he asked bill barr to investigate the lincoln project. if you think that's the end of the story, it's not. he's going to do that to anybody. >> he said he wants to revoke the license of cbs, and go off to the new york times. >> he says will use both the military and the national guard to enforce these things. i mean, this is really a picture of a country that doesn't look like america at all. >> that's a scary thought. >> it is really a deeply troubling and concerning aspect of this. >> what is a harris campaign doing the final three weeks to drive this point home? i think sometimes we try to act like this is a normal campaign, we kind of try to talk about issues, we try to normalize. there is little bit of criticism earlier that tim walz will say things like, i agree there's common ground between me and jb vance what people are saying, no. there is nothing in common between any of these two sets of candidates, and that should be crystallized at every single moment of every single day. >> the stuff, the joint chief of staff said he is a f

bill barr is going to wipe away the mueller report. a terrific man, a terrific person, he will be nominated for the united states attorney general. - so the blt team had this big round table with windows. people could see in, the way you were sitting down. and rudy was like don corleone. - rudolph giuliani, the us attorney for the southern district of new york. - new york city is affected by organized crime, moreso probably than any other city in the united states. - i'd be right by his side as his soldier. - he is fascinated by the mob, and constantly talking about "the godfather." - sounds like a poor imitation of "the godfather." almost like, you know, "the godfather." this is business. - you could see his love for that mob lifestyle. everybody knew that i was so close to the president than rudy giuliani, that i was a gatekeeper. to be able to walk into a room and have all of these powerful people-- congressmen, senators-- bow down, run up to you, kiss your ass. it was amazing. the power, the rush. december 2018, we were invited to

, i'm not a bill barr stand, but he said no. he asked him to investigate the lincoln project because we opposed him. if you think that's the end of the story, it's not. he'll do that to anybody. >> you said he will arrest the journalists. he wants to go after the new york times. >> and he's saying we will use both the military and the national guard to enforce these things. i mean this is really a picture of a country that doesn't look like america at all. >> yeah. >> that's a scary thought. >> it is really a deeply troubling and concerning aspect. >> what is the harris campaign going to do in the final three weeks to drive this point home? i mean sometimes we would try to act like this is a normal campaign. we would kind of try to talk about issues. we would try to normalize. a little bit of criticism where they will say well, i agree with the common ground between me and j.d. vance when they are saying no, no, no. there is nothing common between any of these two sets of candidates. that should be crystallized at every single m

everyone from bill barr and kellyanne conway to greg jacob to bill -- who was then the campaign manager the things i noticed that is interesting, the pen shaped hole. between the january 6 committee testimony of jason miller, who was then a senior advisor and katrina pearson who was a campaign advisor that later advised the woman who gave nearly $3 million for the funding of the rally. there are 100 pages missing. if you think about alphabetically who is missing? the person that is missing could be pence and it's also the case that in the brief itself, when you look at the descriptions of the conversations between pence and trump, when you look at the page ranges it goes back to that nearly 100 page hole. and that is testimony that mike pence gave to a grand jury or gave an agreement to the special counsel's office. >> that is the reason we don't have it? >> correct. >> that reaffirms the suspicion that if and when it goes to trial, pence would be a witness came >> that is absolutely true. the supreme court said that it could go either way. to the extent that pence and trump are acting

. >> but what about when bill barr tells me trump can have all these policies that people say, well, i like his policies better, but bill barr said to me, basically his personality gets in the way he can actually achieve those policies no, i think kamala harris, his personality gets in the way to i mean, i mean, they're politicians, they're human beings, they are things about them. we like and are things about them we don't like i think politics has a couple of purposes. >> win elections and govern. and the way harris has governed last three-and-a-half years, i cannot abide it's like this is why she wasn't going after you for a vote today he's, not going after people who've already decided i work for george w bush and her dad, who would she be going after because that's not the republican party anymore, but that's those are her people. those are the people they not. >> yes. but that's not who's running as a republican this election cycle that's the whole point of this discussion she's going after the 2% of undecided, she's going after independence and she's going after republicans th

so it says hear that then attorney general bill barr decided in 2022 publicly rebut president donald trump, or he was outgoing president, false claim that the election was rigged after watching trump's spread these lies on fox news. these are the kinds of details that one can be used against him in this campaign saying these people who were closest to you were watching new lie, they were coming out against you. this was your inner circle at the time. and they saw that you were wrongdoing and two, for the american public to see that these people who were really at the time rallying around donald trump were watching this unfold in real time, thought that he was lying, thought that he was spreading these lies, and that it was dangerous. and then we're coming forward. >> yeah, that's an important thing for our viewers and for the american people to remember is that the evidence for the alleged crimes outlined in this document? comes from not just republicans, but the most stalwart trump supporting republicans who were still working for him at the end of his administration after that term

