that is what donald trump jr. told mark meadows about his father when the capital was being attacked. he has to lead now. that is a cry from the deepest part of donald trump jr.'s shallow heart. the hopeless cry from a cowardly son to a cowardly father who has never known how to lead. donald trump has never known how to lead anyone, not his children pull, not this company which is now under criminal investigation with one officer of the company already indicted. and certainly not his country. if donald trump were still allowed to use twitter, he would no doubt be filling twitter tonight with a hateful nickname for the federal judge, trevor macfarlane, in the district court in washington d.c. who dismissed donald trump's lawsuit. trying to prevent the treasury from following the law. and giving his tax returns back. judgment said that donald trump, quote, is wrong on the law. a long line of supreme court cases require great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries. even the special solicitude according t

that's donald trump's play book. it's worked well for him in the past, but my hope is that courts have now caught up to his game. >> neal katyal, thank you very much for joining us tonight. always appreciate it. thank you it. >> joining us is jill winebank, former general counsel of the army. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to read one passage of the appeals court decision today just to show the audience how ridiculous the trumpian argument was in this case. for 24 years of the presidential records acts operation and across five different presidencies, presidents including former president trump have agreed that the disclosure decision of an incumbent president controls within the executive branch over the contrary claim of a former president. and so, jill, there's the court saying, hey, when donald trump was president, he agreed completely with what joe biden was doing here. >> exactly. and it goes back even further than that because during watergate or right after nixon left the presidency, there

he committed crimes for donald trump but unlike donald trump and the people who violated their oaths and committed crimes for donald trump, today gary wickersham did something donald trump has never done and will never do. gary wickersham admitted what he did on that dark day in our nation's history. donald trump will never admit what he did on that day. gary wickersham admitted what he did was a crime and he agreed to pay the price for that crime. we know now that donald trump will never admit what he did but we don't yet know if donald trump will ever have to pay the price of being as gary wickersham now is a convicted criminal. leading off our discussion tonight is steve schmidt, co-founder of the lincoln project. steve, we have an 81-year-old defendant sentenced today. the oldest person known to be charged among the close to 700 charged. while donald trump and jeffrey clark and congressman perry and mark meadows and others continue to try to evade any answers to any questions about what they did. >> i was struck by the picture of gary wickersham wearing a red hat with airborne pa

donald has, repeatedly done this. different or arguable points but 30 times to 40 times different. fundamentally, that's broad. because, he has filed under oath -- something called a jarred. loan papers saying he's telling the truth about the value of the assets, and he's done the same thing with property tax papers. he's asserted that his golf course and west chester is only worth about one point $3 million. that's less than the price of two houses on the fairway. but his presidential disclosure it is $50 million, and that's also signed under oath. david, donald trump, has been in around courts and all these businesses for many years. this you have the kind of legal team for this, that knows what they're doing, at this level of the game? >> none of the lawyers who are showing up, now, seem to be acting independently and trying to get donald to understand the situation that he isn't. we had a whole group of lawyers, sydney powell, rudy giuliani, linwood, the people representing him now have good reputations. in the cr

involving donald trump. the committee believes that they might develop quote, evidence of criminal conduct. by president donald j trump. or others. that they could send to the justice department, and urging an investigation. the times says, quote investigators for the committee are looking into whether, a range of crimes were committed, including two in particular, whether there was wire fraud by republicans you raised millions of dollars, off assertions that the election was stolen, despite knowing the claims were not true. and whether mr. trump, and his allies, obstructed congress by trying to stop the certification of electoral votes. in a committee meeting, republican vice chair liz cheney suggested that donald trump violated federal law, by obstructing an official proceeding of congress on january six. >> hours past, without necessary action by the president. did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress's official proceedings to count electoral votes. >> to

