their people who happened to be at mar-a-lago and see or hear things that are relevant. and these are people literally on the inside. they're inside mar-a-lago, and sometimes even in the case of the crown molder worker kaitlyn talked about get to go into restricted places workers ordinarily wouldn't get to go in. >> one of them is a housekeeper who cleaned the former president's bedroom. these are people who had access typically employees may not have. on that note, how has trump world been preparing for all these witnesses to possibly share what they know? >> the one thing to keep in mind here is trump's legal team knows who the witnesses are. trump has been ordered not to communicate about the case with any of the potential witnesses, so in order to do that they have to actually know who the witnesses are. the number one objective there is finding out exactly what they know. some of that is going to be easier than others. for example, we know many of the people who work for mar-a-lago, who work for donald trump are actually being represented by lawyers who are being pa

they said mar-a-lago's worth $18 million. mar-a-lago's worth anywhere from probably 50 to 100 times more than that. >> reporter: the judge's patience tested at times by that same rhetoric on the witness stand, calling parts of mr. trump's testimony irrelevant and rambling, warning the republican front-runner, "this is not a political rally." >> and laura, mr. trump's lawyers also signaling today they plan to ask for a mistrial. >> reporter: that's right, lester. mr. trump's defense attorneys believing that the judge and his law clerk are somehow biased against him, saying that they intend to file that mistrial motion soon. but for now, lester,

that person no longer works as mar-a-lago.rump didn't realize he was still working at the club, and confide unhanes he was still drawing a trump-drawn paycheck essential after becoming a cooperator in this indicate? >> houses worry should trump be? yeah, i saw boxes of top-secret documents. i observed those. >> notwithstanding all the troubleshooting -- none of them had security clearances. >> notwithstanding some of the problems we're spotting here, anytime a witness who lives in your house and witnesses the events for which you havic charged for crimes sees something, it is a matter of concern for you. for all the reasons we noted, these are people that could be seen as credible. we don't know if they have criminal histories or anything in their backgrounds, but still it's valuable firsthand testimony that could be not quite bad. >> who do you think would be the most damaging. >> you never lou who that ca cassidy hutchinson will be. we never heard of her before she became the star of the january 6th hearings. i they evan cor

shan, these staffers were the eyes and ears of mar-a-lago as we know. how valuable would they be as witnesses? >> they would be very valuable, wolf. with that cast of characters reminds me of the old board game clue, the murder mystery. and of course the best prosecutions are presented to a jury and the fact finders as that kind of a compelling story told by people who can testify to what they saw, what they heard, what they said. and so a lot of trump's defense wants to really focus on more legal esoteric arguments, what was the scope of his authority, for example, to classify, declassify. but these folks are the eyes and ears on the ground. and as paula has pointed out they really will supply the details of how those documents really were being treated. >> jennifer, what do you make of the pretty extensive network of witnesses and evidence the special counsel is building for his case? what picture will the special counsel be trying to paint? >> well, jack smith wants to paint a complete picture, wolf. and that's why federal investigators are so thorou

it includes everyone from mar-a-lago's plumbers to the chauffeur. and two florida sheriffs deputies are in the hospital after being what's described as a violent ambush. we'll show you the shocking video of the suspect ramaming h. -- car into them. >>> fully divided congress, a new house speaker and just days left before the next government shutdown, a recipe for a real mess for sure. federal funding expires on november 17th. so maybe we should not be surprised. a senior republican describes it this way to cnn. quote, speaker johnson will have to thread a difficult needle while walking a high wire in gale-force winds. sounds like you do something everyday, lauren, and do you it so well. where do things stand with this one? what are you hearing? is there anything on the table? >> well right now, we are all waiting to see what speaker johnson decides to do know from a source i spoke with this morning is that we are expected to see some legislative text tomorrow at some point. that will, of course, outline the path that republicans are deciding to move

