the republican party was trump before trump and sadly it will be trump after trump. i think it goes back to gingrich and reed. gingrich rep and while web denies in an promoting religion because you have in the trump administration you had all of these people to spin trump's worst fantasies into even worse on the ground. one of the reasons i think that's popular it was all about this appealing language like pro-life, trickle down, all of these rhetorical reflect the realities. that provision is not just practices to debate we need to have for the government. >> okay and, mr. wolf? i don't disagree with the caller. i would however say donald trump prevents a further separate problem as one might have at the republican party. the separate problem to my mind is he is crazy somehow we managed to elect the president who operate in an altogether separate reality. not just from democrats but often from republicans. and i'm not sure we have quite come to grips with the meaning of this. of how a crazy man could become the president of the united states. exercise such a hole ov

the republican party was trump before trump and sadly it will be trump after trump. it goes back to gingrich and reed. gingrich rep and while web denies in an promoting religion because you have in the trump administration you had all of these people to spin trump's worst fantasies into even worse on the ground. one of the reasons i think that's popular it was all about this appealing language like pro-life, trickle down, all of these rhetorical reflect the realities. that provision is not just practices to debate we need to have for the government. >> okay and, mr. wolf? i don't disagree with the caller. i would however say donald trump prevents a further separate problem as one might have at the republican party. the separate problem to my mind is he is crazy somehow we managed to elect the president who operate in an altogether separate reality. not just from democrats but often from republicans. and i'm not sure we have quite come to grips with the meaning of this. of how a crazy man could become the president of the united states. exercise such a hole over so ma

trump campaign and for the trump transition and from the trump inaugural, and once trump was in office. and if this kind of crime sounds like it's becoming a familiar theme, it might be because you remember trump national security adviser, mike flynn, was also charged with being a secret foreign agent. while he was working for trump's campaign and while he was working in the white house. mike flynn was also, eventually, pardoned by then president trump. but there was that truly unnerving foreign agent case against flynn's business partner, where prosecutors in point laid out the case that flynn and his business partner had been on the payroll of a foreign country! while trump had been working on things like, oh, i don't, no vetting candidates to be director of the cia. congratulations, trump's first cia director, mike pompeo, two of the guys who helped choose you for that job, were secret agents working for a different country when they picked youiffe nt flynn, of course, was pardoned. his business partner, who was charged in that case will of the foreign agent charges, his case has be

come and sadly it will be trump after trump. it goes back to gingrich normalizing rhetoric. you have in the trump administration, you had all these people willing to spin trump's worst fantasies into even worse attacks on the ground. one of the reasons that was popular is it was all about necessary appealing language, like pro-life and trickled down, and all these rhetorical phrases that don't reflect the realities , and that religion -- it is not just practices, it is a mindset that invites a certain irrationality. it is unmoored from the empirical evidence and debate that we need to have for government. host: michael wolff guest: guest:? guest: i don't disagree with the caller. i would present that donald trump presents a further separate problem from the problems one might have with the republican party. the separate problem, to my mind, is that he's crazy. somehow we managed to elect a president who is -- who operates in an altogether separate reality. not just from democrats but also from, often, republicans. i am not sure

hughes said you went to a trump rally in human trump supporters. did they know you were from the "washington post"? >> host: he is from the wall street journal caller. >> caller: i mean the wall street journal part. >> yes i wear my press badge at all events were i am working. i was always identified myself as a wall street journal reporter and talk to people specifically for the book after the election. >> then they knew you were a conservative reporter. you say you were never attacked and yet in this booko you consider trump supporters brownshirts you calling us not cease? sir i'm really tired of being demonized for exercising my right to vote. >> you should be. that is not in this book i do not call anyone not caesar brownshirts for there was a concern around the president that he had been long given a name and a wink and a nod to some elements in america and in the party all the way from charlottesville we talked about all the way till january 6 in the joint chief of staff chairman as wondering two people, questioning whether the some of the hi

