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>> vivos for president of the united states are as follows. donastate of florida has received 312 votes. kamala d harris -- kamala d harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. >> when one side loses they do this. they certify the electoral vote, as is their duty. and quietly leave the stage. when the other side loses, they do something completely different, like this infamous scene from four years ago today .1 joined tonight by january 6th select committee chair benny thompson and retired capitol police officer harry

dunn. also tonight, it's one of the last remaining mysteries of january 6th. who planted the pipe bombs? the fbi is now stepping up its effort to find that domestic terrorist. but we begin tonight with january 6th, today's date, which is to hold an unremarkable place on the political calendar, the ceremonial day when every four years congress certify the foregoing presidential election. certification day remained unremarkable for 245 years, a mere formality. barely anyone noticed on till 2021, when donald trump, having been tossed out of the presidency by 81 million voters, following a failed first term that included 1 million covid deaths and a recession, refused to accept being fired by the american people, and instead embarrassed by having lost to joe biden,

lied to his enraged and disappointed supporters, telling them he hadn't lost at all, that the election had been stolen from him and from them by various phantoms, illegal immigrant voters, black and brown voters in swing state big cities, diabolical immigrants, the deep state, the voting machines themselves, and maybe even the ghost of hugo chavez. and with that big lie, trump summoned his most ardent supporters to the capitol. >> we are going to walk down to the capitol. ng to walk down to and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. because you'll never take back our country with week this. you have to show strings and you have to be strong, and we fight. we fights like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. >> get that [ bleep ] out of

your. take him out. >> i overheard the president say something to the effect of i don't effingham care that they have weapons. they're not here to hurt me. >> stop the steel! >> i couldn't believe my eyes. there were officers on the ground, you know, they were bleeding. they were throwing up. they had -- i mean i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in people's blood. >> and from that day on, after more than four hours of hell in which trump sat in the white

house watching on tv and throwing catchup at the wall, as mobs of his supporters sacked the capitol, injuring police officers, five of whom would wind up dead alongside multiple trump fans, one of whom got trampled by the mob and another shot by a police officer while trying to force her way into the speakers lounge where terrified congress members and young staffers were hiding. from that day on, this became the lasting memory and meaning of january 6th. this officer standing at the top of the stairs, tricking the mob into going left instead of right, where the congress members were hiding. this officer, who was trapped in a doorway, screaming for his life point these senators evacuating, fleeing for their lives including this missouri republican josh holly, who you see circled, who just hours before fleeing in terror, was throwing his fist up to the crowd like he was one of them.

these republican members cowering behind the house chamber door under the protection of a capitol police officer whose service they would later refuse to honor with votes in favor of congressional gold medals because they feared it would anger there trump the base. and these images of so-called qanon shaman and his fellow goons taking over the senate chamber, a highly restricted area to the public, including this guy, who brought zip ties, and this old man who ransacked then speaker nancy pelosi's office and then took a seat in her chair with his dirty feet up on her desk. this still on arrested person who left a pipe bomb outside the democratic and republican committee headquarters, and of course the noose, the insurrectionist brought with them to washington to hang vice president mike pence with, over

his refusal to commit a federal crime by pretending that trump's fake electors were real and that the real electors were invalid. >> bring out pens. >> bring them out. >> hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. >> this is january 6th. from that date forward, and pretending that this is no longer what today means is to put it lightly an insult to every cop that was injured that day, every terrified congressional staffer and member, every capitol worker who had to clean up the feces the trump mob smeared on the wall, and to every decent notion anyone ever had about this country. it's also a lie. it's a lie most republicans and

even some in the media want to tell you because it makes republicans feel better, and apparently making republicans feel better is really important. because while there elected officials hid in terror, with every single democrat, the party itself very quickly changed their mind, led by trump and their favorite billionaire news channel, rupert murdoch's fox. they created a new big lie that january 6th was just a normal tourist occasion and really not that big of a deal. will you know what, sorry, but it was a big deal. it was an insurrection, the first violent sacking of our capitol since the war of 1812. trump's second impeachment was literally for the incitement of an insurrection, and the idea of forgetting that, as if moving on and pretending there's no harm, no foul, and preparing to quietly reinstall the chief insurrectionist without comment is frankly a shameful idea. the fact that so few voters

