since election day, donald trump has left the work of the presidency to joe biden while donald trump has golfed and conned people out of more money and more money in contributions to his mythical challenge to the election result, which he continues to use as his latest money-raising gimmick, including a fund-raising email sent first thing this morning with the subject line, "i'm not giving up." donald trump gave up working on a covid relief bill that congress passed last week. and then after the bill was passed by the house and the senate and sent to the president, only then did donald trump decide he didn't like something in the bill, he wanted to change the $600 payments in the bill, raise those to $2,000 payments, which democrats immediately agreed to. a way for a president to achieve a goal like that is to veto the bill providing the $600 payment and demand congress send a new one with the $2,000 payment. instead, trump signed the bill, but he delayed his signing of the bill long enough to interrupt unemployment payments to people all over the country who will lose a week of unem

i want to get your vision of donald trump next year, donald trump january 21st. is he still trying to control the operations of the united states senate? and then what happens eventually when or i should say if, if he becomes a criminal defendant in the state of new york? >> i think part of that depends a lot on what happens on january 5th in georgia honestly. i think that the silence of republicans in congress as donald continues to commit sedition on a practically daily basis is unforgivable. however, from a tactical point of view i'm pretty sure it is because mitch mcconnell believes he needs to keep donald's base riled up in order to increase republican turnout in georgia. so the question -- one big question i think is how much use is the republican party going to continue to get out of donald. post-inauguration what should happen, because this is what usually happens, is that the outgoing president decreases in relevance, is no longer the center of the show, and that's what should happen now but it depends on us. donald at that point is going to be even more

and neither can donald trump.dent may be considering pardons for himself, his pals and his family members, those pardons don't provide protections against any charges at the state or local level. and there's a lot of reporting to suggest that significant legal trouble awaits trump once he's out of office and no longer immune from prosecution. joining our conversation, david k. johnson, a tax expert, a pulitzer prize-winning investigator reporter and author of "the making of donald trump." andrew weissmann is still with us. i want to understand what you both think donald trump understands. you first, david, about his exposure in these new york investigations. >> oh, donald knows very well, nicolle, that he is likely to be indicted on business insurance banking and tax fraud by the state of new york. and let's remember, he has been tried twice, civilly, for tax fraud and lost both cases and he was shown in one of those cases to be a forger. donald knows that these are very dangerous cases for him but there's nothing

i'm referring to conviction of donald trump's long-time lawyer michael cohen for providing donald trump's payments in exchange for the silence of stormy daniels. remember, cohen went to jail for that crime, among others. federal prosecutors said it was all to benefit trump and i can tell you we have a very relevant guest for this discussion. a man who would be a key witness in any such case, michael cohen himself. cohen was convicted for his work on behalf of individual one, donald trump. and if trump was a knowing party to that crime, legally, he could still face potential prosecution, i mean, technically, he could, because the deadline has not yet run for that kind of campaign finance violation. now, you may recall this whole case, it began with a secret. donald trump paying daniels to hide their encounters which date back to 2006. and the legal problems came when trump and cohen acted around the 2016 election. and there's stronger evidence here than in most stories. that is to say, if you're talking to people about, oh, should trump be charged or not, in some of those stories or cases,

donald trump is the loser. loser.ca, but that would be insulting to childish gambino. was that a low-key reference to drake's "over"? >> for trump, yes, it's over. >> makes me think of dr. dre's the chronic. >> the truth hurts it. >> let me say it the way biggie smalls would say it, even when i was wrong, i got my point across. >> when the ladies run this, yes, we do. >> isn't that why drake says no new friends? wasn't it pusha t who said i believe there is a god above me, i'm just the god of everything else? >> uh-huh. >> why don't we see if we have michael steele. i'm dialing for guests. >> i was hoping for joy reid. but go ahead. >> this is a disaster. >> whenever i see a hurricane and 125-mile-per-hour wind, hang onto a pole. >> you do have a nice head of hair. >> it's the only thing democrats and republicans can agree on. >> do you have time, though, for a bad, passover joke? >> do you have a favorite economist joke? >> you know the rapper 50 cent, right? given recent inflation, his name is now 64 cent. >> oh. >>

