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he worked with the democratic congress and got things done. when he ran for reelection, he won 49 states. he was a standout for civility, for decency. we were going through some tough times back then. you always have huge issues of the day. i am still republican. i am involved in a number of different things. i am also -- we are trying to encourage a republican and a democrat to run as a team. if it's biden and trump, allow the voters to make a decision if they want a third choice based on the track record of the two that have been in office. host: many questions about your involvement with no labels. in the event of a biden trump match up, who are you voting for? fred: if that's what it is, i hope that no labels will get on all 50 state ballots. we are in play in two dozen states. we will have a convention in dallas april next year. i would like to think that if it is biden trump, no labels would be successful and we would have a republican and a democrat that i could support in november next year. host: what if no labels isn't successful? fr

democrats in congress let's say they control house of congress, they say no so he's an eligible. that would be a huge crisis if we've had an election and trump declared the winner and now we've got this legal sticks that just gets pulled out. so however this gets resolved legally, i think it needs to get resolved sooner rather than later. >> that is a really, really good point for qassem. thank you very much. >> thank you. still to come, dozens killed as wildfires leave a hawaiian town in ruin. the latest disaster in a steadily heating world ahead. dily heating world ahead >> bidenomics, it's a-term you've. probably heard by now. i'm sure you have. for the first two years in the administration it was regularly used by joe biden's critics as a shorthand to criticize the administration's policies, particularly in 2021 and 2022 when inflation was high. recently things have been looking much much better for the u.s. economy. inflation is down dramatically from its high in 2022, ticked up slightly last month but the trends are all going the right way. crucially as of july, wages are r

and while washington and gives away tons of cash to ukraine, a group of us democrat, congress members, has joined an initiative to partially block military aid to egypt over human rights concerns. we are strongly concerned by reports from both the state department, as well as numerous credible human rights and civil society organizations about the persistent and considered systematic violations of human rights. in egypt, we calling you to withhold the full $320000000.00 of fiscal year 2022 for and military financing. and to egypt, as human rights record significantly improves in light and july. a similar pushed by another group of us. lawmakers claimed that the adoption government made little progress and meeting numerous human rights related criteria. human rights advocates echoed such concerns and choosing the local authorities of dealing disciplines and suppressing media and the political freedoms. so they disagree that the solution is cutting the funding. the idea of reducing 8 over what seen as abuses has been on washington's radar for years as a annually allocates $1300000000.00

the, a group of us democratic congress members have joined an initiative to partially block military aid to egypt over human rights concerns. we are strongly concerned by reports from both the state department, as well as numerous credible human rights and civil society organizations by the persistent and considered systematic violations of human rights in egypt. as we continue to stand for the prioritization of basic human rights in our foreign policy and quote on the administration to adhere to the spirit and letter of the law, ensuring progress in the us egypt relationship. we call on you to withhold the full $320000000.00 of fiscal year 2022 for and military financing. until egypt, as human rights record significantly improves and late july, a similar urge was voiced by another group of us senators, claiming the addiction government made little progress and meeting numerous human rights related criteria. human rights advocates echo set to concerns that accusing local authorities of jailing descendants and suppressing media and political freedoms. though they disagree that the sol

but when this administration came in office, worked with that democratic congress, they spent $2 trillionn unnecessary covid spending and every economist in the country agrees that, that lit the pilot light on the worst inflation in 40 years. and so what we're going to do is we're going to get spending under control. we're going to cancel unexpended unnecessary spending in washington dc. and i promise you as your president, we're going to drive toward balancing a federal budget and we're going to reform these old programs to save our nation from a mountain range of debt. you know, i think, look social security and medicare are a promise we've made to the american people. right. we're going to keep that promise. you'll hear the demagogues again saying that republicans are going to cut benefits to grandma. it's common, you know, just put your armor on. all right. but i got to tell you folks, we were hugging some kids on our way around the corner here. we just had three of the most perfect granddaughters ever born in the history of the world in the last two years. >> i have 11 of them right