trump lost the election. they were deceived into believing the presidency had been stolen, their country was threatened. they had come to washington to fight for what they thought was right. >> they feel they're the heroic revolutionary courageous warriors saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, december december -- da skiezed as patriotism fed by their members of congress, their television shows, their friends on social media. >> it should have been predictable. you know, we saw people who had been whipped up into believing an election was being stolen and then being told it would happen straight away. so you've got radicalization and mobilization. that's the perfect recipe for acts of violent extremism. >> that threat continues to this day driven by lies that endanger our democracy. how did millions believe a network so deep, so vast they would ignite an insurrection to find the answers we have to go into that sea of people. see through their eyes. this is t

trump. they're describing scheme that apply to other people who were beneficiary of things. that is what's allen why so broke has been criminally charge with, it has to be fair 's unsettling thing for them tonight. then there is the amazing mystery of how is donald trump still there, what is the payments keen for donald trump himself? that is something that we don't learn anything so far in this indictment. >> but i think we're gonna learn about it before too long. >> it looks like it's coming. it looks like that's what it is ahead of. us thank you, rachel. >> thank, you warns. >> thank you. once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime, according to an indictment by a manhattan grand jury until today. in court in my hand. we've already seen his signature on checks written in the commission of a federal crime. here's donald trump signature in a cheque to michael cohen as part of the criminal payoff scheme to prove event stormy daniels from telling the ugly t

trump. and in order to make a case, if there's going to be a case ultimately made against former president, you are going to need someone who was close to the former president. had intimate conversations with him, knows where the bodies are buried. knows how the records are kept, knows where the documentation is. that certainly sounds like mr. weisselberg. so, i'll be particularly interested in the quality of the evidence and the nature of the charges against him. >> i want to read for you and the audience recording from the new york times about this tonight saying over the last few months, allen weisselberg has continued to show up at trump tower at times coming face to face with mr. trump. but now, the trump organization's lawyers have taken steps to avoid the appearance of any impropriety. in the past, many of mr. trump and mr. weisselberg's conversations were private and behind closed doors. now, they are under instructions to meet in the presence of a witness. and chairman, that clearly

it was written by donald trump's niece, mary trump.n the book, mary trump revealed that she was the one that had access to those documents. and she had turned them to reporters at the new york times and those were not just the source of award-winning journalism, but also they became the basis of a lawsuit that she launched against her uncle, donald trump in which she alleges he treated her out of tens of millions of dollars in trump family assets that were otherwise rightfully hers. that lawsuit of course is now one item and a growing list of legal woes for the former president and his businesses including these new charges brought in the new york state court. police to join us now is mary trump, she's the author of too much and never enough, how my family created the world's most dangerous. michelle says a new book coming out on august 17th which is called the reckoning. our nations trauma in finding a way to heal. mary trump, is great to see you, it has been too long. thank you so much for coming back. >> that is great to be here rac

trump's american nazi supporters. the people who come to his rallies, believing that adolf hitler did a lot of good things, but could have done more. s,donald trump has supporters wo wear t-shirts who say 6 am w. e. meaning, 6 million were not enough. a problem they have within the hitler's murder of 6 million jews, is that hitler did not murder enough jews. and those people, in those t-shirts, love donald trump. americans who love adolf hitler, love donald trump. people who have that kind of poisoning themselves, always believed that they can spot it in someone else. america's most poison human beings, american nazis, they look at donald trump and see their biggest hero since adolf hitler. now they have a news report today saying that donald trump said, hitler did a lot of good things. which probably consist -- confirms their admiration for donald trump. a spokesperson for donald trump today said a statement denying that donald trump said that hitler did a lot of good things. clue clerks clan members love donald trum