>> donald trump was complicit in this conduct. he should face liability for the conduct. >> the weight of evidence will get great e but it's so overwhelming now. >> you think it's nefarious. >> it's a campaign violation, this is the finding of the prosecutors, directing his lawyer to pay hush money to corrupt an american election. >> was the nation"national enqu acting as the arm of donald trump and michael cohen, and is there something wrong with that. >> we strongly suspect those were. >> those parties said they had lots of proof. mr. avenatti who you just saw there, he initially forced a lot of this into the public square but was indicted on other unrelated crimes for which he awaits trial. in fairness, there are other legal reasons why this kind of case against donald trump might not hold out if pursued. take the relatively exampleov o edwards, charged on a similar theory but he avoided conviction making the argument that whatever bad things he did, the goal was not violating the campaign finance laws. he was acquitted. the ru

trump and donald trump.tined to be paralysed with division? chris, in new york, welcome to heart talk. —— acro one. donald trump has not yet conceded and is your newsmax network not prepared to acknowledgejoe biden did win the election, he is the president—elect? biden did win the election, he is the president-elect? yes. and it has been our consistent statement all along on election night when the president was in a very close contest in six states where it is 1% or less, two of the states were half percent in georgia was a quarter of a percent, we said that we should allow the president to contest these legally through recount some of the challenges and he has been doing that and we would accept the state certifications in each case to declare the winner because the race was so close and most of the media did this backin and most of the media did this back in the 2000 elections with al gore and theyjust decided they wanted to anointjoe biden and and we have been we have been sticking with the fa cts we hav

we begin what may lie ahead for donald trump in 2021. what legal exposure he'll face after he leaves office in january. this is our special report on the criminal, legal exposure that potentially faces donald trump when he leaves office. most presidents depart with less pressing concerns. they're focussed on their memoirs, the presidential libraries. very few actually leave with this active talk about potential prosecution. that was the case for nixon who cut off the real risk of potential federal prosecution by engineering the pardon from his successor. now you have donald trump stoking some similar intrigue by talking up the more extreme measure of trying to pardon himself. now, why does donald trump even think he needs a federal pardon? only he knows. to be as fair as possible, the evidence suggests it would not be for russian collusion for example because after all the scrutiny on that issue the mueller probe did not conclude that donald trump criminally conspired with russia. a self-pardon wouldn't address any state issues in new yo

donald trump did not start this raises him. i never got a bad appraisal until 1980 when reagan came up, and we have a standard -- when , mymiss four times immediate supervisor told me the area man was trying to get me fired you read what happened was , it has been there the whole time. whohave millions of people voted for trump. i'm going to tell you all something. you just have something that ,appened in nashville tennessee. 1991.ired me in this is the day, the twice six of december is when they fired me. my mother was terminally ill. the contract you could go take care of your parents. she was on the ventilator. the supervisor, a white supervisor told me, i don't care if your mother is dying, i have a business to run. she was the area manager for at&t, but they fired me on this day, the twice at of december. this is what they gave me. at my supervisor came to me and said, they are trying to fire you, but i told this lady that i can't do that to you. you are the best man i got in my production work was above. seems to be havin

donald trump was also very late to this. whether that's because his heart wasn't fully in it and it's only a scam and a fund-raising mechanism or if it's because he's just disorganized, a closer election and someone willing to plan this way earlier, you might have had a much bigger constitutional crisis, which i think people need to keep in mind as they make up their own minds about what we want to do coming out of this era. appreciate both of you kicking off the coverage tonight. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> thank you both. >> when we return in just 30 seconds, we get into this year of reckoning on justice, a special report on how our culture and music have gotten us through tough times. that's in tonight's program. >>> also, trump insiders speaking out, a former aide saying the white house has turned into a total, quote, crazy town. but first, michael cohen, live. back on "the beat" on trump's pardons in 30 seconds. [lea] i'm a retired art teacher. [steve] we met online about 10 years ago. as i got older, my hearing wa

your views, donald?> the first thing we have to stop and say because it's very important is that it's very significant that bill barr has said this because this is the last thing i think he wanted to have to say. as your lead in has shown, he engaged in numerous efforts over the last two years really to do everything he could to make donald trump an auto cratic president to make things under handed and inappropriate to get donald trump reelected. for him to go out and say i think what he has reason to know because one of the things he did just before the election just before the election was to invite his prosecutors, his 93 u.s. attorneys to have their ears open, a policy that's not the way the department historically has worked but they were supposed to pay attention to evidence of major fraud and so for him to now come forward having done everything he could for donald trump and state what is factually true is something his trump supporters should take to heart. that's the most important thing about t

