joining us now is jason miller, senior adviser to the former president. jason, good to see you. conviction in this trial -- 45 senators have already said that it's unconstitutional because president trump, you're trying to impeach someone who's no longer a sitting president. so isn't it just a show trial at this point? >> well, you never want to take anything for granted, david, and i think it's important for people to realize just why this is unconstitutional. let's go to the actual impeachment filing that the democrats in the house made here. they said that it was urgent9 that we had to remove president trump from office. that's actually written in there. and the fact that president trump is no longer in office and the fact that impeachment is set up to try to remove i someone from office, the fact that we don't even have the chief justice of the supreme court overseeing this, you're going to have pat leahy who, in effect, is a juror and also the judge in this, this is completely unconstitutional. there's no jurisdiction here for the democrats to go and do this. it is complete

joining us is jason miller, senior adviser to the former president. n, good to have you with us. i know where to start, start with the constitution. first of all, why is it incumbent upon the president to proceed with a impeachment when he does not hold office? everything that the democrats have done to this point is unconstitutional. it even scans in the constitution the chief justice is to preside when the president is tried. neither are present if for this proceeding. whatever else it is, it is not a constitutional impeachment on its face, is it? >> lou, you make a really good point. in fact, i've spoken with a number of legal scholars who said president trump would be perfectly in the right to go and say pound sand and not even show up and to not even have his legal team even address these outrageous charges in this article of impeachment. but what we saw today with the filing that our team put forward, david schoen along with bruce castor, was a very clear, very concise beatback of this overreach by the democrats. and to be clear, lou, what the de

here is what trump's adviser jason miller has to say.nt trump has been acquitted in the democrat's latest impeachment witch hunt and the facts are irrefutable, president trump did not plan, produce or organize the january 6th rally on the ellipse. miller goes on to say rudy giuliani no longer represents trump in any legal manners, though we've confirmed he's stopped oozing, he has that going for him. jason thompson and tim miller, if i'm a student at morgan state, heard a professor say this lawsuit may have good kick in it. remind us what it could accomplish. >> if you can't throw white nationalists in jail, you could empty their pockets. this is a civil case, could be financial damages if donald trump or members of his administration are seen to be guilty of starting this insurrection. here's the thing, unlike what jason miller is trying to pull off, another sleight of hand, acquitted in the senate. as republicans were fond of mentioning, that was not a legal court trial. not following the rules of being in the courthouse. and the thres

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that's the quote from trump adviser jason miller. any legal matters?just represented him in the senate. it was an embarrassment. they won. but they won because the senators had made up their minds, themselves. right? that, is he going to get represented -- people can say what they want about guiliani, but at least he was there. >> when you say they won, there was a 57-43 verdict in favor of you know. >> yes, i understand. >> they needed two-third. no, they embarrassed themselves. i don't know if alan dershowitz or jonathan turley or somebody else will come out of the woodwork. it can't be rouge rouge, because he's one of the co-conspirators who is a defendant in this lawsuit. they will have to dig pretty deep to find lawyers that will defend this president. maybe they can hack someone. the point is, not the lawyers, the point is that there is no good defense. as mitch mcconnell, himself, said, having delayed the trial to the point where the clock ran out. he said, oh, too bad, it was too late to try the president. but, of course, he was guilty. that's

from some insight on the trump team strategy moving forward, senior adviser to the 45th president jason miller. jason, welcome. jason: mike, thank you for having me. mike: what's the approach of the former president's legal team and mounting his defense? jason: thank you once again. what we are seeing from the democrats is cancel culture on a constitutional level. i mean, the fact of the matter is impeachment only exists for one reason and that's to remove someone from office. well, president trump is already out of office and so for the democrats to try to change the u.s. constitution to impact one man shows really how vindictive and petty they are with this but in addition to the unconstitution nature and i won't go into the facts that chief justice roberts isn't even overseeing proceedings, we also have the fact that they are trying to put the first amendment on trial. if we were to go through the list of what democrats will be comprising this jury have said just in the past year alone, we would probably have to impeach probably about half of the democratic caucus in the senate as well. the

