vaughn pointed this out.ean, it is a half a million dollar tally for donald trump to have a rally right now. the reason he's not having rallies right now is as much about cost as it is about anything else. the only scheduling challenge donald trump going to have in the next few weeks is to his golf schedule, not his campaign schedule. he's certainly going to be free to campaign as much as he'd like to on weekends, on evenings, and far more than he's campaigned in the last ten days. look, i don't think the cash advantage is necessarily the be all, end all, but it is going to make a big difference, certainly in the short to medium term as to who prosecutes this over the airwaves. >> speaking ofairwaves, another advantage of him in court is that's what we're talking about today. we'll get to the -- i hope we're going to get to the developments over in israel and the u.n. and the team that's not coming here because of a u.n. vote today, the u.s./u.n. vote to abstain and lets the resolution pass. also other breaki

vaughn, is there any sign he could actually pay all of this in time?> reporter: laura, at least publicly there's no major billionaire floating trump this money yet, but it is certainly reasonable that he could still work out a deal and come up with this bond here in the 11th hour. laura? >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. >>> russian president vladimir putin is vowing revenge for that horrific terror attack in russia. two suspects were arrested with dozens more still missing. matt bradley has the latest. >> reporter: today moscow mourned, a rare silence over this city two days after russia endured its deadliest terror attack in 20 years. "that's why we're with the country. we're together," said this mourner. the death toll rose again to 137 according to russia's government including three children. as emergency workers continue searching for more dead under the rubble of this vast concert hall, investigators search for clues. one survivor recounting the terrifying moments gunfire erupted, people trying to run for safety and then seeing bodies on the ground

i also want to follow up with something vaughn said. the idea that donald trump here, a person that has praised vladimir putin and kim jong-un, that has encouraged blood being spilled at the january 6th rally, is about the art of retribution in the course of this. somehow we're supposed to be confused by his comments about bloodbath or that they meant something else when every single thin, as vaughn has said, has laid out exactly what he wants to do and how he wants to do it. not the least of which he said he'd like to be a dictator for a day if he gets re-elected. i think donald trump -- i'll give him credit for something, though he tries to back off or the campaign tries to back off. he shows us who he is and the threat he poses to the american constitutional democracy today. again, i'll just reiterate. the idea that he's worried about democracy because the democrats may win in this election is so much projection. >> matthew, let's just for a minute take trump's word for it, that he was talking about the auto industry when he talked a

maria: hillary vaughn on capitol hill. biden repeatedly mentioning former president trump but never by his name only by his predecessor, watch this. >> now my predecessor a former republican president tells pu putin, do whatever the hell you want. that is a quote, the former president actually said that, my predecessor failed the most basic presidential duty that he owes to the american people, the duty to care. my predecessor and many in the chamber wanted take the prescription drug away by repealing affordable care act. maria: it was all campaigning all the time, joe pinion your reaction to last night's campaign speech. >> apparently my predecessor was the phrases that we didn't hear much anything about the chinese communist party and run roughshod all across the world on his watch, we heard very little about the fact that he did nothing while we sell russian hackers take down our beef supply in the colonial pipeline on his watch and he said putin got the message right before putin rolled the tanks across the board into

so vaughn, haley kicked off her campaign 385 days ago.what are you anticipating as we wait for her remarks to begin? >> reporter: right, more than a year ago nikki haley has been running this campaign against donald trump. donald trump much to his chagrin, had noted multiple times that she had once promised that she would never challenge him, but like others including his own former vice president mike pence, florida governor ron desantis, south carolina senator tim scott, and others, they all jumped into the race thinking that they could knock off the former president. nikki haley, the last one standing. and with the results that came in last night in which she only pulled off a victory in the state of utah, losing in 15 other states, this was a clear message send by the republican electorate, that the republican electorate and the united states of america wants donald trump to be their nominee, despite four criminal indictments, despite having been found to have sexually abused e. jean carroll. despite having been found to have repeated

