tonight's last word goes to peter baker. the other great writer in the two great wired or household. peter, you covered donald trump for a long time. what are people about to learn about how the trump business was around? where they will see obvious, an immediate, parallels to have the trump -- was run. >> i think there has been a long history here. it was examined before the 2016 election. it's a business that's been successful, but in many ways it cut corners. it's a president who didn't pay his contractors, he was sued thousands of times by people who said he owed them money. they went bankrupt repeatedly, and he boasted when he went bankrupt in atlantic city where his casinos were, and he came out of that with a lot of money. they got hold of his tax returns that he tried to keep from the public, and discovered a pattern of reporting that it looks like evasion of taxes, at the very least, or perhaps even something illegal, depending on how lawyers interpret it. long before today, we already knew this was a business on th

peter baker, julie pace, professor victoria di francesco soto, hook 'em horns.nk you for coming on. >>> coming up for us, what you need to know about booster shots. this is all the conversation now as new virus cases surge across our country. one of our top physicians standing by to talk with us. >>> and later, strong words from a democratic lawmaker about the former president's most recent set of blatant lies about the election. a lot of democrats think it is going to take more than strong words to protect our democracy. >>> all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this return to the workweek monday night. yes, thank you, that was fast. sgt. houston never expected this to happen. or that her grandpa's dog tags would be left behind. but that one call got her a tow and rental... ...paid her claim... ...and we even pulled a few strings. making it easy to make things right: that's what we're made for. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you

peter baker knows well. she writes, donald trump's kritdices have harbored a persistent fantasy, that there would be one definitive moment this he would be finally be to the accountable he deserves. each new trump crisis, and there were many, offered a hope to some unambiguous to trump. it never happened. susan describes perhaps our viewing audience tonight. what is the chance this event would lead to real consequences for mr. trump? >> i think we're in a tough spot to evaluate that. but i think susan makes a really important point. there will be an extraordinarily low ebb of confidence in the justice system, if there is no accountability for the president, who engaged in -- that left him from having any real consequences. he was never held accountable. he spent the last four years shielded by the presidency, and now that protection has slipped away, he becomes vulnerable. there are proceeders in georgia, including the call he made soliciting election fraud. we saw in the mueller report, we saw an effort to

peter baker, on the topic of voting rights, the democratic party base is getting restless. with this joe biden possibly have to say to them? >> well i think the fact that he is saying anything for them is part of his reaction to the fact that he's getting pressure from the left. the progressives of the party are frustrated and they want to lean on democrats in the senate to pass voting rights legislation there. remember, they're complaining about the filibuster but the truth is if they got rid of the filibuster tomorrow, they don't have the votes to pass it. they don't have all 50 democrats on board. senator manchin in particular, senator sinema expressed reservations about doing anything on voting rights without a bipartisan consensus. what you're gonna see is the president is reaching out to his base saying, i get it, i agree. this is important. but the question is what he can do to actually change the votes. and unless he's willing to put more pressure on some of these democrats, he's there is no clear path forward to getting this legislation passed. >> and julie, it is

we've already cast this prologue. >> peter baker, indeed, what's the doctor just said, this puts the white house in a tough spot. i am guessing, they want to be even more aggressive were policies and recommendations are concerned, only to watch paul the seas go to florida to die. >> well i think that they understand that there's a great deal of fatigue particularly in certain parts of the country with the public health measures that have been put in place over the last year and a half. and it's reimposing that more re-recommending them isn't going to convince a lot of people who are probably the ones who have been most affected by in the first place. the places where you would want more social distancing and masks again are the places where people are not getting vaccinated. people who are not listening to president biden's advice in the first place. it is a catch 22 cycle that he's on, where the choices are limited. i think the frustration for biden, of course, is that he needs to get this virus under control in order to get done anything else he wants to get done. if we have anothe

peter baker, julie pace, dr. vin gupta, greatly appreciate you starting off our conversation this evening. >>> our first break approaches, and coming up, nancy pelosi says she's determined to get to the truth of 1/6. and she may call on more republicans to help do that. we've got james carville and tim miller standing by. and later the former chief of staff for the late john lewis says he has one goal, ensuring that the memory of the modern day civil rights icon, quote, gets used for good. we will ask michael collins about the new book containing the final and lasting words of john lewis. all of it as "the 11th hour" is just now getting under way on this thursday night. s just now getting under way on this thursday night. the rule in business used to be, "location, location, location." now it's, "network, network, network." so you need a network that's built right. verizon business unlimited starts with america's most reliable network. then we add the speed of verizon 5g. we provide security that's made for busin

