pushing to make our economy more competitive. that means giving small businesses a quick chance to compete, and to grow. you really cannot have strong capitalism without robust competition what they want to do is squash the little guy said that they have unfettered, unchecked market power to gouge consumers. republicans have made clear that that is who the will stand with if they're elected. democrats on the other hand are going to fight like hell to protect consumers and workers, and that's exactly what i have been doing, and intend to continue to do. >> a percent inflation rate, not unemployment, congresswoman katie porter. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this wednesday night, alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. the piece of this that has to do with corporate greed is so underdiscussed. the biden administration is

trying toti take corporations t task on this. but it is not a strong enough piece of the broader message about what is happening to the american people here. >> totally agree. i was a skeptic in terms of what was true. over time, it is clear. i'm going to run so that i can come to your set where you'll be first guest. >> see you in a few. >> don't get stuck in the elevator. see you soon. >> thank you for joining us. we'll be joined live by chris hayes and wisconsin senate candidate mandela barns. election day is a week away. he's in an extremely tight race against ron johnson. the outcome of that race could determine control of the u.s. senate. on its own makes the stakes high in wisconsin. even more than that, even more than that, is a lot is on the line here. if wisconsin's democratic governor tony evers loses his s

reelection bid, the legislature will have the b power to do whatever they want. and that may include rewriting wisconsin's election laws to give republican officials the power to decide who prevails in future elections. in 2020, wisconsin is one of the states where donald trump tried to getre joe biden's victory overturned. state officials resisted trump's pressure and certified biden's win. the current republican candidate in wisconsin tim mike wills is an election denier who refused to say whether he would certify a biden win in 2024. he got even more explicit what it would mean if he wins. h >> republicans will never lose another election in wisconsin after i'm elected governor. >> republicans will never lose another election after i'm elected governor. tim michaels is not alone.

plenty of candidates refuse to accept the results of their own races. >> my question is will you accept the results of your election in november? >> i'm going to win and i'll accept that result. >> if you lose, will you accept? >> i'm going to win and i'll accept that result. >> the republican running for secretary of state which the office that oversees elections said won't accept a loss. he said there will be no concession speech from him. okay. when "the washington post" reached tout 19 republican candidates in battleground races, a dozen of them declined to say whether they would accept the results of their contests. which makes sense. when they looked at races for house, senate, and key state races, the post discovered that over half of the republicans running for those offices are

still refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election. it's in that context that president biden stepped up to a podium in union station which is not far from the u.s. capitol and he issued a stark warning about what is at stake in next week'ske elections. >> i hope you ask the question of each candidate you might vote for. will that person accept the legitimate will of the american people, people voting in his district or her district?he will that person accept the outcome of the election win or lose? the answer to that question is vital. and in my opinion it should be decisive. the answer to that question hangs in the fate of the democracy that made so much possible for us. >> president biden telling american voters that the fate of democracy hangs on how they vote

in these midterm elections and trying to prepare americans for what are could happen. the country could be in a very different place. after beginning his speech talking about the attackr on nancy pelosi's husband by an assailant that broke into their home hunting down the speaker of the house, biden warned that the anti-democratic behavior and violent rhetoric is a path to chaos. >> this is the firstth election since january 6 when the armed angry mob stormed the u.s. capitol. i wish i could say the assault on a democracy ended that day. but i cannot. as i stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office f in america fo governor, congress, attorney general, secretary of state who won't commit, they will not commit to accepting the results to election that they're running

in. this is chaos in america. it's unprecedented. it's unlawful. and it's unamerican. i've said before, you can't love your country only when you win. >> you can't love your country only when't you win. so says the president of the united states. what is the last president of the united states say? quote, our country is rigged, crooked and edevil. that is from this past weekend. i think it's safe to say this is the first time a former u.s. president has called america evil. but that is where we are. the anti-democratic forces president biden is trying to rally americans against tonight coming from outside. they are very much here already. they're ma tast sizing inside the republican party and on the ballot right now. joining me now is the host of "all in" and my dear friend