larry: right back to hillary vaughn, who had quite the day on capitol hill..nie sanders to ask about his ideas of workers working 32 hour workweek but get paid the same so businesses would pay them for 8 hours they are not working, we tried to ask him, how businesses are supposed to survive the progressive proposals that include raising taxes on businesses, and asking them to pay their workers more, and lowering prices to fight inflation and pay people not to work. >> can i talk to you about 32 hour workweek.. >> you are with who. >> fox business. >> democrats want businesses to be tacked more. >> really is that what you think. >> i didn't get to ask the question. >> excuse me. >> thank you. >> senator. >> hold it -- okay. >> we held a hearing on a 32 your workweek. because what we have seen is that over last 50 years, despite a huge increase in worker productivity almost all of the new wealth has gone to top 1%, and 60% of people living paycheck to paycheck, many of the people are exhausted we work longest hours of any people in centralized work, i think time

i mean, as vaughn was reading it, partially, he says he's got 500 million in the bank cash liquid.arlier this week his lawyers were saying he doesn't have that kind of money. is there a difference there, paul? could one thing have an impact on the other? >> well, it is not the first time that trump lawyers are saying one thing and trump is saying another. so, obviously what is the most important is what's said in court because lawyers have to attest to the truth of what they file in court. trump may be looking ahead to this deal, thinking that that will allow him to post bond, but he's not going to have that cash on monday. there is this 6 months issue he's got to wait six months before he's allowed to access his shares. and, jose, he can work out a deal to get that money earlier, but that would have to be approved by the board of this new company. but guess who would be on the board? don jr., trump allies like kash patel and people who he appointed to positions in his administration. so, they might actually go for this deal, allowing trump to access his shares earlier, even though

vaughn. >> exactly. i mean, you're coming down to questions of whether he seeks to have support from somebody overseas, a foreign entity. there's a lot of question marks that trump's campaign, his legal team have not provided clear insight to, and, so i mean, when you're coming down to the fact that on monday, letitia james will begin going through the courts to seize his assets, you're talking about within seven days, donald trump losing major properties in manhattan. there's a lot at stake. en they are doing everything possible to come up with a bond or cash for donald trump and his company, this is a matter of whatever it takes at this point. >> in order to get this bond, what these companies, the trump team says the companies are asking for is cash from donald trump or securities. they don't want real estate. why might they not want real estate? >>. >> part of the reason for that, when you're talking about eal estate, you don't know what the mortgage is on those properties, so creating a valuation sy

i want to go quickly to vaughn hillyard.rial in new york city. >>> donald trump just walked back into the courtroom, of course, while they were on this recess on this hearing unrelated to the bond that he was going to have to put up today. of course, the appellate court did order that donald trump does not have to put up a bond for more than $450 million. instead, a bond of $175 million. donald trump did just address cameras saying he appreciated the decision of the appellate court. continued to bash judge engoron, who put up the initial decision that he would owe and have to put up this initial bond here. there is a reporter in the room that asked the question of whether he'd turn to a foreign entity to help cover the $175 million bond. there's still serious questions as to how he will be able to cover that, whether in the form of liquid cash that he may already have at his disposal or whether there is something else guaranteeing it as a personal gift or a loan to him, or whether he is going to turn to an outside entity in

vaughn hillyard, matthew dowd and catherine christian are with us. vaughn, one statement that he wants to use his money to finance his campaign. is there any indication that that has happened or will happen? >> reporter: no. donald trump said the same thing in 2020, chris, which is what prompted garrett's keen question. because donald trump in 2020 election suggested he was going to put in a great deal of campaign cash to ensure he had a second term and he never actually ended up spending any of his money. now we've seen over the course of the last week, and you heard him here again today suggest that because he is going to have to use cash as collateral to put up this $175 million bond in ten days, he will not have cash in order to put towards his campaign. during the 2024 election, he has not put any money towards his own campaign at this point for very clear reasoning. there is a cash crunch for him on the personal side, though he's now suggesting that there is enough and needs to get a bond in order to satisfy this $175 million appeal. of course,

nbc's vaughn hillyard is following this one for us. hey, vaughn, good morning. >> reporter: tomorrow's deadline will tell us a lot about former president trump's financial stability and the future of his corporation. he needs to post an appeal bond of more than $464 million after a judge found him to have engaged in years of financial fraud. there is a chance that a state appeals court could delay this deadline until after it hears that legal team's actual appeal, but that hasn't happened yet. and new york attorney general, letitia james, has already begun the process of preparing to potentially seize several of his properties, including the seven springs estate and trump national golf club just north of manhattan and potentially several trump skyscrapers right here in the city as well. his own attorney has said 30 surety companies have denied mr. trump's request for a bond, though trump, in a social media post this week, undercut his own attorney's claims, saying he has nearly half a billion in cash on hand. on top of that financial d

