national forest is the largest ever. with 52 days go until election day, president trump is actively engaging in people to participate in voter suppression. no participation needed other than to blindly follow their leader watching over american citizens as they vote. trump is set to host a campaign event in nevada just like several of his recent rallies will break state law on pandemic attendance limits. meanwhile, advise press mike pence is set to host backers of the cqanon theory and how much f a risk the president is. a new from "politico" reveals that the appointed officials at the centers for disease controls demand and received the right to review and seek changes to the cdc's weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic because the agency's scientific reports undermine donald trump's falsely

optimistic message about the outbreak. america's department of justice is quickly becoming the president's personal department of justice. it is defending trump in a lawsuit brought by a woman who says trump sexually assaulted her decades ago before he took office. a new whistle bror repo-blower s that they have been lying to congress and manipulating intelligence reports to match trump's agenda including russia's interference in elections and microsoft says that russia, china ka, a, and i have launched of sicyberattacks election campaigns. donald trump says said it's a hoax meanwhile he could would accept it. after the murder of legal permanent drents and "washington post" jamal khashoggi at the

hands of saudi arabia nagts turkey, trump, quote, saved his ass and that he was, quote, able to get congress to leave him, meaning mow ham mid balone. he was more concerned with defending the crown prince of saudi arabia than defending the united states and its reputation which has now been forever tarnished by trump's conduct. make no mistake about it, the president giving a green light to this type of action and playing a role in the cover-up say direct threat to our security let alone it counters journals who cover their government. but wait, there's more. according to axios, woodward's book says that former director of national intelligence dan coats could not shake his, quote, deep suspicions that russia's putin, quote, had something on trump seeing, quote, nor other explanation for the president's behavior.

another thing there appears to be no explanation for is trump's pension for revealing state secrets. during his conversations with woodward trump reportedly bragged about overseeing the creation of new nuclear weapons systems, quote, i built a nuclear, a weapons system that nobody has had in this country before. we have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about. we have stuff that putin and xi have never heard about before. there's nobody. what we have is incredible. what he said is incredible. that's on top of the already lengthy list of examples of trump's cavalier approach to state esecrets or classified information which includes telling top ranking russian officials including ambassador and foreign minister of russia while in the oval office about israeli intelligence in syria and telling the philippine authoritarian leader about u.s. nuclear submarine locations. speaking of being a national security threat to the country, here's trump taking a page out

of authoritarian playbook and explaining exactly what he plans on doing to quell his opposition should he win or even should he lose. >> let's say there are threats, they say that they're going to threaten riots if they lose on election night. assuming we get a winner on election night. what are you going to do. >> we'll put them down very quickly if they do that. we have the right do that. we have the power to do that if we want. look, it's called insurrection, we send in and we do it very easy. it's very easy. i'd rather not do that because there's no reason for it. but if we had to we'd put it down within minutes. within minutes. >> will put it down within minutes. the president of the united states actually said that. joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. he's a professor of political science at stanford university and international affairs news. he's the author of from cold war to hot peace. he thinks this matter is important because it's very

early for him where he is. we're always grateful for you being on the show. i just can't get past that last thing. yeah, i mean -- >> he was -- >> huff. >> i was work hard. >> because there's -- you have to have a lot of tv time to get all this news out. it's been five minutes of me reading what we have largely learned this week. but i cannot get over the fact that the president says if people protest the results of the election, it is an insurrection. we'll put it down quickly. you worked in russia. you are used to the kind of language we are hearing more and more of. something you are calling authoritarian populism. >> well, this was extraordinary, you're right. absolutely extraordinary. what you just went through. punctuated by this very dangerous statement that the president of the united states just made. this is exactly the language that autocrats use. they intimidate people. it is a right of all americans

to protest. and he is putting those americans on notice that if they exercise their constitutional rights to go out and protest peacefully, that he's going to, quote, put them down. i mean, that's very scary language and i really hope that the president reconsiders talking like that as we get closer to our presidential election. this is a dangerous time for american democracy. we need everybody who cares about democracy to have a peaceful election and a peaceful transition of power if there's a new president-elected. >> you know, i think if you said something like that, michael, i think i could say i hope you reconsider what you're saying. but i'm wondering if this is indicative of the thought process the president whats, given the kinds of leaders who he admires. the fact is the president is not looking at this using the language of democracy. that is not his love language. he is actually -- he likes

