they will be trying to challenge trump and move past trump wherever possible. host: let's talk to richard, who is calling from maryland on the democratic line. caller: good morning. where theon as to republican party will go after trump, i think it will not go anywhere higher than where it has been. a party that runs for power. jobs.0, the rent on -- they ran on jobs. it never came about. they ran on the same thing in 2014 -- jobs, jobs, infrastructure, never a bill introduced. when you go back to when obama was elected in 2008, newt leaderh, the minority republican from california, he -- against the president. after thed himself people killing our sons and daughters. it will never be anything other than gimmicks. reagan and bush started us on this downfall. i firmly believe republicans do not have the executive ability or honesty to handle the executive branch, as exhibited by reagan, bush and the second bush. each time it was a democrat that pulled our country back onto the right path against all kinds of opposition. where republicans go, it should be identif

is it trump's america? so much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black men. do -- a lott had to of reporters and people on the coast are a bit more sensitive to some of the rhetoric that trump -- some of the things he says that can be taken as racist. a lot of people in the co

>> trump, trump, trump!laura: if you can believe it, after his second marathon rally of the day, president made his way to rochester, minnesota. the story at that evented was the disgusting and the transparent effort by the democratic leaders in the state to limit trump's fans from coming out to see him. they cappedded the event at 250 -- capped the event at 250. this is outdoors at an airport. okay? the governor tim walls and attorney general did their best to blunt the president's momentum. guess what? it didn't work. >> these are the people who are not allowed by the governor wall to actually enter the rally. look at how long it goes. [applause] the president came out to see them. >> 25,000 people. dis enfranchised. get out and vote, okay? [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> four more years. four more years. four more years. >> laura: i have been in politics for 30 years. i have never seen anything like. this never. not for obama. not clinton. not bush. not even president reagan. just never s

media or anti-trump media. >> abby, you were at "the washington post" at the beginning of the trumpears and then joined cnn. the post was another outlet a subject of trump's ire. was it different at a newspaper versus a television network? >> yeah, in a lot of ways. we all know that this president is very focused on television and particularly cable tv. and so the degree of scrutiny that he would place on cnn was, i think, pretty unique in a certain way. he also has a pretty significant amount of negativity directed at "the washington post" for all kinds of reasons, but, you know, being on television is, for president trump, often the most important thing, and so he really fixated on what was being said on our air, what was being said from the north lawn, and also his aides. it's almost a little bit of a game within the administration to channel the president's behavior towards news networks like cnn with his senior aides sort of acting out in that way as well. >> jeremy, what were press relations like with the trump white house press shop with the press secretaries and the deputies

is it trump's america?much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black men. do -- a lott had to of reporters and people on the coast are a bit more sensitive to some of the rhetoric that trump -- some of the things he says that can be taken as racist. a lot of people in the commun

trump hated that. trump also hated that krebs and his agency put up this really good website, this rumor control website, actively and aggressively debunking conspiracy theories about things being wrong with the election or wrong with the vote count. well, today after trump fired chris krebs and fired krebs' deputy and fired the cybersecurity division chief at that agency, today the guy left standing still running that agency announced that actually, yeah, they're going to keep that rumor control website up and running. they're going to keep it up through the georgia senate elections on january 5th so they can debunk conspiracy theories about the voting system for that election too. oh, no. oh, no, because that of course means trump's going to have to fire even more national security people now. he'll have to find more infowars, mike flynn acolyte screwballs to go move into that agency too, right? better hurry. it's a big government. it's a big national security apparatus. time is running out for you t

trump. she admires his connection to people and that is because it's hard for her to do public speaking in russia is not. >> * after the milania trump like many europeans is fluent in multiple languages and say that's possibly not correct. >> there is no evidence of that but that was a key part of her resume because he wanted documents because of even asked the white house there are a couple of tapes online machines in italy and another in france where she speaks for a very short time with little kids like toddlers and says things like bambino and hello. i said i cannot find anything online can you send it? and she does have a lot of foreign troops and opportunities and she traveled as first lady she met another figures in the french president and his wife. and then to have private conversations with her in a lease and nobody says that she did those interviews can i say that but it is very very noticeable there is no evidence of that. maybe for iphones made it easy to have video, you can fin

