johnson. >> we're getting along very well with the speaker. >> reporter: here sharing the microphone at mar-a-lago, their ter: here sharing the microphone at mar-a-lago, their first public event since johnson was elected speaker last october. he has a razor thin republican majority and faces a threat from a top trump ally, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene trying to oust him. >> i think he's doing a very good job. he's doing about as good as you're going to do, and i'm sure that marjorie understands that. i know she has a lot of respect for the speaker. >> the yeas are 273. >> reporter: but today a victory for the speaker. the house passing the reauthorization of a surveillance bill that includes a controversial spying program over the objections of mr. trump, and then there's aid to ukraine, which still has not passed the house. ukraine's president zelenskyy this week saying, without it, ukraine can lose the war. >> we're looking at it right now, and they're talking about it, and we're thinking about making it in the form of a loan instead of a gift. much more importantly to me is the fact tha

madison scarpino and properly corrected me i thought it was at mar-a-lago, it's at the home of a billionairenvestor. i can't identify the name, but they're expected to raise a good amount of dough. katie is with us, a former federal prosecutor. when i think of the fundraisers and i think of the big legal bills that the president is facing, a lot of kerfuffle that he was working over the campaign funds to pay the legal bills. they're mounting now. there's nothing illegal for using tfunds for that purpose, but i'm wondering how you're seeing the legal cases going. they're getting pricey because they're frequent and piling on. >> they absolutely are and looks like at least one of them might go to trial soon. it's not certain obviously at this point, but yes, there's a lot of legal cases that are mounting and he has seemed to withstand that for election purposes, but it is obviously very expensive. neil: you know, he was on a winning streak when it came to these legal matters, protests and appeals, but one by one, in the past week or so, some of the issues have come down to crack down on him and

a few months ago at a closed door event at mar-a-lago he told his millionaire and billionaire followers the following, quote, you're rich as hell, and we're going to give you a tax cut, end of quote. they all laughed. not because they thought it wouldn't happen, because they knew it would. how does that make me feel, how does it make you feel? trump wants another round of corporate giveaways. i come from the corporate state of the world. delaware. i represented it for 36 years. you're entitled to make a fair profit. that makes sense. there's more corporations incorporated in delaware than every other state in the nation combined. but this is ridiculous what's going on now. there are about 1,000 billionaire, billionaires in america. do you know what the average federal tax rate for a billionaire is today in america? for real. 8.3%. that's how much federal -- i'm serious. not a joke. for a less than the vast majority of americans pay in federal tax. no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or nurse or sanitation worker. i mean it. [applause] that tax break that he passed

it gets the part that gets focused on is the national security secrets that trump had at mar-a-lago. but there's also this second aspect of allegedly misleading investigators and that is where m. corcoran is a big piece. >> and i should know, and this is important. the trump legal team, or the trump team is denying those. they're denying are reporting. we reached out to them before we came on they said that evan corcoran is still there on the legal team. they're arguing. but i >> get i respond to their denial. sharkey can't possibly stay on the legal team. i mean, it's almost a mathematical impossibility once you are a witness against the person which he now is, you can't stay on the rising. it took this long >> yeah. yeah. >> the trump team also said that the new york time it was wrong and saying that trump has been privately saying he liked to federal abortion ban. and we were not wrong. so do it that what you will, you are quite familiar with the history of denials, right? but maggie, you were one of the first people and your colleagues to report on the notes that evan corcoran too

so this is an opportunity for johnson to stand alongside donald trump at his home at mar-a-lago talking the donald trump wants to talk about, which is elections. >> this is giving >> him a boost at a time where he really needs it. >> all right. kristen holmes, thank you very much to the question. one of the big questions this morning, hangover. what's gonna be happening at mar-a-lago is how far will speaker johnson push election missing or misinformation at that appearance with the forefront president, this afternoon, a reminder back in 2020, then congressman johnson sent an email to every house republican pushing them to support a sham lawsuit that sought to invalidate electoral votes in key battleground states and in the run-up to the insurrection on january 6, he spewed misinformation about the election time and time again, telling an astonishing number of lives that have been repeatedly, then debunked >> the allegations about these voting machines and some of them being rigueur with this software by dominion. but there's a lot of merit to that. when the president says the election i

