answer, giuliani, i have. questi, all ght. was this a trial by press conference? answer, giuliani. no, sir. question, why not? answer, giuliani, it was investigation by press conference. it was laying out the facts that we had. i didn't make ainding who was telling the truth or not. i laid out what i knew, and what i knew i had no reason to believe was untrue. it wasn't trial by press conference, it was investigation by press conference. i read some stuff, i think it was maybe on facebook. i laid it out to the public as what we knew to be the facts. and, no, i had no idea if it was true or not. why would i try to check? you wouldn't have a story then. he literally says, why the heck wouldn't i have believed him? i would have had to be a terrible lawyer. i would have had to be a terrible lawyer. gee, let's go find out if it's untrue. i didn't have time to do that. there was nothing to me that said i should do that. this is a deposition filed in court in colorado in a case brought by an executive from one of the companies that has featured in the republican party conspiracies, ongoin

the siren we had installed in the studio to tell us whenever something funny happens to rudy giulianilly, throw out all the cue cards about germany. >> nein. >> seth: what? >> sorry, sorry. i meant, do you want me to throw out all nine of the cue cards about germany. [ light laughter ] >> seth: oh, i see what you did there, wally okay let's see what rudy's up to. >> fox news has reportedly suspended former president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, from appearing on any of its shows >> his favorite tv outlet has reportedly banned him. he's been benched for almost three months, in part because of the vote counting conspiracy theories that he pushed, which, of course, have ballooned into lawsuits against, both, him and fox news >> seth: they banned rudy from fox news that's like banning a turtle from its shell or banning the turtle from the nike store ♪ oh yeah ♪ >> seth: two weeks until the audience is back got to get our fringe references in while we can. and is there any better proof "entourage" wasn't a true representation of hollywood than how off they were about who would

is going to giuliani.ke his own or his clients' problems worse, which is not very good lawyering. we've seen conspiracy field and incoherent appearances and they are usually on fox news. this has been a core feature of his life, of his advocacy for donald trump and of our political media existence lately, which is why this next development, while not the biggest thing on earth is pretty interesting. his favorite tv outlet has reportedly banned him. he's been benched for almost three months, in part because of the vote counting conspiracy theorys that he pushed, which of course have ballooned into lawsuits against him and fox news. more on that in a second. but politico says that rudy is really hurt by this. now, he's kind of found a different place to get his words out there. he's been going on the show of steve bannon, someone whose legal problems were so bad, he needed a pardon from donald trump. and he was there on the podcast today. >> there's a story on "rolling stone" and politico that you're on doub

so is rudy giuliani prepared to dance to the republican pa rty�*s current tune?hinking about running for the white house isn't going to go anywhere, is it? well, it might. what has to happen is that people have to decide that these other things are more important, which sometimes happens. all right. but i can't. .. but my views are my views on the social issues, and i'm going to remain that way. before we end, ijust want to return, in a way, to thinking about the meaning of this particular place where we are right now. everybody in america seems to be talking about extracting the meaning from 9/11. some argue that, actually, although it felt — and i was in north america at the time, too — although it felt like the world had fundamentally changed forever on that terrible day, maybe the world didn't change quite as much as we thought as a result of 9/11. well, i don't think the world changed at all on september 11th. i think september 11th allowed us to perceive more clearly realities that were going on in the world since at least the 19605, 19705. i mean, this was

here is trump's lawyer rudy giuliani. i should mention he right now is currently awaiting word as to whether the suspension of his law license will be permanent or if someday he might get it back. here he is under questioning and under oath explaining the due diligence he did as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, when he decided he needed to go public with these claims that the election was stolen. he needed to go public with these claims that dominion voting machines and executives of dominion were the villains who somehow stole the election from donald trump. remember, this conspiracy thory is not just for them. they believe it and said president biden should not legally be president, that donald trump belongs in the oval office because of all the things that went wrong in this rigged election. where did all that come from? now we know. because here is the president's lawyer explaining how hard he worked to make sure the rigged election was a real thij before he started spreading it. here's what he says. question, as

