yes, of those kushners. is speculation that kushner and mcgreevey had a quid pro quo relationship, that kushner was going to become his biggest developer, and he wanted certain things in return. charlie kushner and the kushner family started to pour huge amounts of money into his campaign. these are the kinds of ways that oligarchs like charlie kushner develop their power. and then there were rumors that mcgreevey had hired unqualified friends for key administration roles. reporter: there were allegations of corruption, extortion, and nepotism in his administration. tapper: rumors of favor trading, backroom deals, and a campaign finance fraud investigation from u.s. attorney chris christie were all swirling around mcgreevey, when one hot august day in 2004, he called a press conference, but instead of talking about any of that, he dropped this bombshell. so my truth is that... he was gay and having an affair with a man, and he was resigning. with headlines like these, who cares about government corruption? t

and jared kushner. you heard me right. today "the new york times" reported jared kushner's investment fund is now a major investor in burger king in brazil. now, this deal does not just complicate kushner's relationship with the country of brazil because kushner's fund didn't actually invest in burger kings directly. what it actually did is team up with a subsidiary of the government controlled sovereign wealth fund of the united arab emirates to buy brazilian burger king stock. kushner's investment group, affinity partners, has been entangled with foreign interests since its inception when it received a $2 billion investment from the saudi arabian sovereign wealth fund. thanks to "the new york times" we've gotten example after example how trump's investment group isn't problematic on the fund-raising side but raising questions when its ethically investing. for instance, one might take issue how kushner is working to complete a government-backed deal in serbia where according to the draft agreement agreed by "the new york

now this deal does not just complicate kushner's relationship with the country of brazil because kushner'sst in burger king's directly, what it actually did was team up with a subsidiary of the government -controlled sovereign wealth fund of the united arab emirates to buy brazilian burger king stock. his investment group affinity partners has been entangled with foreign interests since its inception when it received a $2 billion investment from saudi arabia's sovereign fund. thanks to great reporting the times, we have got an example after example of how trump's son-in-law's investment group isn't as problematic on the fundraising side but is also raising ethical questions about where it is investing. for instance, one might take issue with how kushner is working to complete a government-backed deal in serbia, where, according to a draft agreement reviewed by the times, kushner's fund would get a 99 year lease at no charge, so it could build a luxury hotel and apartment complex on the site of the former nato bombing or, one might take issue with his investment group negotiating the lease

kushner's fund also invested with a car leasing company in israel. the israeli navy's only domestic building of warships. because the u.s. provides israel with billions of dollars of military aid each year, the donald trump retakes office, he would be in a position to directly help or hurt his son- in-law's business partner. it is all not a great look. we are going to talk about what his foreign ties mean for trump and american foreign policy with ben rhodes after the break. th ben rhodes after the break. at. i know, i've bee telling everyone. baby: liberty. oh! baby: liberty. how many people did you tell? only pay for what you need. jingle: ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ baby: ♪ liberty. ♪ i still love to surf, snowboard, jingle: ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and, of course, skate. so, i take qunol magnesium to support my muscle and bone health. qunol's extra strength, high absorption magnesium helps me get the full benefits of magnesium. qunol, the brand i trust. you know, i spend a lot of time thinking about dirt. at three in the morning. any tim

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>>> plus new reporting on jared kushner's investment fund and possible conflicts of interests if his father-in-law retakes the white house. as the 11th hour gets under way on this tuesday night. . >>> good evening once again. live from 30 rockefeller center and we are 210 days away from the election. today, arizona's supreme court decided to take the state back to 1864. it ruled that a century and a half old abortion law can come back into effect. it bans all abortions, except ones that would save the life of the mother. but those rules are a little bit hazy. the decision comes just one day after donald trump proclaimed that the abortion law should be up to the states. and it puts the issue front and center in a battleground state that could decide control of the senate and the white house. here's my colleague laura jared with more. >> reporter: tonight a legal fight over abortion in a critical battleground state fanning the flames of a political fire. arizona's highest court backing a law that bans all abortions, and carries up to five years in prison for doctors who perform one. th

