and nikki haley, writing two checks for a lot of money to chris christie. now, i'm appear asking for your vote because i'll tell you guys, we could do more of the same and it's in one of these guys. i'm different i'm common sense grounded i am one of you and were in this fight together and i humbly ask for your support. i want to serve as your governor. >> jack ciattarelli. >> bill spadea you did what chris creech was trying to qualify for financial primary, he had them on the radio show, gave him a favorable 30 minute interview and tried to help them raise money to qualify for the presidential primary. that's when trump was running for president. when trump was running -- when trump was run for president you said he was beaten, he was tired, he lacked courage, he lacked commitment, he should've resigned and let joe biden fail. finish a job. he was a failure and you endorsing ron desantis. jon bramnick said he would drop out of this race if donald trump one. we got crises in this day and we need a series candidate, a serious candidate who brings very positi

larry: i hope he does better than chris christie.t of. >> hard to miss chris christie. larry: nothing nicer donald trump at the speedway, with his grand daughter, this is most beautiful visual, why trump is popular. there he is. focusing -- you can see it look at this picture. that is worth thousands of -- millions of votes beast lapped the speedway. if we have that, and just like the beast, like trump is lapping the democratic party. joe concha democrats do not know what to do about these visuals or stories. >> flooding zone on hourly basis. he did a live pressure before announcing new tariffs. between super bowl 127 million viewers on-linier tv, all-time record on fox, then daytona 500 on fox, 20 million viewers there he just knows how to seize the moment, and from democrats if you look at l li a giant singing in dc in front of federal building. larry: a lot of f-bombs. >> mark simone, democrats cannot catch up, he will continue the blitz. >> daytona 500 they don't realize how important nascar s someone said if you don't understand

let's get more on this now from former new jersey governor chris christie and former white house chieff staff rahm emanuel, back from his tour as u.s. ambassador to japan and chris, let me start with you. you're also a former prosecutor. you're close with chris wray, the former director of the fbi. you have a lot of sources in and around the community. what are you hearing about all this? >> you know, george, i wouldn't use a word like panic when it relates to the men and women of the fbi because they work under really stressful situations, but i will tell you that they are stunned by what's happening. when you talk about the list that they were asked for -- let's remember something. none of these agents who worked on the january 6th cases volunteered. that's not the way it works. in fact, at the fbi, they do the opposite. they don't want you volunteering and self-selecting because that may mean you bring bias to it. you select these people. they were instructed by their bosses to work on the january 6th cases, and what happened as a result of that? hundreds of convictions in front of

larry: i hope he does better than chris christie. >> it's hard to miss chris christie. at the speedway with his granddaughter is the most beautiful viz usual ever. trump is so darn popular and really see it up on the wall. look at that picture. a picture is worth thousands, millions of votes. and of course the beast lapped the speedway. if we have that and just like the beast, just like trump is lapping the democratic party. joe concha, the democrats do not know what to do about these kinds of visuals or stories that trump does routinely. >> flooding the zone on an hourly basis and just did a live presser before announcing new tariffs as well and other executive orders. yeah, between the super bowl that had 127 million viewers on linear tv. larry: whoa. >> all time record on fox and going for the daytona 50 and 20 million viewers there and he knows how to seize every moment. then what do we see from the flip screen. going for federal dc buildings on weekdays or a lot of loud noises and screaming. larry: f bombs rather than the solution. >> right. larry: mark simon, demo

that would be chris christie.ristie and jack smith are in public cloud agreement about how dangerous something donald trump is doing, we will pay attention. we do not know what happens next. but we do know that today, the task of upholding the rule of law fell not to the department of justice. it fell to one judge here in new york. upholding the rule of law. used to be the job, used to be something that all three branches of government at least cared about. but this president and this congress are not at the table anymore. so now it falls to that one branch, which is under excruciating pressure. and if we come up short there, that's because the system wasn't set up that way. it wasn't supposed to do that. but here we are. and that we are here is extraordinary and unprecedented in and of itself. for that conversation here at the table, former top official at the department of justice. msnbc legal analyst andrew weissmann back. also joining us, msnbc legal analyst. former s.d.n.y. criminal division deputy chief chri

that's a former prosecutor and republican governor, chris christie, on the purge at the fbi and doj,ated the convicted sedition and attacks on the capitol on january 6th. so the doj is basically involved now under trump with trying to not only investigate the investigators, but oust people who helped protect against and enforce against one of the worst attacks in the capitol in our history. several fired january 6th. prosecutors were seen also entering the us attorney's office today. returning materials. senate democrats say this is a national security threat. meaning, as you heard chris christie say, in addition to it being wrong and against the rule of law, it also disables clearly necessary national security functions without a plan to replace them. and lawyers for ousted officials are saying that there will be a response to this assault on national security, and they will continue to object to this legally through all available legal means, which could involve suing the trump administration. we have a very special guest now, former federal prosecutor brendan bilal, who was involv