southern district of new york, where he determined that the actions of president trump, the usa, bill barr cetera, was retaliatory. alvin also added an additional line there. forget about seeing. i've never even heard about it ever happening before. and that is, he enjoined trump and barr and the government. the doj. from further inflicting any injury to my first amendment or my constitutional rights. he enjoined them from doing it. what judge enjoins the government, the president, the attorney general from interfering with someone's first amendment or constitutional rights? >> trump has a second term and reshapes the judiciary -- none, right? this is the only branch of government you had to turn to. i want you to just give folks the background, though. this was about your book. this wasn't about the original plea. >> this was about my book. he was afraid that the book, disloyal, was critical of him, and he didn't want the book to be published. so they created a fraudulent document to have me sign that completely impeded on my first amendment constitutional right. when i refused to sign th

he was trying to surround himself with loyalists and to do what he wanted, but he had people like bill barr and others around him that said we are not going to do that. that makes no sense. so now he is saying i don't want that. i want people who are going to do what i say regardless of their oath to the constitution, regardless of the law. that is not a person that i feel like should appeal to anybody, not to mention independents, quote unquote. he wants what he wants personally. in this particular instance, i would say he wants to be president again because he wants to be vengeful. but on top of that he does not want to do with the legal challenges he is facing. if he gets back in office, the vast majority of that goes away, if not all of it, and he gets to do whatever he wants in office with no consequence. host: professor, any comments on that? guest: the partisan frustration -- most voters are not that left or that right. the color earlier commented about the quality of candidates. i think when i talk to my students, they are often surprised at who our nominees are. how did we get ther

bill barr changed the policy in 2020 when he directed u.s.orneys to investigate potential fraud before certification but after voting ended. right now the policy says nothing the be done until after certification bringing into question does it have a lot of teeth to it? back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. bill, i think you have something more. >> bill: we do. breaking news now. philadelphia said in a courtroom a change a moment ago with regard to this challenge that elon musk and his $1 million voter sweepstakes. he is targeting swing state voter, pennsylvania is one of them. who sign a petition to support the first and second amendments and respect the u.s. constitution. now the progressive d.a. in philadelphia says the giveaway violates consumer protection laws. want to bring in kerri urbahn. i motion was made to move it to federal court. what happens now? >> so now it's out of the hands of the state court. it is a good conclusion. we have to think about who is going after elon musk right now. larry krasner, he is a self-described prog

bill barr. any of the people that work inside the administration.owledge, what evidence, what you have? show us. they can't produce a single piece. we are also waiting for the guy. >> 60 court cases. rudy giuliani was left out of every courtroom in 2020. right? >> hair coming down the side of his face. >> now the man is homeless. that is how lying for donald trump will lead you. a suit that cost him $622 million. they will tell the truth. this is under oath. otherwise, they are stepping inside. >> he got caught for it. >> he had a little one in his pocket. the fact of the matter is, anyone who had eyes and ears on january 6, knows that was not anyone's lovefest. somebody died that day over 140 officers were be in that day. many of them still have post dramatic stress disorder and have had to leave their job -- leave their jobs because of that day. the fact that donald trump is up here, talking about him pardoning all of the people, amen. he plays there january 6th song, instead of our national anthem. how is that patriotism? how does that pass for p

secretary of state, bill barr, attorney general, john kelly, mark mille, mark defense secretary, dan coats who was in charge of the national e out to issue dire warnings about donald trump. a lot of others, you can see they are not endorsing trump, . let me read something about someone who spent every day with donald >> i have spoken to trump many times about some of these people that have crossed him. i askehi to rely on advice last time. now he knows peopl >> robin: thank you, both. dead and two u.s. service members injured. our chief global affairs correspot isis remains a threat and there are still thousands of u.s. service members in the region hunting th d targeted top isis leaders and k. seven u.s. servi m from january to june of this at that rate, isis is on pace to more than double the number of attacks they claimed in 2023. george? cdc say it's linked to mcdonald's quarter pounder od morning, mola.en states. >> reporter: good morning, the hardest hit, right here in stnationwide outbreak linked to mcdonald's quarter pounders. 49 people in 10 states have investigators focusin

