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 who are saving democracy. >> but they were wrong. it was all a lie. january 6th was insurrection, disguised as patriotism. wrapped in a trump flag. a lie fed to them from their president, their members of congress, their tv and radio 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 they were being told it would happen straight away. so you have both 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 it happen? how did millions of americans come to believe a network of lies so deep, so vast they would ignite

yet the myth of voter fraud is key to trump's big lie. and it was key before trump. disenfranchise voters across the country before donald trump. in an expansive new piece in the atlantic senior editor van new kirk leads out those extraordinary efforts by the republican party to demonstrate that fraud is being com mipted by minority voters on a massive scale. and van new kirk joins me now. this is a great piece. there's an interview with a woman named crystal mason who's one of the most infamous cases of this. tell us about crystal mason's story. >> so crystal mason, she is a black grandmother, mother, just hub of a family living outside of dallas, texas. and in 2016 she was coming out of a federal prison sentence and was doing supervised release. and she went out. her mother told her to go vote. donald trump was doing some things in 2016 and put the fire to a lot of folks. and she decided to go out and vote. she did not know that in texas she had to complete the terms of her release in order to get out and vote. so she filed a provisional ballot. it was actually den

. >>> even fox hosts were begging then-president trump to stop the trump supporters from attacking the capitol. "the lead" starts right now. any moment the house of representatives expected to vote on holding trump's white house chief of staff in kecontempt of congress as they reveal the panic, danger and hypocrisy going on that day. potential life saver. very promising final data on a pill to treat coronavirus as a new variant takes hold around the globe. >>> plus, a critical flaw. the biden administration and major tech companies racing with cybercriminals with hundreds of millions of the key devices we all rely on every day at risk. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start with breaking news. at any moment the house of representatives will begin debating whether or not they should hold mark meadows in criminal contempt of congress. later tonight that vote is expected to pass, largely along party lines, leaving trump's former white house chief of staff in a former congressman himself facing the very real possibility of jailtime for refusing to testify in front of the comm

that's donald trump's play book. it's worked well for him in the past, but my hope is that courts have now caught up to his game. >> neal katyal, thank you very much for joining us tonight. always appreciate it. thank you it. >> joining us is jill winebank, former general counsel of the army. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to read one passage of the appeals court decision today just to show the audience how ridiculous the trumpian argument was in this case. for 24 years of the presidential records acts operation and across five different presidencies, presidents including former president trump have agreed that the disclosure decision of an incumbent president controls within the executive branch over the contrary claim of a former president. and so, jill, there's the court saying, hey, when donald trump was president, he agreed completely with what joe biden was doing here. >> exactly. and it goes back even further than that because during watergate or right after nixon left the presidency, there

do you go back to trump? did trump tell you to do this? this? to go through this material, you need a guide. they have that guide. >> very interesting coming out here. late in the year as we look at also a transfer of power from the election in the new york d.a.'s office. david corn, thank you for walking us through it. when we come back, an eye on the house floor vote and what liz cheney is doing that may scare some republicans. s doing that me some republicans and we need more time. so, we want kisqali. living longer is possible and proven with kisqali when taken with a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor in premenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali is a pill that's significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor alone. kisqali can cause lung problems or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems, and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections. tell your doctor right away if you ha

it's a trump appointed judge. a former trump doj official who says basically trump, read the law. the law is really clear. congress can get these tax returns. and laws really clear in the supreme court that we don't accept someone even former president's innuendo for the motivation for the house of representatives and trying to get this information. it's an important win for the house. in another way, it's unremarkable. trump continues to insist that law must silence opponents and hide misdeeds and he continues to lows. it seems the courts have had enough of him. that's what the decision today is about. it comes as a bad time, it's not just the text that's have come out from fox news hosts that are saying, are saying stop this on january 6th which are incredibly powerful and compelling. it's pretty hard, i think, to argue that the horror of january 6th was a liberal dilution when you're on record as the fox news hosts are, texting pleas to the president saying, please make it stop. don jr. is sounding like, i don't know, roman or succession or something. some sort of cry for help.

