comment about not wanting black people working in trump tower, it was not in the tower. it was the casinos. i believe that was in jack o'donnell's book. it wasin my afternoon working hours. trump called me and a couple other all. -- couple other people. and i thought the comment was -- he said it one time, the first thing he said was what is the man doing up there. it was just ridiculous. unfortunately this was one that they were able to get into in 1980 because the stores were completely closed. they were working at trump tower. it was not like that at that time. i think i answered your questions, but yes, i think he is racist. it is something, he came from brooklyn, and clearly, there was a lawsuit and they did not admit to it, but they asked for the punishment for keeping black people out of the building. , i tried tosay that put it in context. i went back and forth. it to this day i still go back and forth on that. sense.not good in that it was something i heard a lot. i did my best china to fight .hat it was not necessarily -- anke, i don't know what that relationshi

the trump tower got so much publicity. [newsreader] trump tower is a major draw for tourists, with apartments selling for up to $10 million. and in the middle of it was donald trump. rewarded for his vision and praised for his ambition, the new titan of real estate had arrived and image trumped all. the more he flaunted his wealth and status, the more the city revered him. [newsreader] as long as this building stands, there will probably be some who will refer to trump tower as the house that tax abatements built. but that's kind of a ground floor look at this building. if you look a little bit higher, you'll see another story. a story of entrepreneurial vision, huge capital investment and sheer guts. he made his reputation on this. helping donald create a mythology around himself. i always like going first class. trump tower is the ultimate in first class and that's why it's been successful. everything was classy, this was very high class and this one has class and that one has class and you know, this looks like class. i

comment about not wanting black people working in trump tower, it was not in the tower. the casinos. i believe that was in jack o'donnell's book. it wasin my afternoon working hours. trump called me and a couple other all. -- couple other people. and i thought the comment was -- he said it one time, the first thing he said was what is the man doing up there. it was just ridiculous. unfortunately this was one that they were able to get into in 1980 because the stores were completely closed. they were working at trump tower. it was not like that at that time. i think i answered your questions, but yes, i think he is racist. it is something, he came from brooklyn, and clearly, there was a lawsuit and they did not admit to it, but they asked for the punishment for keeping black people out of the building. , i tried tosay that put it in context. i went back and forth. it to this day i still go back and forth on that. sense.not good in that it was something i heard a lot. i did my best china to fight .hat it was not necessarily -- anke, i don't know what that relationship was

comment about not wanting black people working in trump tower, it was not in the tower. he casinos. i believe that was in jack o'donnell's book. it wasin my afternoon working hours. trump called me and a couple other all. -- couple other people. and i thought the comment was -- he said it one time, the first thing he said was what is the man doing up there. it was just ridiculous. unfortunately this was one that they were able to get into in 1980 because the stores were completely closed. they were working at trump tower. it was not like that at that time. i think i answered your questions, but yes, i think he is racist. it is something, he came from brooklyn, and clearly, there was a lawsuit and they did not admit to it, but they asked for the punishment for keeping black people out of the building. , i tried tosay that put it in context. i went back and forth. it to this day i still go back and forth on that. sense.not good in that it was something i heard a lot. i did my best china to fight .hat it was not necessarily -- anke, i don't know what that relationship was li

she lives in a modest apartment and now she has trump tower and mar-a-lago and then they bring family members over that is the country that we know which is that donald trump said he wants to change that. >> the heart of the deal is a reporters book. >> i 100 percent have no interest to make a case for or against so to explain this interesting and consequential figure is what kind of response have you gotten from the white house and team trump? >> just the public response how you view her is colored by how you view him and it is very har hard. she can't be with him. there is that how can even write about it? how can you be so mean to her? why did you talk about the fact she exaggerated her resume. but then to get some actual facts of the woman is. just says in the fiction genre. >> seven months before publication and then to talk to other people they would just say send me more questions. so what day in september 1998 that milania met donald? they won't even say that. she likes the gap and the mystery and i tried to fill those gaps. >> thank you for the conversation and thank you for

>> guest: there's a vivid scene in the book about this, because in trump tower with hope hicks, chris christie, steve bannon, hole in inner circle, it's one month to the 2016 election and they hit play in the room listens to that "access hollywood" tape and just, trump was getting read from here on out. everybody, you know, some people thought the campaign was dead other people were moving quickly into okey, how are we going to spin this? was pretty clear pretty quickly that trump was really just worried about melania. because he knew that if she didn't stand by him right then, why with female voters? it's a close race. hillary clinton was going to be the first woman president, and without her backing him up, i think in a close election, meaning he didn't even when most votes picky just 150 states and 10,000 votes in one state made the difference in some cases. i went to pennsylvania right after that, because melania spoke. because pennsylvania was the key ground and it was in the end won by less than come way less come less than a a fraction of 1% bk and they sent melania of it. it w