chris hayes. thanks for staying at the office late. >> great to be here. >> i want toof talk to you abou this given your body of work on the subject. and also this just absolutely strange and perilous moment we all find ourselves in as americans, as members of the newser media, people that follo this stuff incredibly closely. we all watched president biden's remarks tonight. and the first thing i want to ask yout about is whether you think that there is you actually a distinction to be made as the president insists there is between republicans and maga republicans. >> i do. ire do think that if you look a the dividing line about sort of do i have faith in an individual that they will concede an election they lost in a timely manner, there is a difference. mike is pulling up 50 points. but i think if the governor lost, he'll t concede. he lost elections. i covered an election in 2006 in the senate, he lost. so, yeah, i think there is a

difference betweenk the kinds individuals in the republican party. i think there are many who would concede that they lost and move on. and then, like, do i think that mark fincham running for secretary of state in arizona, and is polling behind, let's be clear, that if he loses, the arizona state race, is he going say you got me? probably not. i that i does have some meaning. >> i guess i should say there is a difference between not only maga republicans and regular truth accepting republicans, but also who is -- who we're talking about, they're the elected officials and theny' the grassroots. and at this point i truly feel like the grassroots are actually leading the party.g right? >> yes. >> y and in the numbers if you look atth who is in the republin party and whatwh they believe, % of them believe the election was stolen for joe biden. the president of the united states, joe biden who won, i think wants to believe that number is smaller.

or he believesr. in the goodnes of this country. and two-thirds of the republican party as it is the people of the republican party does not believe he is legitimate. >> no. i think the math that you're running there is correct. i think incorrect in the president's speech. he called them minority republicans. i don't they they are. i think if the majority dominant faction of the republican party though not entirely. it's the majority faction that runs oneor two of parties. it is a minority in the broad american populous which still to this day retains a pro bust pro-democracy majority, but there is a dominance of this anti-democratic faction in the republican party. and that's really the whole issue. you had a two party system. you have a competitive democracy. we have a multiparty democracy. you can't have a multiparty democracy if one party keeps winning elections. they have that in some countries. they had it in south africa for

decades. that's not real competitive multiparty democracy. >> yeah. >> so by definition, the parties are going to take turns with power. if one party can't be trusted with that party, that's where the breakdown happens. that's exactly what we face. >> i kind of think of these -- i'm projecting, i don't have a crystal ball. i feel like as we watch these moments, 2020, 2022 and 2024 as kind of a stress test of the american democracy. 2020 is sort ofam the test of a external threat. does the center hold? do the institutions hold up? in large part this he do. 2022 the voters, can they distinguish between those who are lying to them? 2024 is if we do elect all these election deniers into office, what happens to this system when corroded from the inside add opposed to the threat coming from the outside? >> this is a great point. two things to think b one is just election night and election week after 2022 which is what

happens to the mark finchams of the world? if they lose, they'll lose and they'll be gone. i retain hope. but it is also like trump opened the window for all sorts of mischief. but then the otheror thing is le forget kari lake and marge fincham and marchant in nevada. the precedent was set in 2020 that with is a matter of the u.s. constitution that after the whole country runs an election where spend a billion dollars on th election, then the house decides do we like that result? let's vote on it. liken that's -- no. no. we just ran a whole election. but that was the precedent set in 2020. so if the democrat wins and majority of the republican house is like, i don't know. what do you think? should with he keep this?ee so that's already before we even

get to like all the crazy th mischief that can happen in state certification, all the mischief between electors. just the fact that he's been introduced as a precedent in 2020, the house is going to have this vote that is no longer pro forma that says, yes, these are the results.s, ith don't know, what do you thi? that is corrosive. >> even ifin you don't get the seat, you may be pulling the curtains down from the windows as escorted out of the building. and whathe kind of house does tt leave you in? before i let you go, you earned your keep this evening, you get to go out there. >> thank you. >> i really feel like not an overstatement to say we are living through history. and we could be witnessing the end of liberal democracy. i say that almost like it's hard for me to -- >> yes. >> those are the stakes. biden is not overstating this. this is not political rhetoric. >> i agree. >> thisl is a man that understd his place in history.in

when books are written, they will mark down he gave this speech sixth days before the 20 election because there is going to be some outcome in the next month or year that is significant y in terms of liber democracy. >> i totally agree. i think we talk about this fascism or whatever foreign models. we have competitive multiparty democracy in the american south for about eight years after civil war.ar that was replaced by one party. i don't want to foreclose what happens on the other side of any given election. civil society exists. speech still exists. mobilization exists. so it's not like there is some definitive, like, people need to understand that -- i thought the president did a good job here is democracy is a process and not a destination. it's a journey, not a destination. something that you're working