found his actions disqualifying, the supreme court conservatives negation of the constitution's insurrection clause, so our shameless chief justice john roberts could clear the way for his reelection. all of it is, sorry, utterly shameful. today is not a day to commemorate. yes we got to do it, because that's what some of y'all voted for, or failed to vote and cleared the way for, but for god sakes, let's at least have the decency and dignity to be a little embarrassed. embarrassed for the most cynical of political parties, for their suppose it dear leader, for his billionaire bosses who paid to reinstall him, and for anyone who dismissed january 620 21 as not a deal maker for the man from whom the violence occurred to be president again. you do realize the rest of the world can see us, right? and 14 days from today you will hear many soberly laud the

peaceful transfer of power. i hate to be the fly at the picnic table but you can't peacefully transfer power to an insurrectionist simply because it took them an extra four years to finish the job. this will be violent transfer of power, the most violent in u.s. history, if we are being honest. joining me know is congressman bennie thompson of mississippi, former chair of the january 6th select committee and ranking member of the committee on homeland security. congressman, it is wonderful to see you and i wanted to give you an opportunity. you have just heard what i think about today and i would like for you to tell us how you feel on today. >> will obviously, what you saw today is how the process is supposed to work. the certification is a formality that's required. the vice president is supposed to preside and obviously the results are the results. well four years ago, that was not the case. former president trump invited people to come to washington

and told them it would be wild. and so, when that occurred, and a lot of us were involved in it, it became crystal clear that we have to fix this. so congress directed the formation of the january 6th select committee to look at the facts and circumstances, and for almost 2 years we did that. we produced a report. some people didn't like the report but joy, it stands for it self. know if those individuals who had a problem with it could've come forward during our work, they could've testified, but they had to do it under oath. after his who they are now, what they are saying has no significance whatsoever in our work product. so i can tell you what people saw with their own eyes really happened. i can tell you that donald trump made the inquiry for

people to come and i can tell you that the work of our committee stands on its own, and so, here we are, four years later, our democracy survived. part of that survival is a lot of us are committed, even in losing an election, to do it the right way. and so i said in the hall today, jamie raskin and myself, i said i'm wearing the tie that i wore four years ago when all this craziness occurred. but it's still the symbol of democracy. we have to go with it. it is a shame that donald trump is trying to rewrite history. it was a bad day. i don't care what he is saying. it's a lack mark on this country and what we have to do,

joy, is get it right, and getting it right is not retribution on the part of those people you don't like. this is a democracy and donald trump has to understand it's more than just who he is. we are a nation of laws. this is not a nation of what one thinks. and so as a black man from mississippi, i understand when government is used against its own people. it took my united states government to free people who look like bennie thompson, they had the right to vote. i look for my government to do what's right, not what people think should be. so donald trump has to grow up. he has to be the adult. he's the commander in chief and he needs to move in that direction. >> congressman, i have to say, vice president harris, she released a statement this morning about the peaceful transfer of power. let me just play a little bit

of that for you, please. >> today was obviously a very important day and it was all about what should be the norm and what the american people should be able to take for granted, which is that one of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. and today american democracy stood. >> this was the way that at least one republican's spouse reacted to the senator, to the vice president of the united states on friday when she swore in deb fischer of nebraska. it appears that the husband of this united states senator will not even shake hands with the vice president of the united states and i think what that shows, congressman, is that there is not an equal reverence

for our democracy in both of these two parties. and democrats lose an election they certify the election. when republicans lose an election they lie about the results, claiming they didn't lose at all, either litigate or literally ransack the capitol to try to force the loser to be the winner. they do not accept or believe in democracy, and now, as a party, on the day after the insurrection, during the day of the insurrection, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, lindsey graham all acknowledged what they saw. they all wiped the memories clean and are pretending it didn't happen, sir. how can we say we have a democracy when only one party believes in the people peaceful transfer of power? it's only people when republicans win. >> well that's so unfortunate. our democracy is supposed to survive based on people settling their differences at the ballot box. even when those differences are settled, the party, if they are republican, even if they win they are still acting uncouth. what that senator did, she

ought to be embarrassed. if she has children, they ought to be embarrassed. obviously vice president harris was the adult in the room. she did it the right way. sheet conducted the certification process today the right way, just like mike pence tried to do four years ago, but the losers wouldn't have it. so as i say, we are better than this and i'm so -- you know when the president of the united states wants to inflict retribution on people in this country, we are in serious jeopardy of not being that democracy, that beacon on the hill. we have to look at this, this guy is -- he's not that crazy uncle. he's the president of the united states and we have two

believe what he is saying. >> i would argue, sir, that i think a lot of people feel that he should be ineligible to be president of the united states based on the 14th lemon and article three, which john roberts nullified for him specifically. but i think you because you are truly beacon for democracy, the recipient of the president of citizens medal, the great congressman from the great state of mississippi, congressman bennie thompson who led the january 6th committee. thanks, we appreciate you and your service to this country. coming up, more on the solemn anniversary. thank you. coming up, more on the solemn anniversary of jen reese offend what police officers went through that date with former capitol police officer harry dunn. don't go away.