>>> right now on "ana cabrera reports," the trials of donald trump, a hearing today in florida at the mar-a-lago documents case. how trump's co-defendants are aiming to have their charges thrown out. >>> plus, the countdown to trump's hush money case. it starts on monday, and we got our hands on the list of potential prosecution witnesses. >>> also ahead, a meeting at mar-a-lago, why the house speaker is headed to florida to talk, of all things, election integrity with the former president. >>> and later, new fallout over a revived 1864 ban on abortion, as the vice president prepares to, quote, take the gloves off in arizona. ♪♪ >>> welcome to friday. it is 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin in florida, and that hearing today in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. the judge will hear arguments from two of donald trump's co-defendants, walt nauta and carlos de oliveira on several motions including the bid to get the charges against them thrown out. ken dilanian is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida. also with us paul butler fo

the event is being held at mar-a-lago, seen as randy k. t month when former president donald trump cast his ballot in florida is primary, melania trump was at his side, a reporter asked about her plans to campaign for her husband, and this was her response. >> are you with your husband stayed stay tuned. she said now, >> the former first lady is set to return to the political arena, not at a campaign event for her husband, but at a fundraiser for the log cabin republicans being held at mar-lago later this month? the former president has been teasing her return for months now >> she's a private person, a great person, very confident person, and she loves our country very much. she'll be, she'll be at the appropriate time. she'll be out there. while also trying to explain away her absence as he did on megyn kelly's podcast she's introspective and she's confident she doesn't need to be out there. >> and the only person who decides if and when millennia gets out there is millennia herself, a source close to the former president tells cnn that m

lady is set to return to the political arena, not at a campaign event for her husband, but at a fundraiser for the log cabin republicans being held at mar-lago later this month the former president has been teasing her return for months now, she's a private person, a great person, very confident person and she loves our country very much. she'll be, she'll be at the appropriate time. she'll be out there while also trying to explain away her absence as he did on megyn kelly's podcast. >> she's introspective and she's confident she doesn't need to be out there. >> and the only person who decides if and when millennia gets out there is millennia herself. a source close to the former president tells cnn that melania dictates her involvement. she is very selective and methodical in what she wants to do and how she presents herself i think part of the beauty is that mystery. >> when donald trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign at mar-a-lago last year melania was there, but since then has mostly stayed out of the public eye leading up to the iowa caucuses, her absence inspire to sarcastic, where's millennia campaign? as her husband's legal

. >>> a high-stakes meeting at mar-a-lago. donald trump and speaker mike johnson taking questions just moments ago. rachel scott pressing trump on where he stands on abortion rights and how he responded. >>> and arizona's abortion battle in the national spotlight. vice president kamala harris in arizona calling on lawmakers to repeal the state's 160-year-old abortion ban and blaming donald trump for the chaos surrounding the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. mary bruce at the white house. >>> police searching for suspects wanted for a deadly car jacking in florida. chilling video shows an armed suspect wearing a mask getting into the victim's suv. >>> a mother in texas facing charges, accused of leaving her two young children home alone while she went on a cruise. >>> tributes to legendary news anchor robert macneil, the longtime anchor for pbs. >>> and the march of the penguins leading to a massive leap of faith and captured for the first time on video. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is

"let's just say i got a mar-a-lago milkshake. [ laughter ] from my dear friend pavlova." can you even imagine what's in a milkshake atf donald trump gets to pick all the ingredients, the chefs must have a recipe longer than a cvs receipt. okay, let's see here. a quarter cup of whole milk, one scoop chocolate ice cream, one scoop chocolate ice cream, ten scoops chocolate ice cream, a gallon of vanilla ice cream, six whole bottles of chocolate syrup including the container, adderall, ambien, amphetamines, ketamine, a double whopper with cheese and fries, 45 ketchup packets, and some chicken, you choose which parts. [ laughter ] also, let me just say, i also don't know if joe biden has ever bought ice cream for his supporters, but i know exactly what the headline on fox news would be if he did. "ice cream socialist!" [ light laughter ] but the fox segment then took a very bizarre turn. it may not shock you to hear fox was fawning over trump for buying chicken, but i guarantee you have no idea where this is going next. >> the last time we interviewed him at mar-a-lago, he wouldn't let us leave until he gave us mar-a-lago