he, first, started working with the trump family in the 1970s when trump's father, fred trump, was in. these days, he's not just the cfo of the trump organization. he, also, handles the trump family's personal expenses. he knows things. and manhattan district attorney, cy vance, and new york's attorney general, who are investigating trump, want details. there is the issue of the so-called hush-money payments, which were allegedly used to silence two women who came forward during campaign 2016. alleging they had had affairs with donald trump. affairs, the former president denies. michael cohen, trump's former fixer and attorney, says he secretly recorded a conversation with trump talking about payments to one of the women. the recordings were released in 2018. and on them, cohen mentions allen weisselberg. which would mean weisselberg was in the know about the shell company, allegedly, set up to make the payment. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> reporter: cohen has said, both, trump and weisselberg had knowledge of the hush-mone

that's not just trump chaos, this is trump this information. this is trump disinformation that could kill. some conservatives finally seem to be growing tired of it. today trump's longtime friend tom brady mock trump at the white house for his election lies. >> not a lot of people think that we could've won, and i think 40% of people still don't think we won. do you understand that, mister president? >> i understand that. >> fox is sean hannity who usually helps trump spread lies actually said this on his program last night. >> please take covid seriously. i can't say it enough. enough people have died, we don't need any more deaths. research like crazy, talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals, based on your unique medical history, your current medical condition and you and your doctor make a very important decision for your own safety. take it seriously. you also have a right to medical privacy, doctor patient confidentiality is also important, and it absolutely makes sense for many americans to get vaccinated. i believe in sc

for donald trump. a spokesperson for donald trump today issued a statement today that donald trump said hitler did a lot of good things. ku klux klan members love donald trump. the former klan leader supported donald trump's run for presidency in 2016 that what became the controversy of the day for the trump campaign in 2016, donald trump pretend not to know who david duke is or what he thinks. but that didn't bother david duke at all. because david duke knew that that was what a winning politician was going to have to say in a situation like that. so the racists who love donald trump because they believe he is one of them have never believed his denials about being one of them. they just see that as something donald trump, a smart politician, has to say. but they believe that they know where donald trump's heart is. america's klansmen, america's nazis believe that donald trump has in his heart what they have in theirs. sheer hatred. so they will be cheered tonight with the news reports that they will

we want trump. >> trump sent us. none of the republicans who are boycotting service on this committee could've refuted that statement today. trump sent us. that testimony will never be contradicted by anyone in this investigation or any other investigation of the january 6th defense. many of the criminals now charged with attacking the capitol have already said in their own defense that trump sent them to commit their crimes. and so the committee that's charged with investigating what happened on january 6th and who caused it already has the smoking gun testimony against donald trump. trump sent us. the trump mob who were sent there by the president of the united states told officer michael fanone how they wanted to kill him. >> at some point during the fighting, i was dragged from the line of officers and into the crowd. i heard chanting from some in the crowd, get his gun and kill him with his own gun. >> officer fanone had a few to say about the republicans in the house and the senate who tried to block this inves

think about the trump suits, trump eyeglasses, trump water, trump fragrance. all of this stuff that generated money for trump for nothing, for no work and no effort. other people paid him to put his name on their stuff. that's gone. in addition to the hotels that suffered and the hotels that are gone. covid took a big bite out of his properties by ending the tourism business for all of 2020. so his business was in dire shape at the beginning of 2021. then came the january 6th insurrection and trump's role in it which drove away more lenders, more business partners, a pga tour event, the british open and now on top of all of that we have this indictment which they haven't been convicted of anything, but it adds legal costs and uncertainty at a time when the business, as you said, is already at one of the lowest since 1990. >> i think about companies convicted. not something that happens very much. arthur anderson back in the early 2000s, that was ultimately overturned but wrecked the business. that was an accounting business, it had clients who didn't want to b

and eric trump so a major moment in the context of donald trump, the trump organization, and his legacy? >> it is interesting to see, again. allen weisselberg turning himself, surrendering moments ago and laura we don't know the language of the indictments yet. we'll see that later today. we don't know if it will name or infer in anyway to the former president. nevertheless this is the former president's family business being hauled before a criminal court. that in and of itself is historic. your take? >> it's huge. his namesake company. for so long we all focused on the russia investigation when in fact prosecutors in new york that had zeroed in on the president's company. this is a closely held family company. this isn't some enormous public corporation. of course trump will be all over the documents here even if he isn't named as a defendant. as you said we haven't seen the charging documents. thanks to kyra's reporting and the team we know this has to do with some extent of taxes that weren't paid but we need to see the dollar amounts because that could affect the sweeter of the cha