trump atwith ivanka the plaza hotel. donald trump was great. they all have faults, good points and bad points. but to take a man's faults and write a book about it is shameful. he revamped the whole city and made a great with giuliani as attorney general. they turn times square from a ghetto into what it is today. host: go in -- go and respond to vivian there. it's not a good connection but i didn't know what she was saying that giuliani should have been attorney general or something, i didn't understand that at all. i wroteioned ivanka and an open letter to ivanka. i told her what she could do and what positive she could bring in a positiveat she was influence on her father. she did nothing. she says she knows what women need. she says she knows what it's like to have a job and make ends meet. she turned out to be a tremendous disappointment. i really don't know what else she wanted me to comment on. host: she was saying she doesn't appreciate the fact that you wrote a book focusing on president trump's bad qualities. focusing on the whole qua

trump is all in it for the chaos. but he won't be successful in overturning the results of this election, the american people have spoken. trump can at worst be a nasty spoiler that creates uncertainty and makes the smooth transfer of power but he's lost here. >> so i'm just curious looking forward, joyce, in the future is he damaging the democracy in a way that makes it harder for future president, future transitions of power to go back to respectful, peaceful transitions of power? >> that will depend upon us and upon the kind of politicians that we elect and look, we're a divided country. we are a country where the rule of law isn't appreciated the way it should be and where this tradition of the smooth transfer of power seems to not be held in high esteem so it will be critical our leaders, our politicians and really each of us in our homes and our spears of influence that we bring americans back around to understanding that this is what separates our country from other countries. we're used to seeing other countri

trump. professor laurence tribe is going to join us to ask and answer the question, is it possible for a president's use of the pardon power to absolve crimes to actually become a crime in and of itself? constitutional law professor laurence tribe will analyze for us the possibility of donald trump committing a crime while granting a pardon. that's later in the hour. we've now completed four full days of absolute silence from the president of the united states about a devastating bombing in downtown nashville, tennessee, on christmas morning. and today the president in waiting said this. >> before i begin, i want to say a few words, a few brief words about the explosion that took place friday in nashville, tennessee. federal, state, and local law enforcement working around the clock to gain more information on motive and intent. this bombing was a reminder of the destructive power of an individual or a small group can muster in the need for continuing vigilance across the board. i want to th

donald trump, eric trump and ivanka trump, as well as her husband, jared kushner, a white house senior adviser. the white house hasn't commented on the reporting and a source tells nbc news trump is considering the pardons because he feels embattled, not because he thinks his family has done anything illegal. each has faced potential exposure in at least one criminal investigation since trump's presidency began. we should all keep in mind that this is the very president said to be operating like a criminal begrade by andrew mccabe, then the number two at the fbi who was so alarmed by the conduct he witnessed in trump's earliest weeks in office that he opened a counterintelligence probe into the president of the united states. mccabe in his book likens the vibe inside trump world to the russian mobsters he'd investigated. the message, quote, this is a dangerous business and it's a bad neighborhood. if you want my protection, i can protect you. and it is in that vein that another bombshell drops since we were last on the air. a court filing unsealed yesterday revealed for the very first

trump's logic.el investigations are supposed to happen if there's some sort of circumstance that suggests that the department of justice should step aside. that's why we have those regulations. do we need a special counsel for hunter biden right now? obviously not. how do we know? because an investigation has already been opened on him. he's being investigated right now by agents and prosecutors. there's no reason for a recusal for this justice department. the only reason to do it is to try and stick it to an incoming president. it may be the occasion with a new attorney general that you would want to appoint a special counsel, because there would be a conflict. but right now, no. it's already open. this is a political ploy, and a transparent one. >> and just to be clear, jonathan, donald trump isn't interested in a special counsel as anything other than a punitive tool that he would wield against a political opponent in his eyes, joe biden and his son. i want to press on this, because mr. rosen, if

citizen trump and leaves office. that's coming up soon. our top story, though, is this political fallout over trump's failed attempts to deny he lost the presidential race which had been echoing in the high stakes debate in the georgia senate race which could determine control of the united states senate. republican incumbent continues to dodge basic questions about trump losing the race. >> do you stand by his narrative that the election was rigged and you support his demand of governor kemp to call a special session to seek to overturn those results? >> look, it's vitally important that georgians trust our election process and the president has every right to every legal recourse. >> did you believe the election was rigged? >> it's very clear that there were issues in this election. >> this isn't just about issues or denial or rhetoric. some of these conspiracy theories continue to fuel very real scenes like this scary, serious scene under the cover of night in michigan. you may have already heard about it, armed,