this is trump supporters, qanon offshoot, a trump supporters qanon offshoot that believes trump is going to be king of the world or maybe he already is and the reason they have pictures of john f. kennedy with maga hats on here is because they say president john f. kennedy is coming back from the dead and so is his son john f. kennedy jr. i'll show you a video here shot by an online reporter who goes by the name hot tub twin on twitter. she has been covering these folks and their doings in dallah as concern grows that this mass -- this trump supporter mass delusion might be turning into something that seems more dangerous than it does just hi wacky. dangerous potentially, of course, to the people involved. >> you know jack? >> no. >> you remember jack? he's our president. and jfk jr. is our vice president. p and you'll find out soon. >> ya love it? jfk is alive. 174, you'll find out. it's in your face, 165. >> you see how they're saying numbers in between those statements? jfk is alive, 174. you'll find out, 174. it's in your face, 165. the numbers they're saying at the end of those phra

that's why those texts are coming into meadows who's with trump. everyone agrees. not trump. maybe not meadows. we don't know. trump delayed. he delayed and delayed. saying anything on january six. hence, the barrage of messages. and he finally released a video calling the insurrectionists very special, saying he loved them. now, after these text came out, the right has a hilarious moraly backward scandal on its hands. because this new evidence revealed by liz cheney right last night shows that a bunch of them had the correct moral, not to mention pr instinct in the moment that the insurrection was bad and dangerous and must be stopped. but of course, that deviates from the official party line that they have been repeating for almost a year. so not only does this humiliating episode revealed that they have been lying directly to their viewers, which is not that surprising, but still amazing to see so concretely. but they also cannot even talk about this good thing that they did. it's hard to figure out how to take a victory lap. i'm sure that they will try to do it tonight. o

but trump's political advisor might not like that >> we paul, would donald trump have to show up foroke the fifth amendment question by question? >> with that is a great question it depends on the practice in federal court, but not in practicing. as the suspect said, he wanted to invoke the fifth, you wouldn't make him show up in front of the grand jury. we so he actually had to come to the deposition and claim if 's lawyer made that quickly decision. >> david cay johnston, you have studied donald trump's business for many years. the boston post reporting that these kind of fluctuating evaluations, depending on who the company was dealing with, a california golf club is ready at $900,000 and $25 million depending on who they were representing that to. a suburban new york property, $56 million all the way up to 200 and $91 million for the same property. what is the attorney general aiming for in this investigation? well this is a fraud case, and fraud is always in every instance a crime. so if you want to challenge the property tax assessment. the assessor sizes 300,000 and you say no

rejection of trump's case. "the post" describing the ruling as having quote blunt and at times blistering language. they're not wrong about that. let me share with you a little bit of what this ruling sounds s like tonight. quote, shortly before noon on january 6th president donald trump took the stage at a rally of his supporters on the ellipse just south of the white house.nu during his more than one-hour-long speech, trump reiterated his claims that the electionim was rigged and stole. he urged then vice president t pence who would preside over the certification to, quote, do the right thing by rejecting various states electoral votes and refusing to certify the election in favor of mr. biden. toward the end of the speech, president trump announced to hii supporters that, quote, we're going to walk down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol, and we're going to try and give our republicans the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. urging the crowd to demand that congress do the righ

whether trump's in or not.here's no way around it, and as you mentioned, there are a few republicans who have come out and explicitly said they would not challenge him in a presidential primary. there are others in a different tier where they have said, you know, we're counting on him running, as kristi noem has, marco rubio saying that he was of course be the nominee if he did run. others indicating support but not quite going that far, and you have this group like liz cheney. and trump aligned candidates, mike pompeo, who aren't weighed in as 2024 but talked about as possible candidates and haven't said they wouldn't challenge him in a primary. that is notable for people like mike pompeo, mike pence, two people who served in the trump administration who haven't explicitly said they wouldn't challenge him in a primary. >> you mentioned pence. cnn's randi kaye got the opportunity to ask. >> reporter: if donald trump runs for president, will you still run? >> you know, our focus is on 2022. i can honestly tell y