again, even before donald trump. these vast armies of non-white voters in the cities who are stealing elections through voter fraud. >> well, you have to remember that texas has been at the center of a lot of of these efforts to advance voter i.d. laws, to create this national case that these voter suppression laws are necessary. texas's voter i.d. law has been in the courts over and over again. it's been held up by the justice department. and what they needed, actually, was cases to prove that such a law might be necessary. and so over the course of the years cases like crystal mason's and other women of color in texas who were prosecuted for, quote unquote, illegal voting, they became the bedrock for this narrative that built this law. and then that law after shelby county became kind of the leading edge of a lot of these other laws in especially southern and battleground states that have expanded voter suppression quite a bit. and also at the same time have created a narrative that there are more fraudulent voters

donald trump refused. he stood by and did nothing. we know this because all those people reached out to donald trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, and he then turned over those messages to the committee investigating the january 6th attack. tonight republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming, the vice chair of the committee, laid out all of that damning, damning evidence. >> for 187 minutes president trump refused to act. when action by our president was required, essential, and indeed compelled by his oath to our constitution. mr. meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privilege claim imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt the white house knew exactly what was happening here at the capitol. members of congress, the press, and others wrote to mark meadows as the attack was under way. one text to mr. meadows said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. in a third, m

in large part, it'll hinge on donald trump. right now, he remains the dominant political figure on the american right. but american conservatism faces other defining choices, too. not least whether the time has come to break up the unprecedented power of america's tech giants. my guest is colorado republican congressman ken buck. do today's republicans have a coherent worldview? ken buck in colorado, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr buck, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i think it's fair to say you characterise yourself as a freedom loving libertarian republican, a man who opposes big government. why is it, then, that when it comes to america's giant tech corporations — the most successful companies in all of american capitalism — you want big government to intervene to quote unquote tame them. yeah, i don't want big government to intervene, i want to make sure that we create competition in the marketplace, and i think that's the key distinction. i'm not looking for the heavy hand of government to come in and break u

and donald trump is not a sophisticated man.ade the law by surrounding himself with other people he throws under the bus when push comes to shove. and undoubtedly he will blame this on accountants. undoubtedly he will blame this on other people in his own organization. so there is going to be a really high bar i think for cy vance's office the say they know he did it and he knew he was doing something wrong. >> yeah, he'll find a pat it is. he always finds someone willing to do it. it's really strange. tim o'brien, thank you very much. tristan snell, thank you very much. >>> tonight's absolute worst is still ahead. >>> but first, you wouldn't know it from watching the right wing news channels, but the american economy is actually doing pretty darn well, despite the the pandemic, next on "the reidout." [lea] i'm a retired art teacher. [steve] we met online about 10 years ago. as i got older, my hearing was not so good so i got hearing aids. my vision was not as good as it used to be, got a change in prescription. but the thing mi

devoted to donald trump. it doesn't seem like that is where this is going with congresswoman mace, she is calling green a grift or, she is using language that you can't pull back. >> she is part of a fresh group of women that graduated from the citadel down in south carolina. she represents a swing district, a somewhat diverse district. she flipped a bluesy, made it read in 2020. i think she is a woman of integrity, but also someone who recognizes that politically, her constituents are not of the type to embrace the radical right republican rhetoric that we are hearing from members like marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, paul gosar, and the rest of the deplorable group that is so predominant now on the other side of the aisle. >> i want to listen to something that liz cheney said about jeffrey clark, and his intention to take the fifth amendment when he testified he january six committee on saturday. this is very important business of the house, and let's listen to what representative cheney sees this. >

you got more votes than donald trump.hematically that some of those people who voted for donald trump to let him win on his slot in the ballot had to switch parties to vote for you, for you to win. what is it that you have said to those voters about what you want to do in government as a democratic governor that has pulled those voters to you? >> i think it's more about what i've done and what our team has done. i think that people will disagree with you on issues if they believe that you're doing the right thing and that you believe in your values. and that's what i've done in north carolina. i was polar opposite of donald trump and opposed him and his election. but at the same time i think people want us to try to work together in a bipartisan way. that's why i'm excited about this infrastructure bill in washington where the president has worked very hard to try to bring republicans onboard. they've been very obstinate about almost everything, even though they've agreed with the infrastructure bill policy in the past. i