miller goes on to say rudy giuliani no longer represents trump in any legal matter, though we've confirmed he has stopped oozing. still with us, jasonour students at morning an state, did i hear a la professor say this lawsuit may have some really good kick in it. remind us what this could accomplish. >> if you can't throw white nationalists in jail, you can empty their pockets, right? this is a civil case. so there could be financial damages if donald trump or members of his administration are seen to be guilty of starting this insurrection. and here's the thing. unlike what jason miller is trying to pull off, another sleight of hand. that was not a legal court trial. it was not following the rules of actually being in the courthouse. and the threshold for convicting someone in a civil case is much lower than what it is in a criminal case. so these guys could be found financially liable and that could be in the millions for donald trump or rudy giuliani, given the damage to the capitol building, the pain and suffering inflicted upon people, and the potential damages throughout the entire area, not to mention the police officers who

for more let's bring in jason miller. jason, we look at the president's brief that was filed the day before the trial got under way on monday. a lot of the defense centers around what the president said on january 6th. but now the house managers, prosecutors, say, wait. this isn't just about january 6th. this isn't just about the post election period. this is about the months leading up to the election, the weeks after that and then culminating on january 6th. so how will the president's attorneys counter that argument? >> i think very similar to the first impeachment. we saw the democrats fired off everything good they had during the first day and then their arguments really fell apart in the second and third days of the trial. when you bring up the point about our defense, the democrats can't use it both ways. they can't say singularly responsible regarding a speech from january 6th but try to make it about the months beforehand. we saw yesterday them say this is about the future. this is really about trying to impact pr

what we can expect to hear from president trump this afternoon, are let's bring in senior adviser jason millerson, welcome. >> mike, thank you for having me on the day where we're heading to the rose bowl of political conferences, c pac, president trump's first speech after leaving the white house, and we're pretty excited about it. mike: we expect. the president to say he does not intend to divide the power and strength of conservatives. what more should we expect from him? >> well, mark did a very good job in the setup in where the president's going to go with this. we're going to talk about the future not just in the republican party -- because, keep in mind, a lot of people who turned out in 2020 don't view themselves as republicans, but they bought into this america first ideal set. so as we talk about ending these endless wars, reducing regulations, cutting taxes, the president's going to do a deep dive on what trumpism really means, about what this america first agenda really means, and it's going to go a little more granular than in the past. also president trump is going to call out j

jason miller, thank you so much for your time. have a great day. growing calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign. i jumped the gun a bit. growing calls for new york andrew cuomo to resign over allegations of hiding the true number of the covid deaths in the nursing homes. alex hogan live in new york city with the latest, hello, alex. alex: i'm outside of new york governor andrew cuomo's city office here today growing calls to step down, even today breaking calling for a special session this week. >> we have a member, mike, that said he was working to bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the assembly. i think, again, that illustrates that there is a lot of anger, there's a lot of concern that there was criminality here and there is a lot of thought that maybe there's enough evidence to bring these articles of impeachment. alex: the death toll of nursing home residents nearly doubling the tragic numbers jumping from 8500 to 15,000 nursing home patients. bipartisan anger after a conversation this week between new york's democratic

>> first of all, jason miller, like donald trump, has zero credibility. yes, they will play video. we've seen some of the video. we saw video from brad parscale, the former strategist a couple of days ago. and it's other democratic politicians using words like fight. we're going to go after them. we're going to fight, and we're going to win, suggesting that it's all the same. that, you know, donald trump does it, yeah, but so do democrats. the difference is that donald trump did it in the knowledge that there was a spector of violence behind what he said. he's done this throughout his 2016 campaign where he encouraged people to rough up protesters at his rallies. he did this as president where he encouraged police to rough up criminal suspects. he cheered on the people in texas who tried to run a biden/harris bus off the road. he did not condemn the people who plotted to kidnap and possibly kill gretchen whitmer, the governor of michigan. and he has continued to encourage dangerous behavior in the run up and during the insurrection when he set his people on mike pence by saying he