trump what is it that trump thought was happening. it should go on. that there should be more people who came to the capital? who knows what trump said to any of these people. we are going to find out what we know for sure is that early on in his email was that went out sometime after we saw the images of donald trump jr. and kimberly guilford smiling, as this was going on in its early stages after they had given the speech, after ted cruz had incited the crowd, and the crowd was on the march. when did it turn to panic? what was the moment? were they saying to one another? when did the smiles get wiped off their face? the white house photographer was there taking pictures all throughout. where are those images? we haven't seen that stuff yet. but it is all there to be seen. and so, is this committee playing out? i think it's going to be absolutely riveting. we just got a little peek at what this committee has been doing as work. the speculation has been that they are not focused. i think that that's fair because a lot of congressional

of trump's case. post describing the ruling as quote, blunt and at times blistering language. they're not wrong about that. let me just share with you a little bit of what this ruling actually sounds like, tonight. , quote, shortly before noon ungenerous ex president donald trump took a stage at the rally of supporters on the, just south of the white house. during his more than one hour-long speech trump reiterated his claim that the election was rigged and swung. -- he then urged vice president pledge would observe over the certification to do the right thing by rejecting various states electoral votes, and refusing to certify the election in favor of mr. biden. towards the end of the speech president trump, and also support is that, quote, we are in walk down pennsylvania and we're going to try and give all republicans the kind of pride and wellness that they need to take back our country. urging the grout to demand that congress do the right thing and only county electors have been lawfully slated

he introduced trump to mr. clark, the acting head of the department's civil division who became one of the stop the steal movement's most ardent supporters. then after christmas, perry called donahue to share his voter fraud dossier which focused on unfounded election fraud claims in pennsylvania. pennsylvania counted their votes at least three times. there was no fraud there. that's where rudy suffered some of -- hard to figure out what's most humiliating when you're talking about rudy, but some of his most humiliating rebukes were from the suits he brought in pennsylvania. there was no fraud in pennsylvania. what is the sort of legal lens on a member of congress introducing someone who was a stated in public advocate for firing the top of the justice department officials because they wouldn't carry out donald trump's will to fabricate fraud in georgia and pennsylvania and other places. what would garland look at if he were going to look at that behavior? >> it would probably be the career prosecutors in the u

trump turn to politics, mr. cohen became this popular person to mr. trump. helping trump cover up

still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted, again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far. and gotten out of hand. end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. >> he knew. they all knew. even sean hannity. well, just moments ago, that committee voted unanimously to hold mark meadows, donald trump's chief of staff, in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena. and the amazing thing is that mark meadows served in that body for seven years. and tonight every single member on that bipartisan committee, many of his former colleagues, voted to hold him in criminal contempt. tonight's vote comes ahead of a vote from the full house of representatives. that is expected to happen tomorrow. if the house votes in line with the committee as they are likely to do, the department of justice will then get the case and they will have to decide whether or not to prosecute mark meadows. and if doj moves forward wi

donald trump jr. yelling so feebly. it's your father. >> right. >> and you got to go to mark meadows who's known the guy for a couple years when you've known him for 40 some odd years. there's the shakespearean part of it. i think it's so crucial, gloria. here's the text exchange we have, this specific one between donald trump jr. and mark meadows as the actual insurrection is happening. >> as the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. >> gloria, that is what donald trump jr. really thought. despite his many comments since

to declare trump the winner georgia. that was the call where trump kept talking about this woman, ruby freeman, used her name 17, 18 times. two days after that call, january 4th, a random woman, a stranger, showed up on ruby freeman's doorstep and, according to a police report seen by "reuters," the woman claimed she had been sent by an unnamed high-profile individual. she had been sent to help mystery man. she had been sent to help mystery man because mystery man was in danger. the woman told her people were coming to her home in 48 hours, but this woman, trevian kutti, she claimed she had been sent to help, to somehow avert this thing that was going on when in 48 hours, where people were going to come to ruby freeman's house, and she was going to be in danger. now, as you can see from the "reuters" headline there, one of the things that made this story extra weird when it first emerged is that this woman, trevian kutti, appears to have been a publicist for kanye west? i don't know. a representative of mr. west has deni

