once trump gets in office, trump starts giving him access, let's play golf. have you ever ridden on marine one? we will look at the view, fly air force one with me. it really truee graham in and e loves loved the access. love the ability he could call upon itself at any time the president of the united states. no other president had given them that access. it's aed fascinating story becae it began to draw him away from his mentor, his partner, john mccain, with whom he had been for so many years. mccain despise trump, thought trump was dangerous and incompetent and terrible for the country,tr and didn't understand why lindsey graham was pulled in closer. lindsey graham will tell you it's because, first of all he is a lot of fun picky with the about trump and he would always to people he could moderate tone. he could guide trump and helped be ahe better president. it just never convince john mccain and even on his deathbed john mccain inin lindsey graham were fighting over this. john mccain dying of brain cancer. there's this moment in arizona with lindsey gra

that was trump's philosophy. he wasn't looking for somebody to disagree, he wanted people to do what he wanted them to do, took a while to find them. >> how many of those four talked to you. >> we don't get into that in the book but we talk to as many as possible, people who might not want to know that we talk with them. >> we wanted to be as authoritative as possible. you talked to several hundred people which we did, all of them after trump left office and the second impeachment. what was striking to me was how much we were able to debrief people many of whom had never spoken out publicly much to the fury of trump's many critics in and out of the republican party but it struck us as important, you are taking a form of testimony and after action report for somebody who was a crisis for american democracy. >> that you pursue an interview with the president? speech we didn't need to, it was offered. donald trump wanted to give as many interviews as possible. it wasn't for us. we that he is so convinced in the powe

[chanting fight for trump] >> but nobody could change tr trump's mind. and has his family and aides arrived at the rally, his chief of staff mark meadows, was keeping the president's hopes alive. >> why was mr. trump taking the stage that morning, he was unde the impression by mr. meadows that it was still possible. >> at the rally the president had a more immediate familiar concern:crowd size. >> when we were in the offstage announced area change behind th stage, he was very concerned about the shots. >> or the pictures that were shared to he wanted to make sur that the rally space was fall. and so he's being told it's not that people are waiting to get through these mags, through these metal detectors. people don't want to go through them, because they have weapons with them. >> during the hearings the select committee should a secre service report that "some members of the crowd are wearin ballistic helmets, body armor, and carrying radio equipment an military grade backpacks." let's listen to the committee also played police radio transmissions from

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after trump took office, trump loyalists effectively took over the rnc. a staunch trump ally, mcdaniel, became head of the party after trump top former rnc chair to be his chief of staff. trump loyalists began to fill open seats on the committee, and key trump allies became the party's new finance chairs in charge of the parties national fundraising. that led to embarrassing headlines for the party when, one by one, those trump backed financed years became embroiled in their own scandals, ranging from allegations from rampant sexual misconduct to foreign corruption schemes. if you don't know what i'm talking about, google steve winner elliott broidy. throughout those scandals, the rnc remained, effectively, an extension of trump world, promoting trump's business, and featuring him and fundraising emails, and in 2020, the rnc spent $300,000 of the donor's money buying copies of donald trump jr.'s book. trump even involved the aren't seen as fake electors scheme, to try and overturn the 2020 election. now, that cozy relationship between trump and the nation

trump very effectively. but second, below that, there's also an ideological affinity between these two leaders. they're a liberal nationalist populists. they don't believe in the rule of law. they don't believe in constitutions. they worry about the decadent liberal western movements, and putin, for a decade, has been cultivating relationships with like-minded ideologues in hungary, and italy, in france, and in the united states of america. so that's a second piece that i think people need to understand. and third, the respect to what might have happened, you know, things would've been very different had president trump been reelected, because putin would've had a collaborator, a willing collaborator, to say, oh, you want crimea? yeah, of course. he would've given no underway. so the relationship -- maybe that wouldn't have been war. the president might have been right about that. because the united states of america might have given putin everything he wanted, vis-À-vis ukraine. >> igor, you're shaking you