it is a marked contrast from donald trump's cabinet.very tiring step. >> both from vice president to supreme court to cabinet positions to every major position in the white house. >> a lot of voters say they are going to hold him to it. we will keep reporting on the facts so you know the score. we will be back with one more update. e update how did you find great-grandma's recipe? we're related to them? we're portuguese? i thought we were hungarian? grandpa, can you tell me the story again? behind every question is a story waiting to be discovered. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't repla

they made a lot of money on donald trump and covering donald trump from a negative perspective.eople that profited big—time by being very critical of the president. right now, i'm really focused on you and your news network, and i am mindful that... i get that. ..while the election was unfolding and the post—election was unfolding, america was also grappling with a terrible, terrible crisis, the coronavirus crisis — the death toll now beyond 300,000. i'm also looking at the way you've covered that. while you're prioritising trump's fight against the election result, you're also, in terms of the presenters and their opinions on your network, suggesting that there is something very strange about coronavirus. two of your presenters have called it a "scamdemic", and have explicitly linked it to a democratic plan to rig the election. again, i ask you, when you hear that on your own network, do you intervene and tell them to stop? can you give me the specifics? because this is — anybody that watches our network knows that's not the editorial point of view of our... if some individual

it was live by donald trump. it will do all the damage and danger that the democratic senator, chris krebs and the washington post said it would. this seems to be the new battlefield for the disinformation stream being pumped into trump's voters. >> well, i think what you got was a taste of what's to come. how a former president trump will use the other media outlets, one maybe he builds himself, to stage this type of narrative. look, the reality is very stark and america needs to get a grip on this, especially our press needs to get a grip on this. donald trump will run a side-by-side presidential campaign against the biden administration. he will, you know, create sort of an off the book white house, if you will, if he can using rallies, using own, using whatever networks he can sucker in to carrying the coverage that he wants to get and keep himself in front of the american public. when you have united states senators playing to this particular narrative by, you know, assisting and setting up these type of sto

donald trump lost this election. why do we hear five minutes after it's made official by california about bill barr? the president is trying to step on the headline, frankly, and that's significant too but in the context of the day's big news, that's a distraction compared to what really happened which is that yet again donald trump lost this election. i don't know how many times he wants to lose it but he lost it again today. >> right, the battering ram of the losses including that supreme court dismissal which was just as embarrassing and complete a rejection as you can get friday really underscores what's going on and it's a reminder, professor murray, of how the alternate reality of trumpism may try to persist far longer than january 20th. here was stephen miller who is one of the longest serving white house aides to this president. take a look. >> as we speak today an ultimate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to congress. this will ensure that al

this is donald trump's party.he future of donald trump's party, the gop, tina nguyen is a white house reporter at politico where she covers maga world. jennifer is it a former chair of the new hampshire party who announced this month she's leaving the party over gop efforts to overturn the election result. tia, let me start with you. is it donald trump's party as matt gaetz says? it sure looks like it from where i'm sitting. >> it's a strange situation because you can't quite tell where the party ends and where donald trump's supporters begin. while you have members who are 100% republicans and pro democrat, you have a giant section of republicans who are saying, okay, we maybe need to move on and just deal with the biden presidency. let's certify the results in congress next week and say, okay, biden won because here are the votes. or they can indulge in a fantasy and say that donald trump isn't going to leave the white house and what we can do is somehow manipulate the rules of congress to do so. and that's wher

because donald trump said so.stand that the gop itself has become an autocracy, it becomes easy to understand a lot of what is going on. an autocratic gop all in on donald trump's attempt to wreck our democracy is where we start this hour with our most favorite friends. former rnc chairman michael steele is here, also joining us former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. michael steele, i know we're ten train stops past the prize, but where is the condemnation from anyone who wants to continue to say that they govern in a democracy. >> well, they're not governing in this democracy. they haven't been governing for a while now. they've ceded that. you're talking about a party that has no ideology morings that couldn't sit in a room to come up with a platform to decide and define for the country who we would be and what we would say to the country in this most previous election cycle. so, the realities are one of, you know, as the secretary of state said, what does donald trump want us to do, the only question we