with donald trump. and the secret code is about how trump will be restored. how he is secretly orchestrating the return of the kennedys beyond the dead. also all of the dead celebrities. they are very joyous about this because the numbers tell you this is about to happen. the dallas christmas parade. this weekend with big jfk heads, with maga hats on. been in dallas for weeks now because they keep expecting the opposite of the zombie apocalypse. when the dead celebrities come back and it's a good thing. and trump gets restored. that's how it's going right now on the political right in america. that's how half of our two party system is holding up. before the 2020 election, pulitzer prize-winning reporter wrote a piece for the atlantic about this seemingly farfetched scheme. article is called the election that could break america. some had says there, if the vote is closed, trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. who would stop him? >> government described this scheme, ag

trump turned to politics, mr. cohen became this very visible surrogate and enforcer for trump, after mr. cohen pled guilty to, among other things, helping cover up illegal campaign contributions for his presidential campaign actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn't special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they'd send him right back to prison. sure he'd been releas

trump turned to politics,

still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand, end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. these nonprivileged texts are further evidence of president trump's supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes. >> supreme dereliction of duty. a remarkable list of republican and conservative media figures who would later, of course, minimize both the violence at the capitol and trump's responsibility for that violence. turns out the day it was happening, their texts show they knew both that it was terrible and that trump could stop it ifn he wanted to. we have talked on this show quite a bit about how the justice department is prosecuting the rioters who attacked the capitol on januaryn 6th, but as far as the people who sent them there, the people who planned and encouraged the attack on the capitol who came up with the whole scheme that if you ha

so, yes, trump's coup failed in 2020.ean, how could it not when these guys are running your legal team? but what about the 2028 election, the 2032 election and on and on and on. any about it. how would 2020 have played with a savvier politician, someone smarter than donald trump, somebody who has institution knowledge of american politics, it's likely that the next insurrection and the one after that won't involve a maga mob storming the capitol at all. in the future, republicans might as well put together a powerpoint presentation called "how to overturn an election without really trying" because with the groundwork that they are laying right now, they won't even need to. >>> turning to discuss the insurrection attempts in the past, present and future, senior legal affairs reporter for politico. before we get into some of the developments in the january 6th committee's investigation, i wanted to get your thoughts on what could almost be called an insurrection in plain sight from trump and his allies nationwide. as a lega

they subpoenaed trump's white house staff, trump's senior campaign staff, they subpoenaed trump's rallyanizers, they subpoenaed trump's chiefs of disinformation who spread the word that it is going to be lit or whatever the loons said about coming to washington on 1/6. they have also subpoenaed some of the rioters whose mission same was to hang mike pence. there is no way that when this production plays out on tv it will look like anything other than team trump telling the story. >> right. you mentioned organizers have come in. we know that mark meadows is now engaging with the committee. we know -- you know, and that's perhaps the highest ranking person in the trump white house other than the president himself. that sends also a message to anyone else who is thinking about standing in defiance of the committee that there is another way, and there is an example of not doing that. we know dan scavino's schedule, cache patel's schedule to come in. they are getting many of their most soughtafter witnesses to come in and testify. i think the reason they want jeffrey clark so badly is becaus

as somebody who doesn't like trump -- i didn't vote for trump because i can't stomach trump. >> love the replay. trump called the president of club for growth to complain about the ads and asked him to take them down worrying if people see the ad it will be bad for him in ohio. the head of the group responded by saying he would look into the matter. they reportedly sent trump's political team a polling memo to show them the ad blitz had no standing on -- no bearing on his standing in ohio and continued airing the $1 million tv add and put another $500,000 behind the effort. that is a little window of what it is like to run the republican party right now. we have a senior writer for "slate" tracking the ohio senate race and his most recent race is titled a guide to the crazy pants ohio republican senate primary and its most recent crazy pants debate. ben, what is so strange is that even when you're running in a primary with a smaller group of voters the idea is to appeal to a bunch of different people. this has been inverted where the entire race is one person, like interviewi

ultimately ended up on team trump.the couple has had an on again off again relationship, with friendship steve bannon, who shares their affinity for troll politics. that working relationship took a turn in 2019, when they held bannon starter groups called we build the wall. an organization which raise tens of millions of dollars for trump supporters, in order to privately fund a privately constructed border wall. they didn't build three miles about of. the whole thing came tumbling down when bannon, along with others was arrested. bannon arrested on the all of a chinese billionaire, why not. charged with embezzling some of the money that he duped trump space into donating. kind of a mean thing to do to people that trust. you never saw trial for. stockton and lawrence, they had their rv raided by law enforcement. been stuck in a state of legal limbo. now bannon, he had that taking care of, because he was pardoned by trump before trump left office. on the last day if i recall correctly. stockton and lawrence have not yet