president trump election. how did you gain resources and get people's trust enough to be able to help you out and comment for you even if it's off the record for this book? guest: i've been a journalist for 2000 years. a big experience -- four 2000 years --for two dozen years. i've covered donald trump for the campaign, all four years of the presidency. people respected my process, my reporting, and my writing. through that, that's where i built the trust for re-create these scenes for people to talk to me. there was a fair amount of people who talk to me in a reputed way. there's not a lot of room in the bubble around president trump to criticize him, not criticize them. but to tell him he's doing something wrong or he needs to do something different. a lot of folks i talked to spoke to me very bluntly. it appears they had not had the opportunity to do that with their own colleagues or with the president themselves -- or with the president himself. host: you recount in the book one incident where he calls you

trump. [cheers and applause] >> former president trump: wow! what a crowd.anting] >> former president trump: thank you, thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. what a group. thank you, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> sean: grab a seat, sir. okay, i have one minor complaint. i did not get that reaction when i came out. [laughter] thank you, mr. president. [cheers and applause] >> former president trump: nice. >> sean: boy come i guess one question my asked this crowd coe are you missing me yet? i think i know the answer. [cheers and applause] from day one, the day you and melania trump came down the escalator, you talked about securing the country's borders. you had a fight hard to get the money to build 500 miles of wall to stay in mexico policy. you built the wall. you ended catch and release. now we see what is happening. your reaction to all of it. >> former president trump: well, there's never been a better time six months ago and never a worse time. we had the tightest security and you could come to our country illegally. you know what else mass

is donald trump and donald trump jr. and eric trump and ivanka trump. that is a tremendous problem for the entire family. finally, i just think we need to point out that there were two things that were bad for donald trump today. one was this indictment, which as elie's been going through is very lengthy, very detailed. but the other is, to bring it back to washington, nancy pelosi announced the select committee on january 6th today. liz cheney, a very conservative republican, agreed to be on that committee. these two things are going to be happening at the same time no matter how many exclamation points donald trump wants to make in these statements. >> jen rogers, now that you have heard all the details or what we have been able to consume from the indictment and from inside the courtroom, is this what you were expecting today? >> well, it's a little more than i was expecting in the sense that, you know, they did charge more crimes than i was expecting. and hearing from michael cohen leads me to believe more than i did

trump. the next steps will focus on mr. trump. on the next phase, prosecutors will continue scrutinizing whether they manipulated profit to obtain tax value. there has been some speculation that bank fraud and insurance fraud that had been reported. there was some discussion that maybe that wasn't going anywhere. it sounded like that was next with a focus on himself. number one, the initial indictment is a lot of charges, 15 felonies. number two, there is more coming in the three, there's been a lot of discussion about an unindicted co-conspirator. as far as we can tell, that is not president trump himself. so you understand, here is one of the places this phrase occurs in the indictment. it says, quote, operation in the conspiracy from 2005 through the date, the named defendant and others including co--conspirator number one agreed to implement a compensation scheme. that unindicted co-conspirator does not appear to be president trump. i will explain whys that the case. it will seem that better chance that unindicted co-conspirat

allen weisselberg and the trump organization and trump payroll office have all pled not guilty.e is -- these are live pictures. this means allen weisselberg is leaving the courtroom or is this from earlier? he is leaving now. allen weisselberg is leaving the courtroom now. ely, he's not handcuffed this time, is he? >> right. so he has clearly been released as laura coates just said. we will have to figure out what the terms of that release are. has he been released on his own recognizance which means we trust you to come back, has there been a bail condition, will he be under house arrest, something like that. these proceedings are quick. you are advised of your rights, you plead not guilty and he walk out. >> and he goes home? >> he will go home. the question is that he may be confined to his home. sometimes when someone is released like this the judge will say you can't leave your home or you can't leave the state or you need special permission or you have a curfew. those details we will get soon. >> jennifer, what happens with the investigation? what happens with allen weisse