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one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, you hear that, guys 2 this [ bleep ] voted for joe biden. than the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in screaming, boo, [ bleep ]. no one had ever, ever called me a [ bleep ] while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. >> harry dunn was one of the many police officers who risked their lives defending the capitol as it came under siege by a violent mob who were four donald trump four years ago today. 140 of his fellow officers were injured, beaten, bear sprayed,

crushed. five later died. in the year, while many republicans have tried to rewrite or downplay what happened on january 6th, 2021, officer dunn is still speaking out to make sure people never forget, even as trump is promising to pardon some of the very people who participated in that attack when he takes office in two weeks, and harry dunn joins me now. it is so good to see you, harry dunn. i want to give you an opportunity to reflect on today and also on the fact that you already got people who are behind bars for that attack, looking for pardons, including henrique tarrio, the head of the proud boys, and others. what do you make of today and these requests for pardon? >> joy, good to be with you. happy new year. this is four years in the making. this isn't anything new to us, although this one feels a little bit different because the person who was responsible for january 6th, 2021, is going

back to the white house. it seems from the footage today on the house floor, there was jubilation, there were people taking selfies with j.d. vance. there was a lot of fist pumping. there was a lot of celebration. contrast that with four years ago. people were hiding under chairs, with gas mask on. they were cowering, republicans and democrats, and rightfully so. so just this year contrast of what it was four years ago and also i've got to acknowledge, everybody says that number, 140 officers were injured. those are the ones who just reported their injuries. there were many more officers that day who were injured, who just came back to work and just rub some dirt on their injuries and just went back to work. but there were numerous, numerous officers who were injured that they and to go back

to the fact about pardons, the people who are sitting in jail aren't the grandmas that are pro-trump walking around the capitol. they are not sitting in jail. the people that were trespassing in the capitol, they are not in jail. they got find. they got probation. the people that are in jail were some of the most violent offenders of that day, the people who beat police officers, who savagely attacked police officers, the people who plotted to overthrow and stop the certification of the election. those are the people that are in jail right now. it's not the grandmas or the people that were peacefully protesting. there were people there that were peacefully protesting but they were in our way and they didn't help us do our job to clear out the capitol where they weren't supposed to be, but they are not hostages and the people, they don't deserve hardens. you did your crime. you do your time. >> johnson, who is going to be the senate majority leader, was asked by kristen welker what message it would send if these pardons happen. this is what he said. >> what message do you think it

would send to give pardons to people who pleaded guilty to attacking police officers, who stormed this building four years ago? >> again, that's ultimately going to be a decision that the president of the united states, the pardon authority exist with him. that's four years ago. i think the american people are living in the present and they want the work we are doing to be done with an eye toward what we can do to improve their lives today. >> he is blowing off the idea of these pardons what he's talking about, what he's blowing off is potentially the person who tried to kill you, who called you the n word, somebody was violent toward you showing up at walmart while you are in line, walking around with you in the neighborhood grocery store, someone who tried to bear spray and kill officers literally being back in the neighborhood, armed with a pardon and immunity, and impunity. he thinks that's no big deal. what you make of that? republicans also didn't want to

give you the metal. >> it's two points, i'm glad that you played that because the two points that stand out right now, johnson is in the leadership in the senate, republican senate. he has potential with them. he has u.s. capitol police officers that sit at his house, drive him home, but drive him to work, that are on his body almost 24 hours a day. so for him to say that while he is surrounded by capitol police officers, someone who may have been at the capitol on january 6th is kind of rich and also, secondly, when he talks about we want to move on, how about you tell that to your president- elect donald trump? i would love nothing more than to move on from january 6th but donald trump keeps bringing it up at every single turn. donald trump has get to accept accountability. he's going to go to his last breath saying that he was right about jen reese sixth. he wants to tell democrats and burials to move on.