seeing authoritarian leaders. he likes people putting down protests. he likes people talking about the radicalization of the opposition. it's something you said that you witnessed in russia, the idea that people in power continue not to debate the opposition on the basis of ideas, but to accuse them and to undermine them. >> that's right. he's -- there's some parts of his foreign policy that are radically inconsistent, but one thing that has been very consistent over the last four years is his support for autocrats and bic tatetorsdicta he plays this game what aboutism? well, we do killing too. and the most dangerous thing that he does, is he calls his opponents the enemy of the people. that's a phrase i think, in russian, that's a phrase that stalin used to use all the time. autocrats all over the world try to portray their opposition not

as part of a constitutional loyal opposition, but as enemies of the people. because that then gives you an excuse and a license to do things against them that are unconstitutional. >> in parliamentary democracies, the opposition is actually often referred to as the loyal opposition because there's an important political role for them to play. i don't want to play the video of him doing this, but donald trump told fox news, he used this sentence with respect to joe biden. he said, i think there's probably possibly drugs involved. that's what i hear. you know, it's just one of the random extra criticisms he has. but that last four words, that's what i hear. it's an interesting technique on donald trump's part. he doesn't have to attest to it, he doesn't have to say it's true, he doesn't have to tell you where he got information. he just heard it somewhere. >> classic disinformation, right? people are saying that's what i hear. it's then therefore it's a

license to say whatever he wants and he can blame somebody else. but let's be really clear about this. there is no evidence whatsoever that what the president of the united states of america said about a political opponent, his presidential opponent in this race is true. there's no evidence to say it. so that comment is no different than the conversation you were just having a few minutes ago about russian disinformation campaigns, right? it's exactly the same thing. it's very dangerous for a democracy. it's very empowering for autocrats. it's very dangerous for democratic societies. >> you tweeted about the fact that we still have -- we're averaging a thousand deaths a day from coronavirus. canada to the north of us, which didn't engage in this nonsense about we don't want to panic people and new zealand and other countries, germany, canada had zero deaths. we could have been in a

different place than we are now. >> absolutely. i mean, it's tragic. it's -- there's no other way to describe it. if you compare the united states to europe, you compared the united states to canada, the united states to taiwan, we are the worst performer here. and i think your know, at the end of the day, we've been talking a lot about words and the president's words, but i strongly believe, i like continue to invoke ronald reagan. are we better off today than we were four years ago? and how did this president handle this tragedy? let's be clear, he didn't make this tragedy, this is a global tragedy, the pandemic. but how did he handle it? and it's the data, you know, as somebody who teaches about data and comparative data, i think is overwhelming how poorly we've done. it could have been so different. we could have been like our friends just to the north of us. many things are the same, right? they're the same gdp, they're

the same geography. this is the kind of comparison that as a social scientist you want and yet the outcome has been radically different. that's because leadership matters. >> ambassador, again, we are deeply grateful that you always willingly get up early to talk to us. michael mcfaul say former united states ambassador to russia. he's the author of a very important book from cold war to hot peace. the inside story of russia and america. a new whistle-blower complaint reveals an alarming distortion of facts from the white house. one example inflaming the number of suspected terrorists coming through the mexican border to boost support for trump's border wall. velshi continues after the break on msnbc. wall. velshi continues after the break on msnbc. age is just a number.

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this has been a week of bombshell revelations and accusations against donald trump and his administration. one fire hose source of damaging

allegation say whistle-blower complaint filed by the former head of the homeland security department's intelligence branch. in its 24 pages of excruciating detail on just how pervasive trump's need for loyalty actually is, in addition to working with withhold critical intelligence prior to an election or even ma nip pew lating intelligence to match trump's stump speech rhetoric, there's one incident detailed in the report that's getting less attention than deserves. it alleges that kirstjen nielsen asked brian murphy, former head of intelligence and analysis and now the whistle-blower to inflate and lie about the number of known suspected terrorists crossing the mexican border. all of this was to boost support for the president's wall. it gets worse. the dhs also gave false information to congress alleging that thousands of terrorists were cross the border. back in 2019, our colleagues here at nbc news published a r story detailing this claim and debunking it. nbc looked at the data and is

