that is why don trump has always been surrounded by stupidity. now that donald trump has painted himself into the corner of the first ex president under multiple criminal investigations, donald trump is surrounded now by nothing but stupid. that is why the trump sycophants decided it was a good idea to make public a letter from the national archives to one of donald trump's lawyers written three months before the fbi obtained a search warrant for government documents at donald trump's florida home. releasing that letter was a profoundly stupid thing to do. the person who made the letter public is john solomon who was dumped by the fox propaganda channel because he was a bit too reckless even for them. since john solomon no longer has guessed privileges on sean hannity show, he decided to reveal that letter in a podcast conversation with steve bannon who is so not smart he is awaiting sentencing for criminal contempt of congress. here is donald trump in the last year of his presidency introducing the person who wrote that letter and who in effect c

i would have every one that voted for don. trump. bice, get to buy field for $2.00 a gallon less. and everyone that voted for biden paid $2.00 more for fuel. so that would be my solution. what we need to do, you guys need, what united states needs to do is start drilling our while again. we, we, we've got, we can drill for oil. and for some reason our government thinks that we shouldn't be using our own oil, which is crazy. you got an environmentalist and all that trying to stop it. so what are we new? i don't think electric cars is gonna solve the problem. how do you make the electricity windmills when, when it has to blow for the wind wheels to work, what do you do in a wind doesn't blow but to say that we're going to work off solar or battery technology that we have now. i don't think we got the capacity to do the work we're doing with what is available. you still have to have a source of electricity to charge your battery capacitor or whatever system you're using it, or you burn diesel fuel and turn the generator to make the energy the fertilizers. a lot of the, the commercial

interesting it in amongst the republicans, it runs from silence. mitch mcconnell not being a friend of don trump just remaining sighted, a very important figure there for the republicans. but interesting, the, even the former vice president mike pence, who and donald trump felt had betrayed him by refusing to stop the certification of the last result. so these 2 men certainly don't see i to i any more, he to engaged in the republican narrative. that is now being pushed that this was a politic the political move to now have the justice department look at those documents is so very much reactions amongst the party lines with the democrat side. 5 arguing that this is simply justice taking its course, the question was posed where the president biden knew about this conspiracy theory saying that he instructed this so clearly the separation of powers is being very much called into the question by the republican side. mikaela incredible story. d w, correspond mikaela cove name, washington, fax, vote counting is underway in elections in kenya. the nation is choosing a new parliament and president inflat

. >> some of the obvious firebrands, the mel brooks, the don trump, jr. throughout the yelling to the crowd, even in context to others, very aggressive in interface. bill barr has a soft-spoken manner. he works the part of the sort of veteran lawyer. he's not a fight picker. he's not a bomb thrower but because he carried the weight of the justice department behind what he did and because he is so devious and soda did things under the veneer of intellectualism and the law i argue in a book a lot of what he did was more dangerous than some of the unhinged rhetoric to hear from o some of the more visible trump supporters. >> of course. he'sac working and actually wielded a position much more powerful than any of the -- and one of the last question want as before we get to these questions, we will start with the questions after this one is, look, we have seen the impact of bill barr onrr the justice department that the everlasting question as many camee from the trump administration is what about that time versus what when you look at history? so my question

they are basically going to conduct investigations to do don trump's dirty work.ink there's a lot of americans that want to turn the page on that. so, listen, i'm not sure what this means for 2022. i have stronger feelings that ultimately this is not helpful to him in 2024. but we will see. but i think a lot of people are tired of the circus. and this is much more serious than a circus. i mean, matthew was around administration, as was i. and how you dealt with intelligence, how you dealt with top secret information -- i mean, this goes through the entire presidency up until diagonal trump. people handle judiciously, carefully, lawfully. and he's used this as his own private playground. now what he was doing with this information, we will find out. but at the end of the day, stephanie, i believe that this hurts him in his quest, potentially, to win back the white house. because i think there's even a lot of republicans who say, you know what's? we can get a lot of the maga policy but we don't necessarily have to have these damaged goods. >> yeah, that's where ron