at this point this afternoon, we are hearing from trump spokesman jason miller.st released a statement to us saying this. he said president trump has been acquitted in the democrats' latest impeachment witch hunt and the facts are irrefutable. speaker nancy pelosi and washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser must answer questions as to why they rejected additional security and national guard assistance in the run-up to january 6th. this is something we have heard repeatedly from the trump team, shifting this blame to speaker pelosi and d.c.'s mayor. but house speaker pelosi has been briefed on this lawsuit, even though it's been brought in the personal capacity of congressman bennie thompson, and at this point, other members of congress are expected to join in the coming days here. john. >> fascinating to watch as it plays out in courts. it's unprecedented ground. thanks so much to you. let me bring back manu raju for reaction. on the one hand, you see the jason miller statement deflecting to the mayor of and nancy blpelosi. but bennie thompson deciding to do this. h

i talked to jason miller, senior adviser to the former president, the op-ed in "the wall street journalred a response. that's why we put it up on the screen. it's fairly personal which should not come as a surprise. mitch is a dauer, sullen and unsmiling political hack and if republican senators are going to stay with him they will not win again. now, we were told that there were other personal comments that the president wanted to make about mcconnell's chins and so on, and, you know, i talked to jason miller about this. he said, no, that's not the case. it was not supposed to be that personal although it may have been a more heated response that they were initially contemplating in terms of that statement that the president put out. the other thing we should point out, brooke, is that when trump made some comments on fox news earlier today, he took yet another veiled shot at mitch mcconnell and essentially said, well, if republicans could fight as hard as democrats when it comes to the election then perhaps we wouldn't be in the position that we're in right now. obviously that is just

jason miller, senior adviser to the ex-president told me today donald trump will be talking about hisalse claims that the election was stolen from him, but jason miller said it will be talked about in the context of election reforms. but, erin, i mean that's really using code words. if you look at the agenda for this cpac that's taking place here in orlando, usually takes place in d.c., because of the pandemic it's down here. if you look at the agenda, several of the sessions that are going to be taking place here are built around these ideas that the election was stolen from donald trump, that joe biden stole the election. that's obviously not the case. we've been talking about this for many weeks now. in addition to that, erin, if you look at the speaker's list, they are almost all speakers who have the trump seal of approval. donald trump, jr., his girlfriend kimberly guilfoyle. even ted cruz and josh hawley, two republican senators who essentially tried to assist republican house members in their efforts to overturn the results in the 2020 election. typically that kind of behavior

jason miller.nks very much for being here. do you think president trump may be the nominee next time around? >> well, i certainly hope so. there hasn't been any decision made yet but my bias is pretty clear here. i've got to tell you, maria, buckle up for sunday, president trump is back and better than ever. if you believe in the america first movement, and what he's been trying to do over the last four years, i think you're going to like it. but if you're part of the swamp or big tech or big media or joe biden's radical left wing mob you're being put on notice. maria: well, look, i mean, this is the president's first major speaking event at the cpac conference this sunday since leaving office. so i know that there's going to be a high interest in seeing what he's going to discuss. tell me about the contents of the talk, as you know it. is he going to talk about what he was able to accomplish? because he certainly had fantastic policy successes. is he going to comment on the biden a agenda? or elec

it still seems unlikely we're hearing from me and hearing from sources that's been confirmed by jason miller one of don't trump spokes of people that to morrow on friday when donald trump will start his defense they're not expected to take much more than the 8 hours even though there are allocated 16 it will probably be 8 hours or slightly less to make their case that's because they think the numbers are there to make sure that donald trump will not be convicted that would mean essentially that we would go to written questions being. sent to the chair and answered by the imp. it's managers and the defense on saturday with the possibility of a vote on sunday or a tentative timetable at the moment but the fact that donald trump's team aren't going to spend a great deal of time defending him the good to talk about freedom of speech the fact that others have talked in those sort of terms they're not going to address a lot of the specific instances that have been brought up by the democrats because they don't feel they have to and they think the votes are there to quit donald trump and fisher tha

what you're going to see tomorrow and if this is correct, if -- jason miller and -- i'm sorry. ephen miller were the ones who actually helped him write his speech it's going to be full of anti-immigrant rhetoric, of, you know, building the border, of immigration in terms of america first and those are not policies that go towards growing the party. they need to appeal more to a multicultural segment of the country that is absolutely growing, more african-americans, more latinos, more women, and what you are seeing from a general election standpoint, pam is that this is a party that is shrinking. so you know what? as a democrat, i might bring it on because the more republicans bow at the altar of donald trump and start kissing his ring and have no idea how to go about growing their party, the better it is going to be for democrats in all kinds of elections up and down the ticket. >> but does it worry you at all, maria. should it worry democrats more that they're seeing so many conservatives even ones that had come out against trump, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy. even lindsey g