now i i n would like to welcoe peter baker to introduce our speaker and moderate to nice conversationhe "new york times" chief white house correspondent. he spent 20or years at the "washington post" including four years as moscow bureau chief in collaboration with his wife journalist susan glasser, and he has authored six award-winning books. peter, thanks for joining us again. jeff, we are so excited to have you. thanks for joining us, and anyway, the floor is yours. thanks so much. >> liz, thank you very much for that kind introduction and i think your backdrop, your living room looks awesome. you have a terrific backed upouo we should be seeing more of that, in fact. jeff, what, i can tell you how excited i am to be with jeff shesol tonight. jeff knows this story some going to tell you anyway. just as written the book i wanted to write. i'm a little jealous honestly. a few years ago i was thinking about who hadad not been subject to really good part of it in a long time and john glenn's name came to mind because in such an exciting and passing figure in american history. i started

peter baker, michael steele, victoria, thank you all. >>> back to the historic protests in cuba.rnalist ed agustin joins me now. can you describe what you're seeing now and hearing from people there? the protests yesterday were simply astounding, amazing. >> reporter: yeah, yesterday i was out in downtown havana the whole day and i witnessed thousands of protesters in the central part of havana who were out demanding change, demanding that the communist government stand down. and their main gripe, their main grievance was these are people who have, especially since the pandemic, have become used to having to live on small food rations, are used to empty shelves at the supermarkets and pharmacies, and increasingly used to power cuts, the water going out. so it was really the underlying complaints of people, was that they're fed up with waiting in line and economic privation. the protests started in the morning and they arrived in havana yesterday early afternoon, and these protests, some were peaceful and others were violent. i saw confrontations between protesters picking up pavi

peter baker, mcquade, and ron insana. coming up, it looks like vladimir putin is ignoring joe biden's warning on cyberattacks. so now what? a counterintelligence official is standing by. and later, a top house republican is about to make a big decision whether to try and own the lid's or help hold insurrectionist accountable. we'll get into kevin mccarthy's won six committee dilemma. the 11th hour just getting underway on wednesday night. dnesday night. flowers are fighters. that's why the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's is full of them. because flowers find a way to break through. just like we will. join the fight at alz.org/walk ah! my helicopter has better wifi than this. you thinking what i am? great time. don't worry i have the best internet people. hello xfinity. get me xfi pronto. that was fast. yep. now we just self-install. and we're back baby. do more of what you love when you upgrade to xfinity xfi. baby ninjas? i love it. this is vladimir putin. of course he's gonna test us. of course he's gonn

peter baker, that actually brings us right to something i also wanted to touch on.eporting in the last hour that the house gop leader kevin mccarthy is planning to appoint republicans to the january 6th select committee. there had been some questions about whether or not he would participate at all. it looks like that's going to happen. we're also hearing that one member, rodney davis who is a more moderate member from illinois has expressed interest in the job, but of course, we're talking about trump allies and what's the calculous for republicans and what does this mean for how it will unfold? >> great question. the difference between this select committee and what congress and pelosi, nancy pelosi had tried to create a separate commission that would be outside of the current office holders is going to be enormous, right? what you're saying is you'll have current office holders that will face election in 18 months' time trying to pass judgment on these events in a super heated, super partisan moment. so i think that what and the hopes for any independent genuinel

with that let's bring in our lead off guest on this monday night, peter baker, the veteran journalist and author. he's chief white house correspondent for the new york times. michelle sender, white house correspondent for pbs news our and moderator of washington week on pbs. and chuck rosenberg, a justice department veteran and former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official. he's also the host of the msnbc podcast the oath. good to have you all here on monday night. peter baker, as this first hearing of the january 6th committee gets underway tomorrow, what are you going to be watching for, listening for? >> well, i think the dime mimic of seeing a committee or seven democrats chosen by republican leadership will be the dominant watching the body language and watching how they conduct themselves and watching how republicans work in concert with the democrats but not as the case may be and obviously by bringing in police officers to testify the beginning they are establishing the seriousness of the issue right? punctured the mist-ology that some republicans are trying to create wh