>> let's be careful in trying to forecast what don trump is going to do. careful he's been pretty unpred, even until now. i'm not sure all this reporting about the surveillance video and this chatter inside trump world is right. some of that might be very wrong. we should be careful about that. as for what trump's mind state is, and what he is telling other people, he is gloating about his poll numbers. he had ten percentage point increase over ron desantis before -- in a hypothetical 2024 presidential primary matchup. then there was a pool he had seen, and then the poll he'd seen as well in florida, central florida congressional republican primary. they also pull tested trump versus desantis before the mar-a-lago search. trump was essentially tied with desantis at 30 8:37 after the search. he was up 50 to 20 over at desantis. he is seeing an increase of republican support. meanwhile, he is raking in more money. and then his liz cheney got seriously defeated in wyoming. so, for trump he is kind of on cloud nine. yes, we talk to some people who were like, we

they are basically going to conduct investigations to do don trump's dirty work.ricans that want to turn the page on that. so, listen, i'm not sure what this means for 2022. i have stronger feelings that ultimately this is not helpful to him in 2024. but we will see. but i think a lot of people are tired of the circus. and this is much more serious than a circus. i mean, matthew was around administration, as was i. and how you dealt with intelligence, how you dealt with top secret information -- i mean, this goes through the entire presidency up until diagonal trump. people handle judiciously, carefully, lawfully. and he's used this as his own private playground. now what he was doing with this information, we will find out. but at the end of the day, stephanie, i believe that this hurts him in his quest, potentially, to win back the white house. because i think there's even a lot of republicans who say, you know what's? we can get a lot of the maga policy but we don't necessarily have to have these damaged goods. >> yeah, that's where ron desantis is waiting in t

in each case, don trump endorsed their opponents and for decided not to run for reelection. i said they had threats from trump supporters. scott lucas is an ameritas professor at the university of birmingham in the u. k. he says there was happened to las cheney doesn't necessarily mean donald trump will be president again, very like why, why homing, which is not very densely populated. it says that trumpets can win at local level, that they can unseat their perceived foes, such as lead shanie. despite all the prestige, despite all the headline or political background that she brings, however, i think we need to be cautious here. it does not necessarily mean that the trumpets have taken over the republican party. let alone america, don't trust the president 2024. it's only the time to get the announcement that we wait for. now, the bigger question here is, does he succeed? does his spectacle overtake reality? and there are 2 factors to watch here. the 1st is, is that a lot of republicans are not really persuaded that donald trump is the way to go. you might call them establish

but trump's other adult children, ivanka, and don jr., were both questioned in the same case. just last week at a court to nbc news, neither of them plead the fifth at any time in their questioning. trump's refusal to answer questions comes as the investigation into his business appears to be zeroing in. according to the associated press, the new attorney generals office is nearing the end of its investigation and quote, could decide to bring a lawful, lawsuit, seeking financial penalties against trump or his company, or even a ban on them being involved in certain types of businesses. it was also the matter of the ongoing criminal investigation into trump out of the manhattan district attorney's office. which presumably would be able to use any of trump's testimony today in helping build its case against him as well. and then there are the various january six investigations continuing to probe trump's attempt to overturn a legitimate election. a legitimate election. and then a justice department investigation into trump's removal of classified records which the fed obtained a

stupidly created to get their taxes down to 10, 15, there's multiple presidents now like mitt romney, don trump legally paying a small percentage of taxpayers and a lot of lower income business owners lie or make mistakes and they get caught up because they're lies and not working around a system that's flawed to start with from its complexity so there's a lot of easy busts at the low end. they don't fight back with a team of attorneys anyway. that's where the audits will happen. kennedy: that's why the high tax environments never work out and they have to walk them back. just look at france much the point was not necessarily to turn the irs into even more of a baa high moth, it's supposed to reduce inflation and having 87,000 new irs agents do anything to reduce inflation, jonas? >> yeah, again, i'm not against fixing the money problems at the irs but has nothing to do with inflation and in fact, hiring anybody is already inflationary and we're in a 3.5% unemployment rate situation where rages are spawning out of control. this should have been done during the obama administration with high une