jared kushner and ivanka kushner walk out of the white house and months later get $2 billion from then from the saudis. you think it's because he's some kind of investing genius? or do you think it's because he was sitting next to the president of the united states for four years doing favors for the saudis. that's your money. that's your money he stole. and gave it to his family. you know what that makes us? a banana republic. >> again, donald trump faces joe biden and there's not a lot of indication that this will be central to the presidential campaign, but the attacks have been launched by republicans against jared kushner and this griftiness. and i wonder what jared kushner has to say about these accusations. >> he is quite comfortable with what he's doing. and his belief is that as long as he does not ask for favors, and he, you know, does what he calls arms length transactions, as he told the serbian government or albanian government to give him concessions or gives teams to the abu dhabi southern wealth fund to buy a brazil fast food chain. his view is he's not asking for favo

your number one concern right now should be donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner.r's foreign wealth investment firm in the new york times covers classics like jared's ties to the chinese ambassador and a friendship with don selman, the saudi crown prince who later gave jared's investment firm $2 billion against the advice of his own finance experts, like the board that reviews investments for the saudi sovereign wealth fund. the times goes further than that to show that as a once and possibly future trump administration official, jared kushner is open for business everywhere. in total, 99% of the money placed within by investors has come from foreign sources. that is 99% of $3 billion with a b, though jared's firm makes $40 million a year managing that fund. they have not invested a whole lot of the funds they received. he did invest in an israeli car leasing firm and as the times wrote, kushner's partner in that firm is co-owner of israel's only domestic builder of warships, putting him in business with executives who are also major shareholders in an israeli mili

petersburg, well, in leningrad then, and it was a great honor for me to perform together with kushnerhis is a special leningrad school of attention to detail, this is like acmeism after acmeism, remember what acmeism is, he even told me to wear a garter today she will perfume, moreover, it’s interesting that he even mentioned names that were almost forbidden at that time, he had poems by kushner, like a chicken, a polish teacher goes with boys with jews, goes to the gas chamber, and there he had this stanza: where was your beloved god, or what he thinks berdyaev, he is the weakest scoundrel, weaker for the cloudy house, berdyaev, on this verse it is. and well, it’s time from general discussions to finally move on to the poet igor volgin, i would like igor volgin to read poetry from his early days , or maybe from his early days. and who read wonderfully, better than me, i read tushenko a lot, he liked them very much, here is the following epigraph: per, the former city of molotov, now per again from the encyclopedia, and there is a mention of the gudok newspaper here, my father was a w

also do oversight of jared kushner and the investments he's gotten from the saudis and the deals they were doing potentially as he was leaving the white house and potentially involved in foreign diplomacy. all this stuff is involved with each other, and it's worth looking to. >> jared kushner also not a guy ahead of his game. >> correct. >> no. >> if you're the saudi wealth fund with $2 billion to invest, you have a lot of choices. you can find the best investors anywhere in the world, and jared kushner is not in the top 500,000 of the world's best investors. >> let's talk about president biden, roy, because today another example should be a great day for him. we got a bang up jobs report that yet again shows what an extraordinary economic recovery we've had. clearly the economy is strong. but from a political standpoint, it's still a challenging political story because we have an overhang of inflation and life's expensive for people. so how does the president kind of navigate this and get that positive message out. like clockwork. like clockwork. mr. president! i'm looking for advice