tonight the former president is set to attend a gala at mar-a-lago hosted by a group called border 911oup includes several people who are proponents of the trump administration's controversial zero tolerance policy, which resulted in at least 5,500 families being separated at the southern border in 2018, before trump himself signed an executive order ending the practice after intense backlash. now, among those expected at the gala tonight is tom homan who was acting director of i.c.e. during the trump administration. also matt whitaker who served as chief of staff, and rodney scott who served as border patrol chief during trump's last year in office. trump's open arm association with border 911 and his intensifying focus on migrants and crime on the campaign trail they provide one of the clearest windows yet into the second term, and the hard-liners to enforce immigration laws. trump has already laid out an aggressive immigration platform for a second term. that includes mass deportations and asking congress to ensure drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the death penalty. but ch

the thinking, being at mar-a-lago, is going to help mike johnson. >> look at kevin mccarthy, isn't het example of this? kevin mccarthy went down to mar-a-lago, resurrected donald trump. he was on the phone with him all the time, allegedly. he was pretty close to the guy, and does he have the speakership anymore, no, he does no the. ali vitali, thank you very much. >>> coming up, is donald trump officially out of options? what to expect on monday when his first criminal case goes to trial. probably. >>> plus, israel says it will pond to any retaliatory attacks from iran. what u.s. officials are telling their government employees there not to do. diets and exercise add to the struggle. the effort can feel overwhelming. but today, it's possible to go from struggle to cholesterol success with leqvio. taken with a statin, leqvio is proven to lower bad cholesterol by 50%. so, if you feel like you're getting nowhere go with 2 doses a year of leqvio and keep bad cholesterol low. common side effects were injection site reaction, joint pain, and chest cold. when you're ready to go from struggle

a few months ago at a closed door event at mar-a-lago he told his millionaire and billionaire followers the following, quote, you're rich as hell, and we're going to give you a tax cut, end of quote. they all laughed. not because they thought it wouldn't happen, because they knew it would. how does that make me feel, how does it make you feel? trump wants another round of corporate giveaways. i come from the corporate state of the world. delaware. i represented it for 36 years. you're entitled to make a fair profit. that makes sense. there's more corporations incorporated in delaware than every other state in the nation combined. but this is ridiculous what's going on now. there are about 1,000 billionaire, billionaires in america. do you know what the average federal tax rate for a billionaire is today in america? for real. 8.3%. that's how much federal -- i'm serious. not a joke. for a less than the vast majority of americans pay in federal tax. no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or nurse or sanitation worker. i mean it. [applause] that tax break that he passed

courageously came forward with you a couple of weeks ago, and he was interviewed in the mar-a-lago case, worked for trump at mar-a-lago. he came forward now because he believes that the information that he has is really important for the american people to know and understand that takes courage because you do know that there are going to be negative impacts on your security situation. your potential future job prospects, people coming after you publicly but also for your family. and that's it i think about people like that who don't have the resources or they don't have the ability to protect themselves when we talk about donald trump's, how he's completely devoid of any leadership quality that right there tells you who donald trump is. he wages attacks on the american people. >> i'm sorry. glad you brought up brian butler because he's the former mar-a-lago employee who is now a witness in the classified documents investigation kind of similar to lobby will work for trump and then wind up in these investigations. >> and we asked about the impact that that coming forward has and this is what he told us about

a great law. elsewhere in politics house speaker mike johnson will meet with former president trump today at his mar-a-lago estate. the two are expected today deliver a joint press conference, though let's be clear we don't know if they'll take questions. the subject election integrity. this meeting at mar-a-lago comes as johnson is struggling to get his party to rally around a legislative agenda, one that trump has been helping to undermine. johnson is also facing threats of being ousted by georgia representative marjorie taylor greene and a few other far right wingers. the biden campaign released this statement ahead of today's meeting writing in part, the american people do not need to hear a lecture on election integrity from two men who tried to overturn the 2020 election. it should come as no surprise that two losers, one trying to keep his job, one trying to get his old job, are teaming up to spread lies and misinformation. joining us now politics editor for bloomberg news, laura davidson. good to see you this morning. you've been following this meeting today between trump and johnson at mar-a-lago.