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giuliani, "you could throw a fake."s the prep for that meeting like "just keep your mouth shut, rudy, and i'll do the talking. "got it. i might jump in a few times to say you can throw a fake." "don't do that." "i won't maybe just a couple of times." [ light laughter ] "don't do it at all. "i'll just do it twice, but i'll wait until they're recording." "rudy! "i promise i won't do it." "do you really promise?" "no, i'm throwing a fake." [ light laughter ] the republican party is busy trying to cement the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen by using it to justify new voter suppression laws that'll make it both harder to vote and easier to overturn results they don't like. meanwhile, the people who concocted that lie are facing major legal and financial consequences, because in the court system facts still matter, as opposed to republican politics where - >> nothing matters anymore >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ we'll be right back with ethan hawke. ♪ >> announcer: for more of seth's "closer looks," be su

. >>> a confession in court from a giuliani goon. what that could mean for the former president's former lawyer. >>> plus, the 9/11 generation. a little girl who was at a daycare inside the pentagon when the plane hit is now a grown up second lieutenant. she will join us along with her mother who is a brigadier general who witnessed that explosion. they will share their memories 20 years later. ♪ >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden's message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. biden saying, quote, have it. the president's new policies will affect about two-thirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. for context, 75% of u.s. adults alrea

giuliani sent graham documents, which giuliani believed proved his theories.the conclusion that giuliani's arguments were suitable for "third grade." >> shame on you, lindsey graham. these scurrilous accusations are an insult to all third graders everywhere. you would have to be a complete moron to believe this proves any fraud. >> this is fraud. this is absolute fraud. >> announcer: it's "the late

and for giuliani and powell there's another problem, nicholl.y've gout problems on the defamation side, as lawyers they're not allowed to make representation of facts in representation of a client that's why powell was fined $200,000 in michigan. but the memo is to know the facts, but also because, you're out there lying, it's a potential problem. but it's a real problem once you've been sued for defamation, powell and giuliani and lindell are in a world of hurt. >> jonathan lemire, you covered the trump white house. you covered the trump political efforts in the campaign. i want to read more about this memo, a pretty extraordinary memo from the campaign communications staff, it establishes and it proves out and it has documents and articles and others as michael steel said, things you can find on google that dominion cannot use technology from smartmatic. that dominion doesn't have ties to venezuela, to mr. soros, and that they have connections to left wing antifa as ms. powell claimed over and over again. and as mr. kumar, the memo produced by

on september 11, 2001, i was 28 years old, serving as mayor rudy giuliani's chief speech writer.esk was a list of every first responder that died in the line of duty that day. their names filled 47 pages. the heroes of 9/11, the people going up the stairs into the fire as other people were trying to get out. city government mobilized, four of us in our small office tried to do them justice and say thank you on behalf of the city as families tried to assimilate unimaginable loss in their lives. giuliani was a republican in a democratic city, effective, controversial, cutting crime and welfare in half, he prepared to leave office after eight years. he was spontaneously applauded into the streets, transformed into america's mayor. four days after the attack, the first funeral was held for father michael judge, beloved fire department chaplain killed by debris as he administered last rights to a fallen firefighter. we lost so many of new york's bravest that day, including 60 off duty firefighters that rushed to the towers when they heard of the attack. we lost two special operations

we should never forget the role of rudy giuliani in allowing the situation to go on for so long.d that was very different at the pentagon, which was also attacked, where they had the proper attire. we will talk with joe zadroga in a minute. the bill is the joe zadroga act, his son that has since died. back in a minute. ♪♪ [music break] amy: son by michael williams in "the wire," michael williams who has died at the age of 54 in brooklyn. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we are spending the hour look at the out raging new film, "9/11's unsettled dust, following the 9/11 responders and survivors who had to fight for health care justice while they were sick. i need his clip, we hear joe zadroga discuss his son james, 9/11 responder and then your congresswoman carolyn maloney. >> my son jimmy was an nypd dective. he was sicks on as heot ho, three mons aftethe evt i saido h, let's go t colomb presbytian hostal and talko a pulmonologi, the head pulnologistbe a prbyterian ent tohe hospil. the ctor satith for an hour