trump really only works for donald trump.lebron. are these republicans eventually going to figure out you can't recreate the special sauce of t career and recognize they'll have to find their own path? if you have a choice between the real thing and the fake thing, i don't know how many republicans will get that excited about ron desantis. >> i think it's going to take seeing dozens of not hundreds of political careers going up in flames trying to recapture that magic that only trump can afford. i don't think that's the case. and what's unique here is, for all of desantis' problems and challenges, he's a very cunning political person. he rides into the governor's mansion strictly on his fealty and imitation act of trump and in essence won that support by kissing up to trump all throughout the 2018 cycle. it was said he ran his campaign for governor out of the trump hotel in washington. but he and the other contenders that are looking at the landscape understand that in the case of 2024, it's very precarious. until an event ha

trump can take credit for that. trump was vaccinated, his entire family was vaccinated.how exactly did this become politicized? did those trump supporters did not realize that he got the vaccine, he helped develop it? >> i agree. i want to stress that, what a feat of science that was, to be able to look at where we would've been today -- we're talking about the surges in many of our states, look at where we would've been if the majority of us hadn't been vaccinated. you only have to look at what is happening in the continent of africa, where you're seeing over 1 million new cases in the last month and you're seeing five countries report icu shortages and the vaccines are out of reach for most people. that is the situation we would've been in. today we have the luxury, we have vaccines that are safe. we have vaccines that reduce transmission to other people, we have vaccines that keep you out of the hospital, they keep you from getting hospitalized or dying from this disease. this is a vaccine preventable disease, and all i can say is one way, as the surgeon general talke

trump." . you and i had these discussions in realtime when it was happening back then and said it was political fraud to impeach donald trump, especially when there was not much chance he would be convicted, anyway. you as members of congress do what you are called upon to do and what the constitution dictates that you do or you don't. but it shouldn't be about whether it's politically fraught or politically advantageous. >> thank you, ali, and it was effective, right? we did not obtain a conviction in the senate, but by holding him accountable in the first impeachment, we were able to shine a light on this effort by having ukraine put dirt on joe biden, and we stopped it. ukraine was not ultimately able to run the campaign that donald trump was inviting them to run. so shining a light, although it did not remove donald trump, it prevented ukraine from doing that. i want to draw a distinction between what happened with ukraine when you had bogdonovich, fiona hill who stopped those contestors. t

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 scenarios that he was worried about in the aftermath of the election. >> it seems like this is a scenario, a nightmare scenario, susan, that a number of officials had. you know, just sort of more broadly, the speaker nancy pelosi was concerned and had a conversation with milley about the possibility of a nuclear weapon being used. and i think at the time you heard a lot of people even close to the president saying, you know, don't worry too much about what he's doing with what turned out to be the big lie. really downplaying that. and you also get that sense as well with not worrying too much about what might happen with some sort of foreign engagement. and now we're getting this look at just how dire it was. >> again, i think what milley was doing in a way, he was taking the playbook in the final days of richard nixon's tenure. remember the defense secr

trump because i think he's a fraud. well, i think he's a total fraud that is exploiting these people. >> i do, too. i agree with you on trump because i don't think he's the person -- i don't think he actually cares about folks. >> how do you turn around from that? well, he sure has tried. now vance says he's all in on trump now that he's a candidate he has deleted anti-trump tweets and made this apology on fox news last week. >> i criticized trump back in 2016. i ask folks not to judge me based on what i said in 2016 because i was very open about the fact i did say those critical things and i regret them and i regret being wrong about the guy. i think he was a good president. i think he made a lot of good decisions for people and took a lot of flak. >> also a moment of honesty he told times national political correspondent molly ball since trump is the leader of this movement that he, vance, needs to suck it up and support trump if he cares about republican voters. and florida's governor ron desantis, whose campaign tea