donald trump jr. yelling so feebly. it's your father. >> right. >> and you got to go to mark meadows who's known the guy for a couple years when you've known him for 40 some odd years. there's the shakespearean part of it. i think it's so crucial, gloria. here's the text exchange we have, this specific one between donald trump jr. and mark meadows as the actual insurrection is happening. >> as the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. >> gloria, that is what donald trump jr. really thought. despite his many comments since

the capitol police tweet is not enough, donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i'm pushing it hard, i agree. still president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand, end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. >> the fox propaganda channel did not cover tonight's hearing live so the fox audience was protected from hearing the news tonight of what fox hosts were telling mark meadows on january 6th. >> indeed according to the records, multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. they texted mr. meadows and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingram wrote. please, get him on tv destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan kilmead texted. >> can he make a statement, ask people to leave the c

they don't want to incur the wrath of donald trump. go against them. they don't want a primary opponent what they are doing is having a different private versus public projections and it's creating a different suggestion of where the party actually is in terms of their support of donald trump. will they support him? absolutely. because to not support him is also politically debt victimal to them. but they will groan and moan and say i can't believe they're doing this. i seen that for years especially want to be clear, that's just politics, people, politicians will say things in private they won't say in public. it's the says i case people can be cynic am or make decision of what they will spin. that's all in the normal. but the level of dishonestly is distinctive from anything else. i talk to politicians off the record. there is a difference between them saying a thing to you and turning around to the cameras and saying the opposite. you know, that is, there is a level of fundamental dishonesty and duplicity and two-facedness that is c

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this is about donald trump and actually going after him once again, continuing to go after donald trumpwhen we look at the real results of this investigation, it is not really -- the foundation is not based on a legislative purpose. very high probability that they will refer me for criminal contempt to doj. >> what will you do, congressman? >> at this point, sean, it'll be turned over to the hands of doj. i can say this, that when you look at the criminal component of this, the intent, there's never been an intent on my part. i tried to share non-privileged information. truly, the executive privilege that donald trump has claimed is his to wave. it is not mine to wave. it is not congress' to wave. that's why we filed the lawsuit, to hopefully get the courts to weigh in. hopefully they'll weigh in. >> reporter: meanwhile, the house select committee has a strong warning to mark meadows and all other potential witnesses who refuse to comply with the panel's subpoenas. >> if you are listening at home, mr. meadows, mr. bannon, mr. clark, i want you to know this, history will be written about

to get donald trump to act and stop the interaction. but the first instinct they had wasn't to do that. because to do that, would only further enrage donald trump, the man they all still bowed before. in the 24 hours since congresswoman liz cheney read those text messages out for the whole world to hear there has been barely any mention in fox news. when fox news really wanted to pump the story, they can. in fact, get this. sean hannity actually interviewed the one and only mark meadows for seven minutes last night just after that bombshell. and somehow managed not to mention the news. never to mention that he reached up to meadows on january six. trying to get the president to stop the violent insurrection he had fermented. that whole thing, in that interview never came up. hannity did however managed to give meadows a platform to praise donald trump for his admirable actions on january six. >> president trump wanted to make sure that the people that came, that there was a safe environment for that kind of assembly. and i have said tha