struck by a moment a little over a year ago by a republican primary debate megyn kelly asked chris christie why he did not favor a ban on gender transition surgery for minors. the former new jersey governor answered with this, he we are out there saying we should empower parents in education, i agree. we should empower parents to be teaching the values that they believe in their homes without the government telling them what those values should be and yet, we want to take other parental rights away? i'm sorry, as a father of four, i believe there's no one who loves my children more than me. every once in a while parents are going to make decisions we disagree with, but the minute you take those rights away from parents, you don't know what rights are going to be taken away next. many in the audience that night were probably dumbfounded. there are similar contradictions on the left side of the aisle, does party that generally favors more government intervention and support now find the government hopefullily flawed and biased. none other than al sharpton stood by a family sued, and a 4-year-

chris christie is so happy that this guy is back.sin caroline kennedy had attacked him as being unqualified to become hhs secretary. the way she is reacting, you would think her uncle drowned his secretary. it makes you think, right? donald trump says he is using his emergency powers to increase water flow to california. and water is so plentiful in l.a. they had to move tom cruise to higher ground. l.a. mayor karen bass says pacific palisades will be rebuilt by an outside consultant, i think we have a picture. cnn brian stelter reviewed karoline leavitt first white house press briefing and coded theater. he knows theatre. and the musical oklahoma he played oklahoma! president trump ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, meanwhile we are still trying to figure out to ordered the freeze on mitch mcconnell. it is funny. finally, a new study says dad's can get postpartum depression as well. not if you nail the nanny, said one man. [applause] its not bad. let's do this, settle down, kids. why is it that the source of many of our c

in an op ed for the free press, former trump ally and former new jersey governor chris christie argues congress and the courts need to assert themselves. writing, quote, weaponization of the law is wrong, not just some of the time, but all of the time. i have always believed and said repeatedly it was wrong when the manhattan district attorney's office did it in the criminal case it brought against president trump. it is just as wrong here when it appears to be used as both an inducement and a cudgel to enforce other administration policy goals. let's figure out what's going on right now inside that courtroom. joining us outside of the courthouse, new york city. the courthouse in new york city. nbc news correspondent rehema ellis, also outside of the courthouse. if i can talk to a criminal defense attorney and former manhattan prosecutor duncan levin and the president of the national action network and host of politics nation right here on msnbc, reverend al sharpton. all right, so emil beauvais. beauvais. excuse me. rehema is arguing right now that the prosecution needs to be dropped

it was a case that chris christie tried as a former federal prosecutor, christie calling it the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that he ever prosecuted. but trump has now appointed kushner to be the ambassador to france, one of the most coveted diplomatic posts, of course. jeff zeleny is at the white house for us. and, jeff, of course, you know, it's worth reminding people blagojevich was actually a democrat. right. and now you've got eric adams. also, with those charges being dismissed by by the justice, by the prosecutors, there also a democrat. what is trump's thinking behind the blagojevich pardoning? as you understand it? >> well, look here, i mean, at the moment that donald trump was on celebrity apprentice there, he too was a democrat. so looking back at the history of all this, it is so remarkably rich. i'm thinking back to governor blagojevich at the time when prosecutors were going after him, they said that the level of corruption was so extensive it would make abraham lincoln roll over in his grave. of course, he's from illinois, but i am told that a lot of this does not

just yesterday, former new jersey governor chris christie wrote a piece calling this an embarrassmentice department and questioning the doj's stated reasons for dismissing these charges. in fact, he argued that, look, if you're going to say that this was political, which they are saying this case was, then you should dismiss it with prejudice, not have it hanging over eric adams. and he suggested that this was a weaponization of the department of justice. so can this judge dale ho, a biden appointee, refuse to dismiss these charges in theory? he can, but he's got a very narrow legal window, and any decision that he would. >> make. >> along those lines is likely to be appealed. but what he certainly can do is require the justice department to explain in detail its reasoning, question. >> them. >> and even question whether the case, if it's going to be dismissed, should be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought. the meaning that the doj would not have a sword of damocles hanging over the new york mayor. even as they are demanding policy outcomes from that mayor. >> okay.

