for donald trump. a spokesperson for donald trump today issued a statement today that donald trump said hitler did a lot of good things. ku klux klan members love donald trump. the former klan leader supported donald trump's run for presidency in 2016 that what became the controversy of the day for the trump campaign in 2016, donald trump pretend not to know who david duke is or what he thinks. but that didn't bother david duke at all. because david duke knew that that was what a winning politician was going to have to say in a situation like that. so the racists who love donald trump because they believe he is one of them have never believed his denials about being one of them. they just see that as something donald trump, a smart politician, has to say. but they believe that they know where donald trump's heart is. america's klansmen, america's nazis believe that donald trump has in his heart what they have in theirs. sheer hatred. so they will be cheered tonight with the news reports that they will

that is why donald trump thinks. some people do or deserve that for daring to vote, and daring to vote against him. when you find republicans who are troubled by donald trump's cruelty, but still voted for him, they talk about the things they agree with trump on like, tax cuts, or supreme court justices isn't bad. they invariably say something like, trump did a lot of good things. exactly what donald trump said about adolf hitler. leading off our discussion tonight, is adam serwer author of the cruelty is the point. also with us jelani cobb professor of university have journalism at columbia and an analyst. so jelani cobb i want to begin with you, the people have been following donald trump four years, and following his cruelty, they will, on both sides of this, not be surprised to hear him quoted as saying that he admires hitler for a lot of good things, he says. >> yeah, it is an extraordinary statement. on the other hand, we did not a private regulation for john kelly, a man who after all, spends a great deal of t

why is it signed by donald? how many times on all of these shows do i have to say there is nothing that happened at the trump organization that did not go to donald, whether it was the purchasing of paperclips or the payment of alan weisselberg's grandchildrens' tuition. every single thing went on donald's desk for signature. >> can you hear me, michael? michael? okay. hold on. we're going to get michael back in a second. right now we want to bring in elie honig. tell us everything that you have gleaned. >> i'm speed reading. one thing that jumps out to me is there are definitely others involved. i say involved. whether they'll be charged is a separate question. the indictment talks about employees, plural, who were paid through this scheme. the indictment talks about how one of the largest, meaning there's others, beneficiaries was alan weisselberg. the indictment talks about how alan weisselberg and others directed this scheme. i found that really important, alan weisselberg and others. that trump organization

yet they knew that and saw every word donald trump said and they went out there and defied donald trump tonight and they did it in large numbers. and mitch mcconnell's vote, by the way, one thing that occurred to me, one reason for his vote is not just getting the bridge in kentucky that he desperately needs but also protecting his members who have been threatened by donald trump to show that the actual republican leader of the senate is on board with this bill also at this stage. >> you suggested something at the beginning that i agree with which is i think the intervention helped the democrats put this together. couple days ago i got a text from a top democratic aide who said will the republicans follow donald trump? or will they try to make a deal? and i think this might be significant, you know, donald trump will have a lot of power in that party. there are a lot of republican rank and file who will vote with donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that a very close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs

then there is the amazing mystery of how is donald trump still there, what is the payments keen for donald trump himself? that is something that we don't learn anything so far in this indictment. >> but i think we're gonna learn about it before too long. >> it looks like it's coming. it looks like that's what it is ahead of. us thank you, rachel. >> thank, you warns. >> thank you. once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime, according to an indictment by a manhattan grand jury until today. in court in my hand. we've already seen his signature on checks written in the commission of a federal crime. here's donald trump signature in a cheque to michael cohen as part of the criminal payoff scheme to prove event stormy daniels from telling the ugly truth of what happened when she was alone in that hotel room with donald trump. that criminal scheme, of course, completely fell apart, michael cohen went to prison for that criminal scheme, stormy daniels went on 60 minutes and told the story of that night including donald trump comparing her to his daughter. toda