and trump won! trump won! trump won! - the night before january 6, rally goers had started assembling. - and i can tell you to this day, donald trump won the election. [cheering] - they were so loud, that trump could hear them in the oval office that evening. [all cheering] trump opened the doors on this chilly january evening and started calling aides into his office. can you hear them outside, he'd ask. can you hear how excited they are? [cheering] - i woke up that morning and you know, there was a sense of real menace in washington, and there had been for a couple days. [all cheering] - there is a new republican party on the rise. we're coming for you, and we're going to have a good time doing it. - this is the greatest group of patriots ever put together. - what does giuliani do on january 6? - please welcome america's mayor, rudy. giuliani. - he takes the stage at the stop the steal rally on the ellipse. just south of the white house, you can see the white house in the distance, and he fires up this crowd. - this ha

host: you begin and end with donald trump with the memo that john on —- that baker sent to trump. >> in 2016 trump invites him to meet with him and baker doesn't want to bee perceived as endorsing him he doesn't particularly likeed the guy the ultimate solution is i will vote for him but not endorse him but did not want to give a public embrace so when trump asks him to come in i would advise other candidates but it brings a two-page memo of what he think trump needs to do to be successful candidate and president. which is toan reach out to women and people of color to believe in free trade and that way baker new if trump did not view them for his requirements the endorsement he would never meet. >> >>caller: thank you for taking my call. i ways enjoy a reading what they write that i want to push back a little bit since you have written so extensively about baker and trump.ug going back tot jim baker in his early times in the reagan administration drying a straight line between the will he hearten tactics of' george h.w. bush and donald trump attacks on barack obama not being born in

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trump's instructions, that is what they are calling, trump's instructions. january 6th attack on the capitol was done on trump's instructions. in his introduction to the new yorkers addition of the january six committee's report, the new yorker editor, david remnick says that historians will feast on these pages. david remnick highlights, in his introduction, what the january six committee found donald trump was doing and thinking during the attack on the capitol. trump white house chief of staff mark meadows is quoted by cassidy hutchison as saying that he doesn't think they are doing anything wrong. during the attack on the capitol, donald trump's white house chief of staff said donald trump didn't think the attackers were doing anything wrong. and another proof that the attackers were not acting on trump's instruction is right there in donald trump's reaction to it. david remnick's highlights of the committees evidence, he highlights the committees evidence about why donald trump is doing nothing. trump's passivity was not passivity at all. as adam in you

staff in the trump white house. you cannot remember talking with a presidential movement on january six. everyone else remember the discussion about potential presidential movement. and say to come into that late stage and say i don't remember, i think just goes to show the depth of the obstructionist behavior. i think that is something the justice department take very seriously in their investigation. i wonder when they are brought into a federal grand jury, that memories are reject. >> on that note hugo, looking ahead to the rest of this year in 2023, how do you see the political and legal consequences of the committees work playing out? especially their criminal referrals. >> the criminal referrals were interesting because they kind of made out a roadmap for the justice department to pursue in terms of potential charges against trump in particular. i think some are more ambitious than others. probably more ambitious, you have to get out of -- find an event that trump incited that led to eminence lawless action. a

trump has always done this. i have no donald trump promise 35 years. he is always thumbing his nose at the law when he gets caught as he repeatedly in various civil regulatory actions and some court cases agree he cheated illegal immigrants, as he called them, who were brought into the country to work for him. he always somehow says, oh, no, this is a great victory for me, you don't know what you're talking about, it is too complicated. nonsense. donald trump has been a criminal his whole life. he is just really good at evading law enforcement. juan: unlike let's say reporter like maggie haberman whose recent book has gotten a lot of attention, there are people like you and the late great wayne barrett who have been tracking or were tracking trump over decades. what this whole issue of him actually during the six years of his run for president and being president actually having net losses? could you talk about that? >> donald reported net losses. think about that when we talk about crime. reported crime. we don't know the real level of that. donald re

