nick confessore is back as well.this seems like what you warned about when you came out and endorsed joe biden. >> exactly. it harkened me back to conversations i had in march when the pandemic started. i have asked my counterterrorism teams to look into whether the effects of the pandemic might lead to increased activity by extremists. we put together a memo that we sent to the security of home land security. some of that language ended up in the threat assessment that was released two days ago. i noted they included the language about how anti-government groups are likely to be agitated because of some of the pandemic mitigation measures that are being taken and they mayview this view thi opportunity to carry out acts against the government, basically protest the shutdown or mask mandates. we knew this back in march. the secretary of homeland security was briefed on this in april. yet, you still have the president of the united states exacerbating and throwing fuel on the fire of these extremists who we knew were g

joining us now, andrew weissmann, nick confessore is still here too. ck, this one was for me one that i had to read two or three times. but oddly, president obama crystalized it for me and it showed me just how far down the rabbit hole we are. we have never allowed any former president, really move senators getting more financially than donald trump is, but the notion that he had a secret chinese bank account that we're learning now about is bonkers? >> that is correct, nicolle. only because of the work of journalists at the times and elsewhere that we have this information. this china bank account is just a reminder is that if the standard is trying to do business in china is unsavory or bad, it is important to look at the trump family's connections and the kushner family efforts to do business in china. think of ivanka's state marks from china and the leasing of three floors of trump tower and jared kushner sister in beijing pitching chinese investors on real estate projects. if hi to go through the list of president trump's donors who are trying to m

nick confessore from "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst is back. also with us eyeeeshy mills and charlie sykes and editor at large at the bulwark. charlie, you might have to be a republican to know how massive the earthquake is for the union leader to endorse a democrat. but i saw on sort of my never trump republican circles, the kind of reaction that i felt when i saw that paper endorse joe biden. what did you think? >> well, among them, the many things that you never expect to see. i mean, the union leader has always been so -- it's been as reliable as you could possibly imagine as a republican newspaper. i don't know how much newspaper editorials mean any more. but it does underline how not normal this year is. and the fact that here you have the president in the final weeks of the campaign, our war time president who surrendered to the coronavirus. our tough guy who runs away from leslie stahl and florida man that has proven he can't dance. the incumbents president of the united states would be maximizing his incumbency would be stepping out a