have to think about that, i had a lot of people say don't do it, some people said they wouldn't speak to me again if i did and they haven't, and so irrespective of what i was preparing to do in terms of thinking about national security, there was a lot of people really worried about trump himself and the kind of damage that he was likely to do to the united states which we have actually seen. so having already made that decision, when i was subpoenaed as a fact witness along with many other people, colleagues i worked with really closely, i thought there was no question i had to stand up. i head already been targeted. all kinds of defamation, on the internet, horrible phone calls, threats to me and my family all over the place. i was called all kinds of strange things, i was part of a conspiracy according to

trump. >> that's something that we will be talking about. as they try to navigate that challenge. i would say that you are right and yet, you have to take in to account, a wealthy man who can self finance. that is part of it. so he is a different candidate. yes, he did manage. again, i was asking this question of anybody i ran in to. name me a republican candidate who has been right, politely so, to keep trump at a distance, and trump keeps praising and endorses him. and told the voters to turn out and flood the system is. don't just turn out. flood the system. that's the way to change the election. youngkin did something that i've not seen a republican in the trump years do. where he made clear that you are right, politely so, that he was not a giant fan of trump. but yet managed to keep trump support and keep not only get trump voters but to just light out up. lighting it up. >> i don't think he ever said he was not a huge fan of trump. he said i'm my own man, i will run my own race. he di

and also the connection of trump supporters and anyone in sort of the larger trump circle with what happened on that day. and what led up to it. and there had already been, not just hand-wringing, but angst and acrimony internally about the role that some fox opinion personalities played in fueling that led to, not just the so-called stop the steal rally on that day, but were followed. but in terms of carlson's claiming that there was perhaps false flag elements that there were protesters there that are anti trump fueling this cleary pro trump movement. despite what arrested pro trump supporters said about thei involment that day, you know, really was shocking talking to people. they said these are people we do not give credence to on fox news programs and they also said that these are things that our own reportings have already disapproved. but i will say that, part of it too is that there is a broader thing happening here, which is that that show is really vile. and that the vile in the way that is distinctive qualitatively from other things on the network. and other things that they have

happy to receive other people than trump. they want trump. this is all a myth that those republicans really want trump far away. a few of them do. youngkin, running for governor, not a federal office in virginia, a blue state that biden won by ten points. the ohio senate candidates, georgia senate candidates don't want trump far away. the mcconnell endorsement of herschel walker and thune, the whole leadership of the senate endorsed him after trump had tapped him shows that they are -- they know their fate is tied to trump for now. deep down, late at night, maybe they hope he'll miraculously disappear but they'll do nothing to make him disappear. even chris christie. he's not standing up to trump. he's sort of hoping people won't talk too much about trump. >> that's why it's so hard for all the republicans who said, after glenn youngkin won, this is our path. well, it's not going to be very easy for that to be their path if they are embracing trump and vice versa. look, it was easy for trump to stay out of the virginia governors race because

trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> you know, this is about trump. >> sean: here with reaction is eric trump. your dad has many gifts. one of them is he has this uncanny ability to take up a lot of space in the minds of liberal democrats and media mob. >> i mean, that video, i was laughing watching earlier, it is pretty amazing. they brought in obama, they brought in biden team virginia, harris to virginia, they took the entire democratic lineup, brought them all in, they outrace the democrats so many times, they had a guy who was a former governor of this state who was effectively the clinton poster boy, could do no wrong in washington, d.c. they did all of that, they used his name over and over and over again and the greatest turnout in the history of the republican party for any governor in the state history. it is so funny. they bring in the whole lineup, they raise more money and the use trump and guess w

why hasn't former president trump conceded? >> i think you'd have to ask president trump. first off, let's put it in perspective. my opponent in '18 did not concede until we went through two recounts and there were illegally found ballots after election nights. let's not act like these people, oh, gosh, you won. we have plenty of democrats chuck, chuck, chuck. wait a second. we have plenty of democrats that don't concede. that's what happened. here is what happened. we have a duly elected president. the constitution was followed. i hope democrats keep focusing all their time on donald trump. republicans are going to focus on the issues and we're going to win big in '22. that's exactly what i plan on doing. >> you're not at all concerned that former president trump is helping to create a false narrative that there's something wrong with our elections? >> i'm focused on how do we win in '22, and i know exactly how to win. do what i did in my three races, focus on issues. by the way, if anybody wants to help make sure we go chuck schumer is no longer the majority leader and t