remember kevin mccarthy's statements in the days leading after donald january six, saying this is don trump's fault. and as much as kevin mccarthy may do the work at convincing hard-core trump is that he is one of them, the fact of the matter is his previous record shows him not to be that. and i wonder if the ouster of cheney increases the fervor to really purge the party of anybody who might be seen as somebody tangentially in the deepest recesses of their mind a rino. >> oh it was a successful purge. kevin mccarthy began it by getting her out of the leadership in the house, getting her off his team, and then donald trump say get arrow completely. that purges. worked kevin mccarthy as far as we can tell, the most simple minded leader of a house party in my lifetime that we've ever seen. because he doesn't care at all about having a range of opinion which is always important in the following way. when the people on the right side of your party say we need to do this, kevin mccarthy needs to be able to say to them, we can't do it, we can't get those new york republicans. there's a faction we

remember kevin mccarthy's statements in the days leading after donald january six, saying this is don trump's fault. and as much as kevin mccarthy may do the work at convincing hard-core trump is that he is one of them, the fact of the matter is his previous record shows him not to be that. and i wonder if the ouster of china increases the fervor to really purge the party of anybody who might be seen as somebody tangentially in the depresses of their mind a rhino. >> oh it was a successful purge. kevin mccarthy began it by getting her out of the leadership in the house, getting her off his team, and then donald trump say get arrow completely. that purges. worked kevin mccarthy as far as we can tell, the most simple minded leader of a house party in my lifetime that we've ever seen. because he doesn't care at all of having a range opinion which is always important in the following way. when the people on the right side of your party say we need to do this, kevin mccarthy needs to be able to say to them, we can't do it, we can't get those new york republicans. there's a faction we can't get. >>

it only increases the legal jeopardy that trump is apparently from this filing already in. >> and courting to the former nixon counsel and cnn contributor don, was an attempt to set the record straight. he areas. >> they felt they had to address the facts that were not properly laid out in the trump brief. and the law was not properly laid out. and i think the other thing i want to do is knockdown the idea that there is an executive privilege here. there is none under the law. it is a fantasy that trump does not seem to understand that you cannot invoke executive polevich against the executive. >> just on that last point, just explain essentially what he's talking about their, about executive privilege and you can't complain you can't claim exact uploaded over the -- >> exact employed comes up frequently when we talk about donald trump and his legal filings. allen's attorney client privilege. and those are communications between a client and attorney. and those are saying passaic, those are absolutely confidential. the government said there are a small number of documents that fall into that category. and then there's this broad term that t

okay, can, as we are talking about, we are awaiting the doj's response for don trump's request for aal master. that has some democrats been sounding the alarm with the growing threats facing our country's democracy as we head into the midterms. my next guest is one of, them rhode island congressman david cicilline. he joins me now. he's also the author of the new book, house on fire, fighting for democracy in the age of political arson. now that is a title. that's a title. good to see you. so, any minute now we're waiting on the doj to file this response to trump's request for the special master. what do you expect to learn? and you think it's going to affect this investigation? >> i expect the department is going to object to a special master and say it's unnecessary, but of the court decides to do it it might require some additional weeks. it won't change the subject substance of this case. it's a president who has taken classified documents out of the white house, taken to his personal residence, where they don't belong. he has endangered the national security of the united states