donald trump will have a lot of power in the party, a lot of rank and file who will vote for donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that, ever close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs. now, even among some of his working class supporters, who basically like transportation bills. they like building roads, they like the jobs that are involved here. i also think that mcconnell may have been persuaded by the idea that, if they are going to attack the -- bill, they might not be completing restriction us on this. maybe they're full obstruction strategy also died tonight. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> great to be with you, thanks. >> coming up, we will be joined by congresswoman susan wildes. she was with president biden today in her congressional district in pennsylvania when he got the word, that the senate had reached a deal on infrastructure. infrastructure you look a little lost. i can't find my hotel. oh. oh! ♪♪ this is not normal. no. ♪♪ so? ♪♪ right? go with us an

in trump tower, the donald trump in the white house, the donald trump in mar-a-lago. he is the same person, he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how donald trump fills his day, or changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is that the presidency changes whoever occupies the office. but i don't think that's been true about donald trump. he has remained singularly donald trump, and i think that is another curious point, is that he doesn't have to be the president to yet be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point, because it is not -- it is not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump, whatever that character is, whatever role that actor -- which is what he is in many respects -- is playing. host: a couple more calls. we go to shirley in north carolina. good morning. caller: i don't think john will trump -- donald trump is crazy. he might be narcissistic, but the biden white house is -- guest: is it possible that i could interrupt you before u.s. your question, just

donald trump approved this. it was donald trump's decision. and without that evidence, you can't have criminal culpability. i think we also have to remember that, you know, in all likelihood, this is the first -- the first stage, the first round of what will be when the grand jury sits for another four, four and a half months, it's the prosecutors clearly are bringing a first round of charges against the trump organization, some corporate -- we don't know if it's the trump organization at the parent level or a subsidiary level. unknown until tomorrow. but they're bringing this first round of charges. but it's, from what i have been hearing, it sounds like this is not the end. this indictment is a first round and the investigation is continuing and presumably will be looking at things like bank fraud, insurance fraud, falsification of books and records, perhaps the stormy daniels payment. there is a lot for them to still do. >> thank you very much for your guidance on this tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. nice to be her

donald trump not really meaningfully changed from the donald trump and trump tower to the donald trumphe white house to the donald trump and mar-a-lago. he is the same person. he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how he feels his day for changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is the residency changes whoever occupies the office. i don't think that is been true about donald trump he has remained singularly donald trump. it's another curious point is that he does not have to be the president to be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point. it is not donald trump it's not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump whatever that character is. whatever role that actor which is what he is in many respects is played very. >> a couple more calls will go to shirley and north carolina good morning. >> good morning. >> caller: i do not think donald trump is crazy but he might be narcissistic. but, the biden white house. >> can i -- make is it possible i could interrupt you before you ask your

donald trump not really meaningfully changed from the donald trump and trump tower to the donald trumpin the white house to the donald trump and mar-a-lago. he is the same person. he conducts himself in the same way. the presidency really did not alter how he feels his day for changed his focus. one of the things that i think is often said is the residency changes whoever occupies the office. i don't think that is been true about donald trump he has remained singularly donald trump. it's another curious point is that he does not have to be the president to be donald trump. that is also a dangerous point. it is not donald trump it's not president donald trump who has enthralled so much of the country. it is donald trump whatever that character is. whatever role that actor which is what he is in many respects is played very. >> a couple more calls will go to shirley and north carolina good morning. >> good morning. >> caller: i do not think donald trump is crazy but he might be narcissistic. but, the biden white house. >> can i -- make is it possible i could interrupt you before you ask

how is donald trump paid? what's the payment scheme within that business for donald trump, himself? and that's something we don't learn anything about in this indictment, so far. >> but i bet we are going to learn about it, before too long. >> it looks like it's coming. looks like that is what's ahead of us. thank you, rachel. >> thank you, laurchs. >> thank you. >>> once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime. according to an indictment by a manhattan-grand jury. unsealed today, in court, in manhattan. we have already seen donald trump's signature on checks written in the commission of a federal crime. here is donald trump's signature in a check to michael cohen, as part of the criminal payoff scheme to prevent stormy daniels from telling the ugly truth of what happened when she was alone in a hotel room with donald trump. that criminal scheme, of course, completely, fell apart. michael cohen went to prison for that criminal scheme. stormy daniels went on "60 minutes" and told the story of that night, including donald trump comparing her to his d