jared kushner not saying he is not going into service. ben rhodes thank you for your time. that is our showtime for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> >>> good evening it's arizona night here at the last word. we have governor katie hobbs joining us and senate candidate joining us. such an important day in arizona and for the country on what happened there today. >> 1864. when you think of the republican party think 1864. >> that is where we are. have a good show. >> thank you, alex. >>> arizona has a longer history as part of spain than it does as part of the united states. the name arizona is thought to be a blend of spanish and a local tribal language meaning small sprint. arizona spent 300 years as part of spain, beginning in 1521. then in 1821 when mexico won its independence from spain, arizona began its short history as part of the independent country of mexico. the united states seized all of the most valuable parts of mexico including california as our prize for winning the mexican-american war in 1848. as an american territory, arizona chose the wrong side

now meeting with jared kushner. government to the private sector again. and what you have there is folks from the justice department pressuring a prosecutor to drop a case against a state owned bank when president trump was in office. the u.s. attorney in new york tried to resist that. but no one was pressuring him to intervene from pursuing the case against the bank attorney. the justice department was frustrated with the u.s. attorney. you had a government official urging trump to intervene with the justice department. that happened in the first administration. it is to be seen how this plays out if in fact he goes back to the white house. there is a co-mingling of duties that raises questions that we've been examining over time. >> when we come back, our next guest has an message for anxious democrats everywhere. calm down. why simon rosenberg is very optimistic about president biden's reelection prospects. e >> tech: at safelite, we'll take care of fixing your windshield. but did you know we can take care of your insurance claim? that means less stres

the plan by jared kushner to redevelop in belgrade echoed interest from donald trump a decade ago foris white house term. rick grenell, a special envoy pushed a related plan during the trump administration that serbia and the united states worked to rebuild the defense ministry site. and he argued in favor of using american investments while he was still serving in his official capacity as an american diplomat in 2020. according to transcripts and a recording of remarks during several government news conferences, it is harder to get at, this recording is extraordinary because it does that, but talk about this story an the sort of comingling of official diplomatic roles in the way you present yourself around the world and business deals? >> yeah, this is quite striking because first you have donald trump when he was a private citizen, before he was running for president, and when he expressed an interest in perhaps building a hotel in the center of belgrade. that plan did not come to fruition. but then when rick grenell was working as a special envoy to serbia and kosovo, he made a pro

jared kushner not saying he's not going back into government service. ben rhodes, thank you again for your time. that is our show for tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> the decision by the arizona supreme court today is unconscionable and an affront to freedom. make no mistake by effectively striking down a law passed this century and replacing it with one from 160 years ago, the court has risked the health and lives of arizonians. >> that's arizona's attorney general slamming the ruling from her state's supreme court upholding a civil war-era ban on abortion. we'll go through that stunning decision in just a moment. we'll also bring you president biden's response to the ruling as well as his new comments on donald trump and the threats to our nation's democracy. >>> and we'll bring you the latest from capitol hill. speaker mike johnson is now delaying a key priority for far-right republicans and facing new pressure to pass funding for ukraine. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, april 10th. i

you can find the best investors anywhere in the world, jared kushner is not on the top 500,000 of the world's best investors. whatever. >> let's talk about president biden. today, another example should be a great day for him, a bang up job's report which yet again shows an extra ordinary economic recovery we've had, clearly the economy is strong, but, from a political standpoint, it's still a challenging political story, because we have an overhang of inflation, and how does the president navigate this, and get that positive message out, like clockwork? i know. [ inaudible ] i'm looking for advice from roy. >> it always happens. i think the president, the inflation and job news is indicative of what has been happening in the entirety of the biden administration, which is good news that is able to be spun into something that means nothing. when the truth is that they done a lot of monumental policies and a lot of monumental things. i think it's more about, how do we get people to understand why this is? and i think that there's what trump has that biden did not have, in 2020. the abil