>>> plus one state's investigation into trump over the trump investigation. >>> and the fight to get 1 million people vaccinated. >>> breaking news, they still don't have the votes. house speaker nancy pelosi pushing hard all day because she wants a vote tonight, tonight on biden's $1.75 trillion spending bill. but it does not appear, as of now, that this is happening. it appears democrats still do not know what is in the bill. cnn is learning that democrats are at odds over major provisions like immigration and state tax deductions. pelosi is still twisting arms. here she is just a short time ago. >> do more work. we'll let you know. >> she sound frustrated and annoyed. look, this is a massive bill. it includes everything from clean energy to family leave. i mention that specifically because that's where one of the biggest problems lies. family leave has always been a problem in this bill. it's held up biden's agenda for months. first it was in, then it was out, now it's back in. here are speaker pelosi and senator joe manchin today. >> we would like to put on the table the family a

and trump is now out of office. trump is out of options like pardons and the like. i had a chance the read the indictment while the congressman was talking. it is a remarkable piece of work. we are used to a 100-page baroque legal files to answer trumps baroque legal claims. this is the opposite. it is nine pager. every last hope steve bannon had to avoid accountability is shredded in a single digit document. and the audience here -- you know, this is not -- in my judgment, this is not written for lawyers. this is written for everyone. every american can read this and look at what steve bannon did, and how it blocks getting to the truth. there are not legalisms or anything like that. and it's the first indictment for someone in contempt of congress in 38 years. to put that in perspective, just how long that is, steve bannon graduated from college that year, donald trump just bought that trump tower at that time and i think trump's dad realized he made a mistaken trusting any part of the business to his son? we will leave that for the shrinks to unpack at this point

he of trump he candidates. there influenced by youngkin victory. he is out of the youngkin mold. >> i think it was locked that he didn't have a temper tantrum and insert himself. he tried. they kept saying he was going to have this town hall, invitation only. if a tree falls, did it really happen? >> that's a very interesting point about trump. a number of people have used, isn't odd he hasn't come out and slammed youngkin, particularly when youngkin was denying him publicly. youngkin played the judas role perfectly. he just rolled the sap suckers up into one character. trump was ok with that. i think i know why. for trump, he can suffer those outrageous assault on his person , it begot the wind -- begot the win, in a race like that, and state like virginia, it sets him up perfectly going in. if all the others fall in line, he gets the bragging rights, we sought within hours, taking credit and saying my voters got youngkin across the line. trump was playing a long game, looking into next year, using this virgin

people pardon by donald, trump then working very hard to try and install donald trump in a. you've got your, banning you've got your, fling you got your kerik. it is a crew. kerik is an ally of rudy giuliani, his former. boss he worked with to quote,, investigate allegation of voter fraud. the committee notes reporting that kerik paid for rooms, suites, in washington d.c. hotel and served as elections commence enter. it's nice that he paid, i guess. you participate in the january 5th meeting, at the hotel, he also pardon, steve bannon. john eastman, others. this is where we are tonight with outstanding subpoenas for angela mccallum, who by the way, i hope she has a lawyer, she definitely should get one, miss mccallum if you're watching. john eastman, michael flynn, and bernard carrot, as well as steve bannon who has made no moves to comply despite the contempt vote against him. so we wait to see what the newly subpoenaed trump allies, january six committee and department of justice will do next. congresswoman is the member of the select committee, to just issued these subpoe

this is basically donald trump's bill. donald trump gets a vote on that. he gets to weigh in. she gives donald trump the credit and he throws her under the bus. she appeared visibly shaken as trump railed against them during the dinner. let me tell you something. visibly shaken is not a crazy reaction. a central fact about american life right now is that when donald trump or his associated right wing propagandaists set their sites on you, then you have a security problem. it's a law of gravity. it was true of congressman gonzales of ohio, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. he is retiring because of the threats he faced. he recounted a moment this year when he and his family were greeted at the cleveland airport by two uniform police officers. now it's true the 13 republicans who donald trump called out the other night, who just voted for roads and bridges, broadband, internet and clean water, they are traitors in marjorie taylor greene words. >> that's not that uncommon, that menace, the threat of violence. it's couched as a wish, not a threat.

the suburbs which trump lost and specifically, he won suburban white women in the suburbs which trump had done much better with, and that represented also a 12-point switch. and a lot of republican governors around the country with the recent republican governor's association meaning it was so glad because a lot of the governors are in blue states who needed a model to show that there is a model to beat donald trump and to win and the blue state and glen youngkin. >> so here's the problem and it's a problem joe walsh points out a lot and no real civil war in the republican party. the republican party and the apparatus are trump supporters who support the stop the steal stuff, who empower these candidates including this woman that we're talking about in virginia. do republicans not need to make a clean break of that. you say that trump was an aberration and that group of people control the republican party including the caucus in the house. >> let me be clear. the aberration is an ideological aberration and it's not a loyalty adherence to the party or to trump and my contention has alw