. >>> and now, cnn has exclusive reporting on the mar-a-lago resort workers who may be brought to the stand. >>> and major first in medical field and how doctors conducted the partial eye and whole face transplant. i know. >>> this morning, justice department and the fbi are investigating a series of letters sent to election offices in six states and more than a dozen suspicious letters were found in washington, oregon, nevada, texas and georgia. at least one of the envelopes contained fentanyl inside. nick valencia is tracking this for us, and what is being done to figure this all out? good morning, nick. >> yes, this is chilling stuff, and the investigators are treating them as if they were all connected because they were sent at the same time, and so that is a clue as to who is behind this. the justice department is investigating this as well as the fbi. and of course, this is one of the place where is the former president has been indicted and in the ire of the former president, and a target for far right election deniers and conspiracy theorist, and it was believed that one of th

she accused trump of inflating his assets, including mar-a-lago, trump tower, and his seven springs family estate by over $2 billion in order to gain better financial terms. >> that by overvaluing his properties, that he was going to get a better deal from the banks or a better deal from the insurance companies. that is illegal. the normal person cannot inflate value of properties in order to get a benefit. >> reporter: trump and his sons have blamed their accounting firm mazars for any errors. >> it's a case that should've never been brought. >> reporter: when asked about the charges today, trump erupted, calling valuations of mar-a-lago disgraceful. "she should be ashamed of herself" trump said of james, who spoke outside the court. >> the numbers don't lie. and mr. trump obviously can engage in all of these distractions, and that is exactly what he did. >> reporter: but amid the clashes, trump notably knowledge that he has a hand in his properties evaluations, saying "i would look at them. i would see them. and i would maybe on occasion have some suggestions." asked by the state attorne

you went to mar-a-lago because trump's not eating?s mcca-- mccarthy. >> yeah he's really depressed. she talked about other republicans were angry and disgusted that mccarthy had gone running back to trump and there's a text going around and she writes that her republican colleagues, quote, some mocked him, circulating that trump/mccarthy photo along with, get ready, the clip from the movie jerry mcgwire where tom cruise tells rene zel wigger, you complete me. >> we're learning about the new house speaker, mike johnson, tell me about that. >> when cheney was writing this book, she did not know that mike johnson was going to be the next speaker of the house. >> he was in leadership but nobody knew he was going to be speaker any time soon. >> what she writes is now critical because cheshe lays ou specifically, the important role he was playing behind the scenes enabling trump. he was pressuring members, specifically freshmen members, to support trump in all of this. there were also details about her former relationship with nancy pelosi,

but when you look at this, a lot of these people still work at mar-a-lago. employee number four, you still tavares just recently resigned, we're told, and trump was -- he was someone who had a trump paid attorney and then changed to a non-trump attorney. and he changed his testimony. do you think that the former president is trying to potentially influence any of the witnesses by paying for their attorneys? >> no, everything you just said goes to the fact that there is self serving elite coming out of one side of the aisle. it's really kind of amazing. no real respect for privacy and these individuals. it's not uncommon in a widespread investigation, and in any sort, criminal or administrative, further to be a group of attorneys that you're information under a joint defense agreement, have some sense of what's going on with the investigation, know there are things that can be litigated even pre indictment. paying for attorneys means nothing. that reality, the backstory, that's really horrific, in terms of what this reported conflict was, it revolves around t

>>> plus the maid, the wood worker, exclusive reporting on who saw what at mar-a-lago and how worried should donald trump be about what his employees wosay on the stand. >>> and the house is a mess, that's how one congressman s summed up the new speaker's strategy to avoid a government shutdown. so what's mike johnson going to do with one week to go until the country can't pay its bills? i'm dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." >>> we begin today with a one-man political earthquake. joe manchin has shaken up the political world by announcing hen won't seek reelection. republicans are rejoicing now that they are all but assured to pick up his seat in the senate, which takes them one step closer to claiming the senate majority. and there's also this. manchin banned democrats worst fears that he might run for president as an independent next year. >> what i will be doing is traveling the country and speak ing out to see if there's an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. we need to take back america and not let thi

i spent five years, every holiday, with the first family at mar-a-lago. and bedminster as well.know all of those workers to. a everyone does exactly what he said, nobody makes a move without him. that goes down to the the maids. the plumbers. at center it said. that's gonna be what maybe they're gonna be able to help the prosecution with. >> what about maloney's surprise appearance, halloween i think it was, the mar-a-lago party there. she hadn't been seen in public with the former president for months and months. what do you think that was about? the washington post says, in september, it was their headline. missing melania flyers had popped up around iowa, there is an airplane that flew over a college football game. do you have any sense of where things stand in her level of the way she intends to support her husband in this campaign? >> i mean, i don't have any personal knowledge right now. certainly. she's doing exactly what she's always done. and i know that my answer seems to disappoint a lot of people with that. look, she does what she wants, when she wants. she and her h