there's also his son-in-law jared kushner.orting today his $3 billion investment fund is financed almost infirely by overseas investment funds from countries he worked with when he was in the white house, including saudi arabia, qatar, and the united arab emirates. we don't know what these countries expect from jared, nor do we know why donors keep giving donald trump money when it's clear he's going to burn it all on his legal fees. for the uber rich, the answer is simple, tax cuts. it beats out the embrace of authoritarianism, over stripping half of the nation's population of their rights over their own bodies. or saying that migrants are poisoning the blood of the country or, you know, the whole attempted coup thing. as long as their taxes stay low and get lower, they're good. take nelson peltz, for example, "the washington post" reports the day after january 6th, pelts calls the insurrection a disgrace and expressed remorse for voting for trump. saying, quote, i'm sorry i did that. last month, he had breakfast with trump a

and of course jared kushner may be opening a back channel that is financial as well as political.ught to be alarmed. i think people ought to be concerned about his relationship with the governments of china, with vladimir putin, with viktor orban, and of course with mbs, who by the way, let's remind our listeners is actually a murderer. he actually, you know, killed an american citizen, and unfortunately appears to be getting away with it. >> the u.s. intelligence believes mbs ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi a few years ago which he was not condemned by president trump. the world is watching donald trump here now just a few months from the election. he stands about a one in two chance of being president again. we're seeing nato take steps to create a fund for ukraine that trump couldn't touch. we're seeing concerns about policies he might have towards china, other places. talk to us about how the world is watching this election right now, charlie. >> the world is alarmed and they ought to be alarmed. we just had the 75th anniversary of nato, and i think nato is realizing th

then i said to him wouldn't it be interesting if jared kushner had the point to tell you how you have your abortions are not and how to do your money or not. my question to the representative is -- how can people of solid foundations and good religious people, which they tend to lean towards the trump, i can't figure out how people with good values would go into such a state as we are doing with, you know, money and abortion. my question is, how do we get to this point with republicans, representative chu? and thank you for all the good you are doing, i appreciate the things you are doing. thank you, greta. guest: well, thank you. i'm the democratic representative, just to be clear, but i would say that president biden is doing what and to help the american people. it is to make sure that everybody has basic rights. for instance, basic rights to be healthy. that is why president biden was so involved in the inflation reduction act, which ultimately brought the price of insulin down to $35 a month for seniors, as well as put a cap on prescription drugs to $2000 a year. and he was instr

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’s interesting, she even mentioned names that were almost forbidden at that time, he had poems by kushner, goes with boys with jews, goes to the gas chamber, and there he had this stanza: where was your loved one god, or as berdyaev thinks, is he weaker than the weakest scoundrels? the transcendental house of the berdievs, published from the country on the philosophical passage, nikolai aleksandrovich berdyaev, a wonderful philosopher, that is , the leningrad note is a little different, then there is krivulin, then elena schwartz, and so on and so forth, i must say that the russian lyrics of that time after all, there are two wings: the leningradskaya is also very powerful, and well, it’s time to move from general discussions to finally move on to the poet igor volgin, i would like... the obstetric part, existence is still for me dreaming, without leaving oblivion, a war year, naked, frank, life and death looking point-blank, implying a frank verdict passed by them, the enemy stands from the volga to the english channel, and the father’s road is far, which will console his mother, a debut

election went to trump was president elect him he went to trump tower, there was a lot of security, kushner found them on the street, he comes into the office and there is fbi director, mom pompeo, and they are briefing him on a serious issue but pecker block sanity says donald trump tells a joke and says this is david perker he's the chairman of the national enquirer and he probably knows all of you in here. what got the laugh was pecker said all of the other gentleman in the room didn't find it funny. >> but trump and the court room had a laugh. it was a funny moment. the only time that trump really reacted to the testimony. we have seen throughout pecker's testimony that he has tried not to react. >> he has been very controlled. >> when he's not nodding off. i will also say what came out was important not that it was done to other people but the relationship with the inquirer and david pecker goes back to 1998, we will call fixing the stories far before donald trump was a political icon. there is a history here. but to be clear, just because some of the person does it and got away with i