donald trump incited this mob here and i'm convinced if donald trump did not do that, these folks otherwise have come. so but for donald trump january 6th does not happen. second, lawrence, and this is important for your viewers. we can all play a role by going through the fbi twitter and facebook accounts and reposting and re-tweeting these videos and play our own civic duty in making sure that those who participated that day are held accountable. i can't re-tweet those videos enough to try and do my part to bring them to justice. >> your book is about the impeachments of donald trump, the second impeachment was all about one day, it was all about january 6th and i guess in other ways, in evidentiary terms, it was also about what led up to it, and donald trump and others communication with this crowd that precedes january 6th. >> that's right. also, lawrence, that this was entirely predictable for nearly 20 days leading up to the 6th, donald trump's campaign and associates had spent $50 million on stop the steal campaign ads, and they stopped paying for them on the 6th. so they had every i

donald trump also mentioned these words exactly. education for your grandchildren, i don't even know, do you have to? this anyone even know? the answer to that stuff? we he posed that tax question to his sadly ranger and people in the audience. want to know if they know whether you have to pay taxes on $347,000 in private school tuition payments for your grandchildren. here's someone who donald trump can ask about that. >> i know more about taxes than any human being that god ever created we. >> ellen weisselberg is doing whatever a criminal defendant is supposed to do, he's not saying a public word, not one. allen weisselberg as he remains silent, he watches donald trump will, help the prosecutors who are trying to put ellen weisselberg in prison. it may also be donald trump's continued public ranting is part of why joe biden's job approval polls are so strong, continued contrast with donald trump probably helps joe biden and those president biden's continued leadership in the most important job the president can have, we making am

and then the 3rd thing i think is that to elect donald trump the donald trump, as much as he can be, particularly just suburban women and suburban moms. we are back to the days of the waitress and the soccer moms being the determinant vote. and the 2020, i'll make a prediction right now women, it will women, you will decide. what funny do alexis, do they vote providing democrats, and then the men vote for the republicans and let donald trump be donald trump as much as he can be. i was kind of very he didn't coverage because that's the fact that that and that rejected again. well folks, unfortunately were out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance. i'm a professor. one word, it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, listen, it's a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line?

i am going to go out on 11 and say that if it was donald trump -- on a limb and if that was donald trumpnd blood rep. dent: said that, it would be a different response. probably a little different, do you ever think that maybe vladimir is thrilled to negotiate against adults? he is getting everything he wants, right? he got a pipeline from russia, for russia, he is making billions from the eu. joe biden says the eu is the background -- backbone of nato, we spent 70% of their budget protecting them from the russians they are evicting with the pipeline. america first went down the toilet with this administration, folks. despite what we see going on on a daily basis, despite all of that, there is a circle and running. -- there is a silver lining. [applause] i am sorry. i am sorry. i do not want to be canceled. democratic presidential hopeful. i heard this from brian potato head on cnn. if they post this on social media, they will dig me for misinformation because i did not include democratic presidential hopeful which that was accurate, right? michael is going away for a couple of years, he

and let donald trump be donald trump as much as he can be. i was kind of very he didn't coverage because that's the fact that that and that rejected again. well folks, unfortunately we're out of time. this is really terrific. i'd love to get a one word. you have a one word answer, dan, on what matters most in the election. you've got, you've got a chance on the professor. one word it's impossible or suburbs. there you go. well, listen, it's a great conversation. thank you both democratic strategist, linda lake, political science professor, dan hopkins. thank you both for being with us today. really appreciate it and we'll see what happens. so what's the bottom line? millions and millions of americans still believe that donald trump is their great white hope for them. he's a straight talker who doesn't abide by the rules. doesn't care about traditional lines between conservative and liberal, or democrat, and republican and he does whatever he likes. they love it, trump is rude and obnoxious, and you could care less about your feelings. maybe t