evan corcoran didn't find all of the documents at mar-a-lago at that time, there was more than 100 more found in the search by the fbi later on, there's gonna be a major fight whether he testifies against donald trump at the criminal trial in florida. but it is pretty significant that he has totally cleaved himself from the legal team. >> do we have any sense of when exactly that happened in if it has any actual legal significance, deliberate legal significance for the mar-a-lago case going forward? >> well i don't know if it changes anything about what we know in the mar-a-lago case, he was able to continue representing trump on this other matter january 6, as long as he wanted to, but he had taken a backseat. he wasn't the person who's primarily writing a lot of the motions and taking the case to the supreme court on presidential joel immunity in that case. but he was with trump when trump was arraigned in washington, dc related to the 2020 election, january 6, charges in the mar-a-lago case, there's going to be a really big fight coming over, whether he can be testified, whether the

trump hosted house speaker mike johnson at his mar-a-lago estate on a meeting he is calling election y. these are pictures of mike johnson, as you can see with the former president, at mar-a-lago. they are hosting this meeting in the middle of this election campaign season. they are speaking about election integrity. just earlier this week, the british foreign secretary david cameron paid mr. trump a high level visit, showing his continuing influence. as mr. trump touts electn security, two of his for criminal cases involve accusations that he tried to illegally overturn the 2020 election results. his rst criminal trial will begin next week. it is also the first criminal trial ever of a former president. he will be legally required to be present at a manhattan courtroom on monday to face 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. it stems from a $130,000 payment to former adult film star stormy daniels in 2016, allegedly meant to cover up an affair as he was running for president. trump calls the case a witch hunt. the former interpreter for japanese baseball star shohei ohtani

, and tim mccarthy totally blunted that when he went down to mar-a-lago and rick scott a few days later gave trump some award they made up at mar-a-lago. it's the same thing. these people learn nothing, and it's true for the mike johnson press conference tomorrow, but it gives the stamp of the whole party not just the rnc but the legislative wing of the party on trump's lies about 2020 again, and it continues to radicalize people. i remember in that period between november and january 6th there were two things to me really alarming. one was watching maga media like news max and far right stuff like fox and how apocalyptic they were about election fraud, and the other was getting text messages and e-mails from the rnc from these candidates and trump. and i'm reading all this stuff going, man, if people really believe this what are they going to do? and we saw what they were going to do. there are real world ramifications to this. it's not like you're sending out a voice mail and nothing happens. words have consequences. >> yeah, and they have consequences for our democracy. i do wonder, though, as a matter of political theat

republican nominee spoke about the case earlier today, alongside house speaker, mike johnson down at mar-a-lago. our own dave gutierrez has those details. >> tonight, on the eve of his manhattan hush money trial, former president trump defiant, saying he is willing to testify in his own defense, a case he slams the prosecution by democratic da. >> mr. president, do you plan to testify. >> i would testify, absolutely, it is a scam. that is not a scam, that is a scam. >> it comes as the former president restored a political lifeline to how speaker, mike johnson. >> we are getting on very well with the speaker, >> sharing the microphone in mar-a-lago, their first public event since he was elected speaker last october. the republican majority faces a threat from l.a., marjorie taylor green trying to oust him. >> he is doing a very good job, he is doing about as good as you are going to do, and i'm sure that marjorie understands that, and i know she has a lot of respect for the speaker. >> meanwhile, vice president, kamala harris was in the state of arizona today. she slammed the state's near- total

he wakes up at mar-a-lago thinking about himself. how he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control. listen to what he says. he says "i will be dictator on day one. folks, on your retribution." he promises, "a bloodbath" if he loses. this guy denies january 6. listen. listen to what he says because you know he means it. i wake every morning thinking about how to make life better like you do for working-class families here in scranton and across the country, where the power and freedom rests with you and we the people. maybe that is why millions of everyday folks are powering our campaign. so far, 1.6 million people contributed to our campaign, 550,000 brand-new this time around, and they are new contributors. that's what? 97 percent of these contributions are under $200. it matters. you matter. >> presintiden's visit to hihotown of scranton, pennsylvania, was one-stop he de in the keystone state ts week. in philadelphia on thursday, he was in by members of the kennedy family, including cary kennedy, the sister of preside