he committed crimes for donald trump but unlike donald trump and the people who violated their oaths and committed crimes for donald trump, today gary wickersham did something donald trump has never done and will never do. gary wickersham admitted what he did on that dark day in our nation's history. donald trump will never admit what he did on that day. gary wickersham admitted what he did was a crime and he agreed to pay the price for that crime. we know now that donald trump will never admit what he did but we don't yet know if donald trump will ever have to pay the price of being as gary wickersham now is a convicted criminal. leading off our discussion tonight is steve schmidt, co-founder of the lincoln project. steve, we have an 81-year-old defendant sentenced today. the oldest person known to be charged among the close to 700 charged. while donald trump and jeffrey clark and congressman perry and mark meadows and others continue to try to evade any answers to any questions about what they did. >> i was struck by the picture of gary wickersham wearing a red hat with airborne pa

and, well, if you look at georgia, you know, you see that trump has got these candidates in his trump slate that he is trying to move into georgia, and that's one issue. you played the tape of his call to secretary of state raffensperger, and that's part of a scheme to try to influence the election and in fact to try to cheat in that election. that goes straight into georgia as well as david perdue. and then you got a third thread, which i'll bring in, if you don't mind, which is jeffrey clark, the guy we're looking at in the senate judiciary committee who was in the u.s. department of justice, nominally in charge of the environment division, which under trump you know he wasn't supposed to do anything in. and he got himself all cooked up with a scheme to undo the election where? in georgia. >> yeah. >> he has now plead the fifth. he is not exactly a principle figure. he is kind of dweebie. so the likelihood that there were people behind him steering that letter at georgia as part of that scheme operating within the department of justice and through the department of justice is a pret

into the trump organization. and we're going to get to beth of those stories shortly. but we begin "the reidout" tonight with something that's become abundantly clear. many the battle to save this american experiment with multiracial democracy, there is one party that is standing up for small d democracy, the government of the people by the people and for the people, and that is the democratic party. and then there is the party of open hostility to democracy. that's the republican party. just look at the past 24 hours. president biden began a two-day global virtual summit this morning on renewing democracy here and abroad. and while he didn't explicitly mention the attack on democracy on january 6, he stressed that democracy worldwide is headed in the wrong direction. >> in the case of sustained and alarming challenges to democracy, universal human rights and all around the world, democracy needs champions. here in the united states, we know as well as anyone that renewing our democracy and strengthening our demo

donald trump.you could somehow participate and expressing her support for donald trump, that it was going to give her the sense of purpose. sense of community. one of the last messages she shared on the social networking site, was that she had found her true brothers and sisters in the january 6th rally. and she was going up there. she said that her family thinks that she is crazy for doing it. but she knew that this is where she needed to be. god had given her this clarity and this purpose to be there to decertify, or stop the certification of the election. so that donald trump could stay in power and protect and save the children. >> those two aspects i found fascinating. her way into this isn't through politics, it's through the conspiracy theory of qanon. which is political. but her front end of it isn't. it's about this secret cabal of evil doers, independent from partisan politics. she moved from that into donald trump supporters. the >> hook if you will, is that she cared about children. she

it wasn't just in donald trump's head.re close to going through with it. >> congressman ro khanna, be safe, have a good holiday. that is "all in." the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> are you glad you did the interview? >> i guess. i mean -- what are you going to do? hey, look, you know, i go back and forth on this. it is true, like, we all share this country together, right? we do. and like, you know, they're doing the right thing by this committee. i'm interested in what they have to say, but the degree to which people are wedded to a set of beliefs and a perception of persecution that is so dangerous and toxic for like the body politic more broadly is really tough to deal with. >> yes. d