you predicted on the bill barr show that trump was going to win in 2016 and his chin hit the desk. do you have any predictions for 2024 for? thanks a lot. guest: thank you. i want to predict trump three days after he was announced and that was because of the issue of immigration. i cannot stress this enough, whether it is here, western europe, whether it is donald trump or boris johnson, the british voted for brexit. they will not stop. i have no predictions for this race. i will say -- all year i have been saying, not necessarily publicly, that trump is going to lose, trump is going to lose, trump is going to lose. the night of the debate, which i have to say shocked me, shocked me, because they shot biden up with enough drugs that he was fine during the state of the union address is. i was blown away. i was watching it in a roomful of democrats and live tweeting it. at the end of the evening, i said, thank you for the best night of my life. so that was pretty amazing. after that, i said my thoughts, wow, trump really has a chance now. now, i just don't know. i think any other rep

bill barr resigned because there was no fraud and he was getting pressured as attorney general to sayre was fraud. it's unequivocal and unquestionable that donald trump lost. they cannot say it. what that means is they will be happy to say the same big lie once again in 2024 if the opportunity presents itself. we know it will because trump has already been saying that. >> history repeats. speaker johnson, i was talking to secretary mayorkas about the hurricanes and hurricane recovery and another one coming to the coast of florida, expected to come to the coast of florida. johnson said despite the damage, congress can wait to reconvene and boost federal disaster relief and it. he said it will take time to assess the damage. lawmakers are not scheduled to return to session until november 12. are you concerned, can congress wait? >> i am concerned about it. we passed an additional $20 billion of funding for fema and the continuing resolution in september. there is some money for immediate needs, but what the republicans refuse to acknowledge is because of climate change, fema has three t

what donald trump, bill barr the department of justice, bureau of prisons did to me. the unconstitutional re-manse of the united states citizen to give me the first political prisoner in this country to be held by my own country because i would not waived my first amendment constitutional right. if you want to use tim walz comment, that was a practice play. now that he knows how to get away with it, i suspect there will be many more people that will be incarcerated at simply donald's whim and because he deems them to be a critic. >> he knows more now. that's one of the things i've thought about. he's surrounded himself with a running mate is willing to implement a speaker of the house implements. thank you, both. coming up, jack smith shows us a his cards and the details are damning for donald trump. we will be back after a quick break. quick break. ♪♪ i take once-daily jardiance ♪♪ ♪♪ at each day's staaart. ♪♪ ♪♪ as time went on it was easy to seeee, ♪♪ ♪♪ i'm lowering my a1c! ♪♪ jardiance works twenty-four seven in your body to flush out some sugar. and for adults w

robert o'brien, nikki haley, bill barr, the list goes on, of all of these national security professionalskamala harris. look what's happening in the middle east. look what's happening in russia. look at what china is about to do. look at afghanistan. we just can't do it, and ari melber can't understand it, he lives in this narrow world of msnbc cable news but there is a thing called global security that gordon sondland gets. ari melber needs to venture outside the confines of his small msnbc studio. >> judge jeanine: how bad a job did joe and kamala have to do to get a main impeachment witness in the trump impeachment to turn around and say their policies are existential he dangerous for us and our allies? >> jesse: they had to do such a bad job for people to now be coming around after january 6th. remember this guy got dragged into this hearing in front of the bright lights, he had to pay lawyers, and just testify under the worst possible conditions, and he kind of had to turn on his boss, and it was so awkward, and everybody hated him. and then they have to just destroy the country at t

former attorney general bill barr changed the four decade policy in 2020, when he directed u.s.on, but after voting ended, charles, thank you very much. david, so much, so much. hope the lawyers don't get too much involved. thanks. all right, folks. after trump says apple ceo tim cook reached out, what is susan lee finding out? we're going to find out in a moment. and on this day of trick or treating, we're looking at the goodies both presidential contenders are promising. the question, of course, is who's going to pay for it? energy is like a symphony. every note, every chord, every instrument creates an incredible melody of power and possibility. and for homeowners, that possibility sounds like savings. by choosing propane for home heating and appliances like stoves, clothes dryers, and water heaters, you save money on energy expenses. all while reducing your family's carbon footprint. learn more about safe, clean, reliable propane at propane.com/home. i love that my daughter still needs me, but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands. so i use nerv

and even bill barr and mike pence. those people won't be there if there were to be a second trump term. and the supreme court has said that donald trump, and any president, can do whatever they want with impunity. these are deadly serious threats, we have to take seriously. we have many, many good reasons to vote for kamala harris, who is smart and wants to unify the nation. she's got programs and policies to help working people with the concerns they have about high cost, housing, groceries, and healthcare and medicare and social security. but donald trump poses a deadly serious threat, and people need to understand what is at stake. >> ambassador, give us your overall thoughts as we head into its last full week of campaigning. both candidates preparing their closing arguments just nine days out from election day. let's get your perspective on -- >> it's obviously going to be a very close election, al. as you know, i have spent the last several weeks out in arizona, is where i am now, and i will be here through the el