peter baker, as the first hearing gets underway tomorrow, what will you watching and listening for? >> well, i think the dynamics of seeing a committee with seven democrats and two republicans not chosen by republican leadership will be the dominant thing. they will be watching the body language and how they conduct themselves and how the republicans, you know, work in concert with the democrats but not as the case may be. obviously by bringing in the police officers to testify in the beginning, they are establishing the seriousness of the issue. trying to puncture the mythology that some republicans are trying to create that it was really this protest that got out of hand. really not that different than a tourist occasion at the capitol. all eyes will be on liz cheney and adam kinzinger to see how they fit in to the committee and what that means for the future of the consensus view of what happened rather than a partisan show for the cameras. >> what is it that the white house is looking for to come out of this? >> it is interesting because the white house is essentially saying tha

she is working on one of her own with her husband, peter baker, and she shared some of the reportingweek about milley, et cetera. susan, thanks for coming on the program. >> thanks, brian. >> let's just get into the ethics of this. how do you approach this as someone who writes a weekly column but is also working on a book? when do you withhold information for the book and when do you share it? >> well, you know, i don't think there's any playbook. i'm still trying to recover, frankly, from that last segment. >> oh, that little thing. >> with michael wolff. you know, look, i've got to say this. it's very important to understand that everybody is accountable for their own credibility. i really don't like these conversations that paint such a broad brush. michael wolff should be accountable with whether what he reported is accurate or not, vice versa. there's a lot of different ways of reporting about the trump story. and i think it's very important that these accounts and these books emerge for history, but also that as accurate and complete a portrait as possible is compiled in the l

peter baker of the "new york times." sahil kapur, national reporter for nbc news. abby livingston, washington bureau chief for the "texas tribune," and jasmine wright, reporter for cnn. jasmine, there was a passionate speech by president biden. he talked about this being jim row-like legislation. he talked about this being almost as bad as the civil war and the issues that led to it. that being said, civil rights leaders said i didn't hear the word filibuster and i want to see more urgency and action from democrats. what's the pn from the white house perspective? what are democrats going to do to change what republicans are doing? jasmine: i think that speech in philadelphia showed that president biden uses the top priority and wanted to use the bully pulpit that civil rights activists asked for him to do to push the issue of voting rights. when he talked about strategy, that's the open question. because you know, he tasked vice president harris to lead voting rights efforts. when you asks soars in her office what they'll do, they talk about building coalition they

peter baker thank you so much for your reporting this morning. >>> a few other stories we're followingian assange to face criminal charges in the u.s., the biden administration has pledged it will not hold him under the most severe conditions reserved for high security prisoners. the white house also said if he was convicted, it will let him serve his sentence in his native australia. assange spent seven years holed up inside ecuador's london embassy where he fled. >>> a well known dutch crime reporter is fighting for his life after being shot. peter devries was shot in the head tuesday night while leaving a television studio in amsterdam. dutch police arrested three people, one of whom they said could be the possible gunman. his reporting regularly drew death threats. police did not comment on a motive. >>> coming up, 36 states and the district of columbia filed suit yesterday against google. we'll tell you what they allege against the tech giant. >>> plus how bill barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the justice department. a look at the lasting impact of the former attorne

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she and her husband peter baker have conducted nearly 200 interviews for a new book they are co-writingcy. she joins me now. nice to see you. according to your article, general milley came very close to a conflict with iran during the end of trump's presidency. you wrote it was a concern of milleys to push the war with iran. so what led to milley's concerns? >> thank you very much. i think i was really struck when i first learned of this account a few months ago in the course of doing reporting for our book. that there were two issues. i understood that general milley, ever since that lafayette photo op last june was very worried about trump's effort to politicize the military to use it in the streets in an inappropriate way. but i did not realize there was also essentially a backstage struggle to make sure that trump did not engage in some essentially politicized strike on iran. that the general articulated to associates repeatedly, meetings at the white house in which trump and his hawkish advisers around him were suggesting a kind of missile strike that the chairman of the joint chie

joining me is peter baker and dr.hopkins school. >> what about the white house pivoting this way because the science has changed. they have to, but how much does this put them on the defensive in the pandemic. >> the white house will have to react to the circumstances and the delta variant has forced them to re-think where they're at. at the same time, of course, andrea, you make a good point. it's caused a great deal of frustration because it is in contrast to their previous message. remember, of course, president biden talked about independence day being our time to declare independence against the virus. of course, they said if you had been vaccinated you wouldn't need a mask. felt like beginning of a new era for a lot of americans tired of the restrictions of the pandemic era to reverse course partially in circumstance circumstances for others and discouraging for the white house trying to manage a message that does seem to be shifting. i think you're right. optimism of a month ago is gone. now the white house has