they live in fear of donald trump coming after them. donald trump saying they are ill legitimate.piece that i wrote the other day was that donald trump remains very powerful and democrats would like to think that he is out. he's gone away. he's in exile. he's been humiliated. forget about it. this is all more meat for why he will run again. he must run again. just call it revenge. he needs his revenge. >> let me ask you one more question before we get to your book. do you think either of the candidates that i mentioned or anybody else who could get 70 million votes in this country in terms of republican? >> not as long as donald trump still ambulatory. >> okay. let's get to the book. i mentioned fire and fury. given his reaction to that book, were you surprised to even get an interview with him for this book. why do you think he did it? >> i was flabbergasted. in fact, i didn't even ask for the interview. he heard that i was writing this book and as this was related to me, the person who told him, he said that guy gets ratings. let's talk to him. then i was immediately invited dow

happened on january 6th and who caused it to happen already has the smoking gun testimony against donald trump. trump sent us. the trump mob who were sent there by the president of the united states told the officer michael fanone how they wanted to kill him. >> i came face-to-face to an attacker that attempted to remove my firearm. i heard chanting get his gun and kill him with his own gun. >> officer fanone had a few words to say about the republicans in the house and senate that tried to block this investigation. >> i feel like i went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room but too many are now telling me hell doesn't exist or hell actually wasn't that bad. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful! my law enforcement career prepared me to cope with some of the aspects of this experience. being an officer you know your life is at risk wherever you walk out the door. even if you don't expect otherwise law-abiding citizens to take up arms against you. but nothing truly nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who contin

to ivanka to donald himself. of benefits, these -- these -- you know, apartment, these car benefits at the trump organization. matt calamari as an example. so he's not the only one that's getting it. this indictment is going to be much larger. it's going to be obviously much broader in its scope. despite the fact donald wants to sit there and say, if this is it, then they've got nothing, they have nothing, that's just typical donald trump talk. what he's thinking is that he's going to say it, he's going to get his lawyers who got up and they said the exact same thing. they were appealing to a party of one and he thinks that the more that people say it, the more it will become a reality but here's the truth, and we know this, joy, it's not true. the district attorney is not interested or impressed with donald's choices of counsel and it's not going to end well. you know, i've made a lot of predictions, many on this show, many on others. i've been right pretty much most of the time. it's not going to end well for a

wolf, how can you say that donald trump was crazy and have no plan this is another hit job, donald trump'sorking. unemployment was at an all-time low, rebuilt the military, treaty deals with china, he had the best policy. the best policies the country has ever seen and it was working and you ignore that and say trump is a jerk. people need to wake up, hating on the man about the best president we've ever had, the biggest movement, millions of followers if you say everybody's stupid. >> any response? >> my only response is that this is the third book i'veth writte, i've spoken to everyone around the president including the president at great length so i am reflecting the experience the people around him have had in the expense i've had, spending a great deal of time with these people and i will say that the policies if you like the former president policies, they largely came from forces other than the president himself, not concerned with policies who had very little interest in politics, certainly absent manager in the executive branch and who was a man -- who exists in the moment, holy o

what donald trump do?t support and encourages and furtheren cites what's happening. >> it comes as donald trump with house republican leader mccarthy discussing an attempt to return to office. does it surprise you how many people choose to stand with trump despite all of this? have you become so accustomed to it? if so what does that say? >> i think you have a problem with the republican elected officials are lying to the republican voters and then they say the voters believe the lies but they have been fed the lies by the politicians. mccarthy started to say this is not okay. this is not who we are as america. we don't do insurrections but democratic elections and the person with more votes wins that election and we do not do violence associated with politics here especially in 2021. the concern that i have in this moment is that this could happen again because of the complicity of elected republicans save adam kimzinger and liz cheney because they speak truth to power and speaking to the importance of th