trump. so they are describing schemes that apply to other people who are beneficiaries of had things that are laid out there. and that's what -- allen weisselberg's just been criminally charged with so it's got to be an unsettling prospect for the trump family tonight. >> the other, amazing mystery. how is donald trump paid? what's the payment scheme within that business for donald trump, himself? and that's something we don't learn anything about in this indictment, so far. >> but i bet we are going to learn about it, before too long. >> it looks like it's coming. looks like that is what's ahead of us. thank you, rachel. >> thank you, laurchs. >> thank you. >>> once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime. according to an indictment by a manhattan-grand jury. unsealed today, in court, in manhattan. we have already seen donald trump's signature on checks written in the commission of a federal crime. here is donald trump's signature in a check to michael coh

and a second trump impeachment. today's announcement, the president biden will meet with president volodymyr zelensky is a win for the democrats, who investigated and impeach donald trump. it is one of the end result of ignoring the pundits and doing the right thing. the ukrainian isn't leading with an american president who wants to undermine our democratic institutions, you will be meeting with a president who wants to strengthen international relations, and confront common enemies. democrats did the right thing, and were rewarded for it, investigating trump did not hurt their electoral chances. neither did impeaching trump, and now here's the lesson, democrats should take the same approach to investigating the capitol insurrection. house republican leader kevin mccarthy a possible witness in the investigation wants to undermine the january 6th select committee. he picked an serious, undemocratic republicans who should've been rejected from the committee. and then when speaker pelosi followed through and rejected

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and to everybody in that courtroom that this is not because donald trump is donald trump. this is because there were, you know, legal issues that were going on as it relates to allen weisselberg. i need to these this out more. this has been a very intense pr push on the part of the trump organization. we saw allen. i think we saw awe different trump attorney. we got the statements now. we heard from the trump organization earlier today. they're looking to compete in the pr wore. i think there is a sense of the significance this could have on the trump brand. let's be clear. i you this we have been. donald trump is not being -- was not indicted to day. donald trump was not charged in this case. that said, the organization that bears his name has been charged. an organization for which he has not and never fully die vested from. he should do so. his sons, one of whom are still managing the organization and this is his brand. the now i defer to david, the previous guest on all things related to the trump brand which is objectively taking a hit at the time he's been in office.

is not the problem, republican party before trump sadly it will be trump after trump and i think itgingrich and read. gingrich weapon rising rhetoric and read promoting religion because in the trump administration, you had all these people willing to spend trump's worst fantasies every into even worse on the ground and one reason i think that was popular is that it was all about appealing language like pro ice trickling down in all of these rhetorical phrases that don't reflect realities. not just practices, etc. mindset inviting a certain amount of irrationality so unmarred from the empirical evidence and we need to have this for government. >> okay. michael wolf. >> i don't disagree with the caller, i would however say donald trump presents a further separate problem from the problems one mighthe have with e republican party but the separate problem in my mind is h that he's crazy. somehow we managed to elect a president operates in an altogether separate reality not just from democrats but also republicans and i'm not sure we've right come to grips with the meaning of how a crazy

the trump organization effectively is donald trump, okay? it is charged with ten felonies, a scheme starting back in 2005 to defraud federal, state and city tax collectors, okay? 15 years' worth, equating to 15 felony counts against the trump organization cfo allen weisselberg, both for what he allowed himself to receive, allegedly wrongly, and what he paid out to others. the question is, did weisselberg sign the checks? the answer is no. so, therefore, what did the man who did sign them, donald trump, know? who would know the answer to that? allen weisselberg. that now draws attention to the main question. can prosecutors put enough pressure on mr. weisselberg to have him tell the truth about donald trump that he hasn't told already, if the truth is, in fact, illegal, conspiracy, grand larceny, falsifying business records, criminal tax fraud. no joke. but i will be straight with you. these charges on their face don't blow me away. any time in prison is something that would scare any of us and rightly so. but even in the first degree, this i