>> this administration and the democratic congress truly has focused more on fighting climate change was in the inflation reduction act with not a single republican voting for it to combat glass global warning of climate change, and -- and yes of course there is more that we can do. but i have been announcing grants to fight climate change brought to us by the epa for example. all of these kinds of efforts need to continue. but chris there are some states where you can't even use the term climate change. they're running away from it and putting your head in the sand, but it's very clear that what we are experiencing in hawaii and so many other parts of the world. there's a severity and frequency of major climate events. we're not for hurricane dora and the 16 80 mile per hour winds in the white big island and maui, then this firestorm would not have been i would say, it would not have burned them so much of now is it did. that is the view of our climate scientists here. climate change is upon us in the more we recognize it and spend the resources and the focus that we need to do the

you had a democratic congress should a democratic president by congress was often openly contemptuous of the white house and it was contemptuous of it. they fought amongst themselves frequently with the republican n sitting on the side kind of watching the whole spectacle. and that these days is rare. this issue of congress giving up authority the constitution says it has. james mattis would be a bit perplexed by this. degrees the low motive of human beings wanting to hold and a wielded power as part of what keeps thewo separation of power system working. people want to guard the power they have by virtue of being in theat branch. as we all note delegation giving away a power refusing to wield power to become regulators. why do members do that? isn't power fun? why don't they want to use it? >> the whole ambition counteracting ambition depends on the individual sense of drive. and it has to be a drive to do something and thus take the responsibility onto yourself rather than ambition to be seen but that is where a lot of ambitions are challenge these days. it cannot just be ambition t

i mean you had a democratic congress, you had a democratic president. but congress would often just openly contemptuous of the white house and was contemptuous of it. and they fought amongst themselves frequently with the republicans sitting on the side, kind of watching the whole the spectacle, and that these days rare. and that's what i would turn to you felt because this issue of congress giving up authority, the constitution says it has james madison probably be a bit perplexed by this. you know, much of his to some degree involves the kind of low motives of human beings wanting to hold and wield as part of what the separation of power system, you know, working is. people want to guard the power that they have by virtue of being in the branch. yeah, that's as we all know delegation giving away a power to wield power has become allies. what why do members do that i mean, isn't power fun like why would they want to use it? yeah, the ambition counteracting ambition depends on sort of this individual sense of drive. and it has to be drive to do something

congress, an insurgency from progressive republicans, his party who who bolt and join forces with the democrats, overthrow his dominance. he had been presiding over the rules committee. in addition to being the speaker. and he's stripped of that power and soon enough things are blown open. congress operates on a very different principle for many decades, a sacrosanct seniority principle where committee become the real power centers rather than the speaker. and that's a decentralized of congress. so the book tries to give a sense that congress is a place with a long history. it's a place where there have been vicissitudes and in trying to deal with this problem of action, trying to make sense of how we can play factions off against each other in productive ways. we sometimes end up in a in a land like this where have stifling orthodoxy. other times we end up feeling like the place has become kind of a decentralized, chaotic mess. and we need to start to re-impose some order, perhaps through centralization. so that's all i wanted to show for my picture show. i'm just going to gesture up really mo

, didn't they, where the republicarinvolved democrats congress, didn't they, where the republicarinvolvedngcrats congress, didn't they, where the republicarinvolved talking about were both involved talking about how there is what was it, biologics how there is what was it, biologic effectively how there is what was it, biologiceffectively in some corpses effectively in some hangar somewhere , why they would hangar somewhere, why they would leak that to the daily star as their first port of call. i find that unlikely, if i'm honest . that unlikely, if i'm honest. >> i do think the daily star are keen, though they're they are they are keen. >> they want to be aliens. >> they want there to be aliens. >> they want there to be aliens. >> be camping >> yeah. they'd be camping out like that out for like people that camp out for cliff tickets the night cliff richard tickets the night they want. >> okay well since we skipped it, to ask you it, i'm going to ask you about justin marriage, which it, i'm going to ask you about ju on| marriage, which it, i'm going to ask you about ju on the marriage, w