he has highlighted the fact that the judge has relied on an $18 million valuation for mar-a-lago, and that is a valuation based on a tax assessor's appraisal, but trump and the attorneys have attacked that. one of the attorneys elena has been -- habba as said it is $1 million and mona lisa property, and questioned on the stand, trump was asked, you believe that as of today, mar-a-lago is worth $1.5 billion and trump said, between $1 billion and 1.5 billion, so we are waiting to see if is prompting him to go on what the judge has describeded a speech or essay, but we know that this is a sensitive subject for him and he has taken issue with the appraisal, and we are waiting for more updates from the colleagues in the courtroom to see how this line of questioning goes. >> but let me ask a question, because one of the lines of questions here has been on the valuation of the trump tower apartment and how wildly of this square footage of that apartment was on the financial documents compared to what it was in real life. on the documents it is about 30,000 square feet, and in reality it is a

so mar-a-lago in florida, this club he spends so much time at. when he heard the maid who cleans his bedroom suites is someone who investigators wanted to talk to and who could be a potential witness in this case, when he heard about that, he went ballistic, we are told, and he has been quite unhappy whenever he has learned about the people being approached by investigators. but the other thing important to note is how his lawyers are responding to this case an what's happening right now, anderson, is that they trying to get this trial pushed after the election next year. we're waiting to see what the judge does right now. it is set for may. she has said she is going to tell us if that date will hold, if there will be other dates that we're moving, and that's a really important thing because there is a difference here between these people that live in south florida, that work around donald trump, that worked at the club. are they going to tell their stories publicly before the election or not? >> by the way, do we know, do they still work at the

you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? mccarthy, yes.he is really depressed. >> seriously jamie? you really can't script this, if this is been an actual show it would've jumped the shark a long time ago. let me bring in here for a second, if you think about these moments let's bring in the former congressman who saw this. is that seriously what his motivation was for going down to mar-a-lago? >> no he was going because in the three weeks between january six, when for 15 minutes, the republicans all said the right thing they condemned the january 6th attack. they said trump was responsible. all of a sudden, kevin mccarthy can't raise money anymore. kevin mccarthy wants to be speaker of the house. and i am sure congressman kinzinger can speak to this much better than i do, he goes running back to trump because he thinks he needs trump's help to get money and to become speaker. >> congressman king does or let's bring you in here, you have to wonder knowing what we've all seen how this plays out, was that photograph actually worth it. you li

but about his trip to mar-a-lago.is book talks about liz cheney's question to him, as to why he was in this picture, why he went down there. here is the picture we are talking about, what did she say? >> so first of all, when she saw that picture, she thought it was a fake, she couldn't believe it. this is just three weeks after january 6th, and he secretly goes down to mar-a-lago. and when he comes back, she confronts him. and this is the conversation that they have. cheney says, sorry. let me get it here. mar-a-lago, what the heck, kevin? kevin mccarthy says, they're really worried. trump's not eating. so they asked me to come to see him. >> cheney, what, you went to mar-a-lago because trump's not eating? mccarthy, yes, he is really depressed. >> seriously, jamie? i mean, we really can't script this. if this was an actual show, it would have jumped the shark, as they say, a long time ago. let me bring in here for a second, though to think about these moments, i want to bring in the former congressman kinzinger, who

so if you look at mar-a-lago, that 17.5 acres..5 acres at $60 million, you're above a billion dollars. the problem is is it's the land in both rush limbaugh's case in the surfside case, they're buying the land. and that is the best use of the property. so have to bulldoze mar-a-lago. and you can't do that because it's national historic register. so you can't both -- bulldoze the statue of liberty or the hurst castle. and the developer would love to go in there and build condos and development, but it is what it is. >> and that's a really key. point it's one that comes up in this case. so the new york attorney general says that trump came up with this original valuation of $738 million by claiming falsely it was an unrestricted property, that it could be sold and developed for residential use. what are the limitations on what you can do with a property like mar-a-lago? >> well, from what i understand it, it is what it is. it can be used for the resorts that it is, and he could live there. so if you want me to sell it, i could get a

so cheney says to him mar-a-lago, what the hell, kevin. mccarthy says they're really worried, trump is not eating so they asked me to come see him. cheney says what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? mccarthy, yeah, he is really depressed. so let's pause there for a second. we learned mccarthy went down to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating. for context, this basically revived trump in the eyes of the gop. >> and it came after mccarthy pretty much denounced trump and connected him directly to the mob attack on the capitol on january 6. look, i think that it is clear from this excerpt that mccarthy -- that the critique of mccarthy as someone who tells colleagues what he thinks they want to hear has some juice to it. mccarthy did not have to go down there. it is conceivable that trump like many other presidential candidates who have lost an election was down after this one. but at the same time -- >> yeah, it is tough, but -- >> it is clear that mccarthy did not want to acknowledge the gravity of his beingactions in sit