giuliani sent graham documents which giuliani believed proved his theories, but the claims were so flimsy didn't buy them. that's according to the new book "peril" by bob woodward and robert costa the of "the washington post." their reporting about giuliani and graham excerpted today in "the post." they write while graham publicly backed trump in private he said trump's arguments were, quote, suitable for third grade. >> the interesting thing about lindsey graham is he was one of president trump's top allies on capitol hill, one of the senators he was most close with, daily conversations over the phone and frequent visits to mar-a-lago. if he couldn't convince him there, wasn't going to be convincing anyone. >> woodward and costa write that trump's team also tried to convince another trump loyalist, mike lee of utah, that certain slates of electoral votes could be set aside by then vice president mike pence on january 6th but lee didn't buy that legal argument. after publicly backing trump's efforts graham and lee both in the end voted to sert fight election results, and on the night of j

here is trump lawyer rudolph giuliani. i should mention that he is right now waiting word whether this suspicion of his law license will be permanent or whether he will get it back. but here is under questioning and under old explaining the due diligence e give as an officer of the court, when he decided that he needed to go public with these claims that the election was stolen. he needs to go public that the dominion voting machines and the executive of the domini's where the villains who somehow stole the election fm donald trump. and remember, this conspiracy theory was not just for than, it is absolutely still alive today, it is absolutely still entranced on the right that 78% of republican voters say they believe it, and don't believe that joe biden was letimately elected president. and donald trump should still be in the oval office. because of all the things they've heard of things going wrong in this rigged election. where did that kentucky shun come from? now we know. because here is the president's lawyer explain

there's only one. >>> rudy giuliani getting bad news on his ongoing criminal case.onic devices. giuliani's team requested some be returned or destroyed. that's not going to happen. "the wall street journal" reporting the feds are examining his communications with former ukrainian offices and whether he violated foreign lobbying rules. tonight a trove of documents in the possession of the feds and giuliani will not get them back and a final programming note beginning tonight. beginning tomorrow the launch of new show show ayman. watch him saturdays at 8:00 eastern and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for me. the reid out with joy reid is up next. >> that's exciting. i love ayman. but i want to see a jason johnson show. that's what i'm thinking about. let's work on that. >> interesting idea. yeah, yeah. >> i like this idea, okay. i'm going to noodle on it. but first i'm going to do a show for an hour. you have a great weekend. good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out tonight with the gop's self-emulation in the name of the big lie. last night an

rudy giuliani america's mayor. >> it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. maybe we can get this fixed up. >> reporter: the maricopa board of supervisors had this subpoena demanding officials handover millions of ballots to state elections officials launching fraud investigations. >> he wanted us to turnover the ballots as soon as possible so that the state senate could get to work. >> get to work doing? >> one of the objectives is to get their hands on the ballot before the january 6 th hearing in the capitol. they wanted evidence to support desert flying the election. one of the main reasons i became a republican in the 1980s is i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. the party of the constitution. >> reporter: in michigan, a wayne county republican election official voted to certify the election, then changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidavit resending my vote. >> reporter: in, trump not only recalled the top elections investigators. >> whatever you can do francis. >> repo

rudy giuliani sent documents which rudy giuliani believes proved his theory.claims were so flimsy that graham did not buy them. that's according to the new book by woodward and acosta. graham publicly packed trump. he came to the conclusion that rudy giuliani's argument were suitable for third grade. >> graham was one of president trump's top allies on capitol hill. one of the senators he was most close with, daily conversations over the phone. frequent visits to mar-a-lago. if he could not convince him then there was not going to be convincing anyone. >> reporter: woodward and costa wrote that trump's teams also tried to convince another loyalist. cer but that lead did not buy that legal argument. after publicly backing trump's efforts, graham and lee voted to certify the election results. on the night of january 6th in the wake of the attack graham voiced his frustration with trump's efforts to counter the results. >> awesomll i can say is count out. enough is enough. i tried to be helpful. >> reporter: the coauthor are defending the action of general mark m