but when they think trump's got a leg up on him, they just go with trump. democrats have another way of being, which is they just always criticize their own. it's just endless, and so, here is biden having to get compliments from newt gingrich. and, did you see at the pelosi portrait unveiling, john boehner, emotional, practically, weeping, and his love for democrats. i don't know what this means. i think with boehner, it's total sincerity. >> he cries a lot. >> he -- is a signature thing is tiers. but, for gingrich, he hasn't had a lot of big platform lately. d >> you might want to be constrain, and he gets -- to get some ink over that. for biden, he's like rodney danger field. he doesn't get any respect, even when he's doing a really good job. and nobody, you know, the messaging of democrats, you know, they have a story to tell. they don't tell it very well. chai, you should help them. you don't hear that one by one, in between trump's achievements and bidens and the trump economy in the biden economy, you're having up here that time. all you hear is that

trump. using the word affair here because i'm easily embarrassed. each of them made very specific claimsve about having had an adullterous physical relationship with candidate donald trump suffice to say. for his part mr. trump has denied that he ever had an affairha with either ms. daniel or ms. mcdougal. ms. daniels for her part she's gone so farr as to not only insist that her claims are true despite his denials, she's actually publicly described what she said were unusual physical features of his genitals that a person could not know about him unless they'd seen him in his birthday suit. she's presented that information as sort of her part of the bona fide, that it definitely happened. but mr. trump himself has denied and continues to deny affairs with either of these women. and what prosecutors have spelled out in court is that trump was desperate to keep these women from making their allegationsabout him in public before the 2016 campaign. and so prosecutors explained in court that he

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an unbound trump, let trump be trump. kelly walks out the door. he says to trump, don't pick a boot liquor. pick someone that is going to keep you in line. and in came the next chief of staff, who wanted to let trump be trump. >> mick mulvaney. toward the end, when kelly is nearing his breaking point, they're on a plane to paris, france. and trump goes back on hitler and says hitler did some good things. what was the fixation with hitler? >> i'm not sure. i think there may have been something about trump's father and trump's father's heritage. this is a part where i should have maggie next to me to help explain this. but i don't know a lot about trump's history in terms of that. but it was something i think that the people around trump thought was tied to his father. and his father being, you know, there is some sort of thing there and glorification of germany in his view. and we know from other reporting that trump had glorified northern europe. he wanted there to be more people that came into the united states from northern europe and not other

to be trump necessarily. john kelly, mark meadows. at what point did the chief of staffhe let go of managing the white house? >> guest: these might be case studies in many ways of how not to do it. but he used to tell people donald trump likes two kinds of staffers, staffers that use to work for him and the ones that will work for him. for all of his personal loyalty what he means his personal loyalty defined as loyalty to him. he doesn't feel any obligation that goes in the other direction. and i think that is a very important point though is what is the trajectory of those chiefs of staff and in some ways the stories that we are telling in the divider it is a story about of those who surrounded the donald trump as much as donald trump himself because in the end, he is a very unchanging, inflexible man in his 70s without these others who were willing to work for him with whatever complicated set of reasons he would have been another old dude shouting at the television watching fox news between golfhe games a

after trump took office, trump loyalists effectively took over the rnc. a staunch trump ally, ronna mcdaniel, became head of the party after trump asked top former rnc chair to be his chief of staff. trump loyalists began to fill open seats on the committee, and key-trump allies became the party's new finance chairs in charge of the party's national fundraising. that led to embarrassing headlines for the party when, one by one, those trump-backed financiers became embroiled in their own scandals, ranging from allegations from rampant sexual misconduct to foreign corruption schemes. if you don't know what i'm talking about, google steve wynn or elliott broidy. throughout those scandals, the rnc remained, effectively, an extension of trump world, promoting trump's business, and featuring him in fundraising emails, and in 2020, the rnc spent $300,000 of the donors money buying copies of donald trump jr.'s book. trump even involved them in the fake electors scheme to try and overturn the 2020 election. now, that cozy relationship between trump and the nationa