, didn't they, where the republicarinvolved democrats congress, didn't they, where the republicarinvolvedngcrats congress, didn't they, where the republicarinvolved talking about were both involved talking about how there is what was it, biologics how there is what was it, biologic effectively how there is what was it, biologiceffectively in some corpses effectively in some hangar somewhere , why they would hangar somewhere, why they would leak that to the daily star as their first port of call. i find that unlikely, if i'm honest . that unlikely, if i'm honest. >> i do think the daily star are keen, though they're they are they are keen. >> they want to be aliens. >> they want there to be aliens. >> they want there to be aliens. >> be camping >> yeah. they'd be camping out like that out for like people that camp out for cliff tickets the night cliff richard tickets the night they want. >> okay well since we skipped it, to ask you it, i'm going to ask you about justin marriage, which it, i'm going to ask you about ju on| marriage, which it, i'm going to ask you about ju on the marriage, w

amy: democratic congress member maxwell alejandro frost, thank you for being with us, the former nationalng director for march for our lives, which was formed by survivors of the parkland shooting in florida. >>> hello, and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in new york. the u.s. secretary of commerce knew she had to tread carefully during her trip to china. but wha

amy: democratic congress member maxwell alejandro frost, thank you for being with us, the former nationalng director for march for our lives, which was formed by survivors of the parkland shooting in florida.

coming up, texas democratic congress member greg casar is just back from a congressional trip to colombia so, chile which will soon mark half a century since the u.s.-backed lead to recoup. we will speak to him as president by just met with the costa rican president at the white house. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. commemorations are being played in chile for september 11 two mark the 50th anniversary of the u.s. backed military coup that ousted president allende and the two a 17 year dictatorship led by pinochet. u.s. congressional allegation recently traveled to chile at at the anniversary. lawmakers call for the biden administration to declassify more documents on the u.s. role of the coup. congressmembers taking part in the trip were new york's alexandria ocasio-cortez, nydia velasquez, maxwell frost we spoke to yesterday, and joaquin castro and greg casar, both from texas. the delegation also travel to brazil and: be a. greg casar joins us now from austin, texas so we are als

congress could get some the credit to. now, starting in the 1960s, response to a demand by a conservative democrat from colorado's western slope, congressmen named wayne aspinall, who for 14 years was chair of the relevant committee of the house. he engineered and persuaded congress to recapture a lot of that authority that they had delegated to the branch. his first big success came with the wilderness act of 1964, there, congress created a very a new, very protective category. public lands in some ways, the most protective, because, generally speaking, in wilderness, you can't build roads. you can't use motorized vehicles, you can't extractive activities like logging and mining. now, ironically, aspinall himself was not in the buzziest of designating wilderness areas, but to him, the most important thing was congress should make that decision. and so, in fact, congress, the gatekeeper, thanks to aspinall. not a single acre can go into national capital w a wilderness system unless congress has passed it law. authorizing. what he did. and this is not very well appreciated unless you worked around the congress a lot. what that

congress. it is great to be we're with you all. i'm the chair of the democratic women's caucus. a very broad member of the most diverse caucus in congress. 94 strong in that women's congress! 94. almost half of the democrats. [applause] >> i am honored to be here as we celebrate and we wrap up women's history month. but let me tell you this, women are making history every day. we it's not just this month. as a member of congress, it is amazing when you walk around this building, isn't? it we have a unique opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful and important buildings in our country. a place where visitors from all over the world gather. it should be a testament to the important work that we do. studying our, a unique collection of very, unique statues that depict historical figures that are a point of pride for each state. it is a great way to honor our great leaders. our innovators, activist, and educators. if you are like me and you walk through these halls a notice if something is missing, he saying, where are the women? you would be right to ask that. of the 100 sta

i remember talking to democrats in congress when the promise was getting banding about by biden. ats said, i don't know if he means it, we will see. fast forward a couple years later, drilling is still going on here. it is interesting that at any time the biden administration does anything that might result in less drilling here, the trade association and the oil industry jump on it. it goes to court, and the drilling continues, as if nothing ever got proposed. christian: as you say, you have energy coming out of your ears. drill for oil, frack for gas, supplying it to the world. your energy self-sufficient. why is the price of gas going up on the forecourt? ben: there is not really anything being energy self-sufficient, but never really happens in a global market like oil and gas. it is a land war in europe or a real estate downturn in china can affect your energy prices here. what is causing the gasoline prices to go up is basically we have a tight refining system in the u.s., we have had a number of fuel refinery, the places that make your gasoline and diesel. one exploded, one

