leqvio. >>> sam stein, kara swisher and claire mccaskill are still with us.ess, to getting kicked off of twitter. he's posted there one time. and he says he won't go back to twitter, but he's not really known for his ability to resist temptation of things he loves, like tweeting. what do you think? >> how could you say that about donald trump? that's blasphemous. no, i fully expect that he will not stand by his pledge today to not go back to twitter. not just that he can't resist interjecting himself into the everyday news cycle, but it's also because the platform for him is a huge political tool to be in front of hundreds of -- tens of millions of people is no small matter. it was a way that he would direct news cycles, for instance, get out his message, and i think if you're just looking at it from a strictly political lens, why would you deprive yourself of a tool like that? and of course, finally, the fact remains that truth social is, at least at this juncture, a disaster. i think it's objectively been a huge failure for him, and this was supposed to be

>> first of all, claire mccaskill has a fantastic kitchen. >> she does. >> on the economics of this,olutely right. inflation is incredibly unpopular among the american people. the good news is, you are purchasing power, what economists call your real wage, aren't determined by what's going on inflation. the reality is, over hundreds of years, and dozens of countries, when inflation starts to rise, wages tend to rise to, and keep up. most people will be able to get a reasonable quality of life. that's easy as an economist to say, but the reality is, people are hurting. the double whammy here for the biden administration, it's not just that inflations higher, it's the inflation of the prices people see most often. at the pump in at the grocery store. those are the ones going through the roof. there are prices that are going down. things that technology, health care is not doing so bad either. they're really important, but we don't see them as often. >> let's go back to the grocery store. do you believe that prices need to be as high as they can, or are there a lot of businesses hiding

senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill.ask you about germany. in the past, you've been a little critical. perhaps is germany stepping up more now with this latest move? >> well, germany is certainly stepping up more than they have in the last couple months. i think there was some premature talk when the russian invasion began, that the sleeping giant of europe was awakening and all german foreign policy was going to dramatically change. that was a bit of an exaggeration. that didn't happen right away. i think chancellor olaf scholz has been dragging his feet on sending heavy weaponry to ukraine and also on transitioning germany away from reliance on russian gas. they're providing $220 million a day to russia, which goes to funding the war machine. the last few days, i think there has been a shift, in terms of heavy weaponry and starting to transition away at least from russian oil and gas. i think from russian oil and coal, rather. i think the issue is going to be whether germany will transition away from russian natural ga

joining the coverage msnbc military analyst four star general barry mccaffrey and claire mccaskill is here. general mccaffrey, when you look at the russian tactics in mariupol where the dominance isn't really in dispute in terms of numbers there's not a fast or short victory. what does that say about the places where the russians so outnumber the ukrainians? >> it's been a surprising level of incompetence. it is hard to understand why the russians want to be balled up in city fighting in mariupol. it's almost imporl to move through rubbled cities. why they didn't encircle it and bypass it is beyond me. they're incompetent at the general level and indisciplined, brutal. use starvation and indirect fires on civilians. they're hoping instability and the fleeing of the civilian population will cause capitulation. now the big battle looms in the near future. the battle not for the donbas but for the survival of the ukrainian army or the russian forces. >> general, the strikes in lviv seem to have two intended consequences. the dearth and destruction and injuries that the strikes themselves

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maybe it is true i heard claire mccaskill say millions of people's of lives were saved by the masts. i doubt that purity may be thousands work, hundreds come i don't know. i'm not a scientist. but i do know the time of the masts have passed and it's time for america to move on. >> judge jeanine: it is amazing, joey that jen psaki said we will follow the science and you think you should keep wearing the mask but the amazing thing is you could take the mask off the present state of the union, you know? a little hypocrisy. >> dana: and a gridiron. >> joey: i'm not a scientist either, but i did fly today. so coming here, there are two things at stake and have nothing to do with science. first, to keep government control over anything. so expect the biden administration to push the cdc's ability to tell us what we can do, but not over coronavirus. the other think joy reid is completely honest. she said, don't let the other team win or the a holes win or science but everybody has to worry about every air borne disease in the last few years we have been in this dogfight and don't let them w

former missouri senator and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill joins us. michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and former lieutenant governor of maryland. and that's really for a heavy weinstein, former federal and state prosecutor here in new york. she clerked for merrick garland. we have a lot to cover, claire, i have to go to you first. because, it is not a surprise that this has happened. but it is shocking to actually hear it. you're a member of congress up until just a few years ago. where does this rank on the totally crazy scale? >> listen, nothing in the states surprises me or shocks me. not one word of it. it's a little shocking how inept mccarthy has been at lying about things he said. there for one brief shining moment, yeah she has some courage to speak out. i guess what trump had caused on that fateful day. but nothing in the deep surprised me. i think will surprise me the most, and you referenced that today, frankly stephanie, in your twitter feed, and that is, they've got to be losing their minds over who is l