hilary vaughn live on capitol hill with all the powers that be.ow are you doing. >> reporter: i'm still out of breath with all this chasing around i've been doing. right now senators are waiting for leader chuck schumer to figure out when and how he will bring this tiktok bill to the senate floor but ticktock's ceo is not waiting to figure out his fate. he is waiting here on capitol hill to take advantage of this limbo to lobby lawmakers his way. he met with senator john fetterman today. on his way in he talked with fox's asia haas any it is not possible to do what the house bill asks in the time frame he wants. he says ultimately tiktok will be banned. >> the bill is 12 pages long. we've looked at it. it is not feasible to do whatever the by thinks it does with the parameters in the bill. >> to divest the company. >> all the bill, we go through all the details, this will lead to banning of the app in the country. >> reporter: even though chu had a one-on-one with senator fetterman he didn't win him over at least not yet. he needs guarranty the ap

both vaughn and lisa are here with me on set. okay, harry, please explain in more detail about why the judge said these charges had to go, because in legalese, i'm going to read it again, he said, "the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is fatal." what happened here? >> okay. the essential legal element is how exactly they violated their oath of office. so in these six counts it says that defendants tried to push them to violate their oaths of office. mcafee says look, their oaths of office say one thing only, i'll follow the u.s. and georgia constitution. that's a really big document, and there could be hundreds of ways that you could violate it, and if they're not sure they can't prepare their defense. in the federal system and most other state systems, chris, it would be easily remedied. the prosecution would just come in and explain, okay, here's how you violated the oath. here's the clause that they pushed you to violate. it so happens that remedy is not available in georgia, which the judge lamented in a f

and vaughn hillyard. mike, let's start with you.s was just one big campaign ad for the biden campaign. our cameras were not allowed inside. you were there. tell us what you saw and heard. what is the strategy for taking on trump? >> reporter: sometimes i think we have to take a step back and remember what an unusual election this is. we have not seen in a long time a sitting president running against his immediate predecessor in a presidential election. yesterday, add to it the unusual scene. four presidents in the new york area. it turned out to be three against one. the democratic presidents each taking on donald trump to an audience that was very, very receptive. for obama, i thought what was interesting is he has been warning biden and his team they need to show more urgency to take on trump more directly. he said it's not enough to speak against trump, you have to highlight the things that joe biden has done for the american people. he really was testifying throughout the event to biden's personal character and to his accomplis

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. >> nathan vaughn and his dad, live stream runway activity on youtube, mostly from lax, but they came to sfo today to shoot some video. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. breaking news in contra costa county a brush fire in antioch is sending out a large plume of thick black smoke. >> yeah, we're going to show it to you. it is near auto center drive and west sixth street. it's close to the babe ruth memorial baseball fields. you see it here? >> con fire says it's burned about five acres. so far, no structures have been threatened. but the fire appears to be burning in a wetlands area near the edge of the san joaquin river. we'll have more details as soon as they become available. >> in san francisco, residents were drawn to a towering geyser that sent water into the air after a 36 inch water main suddenly burst. what is happening? >> this is wow >> yeah, this happened around 1030 this morning. right next to a home on wawona street, not far from stern grove. abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn talked to neighbors and shows us what happened. well,

. >> covering it all and leading us off shaquille brewster in south carolina and vaughn hillyard with former president trump in florida. shaq, let's start with you, there had been so much discussion about if or when haley would drop out, what did she say about the why, why is she stepping aside right now. >> reporter: there seemed to be an understanding of the reality especially on super tuesday where she lost all states with the exception of the one. you look at the map going forward, many of those states being winner take all states, in this primary she barely was able to get over a majority of states to have their contests up to this point. but one thing you continue to hear from nikki haley is that donald trump is in trouble, because he as a significant portion of the republican party willing to support someone else and to that point, she said it's now up to him to work to get those voters back. >> it's now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. and i hope he does that. at its best politics is about bringing people into yo