in fact, some democratic congress, people want the court to open up for cameras once the trial is under way. but how will the average voter react to this? well, unlike what trump just clean falsely, that he's leading bite and in the polls that is not true. the most current poll shows and tied, though that has not been there has not been a poll sense. this latest indictment was on sealed associate since the arraignment, so it still remains to be seen whether in this makes a move the needle either direction as far as the national pulling. okay, so heidi, this is going to be a project template legal process because they are almost always all but what's gonna happen next? well the judge yesterday's gave both sides a total of 2 weeks to submit their preferred timelines for this for the trial date to start. now we know that the prosecutors want this to be a speedy as possible, but trumps attorneys indicated at the arrangement that they would like a delay. first, they say, because they want time to go over all the evidence that the prosecutors will hand to them. but also politically speaking,

knowing that he had lost, all of that of course, will be hashed out in court. meanwhile, some democrats in congress are pushing for this and ventral eventual trial to allow cameras in the court room. that wouldn't be a huge difference. this of course is occurring in the federal court which bands cameras, which is why we didn't see any video or even photographs of trumps of rain that just court sketches out. but democrats saying that this is a trial where the public should be allowed to see it play out. because obviously, as in the public interest to have a former president be put on trial for attempting to overturn a democratic election. as far as when this trial might take place, of course. elizabeth status still. yeah. big question going forward. we have a couple of yeah. deadlines side of head for when both sides can submit, what time they want the trial to take place. and we fully expect trumps attorneys to want that date to be as far into the future as possible. all right. hi, the thank you very much for that heidi show castro live in washington dc. the still ahead on knowledge 0 demonstration

or maybe not, publicly but democrats in congress were saying okaythis is -- we might be able to defend this today, but in a couple of weeks we will not be able to keep defending it. >> hunter biden was this close, we'll read more, from getting off scot scot-free, this year times found mr. weiss appeared willing to forego any prosecution of mr. biden at all and his office cam close to agreeing that end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on anyone charges, but the correspondents reveals that his position, relayed through his staff changed around the time of a pair of irs officials to case accused justice department of hamstringing the investigation, mr. weiss demanded this mr. biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses, from 30 thousand foot view, this could look like mr. weiss was so busted. then had to change his tune. >> this reminds me of someone who examines you and sees a baby, and saysure not breatpregnant, maybe if you have morning sickness and you feel something kicking maybe you should get a different doctor, if david weiss

against donald trump as speaker of the house, unprecedented in the present peach twice by the democratic lead congress who was not convicted in the senate. nonetheless, it was unprecedented in 2020 famously went. donald trump gave his state of the union, which the president gives every year before the full congress and the speaker of the house sits right behind the president on the podium when trump was finished, she stood up and ripped up the copy of the speech that he had given her prior to the giving this page, outrages disrespectful, disgusting, but the media and the left, they loved it, they, they thought she was great. she also urge joe biden, in 2020, when he was running against drunk, not to the big trump, because it would legitimize him a get implying that he's been in the village unit president. so, so this is nothing new for nancy pelosi at all. she's been going on and on and on in a war against trump and distracted democracy, garbage i, i, if you have a 2nd, i think this is interesting to point out there was a new york times story that's just been revealed really in a march 31st talked abo

we have a lot of infrastructure weeks in congress. democrats in congress with a few republicans to health. in this president got it done. we are preparing roads and bridges and delivering across the country, expanding access to affordable high-speed internet, and you know, that is not -- it is not a specialty. when parents are pulling up to mcdonald's, parents can do homework. it's a right. it's something kids need access to in order to keep up. not to get up but to keep ahead. with broadband, we have a chance to use the resources provided by congress to change how we do business in this country. who has access to broadband internet. it's not just about commuting. it's communities that have been left behind. we cannot do things the way we've always done them. the president called everyone out. he read the new york times about this little county in alabama. it is stuck with me since profile. you know where their sewer goes? in their backyards. he know how they look? like me. now, we've been providing federal resources for clean water for decades

congress could get credit too. in the 1960s, the demand by a conservative democrat from colorado, who for 14 years shared the relevant committee of the house, he engineered and persuaded congress to recapture a lot of that authority they had delegated to the executive branch. the first big success came with the wilderness act of 1964, congress created a new, protective category of public land, the most protective category because generally speaking in wilderness you can't build roads or use motorized vehicles or undertake activities like logging and mining. the enthusiast designating wilderness areas, but the most important thing was congress makes the decision. congress is the gatekeeper. no single acre can go to the national capital wilderness system unless congress passed a law authorizing it. what he did, this is not appreciated unless you work around congress a lot. what that did was enhance the influence, political influence of local representatives to congress because there's the long-standing custom in congress that legislation does not pass that applied to a particular area unless congressional representativ