there were thousands -- there were not thousand of people from the terror watch list crossing the southern border, there were six. shortly after the dhs pushed nbc to retract the story claiming once again that the numbers were far higher, nbc did not retract the story because it was correct. and now the dhs whistle-blower says that he got pressured to inflate those numbers as well. so, this is our own department of homeland security secretary, the one paid by tax-payer dollars, taxed with -- tasked with keeping us safe, knowingly inflating numbers about alleged incoming terrorists. trump's fear mongering against migrants and asylum seekers has been obvious has for his pension for ub substantiated facts for him and his staff to keep up the charade. back in 2019, the president tweeted and unsubstantiated claim about the border and suggested that perhaps terrorists were headed from the middle east through our southern

border. he wrote, quote, prayer runs were found at the mexican border and people coming across the board, he which would be a big surprise. this is a years' old rumor and never backed up. joining me now, former fbi and special agent alley. he's the author of the just recently unredacted the black banners and another back called anatomy of terror. the black banners is important because i spent a lot of time showing you all the redacted version. ali has won his battle with the cia and it's now unredact and available. i have to talk to you. this is the 19th anniversary yesterday of 9/11. something that you were very closely involved in, the investigation of prior to and after. and one of the things you write about in your book is that we didn't do the right thing with the intelligence that we actually had. and had we done the right thing with it, those people wouldn't

have died or at least some of those deaths could have been, if not all of them, could have been prevented. in a different way, we're doing the same thing today. we're denying actual intelligence we have. we're faking other intelligence, and in this case it's for political gain. >> thank you, ali. and thank you for all your support on the black banners. i know you raise a lot of awareness on your shows over the year about ridiculous classifications of what's in the -- but you're correct. you're very correct here. i think we're seeing the same things that we've seen years ago happening all over again. this culture that we live in today is merely taking its next step with the trump administration. so far we still have no accountability and the non transparency for what happened in iraq war, connect saddam

hussein to -- the fake disinformation of what the torture and support. and i think with the win in classifying black lives matters, hopefully we can bring facts and we can bring transparency into the picture. remember -- became a partisan issue, became an issue for president trump, canned dated trump at the time was saying during the campaign trail, you want to bring waterboarding and worse than waterboarding. now, the american public and the world can see exactly how we get information that save lives and how their own government did a propaganda campaign of disinformation conveying -- in order -- alleged efficacy of torture. very similar to what you mentioned now what appears to be also playing, you know, loose

with intelligence, exaggerating intelligence, faking information, declassifying what they wanted to declassify and classify information that does not fit the political narrative. and this is exactly what's happening today. and unfortunately, we need the transparency because we have -- i think our democracy will suffer tremendously. and as you mentioned today -- >> the danger, of course -- the danger is that if you direct dhs resources, which this government actually did, to talking about the fact that there are terrorists coming across the southern border which is why you have to redirect all these people and you know that in dhs, they directed everybody to the border, you neglect other threa threats. in the old days it would have been threats from the outside. but something you wrote about, is there were real extremist threats in america that we ignored because we justified sending all those dhs agents to

the border because apparently there were all these foreign terrorists coming across which was a lie. >> well, yeah. absolutely. and another thing in that complaint also talks about the white supremacists, they wanted to put the truth about how dangerous it is. and that's something that i've been advocating for with other members of congress and a lot of people actually in dhs and other agencies about raising awareness of that threat. this is really dangerous. we cannot play loose with intelligence. we cannot classify what does not fit a narrative and put disinformation out. what we're witnessing today, just as i've been watching this since 8:00, since the beginning of the show, there's a fire hose that's coming from the administration. fire hose of falsehood, of lies, conspiracies, and unfortunately all of it fits with them. the disinformation model of the

russians. and unfortunately we're doing this not to ourselves. we are dividing ourselves based on these things. >> i want to -- i have to ask you about the news about jamal khashoggi. according to business insider, donald trump told bob woodward, i saved his ass talking about the prince africa shogi's brutal murder. you know jamal and you were particularly concerned about the degree to which the united states has been complicit with saudi arabia on this matter. >> well, it's not only the jamal khashoggi. the principle has bee has been g americans in -- the consulate in istanbul was one of the atrocities that he did. look at the disafter thenerster look at the -- sending death squads to intimidate and murder dissidents overseas.