here is nbc's vaughn hillyard. >> reporter: former president donald trump on the brink of financial peril. >> we have a great company but they want to take it away. >> reporter: he has just hours left to find more than $450 million in cash to post an appeal bond in new york before monday's judge-ordered deadline and if he fails to do that, new york attorney general letitia james can begin seizing his major properties and other assets. >> it's all politics. >> reporter: trump claims the money is not an issue, even on his social media account that he has nearly $500 million in cash on hand, but in court his lawyers are making a different claim filing a motion earlier this week to delay him having to post the bond, saying he did not have the necessary cash. in that motion, they wrote that the current bond demand is a practical impossibility and that 30 insurance companies had already rejected his terms. every single person came to him saying hey, can i get a half billion dollar bond. maria, they were laughing. >> reporter: to avoid the a.g. from taking the next steps, he could potentially re

but i want to go to vaughn, because trump was handed a victory by the supreme court yesterday.hat is trump looking at super tuesday with? >> reporter: if i may, josÉ, offer ali defense, she's putting more miles on the car than any presidential candidate this super tuesday, so kudos to her for the work. trump has been hanging out at mar-a-lago since he got back to town on saturday. he had two super tuesday rallies in north carolina, and last night he went on a right wing outlet in which he took questions and largely focused on taking on joe biden and the democrats this november, and he phoned into fox & friends this morning where he shoved aside a peace making deal with haley. i think it's important for americans to understand that the trump campaign is largely -- has largely looked past the primaries. and they believed their data showed they would be able to wrap up the nomination with enough delegates to meet that threshold, but now they are looking at march 12th. if you go back to eight years ago, donald trump, he had to square off against ted cruz all the way into may. it wa

hillary vaughn on capitol hill this morning. monica, can joe biden actually be successful with these mistruths about donald trump, limping into the general election, really? >> it's fundamentally untrue. everything joe biden says, kamala harris, alejandro mayorkas, kjp from the strayed , every person in the administration from the president on down lies with impunity, lies every day about every to topic. he's trying to lie about this as well. the problem is number one, the american people have eyes and ears and can see what's going on with the country. this presidency has been a catastrophe for every american. the lived experience is opposite from what joe biden is trying to sell to them. we've got data, we've goal got polling that shows donald trump dominating joe biden outside of the margin of error in the polling. he can say all of these things until the cows come home, but the truth is the truth, the facts and the american people know it. maria: those groups that are so hotly contested, the black community, hispanic communit

monica, vaughn, we appreciate both of you. we want to bring in our nbc legal analyst, the former federal prosecutor and georgetown law professor, paul butler, to join this conversation. when it comes to the blood bath comment or any other incendiary language mr. trump has used, legally speaking, where is the line between protected speech and potentially inciting violence? >> peter, trump is really testing that line in a way that no presidential candidate in recent memory ever has. free speech is protected by the constitution. incitement is a crime under federal law promoting or encouraging others to throw. it's a felony. trump usually has a plausible excuse like here where he says he meant blood bath in the financial sense. the federal election case, there's a gag order that prohibits trump from attacking witnesses. gag orders wouldn't apply to political speech like this. >> this is a striking moment. we've seen a lot of moments like this and it's one to have the former president and his allies defend their statements. it's an

nbc's vaughn hillyard is on the ground for us in arizona.ghn, what exactly is this money going to? >> reporter: right, katy. this is the type of official white house events that could also be very much of a political campaign one because it is tied directly to what he says the consequences of this administration's policies and bipartisan efforts are. and this is today, from president biden, going to be announced, the largest award yet stemming from the c.h.i.p.s act. $8.5 billion is being awarded to the intel corporation, and $11 billion in loans to go to the development of two manufacturing plants, semiconductor plants here in the east valley of the greater phoenix area. i think the context here for the biden administration is that there have been often stories told about towns and communities that have lost manufacturing jobs, but what you are seeing from the investment and the focus in semiconductor and chips manufacturing is an expansion. there are already 12,000 employees of intel here in chandler, arizona. this investment, these two ne

. >> joining us now, vaughn hillyard and also monica alba.n we expect to hear from the president today? he is as we speak right now speaking. >> reporter: exactly. this is the first of two scheduled remarks for the president today. and it is a day where the white house is unveiling its budget plan and proposal. now, every year when we take a look at this list of priorities, we would put it into the context that it is not necessarily something that will become law automatically, it is really a blueprint for where the white house and the biden administration wants to showcase what they are talking about and carrying about most. but in the context of a re-election year, you can really look at it as a roadmap to if he is able to win re-election president biden would want to do with four more years in office. so i believe he is discussing that generally in these remarks here in washington today first when it comes to trying to talk about a fair tax code, that was one of sort of the questions and call and responses that he had in the state of the u