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february of 2017, 2017, don trump was president, numbers remember reports over here donald trump discussing north korean missiles, north korean missile launches happening at the time with the former japanese prime minister, shinzo abe. may of that, here 2017, journalists broke the clubs wi-fi networks with weak encryption. november 2018, the college student sneaks into mar-a-lago. april 2019, a chinese woman attempted entry carrying suspicious electronic devices. january of 2020, a connecticut woman reaches security checkpoints in an suv. this is not the safest place in the world. for anything, it seems. let alone, really, really important stuff that have the cat lives attached to it. >> that's right. it's where you have a wedding. it's not where you secure classified documents. and i think that's what's consistent through all of this is mar-a-lago as, it was target number one, for a foreign country wanting to do espionage, targeting u.s. government. because they knew president trump was there. they knew that he used, it just as a residence, but as a place to conduct official business, and

what's interesting is that the archives was not confident that don trump had given them absolutely everythingsee in their communications with congress in february, the national archives said that we have asked donald trump to please turn over anything more he may or may not find. so they were not confident those 15 boxes with the last word. they're also notified the justice department at that time and said, of what we have obtained, of these 15 boxes, we do think there is classified material here you might want to investigate and understand, because mishandling of classified information can be criminally charged. so, the justice department then began to look into it. >> you reported today that the fbi's search of mar-a-lago is not related to the justice department's probe of january 6th. there are two separate matters. tell me again cause you hinted at this before if there is something they find -- which is the overlap if there is any between what happened yesterday, and the department of justice separate investigation into january 6th. >> so far, as we, know there is no overlap. they execute

clips of lindsey graham, and the latter ones, he's making the same argument, it just about what don trump does about the republican party, right? efforts he thought he was bad for the republican party, now he has become convinced he is good. and argument is basically, what are you going to do? the base loves him. and in the short term, to win elections for the republican party, lindsey graham is correct. the math just does not work for republicans in this election, or the 12 years after, to achieve reliable, broad victories without donald trump and his supporters. it doesn't work. but graham and everyone who toes that line -- right? -- they don't seem to have thought through what happens next. so, you win some elections. maybe you get power. what happens if trump and his people win? these are people who are, by their own words, fundamentally opposed to the american system. what happens if you have people who think that hugo chavez's ghost hacked voting machines, and the chinese stuck in bamboo paper to steal an election. what happens when you have them running our elections? we are close

don trump supporters are coming out there and saying holes like what we are cited were not accurate. we are saying that he had classified occupants, but here they were already declassified. it gives a good idea of what his defense may need if there was a case. we are probably quite a step away from that, we don't know if that will happen, but they took away, what? 33 items? it will take a bit to decide what to do with them. >> it absolutely will. in terms of the cavalier attitude, there was a line from the article that struck me. he was known to rip up records that eight would have to retrieve from trash cans or from the floor and tate by together, according to former aide and multiple reports. do we know, mark, has some of those records were that he wrapped up? or is it just because those records were supposed to be preserved for presidential file purposes? >> in those cases, the best available evidence was that these were like memos that he didn't really care about anymore, weren't operative, drafts of speeches he did want to keep. basically things he thought was trash. europe, mon

as for unprecedented, well, as the new york magazine's jonathan shape chait argued, the reason don trump is the first former president to be treated like a criminal, is that he is the first former president who is a criminal, and quote. let's bring in my panel. paul butler is a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. david rohde is executive editor of news for the new yorker.com and an msnbc contributor. and ryan goodman is a law professor at new york university. he is also the co-editor in chief of just security. i want to start with you, paul. i want to get your reaction to these possible violations, including the espionage act charge. >> charles, the genius of the justice department's choice of the three crimes listed in the search warrant is that none requiring documents be classified. the espionage act sounds like spying. but you are guilty if you are grossly negligent in taking or storing documents that could harm the security interests of the united states. and with trump it's always the question of whether he had criminal intent. but charles, the evidence, what make