i remember talking to democrats in congress when that promise was getting bandied about by biden and ast forward a couple of years later, drilling is still going on here. in fact, it is kind of interesting that any time the biden administration does anything that might result in a little bit less drilling here, the trade associations and oil industry jumped on it, it goes to court, and the drilling continues as if nothing ever got proposed. figs the drilling continues as if nothing ever got proposed.— ever got proposed. as you say, ou've ever got proposed. as you say, you've got — ever got proposed. as you say, you've got energy _ ever got proposed. as you say, you've got energy coming i ever got proposed. as you say, you've got energy coming out l ever got proposed. as you say, | you've got energy coming out of ever got proposed. as you say, i you've got energy coming out of your ears, you drill for oil, you frack for bass, you are supplying it to the rest of the world, you are energy self sufficient so why is the price of gas going up on the forecourt? it price of gas going up on the

an impeachment inquiry empowers republicans and democrats in congress to get the answers they need. found we have not seen anything like this since the nixon administration using their government to shut down any time we had a question. i would think the biden family would want to clear their name. in president biden told us they never got any money and hunter biden was the smartest person he knew, but we found out he attended dinners and after one dinner they got 3.5-million dollars from a russian oligarch who did not get sanctioned after they entered ukraine and hunter got a porsche. these are question have you seen to understands why. why did the comfort allow the statue -- statute of limitations run out on hunter biden. the irs makes you sign a waiver to extend a paper to extend the statute of limitations. why are they treated differently? we empower congress to get the information. >> sean: the russian oligarch the former first lady of moscow which joe dined with hunter's former business partner that included a 120-million dollars investment. the oligarch wider the money so hun

congress coud get some of the credit. now inin the 1960s, responding to a demand by a conservative democrat from colorado's who for 14 years chaired the committee of the house he engineered and persuaded congress to recast a load of thatga authority that ty delegated to the executive branch. his first big success came with thes wilderness act into their congress created a very productive category of public land in some ways the most protective category because generally speaking you can't build roads, you can't use motorized vehicles, you can't lundertake activities like logging and mining. now he wasn't himself and enthusiast designating wilderness areas butim to him, e most important thing was congress should make that decision. so in fact congress is the gatekeeper. a single can go into the wilderness system unless congress passed the law authorizing it. what he needed and this isn't very well appreciated unless you work around the congress a lot. what that it is to enhance the political influence of the local representatives in congress, the local congressional delegation because there is a long-standing custom in cong

democrats having to be investigated. hillary clinton forever and ever in front of congress. this stuff just gets old and we need as democrats to pick up the mantle and start the investigations going forward. right now, trump has taken the air out of everything and i want him investigated thoroughly, so looking forward to democrats taking over the senate and the house and presidency. thank you. host: do the scandal investigations go both ways? guest: i think the democrats are taking a bit of a light hand at this state. they don't want to look like they are acting in a retaliatory manner so they chose not to. i will say on the larger point about how these investigations proceed and the politics of it, i do think that you are finding that congress does not do as they used to in terms of policing ethics. the senate ethics committee does not do the same work. the house ethics committee is not as investigatory as they used to be. so there are internal mechanisms at work potentially for the system to be able to right this. i mean, just look at how long it took merrick garland to fin

they leave out one thing you pointed out is the congress now has gotten too dependent oning regulators the administration officials republican and democrat carry out what congress refuses to do itself. >> used to be something in if washington, d.c., michigan nice out the of wan waland. there used the to be a dingell grant after john dingell bureaucrats didn't matter when party afraid to get a dingell brand because he would with would hold administrations accountable put in constitutional lane we've got this happened on both sides, we've gotten well beyond that, why? because we have to make hard calls, and so, yeah, we are going to let bureaucrats tick care quote unquarter exexperts take care of this guess what? we are the ones constitutionally obligated to be accountable to constituents taxpayers investors in united states time we will take in a responsibility we are trying to do that. cheryl: thank you people sitting on pension funds losing money because of misguided way of investing just my opinion what lawsuits come from frances newton stacy is on set what is your take on this frances? frances: it is interesting but what i would like