trump. how i became -- i'm not the one who had the affair. he did. i'm not the -- i am the dummy who paid $130,000 to keep it quiet, but this was my conversation with mr. trump, with allen weisselberg, and others, and i did it in order to protect him. and i guess the thank you that i got from my loyal boss was, michael cohen should, as i once said, take a bullet for him and lose everything, lose my freedom, my company, my law license, my family's happiness, everything. i'm with you. i don't understand it. >> the president is at least, though, named as "individual 1" by prosecutors and you, in your allocution, made very clear what you just made clear here, the fact that this was directed by him, for his benefit, and you were acting out his wishes, and so he's therefore the most culpable person. you make a point as almost the very last thing you say in the book, which i wanted to ask you about, because i think it may relate to this. the president is named as individual 1. you went to prison fo

, trump, trump. for her it's her family, her mother, her father and bayern, i very tight group and very few other penetrate and really know the real inner person. i think the relationship clearly has hit rocks at different times, and a pedantic they been together for 22 years. i have a lot in the book about this, but she was furious about the revelations about his infidelity, embarrassed to no end as she was reading about stormy daniels and karen mcdougal and "access hollywood." but she has an extraordinary capacity to kind of figured okay, what is my next best move? somebody who's known her for a long time with saying she always thinks that way. she does anything in hurry and did she get more from walking away from trouble staying with him? that's how she thinks. >> host: do you think those disclosures, there were certainly embarrassing 50 think they were surprising to her? >> several key people told me that she learned new details from all those press reports. she did not know the details -- i find

and so president trump got nothing. all he did was hurt the american people who are depending on aid. what he also does is put republicans in a tough spot right now because as you mentioned, the house voting tonight on this $2,000 aid, increasing the payments from $600 to $2,000. president trump had said that this $600 was not adequate. he called it ridiculously low. nancy pelosi said great, let's have that vote. let's bring it to congress. and let's see how congress weighs in on this. now, house democrats -- >> let me bring your point to the house floor, in fact, i think we have live pictures we were just monitoring this moments ago. if we look at the house floor, we have them going forward, and you can see the vote totals here, libby. your view on what it means for folks catching up here between the holidays, what is speaker pelosi doing here, what does this vote do as we track it? >> so, the house has passed it. so they had to get a two third majority here. they have eked that through. so that is now through the hous

trump.nd if trump was a knowing party to that crime, legally, he could still face potential prosecution, i mean, technically, he could, because the deadline has not yet run for that kind of campaign finance violation. now, you may recall this whole case, it began with a secret. donald trump paying daniels to hide their encounters which date back to 2006. and the legal problems came when trump and cohen acted around the 2016 election. and there's stronger evidence here than in most stories. that is to say, if you're talking to people about, oh, should trump be charged or not, in some of those stories or cases, even the tax issues, they can be vague. but here, mueller's prosecutors had inside players exposing what was happening. we even heard from some of those key witnesses in realtime. this was during the open mueller probe in our reporting on the beat. >> in your fbi interview with mueller's team, you were asking about payments to women? >> they were asking if i knew anything about it. >> t

trump. >> michelle? >> you know, i'd like to think that some of these republicans are going along with tlurump's attempt to -- even a failed and coup attempt, that's what donald trump is trying to do, illegally stay in power. he's asking members of state g legislatur legislatures, some are ready to go along, not all, thank god to overturn the will of the state's electors and i would like to think more republicans aren't speaking out because they are afraid but it's entirely possible there are plenty of republicans that lost faith in democracy and not interested in a democracy that is a true democracy would consign republicans to a permanent minority party. democrats at this point have won seven out of the last eight elections in the popular vote. the republicans are a minority party and they can only enforce, they can only be in power through increasing minority rule, through disenfranchising the majority of the country. if you -- if they had to face the majority of the country, they would be afraid to g