let's bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard who is covering the trump campaign. joining me here. a criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst. vaughn, give us some background on the post that trump claims was made by the judge's daughter. >> reporter: right, chris, this goes back to a year ago when donald trump was first indicted in the state of new york, the days leading up to the indictment when he went on the attack against judge merchan as well as his wife and daughter. you noted that post there, suggesting that his daughter not only wanted to get trump in his words, she did at one point work for a progressive marketing agency. but he also posted a photo that contended that she had posted a photo of him behind bars. a spokesperson said this was in the her account, that she had deleted it more than a year ago and that apparently somebody recreated the account using a different e-mail address to make it appear as if it was still judge merchan's daughter. that is moment here, that loophole that you mentioned that donald trump is not able to go on the attack against witnes

joining me from houston, texas, is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. so who is michael whatley? >> reporter: michael whatley hails from the great state of north carolina, katy. he was the rnc chair in north carolina. this is a place where you would recall in 2020 donald trump actually beat joe biden, a swing state by just over 1 percentage point. it was notable, just one week ago in a rally in north carolina for donald trump, he said from that stage where he was previewing whatley's election to become rnc chair which took place here. in front of that north carolina crowd he said, quote, i had a choice of a lot of people. this is the guy because he stopped the steal. he stopped the steal, again making a direct reference to the fact that he won the state of north carolina. michael whatley is going to serve as chair, replacing ronna mcdaniel, but he's going to have the support of the cochair, laura trump, also a north carolinian, and also formally voted in here today. it's notable, there's a lot at stake, as you just said, not only on the legal front for

i want to bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard from houston where the rnc met earlier today.sty greenberg is former deputy chief of the sdny criminal division. lisa rubin is an msnbc legal correspondent, and she is with me on set. so somehow enough money was brought together for a bond. what does that mean, and are we going to find out where that money came from. >> not necessarily, let's start with what it means. it means that at the end of the appeals process if e. jean carroll prevails, we know that she will get her money because the security for it has been posted, that $91 million plus has been set aside and essentially placed in an escrow account, alina habba trump's lawyer has asked judge lou kaplan for approval of this amount. he today earlier ordered that her lawyers, meaning carroll's lawyers could oppose that if they want. i've never seen that before. i've never seen someone oppose a bond. i think they will be very glad that donald trump has obtained the amount necessary to cover their verdict because, in her case, she doesn't care where it comes from. it's folks l

joining us now, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. good morning.mp campaign as i'm sure, already using this to their political advantage. >> reporter: right. and donald trump has already put oit a social media post calling this a big win for america. of course his allies including the rnc have touted the decision by the supreme court, and the fact that it was a unanimous decision. there was concern from trump's team that in their own words including in those oral arguments last month in front of the supreme court that millions of americans would have their votes -- that they would be disenfranchised through this republican nominating process, and now tomorrow there are 16 states that are going to be going to the polls to vote in super tuesday and in each of those states, donald trump is dominating in polling, and we're looking at a reality, according to trump's team, that they believe they could hit the delegate threshold to become the presumptive nominees as soon as march 12th. if not march 12th, march 19th here. so we politically should be lookin

. >> with us now, mike memoli, vaughn hillyard, bazell smikle, director of public policy program at the roosevelt house institute of hunter college and rosy sharon. you were at this record-breaking fund-raiser last night. what was it like? >> i was one of just a very small number of reporters that got to be in the room there last night. it was great. the performances by lizzo, ben platt, queen latifah, brought down the house. a lot of the 5,000 people that really enjoyed them, mindy kaling was very funny. she had some jokes including at the expense of those who have the most expensive tickets saying it is nice that they're supporting somebody who has openly vowed to raise their taxes. but really, the showcase, of course, was, think about it, 45 men have been president of the united states. and there were three of them, on stage, together, talking about what it is like to hold that off. and for the biden team, this was really valuable opportunity to have two people who held the job before him talk about how difficult it is. bill clinton really deconstructing the economic realities here,

