fuentes is a 24-year-old holocaust denier who espouses racist rhetoric on his podcast. >> nick fuentes anti-semite and someone who revels in just saying hateful bigoted things about jews and other minorities. >> reporter: fuentes was also on the grounds of the capitol on january 6th, prompting the house select committee investigating the capitol attack to issue fuentes a subpoena in january. >> it's incredibly poor judgment. i think ever since the election in 2020, i think the president has descended deeper into the heart of darkness. >> reporter: on friday trump denied knowing fuentes writing west unexpectedly showed up with three friends who i knew nothing about. the dinner was quick and uneventful. >> so trump is really impressed with nick fuentes, and nick fue fuentes, unlike so many lawyers and so many people he was left with in his 2020 campaign, he's actually a loyalist. >> reporter: a source says that trump found fuentes, quote, very interesting, particularly his ability to rattle off statistics and his knowledge of trump world. at one point during the dinner trump declared he

fuentes.f the lawyers and so many of the people that he was left with on his 2020 campaign, he's actually a loyalist. >> in three statements issued on friday, the former president, who announced his third bid for the white house, sought to defend himself arguing he never met and new nothing about nick fuentes beforehand and the dinner was initially supposed to be him and kanye west, who has his own history of anti-semitic remarks. while it remains unclear how much trump knew about nick fuentes before their dinner he hasn't denounced fuentes' views, he's a holocaust denier and known for running the america first organization, which seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the main stream gop. >> we have got the white chri christian men who built this country the first time and we'll do it again. >> reporter: nick fuentes also recently called for the military to be sent into black neighborhoods. >> just sent the military in. do what must be done. send the military into these black neigh

that he does not condemn nick fuentes, or the things nick fuentes has set. and i think -- the people who agree with nick fuentes are saying, see, he's one of us. he believes what we believe. >> this is a reasonably easy thing to the nets. we've heard from some gop senators, some gop governors who are condemning what trump did. but why are we hearing from a publican leadership on the hill, peter? >> well, the people who showed, susan collins, mitt romney, they're the same ones who voted to convict him at the second impeachment trial. they've already broken with trump over the last year and a half and they feel empowered to continue to criticize him. what's really interesting is -- mike pence being one example of that, mike pence was reluctant to criticize former president trump on most things. but you're right. we've seen this before. we saw this with charlotte spark. we sought after january 6th. we've seen this time and again, where there have been moments where some republicans stood up and said, this is not right. but in the end, former president trump see

i don't think you can compare them to nick fuentes. but let us turn to the subject at hand, which is your priorities when republicans take over the house. you're going to to be the chairman of the house oversight committee. you said you're going to investigate 40 to 50 different topics and you'll investigate fraud when it comes to pandemic funding. border security. ukraine funding and more. all very worthy subjects. how do you as chairman make sure your hearings will be effective and serious and impactful on the american people at large and not just opportunities for some of your members to stage performance art for fringes? >> well, that's a great question and very fair question. we get asked that a lot and it's a challenge for me. i want to bring credibility back to the house oversight committee. we want to go back to our original mission of weeding out waste, fraud, abuse and mis mismanagement in the federal government. a lot of the work we do will be done in the form of depositions and transcribed interviews. that's a fair process

fuentes was coming to mara lago , for him to refuse to condemn fuentes and his bigoted words after the dinner is appalling, and it is dangerous. reporter: we asked every republican senor and every member of republican hse leadership today whether they thought the meeting was appropriate, and if they condemned it. louisiana senator bill cassidy said, trump hosting racist antisemites for dinner encourages other racist antisemites. maine senator susan collins told newshour, the president should never have had a meal or even a meeting with nick fuentes. the vast majority of them did not respond to us. for more on what this means for the republican party, i'm joined by mary mccord. she is the director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection, and a former justice department official. and stuarttevens. he is a former republican consultant, now at the lincoln project and a new pro-democracy media platform, resolute square. thank you both for joining newshour. publican senators were asked by reporters about the dinner and a number of them said it was inappropriate, that it w

it is an event organized by fuentes himself. where he took to the stage to felt ideas like this. >> our secret sauce here is these young white man. that is what we call the secret ingredient. the world has forgotten about them, but not us. we have got the white christian men that built this countries, the first time. we will do it again. >> look, it doesn't matter what trump claims he did or didn't know at the time. what matters is that also what he knows now. trump underlined billy knows now that nick fuentes is an outspoken racist, an antisemite, and he is a holocaust lawyer. but in the statements he has put out after that dinner, trump has declined to condemn him or even denounced those views. will that change? for those who know the ex president's long history of refusing to criticize anyone who's complemented him, that seems to put eight generously unlikely. let's discuss this more with the just video -- democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate

at one point he declared -- trump declared that he liked fuentes.ly, victor and alison, as the controversy grows over this dinner, the real important question is, of course, how republicans on capitol hill will continue to respond. >> some explanation from the former president, but no condemnation of those philosophies. sun land serfaty, thank you. >> joining us is steve leader, the senior rabbi at wilshire boulevard temple in los angeles. always great to see you. thank you for being here. when a former president of the united states and current candidate for president meets with an anti-semite and holocaust denier, what's the fallout for the jewish community after that? >> the fallout for the jewish community and for the entire nation is further legitimization of jew hatred, misogyny and racism. that's the fallout, full stop. >> president trump says he didn't know who nick fuentes is. is that an excuse? >> first of all, i'm no expert in secret service protocols, but i find it impossible to believe that anyone gets to have dinner with a former presi

so trump is really impressed with nick fuentes and nick fuentes unlike the lawyers that he was left hen't know what it is. you will be the loyalists. >> it is only just the latest xlampl of trump forged ties with racist or extremist views and his lack of willingness to condemn the stuff over and over again but today what is striking is the deafening silence of republicans about this. yet again here we are and trump is just opening the doors to these vile characters. elected republicans aren't saying anything. >> no. we have seen this movie before. they try to bury their heads in the sand. trump on twitter and approach them in the halls of congress and ask if they saw the tweet. they didn't see the tweet that everybody else saw. they want to ignore this. but the problem for trump, a, the reboot's never as good as the original. trying to catch fire in a bottle with the 2016 run. i was in mar-a-lago for the announcement. i didn't have the same pizazz to figure that he was shooting for. the donors are flaying him left and right. so this is a terrible moment for the former president trump's

also, i didn't know nick fuentes. three of the people at the dinner said trump took a liking to fuentes, one of them telling abc that trump said of the white supremacist, quote, "he gets me." kanye west, in a video he posted on twitter and since deleted, said trump liked fuentes because he is more loyal to him than his own lawyers. >> so, trump is really impressed with nick fuentes. >> reporter: if trump didn't know fuentes before the dinner, he does now. but neither the former president nor any of his spokespeople have condemned the man's virulently racist views or west's anti-semitism. former vice president mike pence called on trump to apologize. >> president trump was wrong to give a white national ist, an anti-semite and a holocaust denier a seat at the table. i think he should apologize for it. >> reporter: we reached out to both kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell, the two top republicans in congress for comments about all of this. neither responded. the chair of the republican national committee did put out a s

according to trump, he didn't know who fuentes was. it sounds a little bit like a setup like they brought him in part to show trump how he lost his way. like this is really the base. these are the kind of voters you're losing. not sure he minds losing them. >> "the wall street journal" editorial board pulled no punching saying donald trump's presidential campaign is two weeks old. already it has his trademark of bad company and bad judgment. the board went on to say trump isn't going to change in the next two years will inevitably feature many more damaging episodes. does the former president's behavior, including this set the stage for someone like, i don't know, ron desantis to step in? >> that's the question. for the sake of argument, say he didn't know who nick fuentes was. this is a line used all the time when he is caught associating with or accepting the support of radical extremist characters. i don't know who that person is. i just know they like me. say he didn't know who he was. what strikes you is there is no vetting, no pr

he also said of fuentes, i like him, he gets me. trump dining with a white nationalist, impossible, according to his campaign? as the media descends on a full fledged public relations catastrophe. one described it as, quote, f'ing nightmare. are we going to play this game as if trump dining with one of the country's most prominent white supremacists is surprising? remember, he is the guy who told the far right proud boys to stand back and stand by when he was asked to condemn white supremacists, before they broke into the capitol. he also said this about the unite the right white supremacist rally in charlottesville that left one counterprotester dead. >> you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> very fine neonazis, according to trump. nick fuentes was at that rally along with richard spencer who helped to organize it. spencer, a prolific and proud white supremacist, muslim hating propagandist, attended duke with stephen miller, the architect of trump's muslim ban and child separation policies who now spends

for people who don't know exactly who nick fuentes is, please enlighten us. >> nick fuentes is a 24-year-old white supreme cyst and holocaust denier who hosts a far right show on a social media platform, but he's been banned across many mainstream social media platforms for espousing some really reprehensible views about race and religion. he was present at the 2017 charlottesville white nationalist march. he was also at the stop the steal rally on january 6th and peoplery associated with this group of fans that he has were also seen inside of the capitol that day, but really he is known for hosting conferences and this media show where he talks about things like holocaust denialism. he talks about things about hatred towards jewish people or people of color. so he has a long hold -- a long-time history of saying -- of saying hateful speech. >> this feels like it fits into a familiar pattern, does it not, where trump will have some sort of an association with an unsavory character. we can talk about the proud boys, david duke, the early days of his campaign, january 6th rioters, whatever it