now we have the statement from donald trump and imight add, statement from donald trump and i might addl barr says any time when the country is so deeply divided its incumbent on all levels of government, all agencies acting within their purview to do all we can to ensure the integrity of elections and promote public confidence in the outcome. giving a little bit of leeway to the president and his claims but not going that extra mile donald trump wants to confirm allegations of voter fraud. results from electoral colleges in all but one us state giving him, joe biden has won the state—by—state electoral college vote that formally determines the us presidency, coinciding with the us recording it's 300,000 corona death. the number was just after the first vaccine was administered to a citizen. sandra lindsay — an intensive care nurse in new york — got herjab on camera in an effort to help boost public confidence in the vaccine. she said she hoped this was the beginning of the end of a long, painful period. nick bryant reports. this was a made for television moment staged in new york, the

putting against donald trump then said the want to vote against donald trump but i don't want to send my party at your company and message so i will the senator in texas and go down the ballot and vote for a republican texas house members and karen is right because in texas democrats thought they had a chance to take control of the texas house for the first time since 2001 and on the state wide race on the strength of biden that he can in texas and it didn't happen because they try get trump out of office but the state on - - the same time it like a congressman and republican senators. perhaps some of that went on. >>. >> looking at the numbers for both we surprised at these record turnouts? >> and he said 81 million people would vote i thought it would be both sides not just for one candidate. 155million people voting i think in the last election increase was surprising to me away i expected more people were over trump and more for biden but not with the increase. people wanted to vote. and briefly to address the other question you just asked , one of the things you saw with a split

donald trump's bid to overturn the u.s. presidential election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud william bar told the associated press that the justice department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome president elect joe biden big trial 53062232 votes in the electoral college by more than 6000000 in the popular vote. i spoke to a white house correspondent alan fischer alum is or perhaps was one of donald trump's biggest supporters and he was at the white house today might we expect this to impact his future. well let's be honest we've all been watching the twitter feed of donald trump for the last couple of hours expect him to announce that bilbo has been fired because we know that a couple of weeks ago when the head of this cyber security election unit said this was the most secure election in american history which went against what donald trump has been saying for days he end

and speaking of donald trump.uct, not just over the last four years but over the last 40 days. why aren't there nor republicans screaming at the top of their lungs that he's doing damage to our democracy. >> i think all of the folks make their own decisions and i can't read minds. i could just tell you that i felt and i know you heard this and others on election night, when he gave his speech at 2:30 in the morning, what he was saying was wrong. and that if you're going to accuse the election of being fraudulent, at the moment you do that, as president of the united states, you have an obligation to present the evidence that backs up your statement. and we're now sitting here on the 22nd of december, and we still haven't seen that evidence. and so that is wrong. i've been saying it since night and could say it publicly. and as for other republicans, they're all going to be held to account for what they do or don't do or say or don't say during this period of time over the long haul. and as you mentioned at the top

] >> [♪ ] >> qué pasará con los cheques tras la amenaza de veto del presidente de estados unidos, donalduete de ayuda pende de un hilo los demócratas abrazan la propuesta del presidente de estados unidos, donald trump de un cheque de dos mil dólares pero los republicanos están en silencio muy buenas tardes el portazo del presidente de estados unidos, donald trump agrega angustia a 12 millones de estadounidenses además este miércoles >> [♪ ] >> [♪ ] >> vacunas en méxico , llegan a méxico las primeras dosis de pfizer contra el coronavirus (covid-19) , los primeros que recibirán son los trabajadores de la salud después de más de 120 mil muertos un millón de dosis avanza el plan de vacunación en estados unidos mientras los hospitalizados y las muertes alcanzan niveles nunca antes visto el secretario de salud javier dice que la lucha contra el coronavirus (covid-19) será prioridad por el gobierno del presidente electo de estados unidos, joe biden , aglomeraciones por compras navideñas pero las ventas navideñas disminuyen un 40% en relación al año pasado >> noticias telemundo con josé díaz-bal