trump. i mean when it fair here, because i'm easily embarrassed. you should have made very specific claims about having an adulterous physical relationship with candidate donald trump, suffice to say. for his part, mr. trump has denied that he ever had an affair, with either missed angels or miss mcdougal. that's daniels for her part she's gone so far as to not only insist that her claims are true despite his denials she's actually publicly described what she said were unusual physical features of his genitals, that a person cannot know about him, unless they'd seen him in his birthday suit. she's presented that information as part of a vote of three days, it definitely happened. mr. trump himself, has denied and continues to deny affairs with either these women. i'm a prosecutors of spelled out in court, is that trump was desperate to keep these women from making the allegations about him in public, for the 2016 campaign. so, prosecutors explain in court, that explain for each of these wome

>> she placed the bet on trump. she was the first person to endorse him for re-election bid i think. she is currently the senior most person to re-endorse him. same time the former mentor is saying enough is enough. this guy's cost us a few elections. in a weird way i think she is both tapped into the power and part of limitations around him. we saw that this majority that republicans have is so thin in part because of trump. the party is trying to win back voters it can't win because of trump so he is the source of power in the party but can he get you where you want to go in the party? >> nick, it was a great piece, by the way. >> thank you. >> on stefanik and an astounding transformation in the recent u.s. politics, the early elise stefanik to where she is now but she's got to see that trumpism looks like a dicey bet right now if not an absolutely a bad bet. would she go so far as to try to guide trumpism in a certain direction to try to drive trump in a certain direction so in order to keep her career alive or w

trump university, trump foundation. if they still follow donald trump as the leader of maga, if i'm george santos, i'm like, hey, why should i resign? i'm right where i belong. >> and your list of things they're, don't forget the volleyball champion college he never went to where he didn't play volleyball, but it was a champion at a college he didn't go to. you made the point in your face -- playbook with his defiance and in response to calling for resignation. he's not just denying allegations, he's trolling. check him out, yesterday, with matt gates from steve bannon's show. have a listen. >> one of the principal critics effort is not a lot of money was donated to your campaign by you, 700, 000, i believe. where didn't come from? >> i'll tell you where it didn't come from, china, ukraine, or every small, how about that? >> boom, boom, boom, how about that? how is that for a maga checklist. well that strategy work in the end? will the market based rally around him and so he is one of our, is we're going to defend him b

trump's former personal lawyer. . this is fairly mature but also assurance process here that this report exists and it seems like the jury itself voted to release it? >> yes, that was something that was new. judgment bernie said that the grand jurors told him in some form, we're not exactly clear, that they wanted release of the report, and i should point out, everybody's been focused on the raffensperger phone call, and that was clearly are grabbing to a lot of people. trump talks about how raffensperger could face criminal penalties if he does not find votes that trump needs, but it's not just the raffensperger phone call. there is the giuliani testimony where he goes before the state legislator committees and makes all these outrageous crimes about the fulton county, the suitcases of ballots being brought in by the two biden men, and a daughter passed along like drug dealers, none of which has ever been substantiated. the fbi looked at it, they found nothing to it. so false testimony from judy to -- rudy giuliani a

donald trump. not one thing. and that no one at fox he's ever going to ask donald trump what he meant when he said this today. the special prosecutor assigned to get trump case. jack smith is a trump aiding bud, whose wife is a serial unopened trumpeter whose. friends and other family members or even worse. and as a prosecutor in europe. according to requests now. but a high government official in prison because he was a trump positive person, smith is known as in on their savage. donald trump then demanded that the special counsel's investigation of him stop right now today. that of donald trump said today. you don't have the reach far to get the comparisons between how donald trump is reacting to a special counsel in his case. and now joe biden is responding to a special counsel in his case. joe biden, says, he is cooperating fully and completely. that is what you were supposed to hear. from presidents, and other public officials. who are under investigation. cooperating fully. that is what you a