trump won! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump!on: ma'am, unfortunately, there's a lot of enthusiasm for joe biden he's the most popular president ever! he's significantly more popular than barack obama was in 2008, especially in the inner cities because he has a track record of not being racist. his son definitely didn't droplet's say words that i don't even want to use abbreviations for with letters in them. and if you believe that, i've got some waterfront front sell you in dallas. nice oceanfront property in dallas because i'm a real estate guy. yeah. and if you really believe that, i have some donald trump jr. art work that i will be -- [cheers and applause] thank you, ma'am. [applause] i appreciate that lead-in. i wasn't going there. but you know, why not? dile some don jr. art work. i'll put a nice piece of paper. maybe i'll break out my ar. i'll shoot a smiley face into it. and i'll sell it for half a million dollars in china who are probably influencing our government because that's probably what's happening, right? how do

michael cohen would take donald trump down. this could be the end for donald trump.charges against donald trump. they keep setting their sights up high, trying to put the bull's-eye directly on donald trump. when the bull's-eye falls short, news doesn't add up what they hoped it would, they keep the story alive anyway, don't they? it could lead to his eventual flipping. howie: he could flip and that would be trouble for trump. but you're not suggesting -- you're not suggesting it is not a legitimate story when this criminal indictment, whether it is warranted or not against a company of the former president of the united states? >> it is a legitimate story but so too is hunter biden. and that is what i object to. i object to the press saying it's a legitimate story when it is about a republican especially donald trump, it is but don't extend that same type of coverage to joe biden or people around him, in this case joe biden's son. howie: donald trump's pretty constant stream of complaints about an election he contends is stolen get a lot of media coverage. wants it

yet they knew that and saw every word donald trump said and they went out there and defied donald trump tonight and they did it in large numbers. and mitch mcconnell's vote, by the way, one thing that occurred to me, one reason for his vote is not just getting the bridge in kentucky that he desperately needs but also protecting his members who have been threatened by donald trump to show that the actual republican leader of the senate is on board with this bill also at this stage. >> you suggested something at the beginning that i agree with which is i think the intervention helped the democrats put this together. couple days ago i got a text from a top democratic aide who said will the republicans follow donald trump? or will they try to make a deal? and i think this might be significant, you know, donald trump will have a lot of power in that party. there are a lot of republican rank and file who will vote with donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that a very close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs

it's people who served under trump.lly, it's general mattis and john bolton. now, on these allegations trump responded by -- with a statement today in which he said in part i never threatened or spoke to anyone a couple of our government, so ridiculous. sorry but the eselection my form of coup and if i was going to do a coup one of the last people i want to do that with is general mark milley. if i was going to do a coup one of the last people i would do it with is general milley. >> what we're dealing with in donald trump is somebody who is clever and smart but is a bit of an imbecile and has no sense of history. in the famous moment when general kelly went to europe with donald trump and donald trump started to praise hitler about the you had a bond and roads and kelly looked at him and said never say anything nice about hitler and i think the late writer george norm ale mail her say in history only a few names get now. the andy warhol will pay mao tse tung. trump saw those more as celebrities because he never did his

to bunch of trump rallies andpu trump supporters.from the wall street journal part. >> yes sir. all events where i was working always identified myself as a wall street journal reporter and talk to people specificallyir for the book after the election. >> they do you were in a conservative reporter. you say you were never attacked but yet in this book you consider trump supporters i'm really tired of being demonized for exercising my right. >> you should be assigned in this book i don't call anyone not caesar brownshirts. he had long been given a wink and a nod of some of those elements in america and in the party. all the way from charlottesville and the joint chief of staff chairman is questioning whether some of the hires that the presence ofbr bringing into the administration may have ties. but certainly i don't identify any of these book number of rallies she comes to the capitol, washington for january 6. she says in this that if mike pence would have come out of that building i guarantee he would have died, saunders said. if i