but there is one thing that rudy giuliani is right about. you can't possibly believe it because none of it is true. none of it is true. not the venezuelans, not george soros, and not antifa, not black lives matter. those are good buzzwords, and it scares a lot of people, but none of it is true, i hate to tell you. like i say, the whole thing was clown show complete with colors. it could be funny, except it was all in support of a big lie, the big lie that fueled january 6, one of the worst domestic terror attacks in our nation's history. and if you think the threat is over, there is the fbi director, christopher wray, in today's senate homeland security meaning warning the bureau's domestic terrorism caseload has, his word, domestic terrorism caseload has exploded. in that same hearing, the homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas was horrified of border patrol agents on horseback chasing migrants along the rio grande. images that make you think of how enslaved people were treated in this country. the individuals who are the subject of the inve

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had you had bannon close to giuliani.read the subpoenas, they're trying to figure out, what was the president doing? there's all this conventional wisdom that's cal cified about him watching television in an empty west wing on january 6. it's clear, the committee is looking at january 5. bannon, giuliani, steps from the white house, talking to the president by phone after he met with vice president pence to apply the pressure to try to get him on the sixth to throw out electors. you see in the scavino subpoena, an effort to understand president trump's efforts later that night. there's a scene in the book cited in the subpoena saying that he was there later on january 5th, in the oval office, as president trump opened the door to the oval office to have the cold air come in. he kept the doors open to hear the cries of his supporters. the committee wants to hear from the players. >> robert, that notion of the president watching tv, is it -- is that accurate from what you were able to find? >> it is accurate in terms of act

rudy giuliani, america's mayor. >> bill, it's rudy giuliani. president trump's lawyer.a few things i had alike to talk over with you. maybe, we can get this thing fixed up. the maricopa county board of supervisors just received this subpoena demanding election officials hand over millions of ballots to state-republican politicians who were launching fraud investigations. >> you want us to turn over the ballots as soon as possible. um, so that the state senate can get to work. >> get to work doing? >> one of the objectives was to get their hands on the ballot before the january 6th hearing in the capitol. they wanted evidence. to support decertifying the election. >> it's constitution be damned, really. >> right. one of the main reasons i became a republican in the 1980s was i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. the party of the constitution. >> reporter: in michigan, a wayne county republican election official voted to certify the election. then, changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidav

rudy giuliani, america's mayor. >> it is rudy giuliani. president trump's lawyer.th you. >> reporter: the maricopa county supervisors received a subpoena demanding a hand over of millions of ballots to state republican politicians launching fraud investigations. >> you want us to turn the ballots as soon as possible so the state senate could get to work. >> get to work? doing --? >> one of the objectives was to get their hands on the ballot before the january 6 hearing in the capitol. they wanted evidence to support decertifying the election. >> it is constitution be damned, really. >> right. one of the main reasons i became a republican in the 1980s was i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. the party of the constitution. >> reporter: in michigan, a wayne county republican election official voted to certify the election and then changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my vote. >> reporter: in georgia, trump called the state's top elections investigator. >> whatever yo

it wasn't that long ago that rudy giuliani and the republican leadership of the state of georgia invited rudy giuliani down for two different voter fraud, quote, unquote, election integrity hearings in december in the state weeks before the election, and then their ally to the vote tried to kick 360,000 georgians off the rolls two weeks before the election, and what's a problematic thing here about raffensperger around integrity, all of the voter fraud lies that giuliani and the republicans spewed in these december hearings that caused elections officials to get threatened, that caused state legislators to get threatened, all of those lies got transmitted into this massive bill in georgia and then copycatted in arizona, texas, florida, tennessee, arkansas, ohio, and it all goes back to the big lie. so if brad raffensperger and other republicans want to fight disinformation they need to fight their own party. >> thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight, really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> joining us now is neal katyal, former acting solicitor general, and