based on the fact that people will be purchasen influence in a second trump term rewarding jared kushner for services well rendered when he ran influence after he murdered someone. an american, a u.s. person, a washington post journalist in the consulate in turkey. >> we will leave it there to be continued. ben rhodes, thank you my friend for your time. >>> that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> as with your hour, it is arizona night here at the last word. we have governor katie hobbs joining us, such an important day in arizona. >> 1864. when you think of the republican party, think 1864. >> that's where we are. >> have a good show. >> thank you alex. >>> well, arizona has a longer history as part of spain than it does as part of the united states. the name arizona is thought to be a blend of spanish and a local tribal language meaning small spring. arizona spent 300 years as part of spain beginning in 1521. then, in 1821 when mexico won its independence from spain. as part of the independent country of mexico. the united

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jared kushner, his son-in-law, used it very effectively.e same with tiktok this time. >> that's a great point. other than just simply taking it away, which would upset people, it can be used as a tool to help the biden or trump campaigns get to those very voters they want to get to the polls. david: right. i know they've got millions of dollars, but this is free advertising. you use it properly, it can make or break a campaign. boldty, what's the name of your book again, quickly? >> the wolves of k street, on sale preorder anywhere. david: brody, thanks a million. ing have a great weekend. i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. thanks for watching "the evening edit" on fox business, and now it is time for "the bottom line" with dagen and sean. take it away, gang. deag taig thank you, david. ♪

it didn't make a lot of sense for nbs to give jared kushner $2 billion to manage money when he didn't manage one dollar before hand. it makes sense if you are an adversary and you want to curry favor with the leader of the free world, which donald trump is a 50% chance of becoming. >> the point is, with the dark money, we have campaign finance laws. >> i thought we did. >> we always got around those sort of things, but i think what's different here, is to book a bunch of hotel rooms into a bunch of goofy stuff, whatever, we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, or billions of dollars to prop this thing up. he's going to try to break out and make hundreds of millions of dollars, and someone needs to buy that. with the incremental buyer of the stock here? there are too many constituencies who want to buy the stock other than his diehard followers here. so again, you can follow the money, as you've done most of your career here. if you have north korea or u.s. saudi arabia or you the russians or the chinese for whatever reason buying this stuff to help prop up his -- i we ar

the saudi's gave an unprecedented $2 billion to the investment firm of trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. this is all part of the incredibly opaque web of financial arrangements trump and his family have entered into, arrangements that have significant implement implications for the country as trump tries to pay off his numerous legal debts while running for president. trump may need that for in cash more than ever. one of the ways trump was expected to pay for his mounting legal bills was through his twitter knockoff, truth social. last month, trump took that company public. thanks to investments from trump's loyal supporters, the value of his shares rose to more than $4 billion, despite the fact that truth social is losing money and has fewer users than any social media company that has ever gone public before. since then, trump stock has literally been in freefall. the company has already lost more than $2 billion of value since the first day of trading. that was 10% of its value today, his worst day of trading yet, which may not be a great time for a stock that has been shorted by a

jared kushner and sean spicer were there, each person pecker brought was able to take a picture with how is karen and he said she is quiet, she is good. the court then look at exhibit 107 and which included photos of pecker and howard at the white house. pecker confirms it's the time they had the conversation about mcdougall. they got in the text were howard is telling keith davidson who is mcdougall's attorney how the dinner at the white house went. than august 11th 2017 pecker met with mcdougall at a restaurant in new york called il postino. they said that he spoke with davidson and it will be a good idea to have a lunch with mcdougall. he did and then i talked about the articles that mcdougall was preparing with ghostwriters because she thought she was going to be a writer. she was upset because howard changed the ghostwriters because they did not work well with karen. they also discussed beauty products and karen said she was not pleased because the air articles were taking a while and she didn't have media training to be anchored for radar which is another property that the "nat

