mr. trump's role in the 2020 election to a suit against an acclaimed journalist. brie jackson joins us with more. so what's at stake here? >> reporter: good morning, phillip. they'r there appears to be significant movement in several cases, most notably prosecutors on monday convened a grand jury in the trump hush money probe this involves trump's role in allegedly paying $130,000 to adult film star stormy tandanie in 2016 in order to cover up an alleged affair if you recall, michael cohen pled gilluilty in 2018 to makin the payments to daniels. >> donald will ultimately be held accountable for this stormy daniel payment the checks are the checks. we know a lot. there's recordings the first three months payment was made by donald trump and i gave those to the house oversight committee who posted them and so on and so he's not in the same position where he can deny or lie the way that he will in some of the other matters >> reporter: and mr. trump took to truth social on monday denying the alleg

but mr. trump, i'm going to say mister because i'm a nice guy, mr. trump decided to hold on to them, he did you not want anything to investigate, he did you not want to give up the announcer: we are breaking away here. you can watch this entire program on c-span.org. next, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy speaks from the almost, switzerland. live coverage on cease them. >> c-span. >> precious war on ukraine, the west response and where that would go. to start us off we sometimes say we need no introduction. i think this might be the definition but i think there is another definition that comes to mind. i think that in years to come, when dictionaries are trying to decide how you describe and define the word courage, they might say such equality as president zelenskyy of ukraine demonstrated during the russian invasion of this country. without any further ado, the first order of business as we will hear directly from the president of ukraine. i will take one second to let you know we have a very special situation right now which is the first lad

mr. trump over his handling of the classified documents. >> how that could possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible. >> reporter: now republicans are blasting the biden administration for a double standard. >> where's the fbi raid? where's this big show of force to make sure there's no other classified documents there? >> reporter: republicans demanding a damage assessment from the intelligence community and accusing the white house of a cover-up. mr. trump writing, why didn't the justice department announce the highly classified documents found in the biden office before the election? while the two cases share similarities, the white house notes key differences including that the biden documents were not the subject of an archives request and that once they were discovered they were quickly turned over. now attorney general merrick garland has asked the u.s. attorney in chicago, a trump appointee, to investigate how the classified documents ended up in mr. biden's private office

mr. trumpe fifth more than 400 time ls. one month later, the new york attorney general would file a $250 million lawsuit against mr. trump, his family, and company. ron allen is joining us now. >> it's really striking to see former president trump on essentially what was a witness stand in this deposition. he was questioned very certainly by the attorney general's attorneys. questioning his financial statements that had been put forward by his company since 2005. the questions were sharp alleging that he was aware that these numbers were inflated. that he had approved this. instructed his financial people to do this. all this to enhance his financial position. his company's financial position. we also got a sense of how contentious the relationship is between president trump and the attorney general in new york. in a statement, he called her a renegade prosecutor, a disgrace who's made a career of attacking him. before the official questioning began, he did also say briefly that i don't know wh

mr. cohen's case the trump organization, trump's family business reimbursed mr. cohen for that expense from companyr. funds. and what i've just described is a crime. those payoffs to those women were for the benefit of the trumphe political campaign. they were campaign expenditures and therefore had to be declared as such. they were subject to campaign donation legal limits, but that's not how they were handled. and, you know, the national an enquirer for that pair they pretended their $150,000 expenditure was for, you know, hiring thise woman for fitness columns or something when it wag really just to pay her off to keep that story out of the news to help trump's campaign. the michael cohen expenditure wasl declared on trump's bookss payments for legal expenses. and paying$130$,000 to not talk about your alleged affair during a presidential campaign that is ag lot of things, but the practice of law it is not. so they booked those expenses as legal expenses, that may well have been part of the crime. and so michael cohen, trump organization lawyer, in 2018 he ple

trump. [applause] mr. president, i am proud to be here, i am proud to support you and your campaign, because make no mistake. south carolina is trump country. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the 45th and soon to be 47th president of the united states, president donald j. trump. mr. trump: wow. thank you very much, so many friends. [applause] thank you, everybody. what a group. a lot of people outside, they went to be inside. do we let them come in? i do not think so. thank you, russell, and what a great job you have done so quickly. i am proud to accept your endorsement and i am thrilled to be back in the great state of south carolina. [applause] won it twice by record numbers, and it is just a real honor. it is incredible place. south carolina takes precedence, you inferred that a bit before. in 2016 this date did just that giving us 44 out of 46 counties. the answer is we are going to get 46 this time, i think we will get all 46. we are here today to announce our campaign's