i want to bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard from mar-a-lago.ard to restrain, vaughn, let's just put it simply, what donald trump has to say on and off the campaign trail. do voters you're talking to feel like he's been unable to share his side, that he's being shut down? what are you hearing? >> reporter: right, there is animosity towards every one of the prosecutors who have taken on these independent cases against donald trump. animosity from those who have been most loyal to him. among his millions of supporters around the country. feeling like this is a direct effort to undercut the republican party as a whole and the ability for the republican party to effectually change in washington, d.c. as the voters would like to see. when it comes to whether donald trump though is actually being silenced, look, there is nobody that is keeping him off the campaign stage, this is a matter of campaign resources at this point, but to an extent of that, there is also ire that so much money from the affiliated super pacs had to be spent on legal bills stem

vaughn, what more did we learn from what trump's lawyers said in this filing?t acknowledgment by donald trump and his legal team that they are not able to put up the cash or be able to get a bond by this upcoming monday march 25th deadline for that more than $450 million that he owes in damages stemming from the financial fraud lawsuit that he lost in the lower manhattan from the new york attorney general's office. this is notable because he was able to put up a bond for that $93 million in damages for e. jean carroll, but in this filing this morning, from his attorney just in part it says, quote, defendant's ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment's full amount is a practical impossibility. these diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers, a bond requirement of this enormous magnitude effectively requiring cash reserves approaching $1 billion is unprecedented for a private company. that is directly from donald trump's attorney. again, we are just one week away. there have been ser

take a look at how our colleague vaughn hilliard explained the situation. >> not only are they looking at a deficit in finances compared to biden, but also there's the reality here at play that $80 billion have already gone towards legal-related expenses over the last two years for trump affiliated super pacs so they're already starting into a deficit. add onto the reality here the rnc is having to figure out how to best fund senate endowed ballot races. there's serious question marks for trump and the team and howl they're going to be able to compete. here's also a reality at play. it takes man power. money can also help. money can help towards actually putting folks on the ground in these states in areas where they are going to rely onto pull off victories are in rural parts of georgia, rural parts of wisconsin, rural parts of michigan, rural parts of arizona. and to get folks that normally don't vote, you've got to go and tell them we need you to come vote. and so bull head city, arizona, if you don't have the money to finance some actual staff out in those areas, it makes it a lot

. >> nbc's vaughn hillyard is covering the trump campaign.litical analyst. the good old days. trump dodged every primary, and also said, look, i'm way up in the polls, why do i need to debate. suddenly he wants this face-off. does he really? >> reporter: right, i remember i think probably a lot of americans after that first debate back in 2020, walking out of my home, and walking through the neighborhood and looking up at the stars and thinking about the world. whether we'll get those rematches in 2024 is an outstanding question. donald trump said it himself he wants to debate joe biden anytime, anywhere, even agreeing to the debates put on by the commission of debates, which donald trump was critical of, and the rnc voted to bar its future presidential candidates from partaking in debates and now that donald trump is the candidate, he can do whatever he wants. doesn't matter what the party says. take a look at his statement or response from the biden campaign who to note did not directly answer whether the current president would participate

vaughn, what is the message coming out of trump's camp today? >> reporter: first, ana, the fact i'm standing here in florida and ali is in south carolina, the home states of these individuals, is telling about the state of this race. there is no last minute effort to turn out the vote in any of these 16 states. and for donald trump and his camp, you played that sound bite from him last night, that was with the trump loyal tv outlet that had that extended conversation with him, in which he called on nikki haley to get out of this race, so that republicans could unify and put their focus on the democrats and joe biden in november. and just this morning, he phoned in to fox and friends, and communicated the same message, repeatedly when asked if he was brokering or trying to broker any sort of a peace deal with nikki haley for her to step aside, but he has not held back any punches, calling her bird brain, questioning why she ran against him in the first place. for donald trump and his team, they insisted they want to focus their financial resource

>> and, vaughn, donald trump spoke out about haley's exit this morning. first saying that he trounced her, then saying he wished she stayed in the race, keeping the context trump thinking behind all that. >> reporter: right, donald trump has not faced any consequence for alienating members of the republican party to date. there are questions around whether alienating the likes of liz cheney would hurt him politically. and his presidential run. the answer is clearly no. instead you have seen republicans, including those who have run against him, from ron desantis to tim scott, run right back and support him because when ali is talking about the arc of political history here, we see the power dynamics that are at play and the republican party understands that what republican party voters want is donald trump, just take the likes of california, where it was a closed primary yesterday. donald trump is winning by a 4 to 1 margin there. you see donald trump literally as nikki haley was taking the stage, posting on a social media account, an enthusiastic all cap