if you recall, when bill barr moved to dismiss the indictment against michael flynn -- rightfully so,an, refused to do it. and so flynn had to be pardoned, ultimately, before trump left office. so it'll be litigated, i think ultimately, president trump will win that. but it won't be quick and easy. will: it won't go through dismissal, you're saying. it'll be litigated, being a sitting president actually wouldn't change the equation in that particular case, even if you were able to get jack smith replaced. two to to the state side, because there's a couple of those as well, mote notably right here in -- most notely, right here in new york. >> obviously, he's got a a lot less influence over the state cases. he can't just go in and order the states to dismiss the cases. right now he's got statutory and constitutional issues being litigated n -- in the new york case where the verdict was against him, and in the georgia case. it hasn't gone to trial yet. but even assuming that the he loses his constitutional and statutory arguments there, it's hard for me to believe that the u.s. supreme c

former counselor to attorney general bill barr. what does all of this tell you?i think it says that the justice department and judge chutkan are, to use the language that they use against donald trump, desperate to get the last ditch effort into influence the election and here's why. i think the january 6 the voter has already made up their mind either way. we have been hearing the same information that the doj put forth in the 145 page small book, 1625 page for four years. we heard it from doj, we heard from media, and we heard from donald trump himself. two things can be true at once. you can have a former president that behaved poorly around the election and about it and you can have a department of justice that is behaving poorly now in releasing this information just several weeks out. it is stuff that we already know. i put more blame on the judge in this particular situation because she controls the briefing schedule peered she could have very well made this do after the election. we saw a number of judges delay until after the election. they knew they wer

i see bill barr's name wase mentioned. that is nice.rs interested i did a hell of a good job.ybody else. they signed a document over 300 people. the presnts will not put it out. thi'm so glad, thank you for ths question. i had over 300 of the top people intelligence, generals, everybody, from the administration saying, "trump was a great president." but the press won't put it out. we have a very, very dishonest press.oing overtime, they are doing pretty badly. k you this,t me as you mentioned your father said "never say the word nazi." even mbc showing madison square garden as a nazi rally and i will get to your closing arguments, but what is interesting if you want to talk about embodiment of evil, stalling, hitler, mussolini,hi they are pounding this and the closing argument and this is the are in.hingwe >> former president trump: the only thing they can doy becausi had the best economy in history and the strongest border wall and 500 miles of wall and without that wall, nobody could do anything remember they used to say you don't need a wallet that what will you do send som

former attorney general bill barr changed the four-decade policy in 200 the when he -- 2020 when he directedinvestigate potential fraud if before certification but after voting ended, stuart. stuart: david, thank you very much. elon musk says that he wants to cut government spending by at least $2 trillion. joining me now is georgia congressman and house budget committee member buddy carter. congressman, there's widespread skepticism that he can actually get this done. can you tell me how he's going to cu cut $2 trillion out of the budget? if. >> well, first of all, it can be done. we can cut $2 trillion out of the budget. keep in mind now -- stuart: but how? hold on a second. congressman, i'm sorry, but $2 trillion, it's an enormous amount of money. or -- how's he going to do it? >> well, our budget is enormous amount of money, let me remind you. but even through executive action, just by executive action, the biden harris has spent $911.22 -- 1.22 trillion. there you have it, waste, fraud and abuse. let me assure you, as a member of the budget committee, i can assure you there is plenty of

mike pence, james mattis, john bolton, mark esper, bill barr, nikki haley.t goes on and on, some of them calling trump a threat to democracy itself. we literally ran out of space to fit all the comments here. how do you make sense of it? a lot of these are national security and military folks, they're worried enough by what they experienced inside the trump administration, that they are now speaking out against trump. but they aren't going so far to say that they would vote for harris. >> well, i find that rather not surprising, but unconscionable on their part, because they know that if they are not going to support kamala harris and vote for her, this is something that's going to benefit donald trump. and all of those individuals that you showed on the screen, these were people who thought that they could keep donald trump on track. but they saw up close and personal that his actions, his private comments and decisions were very much consistent with a lot of the rhetoric we're hearing from him, which, again, is so inconsistent with what our country has sto

his attorney general, bill barr said that again. so it sounds like you're setting up the same question of free and fair. when that is what we saw. again, do you see a scenario where he will take a different approach? this election year? >> well, we are setting things up differently from the rnc standpoint and we instead of having to respond days, weeks, or months later to any issue that we might have are going to have people in the room every time a vote is cast and counted so that we can ensure if there is any question about anything we're addressing it right then in that moment and we're not waiting later those lawsuits you referenced by the way, the asked majority of them were not dismiss based on merit. there were dismissed on clerical errors. and if you go back and look at that election, let's just be honest everybody watching this understands that was a very different, very unique election laws were changed state-by-state illegally. it's the state legislature that decides the voting laws in each state that didn't happen. and i