i was there, the publisher was there, i was there, bezos was there, jared kushner, melania was present. i was sitting next to his life. throughout that entire dinner he was criticizing the post, called us the worst of the outlets frequently and every time he would criticize the post or something, he would elbow me to his left, i was quite tempted to elbow him back, but you just don't do that with the president of the united states. >> and with the secret service there, certainly not. >> and then he called bezos the next morning, i don't know whether you get involved in news coverage or not, but i'm sure you do, to some extent is how he put it. contradicting himself. isn't there something you can do to make the post more fair to him. and bezos told him he didn't get in the news coverage and he if did he would regret it until the end of his life. and trump at the end of the conversation on the cell to enbasically invited bezos to ask for a favor. if there's anything you ever need just give me a call. bezos thankfully never did give him that call and never did ask for a favor and the subj

interest in front of the united states government, has been throwing money at his son-in-law, jared kushner. on top of all of that, you reporting from the guardian reports that trump oski social media company which is another big, sort of, bright me stand, with just republic has actually been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided, in part, by a russian-american businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider trading and money laundering investigation. so, there's another figure with money, who presumably now has the ear of the guy who may run the government at this time. look. trump already led the most flagrantly corrupt administration in u.s. history, at least in recent memory. the first time around. but now, he is under significant financial stress. again, personally and also politically he is open for business, with just about anyone willing to shut money in his pocket, at least whatever papers they may come knocking for if he becomes the next president. >> going up, going down? down? >>> president biden spoke a short while ago with per minister, benjamin netanyahu. it is disc

m while trump was in office, this guy's bank started making big surprise loans to jared kushner's family real estate mi business. at least three major multimillion-dollar real estate-related loans and transactions benefitting jared's family business while jared was working in the trump white house, while the trump white house was doing things that were very beneficial to this bank and to its senior shareholders. i wonder if they ever thought about calling jared's family members to harass them about those loans or if they ever called him pretending to be a florist.re so they can find out where he was and send the repo man out ti get him. t >> wonder if they ever used those techniques on him. the story of this super high interest car loan company threatening its customers and getting in trouble all over the place for doing it, that story has crossed over now from the business news and from the news of fraud and crime into national politics news. because this is the source of funds now that is supporting the man who has a very good shot of being the next president of thee united states. thi

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it didn't make a lot of sense for nbs to give kushner two million dollars to manage money but it makese an adversary and you want to yurry a favor with the leader of the free world which donald trump has a 50% chance of becoming. >> the problem is we have campaign finance laws. that's how a lot of foreign. to book a lot of hotel rooms, this is and that, we are talk about hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars to prop this ting up. if he is going to try to get out and make hundreds of millions of dollars someone has to buy that. who is the buyer of the stock here and i don't think there are many -- there aren't too many group that want to buy this stock other than his die hard followers here so again, you can follow the money as you have done most of your career here. if you have -- north korea or if you have saudi arabia or you have the russians or the chinese for whatever reason buying out to help prop up his -- i think we will find out about it. >> we are out of time. you think trump doesn't make out like a bandit? >> i do not. i think that the minute that they go to

publisher felt it would be good to meet him and i was there and the publisher was there and jerod kushner, melania and the president, and throughout the entire time, i was sitting next to his lap and throughout the dinner he was criticizing "the post" and called us the worst of all media outlets frequently and every time he would criticize "the post" for something he would elbow me to his left and i was quite tempted to elbow him back but you just don't do that with the president of the united states. >> with the secret service there, certainly not. >> then he called bezos the next morning and said i don't know whether you get involved in news coverage or not but i'm sure you do to some extent is how he put it, contradicting himself. and he said isn't there something you can do to make "the post" more fair to me? and bezos told him he did not get involved in the news coverage and if he did, he would regret it the rest of his life. and then trump at the end of that conversation on the cell phone said basically invited bezos to ask for a favor and said if there's anything you ever need, jus