peter baker, the chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," barbara mcquaid, a professoruniversity of michigan law school, and co-host of the podcast sisters-in-law. and ron insana, good evening to all three. thank you for being here. peter, in illinois, in a district that his predecessor won, but a democrat represents in congress, not entirely solid democratic ground. but his american families plan that he was pitching today, and the jobs act, the infrastructure bill, are both much more popular in america than republicans in congress would have you believe. >> you have a president unlike his predecessor who is trying to build on his coalition, trying to go beyond the people who voted for him a few months ago to expand his support base. and his approval rating right now is hovering in the low 50% range. higher than trump ever got. president trump didn't actually try to expand his base. he stuck with the people who brought him there, he thought he could reproduce that same inside straight that won the electoral college but not the popular vote a second time. president bide

the other concern, i am reporting on this book that i am working on with my husband peter baker thatd the worry about iran and trump and the circle of hawkish advisers around him that this came up again and again before and after the election in an alarming sense that it was never something that trump could let go of. in fact, actually general milley was saying to the president, if you do what you want to have a strike that trump was not advocating for a full war but he kept on wanting to have a dramatic strike. milley kept on saying if you do this, the concepts, you are going to have a bleeping war. until january 3rd of this year, the final time that the president spoke with his chairman of the joint chiefs was only then that he could finally get like mike pompeo and the national security adviser to say we run out of time. we can't do this, this far into a lame duck president. >> you have the committee investigating the january 6th riot about ten days away. they'll have their first public hearing. what do you expect and what is kevin mccarthy do about putting members on that committ

the two most meaningful books that i have read this year are peter baker and susan glasser's book on james baker and your book on nancy reagan yet these both focus on a presidency 30 years ago. what is it about the reagan's president reagan nancy reagan that still intrigues and captivates interests today? well, you know it was the whole. unlikelihood of his story that you know this man could come out of hollywood and really sees you know that he'd be elected governor, but also that he would he would dominate. politics in not only his era but you know for a generation to come the idea imagine. any political candidate today who could win 49 states? and certainly his policies. their a lot of people who will draw a straight line from reagan era policies to a lot of the, you know, less less attractive themes in our politics today. but where i think the analogies? fall apart is that ronald reagan's gift i believe? was his ability to make the country believe in itself. just the kind of sheer optimism that he was able to convey and again it just to me at least feels so at odds with everything

joining me now nbc news medical contributor, an infectious diseases physician, and political analyst peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." hey, guys. good to see you both and together. that's different. i'm glad to have you both here. peter, i'm going to go to you first here. if we look at the facebook story we were dealing with josh there, it's pushed back harder against the white house after the president suggested social media is killing people. facebook told nbc the white house is just trying to find a, quote, scapegoat for missing its vaccination goal. give me your sense of the white house position on all of this. did they kick a social media hornet's nest unintentionally? >> i think facebook and the other companies feel like punching bags. every time something goes wrong people are pointing to them and saying how come you didn't stop people from distributing bad information and they feel they have spent a lot of time and effort to take down misinformation on the covid vaccine and they're not getting credit from the administration particularly when you see a

readjust the message quick enough and he lashes out about this leak from my very talented competitors, peter bakerhat's what he focuses on. he was reporting this scene in this time period how many aides, the first thing they recalled was how upset trump was. not just in the moment, but for days afterwards. and how much it drove his push for a tough response to the protests, you know. it leads very quickly to one of the most controversial political scenes with him and his top aides in front of st. john's church holding the bible. that's a moment that will be remembered in political history for years, and this book gives the most full accounting of that to date. >> i've got to say, when you hear treason and execution, your first inclination is, oh, he must be joking, using hyperbole. who knows at this point. >> that's right. in hindsight, the people i talked to, the aides i talked to around trump assumed he wasn't serious about that. but i didn't speak to anyone who actually asked him to find out. >> after the insurrection you have to take everything seriously. i want to ask about the first lady. it

susan, you're writing a book along with your husband peter baker. in the process of reporting your book, you discover not only was general mark milley who has been in the news a lot concerned about the idea of this coup and stopping the president from sort of launching a coup after the election, but concern that he would somehow push it too far with iran and start a war. this is a quote from your upcoming book, your reporting an article you put in the new yorker. milley was worried trump might set in motion a full-scale conflict that was not justified. if you do this, you're going to have an f'ing war, milley would say. so talk to us about these concerns with iran. >> well, thank you so much, john. you know, milley, from really june 1st, which was that infamous lafayette square photo op on was very concerned about what he called nightmare scenarios that could unfold after the election. and one of them, as you said, was the possibility of trump trying to use the military in a coup-like situation, trying to put -- >> oh, no. we just lost susan glasser