on.in and so whatever outcome happens, whatever assaults there, are you try to vouch safe it and defend against it as an active effort day in and day out through whatever means you have at your disposal. and that's going to be the case two weeks from now no matter what. >> we will do our part to keep democracy going, my friend. always good to see you. >> great to seeys you. >> good to hear your wise words. thank you for your time. joining us now is clair mckaskel from missouri. i'm so happy to you have here tonight to understand what happens in the next six days and how you see democrats managing the message going into a very, very, very consequential midterm election. the first thing i have to ask you is what did you make of the president's remarks tonight? were you surprised he chose this moment to talk about the threats to democracy that we face?

>> it's great to be with you,al -- alex. i am excited to be on your show for first o time. ifi think joe biden gave a spee tonight that he wanted to give. and i'm not sure he spent a lot of time analyzing the timing or the theatrics or the visual. i think he wanted to say something. i think heto wanted to grab america by the shirt. please pay attention to this moment. democracy is a journey, not a destination. biden is trying to reach americans that are not part of that chunk of thre republican party that thinks they only believe in elections when they win. but rather the rest of the country and say, you know, we are dangerously close to losing something that defines our

country that, we have been very proud of, and then pretty good at for most of our history and it is in trouble. i really want you to pay attention. it was not a wildly political speech. he is afraid of what is am coming and this illness and this bump in this road of democracy. i mean, it's like they tore up the road. now we have to figure out how to get to the other side.th and this election may be a bridge that restores or journey onor democracy. >> i got the sense -- i mean the president spoke to the names before. he spoke about them last month. he is clearly worried about the election deniers on the ballot. that's looming in the foreground. i also got the sense that the attack on paul pelosi deeply

shook him. not just because he's known nancy pelosi for a long time, not just because it's the husband of theju speaker of the house, but because it is so much of the piece with what else he sees plaguing the country. the poison that spread through the veins. do you get that sense? do you think the pelosi attack will be seen as an inflection point in the, you know, in the rise and the expansion of violent political rhetoric that becomes actually just plain old violence in thely real world? >> well, i think joe biden was deeply troubledoe by what happened. but he was probably just as troubled by what happened after the attack. the notion that you would have this same chunk of people in our country basically calling the police liars. you know, the police that they purport to support.

the blue line, we care about law and caorder. and they basically called the police liars who responded to al 911 call and intervened in a violent situation risking their own lives and arrested a suspect and legally after giving him his rights secured a videotape confession. and they're basically saying we don'te believe you. i think it's the reaction of people and the failure of republican leaders that joe bide knows very well. i think he is most disappointed there wasn't more of a coming together at this moment of republicans and democrats in congress toan say no more. no more political violence. i think he's disgusted in how many republicans are either saying very little, saying horrible things or just standing silent. >> i just wonder how -- it's so hard to know who the intended audience -- i think the president was saying it for history,s himself, for the american public.

i wonder if he was trying to speak to a specific slice of the american electorate. you know, we talk about the division in this country. i was talking to tim ryan. he retains a certain amount of optimism. i know in 2018 you talked to the fox news audience. and you felt that was a necessary part of campaigning. do you still think that it's possible to be a democrat in this day and age and talk to the people whoal are fans of donald trump or believe the election, something nefarious went on and get their votes? >> sure as hell better be. if you look at this, alex, look at the country. we have 25% to 30% of americans that are 3 totally in the tank with donald trump and t the lie and big lie and fraud and elections don't count. if we stay on opposite ends of

the room, if our party doesn't try to move and capture the concerns of those people who don'tth see themselves as a rab democrat or a very progressive democrat, they see themselves as middle of the roaders. i know these people. i represented a whole bunch of them. and when you have swing districts and you have swing you states if, we don't have candidates who can speak to that middle, who can try to capture those people and bring them and make a b healthy majority wheree can compromise and actually solve problems, then we either are going to break apart or end up probably with a third party before it's all said and done, i'm guessing. >> i would prefer one of those e outcomes over the other. i have to admit. >> i would too. don't get me wrong.me i want -- i really -- i mean, i want the democrats to understand something. everything you're hearing about winning the ns are polls and republicans are going to win and we're losing in the polls. do not believe it. i have been on both sides of