giuliani sent graham documents, which giuliani believed proved his theories. while graham publicly backed trump, in private, he came to the conclusion that giuliani's arguments were suitable for "third grade." >> shame on you, lindsey graham. these scurrilous accusations are an insult to all third graders everywhere. you would have to be a complete moron to believe this proves any fraud. >> this is fraud. this is absolute fraud. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: bob woodward and robert costa and musical guest, leon bridges featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey! diwalk too fast this time? hey, joe! cheaper good to see you. good to see you. please, have a seat, everybody. thanks. welcome, one and all to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) i'm sorry, i'm sorry. i said that wrong. let me start over. welcome to the emmy award-winning "lat

during a september 11th memorial dinner on saturday, rudy giuliani imitated britain's queen elizabethrrying his cousin [ laughter ] supreme court justice amy coney barrett appeared yesterday at an event with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and said she was worried that the public sees the court as a partisan institution. which is kind of like performing at the vmas with taylor swift and worrying that people will see you as a musician. the mtv music awards -- video music awards were held last night, and madonna made a surprise appearance to open the show the audience was so shocked, they all got out their phones and looked her up on wikipedia [ laughter ] i know they're young. i know the fast food chain burger king last week unveiled its so-called "keep it meal," which partners with several celebrities but uses their real names, instead of stage names though i'm not sure how well the robert allen zimmerman burger will sell. [ laughter ] an investigation concluded last week that a recent mta subway outage that shut down 83 trains was caused by someone accidentally flipping a powe

republicans come close allies are being pressured by the whitest, mark meadows chief of staff, rudy giuliani and john eastman, this conservative lawyer, to think through how to help president trump get his aim of the ring some of these electors out, moving the election to the house of representatives where republicans because they have control of the most delegations could potentially tip the election to president trump. in a very important beating comes on january fourth where vice president pence and his lawyer and his advisers come in to the oval office. president trump is there with john eastman this conservative lawyer, and for the first time we published this memo that is got a lot of attention, a six part memo from john eastman outlining how mike pence get to what electors and give the election to trump. and you see in the scene president trump saying to try to listen to john eastman. listen to john. listen to john. and eastman has this memo think it's constitutional and legal for pence to essentially walk up on january 6th and then walk away. so this is president trump having a press

you also had bannon being very close to giuliani.e doing with these subpoenas, and if you read them carefully, they're trying to figure out what the president is doing. there are accounts of the president kind of watching t television idly in the white house january 6. bannon talking with the president by phone after he met with vice president pence to apply the pressure to try to get him on the 6th to throw out electors. s scovina also worked for president trump, and scavino was saying he was there later in the oval office as president trump opened the window of the oval office so he could hear his supporters. the committee wants to hear from all of these players. >> so, robert, the notion of the president watching tv, is that accurate from what you were able to find? >> it is accurate in terms of action. we have that scene in our book, but the action before the 6th is so critical to understand the pressure being put on vice president pence. we revealed in our book and cnn has done great reporting on this as well how john eastman, t

rudy giuliani, america's mayor. >> it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. i have a few things i want to talk over with you. >> reporter: the maricopa board of supervisors received this subpoena demanding election officials hand over billions of ballots to state republican politicians launching fraud investigations. >> he wanted us to turnover the ballots as soon as possible so that the state senate can get to work. >> get to work doing? >> one of the objectives was to get their hands on the ballot before the january 6th hearing in the capitol. they wanted evidence to support desertfying the election. >> it's constitution be dammed really. >> right. one of the main reasons i became a republican in the 1980s was i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. the party of the constitution. >> in michigan, a wayne county republican election official voted to certify the election, then changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidavit resending my vote. >> reporter: in georgia g,, tru not only