donald trump.ou had him trying to interfere from beginning to end and we're now when we're going to show this for you, you're now even going getting publications like the national review -- >> yeah. >> who called up the president a few times in the post election -- post election period. but just saying enough is enough. "the wall street journal" editorial page. even brought themselves to saying as much a week or two ago. so everybody knows the gig's up. but for some reason, republican senators and mitch mcconnell just can't let those words cross -- >> but talk about the height of needy. talking about while he's certificating on television like i must stop this and then having the guy not take his call publicly. that's in trump's mind, that's painful. as willie mentioned, the state's most hotly battleground states have now certificated the -- certified the election results. the state of arizona certified its election results yesterday. solidifying joe biden's win and clearing the way for mark kelly

donald trump planned to do that, donald trump thought it was in the bag. because he put three of those justices on the supreme court. today the united states supreme court refused to even consider, even hear or consider a case brought to invalidate millions of mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. donald trump was expecting his united states supreme court to issue an historic opinion invalidating pennsylvania's mail-in ballots and instead -- instead -- he got this. this piece of paper. i'm not sure if the light can show you this correctly, but it's this tiny little piece of print here. that's the whole thing. this is the supreme court's way of saying, you are out of your mind. it is an order from the supreme court. it does not have any justices' names attached as the authors of the order, which means it is a unanimous order of the united states supreme court. and it simply says the request to hear the case by the supreme court is denied. they don't even bother to give a reason for the denial because the case itself is so preposterous, so insulting to them, that

donald trump was nothing. he was just a guy he would make these boring speeches until he went on the view and made his comment about barack obama's birth certificate. he shot to the top of the polls precisely because of that. when you talk to trump man, they sayo a they hated barack obama so much that they were willing to attack him because of a lie. republicans were willing to support donald trump because he won the republican nomination based on that lie. republicans 90% of think donald trump is not a racist, but 85% of democrats do. we as a country do not care about facts, so long as partisan identity politics are part of the discussion. they cannot accept he is a racist. that is why you have people like paul ryan saying, yes, the man is a racist but at least he is not hillary clinton. at least he is not a democrat. host: all right, terrence. guest: that is something i have observed as well. i like paul ryan. i have written columns about some of his ideas. he's a thinking conservative. and not against compr

caos en washington, el presidente donald trump se niega a firmar el nuevo paquete de ayuda econÓmicoegisladores no se ponen de acuerdo sobre la asistencia directa que necesita millones de personas. muchos piensan que ya son legÍtimos. la mesa de gallo mÁs solitaria y ante pocos fieles y adelantada para respetar el toque de queda en italia. comenzamos. >> buenas tardes. millones de estadounidenses luchan por ponercomida en sus mesas, el presidente donald trump se ha negado a firmar el paquete de asistencia y los legisladores no se ponen de acuerdo sobre uno de los puntos mÁs controvertidos que es de la asistencia directa. exigen que se envÍen $2000 por persona, pero los republicanos solamente quiere que sean 600, desde washington nos amplÍan. >> el caos en el congreso continÚa, millones van a perder los beneficios desempleo, el presidente donald trump no afirma nuevo paquete de estÍmulo econÓmico. avanzar una legislaciÓn que aumentarÍa $2000 de los pagos directos como lo exigido el presidente donald trump. los demÓcratas querÍa que se aprobara la medida con consenso unÁnime, pero los

donald trump is not going to be the donald trump that we know, the powerful donald trump, the oz donaldin the next 18 months. watch. we're still in the final, final residue, the despicable residue of the last four years, but he will not be this larger than life character a year or two from now. >> i want to agree with you, and i just -- i know there's a lot of feeling, especially among viewers of our hour, that we should move on, and i think the newsworthiness of what he does in the final 50 days is here, the new administration is here, but i think you're right, when he's some two-bit talk show host on a podcast that no one can find in the apple store, then i'm sure you will right, we will not care. donnie, mara, wonderful to see both of you and mara, congrats on your run. >>> after a break, a scathing rebuke from a conservative stronghold. the latest review of donald trump's final days. the medicare enrollment deadline is monday, which means time is running out to pick a medicare plan. with so many changes, do you know if your plan is still the right fit? having the wrong plan may cost