this. a week before big elections. the polls i was going to win and lost and the polls i was going to lose and iol won. so please, everyone, vote.ry do not believe for a minute that we are not in this and that every single vote doesn't matter. it does. the courts held them up last time and they'll hold them up again. >> everyone listen to clair mckaskel. friend of the show. thank you for your wisdom.yo we have much more ahead this hour including breaking news in the mar-a-lago investigation. a trump ally is ordered to testify to a federal grand jury about trump's mishandling of classified documents in exchange for immunity. what that means for donald trump just ahead. and we are officially just one week aaway from the midter elections. we all know that by i now. i'm going keep saying it. and in wisconsin senate race, republican incumbent ron johnson's lead over his opponent ishi getting smaller. democrat mandela barnes will

join me live from his campaign bus to talk about what could happen just six days from now. that's next. stay with us. six days from now. that's next. stay with us

ron johnson is wisconsin's worst senator in decades. that will is a bolded 18 point subheadline in an editorial the milwaukee journal sentinel put tout day. this incompetent senator compiles a slim list of accomplishment for 12 years in office. as far as things he has done, he played fast and loose with the facts for years. he is a super spreader of conspiracies whose claims sun spots cause global warming and warn the vaccines that saved millions of lives could make the

covid pandemic worse. it took johnson more than a month acknowledge the obvious joe biden defeated president trump for the presidency. then he held a sham hearing that allowed the lawyers to ignore rulings that were shot down in the courts. he lied about his involvement in the state's fake lektor scheme of trying to politicize social safety net and the paper says johnson has been running racist ads. now just to remind you this is coming the usa today network's editorial board. they don't normally weigh in on candidates. they said they made an exception this time because the stakes here are that high and they have more than a few concerns about senator ron johnson. clearly. in contrast, here's what the paper said about johnson's opponent, mandela barnes. he is young at 35. but he served two terms as state representative and won as lieutenant governor. his positions on the major issues facing the country are

reasonable, measured and mainstream. barnes is a quick study who will lean progressive but remain pragmatic. he'll focus on working class constituents rather than delivering tax cuts to billionaire donors. as johnson has done. he had a six point lead but now it is a two point lead which is now within the margin of error. joining us is mandela barnes. thank you for being here tonight on your campaign bus. how you are feeling about your chances in six days? >> thank you so much for having me. we're feeling incredibly energized by momentum, by the folks showing up at rallies across wisconsin. we're on our rv tour getting across wisconsin. this is win the for wisconsin tour. that's what we intend to do. not just win a campaign. not just win an election but win

for the working people that were left behind by ron johnson. there are concerns and frustration that people had over the last 12 years, absolute lack of representation. ron johnson is in it for himself and wealthy donors at the expense of the rest of us. he's too comfortable send going paying jobs out of state and overseas. his position on abortion is too extreme and out of touch for 70% of the state that believe roe v. wade should be law of the land. and flirting with democracy is something that people in the state of wisconsin refuse to stand for. we're every day showing up. meeting people where they are. that's what this is about. if folks that want to watch us and join us, go to my website. >> ron johnson is flirting with the toppling of democracy. he was asked whether he would accept the results of the he elections it in november and said we'll see what happens.

are you preparing if you win and he refuses to concede? do you have to plan for that. >> he demonstrated the lows he'll take it to. when he didn't like the results of the 20 election, he used power to overturn that he election. he looked every person in their eye, every voter and said your vote doesn't count. your voice doesn't matter, my way or the highway. people are tired of ron johnson only income it for himself. it's not our fault that democracy not working you out for ron johnson. we'll push for and protect it, make sure the right to vote is protected across the country, across the state especially. and we're going to stand up to any sort of attacks. it's a shame that senator johnson can't say the same thing. >> wisconsin is a state that is always narrow. joe biden won. victories tend to be narrow. the state is deeply purple. a sharp divide between the two

parties. what seems to be happening in wisconsin is republicans when they wnt win fair and square tried to dilute democratic power in the state through gerrymandering and shrinking them to represent the state even if they have the votes, if you will. i believe democrats have to win the statewide vote by 12 points just to get 50 seats in the assembly according to the marquette university law school. republicans on the other hand, could garner majority of the states in the state assembly with just 44% of the votes. that i think strikes people on its face undemocratic. but there are the plans that republicans have basically outlined. tony evers is running for re-election and the republican lecture wants to do everything in their power to prevent him from being able to make law or

