and stuart stevens, political strategist and senior adviser to the lincoln project.hael fanone, thank you for being here. let's talk about this, because there were a few things about this that literally infuriated me as i listened to donald trump in ohio over the weekend. but one of the most galling was his promise to release into american civil society hundreds, and at this point, more than 1,000 incarcerated january 6th defendants. let me play what you said about those people and you confronted one of them who is now incarcerated for trying to assault you. this is how you testified before congress. >> on that day, i participated in the defense of the united states capitol from an armed mob, an armed mob of thousands determined to get inside. because i was among the vastly outnumbered group of law enforcement officers protecting the capitol and the people inside it, i was grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country. i was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as i hurt chants of, kill him with his own gun. i could st

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for more, let's bring in nbc news washington correspondent and stuart stevens, a veteran of the mitt romney and george w. bush presidential campaigns. he is now with the lincoln project. let's start with the republican fury towards johnson. i just played a little bit of it, but what have you heard? >> well, what we've heard is there are republicans, mainly in the far right sort of freedom caucus wing of the party that are very angry that speaker johnson had democrats help him to continue to fund the government. what we are foreseeing here is now marjorie taylor greene saying that she is filing this as a, quote, pink slip. it's a warning, not a pink slip, rather that it that exact time right now to choose a new speaker and that republicans should start thinking about this. what you really see are republicans who don't want to be compromising with democrats really aiming their fury at this beaker. you heard chip roy there saying the next could be this ukraine aid package. if speaker johnson put that on the floor. the republicans are going to have yet another sort of battle here. what w

mcdaniel as an expert on republican campaigns the way i frequently interview my longtime friend, stuart stevens, who ran her uncle, mitt romney's presidential campaign. viewing as a political analyst, but i do have a few questions for her whenever she might want to come on this program. and i'll make it easy for her. i will tell her the questions ahead of time. my first question would be, why did you change your name for donald trump? before trump ran for president, her name was romney mcdonald. how does that feel? to change her name to curry favor with the madman because he doesn't like your uncle? how did you explain that to your kids? what lesson did your kids learn from that? and i mentioned her kids because she always mentions her kids. and that she is a mother, whenever she is speaking publicly. and then i would ask her about everything she did to try to help donald trump overthrow the election that she yesterday decided to say for the very first time three years later that joe biden won fair and square. there is an easy way to avoid the controversy. don't hire anyone close to the -- that

but as veteran conservative strategist stuart stevens pointed out yesterday problems for trump are piling up and quickly, and that could lead to a surge for president biden. let's take a look. >> my image of the trump campaign is somebody's walking around with a paper bag full of water. i don't think it's going to leak, but i think when this thing goes, it's going to go quickly. and i think there's a good chance we're going to have a situation of 1980 in reserve. tied with reagan in the middle of october and the bottom fell out for carter. >> now, stevens is an outspoken critic of trump and is no longer affiliated with the republican party. he supported biden in 2020, and he will again this year. but in the past he worked with former president george w. bush and senators mitt romney and chuck grassly. >>> now, still ahead attorney general merrick garland weighs in on the criticisms he faced for not blocking special counsel robert hur's language and depiction of president biden's memory. we'll show you his new remarks. >> plus in a landmark case the justice department is suing apple. we'll

stuart stevens and democratic strategist joe trippy. i don't want to talk so much about the merits of what chuck schumer said. that's being debated around the world, joe, but i want to know about the politics who's the audience here? >> well, look, it's certainly unusual. it's not. this is like a first-time i can remember anybody doing this. i think i think the audience is netanyahu. i mean, i think it's putting pressure on the netanyahu to come to trump firms with the cease fire and that, you know, basically, i actually think this was an audience of one. i'm actually surprised that it took this long for, someone to go out and say this, although i haven't be chuck schumer is pretty pretty groundbreaking. >> still. what about the audience of young progressive democrats, many of whom seem to be very uncomfortable at this point. that's putting it mildly with israel's policy and gaza well, i mean that the author i've worked a lot in israel is very unpopular guy. this is, i think a message to, not like he says, it's also a message inside isr

i read a better version of that that i wish i had said the other day stuart stevens.book for sale here somewhere.fi twitter. he said, how do you tell both sides of a lie? yes. you cannot tell both sides of a lie. so what's the charge to journalism? to tell the■tto accusation of pl bias for telling the truth? i mean, it's interesting because back in the olden days, again, u in 1975 would not have said to someone that's a lie, would not have said in an interview that's, just not true. you would say. here's a piece of paper that says something that show that proves something that. what you sd isn' correct. you look at this and tell me what you think about. this what do you think? the role of the media should be now when someone says something that's whatever is. i remember watching the new york go through all media, but i remember especially watching the new yo times go through this and the milestone when they finally used the word lie, when they were talking about trump and i understand that that was a kind of athey didn't want to too it. and i didn't know there were so

