>> mr. trumpest economy ever, and we have inflation that's killing our country. if you saw what inflation did to jimmy carter's presidency. we will have worse than that and you look at gas prices. if gasoline was at $1.87 a gallon and now in california it's over $7. $7.77 to be exact. it will be catching up with a lot of other parts of the country. we are not doing well, we are doing horribly in terms of image all over the world with the afghanistan disaster. the border with millions and millions of people pouring into our country. i think we're in a very low point in our country's history and a very embarrassing point. >> laura: i want to get to something that mitch mcconnell said just a few months ago. about bailing out the democrats by agreeing to raise the debt ceiling, he said your lieutenants on capitol hill now have the time they claim to lack two address reconciliation and the tools to do it. if they invest another crisis and asked for my help. speaking then to chuck schumer. but now, he f

reporter: tonight the new revelations from president trump's former chief of staff mark meadows that mr. trump first tested positive for covid three days before the debate against then candidate joe biden. in his upcoming book, according to "the guardian," meadows writes nothing was going to stop trump from going out there meadows adds that mr. trump received a negative test three hours later. and tonight three sources familiar with the matter confirmed that timeline to nbc news after those results, mr. trump continued to a rally, met with gold star families and hosted a covid briefing weeks later repeatedly pressed by savannah guthrie, mr. trump denied testing positive before the debate. >> did you test the day of the debate? >> i don't know. i don't even remember. i think it was thursday evening, maybe even late thursday evening, i tested positive. that's when i first found out about it. >> reporter: president biden today dismissed a question about whether his rival put him at risk. >> i don't think about the former president. >> reporter: tonight in a statement mr. trump said the story that

mr. trump's son, all urging mr. meadows to get the president to do something about the rioters.ny, what do you think we learn about the mood on january 6? >> we learned about the pressure coming under the white house and mark meadows to do something more quickly to try to stop the attack on the capital. that was pressure not just coming from members of congress, but coming from conservative commentators and members of donald trump's own family. there's a really interesting text message from donald trump junior to mark meadows saying he's got to do something and to speak from the oval office. meadows replied that he was pushing it. how hard was he pushing the president and what did the president say in response? we know there were no actions for almost three hours. but what was the pressure doing to donald trump? laur we know mark meadows might find himself in contempt of congress, but the attorney general of washington dc is suing various far-right groups for the violence on january 6. what kind of a law is he using to do that? >> and other civil lawsuit which means it's not a c

mr. trump's legal team time to appeal. ommittee requested that in 2019 was blocked. mr. biden's treasury department says the former president's tax returns should be handed over. mr. president trump is expected to appeal. >>> elizabeth warren is locked in a twitter war with elon musk, targeting him over his taxes in a tweet. and then the tesla ceo unloaded on her senator warren said, let's change the rigged tax code so the person of the year will pay taxes. and stop free loading off everyone else. musk fired back, telling her to stop projecting and then tweeting, please don't call the manager on me, senator karen, referring to the name given to entitled white women he ended with a claim that he's paying more taxes than anyone american in history this year. white the total amount is unclear, he's off loaded billions in stock to, in part, pay a tax obligation >>> the search for a missing woman in her 20s continues after she fell overboard on a carnival cruise ship this past weekend and reported missing it happened around 3:30

a trump appointee of the department of justice. according to multiple sources, mr. clark was asked by president trump to overtake the role of attorney general. in parts that he could issue a series of letters falsely suggesting that the deriving of justice believed that the presidential election may have been stolen. of course, this happened after the department had repeatedly informed president trump that his allegations of a stolen election were not true. and they were not supported by the evidence. this happened after dozens of courts ruled against president trump and his election fraud names. this happened after the electoral college certify the results of the election as our constitution requires we are a nation of laws. imagine what would have happened if all the trump appointed leaders at the justice department had supported clark and correctly issued to those false letters. imagine what january 6 would have been then. and even more profound constitutional crisis. mr. clark was not appointed and his letter was not issued because a group of honorable public ser

mr. trump turn to politics, mr. cohen became this popular person to mr. trump. helping trump cover up illegal contributions that were hush money payments after mr. cohen pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may 201 he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and he was transitioned effectively to home confinement. the reason he got out was because of covid. it wasn't special treatment to him. it doesn't appear to have been. this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time. but a seriously crazy things happened to him right after that, something that appears to be very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he'd only been home for a couple weeks, they were going to send him right back to prison. sure he'd been relest because of covid like other prisoners and they told him they were going to fit him with an