how about you tell donald trump to move on? how do we start that? by accepting account ability for what happened that day. until that happens, you are right. we can't move on. >> you're absolutely right and we can't have a democracy when only one party accepts it when they lose elections. it is very clear that republicans have decided, when they lose elections, they don't have to accept it. they can also be violent to try to overturn the election and we are all supposed to pretend it didn't happen, and think it's okay. it's not okay. harry dunn, thank you for your great work. >> if i may, they accepted what happened on january 6th was wrong. they showed a montage of lindsey graham and kevin mccarthy and marco rubio. they were done. they were finished. they were disgusted with what happened on january 6th. donald trump got to them and his political career was on the line so it was beneficial for them to go along with donald trump's agenda. >> there you go. and we have that montage and we have time to play it later in the show. harry dunn, much appreciated, we'll be right back. right bac.

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that year. the story of what happened in wilmington was rewritten in real time as a start quote race riot aided and abetted by the media. the perpetrators blamed wilmington's prosperous black community for the disturbance, when in reality, the white supremacist massacre on november 10, 1898, was the first successful coup in american history. there was nearly a second one on january 6th, 2021, when a mob laid siege to the u.s. capitol. the man who instigated it, donald trump, got away with it without any accountability. and just like the wilmington coup of 1898, the perpetrators are rewriting the story of january 6th as a nice tourist visit and claiming that those jailed are political prisoners, just as a traitorous secession and bloody civil war became the lost cause of the confederacy,

they became just little defendants of states rights. as the daughters of the confederacy took over textbooks and build monuments to soldiers who committed literal treason. the rewriting of insurrection is at this point an american tradition. the difference with january 6th as it happened live on television so don't let our modern-day conservatives, who now ironically call themselves republicans, after the very antislavery party overthrown in wilmington, and who were victorious in the civil war, don't let the usurpers of that grand old party name lie to you about what you saw with your very own eyes. joining me now on this moral monday is bishop william barber, president of repairing the breach and founding director of the center for public theology and public policy at yale divinity school. lying is a sin in the bible, bishop barber, and yet you have an entire party line about this insurrection, just as they did about the wilmington insurrection. your thoughts? >> line is one of the seven worst sins and lying is deeply wrong.

you know you think about wilmington and what happened there. the reconstruction movement was going on prior to that. the reconstruction is voting rights, labor rights and public education and a multiracial politics, black and white were joining together and taking over statehouses. the redemption movement comes along, since we got to take america back. not make it great, we've got to take it back to white rule. they despised equal rights. they despised voting rights. they despised public education. they despised labor rights and they despised the civil rights of 1875, which pretty much made discrimination a federal violation. so what they did was they wanted to undermine this multiracial coalition and they stacked the supreme court. they overthrew the 1875 voting rights act and then a guy by the name of fern hall simmons, came up with this idea of recruiting. he got with a multimedia media

magnate named joe and he put him together with conservative extremist religion. i want you to hear that. it was the media. it was a political operative and it was extreme religious activist who said, what we're going to do on november 10th, we're going to bring a gatling gun into wilmington. we are going to overthrew duly elected people who have been elect, white and black. we will kill the black split run the whites out of town and we will also destroy the media, destroy the media, and they will use the newspaper at the time, josephus daniels and the media, to say that this was just a reaction. it took years before it was ever even reported in our newspapers, probably, and it took 90 years, joy, to replace an african-american in the united states congress from north carolina as a result of

that. >> and the fact that we literally reran that same playbook on jen reese sixth, 2021, it was the reaction to a multiracial coalition that wanted joe biden and wanted to get rid of donald trump, and republicans who are the conservatives of today but very unlikely republicans of the black and tan movement, decided they, too, wanted to throw a coup. they didn't accept the results of the election. what shocked me and is disappointing is that even republicans who knew better that date, i don't know if we have time, let's play lindsey graham at all, the way they were speaking about it that day. okay. we don't have it. lindsey graham to kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell on january 6th, 2021, knew it was wrong and set it on tv. the fact that their political party and they themselves decided to wipe their own memories clean, what does that say about that party and a country that we still went ahead and allowed donald trump