it's hard to see how that works in their favor and as with 99 other people they want hard to say jason miller one of the president's top aides and who's still with him was walking around with a piece of paper this morning saying that he there were 301 witnesses that they wanted as so clearly the senate is not about to have 300 witnesses or even 100 which says we're probably talking in the nature of 5 witnesses if that and i think that's what's going to be debated and maybe we'll learn a little more when the senate comes back at 1234 and help us analyze hay of the strategy of the house impeachment managers because up until things kicked off today it was very much up in there as to whether they would really try to push for witnesses to be cold on all want to balance. i think we've learned so much in the past day that they didn't know before i think the house managers were not aware of kevin mccarthy his conversation with the president that yelling match that the 2 of them had about the level of danger they were and the level of danger that vice president pence was in we started hearing about th

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here is a little bit more from jason miller in an interview he did today on what they're planning toary 6 that, again, democrats didn't show you -- didn't show you. i think the democrats got way too cute in this process with their selective editing. this is something you're going to hear over and over today. >> reporter: this also comes as we know the legal team met yesterday with some republican senators for a lengthy amount of time where they spoke about, quote, the legal strategy that's going to be presented today and we also know that the senators according to them presented their own thoughts, of course, that's notable given the fact that they are the ones who ultimately have to make the decision whether to convict or acquit donald trump. >> leigh ann, you just got off a call with the house impeachment managers. what are they saying now that they've made their case over the last few days and they've got to just watch the next day play out? >> reporter: they're feeling pretty good about the presentation that they laid out. they say that they're ready for the president's defense,

trump spokesman jason miller calls it fake news. sources speaking anonymously told the "washington post" the south carolina team was uncomfortable making the unsubstantiated claims and wanted to argue the unconstitutional ality of impeaching a president who has already left office. meanwhile, "new york times" reporter michael grimbaum said his new legal team met with jeffrey epstein in prison and told fox he didn't believe epstein killed himself. the other declined to prosecute bill cosby in 2005 for sexual assault, citing in sufficient evidence. so, matt lewis, first of all, just the optics of the president's legal team leaving him a week before the trial begins shows me what a difference the presidency makes. when you're president, you have certain authority and power and people want access to you and they will bend sometimes to stay close to power. when you're not president, you look at someone speaking stuff that makes no sense, or that could get them in legal trouble, you walk away. your thoughts? >> there is a lot of benefits

from jason miller, advisor to the former president, he tweet this, asking spending a lot of time trying to pre-but our arguments coming up tomorrow. he knows democrats have no case. i'd say we are going to crush their arguments been i might get impeached, to. he's noted in this headline from politico about the arguments from the former president's attorney, the headline says impeachment legal defense will wrap up on friday. they write that former president donald trump's impeachment defense team will finish it case from senior advisor jason miller wrote in a tweet today, that means trump's defense team will use less two days to defend the former president who was impeached last month and siding insurrection. they also right that the trials all but soon to be shorter than first impeachment trial in 2020. the former resident expected to be acquitted signaling they will not vote to convict president trump. the child was constitutional six gop senators joining democrats democrats and two independents for conviction to require a vote from all 50 in the democratic caucus plus 17 republicans.

. >> reporter: trump's senior adviser jason miller tells cnn there was nothing improper about the call. continuing if mr. raffensperger didn't want to receive calls about the election, he shouldn't have run for secretary of state. in new york the trump family business is under investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office. prosecutors are scrutinizing the trump party for whether they committed tax fraud. they're waiting to see if they can force a subpoena to get trump's tax returns. it's possible trump could face criminal charges for inciting the violence that erupted at the capitol on january 6th. no one is being overlooked in the probes and lawyers inside d.c.'s attorney general's office are investigating whether trump's words or actions vi viovio violating the law. >> there is a crime to incite rebellion, and that is a statute that i hope investigators, federal investigators, the district of columbia will investigate, whether or not he meets that standard. >> reporter: but the former president still has a hold over the republican party even with legal liability looming,