but we've also seen evidence that mar-a-lago for tax purposes was valued as a private club, which enabled it to have a lower value. so this discrepancy was brought to eric trump's attention today on the stand, and he testified that both are accurate. so he's agreeing it is also a private club while they were valuing it as a private residence in the statement of financial condition, which the judge has already said is fraudulent. so that was a key piece of his testimony today. he also said that he believed the financial statements were perfect and that he would have signed anything that wasn't accurate. so he wrapped up his testimony after about four hours over the past two days. next week the first person on the stand on monday will be donald trump after eric trump said his father is ready to testify. >> he thinks this is one of the most incredible injustices he's ever seen. >> reporter: so once donald trump finishes testimony, the next person to take the stand will be ivanka trump. she's now scheduled for wednesday after dropping her appeal of a judge's ordersying that she had to testify

do we know anything more about the meeting at mar-a-lago?as actually a fund-raiser taking place at mar-a-lago for republican congressman named gus bilirakis that johnson was there to attend. he met with trump afterwards. you're the speaker of the house or any prominent republican, you don't just show up at mar-a-lago and bump into the former president. this is something that was orchestrated to have this meeting between the two men, who johnson has supported trump through his entire presidency, pretty open about the supporting him up until that more formal endorsement we heard about last week. the stylistic difference between the two men could not be more pronounced. the idea that johnson endorsed formally and reported to have been at mar-a-lago at a time when the headlines about trump and his rhetoric are what they are, i think it is the kind of thing that democrats will welcome as they try to present johnson and trump as a united front. johnson poorly known nationwide for democrats who want to tie him to trump, johnson is making it quite e

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they're just people who sort of, you know, work at mar-a-lago.he rest of us have to take seriously the idea that donald trump has announced that he's going to make that the standard. that's a campaign promise he made. if you vote for me, this is what i'm going to do to the justice system. >> thank you both. stick around. >>> so senator joe manchin says he will not run for reelection. why some think the west virginia democrat can launch a presidential bid. >>> you're looking at gaza city this morning, the humanitarian pause will be extended to six hours. could these pauses be a potential breakthrough for getting hostages out. we're going to ask someone who's involved in hostage situations with hamas. that's ahead. >>> new overnight, president biden saying at a closed door fundraiser that the supreme court's decision over roe v. wade galvanized america. referring to the supreme court opinion that lets states decide if abortion should be legal. he tied donald trump to the decision saying he's the only reason there are abortion bans in america. his c

should limit his ability to ever develop or use mar-a-lago as a private residence. notwithstanding that, he insisted on the stand he could change his mind. why? because the document said he intended to forever extinguish those rights, not that he would. >> let me give you a quick thought of what you're looking for this afternoon, sue. >> i think an additional thing, i'll be keeping my eye on the judge, both the temperature of that exchange. also, it's good to remember that donald trump is under a gag order. he's been attacking the judge's law clerk. so far he has not veered into that territory, either have his lawyers who are also under that gag order, but whether or not we devolve into that this afternoon will be interesting. >> so far the temperature has been high. sue, craig and chuck rosenberg, thank you very much. carol and lisa, you'll be back with us later in the hour. >>> israel's siege on gaza continues amid growing pressure for a humanitarian pause. we have a live report from nbc's raf sanchez who went inside gaza we've also got a brand new interview with

and first is in mar-a-lago, and that is charged first and the judge set the trial date of may 2024, and later the other federal judge, judge chutkin undercut that and she set the earlier trial date of march 24th, so one trial in march and one in may, and the one in may says back-to-back, and he does have a right to prepare separately for the cases, because they are unrelate and completely unrelated facts and defenses, and so it seems that the florida's judge's case is if he is going to have enough time to protect his constitutional right for trial. >> can you move it or move it a lot? >> well, that is interesting, because the trial is currently for may and what is looming? the election. and doj observes this, that you don't want a politically charged trial especially one of two likely contenders here on the doorstep, and even if it were to may, and start it in august and now you are taking it into october or -- >> so if not may, it is going to be after the election. >> yes, if they postpone it, it is after november. >> if you were jack smith, which one do you want to go first if you wer