to run for office and go right back into the presidency? >> it says we have a terrible problem historically with not only did you have the wilmington riots of 1898, then you had the springfield rights, you had plessy versus ferguson that happened in the supreme court in 1896 and then you had woodrow wilson allowing black people to get some of them to vote for him and once he got in office in 1914, he rolled back federal legislation on immigration. he played birth of a nation, that lauded the clan and said the black leaders doing reconstruction were bad for the country and were like vampires sucking the blood out of our politics and our economy. what we are seeing is not un- american. it is in fact upon the american story and then when you get to the 1960s it happens again when dr. king is organizing poor black, poor white folk and poor black folk into the coalition

that the racist oligarchies always feared, they come up with another plan called the southern strategy and said the goal would be positive seshan, intentional division of the country to ensure that black and white and brown, poor, low- wage folks do not vote together and they said if we get caught we denied. we will actually say we were not involved in this and kevin phillips and dent and buchanan got together and said if we do this right we control the politics of this country for the next 50 or 60 years. >> the more things change, the more they stay the same, unfortunately. bishop william barber, it is always a pleasure. thank you very much, and coming up, we learned because we try to remember history around here, y'all. coming up today, maybe four years since jen reese sixth 2021 but it's also four years since the suspects placed pipe bombs near the dnc and rnc headquarters and authorities still haven't caught the person who did it. we'll dive into that next. that.

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right now president joe biden and first lady jill biden are in new orleans in the wake of a new year's day vehicular terrorist attack on bourbon street attending a prayer service hosted by the archdiocese of new orleans to mourn the loss of the 14 victims who were killed. but that was not the only incident that happened over those 24 hours. we investigated

it as a possible act of terrorism. in las vegas matthew livelsberger, a member of the army elite special forces, blew himself up inside a tesla cybertruck near the entrance of the trump international hotel on new year's day. it turned out we know a lot more about his motivations as well as his political leanings than we originally read in the papers and talking points memo reported over the weekend authorities released notes written by the truck bomber in which he wrote, quote, this was not a terrorist attack. it was a wake-up call. americans only pay attention to spectacle and violence. in another letter, littles berger used the popular racist insult for black success when referring to vice president kamala harris. he wrote, quote, stop obsessing over diversity. we are all diverse and eei is a cancer. thankful for the thankfully we rejected that the ei candidate. he called for the removal of democrats from the fed

government military, peacefully if possible, or by any means necessary. in another letter he wrote that, quote, masculinity is good and men must be leaders, adding that people should rally around trump and elon musk. signs of politicized violence matter because we are weeks away from potentially scores of pro-trump january 6th insurrectionist released from prison with brand-new pardons and if they are members of the oath keepers were the proud boys, extremist groups, they likely have military backgrounds and revelations like what we got about the vegas truck bomber's views may seem like something from a bygone era once the fbi is in the hands of trump's people like kash patel, who may not be so eager to share. the pre-trump fbi, meanwhile, has new updates about the pipe bomber who placed explosive devices on january 5th, 2021, near the republican and democratic national committee headquarters in washington, d.c. this is previously unreleased video of the suspect placing one of the pipe bombs

outside the dnc around 7:54 p.m. and here is new video showing the suspect walking between the rnc and the capitol hill club. after all this time, we still know almost nothing else about this really scary incident that preceded the january 6th insurrection. joining me now is hunter walker, investigative reporter for talking points memo. good to see you. do you have a sense as a journalist as to why we seem to know so little about this investigation, and is it that authorities know so little or they are just not releasing it? >> first off, i think of the attempted capitol bombing is almost a microcosm of the broader january 6th story. just because there is so much of a lack of accountability, after this major, and as you say, extremely scary incident happened sort of in conjunction, the night before that dark day, the updates they've released now basically made clear that at this point they are hoping from a tip from

the public to solve this case. i get the impression, in part because this latest update came with the admission that the reason they haven't released a complete accounting of the suspect's route between the two party headquarters is in part because they, quote, stop quote lost video coverage at one point. when i see admissions like that, i see appeals to the public so long after the fact, i think they are just struggling to close this case and it seems like it's at a juncture where, barring public intervention, we will not get answers. >> i feel like we had less video of luigi mangione and they caught him really fast, in another state. there was this intense determination to catch this man who allegedly shot a ceo but when it comes to this, which as you said, this was four years ago, this was one of the most frightening incidents we've seen in dc, you get a sense the fbi wasn't really trying. where were these requests for