and jared kushner sees him and taps him on the shoulder and says come with me.ts david pecker up to trump's office. he walks in and he sees this incredible assembly of men, like -- >> james comey. >> james comey, like the head of the fbi was there, reince priebus, this group of people. they're talking about government business. and donald trump introduces david pecker to the room and he says, he knows more than anybody in this room. and it was a joke, as david pecker pointed out. nobody laughed. >> especially comey. he's probably like, how is this my life? >> then, just to show you how obsessed he was with karen mcdougal, he calls -- so "national enquirer" is standing there, and he calls him over to the side, and he says how is our girl doing? >> there seemed to be a real obsession that donald trump had with karen mcdougal. >> he seemed to have brought her up and followed up and said how is our girl? he was interested enough or hoar may have been interested in asking a way, hey, she's still quiet, isn't she? >> at the white house where he goes to the white house

turns out to be jared kushner who says i will take you. those people are there.one of them reportedly was james comey, the fbi director, apart from -- >> at the white house you mean? >> of course. and they went into the oval office. apart from that the idea of this group of people being together in the oval office at the white house having this discussion. >> it's all very strange. you've covered past presidents. the idea that the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office at all, or the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office with james comey, and donald trump would say, this guy knows more than you do. this strange new world that donald trump introduced to washington when he came to office, remember the guy, the former president was never elected to office. he never served in the military. the first one in our nation's history to neither have participated in either two of those roles. he came from new york city, from real estate, from tabloid life, from reality tv life. the background he brought to the white house was entire

that the head of the national enquirer is brought in to trump tower and he was brought up -- jared kushner actually brought him up to the office. he was going to talk to donald trump. and after that introduction, there was a side conversation, we believe, out of earshot of those people, including james comey, where donald trump, again, asks david pecker about, our girl, and how is she doing? and they have another conversation about the relationship that donald trump had with karen mcdougal, and is she talking? you know, it is just at the front of his mind, even in that period of time, that this information could come out. >> christie, pecker asked trump one question on different occasions at trump tower, again at the white house, "how is karen doing?" i know from our notes when pecker spoke about stormy daniels, closed his eyes, moved his head side to side, how did he react to testimony about mcdougal, and why was he asking pecker about her? >> so, i think at that point, trump was asking the questions, because there had been some amendments to the agreement. after the election, there had b

maia wiley, the president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil and human rights, and glenn kushner, former federal prosecutor, msnbc little contributor. two of my absolute favorites and friends joining me this morning. my akamai would love to start with you, you are here, let us start with that motion to recuse. came in late yesterday. i think there is always a double standard with donald trump and in this particular instance, i think it is being highlighted. but, let's talk about your bu thoughts on the success of this motion to recuse judge marchand. >> i don't think it will have any success. because we have seen no evidence to suggest any conflict, or that this judge is not impartial. in fact, what we are seeing is what we see regularly from donald trump, which is if you are on my side, i will defend you. if you are not on my side, i will attack you. we have seen how many judges donald trump has attacked simply for doing the job of being a judge, when it did not service interest, actually putting them at risk and at danger to themselves and even family members. but in this case,

jared kushner tapped him on the shoulder and took him upstairs to the 24th floor and walked to trump's office and this time trump was president-elect in 17. pecker entered a waiting room and keith schiller, you are member he was there sort of the head of presidential security on the trump organization side, he said how is our girl, which would seem to be a reference to karen mcdougal. a pecker said she is cool, very quiet, no issues. keith was excited about going to washington. mike pompeo and others were updating trump on the fort lauderdale airport shooting one pecker entered the room. from introduced pecker to everyone in the room saying "he probably knows more than anyone else in this room" pecker says unfortunately they did not laugh, little courtroom color, trump smirked and laughed as pecker retold that story. trump according to pecker's headed "how is our girl doing?" he said i want to thank you for handling the mcdougall situation and i want to thank you for the doorman situation. that was the doorman who was paid $30,000 by "national enquirer" for a story he had about trump a