look at the what's happening inside saudi arabia in arresting human rights activists and reformist. and while allowing clerics to issue -- for example, first jew and shiit. and to burn churches. those can still operate freely. so the relationship unfortunately today, thiszati administration is with saudi arabia and it's a one-way street. taking act with impunity -- this hurts our national interests. this hurts our security initiatives in the middle east, it-a-tnd hur and it hurts saudi >> good to see you. he's a former fbi special agent, author of the black banners and newly unredacted black banners that doesn't have the black

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oregonians are under evacuation orders. 10% of the entire state's population forced to leave their homes. the fire season which has a perceived beginning and end from may to october is now becoming a much locke longer event. and this year is one of the worst fire seasons on record in california. the fires spread from washington to california and as far east as colorado and they are fryor fro over. air quality is some of the worse in the world. look at these photos from san francisco that people sent in earlier this week. if an apocalyptic glow in the sky doesn't tell you that climate change shehere, what wi? warm temperatures drive the fuels and all you need say spark. president trump has been absent from this year's fires. it took three weeks before he even mentioned them at all.

but he's a top forestry expert. >> you got clean your floors, you got clean your forests. they've many, many years of leaves and broken trees and their like -- like so flammable, you touch 'em and it goes up. >> i really debate having to run things like that, but i think it's important that you actually hear them. erin joins us now from california. erin. >> reporter: hey, ali. well, yesterday california governor gavin newsom was in this area touring the devastation. and we're looking at acker after acre of scorched wilderness. gavin newsom said that the cause of this disaster is clear in an exclusive interview with nbc's miguel almanguer. take a. >> there's a sustainable problem. and that is climate change.

it's a climate emergency. this is what everyone predicted in the is what all the experts have been saying for decades. climate change is here. it's real. it's omni present. what more evidence do you need? if you don't believe in climate change, come to the state of florida. you don't believe in climate change, walk in our shoes. >> reporter: governor newsom also talked about the air quality here specifically. it's so bad it's kind of stinging my eyes right now, ali. he said that it's the equivalent to smoke 20 packs of cigarettes at once, pointing to other cities and they're suffering from the air quality as well. portland, seattle, and san francisco among some of the worst air quality in the world now in those cities. and newsom said it is a warning shot really for the rest of the country. >> erin, i know you know your way around report and breaking news, but you and your crew stay

safe out there and wear respirators because you need to watch your i tantake of that sm. thank you. the united states department of justice is now acting as the president's personal law firm. how attorney general bill barr's blind loyalty to president trump is chipping away at democracy. p is chipping away at democracy. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny.

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partisan political ends. ironic. but while his official title is the united states attorney general, we all know that that, too, is a title that barr is essentially acting as trump's personal attorney. which in a way makes sense his his other personal attorney rudy giuliani has been staying busy meeting with the ukrainian lawmaker who they say is an active russian agent trying to discredit joe biden ae discredit joe biden's campaign. trump has found someone willing to put everything on the line and risk his career? why? what makes bill barr apparently more loyal to donald trump than to the american people? we don't really know the answer to that. but we do know if undying loyalty wasn't there, trump -- well, barr wouldn't be there. remember, before he was appointed attorney general, he sent an 18 page mem know in 2018 claiming that a president cannot obstruct justice, in other words, a president is above the law in the is before he had the job. seems to have gotten him the

job. let's get back to barr's hypocrisy that the justice system shouldn't be used as a political weapon. this week we learned that the justice department wants to take over for the president's defense team against the defamation lawsuit. she's accused trump of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. but barr claims the president's denial makes it a doj matter. listen to this. >> the case can be certified for shifting to the federal courts and the united states can be substituted as the responsible party. this was a normal application of the law. the law is clear. it is done frequently. and the little tempest that's going on is largely because of the bizarre political environment which we live. >> it's done frequently? by the way, who's paying for this? the american taxpayers. your money will be used to defend the man who claims he's

really rich all the time against allegations that he defamed a woman who accuses him of rape. allegedly a rape that took place long before he was president. so think about that. while trump allegedly commits the crime, you're spending the dime. and while barr tries to convince the public that he's not trump's puppet, thousand of former department of justice employees and law professors have disagreed. previously calling for barr's resignation three times this year alone. others have called for him to be disbarred. including in february when he interfered in roger stone's case leading four of his prosecutors to resign after reducing the sentence of roger stone who's only qualification for having his science reducentence reducee he was donald trump's friend. and now, a top aid to john durham, the attorney leading the so-called investigation into the russia investigation has quit. nora dana hee was concerned the