they want to tap into the political base of donald trump.eople were running from us as well because they had raised serious questions about donald trump's ability to lead, about the insanity of some of the things that happened in the final months of the presidency. in fact, confiding into people that they were quite afraid of what donald trump would do and they have tried to deny those things to us. and we've corroborated them. but they tried to avoid being critical of the president because it's important to them politically to be aligned with him. >> two friends of our broadcast serious journalist both philip rucker and carroll leonnig, our thanks for coming on on the eve of your books release to our audience. the book is out tomorrow. it is, i alone can fix it, donald j trump's catastrophic final year. best of luck with it to both of you. thanks for coming on. and coming up for us, a top doctor on what we all need to know about these breakthrough infections that we're hearing about. where the fully vaccinated are getting the virus nonethel

is soliciting money to -- for donald trump's legal fun. dad is suing big tech with three exclamation points. if you can click to link to donate to his cpac to help out! it is with -- john junior and his sort of appeals are we becoming interesting. >> i think that the one context that of the crime in the political spending in trump properties, we still haven't seen the numbers for donald trump's own pack. remember he has been saying i'm gonna take on big tech, i'm gonna challenge of electives elections. we but he could be giving it to himself. he could've been paying it was businesses. so i don't know if we -- until we know how much that committee, that don jr., is raising money. for >> david cay johnston, how much does donald trump, if he doesn't run if he doesn't stay involved in politics, can you build this company into something meaningful? because it's a different place before he ran. there are people who carry ivanka trump's brand who don't do that anymore. their buildings that had trump's name on it that won't do that anymore. why do

one of them was to tell them to stop. >> donald trump's first tweet to the attacker that he sent to the capitol was to encourage them while they were trying to kill officer gonell and officer fanone and officer daniel hodges, who we have all seen many times in video, this video being crushed almost to death at one of the doors at the entrance of the capital. we have heard his screams on the video but today, we heard him describe what happened to him in that doorway. >> my arms were pinned and effectively useless, trapped against the shield and the door frame on my right. with my posture granting me no functional strength or movement and i was effectively defenseless from the increasing pressure of the mob. directly in front of me a man sees the opportunity of my vulnerability and grabbed the front of my gas mask and used it to beat my head against the door and the strap was straining against my neck. he never uttered any words i recognized but instead opted for guttural screams. i remember him foaming at the mouth. >> some members of the trump mob tried to convince him to join them beca

donald trump's catastrophic final year. generating a lot of headlines, even though it doesn't come out until tomorrow. phil's co-author will join us a bit later for a full conversation about it. also with us, amy stoddard, washington journalist, for real clear politics and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she also happens to be one of the co-hosts of the podcast sisters-in-law. good evening and welcome to you all. and phillip, i would like to begin with you and your beat. this new virus surge. let's take political consequences, the disappointment aspect of it out of the conversation and dwell on public health. i am guessing that biden west wing is about to address this with some urgency. >> certainly. and we've seen the biden administration and the health officials throughout the government speak with increasing urgency in recent weeks about what the cdc is calling the pandemic of the unvaccinated. the fact that so many americans, tens of millions of americans, many of them in red, republican leaning states won't be vaccin

donald trump promised to fix it but of course he never did. to god they pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. >> the president pointed out that this, among others, the infrastructure bill and the family plan, the two big things he's trying to do right now, are popular amongst americans out there, it just doesn't seem to have that degree of support in congress. how are people out there feeling about that? obviously they think about that bridge. that's where, they say, the rubber hits the road, right? the infrastructure you experience is the one you want fixed. >> donald trump held a press conference in front of that bridge and promised to fix it. he never even tried. joe biden and our two senators, the democrat sherrod brown have been architects of this plan. thank god with joe biden's leadership and vision, i hope to god we'll get this done and fix this bridge which should have been fixed a long time ago. it's joe biden getting us out of expensive foreign wars and proposing to spend money in middle america on projects like the bridge, broad

howie: you were with donald trump at cpac.despite media pushback and i get several e-mails a day from him to this effect, his unproven conventions that the election was stolen. how does that help the republican party move forward. >> if we don't have integrity in the election cycle, we will never have a republic. we've seen the secretary of state of georgia has said and confirmed that thousands of ballots have been uncovered that he didn't know about. howie, this republic, this constitutional republic was founded on one man, one vote. we have to be able to vote properly. we have to make sure we count those votes properly. and we have to make sure that only legal citizens are voting. it is paramount to the very republic that we sit in every day and what the president has said and what he has asked for is an honest and fair assessment of what took place in november and i don't know why that's a republican or democrat ideal. that should be an american ideal. howie: i'll note that bill barr's justice department found no evidence o