trump-centered show here tonight. in terms of the run-out election coming up, most folks i talked to say they plan to vote, but they also acknowledge that they think their system is flawed. they think their system is rigged. i talked to one young woman who told me she totally understands the argument republicans shouldn't vote because it's so fraudulent and the system is rigged. but she also feels she wants her voice to be heard in any way, shape and form. there is some talk republicans going become to paper ballots. that's something really important to them. but overall again, that mixed messaging coming from voters as well. >> deepa, i would be remiss if i did not comment on the soundtrack behind you, which i believe is "memories" from the andrew lloyd weber rock musical "cats" which really sets the phone, renato. what is the legality of what president trump is even asking governor kemp to do here? >> it's impossible, as she just mentioned. absolutely impossible for them to do, because they separate the envelopes fr

trumps judges, some of them appointed by trump -- trump's judges, some of them appointed by trump, throwingut the lawsuits. people are calling and giving their opinions. just because you give your opinion does not make it a fact. i would like us to get back to truth. several yearsaid ago truth is not truth. you have one person quoting giuliani, that massachusetts caller, and so-called facts that there's fraud? come on. this is ridiculous. there was no fraud. they have not proven it in the court of law. they can have all the hearings they want in hotels, hotel rooms, and they get in front of the judge -- when they get in front of the judge, their tune changes. thank you. host: thank you for calling. he is the atlanta journal-constitution homepage. trump tells gop to vote in rigged election. we have a call from peg in michigan now. you are on our yes line. tell us why. caller: i am on your -- yes i am. i am from michigan. my brother is the sheriff of my county. i am very familiar with what went on in antrim county. and the reason i know it is true is because i talked to my brother and i know

barr shielded trump.e's put out a misleading summery of one of the most important consequential pieces, the famed mueller report. he was with trump at that infamous photo op when protesters who were peaceful were being tear gassed, something our military privately objected to and barr is under fire. rudy giuliani looking at a pardon saying there isn't semblance of a doj investigation and barr's opinion isn't without knowledge. trump ally and fox news host dobbs questioning barr's mental state. >> for the attorney general of the united states to make that statement, he's either a liar or a fool or both. he may be perhaps compromised. he may be simply unprincipaled or he may be personally distraught or ill. >> again, that was all in response to barr repeating a truth that has been established everywhere including by trump's lawyers under oath in court there is no systemic voter fraud and there is roger stone famously personally helped to a great degree by the documented medaling by bill barr in what barr sa

but president trump has delivered. when president trump ran for office, he promised to open a new chapter for working families. of failedt years policies that concentrated wealth and optimism among the lucky few, prosperity was going to flow to all kinds of workers in all kinds of communities, he said. that is exactly what happened. before this pandemic spread from china and world, we had to slam on the brakes, the american people had the best job market in living memory. with help from the policies of president trump and republicans in congress, american workers dynamited the stagnation experts said was the new normal. unemployment hit a 50 year low, capital markets hit record highs , and this time, all kinds of americans got to share in the gains. we saw earnings go faster for workers than managers, faster for the bottom 25 than the top 25. partsuccess was fueled in by the policy leadership of president trump. this administration pursued bold regulatory changes. once in a generation tax reform had eluded prior leader

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and trump pardoned charles kushner, the father of trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, jared kushner. charles kushner was convicted in 2005 on charges of tax fraud, illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering. so far, 60 of trump's 65 pardons have gone to people he personally knows or who aided him politically. in tennessee, authorities say a 63-year-old white man whose body was found at the scene of a christmas morning explosion in downtown nashville was responsible for the blast. anthony quinn warner was a self-employed computer worker. before the blast, an rv with a recorded message warned area residents to evacuate. >> if you can hear this message, evacuate now. can hear this message, evacuate now," a woman's voice repeats from the rv. authorities say warner's dna was found among the wreckage. no motive has been identified and no other fatalities were reported. three people were injured. the blast damaged dozens of structures and caused at least one building to collapse. the bomb went off outside an at&t transmission building, disrupting services, including some 911 cal

trump was a corrosive. what humanity corroded was social trust, the most important element in any successful society. elaborate on that. bret: i think this is an important point. in many of my conversations with some of my old conservative friends who are more indulgent of the president and of his record, they will say, look, you know, you anti-trumpeters said we would have thermonuclear war, said we would walk out of nato, that vladimir putin would basically run the country, that we would never have another election in this country, and in of that happened. that means you are hysterical. that was the argument. the point that i made in this column is not one i was making for the first time. in the beginning, my real fear word trump was that corrosion, which is that he was downng down the -- sanding the invisible aspects of the structure of american politics to the point that you would never quite know when they were to theft. important thing for any successful society or political enterprise is this thing w