now, we have heard from trump spokesman jason miller. he released a statement just a few minutes ago saying president trump has been acquitted in the democrats' latest impeachment witch hunt and the facts are irr irrefutable. president trump did not plan, produce, or organize the january 6th rally on the ellipse. president trump did not incite or conspear to incite any violence at the capitol on january 6th, and he goes on in the statement to talk about how nancy pelosi and mayor bowser here in washington should be called for questions about rejecting additional security, but that's what we are seen from the trump team, sort of trying to shift this blame. brianna, we have also reached out to rudy giuliani, and i am told today that house speaker nancy pelosi was briefed on this lawsuit filed by democratic congressman bennie thompson, and that other members of congress are expected to join this lawsuit. so we'll see how it goes in court, whether or not this survives any motion to dismiss, but it could get interesting if the president and o

former trump adviseor jason miller reacting yesterday. >> this is all about them making never.deological pursuit or real deep seeded hatred against president trump. low life drifters trying to self-enrich themselves. american people are getting a look at what the people have been about. >> dana: love your columns, jerry. the money raised by the lincoln project nearly 90 million dollars. let's look at some expenses. summit strategic communications 24.8 million went to one of the project's co-founders and then ron steslo from the center for responsive politics. we know about that because they have to disclose it. it felt like the lincoln project was a little untouchable. now what do you think? >> it's incredibly ironic that this was a group who came together, former republicans who were so supposedly outraged by president trump, donald trump, candidate trump initially and president trump's behavior, character, they thought it was essential to mobilize support, do whatever they could to defeat him but it turns out many of the things they accused him of being relatively low charact

. >> supporters disagree like former senior advisor jason miller who tweeted "donald trump is the republicanattle sitting small victory, the supreme court rejected stormy daniels effort to revive her case. brett. >> bret: thank you. the wife of mexican drag kingpin is in custody tonight on drug trafficking charges. assange emma cornell was arrested at the dallas international airport in washington and is expected to appear in federal court tomorrow. she is accused of helping her husband escape from a mexican prison in 2015 and of participating in a conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs inside the u.s. up next, why did the engine of an airplane catch fire and what is happening now? here are some of the fox affiliates around the country. fox 8 in new orleans has a shoot out at a gun store shooting range leading three people dead and two wounded. the operator of the store says it began when a customer unloaded his weapon. initially hitting two people, and several others at the facility open fired against him. fox 11 in los angeles says disney plus puts an offensive content disclaimer on 18 epi

as we heard ali report, he's expected to blast liz cheney today and we heard from trump adviser jason miller, they're thinking about 2022, primarying republican held seats with trump loyalists. let's listen. >> i think what you'll hear president trump talk about february 28th the future of the republican party. not only former president talk about what we have to do in midterms we'll talk about that american populism. >> so the theme for the cpac this year is american uncanceled, it seems like they're cancelling members of their own party like liz cheney. >> it makes no sense. we were talking about the lack of diversity. his strategy is to go after a woman in his own party it sounds like a losing strategy to me, donald trump doesn't make the best of choices, so expect more of the same from him. >> omarosa, you know this man and you know what he'll do at events like this, in his scripted remarks we've seen so far, there's no indication that he'll announce that he will run for president, do you get a sense he will try get the nomination and possibly announce it as early as today? >> donald tru

nermeen: jamie raskin has asked trump to testify in the trial, but of course, his senior advisor jason millere will not testify in what he considers an unconstitutional proceeding. now, the house had the option of issuing a subpoena to trump to get him to testify, but they did not do that. what do you think is going to happen? trump has no intention of testifying. >> trump has no intention of testifying, and it is still an open question whether there will be any testimony or witnesses. this is a fast-moving trial. i think the managers have focused a lot of their attention on what th described accurately as facts, as what you can show people. the president's tweets, the video from the capitol, video of the president speeches. all of these pieces. once they have done that, then there will be the question of whether you might call a witness. i am inclined to suggest they probably won't attempt to subpoena donald trump. he says he does not want to testify. frankly, his testimony i think would probably add little to the process. but there is still the possibility you will see witnesses. the fascin