investigation team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done making it clear that barr is trying to spin this investigation so that it is released before the election in an attempt to help the president win. why is the department of justice working to hard to get the president re-elected? there's plenty of speculation that it could be because trump could face indictment after leaving office and this week we learned from the president's former attorney michael cohen that trump may have a plan for all of it. >> my theory is that if he loses, there's still the time between the election and the time that the next president would take office. and during that time, my suspicion is that he will resign as president, he will allow mike pence to take over, and he will then go ahead and have mike pence pardon him. >> sounds fanciful, but i wonder

if we shouldn't discount that. since barr replaced the unqualified acting attorney general matthew whitaker in 2019, he has done nothing but prove that when trump says jump, barr will ask which line would you like me to cross today? this is not how the rule of law in a functioning democracy works, and that should terrify every american citizen. joining me now, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. joyce is also an msnbc contributor and university of alabama law professor. i don't even know where to start with all of this. let's start with nora's resignation. she worked with john durham. we are hearing, we will know much more about her until yesterday probably nobody knew her name. but what we want to know is, why did she resign and is there pressure for -- coming from barr to john durham to release this so-called investigation into the russia investigation before the election? >> i think the short answer is that we don't know for certain yet.

but nora dannehy, a long-time career law professor of john durham's had left the justice department and came back at his request and got involved in, as you point out, the so-called durham investigation, the investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. it is unusual for someone of her stature and seriousness to come back into doj to work on an investigation and then to leave doj just weeks before it comes to fruition. so that's a little bit of a red flag here. but the reality is, there's been a lot of reporting from barr's mouth itself that he expects to release an interim report on the durham investigation. that would be highly unusual this close to an election. >> what barr says is not unusual is the e. jeanne carroll accused the president of rape. they had a back and forth. she then filed a defamation suit against him. this is as donald trump.

barr says it's commonplace, it happens all the time, first of all, my producers looked into this, they couldn't find one example of when it's happened before where a president has had prosecution taken over of a case taken over from something that occurred before he was president. but what's the -- how do you think about this? >> i think that we see barr doing this an awful lot, ali. he dresses up these actions he takes that are completely violative of doj policy and practice and tries to put them in this reasonable face. he tells us, well there are happens all the time. and, you know, this is an attorney general who earlier this month claims that he didn't know that it wasn't legal to vote more than once in some states. and we all know that. this is, i think, the level of hypocrisy that he's capable of. so with carroll what he's saying that the reasonable part is, that these west fall certifications, certifications that an employee of the executive branch should be

represented by doj in a legal case, that does happen. it happens when the employee's conduct is within the line and scope of their duties, of their federal employment. so here now we have the attorney general taking over the expense and the worries of handling this case for the president for allegations about an event that's 20 years old. unless the president wants to claim that raping a woman and defaming her is within the scope of his duties, it's real tough to see how this is a legitimate takeover of the case by the justice department. >> yeah, well, you know what? crazy things have happened in the last four years, joyce. thank you again for joining me. it's a big treat for me. i got to talk to you last night on the last word and then this morning. i know you havena haven't had a of sleep. the four officers in george floyd's death appeared in court for the first time together in court and it seems they're ready to turn the blame on each other. that's next on velshi. n the bl.

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show v cho van fen while three other officers stood by. yesterday they appeared in court for the first time together. several reports indicate that they're now turning on each other asking the presiding judge if they could be tried separately. the prosecutor wants them tried as a group. the judge who has scheduled the trial to begin in -- members of the flied hearing were on hand with their attorney benjamin crump. >> we just sat through a very emotional hearing where people tried to kill george floyd a second time. they made all kind of foolish allegations talking about he died from a drug overdose, the only overdose that killed george floyd was an overdose of

excessive force and racism that a minnesota, minneapolis police department! >> floyd's death on may 25th sparked a national movement for change. civil action which began in minneapolis has brought has bro about changes in police departments across the country so tomorrow as i begin the push to what is now being called the most consequential election of our lifetimes there seem no more appropriate point to kick off velshi across america than in minneapolis. it was there covering the protests, covering that story i was myself hit with rubber bullets. it sounds like they're chanting do it. like they're daring the state trooper to fire on them again. [ bleep ]. i got hit. hold on. >> well, the memory of george floyd and the activism that followed is part of the story. minnesota is also considered a