we had chris christie for eight years.tried to pack the courts so if are going to pack the courts, then they have every right to. we have the best system in the country and we need to protect it. >> i emphatically disagree. we've learned a lesson to the democrats need to fight and have the tenacity to show backbone. the republicans don't play by those rules and we repeatedly go back and say we will play nice because it's the historical way it's been interesting what's happened with the federal government. it's a secret new jersey is viewed as a purple state. if it becomes read deeply the republicans will say this is the way it's been historically. in the state judiciary should reflect the electorate and the people that live here. there are a million more democrats here. the congressional districts reflect that and are bench should reflect that. >> one last thing. saying we have to have backbone, we did have backbone. we block several republican nominees. so it's easier to say that it is to do. guess what, it was hard as he

mark elias, who came onto trump's radar, i believe, because chris christie knew him, he had aided himgo, but he was picked. his replacement, chris wray, was picked by donald trump. and this is what got statements like what i'm about to play or what got chris wray fired or sort of thrown out of favor. so he quit before he could be fired. >> our job. >> as investigators at. >> the fbi. >> is to follow. the facts. >> wherever they. >> lead. >> no matter who likes it. and i add that last part, because one. of the things that i've. seen over my seven and a half years. >> as. >> fbi director is that people often. claim to be very interested in independence and objectivity. until independence and objectivity lead to an outcome they don't like. you know. >> truth is truth. >> not necessarily. what either side wants it to be. >> so again, just comparing trump's first pick to trump's second pick tells the whole story of how different this presidency promises to be. >> yeah. i mean, one. of the things that you heard him say is that people say they want independence. i don't think donald trump sa

i mean, christopher wray came on trump's radar, i believe, originally because he defended chris christiel the bridgegate stuff. he is, i believe, a conservative, identifies as a conservative. in his private life. he ran the fbi with his head down. he was closely aligned with with the agents. to the degree anyone in management can be. he was closely aligned with bill barr when he was. i mean, the idea that what has been trafficked in right wing media that emanates from donald trump's lies about the bureau that has gone on for nine years, we don't sit around here three people sort of bemoaning the state of the fbi as distracted in light of a domestic terrorism threat. we sit here as citizens of this country and taxpayers with a weakened fbi because of donald trump. is it honorable for merrick garland and chris wray to say and do nothing today? >> yeah. >> i certainly hope that the people in the center of power. >> in the. >> last administration, or at any point speak out here. >> you know. >> one thing that i think is pretty obvious to people in government, but may not be to folks outside

attorney chris christie. >> understand how long it. takes to get a new fbi agent on board. if you fire hundreds. >> if not thousands. >> it'd be thousands on this. >> list of fbi agents. >> it takes 12 to 18. >> months to. >> get them on board. by the. >> time. >> you go. through the. >> interviewing process, the. >> vetting. >> process, then they go to quantico for their training. >> and then become onboarded as. >> a brand. >> new. fbi agent in the threat. assessment we have right. now across the world. >> to lose. >> that many agents and then. >> take a year to year. >> and a half to try to replace them. >> is incredibly. >> dangerous for our national security. and for what? because they did their. >> jobs for what? >> now that purge, should it come to pass, would be on top of at least eight very experienced, high ranking senior fbi executives who were removed last week. firings that a former trump doj official tells nbc news are clearly illegal. the purge is being met with some pushback at the highest levels of the agency itself. new york times is reporting that the hea

. >> and chris christie made that point about fbi agents. it takes 30 months to unload an agent. nothing. we don't live in a bubble. and one of the trump stated priorities is fighting crime. and what happens to the ability of these offices to function? >> well, it's interesting when you were talking about the standards that are involved, and i think the standards are just going to change because it used to be when you were interviewing to be an assistant u.s. attorney, one of the things you would be asked are various hypotheticals about using your judgment. you know, if you thought somebody wasn't guilty, would you continue to prosecute that case? would you present evidence to a jury if you had doubts? i mean, these were all the kinds of questions you'd be asked to try and make sure that you had a good, you know, ethical, moral compass going into the job that you were exercising your discretion in the proper way. donald trump clearly doesn't care about that. and the leadership has made it clear we don't want you. pam bondi is saying in this memo, we don't want you to use your own

they didn't do a transition plan to the extent that chris christie tried to do one.ment full of with no plan and a bunch of nitwits. and these people are not nitwits and they have a plan. doesn't mean it's going to be politically popular. when we say when i say that, that it's that it's more sophisticated. that's the standard. and that's why they're more dangerous. they're more dangerous because whatever you want to say about them, you could say they're wrong about everything and they're and they're sadistic and they are more they are people who have government experience. there are a lot of people there who have been inside before and who've spent the last four years thinking about if trump gets back in, we're going to have a plan and we're going to have people hired who know how the bureaucracy works and know how administrative law works. and they have lawyers, and they had none of that in 2017. again, it's why it's so much more dangerous. >> they charge themselves to do it in 180 days. >> right. well, and the thing about what i described as sadistic is mr. vogt's