so they're getting the goods on all the big names, donald, melania, the trump kids, rudy giuliani, stevemedia companies, not just facebook and twitter but parlor and 4chan and all those creepy places on the web where desk terrorists hide. there will be records from federal agencies that will be the most productive. we're going to get all political appointees, what they knew about any attempts to supports the big lie in the federal government. jonathan, my favorite might be the request for all documents related to the stability of donald trump or his fitness for office. >> ooh. actually that is -- that is -- wow. i can't wait to see what those results entail. jared, so then what do we need to know about september 18? >> i think a lot of the coverage we've been seeing about september 18 has quite frankly been hyperbolic, based on the analysis we're seeing. this rally that's planned for september 18 is going to potentially be very significant, but maybe not in the sense that it could generate another type of january 6 event, but rather it could lay patchwork or groundwork for those kind of

i didn't even want to respond to it. >> yeah. >> it's hard to describe rudy je giuliani these days. it's -- shaking your head, that's the response. >> i don't want to say, people have tried to separate what happened 20 years ago and today, but he won't let it. this was at a september 11th event. that separation is awfully hard to make when he's doing things like this. >> yeah. >> gloria borgeer, joe walsh, thank you for being with us this morning. >>> former fda chief mosque up his timeline for when a coronavirus vaccine could be approved for children. >> best case scenario, given the time line i just laid out out, you could have a vaccine for children 8 to 11 by halloween if the fda ultimately makes a positive determination. >> it's not his decision. sorry, go ahead, brianna. >> the forecast is even earlier than the one he gave two weeks ago, projecting shots would likely roll out closer to early winter. gottlieb is on the board of pfizer, right? he said the company is expected to have data on this age group by the end of the month. >> growing number of americans support vaccine ma

rudy giuliani, america's mayor. >> it is president trump's lawyer.gs i would like to talk over with you. maybe we could get this thing fixed up. >> reporter: he just received this subpoena, demanding election officials hand over millions of ballots to state republican politicians who were launching fraud investigations. >> he wanted us to turn over the ballots as soon as possible so the state senate could get to work. >> get to work doing? >> one of the objectionives was to get their hands on the ballot before the january 6th hearing in the capital. they wanted evidence to support desertfying the election. >> reporter: it's constitution be damned really. >> right. one of the main reasons i became a republican in the 1980s was i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. the party of the constitution. >> reporter: in michigan, a wane county republican official voted to certify the election, then changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my vote. >> reporter: in g

because you are talking about the giuliani inciting.ow can that person get away with that and they jump on giuliani? the whole summer was burning up. you know? and i can't believe the focus that some people have or lack of focus is the way i feel, anyway. host: let's go to lindel, who is calling from lawrenceville, georgia, on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm disappointed that these insurrectionists can come back and continue this ridiculous behavior. -- continue this behavior. it is ridiculous. it is an attack on democracy. a lot of it has to do with race and it is sad. donald trump is behind it, all the way. and that's all i have to say. host: let's talk to anthony, who is calling from south river new jersey, on the independent line. anthony, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a question about programming and also, i would like to make a comment about the state of the union. so, here is my question for you about programming. for what reason is the white house briefings not being carrie

but at saturday's commemoration, giuliani was... that. >> rudy: "i don't want to sound like a name-dropper, but i told this to the queen of england. she said, you did a wonderful job on september 11th, and, therefore, i'm making you an honorary knight commander of the royal something or other. i turned down a knighthood because, if you took a knighthood, you had to lose your citizenship. i know prince andrew is very questionable now. i never went out with him. ever! never, ever had a drink with him. never was with a woman or young girl with him. ever, ever, ever. one time i met him in my office, and one time when we had the party, right, bernie? you were there. you weren't there. oh, shit." ( laughter ) >> trevor: oh, man. only rudy can spend a 9/11 anniversary talking about the time he hung out with jeffrey epstein's alleged pedophile friend. you know the speech went off the rails when people watching were, like, i wish this guy would talk more about 9/11. what's he doing? rudy giuliani can't even get his story straight while he's