what is so bizarre but all this and frankly it speaks to don trump staying power within the gop, unfortunatelyny affected republicans came out immediately once this raid took place and said, you know, it is an awful and we need to defund the fbi. we are criticizing without having the facts. by the way, we still don't have the facts. the gang is still requesting to see what the classified documents actually work. but when donald trump does masterfully, if he wins the pr game. so here we are, we're not even talking about what might be in these documents. we're kind of lowering the bar to say, well maybe they're not that classified, maybe they're not nuclear secrets. when an average government official, if they walked out of the government building with a top secret document, they lined up in prison. that was my point, when i got back from vacation last week. people were saying, it's got to be something really. that it's got to be this. the fact of the matter is that it was a classified document. it was taken from the white house. it should have gone to the national archives rules were broken whe

. -- i can guarantee that -- don trump or whoever the republican nominee will not win, which i thinktoo easy for those republicans who voted for biden to have an off ram. if they don't -- >> that's true -- >> [inaudible] independent, that would elect donald trump over a republican. >> well, unless the issue even survives this congressional race. we are out of time, stuart stevens, john nichols, thank you both for the a fascinating and important scott, and i think. that is all in for this week, i will be back on sunday at 8 pm, my, show the mehdi hasan, msnbc prime, though, starts right now though, with ali velshi. good evening. >> mehdi, good evening to, you have yourself a good weekend. we will see you sunday night. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. back in 2009, barack obama took office amid the biggest economic crisis since the great depression. democrats had control of the white house, the senate, and the house of representatives, and for awhile, despite that dire economic catastrophe, it looked like democrats were going to be able to deal with the crisis and mo

[applause] >> don trump was the first and only president so far who tried to take away some of what hadsucceeded. of the 46 presidents, only four of them have been able to pass major health care legislation. lyndon johnson was the first big winner and remains the biggest winner, having passed through congress and signed into law, medicare and medicaid. george w. bush passed a prescription drug benefit, only four people on medicare. and then barack obama did what franklin roosevelt, harry truman, richard nixon could not do. he passed and signed into law the affordable care act, extending health care coverage to millions of people who could not afford it, through an expansion of medicaid and subsidies for private health insurance. and yesterday, joe biden signed into law legislation that would strengthen medicare and reduce health care costs through medicare and the affordable care act, provoking barack obama to say, on twitter, this is a bfd. we >> are giving medicare the power to negotiate those prices now. on [inaudible] this mean seniors are gonna pay less for their prescription drugs

but president trump's son, don jr., was already passing on ideas for overturning the election if necessary a second term for his father "it's very simple," trump jr. texted, before outlining several options. "we have operational control total leverage." trump jr. was texting white house chief of staff mark meadows >> seth: i love when dummies like don jr. use phrases like "total leverage" and "operational control." he sounds like the bad guy in a jean-claude van damme move called "total leverage" who gets thrown off a helicopter in the first five minutes "we have operational control hold on, someone's tapping me on the shoulder let me just turn around and -- oh, no, jean-claude! and he had to text the chief of staff instead of going straight to his own dad. "we are in operational control now, do you have my father's e-mail address i would like to set up a father/son testicle tanning appointment. [ laughter ] this is the state of the modern conservative movement as they aim to retake power. they're focused on windmills, testosterone levels, overturning elections. just a word of advice. i'd

all 3 of trumps kids or 3 of them, yvonne could trump don junior, and eric trump have all been interviewed already. and now this is the combination of this investigation. it's been going on since 2019 and it's not the only challenge legal challenge he faces talk us through some of the others. yeah, i mean this one he is is a civil case. so it's, he faces potential fines or a settlement perhaps that could potentially ruin his company if the, if the fines or the civil a settlement is large enough. so he, this is a very treacherous period for donald trump, but also he's giving a deposition right now. and that means he's legally bound to tell the truth to the best of his knowledge. if he intentionally does not tell the truth in his deposition, he could be prosecuted for that. so he's facing all sorts of a landmine, if you will, of potential legal problems with just this case. not to mention of course the f b, i rating his home in florida within the last 36 hours or so that we've been hearing about not to mention. in another case, him having to turn over a judge saying yes to turn over his tax