. >>> and there are potential employees from mar-a-lago who could be called to testify against donald trump. and we have new details of the timing of that trial, and how close it is to the 2024 election. that is next. >>> this morning, federal officials are trying to find the person responsible for sending dozens of letters to officials across the country. these were sent to six states and at least one contained fentanyl. another letter on the way to georgia right now could also contain the dangerous drug. right now the homeland analyst and national security analyst ju juliette kayyem, listen to brad raf fensburger as he talks about this. >> we are told that they are going to try to intersect it before it gets to the processing center. it has not arrived in georgia, and we have prepared staff here at fulton county election office if it makes through the system, and this is what you do and how the handle it. >> he said as part of it is that the offices will be armed with narcan and he described this as domestic terrorism, and would you say this is the realm that we are dealing with her

she writes, she said to kevin, "mar-a-lago, what the hell, kevin?" mccarthy, "they're really worried, trump's not eating so they asked me to come see him." cheney, "what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump's not eating?" mccarthy, "yeah, he's really depressed." as for johnson, cheney writes -- she brought this book, we should understand, before johnson became speaker. but what we find out is that johnson played a critical role in helping trump behind the scenes. and she writes, quote, "when i confronted him with the flaws in his legal arguments, johnson would often concede or say something to the effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump." wolf, we just see over and over again throughout the book cheney writes how her republican colleagues were saying one thing in private, another in public. but in this book, she has the quotes, the text messages, the personal conversations. wolf? >> very, very exciting stuff indeed. stay with us. i also want to bring in former republican congressman adam kinzinger who also served as a member of t

be called to testify at this trial in florida to provide the picture of what it was like around mar-a-lago where all of these images that we have seen in photographs exist of documents and boxes. there were real people there in these spaces moving about a maid, a plumber, a chauffeur, as well knowing that something was off and thinking about that, then relaying that investigators. >> have prosecutors laid out why they think these individuals would be a good -- they have, and anderson, and we don't know whether they will for sure be called to testify in this case. they might not be. our understanding is that the multiple, times some of them -- before a grand jury in this, case and when you look at them on the hall, it appears they are the people who provide this picture -- and the trump presidency, how trump himself was a functioning. and how trump was, behaving these classified documents may have, gone are the moved, who have touch, them and who may have been around them on a day-to-day basis. >> what is the former president's reaction into all of this. >> well one of the things we heard a

plus, exclusive cnn reporting on the mar-a-lago documents case. a long list of witnesses including a maid, plum eastern w wood maker on that list. and china ashgs super power with a stunning message for chinese women. quit your jobs, stay home, go have babies. let's go "out front." good evening. tonight, a first-hand look at hamas training camps. these are new pictures. we were embedded with israel's military as they made a way to the hamas training camp. it includes several buildings. cnn reported from gaza under the israel defense forces at the same times. cnn does retain full editorial control. they are now fighting hamas block-by-block, house-by-house closing in on the heart of hamas' intelligence and operational activities. according to israel, 80,000 people traveled south alone. they're agreeing to pause the military operations in northern gaza for four hours a day so people with leave. just moments ago, benjamin netanyahu made it clear that this is not a cease-fire. >> we have not agreed to cease-fire and the victory of iran's access of ter

cheney says, mar-a-lago? what the kevin? mccarthy says, they are really worried. trump is not eating so he asked me to come and see him. jamie, what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? mccarthy, yeah. he is really depressed. these are actual words on paper. i'm reading apparently a quote. and what do you think of it? >> that is not what people close to kevin mccarthy told me when he went down to mar-a-lago. they said the way that he went down because of course there was a fund-raiser close by. so he decided to stop by. but also because he wanted to protect the republicans who voted to impeach trump. to try to get trump off of their back. >> that's the part that i disagree with. i do not think that he was, trump, after ten of us voted to impeach him. i don't think he would've ever soften this lap. >> right, that's just what people close them are telling me. what's interesting, i was listening to your interview with adam canning cigar from last hour, he said that tell the day he dies he says that kevin mccarthy resurrected donald trump. i agree with

cheney saying she asked mar a lago what the hell kevin mccarthy responding. they're really worried trump's not eating, so they asked me to come see him. cheney saying what? you went to mar a lago because trump's not eating. mccarthy saying, yeah, he's really depressed. going back to that, nikki haley endorsement by afp, the group says it has never engaged in a presidential election before, but wants to, quote, turn the page on the past it to make sure president biden and former president trump do not return to the white house. rhiannon andrew. >> lionel, thank you. a private funeral will be held today for former first lady rosalynn carter. her husband, the 99 year old former president, attended yesterday's memorial wrapped in a blanket featuring her image, their kids and grandkids remembered her with laughter and love. >> i will always love my mother. i will cherish how she and dad raised her children. that given us such a great example of how a couple should relate. >> she was my grandmother first and she was like everyone else's grandmother in a lot of ways