this wasfter january the sixth right at the end of mr trump's time as president. e then the two have become allies with donald trump backing kevin mccarthy as speaker. donald trump supported him in an interview. he said, "kevin has worked very hard and he will -- he deserves a shot." >> it is going to be very painful and difficult. there can be a couple of ballots. the root of this comes with the disappointing performance in the midterm elections. historically speaking the republicans should have gotten anywhere from 230 to 245 seats. if you fought this hard to window seats as he is to win the speaker they may have gotten to that point. it is this narrow victory that is a huge problem for him and he is catching a lot of the blame for it. >> in the end unless they have a viable alternative, those blockingis path will have to give way because they -- there cannot be a house speaker indefinitely. >> it can last for some time. because these folks have made such a public frusttion abo opposing him, it is so humiliating for them to turn course and support him. what is re

mr. cohen's case, the trump organization, trump's family business, we embrace mr. cohen for that expense from company funds. and what i've just described is a crime. those payoffs to those women, for the benefit of the trump political campaign. they were campaign expenditures, and therefore i had to be declared as such, and they were subject campaign expenditure, or campaign legal limits. but that's not how they were handled. and you know, the national enquirer, for this part, they pretended there are hundred 50,000 dollar expenditure was for hiring this woman, for fitness columns or something, it is really just a pair of to keep that story to the news, to help get trump's campaign. michael cohen expenditure, i was actually declared in the trump organization's books, as payments for illegal expenses. i'm pena point star hundred $30, 000, and on top of a alleged affair during a presidential campaign, as a lot of things, but the practice of law does not. when they booked those expenses as legal expenses, now may well have been part of the crime. so michael cohen, trum

mr. trump's team defended him in the u.s. senate.. >> mr. incite the horrific terrible riots of january 6th. lisa: where a majority found him guilty, a figure short of the required two-thirds. he was acquitted. >> president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. lisa: that summer, a house select committee launched what would become an 18-month investigation into january 6th, focused on former president trump. after interviewing more than 1000 witnesses, the committee aired testimony in 10 public hearings, from those close to trump -- >> the president said something to the effect of i'm the effing president. take me up to the capitol now. lisa: and those who bore the brunt of the violence. >> never in my wildest dreams did i think that, as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, i would find myself in the middle of a battle. lisa: last month, as it finished its work, the committee referred mr. trump to the department of justice on four criminal charges, including aiding or comforting those involved

mr. trump and his allies about being overexposed, allowing himself to be used as a distraction from some of the things that were going on in the trump administration. and so he was very careful not to be outspoken in that way. and also, that's a tradition of american presidents. george bush did that for him. george bush simply, i think, in a tradition of american presidents post-presidency, simply faded away. and as barack obama ran against george bushes, his his presidency and his legacy and so forth, mr. bush was, you know, sort of a generally gentlemanly agreement. you don't you don't as former president, you don't come back on stage and criticize and critique the current president, even if the current president is dragging you through the mud. mr. trump is not been held in check by that that previous protocol and barack obama has been careful not to give mr. trump, former president trump, the option or the the many opportunities to change the subject from impeachment or ukraine or russia or

i don't think that this is the mortal threat to mr. trump that it made out to be. in large part because this still really sounds like a federal crime. and i think it is going to be challenging for the d.a. to say that under state law, as a legal matter, this is more than a misdemeanor, falsification of business records. >> well, "the new york times" goes even further in presenting what would be the counter case, right, to the fact that this may be what finally gets donald trump. let me read, a conviction is not a sure thing because it could hinge on showing mr. trump and his company falsified records to hide the payout from voters day before the 2016 election, a low level felony charge. the case would also rely on the testimony of michael cohen, mr. trump's former fixer, who made the payment and who himself pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the hush money in 2018. the question, obviously being if michael cohen is your key witness, how credible is he, right? >> indeed. so, that times piece lays out two problems. the untested legal theory of saying why thi

