. >> griffin went to the border with trump crow knee steve bannon and when he posted this video about dead democrats, president trump retweeted him. >> the only good democrat is a dead democrat. i don't say that in the physical sense and i can already see the videos getting edited where all i say is murder democrats. no. i say that in the political sense. >> we're not going to get our election stolen from china. >> he sees conspiracies in almost everything. january 6th. it may have been a setup by democrats. he says he doesn't follow qanon but it sounds like he shares some of the same believes. >> the deep states just say because the devil wants to destroy things. there is those foot soldiers of the deep state those like hillary clinton, george soros, dr. fauci, bill gates. they're the big wheels. they're the controllers. >> griffin doubts the undeniable, that the riot led to deaths. ashli babbitt an air force veteran from san diego shot and killed by capitol hill police. >> he's got a gun! [ gunshots ]. >> sounds like a gunshot. >> u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick died from

steve bannon, he was charged, pardoned by trump but now looks like state prosecutors may be picking up. finally, of course, matt gaetz. he is under investigation by federal prosecutors for an array of very serious crimes, john. >> swampy. thank you very much as always. >> thank you. >>> former fbi deputy assistant director and author of the book "comp "compromised" the threat of donald j. trump. peter, good to see you. what is your reaction to this indictment? >> i think it just highlights the stunning breadth of the criminality that was going on in the trump campaign and later in the administration. you see throughout that campaign, whether it is now the most recently barrack, his campaign finance involvement and also the inaugural chairman but people like steve bannon, his strategist and paul manafort his campaign chair, rick gates, deputy campaign chair, michael flynn, his national security adviser and many more were all charged a in the point. what's especially notable is so many of these people sold their patriotism so cheaply. paul manafort, indicted for lobbying for the ukraine.

and when steve bannon was charged with defrauding donors who thought they were donating to a fund to build trump's wall but were donating to steve bannon's pockets, he's quite jovial and jolly and looking quite tanned and rehacksed because he had just been arrested that morning on a chinese billionaire's yacht. still wearing two shirt, though. always with the tw shirts. and now tom barrack arriving in federal court to plead not guilty to charges of acting as a agent of a foreign government of the united arab emirates and lying to federal authorities about it. barrack is out on $250 million bond. as far as we can tell the highest bond set in this history. he had to give up his passports and will be monitored by an ankle bracelet. he said "i am innocent and we will prove that why court." and he will prove it in court. for tom barrack, it is too late for a trump presidential pardon. even having lived through nixon and watergate, we're not accustomed to watching our courtrooms pay host to presidential officials and friends and donors all from a single one-term presidency. it's not just h

and, by the way, like steve bannon, i mean on my travels, it almost became like a joke to me that steve bannon had always just been in the place i was visiting giving like whatever, you know, racist pep talk he gives to right wing nationalists around the world. and there's a ton of russian disinformation, russian financing of these political movements, and it is not a conspiracy theory. this is just what's happening. there's a huge amount of coordination between like a putin and an orban and other far right parties across europe. as here, there's like 30% of the population that is very into that message, you know. that said, the promising thing is as with here, there's like a backlash to the backlash, and i profiled one of those -- this young woman in hungary who basically started a political party with her friends, and the point of origin for doing that was orban wanted to host the olympics in hungary. orban is corrupt. they managed to get hundreds of thousands of signatures for a referendum to defeat the olympics bid and then decided to form a political party, where their identity as

, your reporting you have about steve bannon.askets number one, the obstacle, the voting which is the republican legislatures trying to make it more difficult for people of color to vote. that's basket number one. again, it's terrible. but some people believe that eventually that can be worked through. basket number two is far different, though. it is the basket where these republican legislatures are trying to take over, trying to seize, through i think improper legislation, the actual rooms where the votes are counted. that's the ball game and that's what they're trying to do here, in texas, in georgia, that's what they've been trying to do in arizona. so talk about that and how it's very calculated that they want to take over those voting rooms so they can rig, really rig, the vote count. >> sure. like it's the -- this is like one of the clearest things i've ever seen in my career of reporting. last october this phrase joe, i think the phrase you're thinking of, i did an interview with steve bannon for "the circus" where he sa