and this is what people like nick fuentes thrive on.of highly visible validation and acceptance by the absolute highest level of political leadership, in this case in the republican party anyway, he uses that to engender new supporters, new viewers, new readers of his materials. that's how they get their views out to a wider audience. that's how they recruit more people and supporters. and that's why we're in the situation today where domestic extremist violence is at levels we have never seen before because these things that used to be relegated to the backwaters are now accepted and discussed right on social media and on regular media by people like that. >> yeah, it's just mainstreaming hate, it's as simple as that. at the same time, we've got twitter of course taken over by elon musk, more far-right voices have been allowed back onto the platform. what is the latest there? >> yeah. well, nick fuentes is actually one of those people who's been banned from the platform. and seemingly one of those people that would be covered under thi

nick fuentes is lucky to get 2,000 followers on his site.y to him, it will turn off more moderate maga republicans. because they really don't care and they don't appreciate his extremist tendencies. the other thing they are looking at, though is the number of republicans that come out and condemn trump. you've got people like chris christie, you know, hitting on trump for having dinner with nick fuentes but you don't see anyone else yet. breathing a sigh of relief, look, we have been here before with trump making problematic comments, whether it was "access hollywood," the barometer is if a lot of congressional republicans, potential nominees start criticizing trump, that's a bad sign and that shows they're ready to start hitting trump, and that could be a problem for the convention. >> yes, it could, political investigations reporter for the guardian, hugo lowell, thank you very much for being on this morning. >> and still ahead on "morning joe," a community in idaho is still on edge more than two weeks after the killing of four college stu

and let's take a minute to remind everyone who nick fuentes is.he's a 24-year-old, he as an organization called america first. he's an unabashedly, racist, white supremacist, antisemite. he has said things on his show, like the military should go into black neighborhoods. he said that jews should leave the country. he called for his supporters after the november 2020 election to storm every capital across america. a number of his followers were in, fact it, involved in the january 6th insurrection. this is a man who espouses some very dangerous ideas. and those ideas have very dangerous, real world consequences. now, that quote that you read from a trump advisor, i do want to note, that was delivered on the condition of anonymity. and this is the problem once again. you have a number of people who recognize exactly how dangerous it is to be associating someone like this. and not come out and condemn his views. but they're -- >> there not going -- to >> gather knocking on the record to say. it >> here's the thing, we've kind of watched the time of

and he claimed that trump had been impressed with fuentes. we saw the former president push back on this today on his truth social platform. i'll just read you what he said. he said this past week kanye west called me to have dinner at mar-a-lago. shortly thereafter he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends whom i knew nothing about. we had dinner on tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. the dinner was quick and uneventful. they then left for the airport. and trump, just a short time ago, also posted again on truth social, saying that, essentially, that there was no anti-semitism expressed at this

[applause] >> that unusual character is the aforementioned nick fuentes. kevin mccarthy gave donald trump the benefit of the doubt today, even after knowing that trump said this. >> the proud boys stand back and stand by. >> that was the then president and republican presidential candidate in 2020, giving the far-right nationalist group the proud boys their so-called marching orders for the january sixth attack on the capitol. the same attack that killed five people, the same attack that nick fuentes, you just heard him call awesome. the same attack that today yielded a guilty verdict on the extremely rare and serious charge of seditious conspiracy. listen to what mitch mcconnell said again today. >> first, let me just say that there is no room in the republican party for antisemitism or white supremacy. and anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the united states. >> all right, the reason that we played that again is because, i think what mcconnell means is that anyone

>> i don't because like -- donald trump, if he actually followed nick fuentes's ideology, nick fuentes needs to be taken against the jewish people and that women should not have the right to vote and you go down the list of things. i do think trump recognizes that that is a fringe ideology and that -- advised any of those things. i think. i haven't talked to him about this. but i think that this would not -- this would not be something that would even get him -- electorate -- >> jonathan, we're going to fine-tune your audio. you glitched out a little bit. i want to come back to you on that. donna, when you hear -- to jonathan's point, the exact same quote about david duke. "i don't know john lewis." "i don't know david duke." what do we lay over him in terms of what we think he actually would usher in if he were anywhere, as liz cheney said, anywhere near the oval office again? >> well, i think it's a through line. i think it isn't just about i don't know them. but clearly he knew who david duke was. he knows who nick fuentes is. and certainly he knows kanye west and others. and then y