the public to help out back then? >> i've been reporting on january 6th, really since the day it was happening. i was there that day and in conjunction with it i have changed the story of the capitol pipe bombs as one of the biggest lingering mysteries from that date and you're absolutely right to bring up luigi mangione because i couldn't help but think of the contrast here when in the hours after that shooting we had such a detailed accounting of luigi's movements. they ultimately got that sort of needle in the haystack footage of that one moment he took his mask down and it really underscored just how much less we have on the capitol pipe bomb case. when i was saying we don't have a complete record of the suspect's movements, there seems to be no information about how the suspect arrived in the capitol hill neighborhood or how they left. there's also, you know, i think the director of the fbi who is involved in the field office leading this investigation has

said that they had difficulties and one of them is that it's hard to recognize a masked suspect so they clearly don't have that kind of image that we saw of luigi mangione when his face was available. and what i find so interesting about that is this isn't your typical neighborhood. i strolled the route of the suspect. i've knocked on many of the doors. the fbi has done thousands of interviews and on thousands of hours of work on the case and this area is sort of the heart of official washington. these blocks are aligned with lobbying headquarters. multiple current and former members of congress live there. there something that's called the quote/unquote exxon embassy and in one case, one of these blocks the suspect traversed is literally one block away from the capitol. it opens right onto a police check point and in spite of that, we don't have complete footage and we don't have answers but as you know, the

nypd net over manhattan island seems to be much more thorough. so that's another one of the reasons that i think of this as a bit of a microcosm of the slow rolling disaster that has been january 6th because in addition to the lack of accountability, i think it exposes some of the fallibility of our institutions and law enforcement right in the heart of washington. >> absolutely. and then there's the politics. we haven't even gotten into that because what do the politics look like when it's the trump fbi that has no interest in investigating anything real regarding january 6th and that is still interested in attempting to prove something that isn't true, that donald trump somehow won the election. i do not look forward to that period but i'm sure that you will stay on this story, dr.

walker, when we come back. thank you very much. before the break, over the weekend president biden awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom, to 19 people. the group included politicians, athletes, actors, scientists and cultural icons. on them, former secretary of state hillary clinton, u2 singer bono, humanitarian chef jose andres as well as environmental advocates and educators jane goodall and bill nye the science guy. and posthumously, civil rights icon fanny lou hammer. of course there was one recipient who really triggered the right wing billionaire philanthropist george soros, the leading bogeyman for right wing haters and conspiracy theories for daring to donate to causes that support scary ideas like democracy, decency, and god forbid, immigration. stay mad, haters. up next, trump yet again asked the judge to hold his health money sentencing scheduled for this friday, and late today judge merchan responded. we'll be right back. right bac. iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better. six digestive symptoms. the power of nature. iberogast.

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place of origin, or religious preference. the love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our american veins. donald trump is throwing another temper tantrum. i know, i know, what a surprise. he's trying to have his lawyer blocked friday's scheduled sentencing for his 34 count felony conviction in his new york hush money trial. the only one of the four criminal cases trump faced last year that made it to a jury. first they made the case to judge one merchan yesterday claiming that until trump's appeal involving the supreme court's presidential immunity

ruling will be resolved, he cannot face sentencing. in just the last few hours judge merchan denied the request, calling it argument and repetition of those they have already made unsuccessfully in the past. trump has not hidden his disdain for merchan whining online over the weekend again about the loan judge who is not allowed him to evade carnal accountability and from's legal team has already filed its petition with the new york appellate court seeking to go over judge merchan's head and again tried to delay the sentencing until after his inauguration, when he will become untouchable. now remember, judge merchan indicated last week that he would be giving frump essentially a slap on the wrist with no jail time, probation, fine, or any other real punishment which he would serve and would instead simply affirmed the jury's verdict and let the felony conviction stand. mind you, it's unlikely that any other defendant found guilty of such crimes would get that sort of light treatment but of course that's not enough for trump, who clearly believes he's supposed to get away with everything, civil or criminal. sentencing means he will forever wear the label, convicted felon. the first u.s. president to hold that dubious title. it may also -- it must also

burn the donald that it's his home state of new york that's the one place, state or federal, where he could not escape accountability and that the case is about his actions to cover up the salacious facts about him allegedly sleeping with and paying off a train 40 actors and a playboy model so he could become president in the first place after the leak of the access hollywood tape. now it's in the hands of the new york appellate court to decide whether accountability will finally be served and that is tonight's reid out. >> okay. i'm not going to lie. it's been a little bit of a day here in washington. we are in the middle of a huge snowstorm. schools are closed. the roads are pretty empty out there and yet