and the numbers are greater than on the financial statement, and they have proved it saying that mar-a-lago is worth $18 million, and it is 15 to 100 times more than that, and it is a terrible, terrible thing. these are political operatives that i am going to be dealing with right now. you have a racist attorney general who made some terrible statements, and you have seen somebody who came over the wires today and it is a sad situation for our country, and you should have this for the third-world countries, and very unfair. very unfair. so meanwhile, the people of the country understand it. they see it. they don't like it. they don't like it. it is a political warfare as you would call it or political lawfare, and i have a lot of names for it, but it is usually something that takes place in third-world countries and banana republics, but to the extent that we have never seen it here. but we will go along and we will hopefully do very well in every regard and win the election and make america great again. that is what we will do, make america great again and we have to get rid of the thugs a

you really want to go down to mar-a-lago that bad? come on, kevin.right -- >> but, anyway, on this comer thing, as you were asking me, willie, i heard you ask me about the comer thing, he says, come by our committee, so hunter says, okay, i will come to your committee, and he says, all right, we better do this in private now. now they don't want the american people to see what hunter biden has to say. they have been spraying for bs about this guy -- two years about this guy, and if he was innocent he would come down to our committee, and now he's coming and now they are, like, no, no, we don't want the public to see this, and we will hide it behind closed doors. how pathetic. >> yeah, hunter biden came down there, but he said i won't come in private and let you cherry-pick what i said, and then go on fox news afterwards and say thing i didn't say, and let's put it out in the public so they can decide for themselves, and they are saying i am not so sure we want that to happen, because the whole point of this is to misinterpret that information. >> and

for example, trump has been furious about the judge's valuation of his mar-a-lago estate, which trumpis worth more than a billion dollars. >> i have a house that's very valuable and they try and make it like i'm increasing values, and honestly it's a very conservative number. but they valued a house that's worth 100 times more than the number they used let's say 50 to 100. they valued it at $18 million. and people say it's worth anywhere from 50 to 100 and maybe even that more he has been given this information, it's now been proven to be false such as mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, being worth $18 million when in fact it's much closer to $1.5 billion >> seth: $1.5 billion? [ laughter ] you're saying your low-rent seaworld rip-off, a chintzy roadside motel that looks like the kind of thing state health inspectors would shut down because they found feces on the slip 'n slide, is worth as much as the burj khalifa? [ laughter ] your dumb hotel for plastic surgeons and their third wives is worth a billion dollars it looks like the fake stucco castle on the 13th hole of a miniature gol

you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? mccarthy, yeah, he's really depressed. don't know, sara, it's just -- i've heard a lot of things, it reminds me a little bit about when she children had chocolate icing all over their mouth and they told me they hadn't eaten any cake. it's just -- it's not credible. >> that was a really good analogy, jamie. i'm sure your kids will appreciate you for that. >> sorry, guys. >> there are a lot of other revelations in the book we're learning for the first time including -- and this i found fascinating -- some behind the scenes looks at what was happening on january 6th before the attack began. what can you tell us? >> so i think this goes to frankly the hypocrisy. we have heard all along that republicans say one thing privately, another thing publicly, and there is an extraordinary scene in the book, this is in the gop cloak room, where members were being encouraged to sign their names the morning of january 6 on electoral vote objection sheets. cheney spots congressman mark green of tennessee who has been a trump supporter pub

trump claiming his properties like mar-a-lago were undervalued and insisting the investigation is election interference. joining me now is vaughn hillyard outside the court. take us into the courtroom. it's been combative from the get go today. >> it's been tense and this is the only day donald trump will appear on the witness stand to answer questions from the new york attorney general's prosecutor. in the last few minutes, it was the judge not admonishing trump directly, but instead turning to the prosecutor for the new york attorney general's office and asking him directly whether he would allow donald trump to in the words of the judge, continue to ramble on. what we have seen over the last two hours is donald trump not answer directly numerous questions from the prosecutor's office. instead, in the words of the judge, giving speeches almost like it's a political rally. the judge had even urging chris kise, donald trump's attorney, to pull his client aside and get him to answer concisely the questions here, but over the course of the two hours, donald trump has consistently gone off on