he mentioned bill barr and a few others. the court will not take that up.ever that case is dead. we'll see. 46 past the hour now. >> dana: any moment in new york city jury selection getting underway in the trial of daniel penny. the former marine charged with killing a homeless man on the subway. cb cotton is live outside the courthouse with this story and we've been waiting with great interest for this trial to get started cb. >> that's right. moments ago chants were echoing outside the courthouse people demanding justice for jordan neely, the homeless man who died after being placed in a choke hold by marine veteran daniel penny. protestors may show up for penny soon. there are high stakes for this case. penny faces up to 19 years if prison if convicted on the charges. you may remember he pleaded not guilty to second degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. his defense team says penny did not intend to hurt or kill him only hold him down until police arrived. prosecutors only have to prove penny acted recklessly and was negligent. witnesses

his own attorney general, bill barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud. time and time again republicans and democrats have accepted results of the election. but this time, unlike last time, i think people are ready. the electoral count act has been clarified on a clearly bipartisan basis with everyone on our rules committee including mitch mcconnell voting for those changes. i chair that committee -- except for ted cruz. we have really gotten the word out to americans to vote early, to get their ballots in. and i just don't think he's going to be able to do this again because people are onto them. that was a part of kamala's message last night. we are the ones that have to stand up for our country. >> senator amy klobuchar. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >>> we have breaking news now from the supreme court, which is allowing the state of virginia to move ahead with a purge of its voter roles. this is after a lower court found that the purge was happening too close to election day. let's get more from nbc's ken dilanian. fill us in, ken.

bill barr broke with trump over january 6 and now backing trump and many other trump vets have many challengesn deciding who to endorse. look at consequences just of working for him. a higher rate than any other first term administration of what you see on you're screen. indictments and convictions all on behalf of donald trump, many of them as you see charges, steve bannon in prison. and broadening out businesses exposed over the year because of this same factor i'm telling you about. the actual testimony and witness statements by people who work for him, you could see that people convicted and many others who help lead to these convictions by saying what they saw trump and his allies in his organizations and his enterprises do. this matters and if it matters any time, let me tell you something, october, a month out, it matters right now. so, where are we going? you say, okay, ari, you walk through all of this. what are we talking about? the whole point of principle is that it operates on a higher plane than all of the other different policy differences. or matters of style or what you need i

bill barr resigned, because there was no fraud, and he was getting pressured as attorney general to sayre was fraud. it is unequivocal, and unquestionable that donald trump lost. but they cannot say it. what that means is, they will be happy to say the same, big lie once again in 2024, if the opportunity presents itself, and we know that it will, because donald trump is already saying that. >> history repeats, it is important to be clear about it. speaker johnson, also, i was just talking to secretary mayorkas about the hurricanes, hurricane recovery, and of course another coming to the coast of florida, expected to come to the coast of florida. speaker johnson said, despite the damage, congress can wait to reconvene and both one would think that a real disaster relief fund. he said, they will take time to assess the damage. that part may be fair, but lawmakers are not scheduled to return to session until november 12th. are you concerned? you can congress wait? >> i am concerned about it. we passed an additional $20 billion of funding for fema in the continuing resolution in september.

served with him his attorney general general kelly has narrated several but his attorney general, bill barr said that donald trump is a narcissist. >> he is a troubled man. he should not be reelected. john bolton, his national security advisor, has said, donald trump is danger to our national security and many others that have been talked about have, have said that this person does not deserve to be the commander in chief and president of united states i condemn his treatment of this hero of hours, this young lady and his family and but it does not, it did not surprise me mr. khan. >> i so appreciate you taking the time to be here and to express your views and to remind us of not the enemies from within, but the heroes, including your beloved. thank you so much thank you ahead coming only two weeks out from the election, and governor tim walz are leaning into it on the campaign trail. that donald trump said, i need the kind of generals that hitler had boiling water and think this is okay. >> when you have kids, you get opinion what happened, men begged by eight under 65 degrees outside and

what donald trump, bill barr, the bureau of prisons did to me, the unconstitutional remand of the united states citizen, making me the first political prisoner in this country to be held by my own country because i wouldn't wave my first amendment constitutional right, what that was for trump, if you want to use a tim walz sort of comment, that was a practice play. now that he knows exactly how to get away with it, i suspect that there's going to be many, many more people that will be incarcerated at simply donald's whim, and simply because he deems them to be a critic. >> he knows more now. i think that's one of the things i thought about a lot. is also surrounded himself with a running mate that is willing to implement a speaker of the house. harry dunn, michael cohen. thank you so much. and coming up, jack smith shows us his cards, and the details are damning for donald trump. they are coming up after a very quick break. quick break. lakesha: childhood cancer is-- it's a long road. it's hard. but st. jude has gotten us through it. st. jude is hope that you have a chance at life. and i