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michael cohen would take donald trump down. this could be the end for donald trump.charges against donald trump. they keep setting their sights up high, trying to put the bull's-eye directly on donald trump. when the bull's-eye falls short, news doesn't add up what they hoped it would, they keep the story alive anyway, don't they? it could lead to his eventual flipping. howie: he could flip and that would be trouble for trump. but you're not suggesting -- you're not suggesting it is not a legitimate story when this criminal indictment, whether it is warranted or not against a company of the former president of the united states? >> it is a legitimate story but so too is hunter biden. and that is what i object to. i object to the press saying it's a legitimate story when it is about a republican especially donald trump, it is but don't extend that same type of coverage to joe biden or people around him, in this case joe biden's son. howie: donald trump's pretty constant stream of complaints about an election he contends is stolen get a lot of media coverage. wants it

as far as donald is concerned, they have what they have because of him.hey should be willing to take whatever hit they are going to take. he doesn't understand, i guess, how these things work. prosecutors won't stop at my cousins. they will be going for the bigger fish who would be donald who has been running this organization for over 30 years now. i think he would be surprised to learn that i don't believe my cousins would exert that kind of loyalty because his relationship with him is entirely transactional. so and conditional, i should say. they are not going to risk anything for him as he wouldn't risk anything for them. it should get really interesting. there are so many other documents that new york prosecutors have at their disposal. >> you have expectation allen weisselberg would cooperate than his children? >> as serious as these charges are, they may not end up with jail time or any significant amount of jail time. the down side of cooperating with allen would be the down side of going to jail if for a large enough period of time. it will be in

i can tell you that the idea that all of this is going is donald trump's cfo or 15 years and donald trumpidea where the extra money was going -- that looks to many sources of an unlikely theory. it is different from what we heard from the former colleague that joined us tonight. >> everything had to go through mr. trump. he knew everything and had to be approved by mr. trump. >> he knew about everything, does not mean he wrote anything down. he avoids e-mails and electronics. that's why weisselberg is so critical to provide -- many people would be checking e-mails or tax about approvals or records that say yes, do that. yes, move the money over. yes, lie about whether it is income. yes, that'll make us more profitable because we won't pay taxes. prosecutors may miss all those yeses, they may need weisselberg to unearth new details they don't yet know. >> donald trump himself famously does not use e-mails or text, does allen weisselberg use e-mails or texts? >> i have given the da an e-mail they did not know about. >> so what's the answer? does he use e-mail and texts? >> donald? >> allen.

this was a referendum on donald trump. whereas when you look back to the 2016 election, we saw that both candidates were viewed negatively and in some ways it was a referendum on both sides. in 2020, it really was all about donald trump. host: let's talk to robert who was calling from mesa, arizona on the republican line. good morning. caller: i just wanted to say that the eisenhower republican in my 60's. we organized in maricopa county, the one that's going through this cyber ninja audit even though we have gone through two audits and a court cases and they produced no evidence of any kind of fraud. we used absentee ballots. we have been doing that since 2002. more than 17% of our population uses those ballots and always has. we organized in this state against the tea party libertarians and the qanon freaks. we were part of the lincoln project and let's vote and we deliberately make sure that we turned out as many people. a lot of people changed over to independent in 2018 because they could not handle what was going on