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i knew that voice, you know, rudy giuliani, america's mayor. >> bill, it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. i have a few things i would like to talk over with you. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. >> reporter: the maricopa county board of supervisors had just received this subpoena demanding election officials hand over millions of ballots to state republican politicians who were launching fraud investigations. >> he wanted us to turn over the ballots as soon as possible, so that the state senate could get to work. >> reporter: get to work doing? >> one of the object iives was get their hands on the ballot before the january 6th hearing in the capitol. they wanted evidence to support dese dese de-certifying the election. >> it's constitution dammed. >> one of the main reasons i became republican was because i thought the republican party was the party of the rule of law. >> reporter: in michigan, a wayne county republican official voted to certify the election, and changed her mind after a call from donald trump. >> i have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my

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rudy giuliani has been suspended from the practice of law.really important piece of evidence that shows knowledge and intent to defraud. >> these companies have sued for defamation. i know slander well, because you have to as a reporter. what is the standard in defamation? >> well, when it comes to matters of public officials and public figures -- i suppose doe -- dominion may qualify for that. either you knew the claim was false or that you acted with reckless disregard as to whether it was false. here i would think in a lawsuit, they would have to show, what was their basis for believing this true? this memo strikes me as a smoking gun to show they knew it was false or they at least acted with reckless disregard as to whether it was true. it seems that by whatever standard, this is a very important piece of evidence in the defamation lawsuit. >> thank you very much. >>> don't go anywhere. scott gottlieb spent two years as the head of the fda under donald trump. he is here to shed light on the failed covid response and how we can prepare for

by the way, bringing this full circle, rudy giuliani -- >> mr. pillow just keeps going on. >> giuliani doing infomercials for my pillow. >> slippers. he says they're fuzzy. >> taking it to the next level, he likes the towels mr. pillow makes, too. >> he's a perfect guy to do mr. pillow commercials. earlier this year, didn't we see him lying on a bed in a movie? >> oh, my gosh. >> mr. pillow. >> he gets sweaty. a towel could be useful, too. >> if you had doubt that donald trump was on board with this, last week, he sent a letter to the secretary of state in georgia, who said overturn the election that took place a year ago. he said no. donald trump is very much on board with this. as you both have said, he is happy to have lunatics like sidney powell out saying things like she's saying. >> people will believe it. >> some people will. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," former secretary of state john kerry joins the table to weigh in on president biden's u.n. address. >>> plus, we'll speak to the likely next mayor of new york city. >> 50.1%. >> eric

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what we show in our reporting is that on january 2nd, mark meadow, and rudy giuliani are meeting with senator graham, and january 2nd through january 5th, you have a pressure campaign on vice president pence. you have a january 5th meeting in the oval office, dan scavino is in there, and then you have bannon talking with the president on january 5th. so it's not just these two senators who are talking with the president. it's the president actively trying to get pence to throw out the electors on january 6th, to get scavino in one scene of our book to help him to pressure lawmakers to coordinate with him on january 6th and do some kind of move to des-certify biden. the january 6th commission wants to know what was happening january 2nd through 5th as well as on january 6 skand that's wh the committee has cited our book in the subpoena documents. bannon was talking to trump in january, in december, scavino was there work, on the tweets. this was a massive operation on the trump side. >> how much pressure was the former president, then president, actually putting on his aides and others

>> reporter: former lawyers giuliani and powell contend with the legal fallout of their claim.ominion filed lawsuits against the two, and my pillow ceo mike lindell. now, what is striking about this memo, a lot of it is publicly available information, easy to find, and it is strike to go see these attorneys as well as the former president continue to peddle these patently untrue claims. . >> sarah, thank you so much. sara murray. donald trump's attempts to decertify his defeat in georgia. we will be speaking live with the republican secretary of state next. >>> the house moves ahead passing a budget bill along party lines setting up a showdown with republicans that could plunge the country into economic disaster. >>> and so much for personal choice. a texas couple kicked out of a restaurant for wearing masks. they're going to join us live on "new day". bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. woooooooooooooo... we are not getting you a helicopter. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty

you can't get more visceral than that, but the intertwining roles of bannon, giuliani, trump allies on outside who are at the rally at the white house, that's a story beneath the story of mccarthy and mcconnell. both important dynamics to understand, and we try to lay them out scene by scene. >> there's so much more i want to get to that we won't get to here, just tip of the iceberg elements like bill barr's campaign advice to donald trump, long extensive conversations about the presidential campaign, very surprising from an attorney general advising a president on that, but there's another whole section of the book, which is about someone else, which is about joe biden. and bob woodward, that makes this the first trump book that constantly is cutting to sanity. it's cutting from the madness of the trump white house to the sanity and the stability of what joe biden brings to both the presidential campaign and then the white house. the biden story begins a year and a half -- with a year and a half left in the biden vice presidency when beau biden dies on may 30th, 2015, and on page 13,

a lot of this came before we saw rudy giuliani and sydney powell out there spreading these things.w york timetimes" says i deposition related to this, rudy giuliani says he never saw the memo. there is clear open source stuff and very obvious it was easy to debunk this. this has not stopped former president trump from still trying to spread all of this information, just days ago wrote a new letter to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger asking him to overturn the election in georgia. it says i would respectfully request that your department check this and if true along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. he was on cnn earlier this morning to react to that letter. here's what he had to say. >> i look at his letters as a plea for attention. he knows he's lost. he's been told that multiple times by a lot of people. but at the end of the day, that information he talked about, we open up an investigation, we have lots of investigations

thought chris did a really great job in that interview, i mean it wasn't that long ago that rudy giuliani, and republican leader of the state of georgia, invited julia down for two different voter fraud election integrity hearings. in december in the. stay weeks before the election. and there are like through the vote trying to kick 360,000 georges off the roll. and what's the problematic thing about brad raffensperger lying about integrity. all of the voter fraud lies, that giuliani and the republican spewed and the decembers, that caused election officials to get threat, that calls legislators to get that, all of those lies god transmitted into this massive bill in georgia. and then copycat it in arizona, texas, florida, ohio. and it all goes back to the big lie. so if they want to fight disinformation, they need to fight their own party, and not tender and tell the truth. >> lauren thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight i really appreciated. and joining us now is neal katyal legal contributor, neil thank you very much for joining us, as i read this donald trump let

he's got the stop the steal organizer, brooks, rudy giuliani. remember brooks was the one that gave that impassioned speech on january 6th to tell the crowd start kicking ass, before they went to the capitol and a bunch of them bludgeoned the heads of police officers. what did he talk to rudy giuliani about? well, finchem did not give up on overturning the election. after the insurrection failed, the fraudulent audit in arizona spent more than $400,000 to hire off-duty police officers as security, and they paid that money to -- drumroll, please, a non-profit created by none other than mark finchem. state representative. he's now, by the way, running for secretary of state in arizona. yesterday mark finchem picked up a big endorsement from the man he's worked to keep in power against the will of the people, donald trump. trump called finchem a patriot, praised his, quote, incredibly powerful stance on voter fraud that took place during the 2020 presidential election scam. now, the position of arizona secretary of state is currently held by this o

the problem with what was happening is rudy giuliani had been tasked by then president trump to be in efforts and giuliani was telling the former president what he wanted to hear, sidney powell who for a while was part of that legal effort was telling the former president what he wanted to hear, but it is a window as to how many people around the former president knew what was taking place, was not accurate, was not based in fact and were, you know, sort of had to stand there because the former president was not listening to those who were saying this was a problem, but, yes, it's all documented. >> certainly is. let me get back to that six-step scheme to overturn the u.s. presidential election. you just heard drain's reporting. when you hear the details it's clear that the then vice president mike pence really was the linchpin here, wasn't he? >> no question. look, wolf, to hear that john eastman apparently claimed that this was a preliminary step and he wasn't suggesting that mike pence could just summarily overthrow the election, based on what trump was hearing from eastman and a c