trump would follow in her footsteps, in a sense, because he would start putting his name on trump tower, trump palace, trump park, trump everything. and so she had just the right face, name, and personality. the pillows were gonna be perfect. the rooms were gonna be impeccably clean. the flowers, the carpet, everything was gonna be perfect. [elaine silverstein] this wealthy, regal woman was going to be attending to the details in the hotel and people believed it. [elaine taylor-gordon] what could be more fabulous than being treated like royalty. but while her guests may have reveled in her attention, others were left frozen in fear. [bill dowling] she had an incredibly good sense of how to build a bond with the customers of the hotel chain. but everyone was scared of leona. she would lash out at you and i saw it happen to a number of people who had worked with her for years. at the restaurant of the helmsley palace, if there was as speck of dust on a glass or a saucer, she would call the waiter over, she would fire him and smash the saucer on the floor. if service was slow or if the sou

here they were at trump tower after trump's election in december 2016.es explaining he was pushing science and health policies at the meeting. >> i saw him in trump tower and i said hey, science and invasion is -- innovation is a great thing. that was about a broad set of things in energy and health and education. >> people have all kinds of ideas. you get a private audience with the president. while bill gates is not out here telling everyone i told you so, the evidence shows in many ways, he did. listen to gates pressing warnings about 2015. >> we need to get going because time is not on our side. in fact, if there's one positive thing that can come out of the ebola epidemic, it's that it can serve as an early warning, a wakeup call to get ready. if we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. >> it was time to get ready. many governments didn't listen or didn't want to spend the money. gates specifically outlining the type of potential virus that would be most infectious. notice how it predicts parts of covid transmission. >> you can have a vi

we have the former executive vice president of the trump organization and author of "tower of lies: whatworking with donald trump reveals about him." barbara, a source tells cnn trump is, quote, it's chaos, it's reality tv, but maybe millions will get the help they need. there are millions of lives and livelihoods in limbo right now. does this surprise you that president trump is treating this like a reality show and teasing what he may or may not do? >> it doesn't surprise me, because that's the way he handles everything. i don't think he has the capability of handling anything differently. he acts -- he does take it seriously, but in a sense, he acts as if he doesn't take it seriously. he reacts immediately, he speaks off the top of his head, he says nonsense things, like you were saying with the -- with this bill that he's supposed to sign into law, he sets it up and changes his mind about it. it doesn't matter if it's at the last minute of something major or just business as usual. that is how he acts. >> so i'll ask you that again because, you know, what do do you make -- you've wor

so if you take that line and you -- and you add to it the trump tower moscow project, you'll understand that this was a branding deal. that's all that the presidential campaign started out as. this was a branding opportunity in order to expand worldwide. >> the trump -- >> there's only one problem. there's only one problem. he won. >> oops. the way you describe the trump tower moscow project is grander than i had previously understood. 120 floors. you know, the free penthouse for putin. luxury condos, a hotel. a gigantic spa. >> is that not a brilliant idea by the way? if you want to raise the price per square foot, you give to probably the richest man in the world and certainly the most powerful in russia the penthouse apartment. so what does that do to the square footage of everything underneath it, right? it makes it enormously expensive because he'll just tell all of the other oligarchs, buy it or they'll just want to buy it on their own. so it's a brilliant move. it's just -- it's just not if you're running for president. >> that was part of my conversation with former trump attorn

of having a trump tower and complex in moscow are pretty darn high.'s something so strange about this relationship. i don't know exactly what it is. nobody really knows. but i can guarantee you, part of this is about having a place in the world where he's going to display his power to everyone. >> and i couldn't agree with you more. julie, meantime, in terms of how we remedy this and respond, so many both republicans, democrats, cyber experts say the first step would be signing the defense bill that the president has threatened to veto that is sitting on his desk. how important is that? that includes billions of dollars for cyber protection? >> it's incredibly crucial. the president has hung this veto threat over it for several weeks, kind of changing his story a little bit about why he's going to veto it. it appears as though there could be enough votes on the hill to override that veto because lawmakers, as you say, from both parties recognize how sweeping this bill it is and how crucial it is to america's defenses and not just through military hard

bankrupt at trump towers, then he goes over to deutsche bank, and then move into a special department. and then goes to second district of new york. he tries to put in a golfing buddy of his. oathchael: testified under , devaluing his properties for the irs and inflating the value of his properties for banks. as you know, that is fraud. you can go to prison. sullivan is now interviewing people from deutsche bank. second district has no love for trump. host: you have to hurry up because we are running out of time. caller: after he gets out of office, will there be litigation in the second district? thank you. guest: that is the hope of a lot of democrats, that there will be, they would like to see some kind of reckoning for trump. they look at his business dealings as the most promising avenue for that. things these types of are more rumored about than reality. even if there is just litigation, even if there is some just legal wrangling that happens, it could influence how involved he wants to stay in politics past 2021, or if he will otherwise be occupied for a bit. host: we would lik