they have a history of teaming up to push out falsehoods about the elections at least to the 2020. what can we expect from today's mar-a-lago event? >> jason you bring that up? and i am told that they are going to likely relitigate the election of 2020 in addition to talking about what you mentioned, which is this issue of non-citizens voting. and i will say it is not just the mayor of tacoma park, but also some local school boards across the country. they also allow non-citizens to vote but it is not a wide-scale issue and certainly not an issue in federal elections. something that are the kind of elections that someone like donald trump or mike johnson would be folks now, i did get some pushback after talking on cnn about this issue earlier. from his team, donald trump's team, where they said, this is also about preventing in the you char non-citizens from voting. but again, there is not much data that shows that this is a wide scale problem in any capacity however, we are looking at in an election year, an election year in which immigration is a top issue. and we know that donald trump and republicans are seeking to stok

causing crimes and trying to hurt the american people, he is out there golfing and hanging out at mar-a-lago throwing parties. bending all of his time on social media attacking the courtroom and judges and jurors. where we are at right now is a moment for us as a community and country, we have to focus on the stakes. they could not be higher. donald trump is a criminal and comment and should not have the support of the american public. the republican party in congress has turned their back on democracy and doing the right thing and will do whatever they can to help him and we've got to focus and remember this is about an election that will have huge consequences on the future of our country, our families and what happens to us across america. we are being reminded with these trials how high the stakes are. >> you had a split screen this week of literally donald trump in court looking small and diminished and unpresidential and president biden across the country speaking to members of the labor union and going to florida talking about the abortion ban taking effect. the stakes for the america

couple hours here in florida, speaker mike johnson will appear alongside former president trump at mar-a-lagover remarks about election integrity two sources tell nbc news. it comes at a critical moment for johnson whose future as house speaker is in question amid scrutiny from the more conservative flank of his conference. and joining us now is ali vitali who is near mar-a-lago. very near the water. anything the speaker can do to salvage his standing among the skeptical republicans? >> near mar-a-lago, near the water. and as close as i've been to you in many, many months. this is unfortunate i think. but proximity is actually the argument for speaker johnson even being here. at least as my conversations with his republican colleagues on capitol hill would show it. they see this less about the policy that is in play here which is supposed to be centered around election integrity and specifically the idea of noncitizen voting. if you are wondering whether or not this is something that needs to be legislated around, technically no. because it is already illegal and the bar for prosecuting those

there are folks that were ron desantis and nikki haley reporters will be at mar-a-lago tonight for the $50 million make. ken griffin is a name that comes out. a few billionaire types were sitting at the presidential contest. for the most part, almost everyone is coming back. he is the nominee. we talk to a person, we may not love trump, but we do not want joe biden. when they are asked about this, it is the main line of why they decided to reverse course. >> you heard that from voters as well. it is not surprising that billionaires are coming out to support trump. many are clowning on him to be good for business. trump says he plans to take direct control of the doj and other government agencies. it is interesting. if you fall out of favor with former president trump, theoretically, your taxes or company to be investigated and he could get congress to pass a law against people he does not like. how much a rehearing for business leaders about their concerns over trump's threats when it comes to the rule of law how could hurt the economy? >> it is motivation to give to a political candid

little business of his description -- president trump: it's an honor to have you at mar-a-lago, my $18 million house on the ocean and the bay. and one of the problems we have. we have the court system that is very corrupt. we have a border that's open. we have a lot of problems in our country. and we have an election problem and that's what we are here to talk about. speaker johnson is going to be briefing you on what we discussed and what we agree on. but i would like to demand that our border be closed, because we have millions of people coming into our country, millions and millions of people are pouring in that nobody talks about. you have 15 million in. some are terrorists. they come from jails and prisons and mental institutions and insane asylums and come from all over the world, not just south america, but coming from all over the world. venezuela said their crime is down 67% because they have taken the gang leaders and members deposited them very nicely into the united states of america. not just venezuela and happening with congo and africa, asia, south america, all over the

met with the president of hungary over at mar-a-lago. met with david cameron over at mar-a-lago. a phone call with mbs. yesterday the polish president had on radio for an hour. is he a huge fan of president trump. he said we need the steady leadership. he understands the threat of russia. and they had dinner last night. speaks good english. >> lawrence: just goes to the point of what the current administration was saying that all these current world leaders are so afraid of him and they don't want to have conversation with him a lot of world leaders want him back in when they look at the state of what is going on. what i want to talk about is the state of the media and how they have been reacting. all the media people saying criminal justice reform. we want fairness in our system. watch them celebrate though. >> official name of the trial is the people of the state of new york vs. donald trump. the people of the state of new york -- that's us. [cheers] okay. hold on. hold on. i know you're excited but don't cheer too loud. we need you to get picked for jury duty. >> how do you sn