mr. trump was hospitalized days later. you are watching "bbc world news america." to come on tonight's program, a harrowing tale of survival. the bbc speaks with one of two people who escaped from a migrant boat that sank in the english channel one week ago. the has unveiled a plan invest more than $300 billion in infrastructure and climate projects around the world. it is seen as a counter to china's scheme. our reporter has more. reporter: i think with the eu is trying to say is it is offering a values-based program of investments. it is not just cash and the bad the eu will give countries -- cash in the bag that eu will give countries. countries will not be stuck with onerous debts as a result. this comes during a criticism of china's belton road structure. for time, it was the only game in town but now it looks like eu is trying to counter chinese influence across the world. ♪ laura: it has been a week since the deadliest drowning in english channel on record. at least 29 people died as their boat capsized after leaving france. one survivor says he is haunted b

trump. sadly and shockingly, mr. meadows has admitted he played both an official and unofficial role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. he's also admitted that he has responded to nonprivilege documentations and communications related to january 6. in fact, he already sent some of those materials to our select committee charged with preventing a future attack on our capitol. now the select committee needs to speak with him about the full plot leading up to january 6. for example, it's been reported that the white house was directing the department of justice to investigate outrageous and really crazy conspiracy theories to benefit mr. trump politically as well as to orchestrate the dissemination of election digs information. we need -- disinformation. we need to talk to mr. meadows about this. we learned that he made a surprise visit to a state-run visit to an election office in georgia in which president trump talked to the secretary of state in which to finds votes. we need to talk

her office released a statement in response to the lawsuit saying, quote, to be clear, neither mr. trumprump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name trump. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst cynthia alksne. so pete, walk us through this lawsuit. >> well, it accuses the new york attorney general of abusing the powers of her office by relentlessly hounding mr. trump. that's the allegation. members of his family and his business, for what it says are purely political reasons. it says she has reduced her office to, quote, nothing more than the right arm of the democratic party. it says she made the goal of taking on donald trump the focus of her campaign for attorney general and that when she won, she declared her intention to examine his real estate holdings and the suit says she is weaponizing her office to target the trumps. the suit attacks her for opening her curre

mr. trump's strategy did or didn't work in dealing with kim jong-un and the negotiation strategy. and to sum it up, taking the case of obama, we all know that his approach was based upon strategic patience versus mr. trump as kind of approach in dealing with north korea and obviously, we had very different kinds of dynamics and outcomes between these two american presidents and kim jong-un. and what was the difference? when it comes to patience, we know for eight years over obama president, basically nothing happened between u.s. and north korea and north korea continuing with its nuclear. in the case of mr. trump, quite interestingly, he had true summit, if you will, including the last meeting at the meeting with kim jong-un and they had a certain kind of agreement, basic agreement about a list in kind of denuclearizing. and why the difference outcomes from all response from the north korea regime. and that is, i say, you know, first of all, that obviously different dealing with him and i use

mr. trump's effort to overturn the election. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. the vice chair has mentioned, mr. meadows made a surprise visit to the state run audit in georgia which preceded the infamous call where she resided. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows interacted with a lot of people, allegedly including some of our own colleagues on the day of the violent attack. we know many of those interactions to laze on a personal cell phone device. we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows himself has acknowledged that he has responsive and non-privileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us and filed others in court. it certainly appears mr. meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the capital and on our democracy. he has important information about those events and he must follow the law and cooperate with his committee's lawful request or face the consequences. as much as we might personally like mr. meadows, we have to take this action today because no one is above the law

trump. sadly and shockingly, mr. meadows has admitted he played both an official and unofficial role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. he's also admitted that he has responded to nonprivilege documentations and communications related to january 6. in fact, he already sent some of those materials to our select committee charged with preventing a future attack on our capitol. now the select committee needs to speak with him about the full plot leading up to january 6. for example, it's been reported that the white house was directing the department of justice to investigate outrageous and really crazy conspiracy theories to benefit mr. trump politically as well as to orchestrate the dissemination of election digs information. we need -- disinformation. we need to talk to mr. meadows about this. we learned that he made a surprise visit to a state-run visit to an election office in georgia in which president trump talked to the secretary of state in which to finds votes. we need to talk