nbc's vaughn hillyard is covering this story for us. sources in the arizona republican party, vaughn? >> reporter: back in december kari lake posted she needed to be less decisive. a couple of months have passed since, and i can tell you from conversations with multiple long time arizona republicans that she has struggled to do that. one individual, a local former gop legislative district chair who lives in kari lake's home district who was scorned during kari lake's 2022 run for governor and cast aside, they had coffee this winter at the arizona biltmore hotel and this local activist told me that kari lake never apologized to her and never apologized for any of the claims she made about other republicans, including not apologizing for her attacks against the mccain family. i was talking to a long time gop fundraiser in arizona who was the finance chair for donald trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the state, and she told me that folks are resigning themselves to the fact that ruben gallego could be the next u.s. senator out of arizona,

larry: hillary vaughn thank you. >> let's bring in two experts on this.nd ajit pai former fcc chairman and fellow at american enterprise institute, thank you both. i don't think that my friend, i think that world of rand paul, but i don't think he is right. i was reading your notes, this stuff the. >> control is iran -- even then it has to -- a threat to national security, china qualifies. i think that some of these senators don't understand how this legislation has been written. >> thank you, senator paul has been good on so many matters of individual liberty this bill, as you noted is different, it only applies if you are controlled by a foreign adversary country, which is defined as russia, china, north korea and an iran, only then, a national security threat in addition to being controlled, it has nothing to do with surveillance or free speech, this is a clear and present danger that tiktok recents it is -- presents it is b beholden to the ccp . tiktok tries to do it, they failed. not because they are necessarily bad people but because they are behold

there is a law that it is possible to sell arable land to foreign foreign companies, our representative vaughn a lot about solidarity of the western community with ukraine and readiness to support it to the end. however, it is necessary to understand that this support is leading ukraine to this very end. as we understand, an american financial company will handle its distribution. and just think about this in general, ukrainians, my dear ones, you, well, you, open your eyes, you are nobody, for these people, they are crap , they are calling into question the possibility of you burying your brothers, fathers, husbands, questioning the possibility of burying them in your own land, because you need the black soil. they they invest in the ground, why the hell do they need your corpses, they clog up their ability to grow modified products and then sell them to you, it’s normal when all this comes together in parallel, like that in parallel, like, for example, satisfaction with the minister... defense of the netherlands, something that costs very little, the weakening of russia at the expense of the

larry: hillary vaughn thank you. >> let's bring in two experts on this. chairman and fellow at american enterprise institute, thank you both. i don't think that my friend, i think that world of rand paul, but i don't think he is right. i was reading your notes, this stuff the. >> control is iran -- even then it has to -- a threat to national security, china qualifies. i think that some of these senators don't understand how this legislation has been written. >> thank you, senator paul has been good on so many matters of individual liberty this bill, as you noted is different, it only applies if you are controlled by a foreign adversary country, which is defined as russia, china, north korea a a iran, only then, a national security threat in addition to being controlled, it has nothing to do with surveillance or free speech, this is a clear and present danger that tiktok recents it is -- presents it is beholden to the ccp . tiktok tries to do it, they failed. not because they are necessarily bad people but because they are beholden to the ccp any other ref

maria: hillary thank you, hillary vaughn capitol hill. >> your reaction. >> what hillary outlined could be telltale signs of dementia unclerl robert tacitly agreered, it is clear hur is doubling down that he has to justify claiming biden is not competent to stand trial all have hur did is prove manipulative, we've seen recently, his handlers shfl him off stage protecting from answering press questions at dop of a hat i think robert hur is more and more vindicated where each day. >> other tsh two systems of justice two different approaches while robert hr saying i am not going to press charges the jury will see him as sympathetic elderly gentleman with bad memory they are pushed forward trying to take trump down from taking documents even though a president as president trump was has different allowances than a senator. as joe biden was when he took those documents. >> what does it he tell you about democratic party i am a guy went o to see this past weekend one observation the leaders of great pasts great warriors people that are leading the battle, in charge, respected the best warrior