so you strike at the state, which is steve bannon's favorite term. and that means that you think of all the things that happen to the government, with the purging of federal agencies, doj and state department, and you fill them with loyalists, and then you attack the notion of truth, you attack the press. so january 6 and everything that happened after november, after he lost the election, the prompt for january 6 was of course the fact that he didn't want to leave office. and i have a whole chapter at the end of my book about how these guys cannot leave office quietly and they do desperate things. he had created for four years ahead of time a kind of climate that supported this kind of extremist action. >> oh, ruth. so prescient, it's like you had a crystal ball. let's talk about this new book by carol leonnig and phillip rucker, writing about how general milley viewed trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose, and trump's false claims of election fraud. here's an excerpt. this is an reichstag moment, milley told aides, accordin

. >>> rudy giuliani making it worse in an interview with steve bannon. questions swirls of ivanka flipping. we start with the fight for voting rights. what nicole was covering at the end of her show. democrats pushing to do more with republicans ramming through voter suppression laws across the country. since january, 48 states introduced 389 bills. 28 of those are signed into law in 17 states. president biden meeting leaders at the white house today making it clear this is a top priority. members of that meeting speaking afterwards. >> democracy is under vigorous, visual, and sinister attack. beginning with the events of january 6th, at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation. >> vice president harris announcing a $25 million, $25 million dnc initiative to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms. >> it is about all voters. it is not about democrats or americans, it is about americans. let's be clear about that. who's prepared right now to stand up for what we say are some of our fundamental values and ou

. >> steve bannon, indicted on conspiracy charges on fraud and money laundering.esident company has been indicted and also charged allen weisselberg. >> tom barrack, the former chair of the former president 2017 inaugural committee arrested today. >> it is 12 and counting and i am joined by ellie for "the nation," this is not normal. it is an ongoing crime spree. is it important that people thee these facts and say oh, it is just another story or another indictment. >> you can take this one of two ways, ari. >> trump has world historical bad taste in friends. his taste in friends is worse than his taste of architecture. that's one possibility. possibility two, he's a criminal. he's the black hole that's pulling all of these flies to his criminal enterprise. tom hagan, trump can't find an outstanding lawyer guy, even. which one do you want to believe? i understand that roughly half the country wants to believe that trump is just some kind of unlucky executive who keeps on being set by criminals. if all of these people who work for him are criminally indicted, at le

roger stone, alex vendors on, steve bannon. the list goes on. but he only pardon people who were charged or convicted while he was president. tom barrack's case got delayed. right? so he's out of luck. no presidential pardon coming for him. his indictment came after trump was out of his office, which itself is probably a scandal, if the indictment couldn't be brought while in office, because appointees of trump wouldn't let it happen. so he does not get out of jail free with a pardon card from trump. one of the open questions of the trump presidency is how many legal cases did not go forward to charges, just were not brought because they were squashed or delayed. i don't know if we'll ever get an answer. kathleen rice and ted lieu are trying to make sure that there is at least an investigation. but the one silver lining, in terms of accountability, for any and all cases that were delayed, and yet still could be brought now is that now trump isn't around to pardon those folks. so today, they thomas barrack put up that much money, a record previou

respectable one and you had manafort who had obvious criminal exposure at the time and other people like steve bannonho were ideologues who had their exposure and barrack gave his endorsement as one businessman to another at the 2016 convention, and it turns out he was engaged at least in some of the same types of alleged criminality as so many of the other people in those trump circles. i think the other thing that's incredible about the indictment is how pervasive his actions were, getting stuff inserted into the speech and that you refer to, andrea, is the significant foreign policy successes the uae was able to win in the first couple of years of the trump administration over the objects of the secretary of state rex tillerson who wanted to intervene in this dispute between saudi arabia and the uae on one hand and qatar on the other. the white house seemed to tacitly take the side of the uae and saudi arabia and we didn't know why. they were taking place unregistered both by mr. barrack and others in the white house circle. george nader who went to jail for an unrelated crime. and you start to ge