before he was elected, donald trump _ point?he was elected, donald trump maintained - point? before he was elected, donald trump maintained hisl point? before he was elected, i donald trump maintained his tax records were under audit and they are apparently still under ordered at the time he left office. two years ago, the us justice department turned down a request by the house ways and means committee looking into donald trump's tax affairs, for the treasury to be compelled to release those documents, those tax documents. well now, the biden administration has reversed that decision. , six years worth of donald trump's tax records. democrats have welcomed the move, republicans have to mount state. will we get to see the documents anytime soon? that is very doubtful. it is likely that donald trump will fight this vision through the courts and it will ultimately be, the vote on whether to release these documents to a wider audience, ultimately of course to the public at large.— public at large. david, you mentioned _ public at l

donald trump won texas boy just 5.5 points last year.llenge from the right mean for greg abbott but more broadly texas republicans and republicans across the country. kristin solis anderson and tim miller, former spokesman for the republican national committee now writer at large for bulwark and both join me right now. kristin, i'll start with you. i know abbott has faced a lot of political headwinds. the handling of the freeze in texas hurt him quite a bit. i don't think that from the perspective of the median voter that he has like been too liberal and so i just wonder what incentive structure it creates for republican politicians when you see someone like allen west primarying abbott from the right. what it means for how he's going to conduct the governance of texas going forward? >> well, the incentive structure is that if you're running for office, it gives you a way to raise money, it gives you attention, it gives you prominence so there are lots of incentives for running for office. in some ways allen west primarying of greg abbot

allen worked for donald's father and, then at night he used to work for donald. eventually when the trump org expanded into manhattan, allen was there. i would see allen was the second most trump powerful person interim or, that means he's more powerful than ivanka who works. there he had his hands on the purse strings. he handled the money. and for donald to trust somebody to handle the money, that person is going to be the most powerful person in the organization. ari, let's think about what happens here on this i've indictment with silence. if segments thought something like this, that island didn't declare 1.7 billion in taxes -- by the way on a separate note, you can look at that as not larceny. if you thought that he would hold that and then allen would go testify against donald and give out of the sea courts, assuming there were, he is crazy. because what would be left for allied afterwards. remember, alan, i know we're talking about ten years, i don't believe he would get ten years for that. at least talking to my attorney. it's not as if donald was stopp

you have a cult around donald trump. legislative leadership in congress will do whatever he wants and of course they're not going to hold him accountable, they're afraid of his face. as long as that is true they'll continue to push out his lies big and small because that's is what their party is, it's an anti-truth party, an autocratic party and we need republicans of good conscious to take back the party because the system really depends on two healthy parties. >> chairman adam schiff thank you for joining me, he will be serving on the committee looking into january 6th. coming up, breaking news on the arrest of trump friend and confidant and chair of the trump inaugural committee. it's an apps hundreds of travel sites for hotels and cars and vacation rentals like kayak does for flights. so it's kayak. yeah, like kayak. why don't you just call it kayak. i'm calling it... canoe. compare hundreds of travel sites for thousands of trips. kayak. search one and done. compare hundreds of travel sites for thousands of trips. me

does donald trump's excuse me? does donald rumsfeld's name mean anything in iraq? or is it more the legacy that he left, that matters? you know, after 18 years of the invasion of the changing bidding team, i don't think many people in there not to remember donald rumsfeld with great gratitude, probably at the beginning of after the invasion after a while and maybe 20042005 with high hopes of the keys to change after changing the regime to rebuild the country and to become the guardian of democracy. of the middle east. there was a trade gratitude for the americans, but not anymore. and like they have taken a center of the iranian bus on do we have loss of sovereignty. we have also independence and very few people now and in our fields. and it kind of got you to united states or to rumsfeld anymore. what was the feeling immediately after the end of the last iraq war to, towards the us and towards donald rumsfeld, for people who perhaps are approaching this for the 1st time did a right really feel well disposed if you'd like towards the u. s. and how did that develop