according to former campaign adviser and elf telling hermey he can't be a dentist, jason miller.t the former president is happier now that he's off social media. wow. that makes seven billion of us. the only thing that could have united the world in joy more than his twitter ban would've been "baby yoda presents: the deep-fried vaccine orgasm." featuring unlikely animal friendships. yes, he's 50. it's okay. miller explained, "he's said that not being on social media, and not being subject to the hateful echo chamber that social media too frequently becomes, has actually been good." okay. that sounds a little like your ex's best friend claiming he's happier without you. "oh, yeah, tony's doing great. he's lost the weight. working out more. yeah. he's dating this hot model, who he would never dump for you even if you wanted him back, unless you wanted him back. do you want him back? no? good, 'cuz he's great!" is that what he says? knotting? okay. miller adds that the former president's new found contentment is something the first lady has backed up as well. she has said she loves

his spokesperson, jason miller, telling us the former president did not incite or conspire to incitethe violence. this lawsuit could only grow. i'm told additional members of congress are planning to signing on to this in the days to come as plaintiffs. >> jessica schneider, thank you very much. gloriaborge r, i wouldn't be surprised if there were conspiring amongst the more seedy characters. is there anything to this lawsuit? >> one of the reasons they're doing this lawsuit is to expose these hate groups, put them front in center. keep talking about them. and then expose the funding for the hate groups. the people who keep them going. and i think you can do that, perhaps, through discovery here. and i think that's one of the reasons that the naacp is so involved in this. it may be, in a way, less about donald trump himself -- although they obviously want to look at any kind of coordination that may have existed. and i think you're right. you know, police ought to do that. but they really want to talk about the funding of these hate groups and make americans aware of just who they ar

and donald trump's spokesperson jason miller responded very quickly saying absolutely not.'s subpoenaed. and right now they've signaled that subpoena is not going to come. we also know that the democrats are hoping for a short trial. this is donald trump's second combreechlt trial. they want to focus on biden's large legislative priority list including the covid-19 relief package that they're working on. sources tell me that chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are talking right now, working on setting the ground rules ahead of tuesday. and until then, we really don't know what's going to happen or if there's going to be witnesses called. a lot of unknowns right now. >> not only that it, but there's this gop fracture, daniella, that seems to be a kneon sign blinking over the party right now. what do you hear about what majority leader kevin mccarthy is handling that? >> reporter: kevin mccarthy had two of the hardest weeks. the number three house republican liz cheney and marjorie taylor greene, liz cheney was facing backlash on her vote for donald trump's combeeft. and marjor

funneled millions of dollars to firms controlled by their leadership, former trump am cain advisor jason millering it was always about the money. watch this. >> what we've seen from the lincoln project over all this time, this is all about them making money. this has never been about some ideological pursuit or some real deep seated hatred against president trump. low life drifters trying to self-enrich themselves. >> martha: gillian turner on this. >> the anti-trump super pac stopped taking donations online yesterday. it is struggling to fend off crisis after crisis over the last week. the latest tweet from the group. normally prolific on social media, came out february 11th. they've stayed silent on the acquittal of former president trump. fox news is learning out of almost 90 million dollars that the group raised so far nearly $25 million went to summit strategic communications a firm owned by a co-founder listed as a treasurer in sec documents. another $20 million went to tusk digital owned by another member. steve schmidt resigned on friday night and said this over the weekend. listen. >>

former president trump senior advisor jason miller is telling fox news that donald trump will not testifying session highs right now. so we got to ask the question, will the winners of the post-covid recovery be dividend growth names? you get paid for waiting no matter what the markets are doing. today's countdown closer jamie cox has them. how much are they paying me just to hold the stock? >> liz, last year as a terrible year for dividend stocks. you had cut after cut after cut. this year will be the opposite. you will see recovery. dividend stocks will be the place to be with all the interest rate cuts. chevron, broadcom, a lot of dividend plays will be over 3%. people need to pay attention to non-u.s. companies because the dividend yields for non-u.s. companies continue to rise even in the face of what could be a slow recovery. nevertheless you will get paid to wait. so i believe a lot of tech companies winners of last year will be sold out a little bit. what will be bought are the dividend growth names. chevron is a great story. liz: i get that. however, if you look at what's happeni