[donald trump] yes! [newsreader] donald trump has also ventured into gambling. [charles bagli] wall street was willing to give him whatever he wanted. and as the new sheriff in town plotted the move that would launch him to stardom... giuliani cast himself as the law and order man of new york. [rudolph giuliani] this is a great day for law enforcement but this is a bad day, probably the worst, for the mafia. a ruthless young capo made a move of his own. one that would shake the mafia to its core. [woman] her son, who was fresh in the ground when she said "i will destroy you." [barbara res] he couldn't get out of his own way when it came to being cheap. [woman] one more complaint... i close you up. [woman] she was definitely a bitch and i don't mean that in a pejorative sense. these five titans would reshape the city and the world we live in today. and in 1983, nothing could stand in their way. [newsreader] what a year it's been for music. top of the charts this week is "every breath you take" by the police. [newsreader] boom times. that's what the numbers signal

and those closest to donald trump now departing. the attorney general over the weekend over the weekend he described as a deposed king ranting. he's not going to be imposed for much longer. this is really extraordinary timing to stop because the tweet from donald trump came almost within seconds of the california state assembly casting its electoral college votes. that putjoe biden over the top as far as this election is concerned. donald trump tweeting and i quote here, just had a very nice meeting with the attorney general bill barr at the attorney general bill barr at the white house, our relationship has been a very good run. i'll come onto that just a has been a very good run. i'll come onto thatjust a 2nd. he has done an outstanding job. he goes on to say the attorney general deputyjoe rosen will become acting attorney general. it is not been a good relationship at all. a toxic relationship at all. a toxic relationship between the two. magically after bill barr said that the justice department magically after bill barr said th

to me this is donald trump's big moment. republicans irritated at him and some republicans in georgia might not vote because he doesn't like -- they need donald trump to pull out georgia. if he does that he will go out on a winning note. whatever else happens on the other votes if he does that he will go out on a winning note. if he doesn't he will be blamed and the interesting thing in this race, the opposite of to bonemeal, all politics is local. all politics is nationally in these races. joe biden is a nonentity. john ossoff had fewer voters than joe biden. it will confirm he has no coattails as we saw in november. bret: senator josh holly from missouri signing onto this effort to challenge the election results. what does that mean big picture come january 6th? >> it means nothing in terms of joe biden being sworn in but it is the third issue we are talking about where republicans are forced to do something difficult in early january. republicans would rather avoid dealing with this issue. bret: when we come back a police

donald trump is confused. >> hmm.going back to the question of that the president raised whether the covid relief bill is doing enough tore americans. shared views. tulsi gabbard saying the bill leaves crumbs for those who need help most. alexandra ocasio ortiz, didn-co enough time to read the bill. >> what happened, white house kept saying no, not additional amounts for the stimulus. offered $500. we were able to get it up to $600 but hid the fact donald trump wanted $2,000. something going on in the white house hiding this information from congress. >> so you're saying that the white house was telling you something that did not reflect what the president wanted? or is it possible the white house was negotiating without consulting the president, and then just bringing him in at the end? do we know how that's been typical handled over the last four years? >> a great point. certainly possible secretary mnuchin we negotiated with was making stuff up. his views rather than the president's. we'll never know. at this point

let the report reflect that donald j.ved 29 electoral votes. >> they also just concluded in utah. watch this. >> announce -- six electoral votes for donald j. trump. >> utah's six electoral votes for president trump. also moments ago in new mexico, watch this. >> mr. chair, madam secretary, vice president, five votes for president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect kamala harris. thank you very much. >> thank you, madam secretary. we now have the certificate to vote. >>> new mexico and its five electoral votes. john, things are moving along very much as expected. >> they are very much as expected. it's interesting to go from state capitol to state capitol. some are formal, some more amateur video, but that's part of different states do different things. again, to the idea, as we watch this play out, this is a state that president trump won. let's come out of the electoral map for a minute. he won quite convincingly. as we go through the states, including the states president trump won, it's a reminder there's no wid