unlike former president trump, mr. den hasn't fought to keep the documents or has president biden tried to hide the documents. better question is to whom did president trump sell top-secret documents. again, that's some of the reaction from facebook and texting. you can go that route, too, if you want to make your thoughts known on this. let's hear from matt in damascus, maryland, independent line. caller: hey, this is kind of great, because it shows how safe everything is going that's going on, these investigations, they're fake. like into trump or into whoever, it's just conservative you're getting lambasted, is that a term? it shows how fake everything is that's going on. i worked for the feds twice two different times, and they don't care about any of these rules. they have them, but they're more or less for people that work like under them f. you're up at the top, you're using any email you want, you're using any kind of -- you get to take anything home you want, and it's ok. it's how it works. they're not going ha

mr. trump's most passionate supporters turned back against mccarthy >> i think it actually needs to be reversed the president last to tell mr. mccarthy, you do not have the votes and it's time to withdraw >> reporter: mccarthy's already made major concessions to the republican rebels the divide appears increasingly personal against mccarthy >> this country needs leadership that does not reflect this city, this town that is badly broken >> reporter: but critics dubbed the hold-outs the taliban 20, and patience is starting to wear thin among rank and file republicans who want among rank and file republicans who want to come to an end. troy nehls is a member of the conservative freedom caucus like many of the hold-outs but he is supporting mccarthy >> what's going to change >> they've made it very, very clear they really don't trust mccarthy i understand it. what we'll go through today, if we continue down this path, i think it hurts the republican party. >> reporter: the 20 hold-outs picked florida's byron donalds as their nominee. >> at this point do you believe it's time for kevin mccarthy to s

actually come his retention of the classified documents, because more than 325 files were found at mr trump's, and that is a bit of a very big contrast to the ten also reported by president biden. well, remember, it is notjust the number that counts, it is what is actually contained in the classified documents. i think there are a number of questions at the biden administration answer to the american people for. first of all is the who. who might have been traipsing through these locations, through the garage location. could it be hunter biden has clients in russia and china and even clients in natural gas in ukraine in 2017 and those documents would have beenin and those documents would have been in the biden garage. he also have these documents sitting idle in an office where joe biden reportedly rarely visit at the university of pennsylvania think tank, it is in a corporate office building with 100 other businesses. that is pretty remarkable. i also think we need to know what is actually using the documents. if you remember the time period that the 0bama biden administration served, that w

mr. trump continues to repeat a lot of the same election lies. so is meta saying that risk has gone away? sheera: i have spoken to two people who work at meta, and they are watching what trump posts on his own social network site, which includes the same types of conspiracies of the 2020 elections, conspiracies around the missing midterm elections. so they are aware he is very likely to share content on other social media platforms he has acss to, which are likely in violation of the rules. i think they are just willing to roll the dice and play a game with trump of how far to the line he will get before they have to ban him, temporarily or permanently, once again. amna: other groups are watching what he is posting as well. there is a coalition of consumer protection groups who sent a letter to ceo mark zuckerberg and said he should make that ban permanent, because they have been tracking what mr. trump has been posting on truth social, his own platform. they say he has been posting things there that violate facebook's current standards. so what

it's more of a commentary about, oh we love mr. trump, we love mr. win. that's a meaningful difference from where the party was six months ago, but it's not a move from the maga movement that trump started. it's not a move away from trump voters, if anything, it's doubling down on reaching those people. the rnc chair race has been taken place on steve bannon's podcast, which was the leading podcast of the insurrection stop to steal movement. ron mcdaniel was honored today. that's where they're arguing. those are the people that listened to the, who they are speaking to. none of that is a repudiation of trump or sense of people want to move from away from him in any meaningful way. he is just not the standard bearer. >> i think there's a big distinction to be drawn between trumpism and malcolm-ism, which is to be in full flower, and trump himself, who seems potentially a little bit bruised since his first entrance onto the national stage, or at least ripe for minimization, shall we say. it seems to me that the potential leading contenders for the nomin

unlike former president trump, mr. biden hasn't fought to keep the documents or has president biden tried to hide the documents. better question is to whom did president trump sell top-secret documents. again, that's some of the reaction from facebook and texting. you can go that route, too, if you want to make your thoughts known on this. let's hear from matt in damascus, maryland, independent line. caller: hey, this is kind of great, because it shows how safe everything is going that's going on, these investigations, they're fake. like into trump or into whoever, it's just conservative you're getting lambasted, is that a term? it shows how fake everything is that's going on. i worked for the feds twice two different times, and they don't care about any of these rules. they have them, but they're more or less for people that work like under them f. you're up at the top, you're using any email you want, you're using any kind of -- you get to take anything home you want, and it's ok. it's how it works. they're not going