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do you think it's still donald trump? caucus, but with them fighting, who's in charge? >> yeah. this is an interesting dynamic, zerlina. i confess having run for the u.s. senate, we had some whack jobs during the primaries in florida. i can tell you what every senator is thinking about first and foremost. where is the money coming from. if you're an incoming senator or first round draft pick by the national senatorial committee, the money comes from mitch mcconnell, not donald trump. this is actually a perfect snapshot of the weakness of donald trump. if donald trump actually spent money on other republicans and not grifted off other republicans, he might turn republicans off of mitch mcconnell. right now it takes 10, 20, 30, $100 million. all of that money comes from mitch mcconnell and the national senatorial committee, not donald trump, and i think we know how that affects senatorial behavior on the republican side. >> we really do. the other thing i always think about is all of this fund raises, but it turns out the h

donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, "i am pushing it hard, i agree." still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again urging action by the president quote, "we need an oval office address, he has to leave now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand." but hours past without necessary actions by the president. these non privilege texts are further evidence that president trump supreme the election of duty during those 187 minutes. >> joe, just to go back those were anonymous texts from members of congress and mark meadows. some went on the air in realtime saying this was antifa and we have seen their concerns expressed to meadows and his own son, john jr. pleading with the chief of staff to get his dad to do something about this. this goes to the point that mark meadows may not be cooperating now but he already cooperated. he gave 6,000 pages of documents, those text messages would say so much about what happened that day and the people who sent

what is it about donald trump? that makes us allies willing to throw themselves under a bus for him? even though he never seems to have their back? well it looks like mark meadows is going to be the latest to find out if that blind loyalty is worth it. congressman is a democrat from california and a member of the january six committee. congressman, thank you for coming on the show tonight. it's a busy night for you. big vote, explain to our viewers why it's such a big deal, what a big step it is. to go after former white house chief of staff in this way. >> thank you for having me, mehdi. this is important because we need to uphold the rule of law. that is what the committee has been talking about, and that no one is above the lawful subpoena. so, even because mark meadows served in this body, he doesn't play by a separate set of rules. he has to come before us since we gave him a lawful subpoena. and clearly, he demonstrated that a lot of the material that we are seeking was within bounds. because he gave it to us

is there more in the book about donald trump?ervative bona fide -- he is likely cooperating with the january 6th committee. there might be more coming from mark meadows in the coming days. >>> want to pick up on the sociopath beat and lay out the time line of what donald trump did after getting the first positive test. on september 26th donald trump tests positive for covid. there is a rose bar again event for amy coney barrett on september 26th, the day donald trump tests positivetive. meadows writes he treats the negative one as full permission to press on. donald trump holds a rally in middletown, pennsylvania. the next day, september 27th, he holds an event with military families. september 29th he goes to the debate. 11 cases of covid are later tied to the debate. october 21st, trump tested positive again, the third test, positive, negative, positive, on the 1st. on the 2nd he checks into wallet ear reed medical center. it is clear that the positive was real, the negative, if there was one, was a false negative. but all the

i think that if donald trump runs and if donald trump wins, it is because ofjoe biden�*s weakness, ande democrat party. congressman ken buck, we're sadly out of time. i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from colorado. thank you. hello. the cold air is back. thursday gets off to a chilly start with a widespread frost and temperatures won't crawl up too far for the day despite a lot of sunshine on offer. the cold air has come chasing down through these isobars all the way from close to the arctic circle, sweeping its way right to south across the uk. 0vernight starting to plunge down into the continent through thursday. we are all in the arctic air and we will all feel it thanks to a cold northerly breeze. where we've seen some showers overnight there will be a risk of ice to start us off on thursday. as i said, a widespread frost. further showers across eastern scotland, eastern counties of england through the day, a few as well across the west coast of wales particularly i think through pembrokeshire pushing down through devon and cornwall, eastern scotland. perhaps clearing com

i think mitch mcconnell is sick of donald trump.hink that mitch mcconnell wishes this he could get rid of donald trump. he just knows that he can't be responsible for getting rid of donald trump and stay in power. and the thing that mitch mcconnell cares about most is power. that is the crux of this situation. it's why he voted to acquit donald trump and then gave a speech about how bad he was the next day. it is why that speech you just showed where he said he opposed this commission, because he knew he had to vote, he had to make an active statement whether he was for or against it and he didn't want to be responsible for this commission. now that the commission is happening i think he would be happy for this commission to come up with something that would get rid of his donald trump problem once and for all. now that's not going to happen for him because donald trump has control over his voters. you know, i think that he continues to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. he's not stuck, he could, you know, do the right thing,