all these wild claims in 2020 and they never presented any evidence and his own attorney general, bill barr said that it was bs i mean, we could go on and on if we go down that rabbit hole. but why do you think he is? yeah. go ahead. >> well, i was going to say it is, it is interesting that the republican national committee and trump campaign say they will have 200,000 poll workers or poll watchers in the polling places. that means any of the relevant jurisdictions where there could be actual evidence of real fraud they will have people on the ground to produce it so you're either going to hear about that evidence on election day or it is pretty good evidence in court that none of the charges of fraud have any evidence behind and i do want to get your reaction to this big decision at the supreme court allowing virginia to purge suspected noncitizens from voter registration rolls. >> were you surprised by that decision? and the court weighing in right before the election? >> i was most surprised by the court weighing in, but before the election, mean the decision itself may result in some pe

that includes john bolton, mark milley, jim mattis, bill barr, all of them sounding the alarm on donald trump. but what it would mean if you he was elected once again, but i want to point to what trump has said himself. he has in the past made very clear that he wants to massively expand the power of beneath the executive branch if he is in office, he's talked about using the military to round up migrants in the united states to deport that. he also often praises authoritarian leaders. he talks about it's even paying, and vladimir putin being tough guys. and we heard him actually use some of that rhetoric last night when he was campaigning in north carolina, take a listen to what he said he's a fierce individual. >> the depress the fake news hates when i say that he's a brilliant man he runs one 1.4 billion people with an iron fist he's a fierce man. >> i got along with him very well. >> putin. >> these are people that are tough people. kim jong un and north korea, nuclear weapons all over the place. i said, do you ever do anything else go to a game, do something. >> he loves producing

yeah, over 300 people from the administration, the most respected people i see, even bill barr's name was mentioned. i said, well, that's nice because he understood. look, he understood. i did a hell of a good job and so did everyone. they signed a document over 300 people. the press will not put it out. i'm so glad you asked. thank you for asking this question, but i had over 300 of the top people from intelligence generals, everybody from the administration saying trump was a great president, but the press won't put that out. they just don't. look, we have a very, very corrupt and dishonest press. and i think with time it gets better because they're all doing pretty badly. let me ask you this. you mentioned your father said, never say the word nazi and you even have nbc news showing comparing madison square garden to the nazi rally. and i'll get to msg in a second and i'll get to your closing arguments. but what's interesting is if you want to talk about the embodiment of evil, you talk about stalin, hitler, mussolini. and they are they are pounding this. that is their closing argum

again, we've also heard criticisms from i'm mark milley, from jim mattis from john bolton, from bill barr. a lot of people who had served with him and i think the timing of these comments is important. because i think you're really seeing people on the 11th hour now say a lot of this publicly and to that point as well, kelly, this isn't entirely surprising from him. he has been very critical hello, donald trump in the past. and i know privately, he has made similar comments about what has been said, the conversations between the two of them. i think the reason that he's taking it public now is clear so because he wants this to be seen in front of voters right before this november 5 election. now, look when i talked to other trump advisers about this, this is really that statement i just read is kind of, you know, all of what they are saying. they're pushing back on this, they're saying the generals who had served with him or those who have been criticizing donald trump over some of these comments that they argue are not true. they're saying this is because donald trump has since turned on

there hundreds and their background quotes where he would routinely talked to his attorney general bill barrarresting and execute and critics. so it's not you have that's one example. there's so many that's donald trumps fantasy of what he would like to do with the presidency now there are many institutional constraints on the president actually sending out the military to round up and kill people, criticized them, and probably the military would regarded as an, as an illegal order and probably not do it. but it's interesting directionally, how does donald trump's mind work? what does he think the president is? here's the thing that i if you go to the poorest town in the united states and go to the mena street and find the most desperate hobo. and you're president of the united states, that person is your boss, but donald trump thinks that he is the ruler and these institutions answer to him and he should be allowed to, if you would like, to be able to arrest, kill and expelled from the country, anyone who criticizes him and jd vance as problem when he has to deal with this, is vance's is an