he is a trump hater. he should resign. his wife hates trump, probably even beyond him and his wife and his wife has a sister who openly hates -- like, a level that you can't even believe. >> can't even believe. joining me now is brad withouse, senior adviser to the integrity project and dean obeidallah, my sort of stumbly attempt to recreate what really everyone should watch on ultra, which is this bizarre situation in the 1930s and '40s where there was an active nazi cell that was like millions of supporters, it's wild that there was actual support and it was called america first, how fun is that. the thing that is fascinating, and i want to start with you on this, brad, is that you have the same dynamic now in this congress. there was an attempted insurrection, an attempt to overthrow an election and put in a president who had not won the election, and the people in charge of now the house, their mission is not to investigate that. they didn't want to investigate that. they want to investigate the people trying to invest

potential criminal conduct by donald trump. tonight, new reporting on the weaponization of american government by way of the durham probe. and how the maga house plans to go further. then, mike pillows last stand to run the rnc as a trump rival takes's first putt. >> we've had three substandard election cycles honorable. 1820 and 22 -- reuben guy egg on his campaign to an seek christian sinema and arizona. and why the biden white house is seeking a victory lap on the economy and warning about republicans have in store. >> what in god's name are americans gonna give up the progress we've made? for the chaos that they're suggesting. >> all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening, i'm chris hayes. while innumerable get house caucus certainly has their priorities in order. they're preparing for the big first high-stakes vote since the election for speaker. which will be the tenth to kick democratic congresswoman ilham omar off the foreign affairs committee. >> -- around refusing to raise the debt ceiling, essentially taking t

trump didn't. that's why mar-a-lago was raided but republicans are pretty confident they will chalk it up to semantics and for everyday voters that they're not going to see the difference. it's just going to look bad. >> it's been pointed out there's this ad from the 2020 campaign, ctes of it of biden backing oll his corvette into his garage, donna so take a look. backing it in. now, we see boxes back there. now, i don't know if they had any of thet i t se corvette he has now, probably. but i meaning it doesn't look good. >> well, first of all, you got to separate the noise from all of the, quote, unquote, possible spin that's coming from this. i took time to read about this and i know, chris, you keep telling me to find some better things to do on the weekend. >> yeah, i do. >> but think about it. seven days after the discovery of these documents by one of the president's personal attorneys, they reported it the day after. within seven days, the justice department had assigned someone to look into

and kelly doesn't trust trump. he thinks trump is someone who's unbound, bound by nothing, and is pushing the country to the brink of war because of his language. >> people forget this par, the love affair was so intense, public afterwards. i think it's based on the terms trumps using, john. back in january 2018, north korea leader kim jong-un said the nuclear buttons on his desk at all times. and that -- pled for him to have a nuclear button but it's much bigger. and more powerful woman has, and my button works. that was the tenor of this whole thing until the one 80 on the kelly thing. what do you describe as something that's happened. i really think countless times which is someone who's broadly sympathetic to trump's politics. or the republican party or maga-ism. they view trump from afar, and says he's not what the liberal stereotype of him is. and he gets close, he gets broaden simons, like this is worse. then the worst caricature. it's not just kelly who had that experience. >> no, look. i think kelly was so

donald trump did the not know them backwards and forwards, donald trump had documents in the basement. locked up. in a storage facility, fbi came they knew where they were. he didn't have them in his garage next to his car or in some other unsecured place. in that regard. the truth is, espionage act was passed at urging of woodrow wilson. a heinous co act in many respects and covers a lot, it was never intended to to be used against a former president, the president while president is the executive branch, you have to determine, did donald trump at noon and 1 second january 20, was he with the documents or right after that? that was not the reason for the esp espionage act on to be passed. president has power to classify and declass fi, the vice president does not, they went to 5 alarms with donald trump, like they are trying to do with january 6. we know why, comer is right, i believe i was among first to bring this point out, they went into mar-a-lago because of january 6. they decided to use a plan b of the documents, when they didn't find anything. useful about january 6. that is