nothing in the constitution prevents donald trump from naming steve bannon attorney general or the my pillow guy. he can name all kinds of people. i got to get in one more thing of news here. we got a reversal and a doj's 2019 opinions. this is separate when the new york inquiry, the doj finding that the house has sufficient reasons to get them. in fact, you may recall this goes all the way back until the midterms when democrats did take power. we broke the news and the people in charge were going to demand the tax returns. this was election night 2018. >> i have spoken to a senior democratic source in the ways and means committee, they do intend to request president trump's tax turns. >> that was election news, barbara, what did it mean legally that doj cleared the way and do you think the house does have a strong argument that they should see these under the law. >> yes, i think they would get them. i would not be surprised if they were not delivered tonight. the law is very clear. when the ways and means committee request the tax returns and any taxpayers, the secretary of treasury

allen weisselberg is in trouble right now, just like steve bannon was, michael cohen, roger stone, rudyedible ability to get all the people around him to engage in the dirty work, criminal activity, and they end up taking the fall. we'll see what happens with this, trump has not been charged, but it's pretty hard to imagine that his cfo engaged in this long, systematic, 15-years-long scheme of tax fraud. this is a tax fraud scheme to only benefit himself and no one else at the trump organization. >> so elie, amanda mentions roger stone, paul manafort, rick gates, look at all those people, and now allen weisselberg may be in trouble but will donald trump get in trouble for this? as of now, he hasn't been charged with this. and there's a similarity to some of your former job, which was organized crime prosecutions. there are sometimes people that skate above, even when everyone around them goes down. >> it's a feature of our legal system, john. and amanda, what she just said actually reminded me of a case i did against a powerful mobster we caught on a tape saying, "it's good to be the bo

campaign chairman arrested, that's pullman ford, his deputy -- rick gates, his campaign manager, steve bannon, his national security adviser, mike flynn, his personal lawyer arrested, that's michael cohen, and his long term political advisor, roger stone, and his campaign foreign policy advisor that is, george papadopoulos, tom barrack, just arrested today. his inaugural vice chairman, arid brady, his private company indicted, the trump organization, the chief organizer arrested, weisselberg, his charity shut down as a fraud, that's the trump foundation. his quote, unquote, school, shut down from fraud suits. and, not to mention, during his one single term as president, not one, not to, not three, not four, but five of his cabinet secretaries were referred for criminal prosecution, in one term. just today, we got the inspector general report that wilbur ross, and all the details of how that investigation concluded on how wilbur ross lied to congress on multiple occasions to cover up with the trump administration's work to cover up the census. which we just got in detail today it gave us all t

this reminds me of when steve bannon started a nonprofit as you may remember, the president's formerwith a group of folks saying they were going to take volunteers and charitable folks' money, devote to building a portion of the wall. what they did is paid themselves handsome salaries. again, the president pledging one thing, but voters don't ultimately care. when confronted with the information, time and time again they basically say but i like the guy. >> it was all a grift and they're down with it. thank you both so much. congratulations on the book. >>> up next, the investor taking lawmakers to school on spending. sam druckenmiller is next. m dru. rated us #1 for network quality in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon. that's why we're building 5g right, that's why there's only one best network. >>> right now, we are watching capitol hill. infrastructure talks are under way after senate republicans blocked the vote earlier this

chairman arrested -- that's paul manafort -- and his deputy campaign manager arrested, rick se ts, steve bannon, his a national security advisor arrest, mike flynn, his personal lawyer mike cohen, his long-time political adviser roger stone, and his campaign foreign policy adviser arrested, george ai papadopolous, and his inaugural campaign chairman arrested, that's today, elliott brady, his private company indicted, the trump organization, the chief financial organization of his private company arrested, allen weisselberg. his foundation/charity shut down after a fraud. that's the trump foundation. his, quote, unquote, school shut down after a fraud suit settlement, trump university. and not to mention during his one single term as president, not one, not two, not three, noe four, but five of his cabinet secretaries were referred for federal criminal prosecution, in one term. we just today got the inspector general report on trump congress secretary wilbur ross and all of the details of how that investigation concluded that wilbur ross lied to congress on multiple occasions to cover up what th