donald trump's own family mark meadows own reaction. that it was within donald trump's power to stop the attack on the capitol, just by getting out there and saying something to the country as donald junior suggested from the oval office. to the country and to the attackers. just tell them to stop. they all believed that he had that power. >> they didn't just believe, it they knew. it because he did. what they also knew though is that even though this horrific situation had gotten out of hand, they were directly responsible for creating it as was donald. and he was reveling in it. the only thing that disappointed him is that it didn't work that day. so i am not entirely sure why any of them expected that donald wouldn't come in and try to rescue republican congress people who under as much threat as the democrats. so i really hope we get some of these people to testify in front of the committee because the information that we are getting now is got smacking. i know that we shouldn't be surprised by the breathtaking -- like laura ingraha

trump, they couldn't get his certification for donald trump but what they wanted to do, is strangle the biden presidency and that is against the law, because there is a process and you get into the weeds here and donald trump and bannon's efforts to get mike pence cannot do with the constitution, the 12th amendment requires, and take this certificate from 50 states and count them. in the end of mike did but that was very wild course either so this can be an interesting issue for the justice department because politically, i'm sure that biden does not want to be seen going after the former president but if there was ever an obstruction of the process of government, this is it. >> it is frightening and perils bofrightening and everybody mistreated, it really takes us where we are at today and so many ways but are you continuing following the narrative threat are you taking right or is bob woodward always in motion. >> when you ask elsa the questions. [laughter] i mean, yes and no, i mean, that it is sown, the whole question of and this is for you, what is the donald trump presidency g

she began to support donald trump.ticipate in expressing her support for trump, it was going to give her this sense of purpose, a sense of community. one of the last messages she shared on parlor, the social networking site is she had found her true brothers and sisters in the january 6 rally, and she was going up there. she even said her family thinks she is crazy for doing it, but this is where she needs to be, and god had given her this clarity to be there to stop the certification of the election so that donald trump could stay in power and protect and save the children. >> those two aspects of it i found fascinating. one is that her way into this isn't through politics. it's through the conspiracy theory of qanon, which is political, but her front end of it isn't. >> yeah. >> it's about this secret cabal of evil doers that is sort of independent from partisan politics. and then she moves from that into donald trump support. >> and the hook, if you will is that she cared about children. she loved children. she was

essentially sprung from donald trump effectively. and to get back doing whatever he was up to. he is around january six, we know that. he is in d.c. there is pictures of him meeting with people. we do not know the level of his involvement. and then he gets a pardon. a full pardon subsequent to that. and in that itself is a fairly remarkably corrupt fact pattern before you even get anything else. >> we were saying at the time, chris, i was talking to you about what a corrupt effort it was by donald trump. and roger stone admitted. it when he got the commutation of his sentence, he said that donald trump knows what i know. and i didn't talk. it was implicit if not explicit that he was receiving this pardon in return for not cooperating. now, what are we looking at with steve bannon in this case as things are unfolding? steve bannon was involved in the planning for january six. it puts a slightly different gloss on the pardon that bannon received a couple of weeks after january six before donald trump left office. so we know that he is

donald trump.you could somehow participate and expressing her support for donald trump, that it was going to give her the sense of purpose. sense of community. one of the last messages she shared on the social networking site, was that she had found her true brothers and sisters in the january 6th rally. and she was going up there. she said that her family thinks that she is crazy for doing it. but she knew that this is where she needed to be. god had given her this clarity and this purpose to be there to decertify, or stop the certification of the election. so that donald trump could stay in power and protect and save the children. >> those two aspects i found fascinating. her way into this isn't through politics, it's through the conspiracy theory of qanon. which is political. but her front end of it isn't. it's about this secret cabal of evil doers, independent from partisan politics. she moved from that into donald trump supporters. the >> hook if you will, is that she cared about children. she