i mean, i think the first maybe most prominent is the former attorney general bill barr, who has certainly argued that i wonder, what do you say to those republicans who argue that? because they like his policies better than hers, that it's worth voting for him even if they think he's not fit for office well, you know, all of a space that as republicans, we could say, well, i'm not going to vote for the former president. >> we have a lot of people saying that, but i just can't bring myself to vote for a democrat in 2016, i voted for but third-party candidate, 2020. i voted for joe biden and i've thought since 2016 you you need to not just lodge a protest vote you have to vote for the alternative and so that's what i've done. i think that that are not telling my fellow republicans what to do but that's what i think should be done. >> but in your view, if you're not voting for donald trump, but also not voting for harris, you view it as a wasted vote it can be seen that way like i say, i know kamala harris, i know tim walz and i think that they would represent frankly conservative values bet

basically they're making these videos, which is what we saw in 2020 when there were all these reports, bill barrened it to whack-a-mole about fake ballots, stolen ballots, mail-in ballots showing up in a story, sewage drain what are we learning about this tonight? >> well, the fbi, the director of national intelligence, where i want served the sisa people all believed that this is created and amplified by the russians. and what they're not saying is the people probably behind it. and you brought up tangentially the ira or the internet research office that worked in the first trump campaign to promote disinformation. and 2016 election. >> that's right. and you remember but the muller report said that they were working in that campaign trying to sway votes. but there was no collusion between the vacant identified between the trump team and the russians that was run by yevgeny prigozhin, who fell out in the ukraine war with putin and died in a mysterious plane crash. and then emerge storm 15 and 16 which is the group that has been pretty prolific at putting out disinformation usually starts with a

robert o'brien, nikki haley, bill barr. the list goes on of all theseriy national security professionals who say we can't endorseendo kamala harris. look what's happening in the middle east. look what's happeninrse ka whatg in russia. look what china is about to do. look at afghanistan. we jus china .t can't do it. a >> and ari melberri can't understand it. he lives in this narro er can'twc cabl world of msnbc cable news. >> but there's this thing called global securitythat g that gordon sondland gets. ari melber needsnd venture outside of the confines of his small msnbc studio. >>e his you know, jesse, how bad a job did joe and kamala to dome to get a main impeachment witness in the trump impeachmeness in tt to tun around and say their policies he are existentially dangerous for us? ourthey have to have done such a bad job for people to now be coming around after january 6. remember, judge, this guy got dragged afd into this hearinghao in front of the bright lights he had to pay lawyer ps and just testify under the worst p

, i mean, the notice, they have in this document in this pleading, they include attorney general bill barr, who is basically saying what he what he saw and fox news. so i him saying that there was widespread fraud and came to say no, there actually was not looked into the matter and beyond trying to show there is evidenced that he was on notice that was not actually going to happen did not happen. it was not happening. how persuasive would that be to this judge? not to a jury, but to this judge? >> well, i mean, i'm sure that this judge it'll be very persuasive, but you have to remember, this is just the prosecutor's brief right? and it is cherry-picked of what he thinks is going to be the most favorable. obviously, it's omitting anything that would be favorable to the defense, and there is going to be a response and as i heard, they just asked for an extension of the response, so we're not going to see that risk. >> is it past the election so funny how that happened and the reality is when you get 166 page filing, you need more than two weeks to respond to it. >> and so once you have the

vance massive amount of debating skill, but there is the reality that all of it is, to quote bill barrit. he's likely to attack democratic women, and the other is lgbtq plus issues. here is what j.d. vance believes, this is from him. the more white people feel like voter for trump, the more black people will suffer. i'm counting my lucky stars that i don't have to vote for her because the margin will be so huge because i could never support trump. he's just a bad man, a morally reprehensible human being. i worry most of all about how welcome muslim citizens feel in their own country but i believe people have believed crazy shift and there have demagogues, what seems different to me is the republican party offers nothing that is as tractive as the demagogue. >> i love that guy. >> that is the terrifying part. as you said, he's a shape shifter. and he's so good at flat out just lying calmly. bald faced about his policy positions. his own real feelings. and this act that he's putting on to be, you know, the sycophant to donald trump. so, again, agree with tim, tim walz' job tonight is to

bill barr also said it was a safe election. he left the administration.ith it or afterwards not believing the outcome. we have seen this movie before and that's why we have issued this report. it is on rules.senate.gov for people to look at so they understand what each of these battleground states, key presidential states, how their rules work, how many people have been voting by mail. it really helps people give them the information they need so they don't get sucked in by this misinformation. >>> coming up, our next guest isn't partisan but he is fighting against the disinformation that threatens americans' elections. we will ask pennsylvania secretary of state about conspiracies, the voting process and what to expect on election night. "morning joe weekend" is back in a moment. when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am... being me. keep being you... and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in many p