reporter: nick fuentes as you noted is not new on the scene.e taylor greene and paul from arizona spoke at nick fuentes' conference this year but there was no vast republican condemnation of it across the party. what roots do you see? why are these figures accepted within the republican party? >> i think the republican party has sadly accepted its role as a white grievance pay. this goes back to the history of the post-world war ii republican party there were two strands, and eisenhower strand which was boring and governing and then a joe mccarthy strand which was xenophobic, conspiratorial and often racist. these have battled each other and a lot of us who were particularlynvolved in george bush's campaign as a compassionate conservative, we assumed we were the dominant gene in the party and we knew the dark side and thought it would go away if not for the necessity of adapting to change america. i don't know any conclusion to come to other than we were wrong and the other is the dominant gene. right now, there is a great nostalgia for william

a source said that trump was engaged with fuentes and found him to be very interesting.es, who was at the capitol on january 6th, made it clear to the former president that he had a good understanding of trump's base and told him that they prefer it when he speaks off the cuff and ad libs during his speeches. so at one point during the dinner sources said that trump declared that he liked fuentes. in a video that west posted on twitter, a mar-a-lago debrief as he called it, he claimed that trump is really impressed with fuentes. this is creating controversy for trump and he's already made several attempts to explain fuentes's presence on his social media platform truth social. i want to read you the president's statement on this. he said, this past week kanye west called me to have dinner at mar-a-lago. shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom i know nothing about. we had dinner on tuesday evening with many members prensent on te back patio. the dinner was quick and uneventful. they then left for the airport. he had the opportunity to

fuentes, ye, they have one purpose, getting trump back to this base.etting a seat at the dinner table. joining me now, msnbc political analyst and former senator claire mccaskill and kurt bardella, democratic strategist and former spokesman for the house oversight committee and someone who knows these people. i'm going to call upon you. you hate to go back there. >> don't bring me back there, joy. >> i remember milo yiannopoulos because this was the time when twitter was the worst. it was the worst of the worst. this was the meme era, when you first saw pepe the nazi frog memes. he was a supertroll. he ended up attacking a brilliant comedian from nbc news and getting bounced off twitter. but he only was set aside by breitbart at all after the, you know, saying pedophilia was okay. but then milo pops back up. he becomes marjorie taylor greene, ironically, her intern, even though she's qanon, against pedophilia. in your view, isn't this just a return to that era, like around that 2012 to 2015 era when the social media kind of memology world and attack wo

did at the dinner, trump claims he did not invite fuentes to dinner fuentes showed up with other guestsye, according to the new york times fuentes told trump that his supporters preferred when he goes rogue. the maga faithful loves when trump ad libs, contrary to what trump's age prefers which is trump sticking to the teleprompter. trump told those at the table that fuentes quote gets me. given trump's endorsement was not -- large faction of the republican party have begun to alienate themselves from the former president, some gop operatives say this dinner, with appointees, does not help. the white house respond to the dinner between trump and fuentes by saying quote, bigotry hate and antisemitism have absolutely no place in america, including atmar largo. joining me now msnbc political analyst and former republican congressman from florida david jolly, democratic strategist at msnbc political analyst juanita tolliver, it is good to see you both. i want to start with you, talk to me, this is not the first time that donald trump has threatened eyes to someone with the likes of fuentes a

no condemnation of fuentes.nation of his believes, no condemnation of racism, white nationalism or antisemitism. and having covered him in certain ways, this is the sort of thing that happened to a lesser extent in the white house. there were not the traditional barricades around him then has sort of become magnified on steroids in his post presidency where he lost the few gate keepers who did exist. so even if you take the former president and his team at their word that they didn't really know who he was, which as vaughn laid out, is somewhat dubious and based on the number of times this president has lied, there's no reason to take him on his word at this. if you believe that just the fact that a racist white nationalist antisemite could get into the former president's club and have a dinner meeting with the former president, that is stunning. >> it's extraordinarily sloppy. the kanye west piece of this is just as troubling in some ways because donald trump clearly knows who west is and knew about the kind of

he was engaged with fuentes and found him very interesting.e had a good understanding of trump's base and told him that they prefer it when he speaks off the cuff and ad-libs during speeches which, of course, trump's advisers do not want him to do. and at one point during the dinner, sources told kristen tlp liked fuentes. west echoed that sentiment in a video he posted on twitter claiming that trump is, quote, really impressed with fuentes. but all of this is creating considerable controversy for trump who just announced he's running for the white house again over a week ago and trump has already made essentially attempts to explain fuentes's appearance at his private cluchblt i just want to read you the statement on this. he said, quote, this past week kanye west called me to have dinner at mar-a-lago. shortly thereafter he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends whom i knew nothing about. we had dinner on tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. the dinner was quick and uneventful. they then left for the airport