attorney, chris christie. all right. >> that's that's quite a. >> while ago. it sure is.adamant that they needed a special master at bristol-myers. there was no more bristol-myers after that. but anyway, this is a new guy. it's chris berner. he's crushing it. people should recognize what this carbon fee is for the whole country, what it means. and it's going to have medicare. it has medicaid. people are. this is what makes people transients in the street. it's not alcohol. >> it's mental health. yes. mental health. all right. we'll keep an eye on shares of bristol-myers. also going to keep an eye on shares of honeywell. of course we're going to have the ceo join us a little later in this hour. splitting into three companies. a lot more squawk on the street coming your way. >> earnings season on cnbc takes you inside the numbers. and when the ceos have a big announcement they come here first. >> a wild. >> hour. >> of nate jones... steps up to the mirror... lines things up... towels off... checks his fidelity app... looks to outside analysts to get a second opinion. nate l

chris. >> all right. so, christie, you know, todd blanche.was asked point blank if the deputy ag is the president's lawyer. and he said no, but how might that be put to the test if he's confirmed? >> well, it was already. >> put to the test today. because i agree with. >> senator schiff. that todd blanche sounded. >> a whole lot. >> more like donald trump's lawyer than he did. >> the people's lawyer. >> and in his statement to senator grassley, he identified. >> four areas. >> where he believed that. >> the doj. >> had previously engaged in misconduct, that. >> he. >> said was a travesty of justice. and all four of the. >> items that he mentioned. >> were all arguments that he. >> made as donald. >> trump's defense attorney. none of which, by the way, were actual misconduct and all of which were incredibly misleading. for example, he said that the special counsel's office wouldn't let donald trump review evidence in the mar-a-lago case. totally misleading. not true. initially, there was an argument about whether classified information could b

joining me now is chris greenberg, former s.d.n.y criminal division deputy chief, former federal prosecutor and now an msnbc legal analyst. christie, good to see you as always. so we've seen a wave of resignations from federal prosecutors who just flat out refused to sign off on the filing to dismiss adams charges. nbc is reporting that edward sullivan, a senior litigation counsel, decided to sign it to protect his colleagues. what do we know about the meeting with acting deputy attorney general emil bove that led to that decision? >> so based. >> on public reporting, he did not threaten to fire these public integrity prosecutors. >> but the. >> threat really is implicit, because when the eric adams prosecutors in s.d.n.y said that they would not file that motion, motion to dismiss, he placed them on leave and he said he was going to investigate them. so even if you don't say the threat outright, you're going to be fired unless somebody steps up to do this. it's pretty clear that that was the case. and so it seems as though this one prosecutor from that unit, ed sullivan, was the sacrificial lamb. the one thing i will say is this

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chris rock's divorce. i helped tracy smith through his divorce. james gandolfini from "the sopranos" sopranos. i am looking over at who i have photographs with. oh rpg i did the christiedivorce. i tried that case in long island. >> reporter: since divorce has built his career, it is shocking to learn how he really feels about it. >> i think the world would be better, i think our kids would be better. i think families would be better if there wasn't divorce. >> reporter: he even has written an anti-divorce book. your basic advice to anybody coming in here is? you may not want to do this? >> try to stay married if you can. i had a guy come in to see me, 95 years old. i said, you are 95 years old. why are you getting divorced? he said i can't live with my wife anymore. she smokes. it was driving him crazy. i said to him, can't you put in a ventilation system or a system in the apartment that will work? and he just didn't want to do it anymore. >> reporter: ballpark, what percentage of your clients have you referred to marriage counselingers? >> somewhere between 5 and 10%. >> reporter: that's pretty healthy. >> i think it is. it's not going to bring me to the poor house,

chris? >> is he the steak? is he. >> the human food? >> christie. >> okay, there you go.great group here, but we're going to start with our top story. the public war of words between president trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is escalating, with trump now claiming zelensky is a dictator. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter president trump. >> is escalating. >> his attacks. >> on. >> president zelensky, describing the ukrainian president as a dictator who's been conning the u.s. out of billions in aid. >> the only thing he was really good at was playing joe biden like a fiddle. >> reporter trump said he's negotiating to end the war with russia, adding this ominous threat. >> a dictator without elections. zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. >> president trump lashed out. >> after president. >> zelensky accused him of parroting russian disinformation. in particular, trump's false claim that ukraine started. >> the war. >> three years ago. >> even though. >> it was. >> russia that invad