second man: mr. trump also announced that the u.s. can't accept any asylum seekers or undocumented immigrants at the southern border because, quote, our country is full. third man: so, what have economists learned about the impact of immigration? well, when we talk about the economy as a whole, it's pretty good news. one report found that an extra 1% increase in a country's migrant population adds on an extra 2% gdp per capita in the long term. fourth man: foreign labor, mostly migrant workers, filled more than a quarter million jobs in the u.s. harvest season is here but there are not enough workers. trujillo: during the trump administration, the u.s. government had to spend billions of dollars trying to protect the borders from migrants coming from mexico and central america. but it seems no border can stop the flow of human migration. the reasons are many. but through this journey, we have realized that the lack of opportunities, corrupt governments, and violence are the major factors. to face this problem, the united states and eu

mr. trumptinues to repeat a lot of the same election lies that fueled the violence on january 6, so is meta saying that that risk has gone away? sheera: well, i -- in the last day, i have spoken to two people who work at facebook -- at meta, that is, and they're watching what trump posts on truth social, his own social network site, which includes the same types of conspiracies of the 2020 elections. it includes conspiracies around the recent midterm elections. so they're aware that he is very likely to share content on other social media platforms that he's given access to which are likely in violation of their rules. i think they're just sort of willing to roll the dice and play a sort of game with trump at the moment of how far to the line will he get before they have to ban him or -- temporarily or permanently once again? amna: they are watching what he's posting. other groups are watching, as well as a coalition of civil rights, and technology policy, consumer protection groups, who actual

and he played mr. trump very effectively. that, there's also an ideological affinity between these two leaders. they're a liberal nationalist populists. they don't believe in the rule of law. they don't believe in constitutions. they worry about the decadent liberal western movements, and putin, for a decade, has been cultivating relationships with like-minded ideologues in hungary, and italy, in france, and in the united states of america. so that's a second piece that i think people need to understand. and third, the respect to what might have happened, you know, things would've been very different had president trump been reelected, because putin would've had a collaborator, a willing collaborator, to say, oh, you want crimea? yeah, of course. he would've given no underway. so the relationship -- maybe that wouldn't have been war. the president might have been right about that. because the united states of america might have given putin everything he wanted, vis-À-vis ukraine. >> igor, you're shaking your head. >> well, fi

mr. trump on the network does not have much hope for the political atmosphere and power of the united states, so we are witnessing that in the speeches he had in his campaign and in the english past, he shared the basis of a justice system. to desecrate the quran karim set fire to the swedish and dutch flags , a muslim rally was held in front of the swedish embassy in london. latin claimed that berlin is no longer positively dependent on energy. afp evaluated this trip as berlin's attempt to bring latin american countries together with sanctions against russia to compete with china . a source

what is the clearest connection between former brazilian president bolsonaro and mr. trump?uth: well, there's a very direct connection in the form of eduardo boonaro, one of his sons, who's a member of congress, who's often come to the states. he was in washington, d.c., on january 5 at the white house speaking with ivanka trump. and he's very close with steve bannon, who is an adviser of jair bolsonaro, as is jason miller. and eduardo bolsonaro, after his father lost the election, came to florida and met with all of these characters and was encouraged to continue to contest the election. so there is a common playbook that the -- that trump and bolsonaro have followed, where you disseminate -- you get the public to lose faith in the electoral system. and bolsonaro did this relentlessly. and this was not a theme in brazil before. and then you have a personality cult, so people will believe your false claims. laura: and steve bannon and jason miller, both also former trump advisers. but you have also said that this isn't as simple as american right-wing forces exporting extrem

