lipman and two of his cofounders were born in ukraine. the company also started there with its head office now in sf. grammarly provides technology like this to help people and companies communicate more effectively. >> it makes sense that effectiveness is how they decided to help ukraine. right now, many hospitals are unable to function at full capacity because of damage or no power. >> we think a lot about efficiency of the help, about making it as direct and as impactful as possible. and ambulances that are used as hospitals on wheels in ukraine, they save lives in a very direct and immediate way. >> the tech company is working with united 24, the initiative to collect donations by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> only together we have the potential to stop the war that russia has started and to rebuild what russia has destroyed. together we can help freedom defeat tyranny. >> since may, more than $230 million has been raised through the initiative and 90 ambulances purchased but lipman knows -- >> the need is endless. there

i spoke to alexander lipman, professor of russian politics at the, for university of berlin. he points out that there's still plenty of trade not subject to sanctions. would example, a pharmaceuticals pharmaceutical experts are also down, but only by about 10 percent as opposed to the pre war state. it was one of the biggest export articles of germany to the russian federation. okay. and done, you know, the, so we've seen that and this is amount as i round halved since at the start of the, of the war. the invasion of russia in ukraine. um, is this to be expected? would you expect this to continue to go down to, to stabilize? where is this going to go? that's difficult to answer because it massively depends upon what we're going to happen in ukraine, how the war is going to develop. and also how the general state of the world economy of the german economy is going to develop. so on the one hand, a german companies did have long term interests in russia. but on the other hand, the russian economy is now i was experiencing what looks like a prologue to it long term stagnation. a

attorney harry lipman. garrett, what do we know about the criminal referrals?t are you hearing about what's most likely when they come out of the meeting today? >> reporter: andrea, chairman thompson is now in two separate encounters with reporters, repeatedly said the committee made a decision to issue at least some referrals. the committee is out with a statement that they should pursue some referrals, should be considered is the language the committee's unsigned statement uses. the chairman is saying this has been decided. at least one referral will be made. this should not be a shock to anyone who followed the committee's work as we have on this network. the committee has leaned towards this idea of referrals. liz cheney has repeatedly quoted from u.s. statute and criminal code in some of her statements during the committee's hearings, major televised hearings and in others. there's more discussion to be done today. other committee members said this is something they will talk about today. they want to finalize whatever decision they're going to make about

joining me now is garrett haake, former deputy assistant attorney general and us attorney harry lipman and frank figliuzzi, former assistant fbi director. frank, your reaction to the reporting that the fbi was warned that trump's tweet was call to arms by the far right online in their chatter. >> it's significant. it's not a surprise, because we all sat at home seeing what was going on for weeks prior. this is the first confirmation an active informant, still someone being utilized by the fbi, was reporting directly to his fbi handler about the concern. this raises all kinds of issues about the degree to which the committee has dug into this, whether the committee possesses this data and how many more informants? how far up was this? during my experience as an assistant director, every single morning, the fbi director and the rest of us briefed the attorney general or the deputy attorney general inside a sealed room at fbi headquarters. what we need to know -- those minutes of the meetings were documented. what we need to know is, did the fbi, weeks before january 6, brief up to the do

attorney harry lipman. thanks for joining me tonight.now you've been sifting through their evidence and conclusions. a lot of people tuned out for christmas and their holiday week, so just give us some of the headlines. >> there's a lot to sift through between the report and the transcripts. even nestled in these transcripts, we're learning new pieces of information. there was one transcript that referenced this draft press release the white house was drafting in december 2020 we never heard about before. it was right after bill barr had publicly done an interview saying there was no widespread fraud. he was then the attorney general. the white house was crafting a press release saying anybody that thinks there wasn't massive fraud in 2020 election should be fired. they never issued this press release. eventually bill barr resigned from the administration anyway. but we didn't know about that until we saw this pop up in one of the questions investigators asked. one of the other big findings from their report was just how extensive the pr

harry lipman is here, former depp city assistant attorney general, and the host of "the talking feds" podcast. also joining us, a "new york times" reporter on investigations. his by line is on the "new york times" blockbuster reporting on the personal finances of donald trump. russ, i think most of what we knew before today we learned from your journalism, your investigative reporting on this topic. so tell me what you learned today when these were released. >> i think we learned the trends we've seen looking at 20 years of his tax returns before and the money he inherited from his father, that continued during his years in the white house. one thing that jumped out for me in this, you see in this six years of returns the one year we had a positive income was 2018. he reported $24 million in taxable income. that was the first time in a decade he had reported positive taxable income according to your documents. and when you look at the documents closely, that all came, $26 million of it, from assets that he inherited from his father that he sold in that year. so even in the one year wh

we start with hear lipman, former dispute assistant attorney general and former prosecutor, former seniorber of robert mueller's special counsel investigation, nbc legal analyst, andrew wiseman is here as well. andrew, the legal implications and the political meat being examined in the same moments. this is the brand that trump rode to the presidency. it was a trump helicopter that landed in iowa and wowed republican congressgoers. he took this identity as a successful business leader all the way to the white house. turns out the whole thing was a fraud. talk about the legal determination today, i want to read it to the viewers. these were the charges brought against the trump corp. scheme, conspiracy in the fourth degree, criminal tax fraud in the third degree, criminal tax fraud in the fourth degree. falsifying tax records, guilty of all of those. charges brought against the payroll organization. schemed to defraud in the first degree, criminal tax fraud in the third degree and about four more, guilty on every charge that was brought. >> well, i think there's something that is important