your former colleagues on the mueller team at the table talking about the successful effort that bill barr undertook to smear, mischaracterize the results of that 23-month investigation. it's clear that when donald trump is the person who has been investigated, that without the actual facts and the evidence before the public, donald trump will lie about every last facet of it and in this case we're here less than 24 hours after the vice presidential debate where it's like an earth one -- it's like an "snl" skit. the only reason we covered the j.d. vance/tim walz debate is because donald trump sought to have mike pence hung by their own supporters. and to the piece of testimony that made lisa rubin as level-headed a colleague as i have gasp at the prospect of mike pence being killed or harmed, donald trump's -- what jack smith found was that donald trump's response was, quote, "so what." what do you think the impact could be of this firsthand witness testimony from mike pence and other of the inner most circle from donald trump's white house and campaign? >> i think for people who already u

you mentioned attorney general bill barr. says you shouldn't be president again. calls you the consummate narcissist and troubled man. you recently called barr a gutless pig. your second defense secretary is not supporting you. called you irresponsible. this week you called your white house chief of staff john kelly weak and ineffective and born with a very small brain. you called your acting white house chief of staff nick mulvaney a born loser. you called your first secretary of state rex tillerson dumb as a rock and your first defense secretary james mattis the world's most overrated general. you called your white house press secretary milquetoast and multiple times you've referred to your transportation secretary elaine chao as mitch mcconnell's china-loving wife. so why did you hire all of them in the first place? >> because i hired 10 to 1 that were fantastic. >> damning even a year later. but then trump of course called that interview unfriendly, called it nasty, because he didn't like the truth being reflected back at him. >> we know he's a troubled adoles

there will be no bill barr. there will be no jim mattis. there will be no john kelly.be no don mcgahn. there will be no esper. there will be no one who is capable of saying to this man no. you can't do this. this is not loyalty to the constitution. this is not the rule of law. this is not how you use the military. and he tried to do this in his first administration. he tried to put john kerry in jail. he tried to talk people into charging hillary clinton with a crime. he went to great lengths to try to charge john kerry with a crime for talking to a foreign government while he after being president is on speed dial with the world's enemies, with our enemies, putin and all of the bad guys he's talking to. and that's not legal in our system. you don't do that as a private citizen. you don't undercut the government. so all of this, if you put all these pieces together, it paints such a clear picture. and that's what obama was talking about today. do we have the strength as a nation to look at that picture and make the right decision? >> it is an extraordinary piece of rep

committee, as i did, and saw her question, without a teleprompter, without a script, the likes of bill barrbrett kavanaugh and sort of reduce them to -- i mean, they're all powerful people in their own right and in their own orb its, she reduced every one of them in a way that she's the only common denominator. so i think there was -- perfect analogy. to see it all in a retail political campaign, maybe is the new feature. but she's been who she is. >>> there's much more about the state of the race. there's what's going on on the other side, it's really, really dark, but it may be informed by the same things we're talking about in the polls. at least it's possible. we'll talk about the state of the race with four weeks to go and the fears that donald trump could once again see that he's lost and try to overturn another defeat. and incite his followers to violence. we'll show you what he's saying. >>> bomb shell new reporting about the disgraced ex-president bizarrely intimate relationship with vladimir putin. it comes from bob's new book. donald trump sent vladimir putin covid tests in 2020

the really dangerous thing is the enablers, mitch mcconnell and bill barr, lampooned by him, targetedat do you do if you love the democracy and like the experiment to continue, but there are men and women who know better who are unwilling to protected it. >> you're right, the experiment. we've experimented once. and tom is right about the autocrat. but you are also right as dictator. donald trump wants to break the underpinnings of this nation, the framework of this nation. he's never, ever, and you can check it out in history, he has never, ever followed rules. he's always crossed the line. he has never -- even before he was president, even before he thought about it, he was in trouble with the law. and at this point, donald trump it seems like wants to walk away from the constitution, as you said, but the question is, will his constitution, project 2025, that we are so upset about, so what do you do in this moment? you have to really take a look, a hard look, if you say you're a patriot, being a patriot is following the constitution, following what george washington put in place, th

in the southern district of new york, he determined that the actions of president trump, the usa bill barrtory. alvin hellerstein added that he did something i never -- forget about seeing, i never heard of it happening before. and that is he enjoined trump and barr and the government, the doj, from furthering infliction, any injury to my first amendment or constitutional rights. he enjoined them from doing it. what judge enjoins the government, the president, the attorney general from interfering with someone's first amendment or constitutional rights? >> well, if trump has a second term and reshapes the judiciary, none, right? i mean, this was the only branch of government you had to turn to. give folks the background. this wasn't -- this was about your book, not about the original plea? >> no, this was about my book. he was afraid that the book, "disloyal," was critical of him and didn't want it published. so they created a fraudulent document to have me sign that completely impeded my first amendment constitutional right. when i refused to sign the document, they asked me to wait in th