. >> shannon: i want to play something from claire mccaskill talking about the whole hunter issue. >>eryone who voted for joe biden knew hunter biden was a problem. right now, you'll see a right wing outlet going nuts over hunter biden. it's amplified completely out of the realm of what's real. it's not that we didn't ask the questions, we didn't just go crazy blaring them as the lead story. >> shannon: jim, some people think you would in the days and weeks leading up to the presidential election and certainly if the son's last name was trump. um, listen, democrats admit they thought there were problems with hunter. we know during the obama administration, there were administration officials who were worried about hunter. is this all finally catching up with him? >> it seems like it. i mean, look, there was an absolute media blackout and it wasn't because they were being fans of due process. it's because they knew the last name was biden, so they didn't want it to be a scandal. there's a lot of public information out there. i'm not saying we should prejudge guilt for hunter or for joe

. >> we'll get that with -- and claire mccaskill. >> thanks for that. >> thank you rachel! we also have a new indication tonight that merit garland has authorized the justice department to investigate donald trump in the trump white house. this comes in a letter to the justice department refusing a request from the committee to provide 50 box records of white house records that donald trump took illegally to florida after he moved out of the white house. and a letter by the washington post, acting assistant attorney general, wrote, quote, the department previously asked national archives and records of administration not to share, or otherwise disclosed to others information relating to this matter in order to protect the integrity of our on growing work. the justice department policy is to it not acknowledge criminal investigations. sometimes we discover that criminal investigations are underway when people testified granaries. there are several ways that they can leak out and become public information that the justice department is underway. and this letter to congress, t

. >> martha: yeah, here's claire mccaskill, the former senator from missouri talking about what she sees as the difficulty that all of this presents for her party. >> the democrats are really in a blind here. because everything is good in the economy except what people remember most. that is what the was their check out total at the grocery store yesterday. what did they pay at the pump two days ago. >> martha: what do you think the impact of that is when you look at the mid-terms in the sort of -- in the front window at this point, neil? >> neil: she raises a good point. it's what you see. not only the gas prices every time you drive by one or trying to fill up your tank. what you're seeing a again that goes way beyond numbers. it's one thing to talk about inflation at an 8% clip. depending what you buy, it's gone up markedly. the first quarter alone. consider this. oil was up about 33%. gas was up about 25% rate. wheat, that being cereal prices, running ahead at 31% clip. corn, 26%. so depending what you like, you might be shocked to hear this. i like pasta. all of a sudden, pasta pric

. >> we will get into all of it with neil katyal and claire mccaskill. >> thank you. >> thank you, rachel. we have a new indication tonight that attorney general merrick garland and this may be the biggest news of the night, that merrick garland has authorized the justice department to investigate donald trump and the trump white house. this comes in a letter from the justice department to the house oversight committee, refusing a request from the committee to provide an inventory of 15 boxes of white house records that donald trump took illegally to florida when he moved out of the white house. and a letter reviewed by the washington post, acting assistant attorney general wrote, quote, the department previously asked national archives and records administration not to share or otherwise disclose to others information relating to this matter in order to protect the integrity of our ongoing work. the justice department policy is generally to not announce federal criminal investigations. sometimes we discover that federal investigations are underway when people receive subpoenas to testify

. >> joining us now former senator claire mccaskill. dan goldman and john heilemann is still here. eminded me of the michael cohen testimony. he was on capitol hill testifying to how trump operated like a mob boss you knew what was expected. what trump expected them to do is breathe down the neck and make it so they can't walk the streets afterward if they didn't do the right thing? wow. >> i think the sullivan audio is saying a little -- puttinging more meat on the bones for trump's tweet of it is going to be wild. anybody who tries to tell you that they were not planning exactly what happened is not looking at the reality of what happened in the days previous and that day. i think this audio is very important in this investigation and i would be surprised if it didn't bring about subpoena to the person who was saying elected officials would no longer be able to walk the streets if they didn't overturn an election fraudulently. >> i want to always as i do with you pursue both pillars here. what doj does and the committee. but liz cheney is on the record reading from the statute. th

senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill.iate it. >>> new develops with ukraine. the country is set to get another $100 million worth of javelin missiles from the u.s. the state department says that brings the total u.s. security assistance to ukraine to 1. -- $1.7 billion since the invasion and $2.4 billion since the start of the biden administration. ukrainians are being trained on the weapons systems supplied. >>> the biden administration is set to announce additional sanctions on russia for the attacks in bucha. the package, taken in coordination with the eu and other g7 nations, also will ban new investment in russia and state-owned enterprises. the white house says the sanctions target those funding vladimir putin's war. >> meanwhile, volodymyr zelenskyy, ukraine's president, is calling out the united nations in a virtual speech to the security council yesterday. zelenskyy issued a scathing rebuke of the u.n., accusing it of failing to stop human rights violations in ukraine and around the world. >> translator: it is ob

and claire mccaskill, the democratic party is marching into the offer year elections coming up carryinge a private citizen, you're not in the senate. you put gas in your car. you see the landscape trucks pull up and you see guys scratching their heads saying, oh, my god, i'm putting $70 worth of gas in. you see ordinary people shocked at the price. what can democrats do? they can't do anything that's going to lower gas prices tomorrow, but in the long-term, what can they do to alleviate the load that ordinary citizens are carrying and alleviate it at a time when they're going to get no help from a across the aisle? >> i think one thing they can do is start having hearings and try to do a better job explaining who is making all the money in this situation. and it's not just gas prices. it's also food. i was in the grocery store a few days ago. it is unbelievable how expenive beef has gotten, milk, eggs, just the basics. and i do think the democrats are really in a bind here because everything is good in the economy except what people remember most. and that is what was their checkout tot

president for racial and economic justice at the white house, senior council to ranking member claire mccaskill and chief oversight council to the late representative elijah cummings and the ranking member on oversight and government reform. mr. sherman, began his career on capitol hill of the house ethics committee when i chaired that committee and where he investigated allegations of ethical violations by members of congress and staff. prior to that he practiced and , served as a law clerk to the neil e. kravitz. he graduated from georgetown university with a degree in american studies and earned his jd from georgetown university law center. donna nagy is a professor of business law at indiana university's mauer school of law. she joined the law faculty in 2006 and teaches and writes in the area of securities litigation, securities regulation and corporations. her scholarship includes co-authoring two book, one on the law of insider trading and a case book on securities litigation and enforcement. she's written numerous law review articles on topics including the selective disclosure governme

president for racial and economic justice of the white house come senior counsel to ranking member claire mccaskill on the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, and chief oversight council too late representative elijah cummings, then ranking member of the house committee on oversight and government reform. mr. sherman began his career on capitol hill as counsel on house ethics committee, when i chaired the committee, and where he investigated allegations of ethical violations by members of congress and staff. prior to that he practiced law in washington, d.c. and served as a law clerk to the honorable kravitz of the district of columbia superior court. he graduated from georgetown university with a degree in american studies and earned his j. d. from georgetown university law center. donna nagy is c. ben dutton professor of business law at indiana university our school of law. she joined the law faculty in 2006 and teaches and writes in the area of securities litigation, securities regulation and corporations. her scholarship includes co-authoring two macbooks, one on the la

president for racial and economic justice at the white house, senior council to ranking member claire mccaskillnd chief oversight council to the late representative elijah cummings and the ranking member on oversight and government reform. mr. sherman, began his career on capitol hill of the house ethics committee when i chaired that committee and where he investigated allegations of ethical violations by members of congress and staff. prior to that he practiced and , served as a law clerk to the neil e. kravitz. he graduated from georgetown university with a degree in american studies and earned his jd from georgetown university law center. donna nagy is a professor of business law at indiana university's mauer school of law. she joined the law faculty in 2006 and teaches and writes in the area of securities litigation, securities regulation and corporations. her scholarship includes co-authoring two book, one on the law of insider trading and a case book on securities litigation and enforcement. she's written numerous law review articles on topics including the selective disclosure government

former senator claire mccaskill is here. charlie sykes and harry litman, former deputy assistant attorney general during the clinton administration. i want to start with you, charlie, because the right is good at making the left and the anti-trump republicans like the ones with the issues with the inrecollection. it is clear that kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell had grave concerns about the insurrection, as well. all i could think is fantastic new reporting is the smears and the threats that liz cheney faces every single day at the feet of mccarthy and mcconnell. they just don't have the -- i don't know what body part can i say on tv? spine to say it. >> no. they had a spasm of conscience. there's no riddle puzzle or enigma here that kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell knew what the right thing to do was and they refused it to do it. you are right as the profiles in cowardice but you see that they put above what they do above the right thing to protect the constitution. mitch mcconnell understood that this is not impeachabl