and speaking of donald trump.uct, not just over the last four years but over the last 40 days. why aren't there nor republicans screaming at the top of their lungs that he's doing damage to our democracy. >> i think all of the folks make their own decisions and i can't read minds. i could just tell you that i felt and i know you heard this and others on election night, when he gave his speech at 2:30 in the morning, what he was saying was wrong. and that if you're going to accuse the election of being fraudulent, at the moment you do that, as president of the united states, you have an obligation to present the evidence that backs up your statement. and we're now sitting here on the 22nd of december, and we still haven't seen that evidence. and so that is wrong. i've been saying it since night and could say it publicly. and as for other republicans, they're all going to be held to account for what they do or don't do or say or don't say during this period of time over the long haul. and as you mentioned at the top

donald trump.ou had him trying to interfere from beginning to end and we're now when we're going to show this for you, you're now even going getting publications like the national review -- >> yeah. >> who called up the president a few times in the post election -- post election period. but just saying enough is enough. "the wall street journal" editorial page. even brought themselves to saying as much a week or two ago. so everybody knows the gig's up. but for some reason, republican senators and mitch mcconnell just can't let those words cross -- >> but talk about the height of needy. talking about while he's certificating on television like i must stop this and then having the guy not take his call publicly. that's in trump's mind, that's painful. as willie mentioned, the state's most hotly battleground states have now certificated the -- certified the election results. the state of arizona certified its election results yesterday. solidifying joe biden's win and clearing the way for mark kelly

trump decidedent to do that? president trump never really was a republican. i was saying this all along. record was closer to democratic politicians then republicans. -- than republicans. he put his own party and something of a box because either the bill -- he already vetoed it. will he get his veto overridden? something the democrats are in best position to decide. overridehe republicans his veto? to -- that's a big question. if they don't, or if the democrats do pass it with $2000, that will make trump look good in people from his own party look like they were weak as far as supporting working-class americans. he put his own party into a box here. we will see what happens. host: have you seen a president and members of his own party -- he put them in a box. has there ever been the sort of president andn a members of his own party on the hill? no,. not out in the well, no, not in the open. a lot of republicans were displeased by president trump's policies and his moves. his solid support, almost rocksolid, 80% or more among republicans. that has been the st

he supported trump. analyzing and investigating the investigations he misrepresented as you said in the mueller investigation. he has been at every place and i'm among those thousands of prosecutors who said he should resign while he has belatedly but not for the reasons i said. he said something else. as he's going out the door, he was compromising the convictions. he was compromising our free and fair elections by these bogus statements he made about we found this fraud and somewhere along the line, it seems like there must have been an intervention, somebody, maybe a good criminal defense lawyer or someone concerned about the ethics by which he could retain his bar license said do you have any idea what you're doing? do you want to be standing next to the guy when he's flying for the inauguration or whatever he does between now and january 5th or january 6th or january 20th? trump inhales the souls of people and gets them to do things that are their worst possible performances. and he's done that with

trump also protects mr.e, the most foundational precept of tour government would be gravely undermined. in america, we, the people, not we, the vice president, control our destiny. the surrender, again, of a political party to its leader who just lost re-election is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. the aforementioned neil, nbc legal analyst, law professor at georgetown university, and former acting u.s. solicitor general is back. also joining us, elizabeth newman, former assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy for the department of homeland security, now an advisor to the group defending democracy together is here. and mark, "new york times" chief national correspondent and msnbc contributor is also back. mark, take me through how this landed today. because my understanding is that where we were before today is you had congressman gohmert, who was suing and had agreed to carry this out in the house, but one of the defining features of mitch mccon

campaign for future trump and a financial engine, i guess, for future trump as well.ut this will end. the new president is on deck. covid team, communications team, economic team, national security team all getting off the blocks. and lots of news upon us tonight about just how hard the task is ahead for them. stay with us. lots to get to tonight. copd. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if wo