vermont senator bernie sanders getting testy with hillary vaughn after she asked about his proposed 32>> cheryl: senator sanders going on the offensive with hillary vaughn who was asking about his plan for a shorter work week, look what happened. >> people are exhausted, we work longer than anybody in the industrialized world. it is time. >> democrats want businesses to be -- >> that is not my asumpion. i don't think so. i would like to see -- >> how are businesses going to survive that, that is the question. >> pays effective tax rate lower than the average worker, we have a problem in the tax system. >> cheryl: i will not dispute that, i don't have time. he wants to reduce the work week to 32 hours, lower overtime pay and mandate overtime pay is time and a half and employees working over 12 hours get double the pay. critics point out this will lead to higher inflation and encourage companies to eliminate jobs to cut cost, spend more on ai and political side, another way to buy votes. promising freebies, everything seems to be free if you are a democrat andic maing promises these days

hillary vaughn of fox business live on capitol hill.osal progressives are ditching the traditional idea of an american dream which is owning your home one day and changing it for the idea of renting your home from the government for forever. progressives rolling out this new proposal that would encourage the government to build public housing so the idea to help address the housing shortage by the government building homes and then building can rent them from the government. >> we need to make sure that when we talk about housing, this is not just about who can afford a mortgage, it is about who can afford rent. we set the price and it creates -- it puts pressure on the market and they then have to compete with our rent, not us suffering because of the high prices of their rent. >> there is a serious housing supply issue driving up mortgage prices out of reach for many americans. the huge difference between who whoa a house cost compared to income in 1985 and compare it to the same cost for average americans in 2022. the national associ

hilary vaughn has a story from capitol hill soon a good evening coffee don't know whether or not googleat law enforcement is asking for it has a lot of privacy experts taking notice. forbes broke the story up in court documents were law enforcement officials asked youtube to turn over ip addresses, names, telephone numbers and huge activities for accusers that you do certain youtube video for 30,000 he is. all in the effort to figure out the identity of a google user they thought could have viewed the video suspected of money laundering. the amount of information law enforcement was asking for meant potentially thousands of innocent google users would have been caught up in law enforcement for the money longer. thousands of users who presumably has nothing to do with it. all they did was watch a video on related to the crime. the executive director of the surveillance technology oversight product saying it is unconstitutional, terrifying and it's happening everyday. youtube warrants are just as chilling allowing police to target people simply for the content they consume. no one should

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i want to bring in carol lam, legal analyst and also vaughn hillyard as well.he says he has the cash. his lawyers says he didn't. but he says he has over $500 million. >> news to everybody. and apparently his attorneys too. so who is telling the truth? that is the outstanding question. but his attorneys earlier this week in that motion in which they wrote that it was an impossibility to get an appeal bond because of the refuse affiliate the bond companies to use his properties as collateral, that they wanted cash to be used in order to get this bond, that this was an effort by his attorneys to effectively stay him having to put up the full amount of that $454 million. either delay it in its entiredy or put up a bond for smaller amount like $100 million. and so donald trump this morning here at sunrise just undercut the effort of his own attorneys and potentially at a time when latitia james is already putting judgments in to westchester county to seize his seven springs and he is state as well as the trump national golf club up there. >> when you read through b

vaughn, you are in your hometown of phoenix.of the issues driving voters to the ballot box? >> reporter: today is an odd day, and we already know donald trump and joe biden are going to be the respective nominees, and that's the only thing on the ballot here in arizona, and i already know from family and friends here in the state that casts their ballot a month ago when nikki haley was still in the race, and we will be able to 15 information from the results in a state where trump lost to joe biden by 11,000 votes. you said it, the issues here at the heart of the electorates focus, we know there's conversation around the democracy. we saw people like kari lake, she was a key election denier as well, and alongside donald trump she's running for the u.s. senate this year here, and the economy is front and center. you have immigration. again, that immigration conversation is very layered. of course, not only the actual number of migrants coming into the state of arizona but also the care and the role they play in the economy and so

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vaughn hillyard joins me now on set with more.e you inside for a change, in person and inside. talk to us about what we're expecting. >> we know donald trump and joe biden are going to be their party's nominees. of course that's formalize at the convention but tonight is big because both of them have the chance to make it at least official in terms of how many delegates they have. because at the convention the delegates show up and they raise their hands on behalf of one of the candidates and there's a certain number that comes from every state. throughout this process they're allocated for tonight, donald trump needs to get 140. 50% or more of the vote that will take all of the delegates. . in the case of hawaii, these are proportion ately located. a chance tonight we could have presumptive nominees joe biden and donald trump coming out of this. >> how are the campaigns feeling? biden's team seem quite jazzed after that state of the union address. >> definitely a pep in the step. we have our man and he's ready to take on donald t