. >> reporter: mr. trump again pushing election fraud lies and on the plane after the rallies pushing a you in attack against republican florida governor ron desantis, a potential 2024 challenger. >> i got him elected. ron would have not been governor if it was not for me. when i hear he might run, i consider that very disloyal. >> reporter: that's after a new poll in new hampshire, released just before mr. trump's visit, shows desantis with a 12-point lead over the former president. the governor hasn't formally announced anything yet, but he's widely speculated to be planning a presidential run. with advisers actively preparing, according to the "washington post," citing two republicans with knowledge of the conversation. nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. some republicans arguing the party needs someone other than mr. trump at the top of the ticket, pointing to the underwhelming midterms and the support of a controversial target who failed to win. >> loser, loser, loser, loser and i think republican

the when asked if he, mr. trump, mr. wiseleburg, mr. mcconny since at least as far back as '05 had an ongoing agreement to generate false or misleading financial statements, mr. trump invoked his fifth amendment privilege. he helped craft the statements. overt acts in furtherance of a conspiracy occurred as late as '19, '20, '21 and '22. it's striking that she is alleging that while president in '19 and '20 he was engaged in, in her words, a conspiracy to craft fraudulent, in her words, statements to secure favorable financial terms. >> i was struck by that too. what i'll be interested to see is how does she draw that line between donald trump and these statements? who does she get to say donald trump told me to file the statement? both mcconny and weisselberg, mcconny being the controller, weisselberg being the cfo. none of them said donald trump came into my office this is wrong but say it anyway. that to me is the big question over that lawsuit and also any potential use of financial manipulation. how are you going to show me donald

mr. trump called him the trump of the tropics, didn't he? did and i think we have seenhis kind of rhetoric in many places around the world. i would say it is something these authoritarian wings of political parties are trying to espouse. just like we saw in washington, d.c. we saw happen in brazil that the business of the people continue this is something i am sure just like our government, the brazilian government is going to look into and prosecute people to the fullest extent of the law as possible. >> if we turn to the situation in washington, d.c. whereas you saw it took 15 votes last week for kevin mccarthy to become speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, what you think that says about the republan party in congress as someone who was a republican lawmaker? >> i am not a lawmaker anymore. the difficulty in having a narrow margin, the lessons we should have learned from our midterm elections this past november is the american people want folks who are going to solve problems. they want common sense leaders to tackle things like o

mr. trump's wattage is not what it used to be. republicans are starting to shoot inside the tent. >> a lot of these members have been irrelevant. they haven't passed anything and now they are in the limelight in enjoying fundraising off this tomorrow -- these actions. >> if mccarthy doesn't begin to gain votes serious conversations could talk about mccarthy dropping out. >> these five people need to take a deep breath tonight and ask themselves are they really want to send a signal that every five people in the conference can screw up everything for whatever reason? you can't give into terrorists and hostage takers, you can't allow them to take the conference hostage and win. >> mccarthy says he believes he will find a way to flip 11 votes and win but it is possible the math never works for mccarthy as opponents dig in. >> do you think anybody in america right now is like oh my god, there is not a speaker, right? because what -- somebody who lives in des moines, iowa and going to their jobs and going to school. oh no, 24 hours wit

mr. trump fought with officials for months about whether to return government materials in his possession. mr. biden's case his aides and lawyers returned the documents and contacted authorities swiftly after discovering them on their own. it continues. let me stop there and a simple question. is that true? >> it's technically true that no two crimes are identical. you can have two bank robberies carried out in different ways. one with added crimes. it doesn't mean the underlying offense is different. but more importantly, we don't know how different they are going to be because we aren't getting any information. for example, let's say that the president did work off these documents. that would mean these statements given after november 2nd were false, that this wasn't inadvertent. we're looking at not just what the president knew or intended when these documents were removed in 2017. we're also looking for knowledge that these documents existed through that six-year period. if the president wo

the federal judge said mr. trumpitical adversaries, he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. judge donald middlebrook's, gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, republicans playing with house money.

mr. trump lashes out at journalist bob woodward with a $49 million lawsuit over audio book recordings of their interviews. >>> george santos is responding to criticism over multiple lies about his resume and calls for help to step down in his district by agrees to step down from his committees. >>> under pressure from community activists, the memphis police and first responders were continuing to clean house over the fatal beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols. a seventh memphis police officer has been relieved of duty. three emts have now been fired by the city's fire department after an internal investigation found out they violated protocols by failing to immediately treat nichols when they arrived at the scene. nbc news reached out to these three but has not heard back. more charges could be coming in addition to the murder charges against the five original officers. joining me now, priscilla thompson, danell hargin and former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade. priscilla, there have been updates