ideas matter, but in the states, philosophers from russia sympathizes with those who supported don de trumpctions, and his ideas, which are in many ways consonant with the views of alexander dudin himself. america's current secretary of state, anthony blinkin, who is now in charge of all of washington's foreign policy. we dream of america leaving the world alone, and if america will focus on itself and try, as trump promised, to become great again with its own resources, then perhaps and dream of nothing more, and we could help america return to its greatness without us without the rest of the world to speak truthfully, and to explain the essence of the problem of conflicts in meanings and values ​​​​without political indulgence, perhaps, this is the main phenomenon of alexander dugin's popularity as a russian thinker and philosopher. very strength of mind, it is unlikely that someone will be able to break. now, in the latest statement of the ministry of defense , the headquarters for humanitarian response has revealed new facts of the crime of the kiev regime. against the civilian populati

germany in italy, but in the states, philosophers from russia are sympathetic to those who supported don de trump election, and his ideas, which are in many ways consonant with the views of alexander dudin himself. at a table with current us secretary of state anthony blinkin, who is now in charge of all of washington's foreign policy we dream of america leaving the world alone and if america will focus on itself and try to trump promised to become great again with his own resources, then perhaps there is nothing more to dream about, and we could help america return to its greatness without us without the rest of the world to speak truthfully, and to explain the essence of the problem of conflicts in meanings and values ​​​​without political indulgence, perhaps, this is the main phenomenon of alexander dugin's popularity as a russian thinker and philosopher. whose strength of mind, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to break. but another characteristic detail, although the official kiev in the person of zelensky's adviser mikhail podlyako involvement in the murder. dayu dugin refutes gloatin

trump. to more of them have primaries that in washington state. the polls close out there in about an hour, don. look how close this is. john is the trump endorsed candidate, right up to 51, if you want, to 50%. it's 253 votes at the moment with about a third of the vote counted. again, one of my big questions is, do republicans continue to follow, not so much trump, but trumpism? the big lie, that our elections are corrupt, that you cannot have disagreement within the party, at least not a disagreement with donald trump? is that changing? are we going to continue that through november and beyond? that is one of the questions tonight. it's one of the races i am watching. it's way too close to call right now. we are going to be counting votes there. to more of those out in washington state a bit later. >> joining, thanks. abby, i want to get to you here in the room. so many election deniers front and center in these primaries today. what stands out to you as you watch these results roll in so far? pretty much everyone is an election deniers. it's sort of a watered down version of it. this is the

i mean ty cobb, a former lawyer for the president, now tweets about how much he hates donald trump. don mcgahn, was a star witness for the mueller investigation, pat sinema, and pat philbin, they're cooperating with the d.o.j.'s investigation. these are not people who are pledging fealty to donald trump and probably for good reason and i'm sure those are all data points that act as deterrents for other lawyers who may be considering representing the former president. >> well, absolutely. well summed. don mcgahn ultimately became a witness for four extraordinary and overwhelming instances of obstruction, you know, criminal obstruction, by the sitting president of the united states. if he had not been the sitting president, the department of justice would have normally indicted a person with the level of evidence that don mcgahn provided about how donald trump tried to derail a criminal investigation and avoid embarrassing information coming out about him. in the case of pat cipollone, there's really not a lawyer who wasn't a bigger fan of donald trump, and wanted to help him achieve his

don, it had little, if anything, to do with donald trump's half endorsement. it had everything to do with the fact that eric greitens collapsed, and people who know him best, missouri voters, simply did not want to risk the senate seat. they show they had no tolerance for a return of him to public life. so eric schmitt will be addressing the crowd here behind me in st. louis county, shortly. certainly, this gives pause to republicans. republicans in washington that i've been speaking with the last few minutes, don, are breathing a sigh of relief. they believe this is -- it will be a safe seat for them come november. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. i want you to stand by. i want to get to arizona where the polls are close. our kyung lah is there. qiang, we will start seeing the results on all eyes on the governor's race putting trump backed versus pence backed candidates. you are with the pence backed candidate, karen taylor robeson at the watch party. how is the campaign feeling? what is the movement? >> the best way to put it is that they are simply hold