donald trump has done he's seen the success of donald trump. but we've just got to remember, it's not necessarily like to say, well, i'd like to get trump policies, but without trump, again, like i was saying earlier, you know, it's it's easy in our minds to think about, well, wouldn't it be really great? but there's reality. and the reality is that a lot of trump's support is tied to his personality. it's tie to him. so this this it's sloppy, intellectual thinking to think that you can simply get trump's policies, put another person there, and that automatically it all just goes over. it's not i mean, it could happen over time, but it's certainly not an automatic thing. so i would caution that says, well, i want trump's policies, but i don't want trump, you know, that that again, while it basic sense and we would all love in in some ways to have those kinds things be real and be able to materialize and come to fruition. they're just not going to donald trump has a very significant following. and until rhonda sanders or mike pence or any of the

we have a special counsel, who was a trump appointee. he was the trump u.s. attorney during the trump administration. so i think that helps rebut any negotiations that there maybe somebody with biassed political agenda. he likely will be conducting interviews of anyone who might have had access to the documents or any damage assessment that needs to be done. see if it there's a chain of custody, whether there was any spill or exposure outside of people within the united states government. >> so jonathan, the appointment of robert hur is the headline. it's going to be the part of this that people talk about most. help us to sort of deconstruct the rest of what the attorney general had to say, and does the timeline that he laid out jive with what we have heard in terms of reporting of how this all came to be? >> the timeline largely does, but there is one piece that might be problematic for the white house. that's what the attorney general said december 20th, when the documents were found in the garage of president biden's wilmington home. meaning the white hou

unlike former president trump, mr. biden hasn't fought to keep the documents or has president biden tried to hide the documents. better question is to whom did president trump sell top-secret documents. again, that's some of the reaction from facebook and texting. you can go that route, too, if you want to make your thoughts known on this. let's hear from matt in damascus, maryland, independent line. caller: hey, this is kind of great, because it shows how safe everything is going that's going on, these investigations, they're fake. like into trump or into whoever, it's just conservative you're getting lambasted, is that a term? it shows how fake everything is that's going on. i worked for the feds twice two different times, and they don't care about any of these rules. they have them, but they're more or less for people that work like under them f. you're up at the top, you're using any email you want, you're using any kind of -- you get to take anything home you want, and it's ok. it's how it works. they're not going

to say i'd like to get trump policies but without trump. like i was saying earlier, it's easy in our minds to think about wouldn't it be great but there's reality and the reality is that a lot of trump support is tied to the his personality. it's tied to him. so it's sloppy intellectual thinking to think that you can simply get trump's policies, put another person there and automatically it's all just goes over. itcould happen , but it's certainly not an automatic thing. so i caution anybody that t says i want trump's policies but i don't want trump. that again while it makes a sick sense and we would all love in some ways to have those kinds of things be real and be able to materialize and come to jfruition just not going to. donald trump has a significant following and until ron desantis or mike pence start packing stadiums, then we can listen to them. >> my name is marlene. i believe that the root of all evil are these mail invalidates, the mail-in ballots for the infirm. now it's for everyone. is there any wayto do away with that ? >> g

he has a trump appointed u.s. attorney in delaware handling the hunter biden administration. -- and before the supply, when he had a different u.s. attorney in chicago doing preliminary looks at the biden documents matter. that stands in stark contrast in the style of president -- bill barr, the trump administration who and he had very political pretentious cases was reaching to fellow trump appointed republican u. s. attorneys to look at things like allegations that the obama people, had improperly unmasked, intelligence reports, and taking other looks at the russia investigation. and cases that spot off of that. -- all those where fellow biden cla>> no, i he biden about the timetable, and whe presi what intebut you're rightt that much to investigate. hank you bo o quistay with us. the same right-winge of ics here here made about alculation ial crimndictmen mek garland's mang surthat everi bove board fashion o classified documentsperh preparr thing even mor ntrovers it pertains t a-lago, m i gettin ahead of mysel