president trump's first appointee. trump appointees and two other far right conservatives said there's only a limited ability for the clinics to go back and sue and try to get some relief. the chief said, this texas law has essentially nullified abortion rights precedent in america and he dissented vigorously as did the liberals. >> and for the time being at least continuing until there's nor judicial rulings, abortion after six weeks in texas is going to be ruled out. >> right. the clinics aren't entirely happy at all with what they got today. because this law, that bans abortion before most people even know they're pregnant is still in effect. that means women are still scrambling over state lines trying to get the abortion. and it means these people that are sometimes referred to as bounty hunters than bring these lawsuits against anyone they think may be helping or aiding someone get an abortion. that all going to continue. the court did allow, as joan said, some limited challenges, but the clinics wanted to be abl

involving donald trump. the committee believes that they might develop quote, evidence of criminal conduct. by president donald j trump. or others. that they could send to the justice department, and urging an investigation. the times says, quote investigators for the committee are looking into whether, a range of crimes were committed, including two in particular, whether there was wire fraud by republicans you raised millions of dollars, off assertions that the election was stolen, despite knowing the claims were not true. and whether mr. trump, and his allies, obstructed congress by trying to stop the certification of electoral votes. in a committee meeting, republican vice chair liz cheney suggested that donald trump violated federal law, by obstructing an official proceeding of congress on january six. >> hours past, without necessary action by the president. did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress's official proceedings to count electoral votes. >> to

meadows inside the trump white house.everal things to try to advance donald trump's interest in overthrowing the election, and that included things that sounded really wacky at the time, like baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud, meddling, and evidence is now inside the hands of the committee. >> this powerpoint dated january 5th is beyond insane. >> a 38-page powerpoint. >> the powerpoint presentation. >> powerpoint briefing entitled "election fraud, foreign interference and options for 6 jan." >> we've been hearing a lot about the powerpoint although many have just come into view, and it's a powerpoint plot to stage a coup to install trump as an authoritarian leader without an election to back it up. it is that serious. the committee is looking at this. people should understand this, and as one of our guests mentioned earlier in the program, this may be more of the future. some of it starts with phil waltrip, the u.s. army veteran who is pushing this plot and met with meadows who faces this vote tonight not

how they fought to keep trump in power. ashley parker is the white house bureau chief for the washington post. her article titled -- let me start with some of the reporting from that piece. i thought it was fascinating. you know, we saw what they were saying. in public. but there were a lot of effort being undertaken by the group to further any kind of theory that they could. that would result in the election not actually being called for joe biden and counted and made official. >> yes, that is right chris. i think what we hope that we demonstrated with this piece, was that for at least a half dozen congressman. the number may be more. the claims of election fraud, went beyond grandstanding and the halls of congress. or press conferences. there were concrete actions. planning, sending email, putting pressure on different people. to try to do something about that. to try to affect donald trump. even though he had not been selected by the voters. we laid out a timeline. basically starting shortly after the election. where the

trump guy, i never liked him, as somebody who doesn't like trump, i didn't vote for trump because i can'tthat he is obnoxious, and outrageous >> love that replay there. according to politico last month, trump called the -- to complain about the ads and ask them to take them down. if people see the ad, it will be bad for him in ohio. ahead of the group responded they would respond to the matter. they reportedly sent his political team in memo showing the ad blitz had no bearing on his standing in ohio. the group continued airing the 1 million dollar tv ad yesterday, they put in another $500,000 behind the effort. that ohio senate race is just a little window of what it's like to run a republican party right now. and ben mathis-lilley is a senior who has been tracking the ohio senate race. his most recent piece is titled, a guy with the crazy path ohio republican senate primary and its most recent crazy pants debate. you know what is so strange here is, even when you are running in a primary where you have a smaller group of voters. the idea is to appeal to a bunch of different people, but

trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law not even someone with the name trump. trump is accused of inflating the value of his assets in order to secure more favorable loans and james has made it clear that being rich and once powerful will not deter her investigations. >> in this state we have a set of laws that every individual and entity must be held accountable to. regardless of who you are, regardless of your power, size, influence, wealth, station in life, one set of laws. and today we send a strong and loud message that no one is above the law. >> joining me now david k. johnson pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist and lecturer at syracuse university law school and author of "the big cheat, when donald trump fleeced america." back with us is neal katyal. is trump trying to get this before the supreme court? is that what is going on here? >> he may be. he is trying generally to delay, delay, which is what roy koom taught him to do. unf