trump. according to mr. meadows and his text messages, quote, thinks the legislators, meaning the state legislators, have the power, but the vice president has power, as well, in quote. remember, the whole ball game here, the whole point, the whole goal of the plot leading up to january 6th was to try to get republican officials in the states to provide the means of overturning the election results, in just enough states so that trump could be declared the overall winner. they wanted republican officials in swing states that voted for biden to declare that there was fraud and the results in those states should therefore be considered invalid. they wanted republican legislators in those states to then send trump electors to congress instead of biden electors, which would have the effect of declaring trump's a winner in those k states. that's why trump's called to georgia secretary of state. that call was all about pressuring and bullying george's secretary of state into overturning biden's win in georgia. it'

the question this morning, could mr. trumpe spread it to others in those critical days. >> reporter: this morning new fallout amid stunning revelations. former president trump tested positive for covid-19 three days before that first debate with then candidate joe biden. >> i don't wear masks like him >> reporter: the disclosure in a new book by mr. trump's former chief of staff mark meadows and obtained by "the guardian" but not reviewed by nbc news he adds that mr. trump received a negative result hours later. three sources confirm that timeline to nbc news and two of those sources characterized the former president's initial test as a false positive because of that subsequent test a point meadows echoed overnight. how did it all unfold? december 26th, mr. trump presided over a rose guardian ceremony to nominate amy coney barrett to the supreme court in the days following a busy public schedule, including a ceremony with gold star families and a covid briefing all before heading to that debate on tuesday, september 29th. the

mr. trump is claiming as a former president he has the right to assert executive privilege over the records. he hasas argued releasing them would damage the presidency in the future. a federal appeals court ruled against mr. trump two weeks ago, but prohibited the documents' release before the supreme court weighs in. >>> rescue crews trekked through snow and sleet to find a hiker lost on hawaii's tallest peak. the 64-year-old set off for a hike on mauna kea tuesday. rangers couldn't reach him when it got dark because he didn't leave correct contact information. instead, rescuers used his 911 calls to pinpoint his location and found him that night in a small cave. the man was able to walk out but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. >>> coming up, hero officer. how a tsa agent jumped into action after a baby started choking at an airport. >>> and later -- >> let's make this christmas happy and unforgettable for everybody. >> santa's message. on this christmas eve, he reflects on the past ye

mr. trump won west virginia with 69% of the vote in 2020, more than in every state in wyoming. it is hard to say how his mr. manchin is a democratic senator at all. his state voted for mr. trump by 39 points. no other member in their state or district who voted for the other party's presidential candidate by more than 16 points. his unique ability to survive in west virginia is the last vestige of the new deal democratic tradition, dating to the old industrial era over workers rights and safety. it was one of the most reliably democratic states for the second half of the 20th century. it voted in defeat for li stevenson in 1952, hubert humphrey, jimmy carter in 1980, and michael dukakis. the so-called republican southern strategy yielded no inroads there." there is more to that. this is posted by nate cohn. the story dates back to july of this year. allen in ohio, independent line. caller: hi, pedro. i called in -- you would think i would be interested in the bill. i am 63. i have a hernia that is not operated on, and i have to lift my mom up every day to care for her at home. w

attorney kim wayley and abc news jonathan karl who interviewed mr. trump for his book "betrayal: the final act of the trump show" and broke a lot of news in that book. you left your white house job a few weeks before the insurrection but you did text meadows january 6th saying, quote, you guys have to say something. even if the president is not willing to put out a statement you should go to the cameras and say we condemn this. please stand down. if you don't, people are going to die. and sadly, you were correct about that prediction. you have known meadows for years. you worked with him in congress, in the white house. why did he not listen? >> i will never know why he didn't listen, but i'll never stop believing that anyone who had a platform that day had an obligation to use it. so even if meadows had hundreds of twitter followers his voice would have rang very important to people on capitol hill mean was in touch with kevin mccarthy. he could have gotten a message to folks storming the capitol to say please stand down. the election wasn't stolen. ashli