week, we could be talking about real issues, we could be talking about real corruption like jared kushner and his $2 billion gift from the saudi government when leaving the white house. but he has no interest in actually following corruption or following any type of legislation that could actually help people. that's remember, this is all about hurting president biden and all about helping donald trump. >> let me play for you the sound of republican congressman dan bacon telling my colleague kristen welker he thinks this impeachment case is nearing its conclusion, watch. >> when i talk to the lawyers on the committee staff, they say at this point, there's not a specific crime that's been committed. i do think we're probably nearing the conclusion of this investigation. >> i do think we are probably nearing the conclusion of this investigation, as somebody who sits on the oversight committee you think we have gone well beyond the conclusion of this investigation, or will republicans continue to throw anything they can at the wall to see if anything sticks? like you said, they need somethin

jared kushner may envy their beachfront, but it will take eight years just to remove the rubble from the current conflict. let alone begin to rebuild. it is unclear will govern the territory and who will pay for reconstruction, and how society and politics will recover and evolve. it is a pessimistic note on which we begin, but it is important to take stock of where we are and try to see a little bit into the future. we have assembled hopefully four speakers. the r rating what -- we are waiting for one who is reversed. i will pose a few questions to each of them and then we will take a few questions. those online can submit questions and we will get to as many of them as we can in the next hour and a half. we will try to keep this discussion as simple as possible. we know that there are a lot of emotions, but we want to be civil and constructive. she has had some technical difficulties, so i'm going to go to someone i have followed through many years and who is well known and respected in washington. the professor for development at the university of maryland and director of the crit

but during the period that jared kushner was out there talking about it, donald trump was trying to overturnight? so in some ways is he's his own worst enemy when it comes to heralding his things that are empirically achievements. >> absolutely. joe biden has sometimes the same problem the united states is shipping is dig, is creating more oil and putting more oil and natural gas in the markets. then every anytime before. and he doesn't talk about it because it makes some of his environmentalist voters a little uncomfortable. yeah. know, it's funny because you hear republicans say talking about oil regulation and gas regulation and this, and that the fact is there's never been more production of domestic fuel in the united states that now what's really interesting about this packages we look at things like trade, where both president's took a tougher line toward china and more of a building america approach. but very very different overall philosophies. and ultimately very different results. trump leaned much more on tariffs and bilateral deals. and we saw the number of manufacturing jobs no

jared kushner finds him on the street so men, and he comes in to trump's office and there is fbi director james comey rentz, previous his chief of staff, mike pompeo, his soon to be cia director, and their briefing him on a serious issue on a shooting. but david pecker walks in and he says that donald trump tells a joke, hey, this is david pecker. he's the chairman of the national enquirer, and he probably knows more than all of you in here. what got the laugh was then pecker said the other gentlemen, other and they didn't find it funny that nobody but trump's, but trump from smiled and the jurors and the court, those are in the court and the courtroom, how to laugh as well. so it was a funny moment. it was really the only time today that donald trump actually reacted to the testimony. i think we've seen throughout pecker's testimony, he really has tried not to react. >> he has been very controlled if he's not allegedly nodding off. >> yes. >> that's what that's what here. but i'll also say what came out today, which was important is not just that this was done allegedly for other people,

the that you know, during the election that russians were invited to trump tower to meet with jared kushner and others about supposedly getting dirt on hillary clinton and in drafting that statement we that he himself had edited that statement and to say things that were not true and denied flatly that he had anything to do with that statement. and then later, when he was deposed, he he acknowledged that he had done that. so we were able to use lie then and we've we had used it other times since when it became clear that he was lying. i should say that in those instances, just the fact that we used lie doesn't mean that we're persuading anybody that he lied. keep in mind, the consumption of is totally polarized in this country. people who there are people who watch fox news and they totally it. and those are people who tend to obviously strongly toward toward trump people watch msnbc while. they have a different view of donald trump. obviously. and it's like you can use we're all the words you want and they're not going to have any impact on people. but trump is i mean, i think people are s