- you can't even take it seriously. >> to carol's question, is it -- do you know or suspect that don trumpntastic lawyers, these are the ones he puts out on public and tv, but he has the real ones in the back, the well-paid, well-compensated -- >> you mean hiding behind the boxes of documents in mar-a-lago. >> i would never stipulate to that. >> no, there are no such lawyers. >> okay. i want to go to the fact that -- carol, this story is still ongoing. you have the story that the "new york times" wrote about philbin and cipollone. mr. philbin tried to help the national archives retrieve the material that it wanted to get its hands on, according to the times. but the former president resisted the entreaties. that has a ring of credibility to it. i ask you, though, i'm a layman, i'm not a lawyer, but that sounds like if you had a bunch of people who would testify to that in court, it sounds like a confession to me. >> and there you have why the former president is struggling to have people sign on to be his lawyers in a number of these cases and investigations. it's because they have all see

for four, years don trump was tantamount to an arsonist.until he tried to bring down her house, while she and her fellow legislators were still in that house, that she suddenly had a problem with it. so i'm glad that liz cheney is finally coming around but i hope she continues to recognize that the threat to democracy didn't begin and it doesn't and with donald trump. you can keep donald trump out of the white house. which is going to continue to have these republican-led legislatures that are killing voting rights list shiny who did not support legislation to prop a voting rights. i hope this evolution of liz cheney continues which in my mind she still got a long way to go. >> let's round out our round robin on this. basil, with her conversation about michael pence. mike pence vice president. potentially coming before her committee to testify. let's take a listen. >> he has clearly, as he's expressed, concerns about executive privilege. but i also think that when the country's been through something as grave as this was, everyone who has i

this is hagman versus cheney, but is really trump versus cheney in the state of wyoming, don. you see the results coming in. harriet hageman at 60%, only 14% still counting. the counties that have reported votes, the salmon color of donald trump's candidates in the race. let's go back in time. why is this so hard phyllis cheney? yes, she was popular back home. but this is donald trump four years. ago you come back to this vote this race now, and as the votes come in, you can understand why liz cheney is writing a speech tonight saying, this is a beginning. certainly the next chapter for her. >> let's talk about alaska now. because you're keeping tabs on lisa murkowski, right? she voted to convict trump in the second impeachment, john. that race will take time to shake out. what are you watching for? >> it will take time to shake up for a couple of reasons. never, won the polls won't close for a couple hours. number two, alaska for the first time is using this rank choice voting. so you vote for your first choice, they also fill out your second choice, your third choice, your fo

ideas matter, but in the states, philosophers from russia are sympathetic to those who supported don de trump his ideas, which are in many ways consonant with the views of alexander dudin himself. here are shots of a discussion about the future in the united states, where 5 years ago he sits at a table with the current secretary of state of america, anthony b linkin, who is now responsible for all of washington's foreign policy, we dream that america left the world alone and if america concentrates on itself and tries, as trump promised, to become great again at the expense of its own resources, then, perhaps, there is nothing more to dream about, and we could help america to return to its greatness without us without the rest of the world to speak truthfully, and to explain the essence of the problem of conflicts without political indulgence in meanings and values, perhaps this is the main phenomenon of alexander dugin's popularity as a russian thinker and philosopher. whose strength of mind, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to break. russian artillerymen with a sudden night strike de