donald trump then turned the circular fir9 barr over a series of events that didn't meet donald trump's donald trump. but if you could -- what donald trump thinks bill barr signed up for and falling out of favor from among other things refusing to project the lie that donald trump has sold to 126 republican members of congress and millions of his own supporters that this election was somehow stolen from him. there was some reporting in "the new york times" about a week ago that bill barr was considering leaving. and then even this weekend some more reporting that he might want to go before the holidays to spend more time, i think the quote we just read from donald trump, celebrating christmas in a pandemic, i'm not sure what that looks like. maybe he makes the family eggnog. john meacham, my question to you, is it possible that there is conduct that has been projected in reporting in axy os, on the "the new york times" an the washington time about donald trump's attempt to pardon himself and his own personal attorney rudy giuliani, that bill barr just doesn't want to be around for? >> t

and donald trump is not going anywhere.ican party who will not be able to rebuild themselves without having to take him on, head on. they need to grow a backbone because whether it's now or a year from now the only way they're going to be able to re-establish the party is they're going to have to get in the ring and beat donald trump down and take him out of the political -- out of the discussion of legitimate policies. otherwise he's going to continue to side line them as a party and continue to embellish himself because he just can't help it. he needs the attention. >> rev, what are you bracing for in terms of his pardons which are expected to be plentiful? obviously anyone who needs a pardon is already in trouble with the law, but they're not expected to be the run of the mill kind of folks that were mistreated by the criminal justice system. what are you expecting? >> i'm expecting he's going to pardon those that have been loyal to him, that have paid homage to him, watch the attorney general in texas who has just went

president donald trump has signed into law a $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief package that would deliver money directly to businesses and individual taxpayers president retreated from his fret to veto the bill and from his demand that congress increase stimulus checks from $600.00 per adult to 2000 that's something democrats pushed for and his own democrats own republican party opposed the delay of almost a week meant that unemployment benefits lapsed for millions of people and threatened a government shutdown. go over to our correspondent in washington oliver going to have you with us this relief package has been a long time coming what is in it exactly and for whom. so we're talking about a more than 2 trillion dollar. u.s. dollar relief package william $900000000000.00 u.s. dollars in direct aid and $1.00 trillion to fund government agencies so large amounts of money in the 2nd relief package since the pandemic began so mostly that money is used to provide financial support for businesses for unemployed individuals as well as for families and then every religious person would receive

this is donald trump's party.world. jennifer horn is the former chair of the new hampshire republican party, who announced this month that she's leaving the party over gop efforts to overturn the election result. tina, let me start with you. is it donald trump's party as f matt gaetz says? >> it's a strange situation because you can't tell where the party ends and where donald trump's supporters begin. you have a giant section of republicans who are saying, okay, we maybe need to move on and just deal with the biden presidency. let's certify the results in congress next week and say, okay, biden won because here are the votes, or we could indulge in a fantasy and say that donald trump isn't going to leave the white house, and what we can do is somehow manipulate the rules of congress to do so. and that's where the split lies. >> yeah. and in that split, jennifer, you've been part of that split. you've gone beyond that split. i wonder, did you leave the gop because you believe not only that it's trump's party but t

and that's what donald respects.ects people that break the law and get away with it. >> what do you think the forensic accountants are going to find when they go to work for the manhattan district attorney and they get their hands on the trump tax returns which they will be getting within probably the next two months or so. >> you know, when it came to finances, trump was like very closeted. everything was out of the office and in the hands of specialists. and then he brought weisselberg in from brooklyn and he got involved in the financing part. it used to be just collecting the rent and paying the bills and stuff like that. i just think they're going to find some pretty nasty stuff. but i don't have direct experience with anything having to do with finances so much. i was there making the buildings happen and getting the permits and things like that. >> who do you think -- one of the things that's been pointed out about the evidence that the grand jury will need in manhattan in order to make a criminal case on, say

it's not just about donald trump. it's about things that other members of his administration might have done that have been exposed during the course of this administration. we don't know about ivanka. we don't know what trade issues she may have been involved with or how her and jared kushner made $80 million while still in the white house. there sore many different instances where they are legally exposed at the state level. you'll have republicans that try to defend it with crazy distracting lawsuits but a lot of democrats at the state level and, hey, maybe even an anti-trump republican in one of these states. maybe in virginia. maybe in maryland. i'll take a pot shot at trump because i want to establish i'm a new kind of republican going forward. >> jason stays with me. dan, about 30 seconds left. i have to save time for dr. fauci. on the flip side, what do you say to critics across the country, maga supporters who say, oh, cy vance who you worked with, new york democrat type. just wants to torture donald trump. t