i spent last friday with president trump down at mar-a-lago and we talked a lot about that.ks of those things all the time. you have to be tough on your adversaries. the problem is, you and i both know, larry, this president is projecting weakness on the world stage. that is why all of our nation's enemies are acting so provocatively. for the israel example, president biden and chuck schumer have been criticizing israel and appeasing iran. the strategy should be exactly the opposite. we should be helping israel and they have been turning their backs on them. of course this encourages xi, it encourages china. when they see we're not going to stand strong and we're not going to put the flag in the ground so to speak and hold the line they're going to act, they're going to move. we're concerned about what china may do in taiwan. we talk about it all the time. we're certainly concerned about iran's open aggression against israel, our dear friend and ally. russia of course is still on the march in ukraine. we have to stand strong. a strong america is good for the entire world. we

his abortion position doesn't make anybody happy except for the team at mar-a-lago who hope they can this issue for a little wheel. >> that abortion policy differs from that of the president of the united states. >> yeah, that's right. i mean, the irony here is this is also an issue of which joe biden is not personally particularly comfortable talking about, but the biden administration has staked out a position here that roe v. wade should've remained the law of the land and specifically the idea that, you know, abortion policy or abortions cannot be prevented by states, cannot be -- abortion rights could not be curtailed before fetal viability which is generally considered between 15 and 24 weeks, and the idea that states beyond that are generally okay. abortion rights were to be left alone. the biden administration has also trade to make a number of executive orders and other methods to protect things like medication abortions, in states that have curtailed it. this is a very potent issue for democrats but an issue on which neither of the two candidates is especially fluent in the

going to be -- they're going to do nothing. [ laughter ] trump hosted a star-studded fundraiser at mar-a-lagoast night for a maga robot name d kari lake. it was about quite a who's who headlined by none other than roseanne barr. >> please drop out of college because it's going to ruin your life. do me a favor, drop out. they don't teach you nothing good. email me or twitter me or whatever you call me and i'll help you with life. you've good to get out of college. it's nothing but devil worshiping, baby blood drinking, democrat voters. love ya! >> "the conners," new tonight on abc. [ applause ] >> jimmy: seems like she's doing great. i remember a time when roseanne was a big democrat donor. she campaigned for bill clinton. she gave lots of money. of course, i remember a time when donald trump was a democrat too. but not anymore, i guess. here's is thing. one way you know joe biden is doing a pretty decent job as president is when you tune in to the silly things republicans are forced to complain about. >> on good friday, we went by mcdonalds and picked up a filet-o-fish, which is now about hal

now due to the fact that the speaker of the house is at mar-a-lago and with trump, his voice is swayed. i mean, to do a good job and be principled about your job is to do the will of the people and what's right for this country. you know, don't drag it down. lift it up. so i'm -- i'm just disgusted with politics right now. democrats and republicans, but just more republicans because it seems like that they -- that there's no -- what they won't go to. i mean, it's almost like, we'll do anything to get power, to retain power. >> okay. marvin in michigan is next. marvin, good morning, you're next up. >> oh, yes, good morning. >> marvin, you're going to have to turn down your television, please. >> good morning. yes, about speaker johnson, he's the least unproductive congress we've had in the last 100 something years. to me, when he was at-- he's going to mar-a-lago this weekend to meet the ring master and we can't get anything done with the border. those people out in gaza and how they're bombing the food truck, that's ridiculous. and that's got to stop and people not wanting to pass the

[ laughter ] also, i have no idea why you'd want to have your wedding at mar-a-lago of all places. e you couldn't afford chuck e. cheese. that's not fair. a wedding at chuck e. cheese would [ bleep ] kick ass. for one thing, the animatronic chuck won't interrupt your wedding to rant about voting machines or windmills killing birds. >> you want to see a bird graveyard? go under a windmill someday. [ light laughter ] >> seth: yeah! you're not going to get a chuck e. cheese tangent like that from old robert hur! [ laughter ] you wouldn't have the courage! so hur was everything republicans could have hoped for, but they were still mad at him. sean hannity even compared it to another investigation republicans are still obsessed with. >> today to me was the equivalent of july 2016 and james comey going out there stating, yeah, hillary had top secret classified information, 33,000 deleted emails, bleach pit, hammers, devices, everything we learned, but no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute. is that pretty similar? >> that's very similar. exact same. >> seth: oh my god, you guys are stil