exercise veto power. how worried are you about the state of wisconsin becoming effectively an anti-democratic state with the republican strategy to effectively undermine the voice of the people and democratic process? >> you laid it out plain as day. ron johnson is comfortable writing the rules to benefit himself financially, rewriting the tax code that he benefitted from personally and his own business. he's a person who owned successful business, a multimillion dollar business. he paid zero dollars in state income taxes since 2013. when it comes to the election and the outcomes this is a person who is going to stoop to whatever low. it is a real threat. democracy is on the ballot. the will of the people should be the law of the land. but because of gerrymandering, that is not the case. we need include the reforms so

that people can choose representatives and not the other way around which is the case in wisconsin now. >> wisconsin democratic senate candidate lieutenant governor mandela barnes, the race is getting tighter in favor of you every vote will count. election day is in six days. thank you for taking time in your busy schedule on that campaign rv. we appreciate you. good luck out there. >> thank you so much for having me. up next, the trump loyalist who swore months ago that president trump declassified all the documents found at mar-a-lago. nothing to see here. he is now going to testify before a grand jury in the case in exchange for immunity. that's next. e in exchange for immunity that's next. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price.

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okay. remember this guy? this is cash patel. before the trump era, he was a congressional aide to devin nunez. then playing foot soldier, he worked his way into president trump's inner circle and eventually pinted to a series of national security jobs that he had little to no quaufgss for. after trump left office, he stayed in the trump orbit and became his point person for dealing with the national archives. which is how cash patel found himself in the middle of the

scandal. the former president's decision to take thousands of white house documents with him including hundreds of highly classified documents and take them down to his florida beach club and then lie about it. it kash patel said that he did nothing wrong. he said i was there with president trum whp he said we're declassifying this information. the trump legal team has not made that claim in court. it is just a story that kash patel and donald trump like to tell from time to time which is why a lot of people would like to ask kash patel a lot of things under oath and tonight just before we got on the air, "the wall street journal" broke the news that that guy, kash patel will testify in the mar-a-lago case in exchange for immunity. a close associate of donald trump is set to soon testify before a federal grand jury probing the handling of

classified documents after receiving immunity for his information. that, according to people familiar with the matter. mr. patel appeared before the grand jury last month and refused to provide information by repeatedly invoking the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. that was then and this is now. the journal reports that immunity grant leaves the government only able to charge patel using information obtained independently of his immunized testimony. so if he incriminates himself and testifying about the mar-a-lago documents scandal, he won't go to jail. if he does go to jail, it will be for other things. "the wall street journal" also reports that other trump associates also have been offered some form of immunity including one of mr. trump's lawyers, kristina bob who said she didn't need it. we don't know exactly what the justice department wants to ask kash patel or why they went to such lengths.

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explicit appeal to white resentment and racial animosity. plenty of campaign ads used racial resentment and fear but few have ever been as explicit in promoting the idea that white voters should see the world as a zero sum battle between white and nonwhite people, they should vote for candidates who will advocate for white people over nonwhite people. that was until this week when a group led by former trump adviser stephen miller started running this shocking new ad. >> when did racism against white people become okay? joe biden put white people last in line for covid relief funds, kamala harris said disaster aid should go to nonwhite citizens first. liberal politicians block access to medicine based on skin color. progressive corporations, airlines, universities, all openly discriminate against white americans. racism is always wrong. the left's anti-white bigotry

must stop. we're all entitled to equal treatment to in law. >> that is a real ad on the airwaves right noi in georgia. it's no the stephen miller's first racist ad or his only one. earlier this month another group run by miller painted an ad during a play-off game between the dodgers and san diego padres. that ad which has been removed from the group's social media channels warned viewers that a giant flood of illegal immigration is draining your paychecks, wrecking schools, ruining hospitals, threatening your family and mixed among the masses are drug dealers, sex traffickers and violent predators. this kind of overt racist trolling is what we have come to expect from stephen miller, the architect of some of the trump administration as most heinous and bigoted policies. but the ad isn't just for stephen miller or just for former members of the trump white house. what is shocking here is how much the ads fit with the republican party's closing arguments. since labor day republicans have

flooded the airwaves with ads about violent crime. many with message meant to scare white voters. they released images that darkened skin tones of black and brown candidates and now returning to the jesse helms playbook saying the quiet part out loud. saying they should be afraid. with just six days left until the election, where does this all end? joining us is adam pulty. thank you for being here. watching that jesse helms ad, i'm so distraught by how much worse we are now than we were even then. some of these ads that stephen miller and other republicans are running right now would never have been used even in a jesse helms campaign strategy.