marjorie taylor greene appeared on stage with nick fuentes. where did she then appear the next day and i would talk to matt who is the head of cpac who has been a longtime figure in conservative politics and i pressed him, how can you legitimize marjorie taylor greene and she told me it is not for him to cancel anybody. it is important to have these voices be present and which, of course, why isn't liz cheney invited here? that is the reality what joe is saying here is that marmgry taylor green is not a fringe figure. paul gosar is not a fringe figure. andy biggs and talked about running for the house speakership. i mean, these are individuals who are the republican party now and frankly view your silence from individuals who would rather not -- you will not hear a rob portman and you will not hear from the adam kinsinger and liz cheney. those folks are out the door and the traditional lawmakers that we used to go to for comment and the anti-trump quote, those are going to be gone. >> the thing that i would be interested in is not only have we

the dinner was quick and uneventable. >> truch is impressed with nick fuentes and nick fuentes unlikers and so many people that he was left with on his 2020 campaign he is a loyalist. >> reporter: a source told cnn that trump found fuentes, quote, very interesting, particularly his ability to rattle off statistics and his knowledge of trump world. at one point during the dinner trump declared he liked fuentes. according to the source, the dinner grew tense at various times, including when west, who recently launched his own presidential bid, asked trump to join his 2024 campaign ticket as his vice president. president joe biden who responded to the dinner from nantucket over the weekend. >> mr. president, what do you think of donald trump having dinner with the white nationalists? what do you think about it, sir? >> you don't want to hear what i think. >> democrats are certainly trying to draw attention to this. this afternoon senate majority leader chuck schumer blasted trump and the dinner from the floor of the u.s. senate, saying it's disgusting and dangerous and said giving an ant

i don't think anybody should have a meeting with nick fuentes. his views are nowhere within the republican party or this country itself. >> kanye west made -- >> i think kanye west should -- i don't think those are right comments. i don't think he should associate with him. i'm very clear in my position. let me walk through on ukraine. i think that's a legitimate question. i remember coming here in 2015 after coming back from ukraine. i remember sitting in the situation room meeting with then vice president joe biden advocating we sell javelins, a defensive weapon, to stop tanks from russia from coming in. unfortunately, i wasn't successful that day. i brought a bipartisan group in. i think what putin in russia is wrong. actions we could have taken ahead of time probably would have made sure they never entered. i'm not for a blank check for anything. this is hard working taxpayer money. i want to make sure whatever funding we spend goes to the right places. unfortunately, under the current majority of democrats, full body control, what they put o

the fascinating part there was kevin mccarthy did not -- he criticized nick fuentes.not criticize donald trump. >> i was going to say that cheney tweet still stands because, yes, i'm sorry, if there's anyone out there defending nick fuentes, i mean, my goodness, it doesn't seem hard to do that. the challenging piece for him is to say, no, you former president of the united states should have been able to take responsibility for knowing who was at your dinner table or somebody should have told you and you should have had the presence of mind to say, no, he was willing to buy donald trump's excuse he had no idea what was going on. >> if his views are not welcome within the republican party or the country itself why can't you add a sentence so i wish president trump would say it was a mistake and apologize. >> i mean it's a really familiar pattern with former president trump where he meets with someone or does something and says he didn't know who he was and people blame the staff. you've seen a number of republicans condemn the fact that he met with nick fuentes and eve

trump and nick fuentes, they thrive on attention.cut it off, really reconsider how we even cover these people anymore. >> how do you do both? how do you call it off and cut off the oxygen at the same time? >> i love the way the new york post covered his announcement. they said florida man announces running for president. that's how we need to treat donald trump, not as a credible former federal politician, but as a discredited hack. someone who weaponizes hate and uses antisemitism antisemitism to further his agenda. doesn't matter how you, vote no matter what your party affiliation, there should be nobody promoting hate. >> and marco rubio and --, we heard some of their response. > i think it's fair to say that this man whose daughter and grandchildren are jewish has a complicated relationship with the jewish

who is pretending that he doesn't know who fuentes is. which is as ridiculous as when donald trump pretended he didn't know who david duke was during the 2016 campaign. one thing i would note, fuentes is so far on the fringe that he basically started his own conference to oppose cpac, the conservative political ethics conference. there is a big concern at cpac about ten months ago about which people were going to be at cpac might also be a 26 conference. including marjorie taylor greene, the congresswoman from georgia. so he's basically saying that the people at cpac orange racist enough, aren't crazy enough for him in order to be part of the trump movement. >> here is the thing, jonathan. this is what i find so astounding. but also not really. nick fuentes is julian greene of the republican party already. it seems only natural that he also be now leading with having dinner with tiny with the former president of the united states. who's favorites in congress right now are marjorie taylor greene, paul -- folks that are as the new york time