mr trump was hospitalised just days later.hina's belt and road initiative. the european commission has outlined plans to raise 300 billion euros up to 2027 via its global gateway strategy. beijing's initiative has invested billions of dollars in dozens of countries over the last eight years. the eu said it would offer a different model. an art installation depicting a traditional irish pub has been unveiled as the winner of this year's turner prize. the piece, by the belfast—based array collective, features photos, memorabilia and videos — some of them representing hidden political messages about sexuality and identity. our correspondent david sillito reports from the awards ceremony in coventry in central england. the winner of the turner prize 2021... and it is... ..array collective. cheering. array collective, a group of artists and activists from northern ireland whose turn a prize—winning artwork is more than just a pub, it's a shebeen — a symbolic place of good—natured debate and sang tree from sectarian conflict. this i

installing mr. trump after he loses is now the single party issue. that is very concerning and i think really should be the way we should frame the whole discussion as you tried to do in your fine introduction. the main stream story, the most likely thing to happen now is that the man who loses the election is going to be installed as president. it is up to us to tell the story cleanly and clearly so that we can make preparations. >> why do you think the democratic party is not making preparations? we are a year, almost a year in to the biden presidency, the democratic control of both houses. not a single piece of pro democracy voting rights legislation has been passed into law even though we're all seeing this happen in front of our eyes. it is driving me crazy. >> it's not just driving me crazy it is making me very, very concerned. because this is the way democracies fail. they can fail with violent coups but usually fail with a combination of some little coup and some big legal preparation which is what we're seeing. the legal preparation in fairn

meadows about whether or not mr. trump committed that crime.ab because if somebody -- if somebody corruptly obstructed or impeded congress's official count of the electoral votes that's a federal crime and crime shouldn't pay.sh so whoever did it should be caught and punished. this has basically been revealed now as the direction of the january 6th investigation. the investigators, members of the committee basically revealed last night that this is the way the direction is heading, toward uncovering and presumably referring for prosecution serious felony federal misconduct.foct crimes. and since this was basically revealed as the direction of the investigation last night, the thing that's been going off liko a fistful of bottle rockets inside a locked metal mailbox is the prospect that not only is former president donald trump in the crosshairs of the ct investigation along these lines but serving members of congress may be in the crosshairs as well.in including those who helped hatch the plot to falsify the election resul

mr trump was hospitalised just days later.ur people charged over the deaths of 216 people in a nightclub fire almost eight years ago has begun in brazil. more than 600 others were injured. a police investigation concluded that the fire started when sparks from a flare lit by the singer of the band who were performing at the time. two band members and two owners of the nightclub face 2a2 charges of homicide and 636 of attempted murder. south africa has recorded a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, which have doubled across the country since monday. health officials say the newly discovered omicron variant may be fuelling the surge, although it isn't clear how many of the new cases it accounts for. 8,500 covid infections have been registered in south africa in the last 2a hours. officials there say omicron is "rapidly becoming the dominant variant" after the country became the first to detect the highly mutated new variant last week. since then, omicron has been identified in two dozen countries. the latest is the us, spe

mr. trump's lawsuit. >> what does it mean for appeal, barbara? it's almost certain, as pete says, that donald trump will appeal this ruling. but i don't see it changing. we went through the whole mazars litigation and the supreme court said the president is not immune from the subpoena power of congress but there should be a tightened inquiry whether there is some proper purpose for seeking it and not simply a political purpose. and the judge found that there is a legislative purpose here. courts have consistently held over decades that congress has the power to legislate over many things, confined only by the constitution. if there's anything they want to find out, it's permissible for them to get the information they need. so i think ultimately they will get the records, it's just a matter of waiting for donald trump to exhaust his appeals. >> will this go to the supreme court? >> if it goes to the supreme court, i think they will get it and say, we're already decided this question when we decided the mazars case a couple of years ago. i think

mr. trumphe position of the president. it was a political fishing expedition and that the democrats had said from almost the day he was elected that they wanted to see his taxes. well, today, the judge has thrown the lawsuit out, citing a statute, a law passed by congress, that says when any of the three tax-writing committees in congress want to see any individual's tax returns, the treasury department must turn them over. and quoting from the decision here, judge mcfadden says, a long line of supreme court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries, even the special solicitude corded to former presidents does not alter that outcome. and there's an interesting thing at the very end of the ruling here. the judge says that if the committee is serious about what it said, that its real motive here is indeed to better understand the irs's program for auditing presidential tax returns, then the committee can do this without publishing mr. trump's returns, without making