. >> reporter: his eldest children in the trump business have testified. don jr. and ivanka earlier this month eric trump testified two years ago. court records show he invoked his fifth amendment right more than 500 times over 6 hours. investigators want to know if the trump organization improperly altered the value of its hotels, golf clubs, and holdings to gain financially with lenders and on taxes today mr. trump claimed that separate investigation, the search warrant executed monday by the fbi in florida, was a tipping point in his decision against self-incrimination if there was any question in my mind, the raid of my home mar-a-lago on monday by the fbi, just two days prior to this deposition wiped out any uncertainty. a federal official says the fbi carried out orderly, court approved search from about 9:00 to 6:30 monday and wore plai clothes, not blue fbi windbreakers typically associated with a raid fbi director chris wray declined to discuss the investigation but did respond when asked about threats to agents from angry trump supporters. >> violence aga

trump organization. we have no indication at all that he is going to provide any sort of testimony directly against the former president or his children, donior, eric trump or ivanka trump. right now, this appears to be very narrowly focused. it resolves the upcoming legal case against weisselberg. two, it establishes a penalty for him. he is willing to go to jail for the former president, presumably jail time would have been off the table if he had something to provide and if he did cooperate with prosecutors. third, it appears at this point he will provide some testimony against the trump organization when there's the trial against that organization. not all the charges are the same between the two. the trump organization faces some different charges. he will speak to some of that. that's all that weisselberg. we do not expect anything in terms of cooperation. could other members of the organization be on the hook? that's something we will look out for. this does end a significant chapter in this investigation. >> the corporation itself is a closely held family corporation. by going against the corporation, they're going against the inte

trump officials. they're calling this standing order patently false. and some even laughed at the idea of it. >> they laughed at it. they scoffed at it. and they did call b.s. done were former white house officials, national security, intelligence, justice department. this includes donald trump's former chiefs of staff. many of these people served in positions where they would either be included in the declassification process or at the very least aware of such orders. and each and every one of these 18 people dismissed, flatly dismissed the claim that trump had some standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office and were taken up to the white house residence. and you know, the trump administration, you can't always get people to go on the record. but a lot of of these people, even went on the record. we're going to start with former wh white house chief of staff john kelly who told me, get ready, "nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given and i can't imagine anyone that worked at the white house after me that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward without dying in the ditch trying to sto

trump weaponize the u.s. department of justice against his critics. michael, good to see. you >> get to see you, donke off. the president and his allies are really flooding the zone with different explanations to why so many top secret documents were found in mar-a-lago. is the trump playbook over on the story of destruction and deflection? >> where donald trump as i've always called, him it's kept in chaos, it's to throw as much to the american public that he can in order to confuse them. because he truly believes that the american public has a two day, maybe if you're right, a three-day window of remembering what was going on. so he'll just keep flooding it. but that's why -- not why donald trump is doing it. he's scared, he's scared of the documents that they now have possession and control over because this is documentary of evidence, this is evidence that could be used against him. >> you say with the walls are closing in around him, and his next move is to find a scapegoat. >> yes, i believe that -- >> because you were a scapegoat. >> yes, and that's something that i talk a lot about in reveng

don lemon last night. sergeant robinson was part of donald trump's motorcade on january 6th. re to discuss this interview. so interesting to hear him talk about it. we heard it multiple times, he says, while he was in the motorcade. >> good morning. there is just having him and just doing an interview, good to see you, as well. >> you too, man. >> it is -- it is interesting to have him sort inof in that environment, he's a nice guy, he's a genuine good guy, you can tell, right, you can get what kind of a person he is, it comes through the television. but what's interesting is he said, i had been in, you know, over 100 motorcades since 2011. and i've been in these situations. not an insurrection, but similar situations where there was a motorcade and not once had the president wanted to go somewhere and everyone around him said no, we're not doing it and was adamant about it and he said, imagine if he would have gone, if we would have gone back to the capitol with the president what would have happened. more rioting, rioting that he would have inspired. >> that's what struck me