and we know he went down to mar-a-lago. there is that now infamous photo of the so-called kissing of the ring moment. but here is what she said. apparently she said, i'm quoting here about the excuse he gave her when she asked him than trip. she says cheney says mar-a-lago? what the hell, kevin. mccarthy says, they're really worried. trump's not eating. so they asked me to come see him. cheney, what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump's not eating? mccarthy, yeah. he is really depressed. these are actual words on paper. i'm reading apparently a quote. and what do you think of it? >> well, that is not what people close to kevin mccarthy told me as to why he went down to mar-a-lago. i know you're going to take issue with this, but they say the reason he went down is because, of course, there warai decided to drop by. but also, because he wanted to protect the republicans who voted to impeach trump to try to get trump off of their back. i know, fred -- >> that's the part that i disagree with, leigh ann. i don't think he was

and you and i have both been to mar-a-lago many times, it is a spectacular property.dea that it's 18 million is utterly laughable. and there is not a person on planet earth who would be told you can buy it for 18 million, who wouldn't immediately try to raise the money to do it. so it is absolutely insane. >> let me talk to you about something, because this is very relevant. your new book is phenomenal, it is called unwoke, how to defeat cultural marxism did invading the u.s. you go through a history about communist revolutions and begin with young people because they are naÏve. i know there are going to be some that are very offended by that, however, when i was young, i was also naÏve as well. one of the famous outages. well, i'm a little over 40, think goodness my brain cells are working. >> the book comes out tomorrow, it breaks down how the radical left using every major institution in america and as you said, it starts off telling the story of my dad, who was a guerrilla fighting along with fidel castro in cuba, he was 14 when he started, as my dad has said, the

mar-a-lago is the capital. you have to make that pilgrimage, it's just totally obvious there's no choice, there's no other party. >> and i think the thick irony, michelle, is that the only reason anything gets done for mike johnson in his speakership is because democrats do the right thing and preserve the sort of general function. >> it's not just an irony but i hate to use the word dialect in that. because he does all these things that make the base in order to kind of show any semblance of governing he has to do things that makes the base of the republican party unhappy. then he has to go and shore up his bona fides because he's going to have to do more things to make them unhappy. many of them care much more about rhetoric and silent culture than governing, it's the sort of two step you can pass a bunch of bills they're maybe not happy with as long as you show the proper fealty. >> the message is all that matters. the actual work is sort of an astrik of everything else. the fact it's had so little res dns i

if you're old like joe can easily value mar-a-lago at close, if not more than $1,000,000,000. but the judge is not willing do t. e judge is not willing is that is that abusively corrupt and biased? itthat sim won't correct his mir even listen to palm beach real estate professionals. his mind was made up before the case was even underway. the lifelong democrat justis determined to punish donald trump regardless of the truthe facts. this is what we see in cas eat w tht w this is what happens wheisn i you have a weaponized department of justice, when they are jus weaponit system isd as a political weapon, when we are criminalizing political differences. yet trump is still clobbering biden in almost every battleground state in spite of all of this. and for arrests and for arraignments. democrats, they may be needing a plan b anyway. here with reaction from the trump organization, as eric trump. you know, i eric, i got to be honest. i mean, between valuing and i know it's not funny to you and it shouldn't be funny to you and it shouldn't be funny to your family because this has bee

one of those properties is mar-a-lago. he said though, however, he did not push back on the appraisal that was given despite, in his words here under oath, that he believed it was undervalued. donald trump has publicly stated that he believes mar-a-lago should be valued in his words at $1.5 billion. just in the last two minutes he has been listing other properties incluing doral that he believes is undervalued. he's making his own case that the trump brand is worth $10 billion. this is part of his defense effort he's now making on the stand as well as publicly, that his value and that of his family -- his name is actually significantly higher. one other note, ana, as he was answering some of these questions here, again, judge en good morning jumped in and said donald trump was not getting to the heart of the actual question that the new york attorney general's prosecutor was asking him, which was the question was he the one directing the exact number that should be placed for the value of said properties. we've got a big a

cheney said, you went to mar-a-lago because he's not eating?arthy said, yes, he's really not eating. some she said some mocked him. along with the clip from jerry maguire when tom cruise tells renee zellweger, you complete me. >>> maya, you worked on the january 6th committee with liz cheney, anything in this book that surprised you not just about naming names but in terms of what she disclosed about republican members. >> i'm obviously very excited to read it next week when it came. the january 6th committee laid out all the ways that donald trump knew he lost. the legal battles that he's still trying to convince that he didn't lose the 2020 election, we're seeing liz cheney reminding us that he very well knew. this conversation with kevin mccarthy is embarrassing. it shows how, like she said, the loyalty to donald trump, what they're willing to sacrifice as far as any respect for themselves to go down there and do that. it doesn't show good leadership. >> based on what we know in these excerpts we have so far ahead of this book, what strikes