. >> peter baker, and leigh ann caldwell, we appreciate your reporting. >>> we continue to follow thef the white house, and we are following the reporting where press secretary peter jean pierre could be reporting on the delta variant, and we will bring you that news as it happens, and coming up a nationwide ban on evictions is set to expire tomorrow unless congress acts. vaughan hillyard is in georgia with the families on the brink of homelessness. millions of vulnerable americans struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appointments. that's why i started medhaul. citi launched the impact fund to invest in both women and entrepreneurs of color like me, so i can realize my vision and give everything i've got to my company, and my community. i got you. for the love of people. for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. subway® has so much new they couldn't fit it in their last ad. like new smashed avocado and artisan italian bread. 100% wild-caught tuna. hold up! 100% wild-caught tuna ain't new! subway®'s always had 100% wild-caught tuna! y'all tried to s

an excerpt from that book by new york author susan glasser and peter baker, telling trump you're goingr on your hands here. prospect of a war with iran has hung over everything in foreign policy for years now. how close could we have been, how dangerous was that scenario, particularly talking about the killing of general soleimani as a way to trip into war with iran. >> it's very easy to agitate iran, and we're always on the verge of some kind of conflict, and in the last -- well, exactly -- since 1979 we have had skirmishes of various types and varieties. iran is in the process of trying to become a dominant force in the middle east. there are proxy wars all over the -- proxy skirmishes all over the place in the region between iran on the one hand and saudi arabia on the other. we've always been close to being physically involved with iran, but i think cooler heads prevail. again, it's a question of making intelligent decisions based on good information which is stood us well in the past and it will in the future. we have used various ways to make life difficult for iran to get them t

susan, you are writing a book along with your husband peter baker. in the process of reporting your book, you discovered not only was general mark milley, who has been in the news a lot, concerned about the idea of this coup and stopping the president from sort of launching a coup after the election, but concern that he would somehow push it too far with iran and start a war. this is a quote from your upcoming book, your reporting an article in the new yorker. milley was worried trump might set in motion a full-scale conflict not justified. if you do this, you're going to have a war. milley would say. talk to us about the concerns with iran. >> that's right, john. again and again, this would come up in meetings in the oval office after the election, and i think this was something that for milley, it was one of those things he just couldn't beat back. and he kept warning trump that trump was advocating a missile strike. he kept saying, if you launch a strike, it's going to escalate with the iranians, and it was one of what milley called two nightmare

. >> reporter: jean peters baker, the jackson county prosecutor, issued a public apology to a man she is going to be the day, and they're going to call me and tell me, pack your stuff up, you're going home. >> reporter: kevin strickland, sentenced to life without parole in 1979 for a triple murder, has waited a lifetime to hear those words. how old was your daughter when you came in here? >> about seven weeks old. >> reporter: seven weeks old. so you missed watching her grow up. >> every bit of it. >> reporter: how old is she now? >> she's turning 43. >> reporter: but an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets. strickland is still in prison. >> there is a great deal of pain in here, knowing what i missed out on, my opportunities in life, and, you know, family. i'm trying to pick my words because i don't want to offend anybody, but i'm hurting. really hurting. >> reporter: and shockingly, his situation is not unique in missouri. what have you lost over the last six years? >> time. the closeness, especially between a father and his daughters. i missed that. i missed being able

. >>> let's bring in peter baker and washington post reporter mariana soto mayor.is given that republicans are -- who want to deny what happened on january 6th or even, you know, threatening their own investigation, how could this play out and how can democrats keep the truth at the forefront? >> what it looks like right now you'll see two separate inquiries in in effect and they're going to be seen as bipartisan. the democratic-led one that nancy pelosi has put together with adam kinzinger and liz cheney and something that looks like kevin mccarthy might try to do on his own. they'll be looking at it from the pro-trump point of view. and voters are going to end up with rather than a consensus view of what happened or consensus report cut through the partisanship. they'll have your pick your own version of the news we get. so different from what we saw after 9/11. after 9/11 we saw the commitment to the idea it's important to find out what happened so it doesn't happen again. obviously politics involved then too but with a five/five commission led by one republican

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