did you know that donald trump junior was the brighter of the two donald trump's? >> perhaps.perfectly well with the republicans are denying. donald trump was behind this effort to overthrow the government. it didn't start in 2016. i said in 2015, donald trump got in the white house, he would never leave peacefully. there were journalists who said that that was way out there. turns out i was right about that. and donald has been working on trying to subvert our democracy and stay there. -- when he took a meeting with kremlin agents or -- his son don jr. took it. let's remember what the mueller report was talking about. the russian government in a sweeping, and aggressive fashion interfered, extensively in the 2016 election. that is paraphrasing. >> so, you're right to bring up some of his past. i'm also intrigued by he did have to text mark meadows, and not his own father, which tells us a lot about the relationship between the two. david cay, johnston will have to leave it there. the book is the big cheat how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. t

president donald j. trump lost the election. they were deceived into believing the presidency had been stolen, their country was threatened. they had come to washington to fight for what they thought was right. >> they feel they're the heroic revolutionary courageous warriors who are saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, disguised as patriotism. wrapped in a trump flag. a lie fed to them from their president, their members of congress, their tv and radio shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been predictable. you know, we saw people who had been whipped up into believing an election was being stolen and then they were being told it would happen straight away. so you have both radicalization and mobilization. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> that threat continues to this day, driven by lies that endanger our democracy. how did it happen? how did millions of americans come to believe a network of lies so deep, so vast they would ignite

we saw that effort fail with the impeachment of donald trump. insurrection, but that did happen. it seemed after he was acquitted in that impeachment trial, it seemed that there was a real throwing up of the hands and i don't know if the justice department is waiting to see what this commission does before it really digs into what potential criminal liability there is. i think that was a mistake. i was just talking to my sister-in-law today to say that's not the way they did it in watergate. both things happened simultaneously. but i'm not sure that the justice system -- that the court system is working in the way that it should to really get to the bottom of either the big lie or the insurrection and the connections between the two. >> tim, i'll give you a chance to defend your defense of the judicial system and i will just add this. i mean, i think the bar is so low, and i'll just widen the conversation a little bit. for all of its fanfare, the mueller probe did nothing to rein trump in. in fact, the day after robert mueller testified, he made

of course, donald trump jr. and former president trump's media allies are now downplaying the severity of the insurrection, singing a very different tune on their shows every night. here's how mark meadows responded to that procedure. >> what they've done is had a contempt vote. we've tried very hard, in a very transparent and accommodating way, to share non-privileged information. what we found out tonight is that not only did that just get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leak them, to put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn't act. i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about -- it's not about holding me in contempt. it is about coming after president donald trump. sadly, that's what tonight's vote was all about. >> the panel voted unanimously to advance the contempt of congress charges against meadows last night. the full house is expected to vote on the resolution today. >>> joining me now, cnn senior legal analyst and former federal pro

there was no ppe, donald trump nature they were there. we were having a major supplying train dell my chain issue, donald trump nature didn't become a problem problem at the beginning of the pandemic. this is less for the american people to look at what's happening versus political topping points. the only person that had talking points has been joe biden. unfortunately we have to live with it. >> gregg: he had a lot of talking points, our attorney general, during the campaign. he had a plan, he had a solution and he said "i'm going to shut down the virus" and said it over and over again when he was inaugurated, he said the same thing i'm going to shut down the virus. isn't this the problem when politicians running for office make all kinds of wild promises they cannot possibly fulfill. when they fail, americans get angry and resentful about it, and politicians ratings tank. isn't that what happened here? >> i think you encapsulated that very well. the reason why they are sick and tired of politicians in d.c., they're so much hypocrisy an