i guess i wonder what do you think is happening to this country? there were decades there where it felt like we were moving past this or at least you couldn't have the explicitly racial ads on the air. now we're in dafrp place. how are we back in the 1980s, back in the 1960s, maybe back in the 1950s as far as race in this country? >> i actually don't think we're back that far. i mean, you know, jesse helms is a segregationist. he wasn't against racial quotas. he believed overtly in racist oppression of people who are not white. and that is what you see in those ads. but the legal situation is run decades ago. this is a pretty standard approach in recent years which is try to scare white people as much as possible so they vote gop. they want white voters walking into the voter booth thinking their going to be oppressed

because they're white. this is not that different from 2018 or 2020 when the mu grant vans pop-up and there is an invasion and people are going come in and they're all drug dealers and terrorists and going to kill everyone. this is what republicans do, have done every mid temperature for years now. and i think basically what happened was that, you know, barack obama got elected and that caused a reelection. and from that point on, republicans felt more comfortable being with overt expressions of bigotry because of the conservative opposition to barack obama. what trump did is tear the stigma off that. they started imitating his brand of overtly race ust plikdz. so now this is just room

temperature. >> the other part of this feels innovative on the party of republicans is this new claim about anti-white bigotry. which is twofold. one it is gas lighting, right? i'm not racist, you're racist. but also in sort of assuming the role of the oppressed, it renders the cry of racism almost meaningless. is that part of the thing here? they're trying to own them themselves? >> well, look that, is the standard playbook from the 1950s. that's what segregationists said in the 1950s. they were being oppressed because they were white. they were -- they felt like they were living in nazi germany because of the way the federal government was treating the rights of white people. there is a lot of literature on. this nobody want it to remember as being one of the people or descended from one of the people. the idea that civil rights that

racial equality was oppressive to white people is a line the segregationists pushed for years. it's not really new. it's a revival of a type of politics in the past that, you know, we may have told ourselves that, you know sh we have gotten past. we really haven't gotten past it. what they're doing is when they say anti-white bigotry, everybody should be treated equally. they don't believe that. stephen milner leaked e-mails, he opposed the repeal blocking nonwhite immigrants from coming to the united states as thing that ruined the country. he is in favor of overt discrimination against people that are not white just as jesse helms was. he wants to portray any kind of racial equality as a form of oppression against white people and hope that scares white people enough to be thinking of themselves as an oppressed class and therefore vote republican. >> and we're seeing this play

out not just in politics but the court. the supreme court found strong support within conserve tough members on the bench. we'll see how that plays out. the dismantling of democracy is a way of life. here we are. thank you as always for your time and thoughts tonight, adam. great to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. how. >> thank you >> we'll be right back nnot get . but there are ways you can repair it. i'm excited about pronamel repair because it penetrates deep into the tooth to help actively repair acid-weakened enamel. i recommend pronamel repair to my patients.

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remember this video? security guards at a trump tower and altercation with a group of demonstrators protesting donald trump's rhetoric about mexican immigrants as he began the came pain for president? the protesters sued trump and the company and the campaign and security guards saying that the head of security bashed one of the protesters in the head and disrupted their peaceful and lawful assembly. the case was in the middle of jury selection today when a lawyer for the group of protesters says donald trump reached a settlement with his clients. the matter was resolved on terms that they are very, very happy with. he said. the image is worth noting that considering in 2016 then candidate trump bragged in a primary debate he doesn't settle. referring to a class action lawsuit over trump university, trump said i don't do it because that's why i don't get sued very often because i don't

settle. he later settled that for $25 million. he filed a brand new lawsuit. this one filed in the state of florida against the attorney general of new york state. this suit comes a little over a month after james announced a civil suit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization. trump previously sued james and federal court in joshg but a judge threw it out. we'll see what happens with this one. we'll see what happens. "way too early" is coming up next. a pale to all americans regardless of party to meet this moment of national and generational importance.