that is according to jason miller, senior adviser. there was a request for him to appear.t down. they said he was not responsible and will not be appearing at the trial next week. meanwhile, the white house is commenting on hunter biden's memoire, this is called "beautiful things." it hits the shelves right before president biden's 100th day in office. here's jen psaki talking about this. >> it was announced by simon and shuster this morning. i have a statement from joe and jill biden and their personal capacity as his parents. they admire hunter's strength and courage to talk openly about his addiction. this is a personal book about his own personal journey and i will leave it at that. >> michael goodwin from the "new york post" and author of the recent piece "biden brood cashing in on his presidency." so having just written that piece about his brother, the attorney using the biden ad that ran on inauguration day, what was your reaction about hunter's new book? >> here we go again. they didn't waste in time, did they? joe is no sooner in office as you reference the frank

donald trump's spokesman, jason miller, said this, quote, president trump has been acquitted in the democrats' latest impeachment witch-hunt and the facts are irrefutable. president trump did not plan, produce or organize the january 6th rally on the ellipse, president trump did not cite or inspire to incite any violence at the capitol january 6th. speaker nancy pelosi and washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser must answer questions why they rejected additional security and national guard assistance in the run-up to january 6th. so the question is, how is impeachment, how is what happened in the impeachment trial going to play in this civil lawsuit, if at all? >> legally, not at all. it's a different charge. it was not unanimous. it really, the constitution itself is clear. you have impeachment charges and other charges. sara, i agree with everything she said but it's an important point to underscore, this is a civil lawsuit. this is bennie thompson as bennie thompson saying these guys hurt me and it wasn't just the proud boys, they were conspireing with trump and giuliani. might be hard to pro

. >> reporter: trump's senior adviser, jason miller, tells cnn there was nothing improper about the call, continuing, if mr. raffensperger didn't want to receive calls about the election, he shouldn't have run for secretary of state. the trump family business is under investigation by the m manhattan district attorney office, scrutinizing the trump organization and whether its officials committed insurance or tax fraud. the d.a.'s office is waiting for word from the supreme court about whether it can force a subpoena to get trump's tax returns. [ bleep ] >> reporter: it's even possible trump could face criminal charges for inciting the violence that erupted at the capitol january 6th. federal prosecutors have indicated no one is being overlooked in their probes and lawyers inside d.c. attorney general's office are investigating whether trump's words and actions violated a little used local law, making inciting violence illegal, punishable by up to six months in jail. >> it is a crime to incite rebellion, and that is a statute that i hope investigators, federal investigators, district of

. >> trump adviser jason miller released a same in response to the action that read in part, presidentduce or organize the january 6th rally on the elipse. president trump did not in-crites oricite any violence on january 6th. meanwhile nbc news has learned that legislation for the proposed 9/11 style commission on the capitol attack will be introduced in the house as early as this week, this as nancy pelosi is conferring with members of the widely praised bipartisan 9/11 commission who say that congress' only chance of an accurate report is to keep bipartisan out of it. but house minority leader kevin mccarthy released a statement suggests that bipartisan will be hard to avoid. it reads in part, republicans put forward a proposal for a fact finding commission over one months ago. it is our responsibility to understand the security and intelligence breakdowns that led to the riots of january 6 so that we can better protect the institution and the men and women working inside it. mccarthy's statement implies limiting the scope of the investigation to security and intelligence breakdowns

trump's spokesperson jason miller telling cnn today that it could be a revamped version of america firsttrump weighs his political future. trump will give his first major speech since leaving the white house tomorrow afternoon as he closes out cpac. that's where we find cnn's donie o'sullivan joining us from orlando. donie? >> reporter: hey, fred, yes, some very excited trump supporters who are hoping to see the former president speak here in orlando tomorrow where he is expected, of course, to continue to perpetuate that conspiracy theory that he did not actually lose the election. and conspiracy theories like that are spreading across this country from coast to coast. and last week, we met some trump supporters in southern california and here is what they had to say. these trump supporters are in denial about what happened on january 6, and some believe in qanon. >> what's going to happen at some point is there will be arrests and that will include a lot of the lying media and then there will be military -- >> reporter: they keep saying that, for years, it's not not happening. it's bee