adam is talking about donald trump. and the twice impeached former president gives up the game on stage. >> you didn't pay tax on the car. i don't even know -- do you have to? does anyone know the answer to that stuff? >> david cay johnston has answers to all this stuff and he joins me on a super sized addition of all in starting now. good evening from chicago, i'm chris hayes. happy 4th of july. as the nation celebrates independence day this long weekend, we are also about to mark six months since the insurrection at the capitol in january. the department of justice has now arrested more than 500 people in connection with the attack. we are tracking a lot of different developments in those overlapping investigations. over the weekend, we have new details in the case of a former virginia police officer who, we should note, is not the only former police officer named thomas robertson. he is facing multiple charges after allegedly participating in the january 6th insurrection. according to prosecutors, robertson and anoth

they are the co-authors of this new book "i alone can fix it: donald date -- donald j. trump's catastrophic final year." the title from the book comes from a line in donald trump's acceptance speech. [video clip] >> i have joined the political arena so the powerful can no longer beat up on people who can no longer defend themselves. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i alone can fix it. [applause] host: carol, what about him saying that led you to title the book this way? guest: it was an interesting challenge to summarize 20/20, what a painful and lethal year. when we looked back over the many ways, trump -- the many ways donald trump governor that year, he professed that he was such a great governor, that he would be such a leader and defender and he could fix everything because he knew best. philip and i in our reporting tried to put former president trump's statements to the test. almost every person who served him concluded with us he did not fix it and oftentimes he made it worse and he put his own personal gain way ahead of the lives of american

it was written by donald trump's niece, mary trump.he one who had access to those documents. she had turned them over to reporters at "the new york times." those were not just the source of remarkable award winning journalism, they also became the basis of a lawsuit she launched against donald trump in which she alleges he cheated her out of tens of millions of dollars in trump family assets that were rightfully hers. that lawsuit is now just one item in a growing list of legal woes for the former president and his business, including these charges. joining us is mary trump. she's the author of "too much and never enough, how my family created the world's most dangerous man." she has a new book coming out on august 17th, which is called "the reckoning, our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal." it's great to see you. it's been too long. thank you for coming back. >> it's great to be here. i'm so pleased you asked me. >> let me ask your unique perspective on how you think your uncle and the people around him will react to this. thi

donald trump runs strong among white suburbans. strong four years later, he takes arizona and changes the -- map. the shifting mood. come over here and look at this giant game. 66% for hillary clinton. 28% for donald trump. joe biden still won but 59-38. donald trump improved his standing. 10 points among hispanic voters. how does that translate on the map? remember in the 2020 campaign. democrats had dreams. we're going to take texas back. you see a lot of blue down here. right? in this part of texas. but take a look. this is 2020. right? biden lost texas. donald trump won it comfortably. go back in time. you see more blue. right? when hillary clinton -- i mean when donald trump carries texas over hillary clinton shelf did better here. has the tiny county, maverick county. but 76% for hillary clinton. she's losing texas in 2016 and losing it big. but in this area, latino voters. fast forward 20 years. joe biden by only 10 points because donald trump is porlg better among latino voters. took away any democratic hopes at all of gett

donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. we're also keeping an eye on the latest surfside florida on the ongoing search for survivors of that condo building collapse. 18 lives have been lost and 145 souls are still unaccounted for. tomorrow, as you know, the president and first lady will travel to surfside florida. with that, let's bring in our lead off guest on this wednesday night, philip rucker correspondent for the washington post is highly anticipated new book written with his colleague, i alone can fix it, donald j trump's catastrophic final year. it's due out on the 20th of july. a.b. starter, associate editor and columnist, and paul butler a former federal prosecutor at the department of justice and these days a professor at georgetown law school. your beat currently and former you covered trump through all manner of controversy. and to repeat, for those who don't know, something you know well. his company is a small family outfit at the end of the day. what are they saying about what's coming tomorrow and what must

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 saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, december december -- da skiezed as patriotism fed by their members of congress, their television 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 being told it would happen straight away. so you've got 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 millions believe a network so deep, so vast they would ignite an insurrection to find the answers we have to go into that sea of people. see through their eyes. this is t