but trump says he didn't know who fuentes was. reporter has the details. >> reporter: it's only been about a week since the former president. announced he is running again for the white house in 2024. he's already bathed in controversy over some of the guests he hosted at his private mar-a-lago club this week. we learned from canny west's twitter feed that he had dinner at mar-a-lago and he was accompanied by a white nationalist and holocaust denier nick fuentes. west was in controversy in october after repeating anti-semitic conspiracy theories and making other offensive claims during an appearance on a podcast. those anti-semitic remarks by west caused companies he was affiliated with including adidas to sever their relationships with him. more recently he's been spending time with nick fuentes, who the anti-defamation league has identified as a white supremacist. fuentes has also been banned from most major social media platforms for his white nationalist rhetoric. in a video west posted to twitter on thursday, he claimed that

that was kevin mccarthy disavowing nick fuentes bit refusing to criticize the fact that the republican of the leader party because donald trump made room for antisemitism and white supremacy in the white house. he allowed out to thrive while it was in the white house in 2016. then he brought them to his florida home in 2022. there was room for antisemitism and white supremacy in the republican party when donald trump defended white nationalists in charlottesville, virginia for chanting jews will not replace us. you also had people who were very fine people, on both sides. >> kevin mccarthy, incidentally, rightfully criticizes us. >> this is for the fbi, the doj, this is for adam kinzinger, this is for everybody in the house select committee on january 6th. i will reiterate very strongly, once again, just for all of you. january 6th was awesome. [applause] >> that unusual character is the affirmation equivalent is. kevin mccarthy gave donald trump the benefit of the doubt today, even after knowing that trump said this. >> the proud boys stand back and say goodbye. >> that was the then p

also, i didn't know nick fuentes. then finally saying, he shows up with three people. two of which i didn't know. the other, a political person i hadn't seen in years. he also gave a statement to axios saying the anti-semite came with a guest whom he'd never met and knew nothing about. and on fox digital, he said he didn't know fuentes' views before having dinner with him and did not condemn those views. nowhere online or anywhere else on record has the former president condemned nick fuentes. nor have many republicans directly called trump out by name for dining with the man. senator romney has. as ia hutchinson did, so did chris christie and former vice president mike pence. >> president trump was wrong to give a white nationalist an anti-semite and a holocaust denier a seat at the table. and i think he should apologies for it. and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification. >> so you wouldn't think it would be so hard on general principle but apparently it is. contrast that with today, mitch mcconnell, as you try to figure

and was accompanied by holocaust denier nick fuentes. after making anti-semitic claims during a podcast. those anti-semitic remarks by west concluded with companies severing their ties ws with him. fuentes has also been banned from most social media platforms for his white national rhetoric. in a video that west posted to twitter on thursday he claimed that trump is really impressed with fuentes. but a source familiar with the dinner told our kristen holmes that fuentes was a guest of yawn way, and was not invited by the former president. i just want to read to you the former president's statement on this, on truth social. he said this past week, kanye west called me to have dinner at mar-a-lago. shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends whom i knew nothing about. we had dinner on tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. the dinner was quick and uneventful, they then left for the airport. so the former president clearly trying to distance himself here from fuentes. but he did not ask him

are also saying, quote, i did not know nick fuentes. finally, most recently, saying that he showed up with three people, two of which i didn't know. the other, a political person i haven't seen in years. we also gave a statement saying that the antisemite artist arrived with a guest who he never met, and knew nothing about. just moments ago on fox digital, he said that he didn't know fuentes ' views before having dinner with him, and again did not condemn those views. nobody on record as the former president condemns nick fuentes. nor have many republicans directly called trump out by name for dining with a man. senator mitt romney has. arkansas governor isa hutchinson did. so did former new jersey governor chris christie. and most notably, former vice president mike pence. >> president trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite, and holocaust denier a seat at the table. and i think he should apologize for it. he should denounce those individuals, and their hateful rhetoric without qualification. >> you wouldn't think it

meanwhile, fuentes is all talk.ream of the far-right holocaust denier confirmed details outlying in this axios article that trump was, quote, very taken with fuentes. it was apparently very impressed that he could rattle of statistics and remember trump's speeches from six years ago. the 24-year-old had some advice for trump, to. recommending the trump go back to being unrestrained in his speeches and that his 2024 announcement speech was not the trump fought styled his base wanted -- and. and, apparently at one point trump turned to the other dinner guest, kanye west and said, quote, i really like this guy. he gets. me that says it, all doesn't? it president biden weighed in, take a listen. >> mister president, what do you think of donald trump having dinner with a white nationalist? >> -- >> in a statement, deputy white house press secretary andrew bates said, quote, bigotry hate and antisemitism have absolutely no place in america. including at mar-a-lago. holocaust in aisle is repugnant and dangerous and it must