there's steve bannon, former chief strategist who was arrested on the yacht of a chinese billionaire accused of swindling trump supporters and never had to stand trial because he was also pardoned. there is roger stone convicted by a jury of his peers of lying to congress and then pardoned. there's michael cohn, trump's lawyer and fixer who pleaded guilty of tax fraud and campaign violations. there's michael flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and was also pardoned by trump. rick gates, former trump campaign deputy official who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements. there is donald trump himself whose business is facing tax evasion charges that are brought by the manhattan district attorney. truthfully a remarkable situation when you add it all up. rebecca davis o'brien, reporter at the wall street journal where she covers white collar law enforcement and she joins me now. rebecca, talk us through what is alleged in this indictment. what law did barrack violate? >> sure. federal prosecutors in brooklyn accused tom barbarrack -- two m group

it comes after lindell went on steve bannon's radio show promising to confront republican governors brianion fraud claims in georgia and arizona. >> seth: i'm sure it's not the first venue lindell's been thrown out of. he's got resting thrown out face as a baby, his first words were, "but my friends are in there." [ laughter ] bars, libraries, children's birthday parti a no-go for him can you imagine lindell as a golf announcer he's got to avoid that front bunker." "yeah, got stay out of that or a birdie is going to be impossible okay, now he's stepping away from the ball, and he's looking over here for some reason. oh, he looks real mad, and oh, god, here he comes run, everybody the problem for republicans is they keep running up against reality. they lost somewhere around 60 court cases including in front of trump-appointed judges, who is quite literally said they had zero evidence to support their claims, and that's not an exaggeration a judge appointed by trump actually wrote in one of his rulings, "calling an election unfair does not make it so charges require specific allegations an

cronies for over four years and yet somehow it feels like they all evade accountability i mean, steve bannon'sre just doing a podcast like a 22-year-old standup and looking like he's about to film a scene in the new "aquaman" where he o guards the sea cave. despite the fact that he got arrested by the postal service police force on a chinese billionaire's yacht an insane thing that actually happened, and not as i first thought a lyric from the don henley song "boys of summer. i mean, he got arrested by postal cops on a chinese billionaire's yacht. ♪ don't look back you can never look back ♪ that probably won't even make it into the history books about the trump era because there's just too much to cover. and it's such a bummer, because there should be an entire chapter devoted to the fact that the postal service has a police force. personally if i were in high school, i'd be psyched to learn there are postal service cops. if i found out about that in tenth grade history class, there's a good chance i'd be out there right now walking the beat in those short shorts with my bucket hat and a badge

what he was upset about is that he quoted something that steve bannon and trump said and it was quotedidn't like it. >> it's kind of insulting, so insulting that he is even mentioned with these people. somebody who said just because you believe it's fact don't make it a fact. it's really unfortunate, joy. ike the bigger case because we could easily get caught up with this one teacher but this is a fight with the school board. so a lot of conservatives who want to run for office, they use local school boards as their launching pad and there's actually data behind this that people who are elected to school boards are typically white, wealthier, almost carpet baggers who insert themselves in this. then they get to the state legislature and obliterate voting rights. your viewers already know how ridiculous the argument is to make. but the bigger strategy point is how do you stop this from happening at the school board level because there has to be policy to prevent this kind of thing and that is the key. if they can take away our history and rewrite the narrative, then they take away the a

astead, the former president's adviser and first campaign manager steve bannon told politico that thehe tenth power. is he right? what do you know about the movement behind this fight? >> yeah. i think what bannon is saying is what we all implicitly know, which is that the fight over critical race theory that's been happening over and over in modern politics. it's the fight over power. it's the fight over control. it's about over whose voice is the defining one in culture and politics. and what they are banking on, republicans with this controversy, is the fear among a lot of their base that they're losing political and cultural power. it's the same thing that's happening in other segments of society also. i think what we're seeing is a political strategy that tries to play on the fears of the grassroots and the voters, and whether it will be successful remains to be seen. but we have seen this work for republicans specifically in the past. >> astead, kirsten, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >>> president biden making an impassioned plea in support of voting rights, saying we sh