mr. trump's team. gs the broader question is both of us from an intelligence oversight standpoint need to be briefed and have an intelligence assessment made of documents that were in trump's possession and in biden's possession. >> bret: here is president biden reacting to the mar-a-lago documents. take a listen. >> what did you think to yourself looking at that image? >> how that could possibly happen, how -- why anyone could be that irresponsible. and i thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? by that i mean, names of people who helped, et cetera. and it just totally irresponsible. >> bret: mr. chairman, what are your concerns? does it concern you that we didn't know about it until weeks later, after, you know, before the midterms when they were found? >> right, you certainly in showing the president's comments in condemning president trump for having classified documents it's incredible irony that, in fact, he had classified documents in his private offices when he was

mr. trump's 2024 campaign. 20 said the former president should not be the party's nominee.a big primary field or declined to stake their position on mr. trump, and other major did not respond to messages. new phone, who this? the move away from trump comes as the party is being roiled by an internal battle between is trump supporting, geronimo downhill, and the conservative challenger named harvey dylan. tomorrow, the rnc will hold an election for its chairmanship and though mcdaniel is expected to win that election and remain in her current role, she's facing surprisingly strong challenge from her meet dylan who managed to earn the backing of leading movement conservatives like matt gates and tucker carlson. just today, dhillon picked up her most important north medina. >> i think we need a change, i think we need to get new blood in the rnc. i like what dhillon has said about getting the rnc out of d.c.. i think it's going to be very difficult to energize people to want to give money, to want to volunteer their time with the rnc, if they don't see a change in direction. >

at his home one morning from soldier identifies himself as vinnie, and vinnie is very upset that mr. trump is not getting his tax abatement. there's a threat in this. gliedman reports this to officials is given a security detail. it was i think the next day, the next day trump himself claimed he, , too, got a threatening ca, which are so surprising, and that call became known many years later when fbi files were undone, , now, there's no hard proof of who called trump but there's widespread skepticism for people around tony gliedman that was trump himself. the way this story ends is that trump gets the tax abatement eventually. he wins in court and the details are a little dense. ultimately tony gliedman who has two children and the bad weight problem gets a call from trump inviting him to lunch. and trump ultimate offers him a job. gliedman takes it. ed koch almost fell over when he found out that gliedman was going to go work for trump. and i would argue that that was one of the very earliest examples at least that i know of of trump threatening someone and then then giving an. >> watch

laura: and even though donald trump took home hundreds of classified documents to mar-a-lago and mr.k home a few, this is incredibly tricky, isn't it, for the department of justice, balancing the rule of law with the politics? >> exactly. the white house, pressing that the cases are very different. as you say, donald trump had hundreds of documents that he denied he had and he resisted handing them over until there was a fbi search warrant served where they went in as you remember integrated mar-a-lago and photographed many of the documents they found there. completely different situation with president biden, according to the white house. that the small number of documents were immediately and voluntarily handed over his soon as they were found. of course merrick garland and the justice department be seen to be totally evenhanded about this. the's already a special counsel investigating donald trump's actions so it was inevitable there would be one appointed to investigate joe biden. you have to have them going o in parallel otherwise there would be a political outcry saying that th

mr. trump is a prolific and suffolk -- who is repeatedly using courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he's the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a little bit blindly following the advice of a lawyer, and quote. that judge, donald middlebrook's, it trump and his lawyers with a 1 million dollar sanction for the four of this lawsuit. the day, donald trump quickly withdrew his lawsuit against new york attorney general letitia james, who he accused of using her position to pursue a vendetta against them. that have been the beat before the same judge. that suit was already effect the to spill, as in federal courts already dismissed the suit filed against trump because the new york turning general. this is the listening of losses for donald trump. according to new york times column is charles blow, who will join us in a moment, quote, watching trump reject many other candidates seen doorstep and speak to battle, which ended in chemically upsettin

biden pulling ahead of mr. trump when it comes to how americans perceive their cooperation with investigators. the new polling comes as the doj says congress will not be able to see the documents until the special counsel's handling of investigations approve it. >> our job is to make sure there's not an intgese iligemmie believe withholding the material is a mistake. both senators speaking out on "face the nation." >> these are probably materials we already have access to, we just don't know come they are. >> reporter: they argue the committee has a constitutional duty of oversight and access to the documents would allow them to address issues such as polar over classification of material. the panel also controls funding for some intelligence agencies. >> you've threatened to withhold some funding to some of the agencies. >> i'm not in a threat business right now. but we certainly are -- there are things we need to do as a committee every year to authorize the moving around of funds. i think the director of national