he has remained silent on this trump dinner with kanye west and nick fuentes but. tenable that he can be condemning omar in one breath and not saying anything in the other? how long can he go on without saying anything here? >> as long as it takes for them to count 18 votes in the next congress. that is how long is going to take. the thing with kevin mccarthy is that he's between a rock and a hard place. is between the 218 voted to become speaker and the freedom caucus saying these are gonna be hard enough on joe biden. he is going to bridge that gap anyway he can. he is thinking of offering up -- one of the things that's fastening about cover mccarthy is that he is following in the footsteps of many republican men who are trying to be speaker of the house in this modern day in age and realized that what they want is a firm speakership. they want to be able to govern the way that nancy pelosi governs the democrats. what they find is that, the sort of principles that republicans espouse in terms of decentralized leadership, house republicans at least say they want t

i don't think anybody should be spending any time with nick fuentes. he has no place in this republican party. i think president trump came out four times and condemned him. i did not know who he was. >> he did not condemn him or his ideology. >> i condemn his ideology. it has no place in society. the president did not know who he was. he knew kanye west was but he did not know who went as was yesterday. i think the administration got an indication that it will be different. >> how so? >> i invited the president to go to the board with me. he asked me about the border so i told him about my current trip. just in el paso, in one overhang of a freeway, 70,000 people have come across in the last several weeks. if we would send people back to the country they came from, the border agents would tell you you stop the coming. the border agents are cut short but there is not enough of them. they are sitting there and working the job as processing. i explained to the present what i saw. we can see the videos of these cartels shooting tracers at our national gua

questions from -- [inaudible question] >> i don't think anybody should be spending any time with nick fuentes. he has no place in the republican party. i think president trump came out four times and condemned him and did know who he was. >> he said he didn't know who he was, he said -- [inaudible] >> i condemn his ideology. it has no place in society. >> what about the former president -- [inaudible] >> as the president, the president -- you know what? so he knew kanye west was but he did know flint is, yes. [inaudible question] now the republicans will have -- ended with the border in dealing with -- >> i think administration got an indication it's going to be different. >> how so? >> i invited the president to go to the border with bigger i explained to the president, sba but the borders i told him about my current trip. just about el paso, and one, on one overhang of a freeway, 70,000 people have come across in the last seven weeks. if we would send people back to the country that they came from, the border agents would tell you they stopped coming. the border agents of subject at short t

it has no place in societi. >> mccarthy said trump did not know who fuentes was when he met him.>> "denver post" says a walmart employee who survived haft week's mass shooting filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company. police say store manager andre bing shot and killed six employees and wounded several others before taking his own life. the suit claims walmart continued to employ bing despite being aware of past disturbing behavior including violent threats. it also says the survivor has experienced post traumatic stressdisorder. >>> still to come, efforts to break a deadlock. what congress plans to do to head off a national rail strike that could harm the economy. th. ♪ ♪ ♪ do you remember ♪ ♪ the 25th night of december? ♪ ♪ the true love we share today ♪ ♪ ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember? ♪ ♪ ba-dee-ya, dancin' in december ♪ ♪ ba-dee-ya-dee-ya-dee-ya ♪ your heart is the beat of life. if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto, a medicine specifically made for heart failure. entresto is the #1 heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists. it was proven s

he condemned nick fuentes buhe did not criticize donald trump.id he could have whoever he wants. you heard that also from state senator josh hawley, he could have dinner with whoever he wants, not the best idea may be. some republican senators did not talk about trump specifically but blamed h staff for allowing. select that to come in. and his former sectary of state also. laura: but do you think mister trump's hold on the party has loosened somewhat, in the wake of the rather disappointing, from the republican perspective, performance in the midterm elections? guest: i think so. you are seeing a willingness among some republicans to come up and be more critical. kevin mccarthy gave a speech on the floor of the house of representatives saying that is trump more responsibility for the attack. mitch mcconnell was also outspoken in his criticism. he ge a statement criticizing donald trump and said that someone who had dinner with somebody like nick fuentes probably would never become president. they are talking around it and going further in critic