he pardoned mike flynn, steve bannon, paul manafort, right down to papadopolous in the russian investigation. the list goes on and on, but he only pardoned people charged and convicted while he was president. tom barrack's case was delayed so he is out of luck. no presidential pardon coming for him. his indictment came after trump was out of office, which itself is probably a scandal if the indictment couldn't be brought while trump was in office because trump appointees wouldn't let it happen. but the fact that it was delayed means he doesn't get out of jail free with a pardon card from trump. one of the open questions of the trump presidency and its corruption is how many legal cases didn't go forward to charges, just were not brought because they were squashed or delayed by trump appointees of the justice department. i don't know if we will ever get an answer to that. kathleen rice and ted lieu are trying to make sure that the justice department at least investigates it. but the one silver lining in terms of accountability for any and all cases that were delayed and yet still could be bro

strategist who is donating to a fund to build trump's law but were actually just donating to steve bannon's pockets, quite amiable and jolly for the courthouse looking quite tanned and relaxed because they've been just arrested that morning on a chinese billionaire's yacht. still wearing two shirts though, always with the two shirts. and now today, we've got the chairman of trump's inaugural top eric arriving at federal court in brooklyn to plead not guilty to charges of acting as an agent of a foreign government of the united arab emirates and lined to federal authorities about it. he's out on 250 million dollar bond is far as we can tell, the highest bond ever set in this country's history. he had to give up his passports and he's gonna be monitored via an electronic ankle bracelet. and after his plea barracks said he's innocent of all these charges and he'll prove that in court. and he will have to prove it in court because unlike so many of trump's other friends and associates charged with or convicted of crimes, for tom barrack, it is too late for trump presidential pardon. even lookin

might have heard about it when his founders of we build the wall, including former trump adviser steve bannondefrauding the organization's donors. whoa, a shocker. but fisher kept building, spending what he says is $30 million of company money to build a three-mile stretch of the wall right next to the rio grande. you can see how close it is to the river at some points there. it was all built with private money, and fisher was still looking for big federal contract. that's what he was pitching in his media blitz and it finally paid off in trump's last year in office when according to bloomberg again fisher sand and gravel was awarded $2.5 billion, with a "b," dollars to build 135 miles' worth of federal wall sections near yuma and nogales in arizona and in texas. at the time we pointed out the program one of the contracts raised questions because as "the washington post" reported trump repeatedly pushed for fisher to get a wall-building contract, urging officials with the army corps of engineers to pick the firm only to be told that fisher's bid did not meet standards. trump then kept pushing

we have michael cohen, paul manafort, roger stone, michael flynn, steve bannon, on down the line, and you add allen weisselberg to that list. it is really remarkable to see how many people around donald trump have taken falls, yet he has not yet. >> i mean, abby, that's why people think donald trump has been teflon, he has been able to insulate himself. how closely do you think that people on capitol hill are watching what is going on right now in this courtroom in new york? >> you know, first of all i think on the democratic side there's been a longstanding interest in trump's tax returns, in understanding where his money is coming from, who he owes debts to. democrats are particularly interested in that. on the republican side though, i do have to wonder, alisyn, how many of them really care about any of this. i think they have really turned a blind eye to all of the controversy surrounding trump including anything that has to do with his businesses. i have a lot of questions about whether most, you know, die-hard republicans, which in the house is probably more than two-thirds of t

i remember in 2020 talking to steve bannon in the fall of 2020 and bannon talking about what he thoughtg to be knife fights in the counting rooms. we're going to have all of this fight. now, it turned out that donald trump's election lawyers were totally incompetent, were complete -- i mean they had no legal basis for the challenges they were launching and they were also complete morons led by the a-plus moron of them all, rudy giuliani. so they couldn't do what bannon was imagining, there will be knife counts in the counting roads, we know how to wield the knives, we will steal the election. that was in bannon's mind in 2020, the notion it was going to be in the counting rooms. who had the knives, who sets the rules in the room, that's where all of the power will be and that's what all of these laws are about. nightmare scenario for us and for democracy. intended outcome of those who are propagating these bills that are designed to undermine democracy and steal elections, and what do i make of the fact that there's not more a fire in the belly about this? i think that the only possible