mr. trump's effort to overturn the election. we need to talk to mark meadows about that as the vice chair has mentioned mr. meadows made a surprise visit to the state run audit in georgia which preceded the infamous call she recited where the then president asked the secretary of state to go find votes. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows interacted with a lot of people allegedly including some of our own colleagues on the day of the violent attack and we've learned that many of those interactions took place on a personal cell phone device so we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows himself has acknowledged that he has responsive and non-privileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us. he filed others in court. it certainly appears that mr. meadows played a key role in events that cull -- resulted on the attack of our democracy. he must physical low the lay and cooperate with the lawful requests of this committee or face the consequences and that's why as much as we might persona

mr. trump's effort to overturn the election. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. as the vice chair has mentioned, mr. meadows made a surprise visit to the state run audit inia, which preceded the call that she recited where the then president asked the secretary state to go find votes. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows, interacted with a lot of people, allegedly, including some of our own colleagues on the day of the violent attack and we have learned many of those interactions took place on a personal cell phone device. so we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows, himself, has acknowledged that he has responses and nonprivileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us, he filed others in court. it certainly appears in meadows played a key role in the events that culminated in the attack on the capitol and our democracy and he has important information about the events and he must follow the law and cooperate with the committee's lawful request, or face the consequences. that's why as much as we might personally lik

mr. meadows during the trump raffensperger call saying that they "need to end this call" and emphasizing, quote, i don't think this will be a productive -- will be productive much longer, end quote. we need to talk to mr. meadows about that. >> on january 3rd mr. meadows was exchanging text messages with a lawmaker about the pressure campaign to get state legislatures to overturn the results of the election. in one text message to a lawmaker mr. meadows wrote he, he presumably being president trump, "he thinks the legislatures have the power but the vp has power too." the power to do what? we could guess the power to overturn the election results. the power to reject the will of the voters. and days later a violent mob tried to get vice president pence to do just that. we'd like to ask mr. meadows about that. >> congressman pete aguilar from the january 6th investigation there citing text messages between trump's white house chief of staff mark meadows and a member of congress. messages that appear to be about how to throw out the election president, that's the plan. that was the scheme p

trump. sadly and shockingly, mr. meadows has admitted he played both an official and unofficial role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. he's also admitted that he has responded to nonprivilege documentations and communications related to january 6. in fact, he already sent some of those materials to our select committee charged with preventing a future attack on our capitol. now the select committee needs to speak with him about the full plot leading up to january 6. for example, it's been reported that the white house was directing the department of justice to investigate outrageous and really crazy conspiracy theories to benefit mr. trump politically as well as to orchestrate the dissemination of election digs information. we need -- disinformation. we need to talk to mr. meadows about this. we learned that he made a surprise visit to a state-run visit to an election office in georgia in which president trump talked to the secretary of state in which to finds votes. we need to talk

mr. trump's lawyers times to file that appeal. savannah. >> peter alexander at the white house for us, thank you, peter. >>> we have a lot to get to on this friday morning as we say good morning to tom llamas. >> good morning to you. actor jussie smollett is now a convicted felon. he was found guilty of lying to police and staging an elaborate hate crime attack on himself. meagan fitzgerald is live in chchicago with more and all the reaction to that verdict. meagan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. a jury of six men and six women were tasked with combing through evidence over the course of a seven-day trial to figure out if jussie smollett was, in fact, the victim of a hate crime or if this entire thing was a big lie. this morning, former "empi" re star jussie smollett found guilty of lying to police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. jurors deliberating for two days before reading the verdict have in a packed courtroom filled with smollett's fame. the actor showing no emotion. >> mr. smollett

mr. trump has said absolutely clearly in his brief that he is suing in his official capacity. >> i don't understand what difference that makes. the supreme court said that that raises a separation of powers concern. >> right. >> president nixon is not in office anymore. >> this case does not raise the separation of powers issue because the president, president biden, the only head of the executive branch and the legislative branch are incomplete agreement here so there is no clash. there is no separation of power. >> they said there is no clash because the statute which is being challenged as unconstitutional was signed by the incumbent president and passed by congress. so where is the class? >> remember, the clash there was former president nixon was saying those papers are mine. president trump is not saying that. he can't say that. >> but the personal -- the argument are that the papers are mine. that did not present a clash between congress and the office of the presidency. it presented a c

imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt, the white house knew exactly what was happening here at the capitol. one text mr. meadows received said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol. breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? >> well it turns out that trump's own family and friends over at fox news were begging the president to take a stand against the ongoing violence. >> indeed according to the records multiple fox news host knew the president needed to act immediately. they texted mr. meadows. and he has turned over those text. quote mark, the president needs to tell people in the capital to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished. brian kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a statement. ask people to leave the capital? sean han

the former president has continually sought to delay the investigation adding to be clear, neither mr. trumper for their actions, no one is above the law, not even someone with the name trump. joining me now, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst and tim o'brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist. thank you for coming to "the reidout." tim, the idea of donald trump suing the attorney general for the state of new york, this is out of trump playbook, long running trump playbook, isn't it? >> it is and it's really, you know, i wouldn't call it a lawsuit. i'd call it a hail mary pass. it is front of mind for donald trump now is he has to sit for a deposition on january 7th and donald trump is every lawyer's nightmare when it comes to being deposed under oath because he's a liar. he exaggerates and doesn't stick to the script. he views depositions as performance and gets him in trouble and the other thing is the last time he had a major government investigation at his doorstep was 50 years ago when the department of justice investigated the trump family for racism and dis

mr. trumpospitalized with covid last year. >>> house speaker pelosi announced plans of a solemn observance of the anniversary of the deadly january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol. in a letter, pelosi wrote there would be a full program of events january 6 including an evening prayer vigil. >>> still ahead, new trouble for chris noth and the actor is dropped from the show following allegations. chris and the actor is dropped from the show following allegations. >>> here is a look >>> here is a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. >> hello, peter. >> spiderman, no way home is breaking records. now holds the title for the second biggest box office opening ever. earned $260 million. only 2019 avenger's end game, one of the biggest block busters of all time opened to bigger numbers. >> some dry shampoo sprays are being recalled. the sign of the new year arriving in time square. good morning. >>> stock futures are indicating a higher open after a dismal day in the regular s

mr. trump's significant net worth. that was one function.ther was when we were dealing later on with insurance companies. we would provide them with these copies so that they would understand that the premium, which is based sometimes upon the individual's capabilities to pay, would be reduced. >> and of course, inflating assets to win a newspaper poll to boost your ego is not a crime. to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to a bank in order to help him obtain a loan? >> these documents and others were provided to doichl bank on one occasion where i was with them -- deutsche bank on one occasion where i was with them to obtain money so we could put a bid on the buffalo bills. >> ding, ding, ding, ding. it appears what is public facing -- obviously investigators have to meet far greater standards than that -- but it feels like this is something that donald trump was almost proud of doing? >> >> yeah. matt laid it out perfectly. i don't know that i can add much to that. basically, they are trying to bridge and show

to be clear, neither mr. trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law not even someone with the name trump. trump is accused of inflating the value of his assets in order to secure more favorable loans and james has made it clear that being rich and once powerful will not deter her investigations. >> in this state we have a set of laws that every individual and entity must be held accountable to. regardless of who you are, regardless of your power, size, influence, wealth, station in life, one set of laws. and today we send a strong and loud message that no one is above the law. >> joining me now david k. johnson pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist and lecturer at syracuse university law school and author of "the big cheat, when donald trump fleeced america." back with us is neal katyal. is trump trying to get this before the supreme court? is that what is going on here? >> he m

are you with mr trump who is now indulging in his big lie? or are you defending democracy?he election was stolen. i believe that while there were certain improprieties in the election, i didn't believe that they rose to the level of changing the end result in the election. i have a lot of problem with the discourse and the uncivil nature of the discourse in washington, dc, and, frankly, across this country. i don't think that you can blame guns, on the one hand, for it, i don't think that you can blame a particular member of congress for that discourse. speaker pelosi stood behind the president during a state of the union address that millions of americans watched, an address that's critical to our democracy, and she ripped up the president's speech. that certainly isn't civil discourse, that certainly doesn't. .. right, congressman, ican... ..something not violent. right, i can assure you, congressman, we put tough questions to democrats and republicans on this show. the question for you as a republican is, if donald trump runs again — and one of his key advisers, jason mi