trump now says he didn't know fuentes or didn't know he would be there. maryalice parks joins us now. how is the biden administration responding? >> yeah, linsey, it all comes after that dinner between former president trump, kanye, and nick fuentes, who has been labeled a white supremacist by the justice department, and he's well known in far right circles for his brazen, sexist, racist, and extremely anti-semitic views. the white house telling us bigotry, hate, and anti-semitism have no place in america, including at mar-a-lago. holocaust denial is repugnant and dangerous and it must be forcefully condemned. the former president claimed the dinner which happened last tuesday was supposed to be between just him and kanye and said, quote, he arrived with a guest who i had never met and knew nothing about. in response to the dinner, the republican jewish coalition called on all political leaders to reject kanye and fuentes' hate and refuse to meet with them. trump's own former ambassador to israel put out a scathing statement, too. he said even a social vi

nick fuentes is a leader.s disgusting enough but mild compared to his life streams about killing people of color, killing jews, replacing people of color, the white national it movement. he has a group that follow him that is even more extreme than some of the other extremist groups that turned out on january 6th and turned out to support maga causes in other places. this is a very influential racist white nationalist leader that a former president had dinner with. not like some random guy that showed up at mar-a-lago. right now the current establishment is still living in the trump times. they want him to disappear but don't want to deal with it. they don't want to engage with him. we can't just get used to the fact that they can pretent not to see his comments on his failing social media site and not have to talk to them. if you look at the historic modern times in america, unprecedented to think that a former president of the united states would meet with a white nationalist leader. you cannot tell me if th

at one point he declared he liked nick fuentes.dinner grew tense at various times, including after kanye west, who now goes by ye, asked trump to join his 2024 campaign ticket but he laughed it off. he claimed that kanye west had just shown up with friends, he knew nothing about,, including fuentes. arlette saenz in s in nantucket where the president is spending the holiday. >> reporter: president biden was shopping in downtown nantucket when a reporter asked for his reaction to were toer president trump's recent dinner with the white nationalist. president biden held back a bit but did respond. take a listen. >> mr. president what do you think about donald trump having dinner with a white nationalist? >> you don't want to hear what i think. >> reporter: while the president didn't elaborate on his thoughts, the white house has condemned this dinner. andrew baits telling cnn on friday, quote, bigotry, hate and anti-semitism have absolutely no place in america, including at mar-a-lago. hole skillsoft denial is repugnant and dangerous

knew who kanye west is and didn't know who fuentes is. >> it's been a week since this dinner.fied that so many days later kevin mccarthy has now with his comment crossed the threshold of leadership? has he said enough, what he should say in this position? >> he should have come out the first hour. i mean, it's a no-brainer. i asdgree with olivia, a former senate or u.s. ambassador like getting through fort knox. every should have known but more importantly the buck stops with the president. he should no better. kanye west, amazingly accomplished artist but having serious issues and i wish him well and hope he gets help, but the president should have known there were red flags all over the place and should have immediately, once he found out, number one kicked him out. more importantly denounced him and everything he stands for. yeah, listen, i was disappointed that everything takes so long. it's -- it's surprising to me, because it's, from people like me and others listening it's a no-brainer. do a mea culpa. screwed up. do something. don't say you don't know the guy. you're t

de acuerdo con fuente de nbc que estÁ familiazada con el tÉrmino.o que finalmente trump aceptÓ. >>> bueno en este mismo evento hablÓ tambiÉn del gobernador de la florida der santis utilizando su apellido de una forma bueno lorena pero este domingo cuando hablÓ en un meeting de apoyo a marco rubio en miami florida tambiÉn pidiÓ el voto para de santis sonia con un resumen del evento. >>> el expresidente donald trump, llegÓ al sur de la florida este domingo como la principal figura republicana en la lucha del partido por lograr el control del congreso en laemos elecciones intermedias. >>> su visita es una espaldarazo para el senador rubio quiÉn busca su reelecciÓn contra la demÓcrata. >>> podemos salir a votar, mayor ya muchos han votado. >>> pero la esperanza de que donald trump anunciara la intenciÓn de correr nuevamente por la presidencia estuvo en el ambiente. >>> yo espero que diga que va a correr para elecciones prÓximas, para el 2024. >>> lo que ha dicho toda la vida, que amÉrica vuelva a ser grande cuando Él estaba presidente diendo. >>> este s

fuentes was coming to mar-a-lago, for him to refuse to condemn fuentes and his bigoted words after the dinner is appalling and it is dangerous. >> donald trump has once again confessed about something else he did had his florida residence. today, donald trump put his confession in the documents case in writing and in effect addressed it to his new special prosecutor jack smith, who he referred to as this fully weaponized monster jack smith. those were donald trump's words. in a written statement, donald trump addressed both cases that jack smith is now supervising saying, i did nothing wrong on january 6th. jack smith is now the special counsel supervising the justice department's investigation of donald trump's possible criminal conduct on january 6th and donald trump's possible criminal conduct in possessing government documents including classified documents at his florida residence. in his written confession today, donald trump actually said, when will you invade the other presidents homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so op