impeachment managers actually sent a note to donald trump asking him to testify under oath in jason millernald trump's former campaign manager and spokesman responded very quickly and said this is a public remgss st relations stunt, we're not going to do this. unless we subpoena him, we're not going to see trump. and the trial is going to be swift. it's like with to be a few days unlike donald trump first impeachment trial lasts three weeks. so, we know that sources tell us that behind the scenes, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are speaking to lay out some ground rules on how this is going to look. until then, we're not entirely sure how this is going to play out. like i said, we don't know if there are witnesses. there are a lot of unknowns heading into next week. we'll wait to see how that plays out. >> i want to ask you quickly about the fracture you see in the gop over the next several weeks. what do we know about how gop leader kevin mccarthy is going to navigate in a week or so? >> reporter: christi, kevin mccarthy had the two hardest weeks of his leadership. he was dealing with t

meet this all -- to make this lawsuit move forward, and now we're hearing from trump's spokesman jason milleris is what he had to say today. president trump has been acquitted in the democrats' latest impeachment witch hunt and the facts are irrefutable. presume did not plan, produce or organize the january 6th real on the ellipse. president trump did not incite or conspire to incite any violence at the capitol on january 6th, and then he puts in this. speaker nancy please and washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser must answer questions as to why they rejected additional security and national guard assistance in the run-up to january 6th. so once again team trump shifting the blame there or at least trying, to brooke. now we've also reached out to rudy giuliani and we haven't heard back yet, but i am told house speaker nancy pelosi has been briefed on this law south and other members of congress are likely to join in, too. >> let me drill down with this on one of my favorite lawyers. jess snide, thanks for setting this all up. let's talk about the civil lawsuit that former president trump and r

in a statement, jason miller, an adviser to the disgraced former president who happens to be the former president, big fan of the seditious candidacy. miller denied he incited any violence on january 6th. this comes as the "new york times" shows new connections between the defendants and trump's confidant, roger stone. according to the times video analysis, six people associated with the far right group oath keepers served as stone's body guards in d.c. just before laying siege to the capitol. you may remember stone, old time nixon dirty trickster met with trump in the weeks before the insurrection, but denies having any involvement either. there's hope in a 9/11 style commission will shed new light on trump's role in the siege as well as motivation of the attackers, and legislation to create that commission will be introduced as early as this week. meanwhile, today's suit is the latest legal problem for america's toxic ex who emerged with a lengthy statement attacking mitch mcconnell as a dour, sullen, unsmiling political hack. mitch's most recent transgression was his speech on saturd

trump spokesman jason miller false that fakeso news but he fails to elaborate beyond those two words. i want to bring in former federal prosecutor glen kirshner. >> it doesn't shock me donald trump is having difficulty finding lawyers to represent him. there are some differences as well. the one most important similarity is you can't go into court and you can't go into an impeachment trial as a lawyer, and make an unrealistic absurd or flat out false claim or defense. you know, we call it the rocket to mars defense. you know, in court we saw absurd defense claims all the time. my client couldn't have committed the crime because he has an alibi. he was on a rocket to mars. well, that doesn't really fly in court. and the problem is, one of the similarities between court proceedings andti impeachment proceedings is attorneys have ethical rules and rules of professional responsibility they have to follow. so they can't walk in there and make donald trump's rocket to mars claim that the election was stolen from him. it was fraudulent, it was rigged, and he is still, therefore, you know, ki

this is jason miller responding saying president trump did not plan, produce or organize the january 6 rally on the ellipse. president trump did not incite or conspire to incite any violence at the capitol on january 6. so my question to you based on what you just said, how do you plan to prove in a court of law that trump and the other named defendants incited the violence that you and others lived through? >> well, easily. the pattern and practice since november, the trump administration encouraged people to come to washington on january 6th, saying it will be wild. and so at that point, all of it, emails and twitter account, that we can find, and those that were produced by the house managers, just that. in addition to that, it's clear that in his speech, he directed the people at the ellipse to go to the capitol and let your feelings be known. and that's what they did. they had no permit to go. he directed them to go and they followed him. and the subsequent actions from that, we all saw it play out before their eyes. >> do you anticipate getting to at least the discovery part of