el presidente de estados unidos, donald trump se plantea indultar a sus hijos y yernos y a (nombre enr el momento ninguno está imputado abogados nos explican si existe el perdón preventivo >> es difícil cubrir las necesidades básicas >> remesas récord los envío de dinero fuera del país suben más del 14% por temer el trabajo por el coronavirus (covid-19) el presidente de méxico andrés manuel lópez obrador dice que es un milagro social >> [♪ ] >> feliz navidad >> [♪ ] >> papá noel se reinventa sin contacto con mascarilla y con distanciamiento social así santa claus recibe los deseos de niños en navidad no solo le piden juguetes sino que reencontrarse con sus abuelos y amigos >> noticias telemundo con josé díaz-balart >> [♪ ] >> [♪ ] >> qué tal soy julio vaqueiro en lugar de josé díaz-balart los contagios de coronavirus (covid-19) se disparan con la cercanía del invierno el número de casos supera los (información en pantalla) >> (información en pantalla) >> este martes hubo más de 2300 fallecidas es el mayor número de muertes de los últimos 7 meses es como si cada día muriera la misma ca

donald trump has none. so i don't understand where their face comes forward with donald trump.ns of some of these politicians, especially those in congress who got behind that bogus lawsuit or the seditious 17 toeattorney generals that go behind the attorney general from texas lawsuit, is that they just are trying to survive. they look for publicity stunts, anything to make donald trump happy, to maybe stay out of jail, like the attorney general from texas who is now under investigation by the fbi, or perhaps the state legislator who decided it was a good idea to succeed -- for texas to secede from the nation. he probably wants a better standing with leadership coming into the statehouse. so i find them all false. i find their devoutness to donald trump based in very little, ex set for what helps them. >> so, david french, what do people like you and i do? those a these are not -- i can talk about this and be very angry generally, but these are my friends. these are my loved ones. these are may family members. these have been my friends for 57 years. and when i sit and talk to

they were not tears for donald trump's relentless degrading of democracy. no. they were tears for lamar alexander. and the tears came from the place we didn't know tears existed, the eyes of mitch mcconnell. lamar alexander gave his farewell address to the united states senate after 18 years of service, which actually isn't a very long term of service for a senator. it is traditional that senators give a final speech in the final days of their service. when i worked in the united states senate, i went to the senate floor for many of those speeches. some were more eloquent than others. but almost all of them were moving. and i got choked up more than once listening to a senate farewell speech. not today. because mitch mcconnell has destroyed the united states senate as we know it. and lamar alexander did everything he possibly could to help mitch mcconnell destroy the united states senate. lamar alexander was a cabinet member and a governor of tennessee before winning a seat in the senate. you could write a biography of lamar alexander and leave out his senate y

in in at thkansas, watch this. >> president donald j.mp, republican, received all six electoral votes. we commence voting for vice president. >> south dakota's electors, three of them also just cast ballots. watch this voting in south dakota. >> we have three votes for mike pence for vice president of the united states and three votes for donald trump for president of the united states. i think that's what remains is signing the certificates. we'll do that at this time. >> in maryland, members of the electoral college cast their ten electoral votes for president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect kamala harris, all of this unfolding on this historic day. erin, back to you. >> president of maryland electors proudly cast my vote for president-elect joe biden. electors, please state your name and your vote for the record. beginning with the secretary. >> well, want to point out, that was the ten electoral votes in the state of maryland going for biden and harris. back to erin burnett. >> wolf, thank you. yes, we were watching the grea

their leader, donald trump.an hourly basis on whether or not the media should give one iota more to the president and his rantings. and there is still security value in understanding what he's saying. you might not give it any coverage on msnbc and they decide to shut it down. but he's messaging the people who will carry out the violence and we need to know that. it better not be a surprise to us. so that sadly still merits coverage because only if a security perspective, we need to know where this journey is headed. >> you know, i mean, bob costa, i grapple the same thing and i think ashley parker hit the nail on the head as to why. trump has become more radicalized and described him turning into the more radicalized outlets so he's having a conversation with his supporters over a news max. ez easier to ignore but probably more dangerous than any other point in his presidentsy. is this not the off-ramps of the republicans that privately called him a scum bag after the access hollywood tape and a prince after hi