t what could be worse for trump? the only thing that could be worse is learning that his long-time banker is talking about him too. and indeed the "washington posti was first to report tonight that rosemary vrablic, trump's long-time banker at deutsche bank who has handled hundreds of millions of dollars in facially inexplicable loans to donald trump through the years throughb deutsche bank, the "post” reports tonight that she is alsb talking to prosecutors now in the trump case. his long-time accountant, his long-time banker. one of them appearing before the grand jury, one of them just speaking directly with prosecutors in that ongoing ng criminal investigation of trump that has already resulted in felony charges against his business. i and all of that news for trump broke tonight before we got this new ruling later on this evening from a federal judge in washington, d.c. ruling that inn fact yes, trump's tax returns must be handed over to the house ways and means committee.ha this was a trump-appointed federal jud

trump's d.c. hotel was corruption in plain sight, taking in millions of dollars from foreign governments. the mueller report laid out how trump obstructed justice, which he is still doing today as he tries to thwart the sbreegs his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. and now we see republicans following in donald trump's fat steps. while the majority of the country rejected his lack of ethics, the republican base didn't care. today, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green supported calls for an added. at a for americans for residents moving to states like california and new york. she suggested the country underago national divorce. so now a trump republican can advocate for succession and it's no problem, make america great again by divorcing it? obviously, she says crazy things because she's an attention troll. but this is becoming main stream republican thinking. one of the foundations of our democracy is the collected belief in the institutions of government. in the rule of la

trump managed to keep the drift going.litical candidates. when he won the white house, trump pretended to divorce himself from his family business with his son eric taking over the day-to-day. but the evidence is clear. during the four long weird, dark inexplicable years of donald trump's presidency, his business drift was merely relocated from a high rise on fifth avenue to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we are still learning about who gave trump money when he was president. recently published filing show lost nearly $9 million in 2020. the loss comes despite the fact that the trump organization claims almost four point $5 million in uk government aid for the scottish golf clubs during the coronavirus pandemic. during thethe financial aid to d that that could be a fight elation to the clause of her vision found in a little document called the constitution. meant to keep federal employees safe in the president of united states for being influenced or corrupted by foreign states. and this accounting of who is putting donald trum

trump. and as many of those involved have admitted, on videotape and social media and in federal district court, they were provoked to violence by president trump's false claims that the election was stolen. the violence was evident to all. it was covered in realtime by almost every news channel. but for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. when action by our president was required, essential and indeed, compelled by his oath to our constitution, mr. meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privileged claim imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt. the white house knew exactly what was happening here at the capitol. members of congress, the press, and others wrote to mark meadows as the attack was underway. one techs mr. meadows received said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. and a third, mark, protesters are literal

president trump: yeah. mark: i mean -- president trump: a tremendous amount.o be keep your hands off the kids, but don jr., and ivanka was mocked, she was very successful. what was it like when your kids would come under attack, you knew they were lying about the russia collusion. president trump: like i said with don, they make up a story, they go after people, not only my kids, going afters about russia they had nothing to do with russia. it was so sick. they did, they went after my kids, my kids, ivanka had a successful company, we knew it would cost. every other president they make a lot of money during the presidency, and obama with netflix and all that, nobody lookings at that, made millions from a book. he got more money from a book than anyone that came close to, why do you pay money for a book? so much stuff to goes on. i knew i would hurt my wealth. didn't matter, i am wealthy, but to do it right, i could -- i could have made deals with everyone. deals in saudi arabia, i could have made deals with everyone. they all wanted me on make deals, i said do

trump, which is this committee.'s just trying to get back in good graces with a very angry former president. >> final question, big picture. i want to run something past you. initially i thought the president speaks on january 6, chaos ensues without any plan, without any malice aforethought. then i read your book and i read acosta and woodward's book, and i put together some circumstances. the ennis memo you brought to life, the challenges on states, the leaning on trump saying, hey, play ball with us, the leaning on pence with the foot soldiers. it really was a coordinated plan of attack, right? >> yeah, and i would also add leaning on the department of defense to investigate these crazy conspiracy theories and maybe do more, leaning on the director of national intelligence, the top intelligence official in the country. meadows was doing all of this. the president was doing all of this. and i think that that is -- that's what i put forward in my book "betrayal." this is not a one-off event. this is not the preside