. >> these folks represent the eyes and ears of mar-a-lago. just regular people working these kind of day jobs. the former president went, quote, ballistic. >> a political decision was made by a very politicized department. >> if i'm a prosecutor, this is the best case scenario. >> the shakeup that could very well shift the entire balance of power in the senate. >> i will not be running for reelection. >> we'll see where he goes from here. >> democrats have no margin for error. joe manchin doesn't make it any easier. >>> good morning, everyone. it is friday, and we are covering a lot of big news. right now, take a look, people streaming through the streets of gaza city after the idf opened a six-hour pause in military operations. it's the latest in tactical localized pauses that senior israeli officials say will come daily, giving gazans a chance to get out and critical aid to get in. earlier this morning while u.s. secretary of state antony blinken praised the decision to have the pauses, more must be done to help the civilians in gaza. >> th

that's going to be relevant to not just the mar-a-lago documents case and the obstruction there, bute of counsel defense. because it shows this is not the kind of person who really cares one way or the other about what his lawyers say to do or not to do. >> and when we just saw that peak of him with meghan kelly, they're asking him slightly lawyerly questions, we saw how impossible it to possibly take the stand as a witness. >> absolutely. i remember, i think i might have been with you when we heard this and talked about him saying i don't know what a subpoena, is i don't even know what that means, and at the time we were thinking that's absurd, and he has a lengthy history in civil litigations, so of course he knows what a subpoena is. and he was former president united states. but according to the reporting today you have somebody who says i explained exactly what it was. i wanted to make sure he knew what his obligations were, and i was particularly interested, she said, in making sure he knew this was not like dealing with the national archives. this is a grand jury subpoena. i w

you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? maccar thi, yeah, he's really depressed. >> so there's been a lot of pickup on this story in various other news organizations. one headline said, the most bonkers explanation for why kevin mccarthy went to mar-a-lago. and i think it's true. that was just three weeks after january 6th. we have to remember. he thinks that liz cheney's going to believe that that's why he went -- these books are full of stunning things. we have heard all of these republicans saying things privately, and then what they say publicly in this book, she names names. she has the receiptingses. they are based on text messages, e-mails, personal conversations. you see hypocrisy. >> it should be called did the e "mess with liz cheney." >> a the lot of the passages when she talks about kevin mccarthy, i forgot she was the republican conference chair a at one point. to see how distanced she is to know that at the time, she was a leader among house republicans. when she said to him, what do you think my dad would thi

. >>> also, former president trump hosted mike johnson at mar-a-lago last night.ike johnson was there and what they discussed. >>> and elon musk is suing. stay with us. >>> today kicks off one of the busiest weeks of travel of the year. from alabama to new jersey, a huge line of storms is threatening to disrupt holiday travel. aaa predicts this would be the busiest in over two decades. whitney wild is standing by at o'hare, a hub and stopover for so many people this thanksgiving. what are you seeing? >> reporter: kate, it's very smooth here. the lines seems to be moving quickly. luckily when you compared across the country, o'hare only 16 delays, one cancellation so far. so certainly it could be worse even though the weather system is here, even though it's been raining all morning. we have spoken with several people with the same plain, hurry up and late, leaving lots of time, at least two hours from the time they got to the airport to when the flight leaves, because they were so concerned about crowds. people know this is some of the busiest travel you'll see al

imagine what the workers at trump's mar-a-lago resort heard. well, federal investigators do not have to imagine what that would be like. cnn learned that some workers have already spoken to investigators, in some cases moment million times about security at mar-a-lago or the lack there of and how the boxes of classified documents were kept there and how they could have been seen by guest ins the reports. if you had ballistic on your bingo card, you won, because that was trump's reaction according to a source. when the maid who cleans his bedroom suite was asked to speak with investigators. but wait, there's more, as they say. there's the wood worker who installed crown molding in his bedroom and noticed a stack of papers though he didn't know what they were. and later said what he said might have been maybe a movie prop. he thought. there was a chauffeur questioned about business people including foreigners who visited the club as vip guests. a plumber who worked at the property a few days a week for years and several maintenance workers were a