a republican dominated congress, without the presence of southern democrats who had withdrawn to the ow it said about replacing laws and policies that had primarily served the interest of those profiting from slavery. congress sought to rebuild a more activist republic serving broader public constituencies. within a period of five months, just five months, from march until july of 1862, congress solid and past the passage of a series of land grant bills. all the bills that had been vetoed before the war. it establishes the department of agriculture, its centralized monetary policy, first banned slavery finally in the district of columbia in the band columbia slavery and all that territories and lastly, banned slavery in all lands occupied by the union troops. and, finally, with the passage of the militia act, the recruitment of black soldiers. the capstone, of course, came at the end of that same five month period with abraham lincoln the preliminary proclamation emancipationn. proclamation. that ended almost 250 years of slavery in america. these arero some of the bills tt came throu

at least by democrats in congress. >> monumental victory, propelled americans with american rescue planood paying union jobs. >> today the president is celebrating one of the most significant bills in decades that lower costs, creates jobs, makes the wealthy pay their fair share. republicans can't seem to go one week without chaos. >> how do americans feel? fox news polling, 80% say the economy is fair or poor and flip it, two-thirds say their personal financial situation is negative. >> todd: something the president needs to pay attention to if he wants to win reelection in 2024. from pizza rat to rat portal. >> we tolerate a lot, guys, i will tell you about my journey yesterday to penn station and what i saw. rat info portal, you type in an address and see inspection history on that property. that pink on top right, those propers are rat infested. and there is a lot of pink in upper manhattan, where this woman lives. >> we've had rats the size of crocs running up and down the street, like croc shoe, average size eight running up and down the street. >> creative term of measurement, sh

have a gas car but i don't think they have thought this through the biden administration and democrats in congress. he got a group of people you're going to tell they have to buy an electric car, for black people, poor hispanic people, working-class, people you say you want to help part of your coalition to win an election. you are failing on the. people can't afford this trash let alone sit in a car for an hour and wait for it to charge if you don't have a tesla cooper charger. it's outrageous. >> is the about the environment, it's about freedom of movement and controlling whether people get to go to work and what energy they use and after covid, we know they are perfectly ha happy. >> i do not like that at all. >> that's what a lot of conservative talk comes from. >> coming up, dumbbells, barbells and google maps. gen z taking tik tok by storm with the five to nine early risers trend, healthy and positive movement here to stay? big we can show debate next. ♪ ing you here... ...may put you in one of those... ...or even worse. too much? that's the point. get real about your risks and do something

the point here is the constitutional separation of power at issue is you can't have congress under the democrats doing what they have been doing and expect to have efficient effective decision-making in the executive branch. that's what the constitutional separation of powers are all about. i look forward to the trial, there will be one. i want to remind people once again that the cost of these prosecutions are part of what i wrote yesterday and the washington times and i want you to read this, it's what they call l'affaire. the use of our legal system to punish political rivals. one of the ways they do that, they try to put you in prison which they are trying to do with me. it's also to bankrupt you. again, i am over $500,000 worth of legal bills for what is an misdemeanor that the department justice itself had a policy against ever prosecuting. think about that. we will go up to $750,000 by the end of the trial and appeals will be over $1 million. do i look like a rich man? this is the same suit i wore into thousand 17 going into the white house. anyway, i will not answer any questions about w

prove the point are going to be democratic legislators and the president because it was a democratic-controlled congressw amendment to the electoral count act of 1887 on the theory there was ambiguity in the law and the law needed to be cleaned up to make clear what the vice president's roles and responsibilities are in counting electoral votes. for those reasons, it is a difficult case for the prosecutor to make at the end of the day, one i don't think will stand up to constitutional challenges on appeal if there is a verdict, but convincing jurors the president engaged in a criminal enterprise, i don't think it is going to happen. >> trey: state of mind, mens rea, people who have never had to do it, you and i did, it is harder than you might think. john lee ratcliffe, thank you for explaining it where i could follow it. we look forward to having you back on, thank you for joining us. for years the fbi investigated former president trump over allegations he conspired with russia to impact the 2016 presidential race and the media played along. story cast a cloud over president trump's entire term in off