donald trump is the only u.s. president to be impeached twice, and while he has always had loyalists and sycophants in congress, his first impeachment over a threatening phone call he made to the ukrainian president asking him to dig up dirt on the bidens is when his republican attack dogs really began to close ranks around him, at least in the way we've come to think of them. there's a particular telling anecdote. back in 2019, in the middle of that first impeachment, donald trump was unhappy with the way his press coverage was going. he thought republicans were not doing a good enough job counterprogramming his impeachment hearings. in a meeting with the right wing house freedom caucus on october 22nd, then president trump reportedly said something to the effect of, quote, we need to be tough because democrats are fighting dirty and have been fighting dirty. we try to take the high road in general, but maybe it's time to take the gloves off. republican congressman matt gaetz of florida, who is one of trump's mos

i need your reaction to donald trump being booed.ll o'reilly on the stage wanting to claim the fact they got boosted. we've talked a lot about what it will take to get those who have been resistant to getting the vaccine, whether or not those messengers could be good messengers. i was struck by the fact that he says oh, it is not everybody booing just a small corner over there as though he is beginning to understand how damning this is for his own legacy. >> of course they created this monster. at this point we need all hand on deck. so we need trump supporters and fox news viewers to get vaccinated. i'm willing to take personally any kind of help from anywhere that encourages people to get vaccinated and do the right thing and take this virus seriously to protect themselves and others. i think it was really good to see donald trump publicly say that he got the booster. so credit where credit is due. i wish he was out there saying that every day but if he gets booed we know he won't do that. so, you know, too little too late, sure. b

among everything here, john, donald trump.ajority. mitch mcconnell wants nothing to do with trump, and says this next election is about the future, not the past. >> such a fascinating dynamic to watch. manu raju, grateful for the reporting, let's bring the conversation in the room and pick up where ma knew left off. when you talk about trump, these two are very different. >> how on the outs with him are you? he's pretty critical of you. >> say that again. >> reporter: he's pretty critical of you, he's not shy about it. >> you get that impression, right. >> when's the last time you talked to donald trump? >> this morning. >> can you tell us about it? >> he called up. he was on the golf course. >> did he talk about yesterday at all or? >> no, no. >> catching up. >> wasn't even campaign. >> i have lots of friends, i talk to a lot of people. >> it is in many ways, you can talk about separate policy differences but it's the dividing line, is donald trump the future or the past. >> i want to note about mitch mcconnell, he said that

this is about donald trump. think tried to weaponized text messages selectively leaked to put out a narrative that quite frankly the president didn't act, and can i tell you this is -- the president did act. >> that spin. politely that's spin. but if they selectively put out messages and they cherry picked then mr. meadows demand a public hearing and bring it all, right, right? >> absolutely. you know, fun law fact if i can drop a little bit of law school. >> drop a little law. >> no. in the law contemporaneous messages and statements are given more credibility than things after the fact. saying oh, my gosh, that car ran the red light and the rhett car hit a blue light is very different than a statement you write a week later saying i think i saw a car accident. what matters is the realtime text messages sent that day. >> new video of donald trump on camera talking about his own vice president on that horrific day. it's our holiday savings event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movements and aut

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i don't think she's doing it because she trying to make donald trump mad. she wants to get to the bottom of the the reason why i think this is different -- i think mike schmidt is different, trump has always surrounded himself with clowns. the difference is with the russia and mueller investigation, it was hard to understand the harm. colluding with secret discussions, it's hard to note exactly what the harm to the united states was. you and i are broth horrified about that, but it's different when you have an image of our capital under attack and you have documents like the powerpoint presentation that underscore this was something done by a bunch of people perhaps at the highest levels of our government. that's why you see mark meadows who's cooperating to some extent, and others not ruling out cooperation, because this is just a different animals than something abstract, as bad as that colluding was. neal, as someone who served with liz cheney, makes me sweat a bit that she called you that. liz cheney seems at least just as motivated by the ongoing threa