thank you all for being here as we sift through the chaos, once again, what happened at mar-a- lago. >> that's one word for it. >> if you didn't like the big lie 1.0 there's a 2.0, is it an upgrade? what do you think of it? is it more effective? >> i mean, if the question is, does it animate from space, it does. if the question is, does it make voters who are in the middle of the electorate, who are a lot of those urban voters who won the election for joe biden along with the big turnout from the base in 2020, and who have been drifting, they are back towards trump, there in and out, they don't like biden's economy, but every time trump does this kind of thing, it just reminds people of something in our amnesiac country that can remember what happened last tuesday, donald trump wasn't so bad, we see this in the polling all the time, when trump does this, it's making it about him and when he makes it about him, he makes it chaos, and chaos in the suburbs of philadelphia and atlanta, chaos is not with those soft republican's want, that's why they ran away from him in 2020 and he keeps p

a vote of confidence there from the ates. president of the united >> of cour, trumand johnson just met on friday at mar-a-lago. there are also some questions looming about what democrats would do if there was an effort to oust johnson to democrats have already said that they would be willing to vote on a procedural step to basically put that to the side and help johnson out. it's not clear johnson wants democratic help. in fact, he told our colleague manu raju yesterday he wouldn't need the help. but if you do to the math, it looks like he's certainly going to need it if he wants to keep the speaker's gavel and then you have the impeachment of homeland security secretary. >> they walked over the articles of impeachment to the senate. now what, what is going to happen there today? >> yeah, there's sort of this pomp and circumstance that happens around impeachment proceedings in the united states senate. so at 1:00 today, senators are going to be sworn in as jurors. now after that, the question becomes, is there a trial? how big, how full is that trial? >> some conservatives are pushing majority hey, leader chuc

it's an honor to have you at mar-a-lago, my $18 million house on the ocean. it's one of the problems we have , we have the court system that is very corrupt. we have a border that's open. we have a lot of problem's our country, and we have an election problem, and that's really what we are here to talk about today. is going to be briefing you on what we discussed and speaker johnson will brief you on what we discussed, what we agreed on, but i would like to demand that our border be closed because we have millions of people coming into our country -- millions and millions are pouring in at levels that nobody will talk about, but i believe you could have 15 million already in. some are terrorists. they come from jails and prisons. they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. they are coming from all over the world. venezuela announced that their crime is down 67% because of the fact that they have taken the gang members, the leaders, and they have deposited them very nicely into the united states of america. america. not just venezuela and happening w

at his fixer to testify. i think it is a lot. they are not going to like this. >> today down at mar-a-lago, donald trump and the current house speakerupposed to talk about election integrity. instead, they were basically. mongering about undocumented immigrants, voting and how all of this is going to impact election results. which is an absurd -- is it going to help them in terms of riling up his base? >> all, look. this is the trump campaign. ignore what you can't control and change the story into all of the terrible, scary, bad, awful things for people. especially people are collar -- of color are going to do to you. what is amazing is he has turned, not only the republican party, but essentially the housing representatives and speaker mike dobson is an example of that. it becomes a subsidiary of the donald trump campaign. i think that is what this visual reinforces today. remember, mike dodson is an accidental speaker. perhaps the weakest speaker of our lifetime, if not of modern times period. he would not be in the office of donald trump had not anointed him. he is there to try to save his job. so, trump is not only the republic

stumping for her husband, the former first lady holding a fundraiser for log cabin republicans at mar-a-lago from the group of lgbtq republicans. she has been close to them for years. melania trump is kind of a reluctant campaigner to say the least, but this event is at mar-a-lago, she doesn't even have to leave home. how much we'll see her on the trail is an open question. >>> to the deciders, our series looking at the key places that could determine the outcome of the 2024 election. we're now hearing from one critical voting bloc in the battleground state of michigan, union households. nbc's yamiche alcindor has more about this. what did you learn talking to these groups? >> these voters from michigan say they don't see a candidate stance on unions as a defining factor on whether they support one person over the other in this race. instead they told us they are more focused on issues like the economy, abortion, immigration, and even housing. that said, not one of these voters said they consider former president trump's policies pro union, and only democratic voters said they considered bid

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