campaign ceo steve bannon. national security advisor michael flynn. i mean on and on and on.resident could plausibly say that he wasn't aware of some of this wrongdoing? it just seems like there's too many people who had to be in close contact with him sharing information with him for him to not at some point be found guilty or at least a khouw conspirator in some of the behaviors? >> speaking specifically today's indictment, i think one of the things interesting in some ways is the united states here is the victim here, the charges are the united states of america versus thomas bar rack and other people charged here. but in some ways the trump administration is a victim as well. if, in fact, they did not know what thomas bar rack was up to, and there's no indication at least from the court papers they were, then, yes, they were victimized by somebody trying to push them in specific policy directions totally without their knowledge while they're working on behalf of a foreign government. that's very serious. so time will tell whether or not there's more to this story. you can

steve bannon said anthony f fauci's head should be put on a pike.s the war on terror has gone from overseas and now the battleground is here in our background. and that's the concern that the dhs secretary had expressed recently. >> pete, what is the framework for fighting a terror threat that is so interwoven in the rhetoric at the highest levels of one of the two political parties in our country? >> you have to break the republican party being in the thrall of donald trump. as long as he's espousing the views, the big lie, the run in 2024, supporting that sort of nonsense and lies will only make more kindling for people that might be inclined to violence. there has to be, not only from the democratic side, but across the border, a rejection of this kind of rhetoric. and it's not happening. when you see the composition of the january 6th committee, and the response to that, people across the country are not standing up to say this is wrong. and it's only a matter of time before we see radical violence from people who are being egged on by people li

. >> asted, the former presidential advisor steve ban no bannon said the critical race theory is theight? >> i think what bannon is saying is critical race theory is the same fight that's been happening over and over again in our fight with politics. it's a fight over control, it's a fight over who is the defining one in culture and politics. they are playing on republicans with this controversy is the fear among a lot of their base that they are losing political and cultural power. it's the same thing that's happening in other segments of society also. i think what we're seeing is a political strategy that tries to play on the fears of the grassroots of the voters and whether it will be successful remains to be seen, but we've seen this work for republicans specifically in the past. >> a ststed, kirsten, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >>> we should all be aware of geopolitical attacks on one of our most sacred rights. kraft. for the win win. ♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is f

all you have to-do listen to steve bannon. go on the computer and internet.ou. a gentleman went to get into the tatoos, he went in and said give me the hegseth. pete: i can't wait. i can't wait. stick around ten minutes. you will see it. will: you think that gentleman get the we the people's hat or get a picture of your face on his body? which one is it? pete: thinking we the people. will: if he got his face on your forearm, i quit. i quit. pete: get my fairs on your forearm you will get on the show. rachel: it's a challenge. pete: todd, we'll check back n. buses of cuban-americans headed to washington to get attention from the white house. our next guest fled a communist country for a life of freedom. his message is next. moderate to severe crohn's or ulcerative colitis... stelara® can provide relief and is the only approved medication to reduce inflammation on and below the surface of the intestine in uc. you, getting on that flight? back off, uc! stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb. t

bannon. buie was a freeloader. he was a corrupt land speculator. he was about as far from steve mcqueen as you get. so he's always been my favorite but i know a lot of people like to go on about travis just because of the facts and i'll just leave that hanging there . >> the guy that i kind of really got locked onto was a guy named juan almonte. this son of a renegade spanish priest and an indigenous woman. a child soldier wounded atthe age of eight . goes to evacuate new orleans to escape the spanish inquisition when he's 13 and returns home to join the revolution against pain and becomes a colonel in the mexican army. he goes into texas at five, speaks perfect english, gathers all this intelligence and comes back and said the americans are going to try to steal texas and he's reporting to santa ana. he becomes santa ana's speechwriter. he joins with abolitionists in baltimore and plans to bring freed slaves to texas once they push all the anglos out so that free black people and have a colony instead of bo whites from alabama. this is a guy i've never started before i working on this book and he