to trump. we would talk to baker about this because he's a political guy even if he doesn't like to admit it. it would constantly come up and he would be disdainful of trump. he would use words like crazy and nuts and he voted for him in 2016 and again in 2020. you are the picture of the establishment modern republican party that believes in free trade, that believes in alliances and compromise when it is necessary to get things done. how could you vote for this guy when your own friend, george h w bush and george w. bush didn't vote for him. it was a constant source of conversation which he never fully gave an answer that we ever understood. his answer is i am a republican, he's the leader of my party, i don't want democrats in there. i always thought it was part of his nature. his nature is to not be on the outside throwing rocks but to be on the inside. because even though he doesn't need any power or influence, on the inside, you have a chance to have something. susan: it's the conundrum of

the ongoing competition, if you will, that you write about between ivanka trump and melania trump. and that kelly had been told earlier in the presidency that ivanka wanted to perform the ceremonial duties and have the status of a first lady. what is that about? >> john kelly is a serious a national security figure as we can find. a four star marine general. who comes into the white house, he thinks that he needs to put in some structure and better staffing for trump. all of a sudden, he is confronting far more frivolous issues like fights between the first lady and ivanka trump, and ivanka trump trying to maneuver, when kelly was told, to become the first lady in this ceremonial way. i've written a book about at one point, kelly had to go to amara and tell her to stop having parties at the white house pool. she was using the white house pool. and so, again, here's john kelly concerned that we could be on the brink of war with north korea, trying to mitigate these issues that are not a serious, but we're front and center and the trump white house where things were off of the rails.

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trump and his lawyers lied about it. trump lied about not having classified documents, did not keep them in a secure location, did not comply with a subpoena but said he had, and that search warrant which trump forced out into the open through his legal machinations, that cited laws that trump might have violated including the espionage act. >> it's my understanding that president trump did let the national archives go through on numerous occasions, mar-a-lago, looking at the documents. my understanding -- again, we don't know because we haven't been briefed, was that president trump was arguing with national archives over what is classified and what is not. as we heard the president say before, the president has the authority to declassify documents. the question is whether or not the president actually declassified the documents. the vice president does not have the authority to declassify -- >> actually the vice president does -- >> we don't -- >> the vice president does have that authority. >> we disagree that the vi

chose to build trump tower with. and then he had interactions with mafia mafia linked fs doing his casino project. at minimum trump has no problem with it. at most i would say he gravitated towards that, and he certainly adopt those kinds of behaviors, and michael cohen it talks about this all the time. trump speaks in a code and gives you a sense of what he wants you to do without openly saying it. >> so we know that he adopted this character john boehner anything to son barron and he would pretend to be this other guy on the phone but i learn from your book, i'd never heard of vini before. who is benny? what was that about? >> so then he was the name of -- veni with the name of some, this is a comic industry. trump was in the middle of trying to get a tax statement for trump tower, and the housing commission in new york city who work for ed koch and ed koch was not a donald trump fan, he encouraged toni gliedman this commission, this is an important story and couple of ways, encourages toni to reject the tax abatem

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 who are saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, disguised as patriotism. wrapped in a trump flag. a lie fed to them from their president, their members of congress, their tv and radio 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 they were being told it would happen straight away. so you have both 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 it happen? how did millions of americans come to believe a network of lies so deep, so vast they would ignite

donald trump was a perfect candidate for facebook. so facebook did all of that for trump. well before january 6th. when the committee finally decided to suspend trump from the platform for two years. the decision back then was announced by meadows head of global affairs. a man named nick clegg. to give you a sense of just how powerful that role is in america's largest social media giant, his job prior to joining facebook was the deputy prime minister of the united kingdom. not a small drop. when announcing that the two year suspension, he said in the statement that at the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. we will evaluate external factors including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly another markers of civil unrest. if we, we being meta, determined that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to reevaluate until that risk has received it. so, mad i was going to wait two years nick clegg, and if there was still