i think the best thing that could happen to him is that donald trump run because i think that if donalduns, this whole thing of saying that joe biden will be 82 pales when you see that donald trump will be 78. i would rather have an 82-year-old joe biden who has been stable and kind of steady all his life. than can you imagine a donald trump two years older, as wild as he already is? so all i could do is have a commercial showing old donald trump getting worse and joe biden. there is only a four-year gap there. you are not talking about somebody 60 running against somebody who is 8 2. we are talking about somebody who is 78 who is not considered stage by many of news considered unstable i would say. once you get to 78, 82, let's face it. you are among the older. those are senior citizens. not much distinction between the ages. then the question, are you sane, of sound mind and body? on the sanity and sound mind question, we know who has the advantage there. david, you have got donald trump out there. i want to play a little of this vaccine sound here with trump and candace owens. then w

they are saying donald trump, donald trump, donald trump, than there is an january 6th, januar. now they have a new name, a theme, and that is if we lose in 2,022 or 2,024, it is the end of democracy. the even have military officers -- they don't have any policy, they have no ideas, and they are in a paradox, they do not know what to do. we are the ones are going to suffer. >> jesse: he is a puppet, and now the puppet master, moving the strings, he is not working. and the country sees it and they are saying "look over here, look at trump, look at january 6," they are trying to distract but it is all breaking out. mr. davis hansen, thank you for your time. >> absolutely. thank you. >> jesse: so if biden's health prevents them from running in 2024, as democrats are hoping combative kamala can't successfully run because nobody, including democratic voters actually like her, then who will run? who will take the democratic party forward? former house speaker newt gingrich has heard one rumored name. >> i fully expect biden to not run again. i think the democratic party would be in a

the reason the stakes are so high is because it's donald trump.en tons of depositions in his past as a businessman, and now, his deposition is being sought again in his capacity as a businessman and so these theatrics about it being a witch hunt -- in case there is some concern that the statements that he makes at his deposition would later be used against him in the criminal case but of course donald trump has famously said, innocent people don't take the fifth. >> absolutely right. but there's no way we're going to hear executive privilege, right? that would not even close to apply in this case. >> so, you're right that it would not be close to applying in the case but i don't guarantee we won't hear it because the law doesn't often stop president trump from asserting various privileges but it is in his personal capacity and so executive privilege has nothing to do with this case. >> point well taken, though, considering the source. so, the previous civil actions have shut down the trump foundation. they did it after it was charged with using ch

sent to meadows in the heat of the moment. >> donald trump jr. texted again and again urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand, end quote. >> that oval office address never came. as congresswoman liz cheney stressed it would hours before trump would heed those calls, three hours and seven minutes to be exact. for three hours and seven minutes a chaotic, violent, deadly scene at the capitol played out. police officers were battered. the capitol was ransacked. some of the people doing it carrying trump flax and confederate flags. chants of hang mike pence ring out in the seat of american democracy. three hours and seven minutes after getting these desperate texts trump released an impromptu address telling the rioters to go home and also saying, quote, we love you. these messages don't just expose the hypocrisy of trump allies who have since tried to downplay january 6th. these messages provide a crucial glimpse into just how much the white house knew about

the capitol police tweet is not enough donald donald trump jr. texted. >> whitney wilde joining us now. there was a lot that came out last night. this is not the end of what we'll hear. >> certainly not. this is a snapshot of more than 6,000 documents that meadows turned over to the committee. so last night was extremely revelatory. the committee released urgent employees from those within the capitol and also within trump's inner circle. it shows there was a list of people who really believed that mark meadows was the one who could sway the president, who could get him to condemn the violence. here's a little bit more from this extremely important hearing last night. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. >> even the former president's own son had to go by proxy to get his message to the president. that's the point here. the point is that the committee thinks that mark meadows was the access point around which