donald trump will have a lot of power in the party, a lot of rank and file who will vote for donald trump. but i think republicans are starting to realize that, ever close relationship with this man could really hurt them, especially among swing voters in the suburbs. now, even among some of his working class supporters, who basically like transportation bills. they like building roads, they like the jobs that are involved here. i also think that mcconnell may have been persuaded by the idea that, if they are going to attack the -- bill, they might not be completing restriction us on this. maybe they're full obstruction strategy also died tonight. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> great to be with you, thanks. >> coming up, we will be joined by congresswoman susan wildes. she was with president biden today in her congressional district in pennsylvania when he got the word, that the senate had reached a deal on infrastructure. infrastructure you look a little lost. i can't find my hotel. oh. oh! ♪♪ this is not normal. no. ♪♪ so? ♪♪ right? go with us an

before, to monetize trump's great brand and serve trump's interest. to sort of buy what he was interested in but his brand is toxic now and he's lost interest. so why is it there? what does it do? i think the brothers are struggling with that as they try to figure out what do we keep? what do we sell? how do he get through this? as i say, it's going to be harder to sell off a bunch of things and focus on politics because the things they might want to get rid of, the most-struggling properties, also have these huge loans on them. >> all right. david, i know i will be seeing a lot of you as we continue to focus on this. thank you so much for your time. >>> trump's money problems, post presidency, and his history of using the presidency to draw in cash from supporters may be why he was so eager to stay in office. and partially why he encouraged the capitol riot. when it comes to the january-6th investigation, speaker pelosi is prepared to risk political capital to get to the bottom of what happened. despite republicans pulling out of the commission, beca

for me, this call -- it's almost like donald trump, if this were a bank heist, trump trump was tellingple, justice department, you drive this car, crashed through the windows of the bank window, and evolved, and i'll take it from here. so much damage would've happened had the justice department carried this out. i shudder to think of what's more could've happened on january 6th, a day that i lived through as well as my colleagues, and the whole nation live through, and a lot of people remain traumatized as a concrete consequence. >> congressman good to see you tonight, there will be some interesting reading for you and your fellow committee members, congress man roger krishnamoorthi. we have much more to get through on this friday mike, including a conversation with federal work -- we will be talking to a doctor in the hardest hit state for covid. stay with us. stay with us here we go. ♪ ♪ ♪ so i'd like to know where you got the notion ♪ ♪ to rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't tip the boat over ♪ ♪ rock the boat ♪ ♪ don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the bo

trump. today he's going to meet with trump at his golf club in new jersey. his office claims the two discussed upcoming special elections, the mid-terms and fundraising number. a source claims there was no discussion apparently about the elephant in the room which is mccarthy's current high stakes decision to name five republicans to the committee will investigate the january 6th investigation. he has to make that decision in the coming days. to state the obvious, the central of that investigation is donald j. trump. the meeting between mccarthy and trump as we are hearing some of the most disturbing revelations about the actions of his final days in office. specifically that the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, feared trump would attempt a coup after the election. viewing him as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. that bombshell coming from "washington post" reporters in their upcoming book. but none of that seems to matter to kevin mccarthy. he's embracing the man at

from trump's most loyal supporters. but this weekend that type of far-right propaganda has a home. and it's the premier conservative gathering of the year, cpac. the agenda is littered with boilerplate big lie nonsense. one of the biggest applause lines so far came from someone in the crowd. >> the big lie! [ cheers and applause ] >> trump won! >> the phrase, "trump won," has become the rallying cry of a movement that has tried to hijack america's peaceful transfer of power. the doj just released more body cam footage showing what that looked like. the assault you're about to see is graphic and it put the officer in the hospital with staples in his head. [ yelling ] so when speakers at cpac downplay that day or insinuate the 2020 election was stolen, that, the brutality you just saw, is what they are excusing and inspiring, potentially. let's go to cnn's donie o'sullivan live in dallas at cpac. donie, it's clear that donald trump and the big lie still control much if not all of the republican party. what else are you he