. >> critical thena stuart stevens, great to see you both this morning. thanks so much. >> all right. thank you. >> still ahead this morning. wrongfully detained in russia for a full year. now accused of it's been ahg for doing journalism. is the us any closer to freeing journalists evan gershkovich, also clearing the massive debris of an entire you're bridge will get an up close look at all of the damage, including on that huge container ship. and one of the biggest stars in the world takes her tonic country music some folks around here, i've been listening to cowboy carter. we'll talk about coming up next >> that third zing. in the data the sunken is to see see houston check >> we hear nothing but space shuttle accident. it's usually not one thing. it's a series of events is >> that part of the when coming apart, >> space shuttle columbia, he final flight or mere sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn >> my cry >> today >> as the earth issues or distress call in the face of appending climate crisis, abu dhabi is advancing his agenda for a greener future with an

candidate are now colliding with the unpredictability of the electoral politics, joining us now stuart stevens and with us, ashley, a former communications director for vice president harris. good to have you both here with us. stuart, your reaction to this ruling in georgia. >> i think they're living in fantasy here. this was a small set of vectors -- voters who voted who the republican primary who are of the opinion donald trump should be president, this is some sort of deep state conspiracy. but most americans are going to find repugnant that republicans nominated a guy who is out on bail, who has been found liable of sexual assault, new york jury, that a judge described as rape. that is a republican nominee. so, look, i've worked in campaigns that have bad facts before but this is going to soak in and really disturb people and i think it's going to have a definite crushing impact on the trump campaign. >> ashley, stuart referenced the civil cases where trump has had to pay e. jean carroll for defamation related to sexual abuse of e. jean carroll found by a civil case. this georgia case is

i'm not saying this is going to happen, but i thought stuart stevens had pretty good insight.ce looks right now. steward, and he knows a thing or two about campaigns, he says it's looking like 1980 in reverse. jimmy carter and ronald reagan too close to call and things just flipped near the end. that is was the worst in us. if you look at how things are lining up, man, if you look at any of the fundamentals about politics this looks like stuart may be onto something. play steward really quickly and we will talk about it. >> my image of the trump campaign is someone walking around with a paper bag filled with water. i don't think it's going to lee, but i think when it goes is going to go quickly. i think there is a good chance that we will have a situation like 1980 in reverse were carter was tight with reagan until the middle of october and in the bottom fell out for carter. >> i always tell my kids if things look like they are too good to be true, they are too good to be true. if you are looking at something that just doesn't make sense, there is a reason. here we are looking

after labor day, this is when things -- and i'm not saying it's going to happen, but i thought stuart stevens had good incite. said everybody is talking about how this race looks right now. to stuart, and he knows a thing or two about campaigns, he said it is looking like 1980 in reverse. jimmy carter, ronald reagan, all year, too close to call. >> yeah. >> things just flipped near the end. that's what stuart says. if you look how things are lining up, we don't know what's going to happen the next six months, but, man, if you look at the fundamentals of politics, this is -- this looks like -- this looks like stuart may be on to something. alex told me they got stuart's bite here. play stuart, and we'll talk about it. >> my image of the trump campaign is somebody walking around with a paper bag full of water. i don't think it is going to leak, but when this thing goes, it is going to go quickly. there is a good chance we're going to have a situation like 1980 in reverse. carter was tight with reagan until the middle of october, and kind of the bottom fell out for carter. >> i always tell my ki

stuart: new york community bank in trouble financially, but i understand there's a big name guy riding to the rescue. who is this? lauren: former treasury secretary steven him until yesterday with. his liberty strategic capital and two other investment firms are injecting a billion dollars into with new york community bank. what do they want to do? shore up confidence so depositors don't pull their money. they have. the bank said this morning it held total deposits of $77 billion. that's down 7% from a month earlier. the problem is that new york community bank corp. has huge exposure to commercial real estate like offices right here in new york city. in fact, steven mnuchin just said the biggest problem in their portfolio is their new york office loans. but what happened in 2019 here in the city in they capped rent increases. that killed -- stuart: there you go. >> good old democrat policy for you. lauren: you can't bring in more money, interest rates go up, all these office builds are sitting vacant because everybody's working from home, this is what happened. so the question is, is this idiosyncratic to maybe new york community bank and a few other, o

to leave this line up to be described to you by the artist manager, nick stuart, who has worked with the likes of u2, cat stevenss his talent . very good knows his talent. very good morning to you, nick. good to see you. what do you make of this line up and most importantly, who's on it? for those who don't know. >> morning ladies. it's >> good morning ladies. it's first of all, it's a young pop line—up friday night headliner dua lipa, probably at the outstanding english pop act there is lauded at the brits. lcd soundsystem play pj harvey play lcd soundsystem play pj harvey play saturday night, the big night, the evens, favourite band coldplay are going to headline with little simz. supporting that with other acts. well, 95 acts announced so far, by the way. you can find all the details on the website. the one that's really interesting is sunday, janelle monet, burna boy and scissor , and i'm wondering and scissor, and i'm wondering how many people immediately know , or who all those acts are. the problem became apparent that emily had decided to go for two. emily had decided to go for two. emily eavis had decid