trump pardoned the navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. military people at the time told us that while the president is the commander in chief and you want him supporting military people, when you support people that do really bad things, ilt' bad for the military. the president has now pardoned four blackwater contractors, not members of the american military but contracted to the american military for crimes they committed in 2007 in iraq. the murders they are accused of are heinous. >> yeah, they are. the commander in chief is supposed to set the tone for our military. it starts from the top. i learned this as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan that the foundation of leadership is leadership by example. he set the tone and the tenor. we have men and women around the world right now who are executing u.s. foreign policy defending our nation on the tip of the sphere of our national security, and we're telling them to abide by international laws and norms, to abide by u.s. laws, to execute their duties with morality an

pushing thept narrative that trump was crooked, trump did this, trump did that, why wouldn't day cheatdn't they? it is obvious they have. there is overwhelming evidence in so-called swing states, or battleground states, if you will. there is no way statistically that biden beat obama's record, but only in six states. haveact is, if you do not chain of custody for those millions and millions and millions of blank ballots that were sent out, you can check which one are frauds. states violated the u.s. constitution, changing laws in the middle of an election year. the courts remedy -- can't handle this kind of an issue. there is no time to individually build up cases against these individuals. that is for the states to do. the states have to prosecute people who cheated. host: let's talk to michael, who is calling from florida. good morning. caller: good morning. the service you do is incalculable. the voices of the people are getting squashed at the local level. we have a big issue here with our governor and covid. like what you just did a minute ago, projecting what will happen in the f

if it is donald trump's party, if it's the trump gop, does that mean the 2024 candidate will be a trumpd himself, then don junior or ivanka? >> that's a difficult question to answer. obviously if the presidential candidate is trump, the president is 100% -- the republican p republican party is going to have to fall behind him because there is no one else who can establish themselves behind him. if he does run, it is going to be difficult for anyone to take on the party of trump without trump himself, saying i give my blessing. who knows if that's going to happen. but you can see all these other republicans who have stepped in and in their own senate races and house races and say i am super-duper pro trump. i support all these trumpian policies. i'm even going to emulate trump. if trump decides he doesn't like them at one moment, trump's base immediately turns against them. you saw it with kelly leffler. you saw it with the senate race now, where the two candidates are trying so hard to do the right trumpian things, and maga supporters who think they were the beneficiaries of a, quote-un

guess, for future trump as well.ut this will end. the new president is on deck. covid team, communications team, economic team, national security team, all getting off the blocks. and lots of news upon us tonight about just how hard the task is ahead for them. stay with us. s ahead for them stay with us ♪ carol of the bells ♪ hark for the pets, sweet little pets, ♪ ♪ cute faces say, "spoil us away" ♪ ♪ spoil time is here, perking their ears, ♪ ♪ lapping their tongues, old and the young ♪ ♪ bark, squawk, meow, that's how they sing. ♪ ♪ with joyful ring, so much spoiling. ♪ ♪ oh how they zoom, all through the room. ♪ ♪ so many tails! wag-ging of tails! ♪ ♪ merry, merry, merry, merry, spoiling ♪ ♪ merry, merry, merry, merry, spoiling ♪ ♪ hark for the pets, sweet little pets, ♪ ♪ cute faces say, "spoil us away" ♪ >>> back in march, when cities and states went into shutdowns to try to stop the initial spread of the coronavirus, when businesses and schools and whole industries were shuttered overnight, you might remember t

trump's presidency. it will be an extraordinary responsibility for a man who has no prosecutorial experience and who has participated in several decisions in which the department took steps that favored the president's friends or punished his perceived enemies. i would add to that steps that benefitted the president directly against serious allegations of criminal behavior. but the litany of things rosen's been involved in is amazing. among other things it was jeffrey rosen who tried to force an indictment of andrew mccabe, who was the acting fbi director who took over the fbi after trump fired comey. mccabe had overseen the important parts of the russia investigation. president trump demanded that mccabe be prosecuted and locked up. it was jeffrey rosen who tried to insist mccabe must be indicted, he must be prosecuted against the views of career prosecutors. it was also jeffrey rosen who was put in charge of reviewing the work of career prosecutors who took on the case of roger stone. the result of ros