oh, trump. he's an extremely sharp, decisive and, divisive figure who happens have a tension and ego issues that in the way of his mostly policy positions stand by those words 100%. tell tell what kind of man is donald trump when you're you've had the ability to work closely with him? so one of the anecdotes in the which really shows you the kind of person it's such a thing. we are about to greet a leader who happened to be his country, happened to be the upcoming presidents of the european council. they rotate every six months and the presidency, one of the 28 countries, now 27, and they have the gavel, they make the agenda and they have a lot of parliamentary authority. so my strategy was i'm going to get close to the president or prime minister of the country is that's running european council so i can get stuff with respect to the bureaucracy in the eu because. i view the countries as the board of directors and i view the eu people as the, you know, the staff and the workers and the executiv

trump turbocharge, this trump was, the staff -- windmills killing beers. when power is going to ruin our electric grids. hamburgers, dr. seuss, all these alleged huge threats to america, and this actually can be quite effective. donald trump's wall, which was a pipe dream from the beginning. he tried to build -- mexico wasn't gonna pay for. at what this was symbolically something that was gonna keep immigrants from coming into the country. this is essentially a game that republicans have gone the while on. maybe a few too many times. it becomes an object of radical, anna, i had a hamburger just yesterday. i saw dr. soothe a or two days ago. i had dinner from a gas stove tonight. don't tell anyone this will be our little secret. , off you can only cry wolf so many times. that happens over and over again. it's become republican messaging as you said. >> it is. it's all about culture war. it's all about the red meat. they haven't got anything else to offer. originally, on one of these people that says a democrat jim runaway from culture wars. they should figh

and support donald trump mother -ism. as for the bays, and contract to the we, the list keeps getting longer, and longer. -- it's black, folks and non-white folks. lgbt folks -- [inaudible] teachers, librarians, academics, the media, public health officials. woke billion dollar corporations. the so-called deep state. the fbi. just to name a few -- an ever-growing, internally inconsistent lists, of enemies the trumpism says has -- power into good away from you. and the fundamental thing the trump promised, basically from the moment he came down -- is, i will -- wait push those enemies way on your behalf and [inaudible] here's a, think he largely filled bagel. it's not to say the trump did not make life miserable for lots and lots of people. he succeeded in that. for instance -- the people in the administration kidnapped. or the countless, needless death analysis that resulted from his agree justly negligent handling of the pandemic. it ultimately -- in the, and even the stories that trump tells themself, that he was brough

donald trump knew this. that's why his line was make america great again because he knew this country can never reach the full potential. it can remain on some level grade and being greater than any other country but the united states of america have so much more potential. this is the shining city on a hill as reagan put it. this is a place unlike any other and it's upp to us to keep it ad research and to know and find out and expose somebody like joe biden the most dangerous president in history. i know so much has happened over the last couple of weeks and tonight there's a big announcement. we are all awaiting what that announcement is and i know the stakes are very high so i want to open this up to question and answer. you can ask any question you like about joe biden, about the midterms, what i see happening in the future. so please, go ahead and ask. you can just say your name that would be great. first up, hello patty. >> my name is michael. i'm from new jersey. i was excited about the election midte

because one of the great unanswered trump administration 's questions of the trump administration has been, why is it that trump went from that crazy language to the love letters? how did they get there? part of the reason that trump got there is because john kelly -- >> john kelly said, you are the man, big guy. >> correct, and kelley knew what he was doing. and kelly knew that it was not going to lead to a do denuclearized north korea. but he knew that it would lead to a ratcheting back of the rhetoric. and he was terrified that kim would launch some sort of missile. because he was afraid that trump was really going to take action, he was going to set off a conflict that would take that kill thousands of people and put the united states at war. >> let's talk ivanka. i remember during the trump administration, i interviewed lee zeldin in what i thought was the craziest thing ever, where he said, he thought ivanka trump, because she was so graceful and sophisticated those qualifications, she should be appointed to the senate. i thought that was the most bananas thing i had ever heard