swing state. a recent headline reading a tale of two minnesotas. you go into the seven county metro area and it's biden country. both candidates pouring millions of dollars into the state trying to gain the upper happened. joining me now, staff writer with the new yorker and he recently served as the correspondent on a new front line pbs special title policing the police, 2020. i guess the question i have for you is that people like you and others have known about police brutality and police violence and racism in the justice system for a long time but it became very real and very obvious to a number of americans who weren't paying attention arguably with the death of others, but the death of george floyd ignited a movement in america, the likes of which we have not seen since the 1960s. >> that's absolutely true, and i do want to take a second to just

say that i was closely observing your coverage in minneapolis and you did really phenomenal work there. i did want to commend you. >> thank you. >> but i think that because of the exquisite brutality and the abject horror of that film, 8 minutes and 46 seconds where at any minute a different decision could be made and mr. floyd might still be with us and moment after moment, that's an exceptional degree of commitment for the act of ex- tingishing mr. floyd's life and for many people it was a shock to the conscience and people recoiled, terrified that something like that could happen but for many other people this was predictable. in fact, if you looked at the police department history in minnesota -- excuse me, in minneapolis and the surrounding areas you would have seen many

incidents that pointed to the possibility of something george floyd's death occurring. and so that's what we wanted to look at with this film, the fact that there seem to be so many indicators when something like this happens. it really happens in isolation, there's so many indicators and we wanted to look at what are the possibilities of actually doing policing differently. >> and one of the things you and others talk about is that you cannot look at this in a vacuum. it is part of a larger issue of inequality and injustice. let's play a little bit from the documentary. >> what i see in newark gives me hope. >> let us take a knee. >> it's an experiment trying to move beyond policing and at least in some measure release problems that have plagued black america for far too long. >> what people really want is they don't want to be murdered running at a traffic stop or choked to death because they got a loose cigarette or you know,

their neck stood on because of a $20 bill. >> are americans understanding that message that this isn't deciding about whether brooks was drunk behind the wheel when he was asleep in the parking lot of a wendy's or whether george floyd was passing a $20 bill or whether eric garner had loose cigarettes. this is about something deeper. >> sure. it's about the fundamental relationship we have to the criminal justice system in the united states. and so that conversation that you showed, i was talking with the mayor of newark, new jersey, and the mayor is at the forefront of some of these efforts to try to do something different in terms of policing but he's also my college classmate from howard university and so we were talking about those broader kinds of systemic issues that the initial offense is not justification for loss of

life in any of those situations and so we're going back, you know, once again to the question of how does this culminate in such completely disproportionate exercises of force and situations that seem like they should have been resolved in some other kind of way. >> well, hopefully we get somewhere with this. thanks again for your support and for the coverage that you've helped us provide and the context that you've helped us to deliver to our viewers. a correspondent on a new front line pbs special called policing the police airing tuesday. a breaking update on the coronavirus vaccine front. clinical trials have resumed. the trial was paused after one of the poll volunteered reportedly got sick. they have investigated and they say it is safe to resume the trial. we've got a special show tomorrow. the first in our new series, velshi across america 2020.

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no, i think that this -- without knowing anything about what durham is going to release, the durham report we'll call it, or maybe it's going to be more than a report, maybe it's going to be much more than report. maybe it's a report or maybe it's much more than that. >> good morning. welcome to a.m. joy. i'm jonathan capehart. donald trump's trump priority is not stopping the entire west coast from burning to the ground. no, his top priority is proving that the mueller investigation

which ended 18 months ago was a hoax. and to do it before election day. on friday we learned that a key member of the doj team that is investigating how the mueller probe into trump's russia ties began has resigned reportedly overpressured to get a report out before november 3rd. nora was second in command to john durham appointed last year by attorney general barr to run the investigation which trump has touted as the thing that would prove that the fbi was out to get him all along. she resigned and thursday and the hartford current told colleagues she was quitting due in part to pressure to come out with a report on barr before election day. a spokesman for durham confirmed her departure but would not identify her reasons for