i love my donald trump. for our last president, obama, even though i did not like the man or what he stood for. i didn't do anything to hurt or say anything nasty about him. even though i didn't like him. host: elizabeth from connecticut, democratic collar. caller: good morning, thanks for taking my call. i listened it to the other collars and i try to learn about other people's points of view. it hurts me when i hear them say nasty things about the democrats. altogether we represent this country, and the things they are claiming about democrats are the same things we feel about republicans. himselfrump has proven to be corrupt, selfish, narcissistic, and if you want to talk about pork one about all the money he directs to his personal business is? what about all the money he spends on golfing? what about the money we don't know about? divisiveness,t this country is so divided and to hear them say these nasty comments about democrats is really hurtful. i take it personally, and i don't know how this country

just another trump money fraud. the results of the election are locked in and the incoming biden/harris administration continues to add key players to the publicly announced team. jennifer psaki will be the whiti house press secretary. she was a deputy white house press second in the obama white house. kate bedingfield will become the white house communications gf director. neera tandan to the cabinet position to the director of office of management and budget. the chief executive of the center for american progress. the smoothness of the senate confirmation process will depend entirely on the outcome of the senate elections in georgia on january 5th and we are joined later in the hour by jon ossoffe democratic candidate for senate in georgia. members of the president's economic advisers do not have to be confirmed by the is not, so cecilia rouse will be the chair of the three member house. and heather boucher, serving as the other members of the president's economic advisers, leading our our discuss tonight is sam

trump is the least of our problems. he is a simple study at this point. trump is toxic, period.o go out with a bang in trying to blow up as much as he can. he is absolutely trying to make nothing better, despite the fact that america is in a time of abject crisis. he knows this. he doesn't care. so he's not working on the pandemic that is worse than ever, that he's not making a deal happen on relief when more people are struggling to put food on the damn table than at any time in this country since my parents were babies during the great depression. trump is so far gone that i cannot in good conscious play the substance of a 46 minute spiel that he spewed tonight. at is lies and ugly suggestions

trump was stronger.afraid of him, and he told people how it was going to be, and that's why we've had no terror attacks. so haven't things changed for the better? >> well, you know, chris, the way i look at it is that, you know, donald trump created a certain amount of leverage for joe biden on both the china front and the iran front. on the china front, he imposed 25% tariffs on about 50% of china's exports to the united states. and on iran, he broke the iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling economic sanctions. trump in both those theaters, chris, was never able to translate that leverage into really sustainable new deals. so he's actually left that for biden, and that's a potential opportunity for biden. now, in the case of the iran nuclear deal, the point i was making in my column today is what's changed since four years ago is that while israel and some of our arab allies are certainly concerned that iran not get a bomb, actually they're much more concerned these days about iran's proliferation o

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question with the end of the donald trump presidency is america 1st dead let's get to the bottom line. back when donald trump was campaigning for president 5 years ago millions of americans clicked into his america 1st talk when he kept talking about how the united states was getting a raw deal from the rest of the world they got it many felt like they had fought the cold war they made sacrifices and china had won but preselect joe biden in contrast is not an american 1st or he says he wants to get back to traditional multi-lateralism and give big hugs to the un and the world health organization the w t o and those paris climate accords but there are some critics of president trump who say he wasn't talking about america 1st at all he was talking about trump 1st and one of those famous critics who is neither a big believer in multilateral foreign policy nor trump 1st foreign policy is our guest today for decades john bolton has been on the world stage working for republican administrations and he was trump's national security adviser for more than a y

is it trump's america? so much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black men. do -- a lott had to of reporters and people on the coast are a bit more sensitive to some of the rhetoric that trump -- some of the things he says that can be taken as racist. a lot of people in the co

the second year of the trump presidency, i compared what we are seeing in the trump white house to the brilliant defictpin of an insane head of state, and flow, now the trump white house admits that that is what we have been living through. the "washington post" reports after his election defeat, wageful and at times delirious, and at times, trump was like mad king george, muttering, i won, i won, i won. there is not a single legal process any where in america monday that can change the outcome of an election in a sing the state. let alone the majority of the elect electoral challenge, and everything they are following around trump rrnd aing it's to help trick naive people to respond to the emails trump sends every day begging them for money that he claims will be used to fight the election, and can be used for other purposes. tugs jut another trump money fraund. the results of the election are locked in and the incoming administration continues to add key players to the publicly announced team. jennifer socky will be the white house press secretary. kate bettingfield will become the w