he came fairly close, i was up at trump tower. he was doing a phenomenal job in my district. which is a brutal, vicious gang. in the 18 months before president trump got involved, in the fall of 2015, the spring of 2017, there were 25 murders in 18 months by them as 13 in my ms-13 inalone -- by my district alone. these were brutal. bodies cut in pieces, bludgeoned. it would send the video of the victims to families. really vicious killers. they were terrorizing their own people. immigrant communities, hispanic immigrant communities, as -- communities, terrorizing people. some were undocumented. they were really terrorizing the community. then it went beyond their community. it was horrible, what was happening. so i spoke to the president about it, and he came in in july of 2017, he actually came into the district, and he really coalesced all of the local law enforcement. prosecutorsr more added to the justice department, ice, fbi, the suffolk county police, all the technology they wanted, equipment. the president came in in july of 2017, the end of may of 2018, he held public

. >> michael:claims donald trump knew in advance about the meeting and trump tower. >> in a report that paul manafort paid secret visits to julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london according to the guardian. tucker: four investigations exonerated this president for trump russia collusion. there was no trump russia collusion. did anyone in the media mob correct the record or apologize? did any of these people, i could run an hour worth of tape, they retract years of fake and inaccurate reporting, did twitter, facebook or anyone sensor their unproven unverified russian disinformation? i don't remember any editing going on. the witchhunt was never about getting to the truth. it was to bludgeon donald trump. a political ploy designed to remove the president from office, render him illegitimate in the eyes of the public. it comes as no big shock that when the russia hoax was officially disproved america's institutions reorganized and came up with a new witchhunt, the ukrainian impeachment hoax, then 2019, one fake hearsay whistleblower, only one witness come forward anonymously acc

the muslim ban, but it started before that for me, when the candidate came down the escalator at trump tower and started talking about mexican as andest -- as rapists whatever other lunacy. this is a president who spouted xenophobia and racism that is book ended to this weekend when white supremacists ran amok through our nations capital and vandalized black churches and the president did not say a single word. that abdication of moral leadership from the white house has never been quite so clear. at latinos,irected at asian americans, at black americans, at muslim americans who the president has used as a scapegoat. him.e learned so much from i feel so grateful to be siblings in arms with derrick and kathy and so many other .ctivists to take on the threat that is facebook, couldn't have happened if not for these alliances. children are no longer separated at the border, so asian people are no longer blamed for this activists cank know they are heard when we save black lives matter. the heat has to end, and it has to end -- hate has to end, and it has to end now. >> those are opening comment

latino voters have seen they have been obliterated by a president who came down the escalator of the trump tower fiveta years ago. he started right away to attack our community. that is why we have a real opportunity that we need to sustain it so to build on the success. we made progress in certain parts of the state, texas i am certain will be a real battleground state in 2024. latinos. one word. >> thank you. before i go to my questions is this the republican party of donald trump? >> i'm not very optimistic of them returning to conservativism but to be concerned of economic issues we are seeing that being addressed but this is very much a part driven the boy identity with those economic morays and character morays and who they claim to be for decades and this is the great irony to be identity politics. one of the greatest purveyor is the republican party to recognize it as such and those that are 85 percent white is not hard to do those correlations and the issues the republicans talk about with white to have economic blaming other people for they believe is the demise ofof america. in fact t

i was at trump tower. he has done a phenomenal job in my district. is a brutal, which vicious game. and in the 18 months before president trump really got involved, in the fall of 2015 into the spring of 2017, there were 25 murders in 18 months in my district alone. these were not just murders, they were brutal. the bodies were cut into pieces and they were bludgeoned. they would video the families and send the videos. were really, vicious killers. and they were terrorizing their own people. in mainly immigrant communities, hispanic immigrant communities, terrorizing people who are reluctant to cooperate with the police. some were undocumented. so they were really terrorizing this community. went beyond their community, but it was horrible. i spoke to the president about in july ofame in 2017, actually came into the coalescednd he really although local law enforcement. four more prosecutors added to the justice department. fbi, the circuit county police got all the technology they wanted, equipment. again iny of 2017, and may of 2018. they held public meetings, and since he got invol

different the trump transition from celebrity apprentice >> i really has look different remember trump tower and the elevators? gromer, looking back at the biting campaign from the clyburn moment what made it work big picture quick. >> he caught a couple of weeks he had a long-established connection to communities of color particularly black voters under barack obama the other front runners did not have. 's after but the judge came out of iowa and new hampshire he had nowhere to go. 0 percent with african-american voters. you cannot win that way. most of the other contenders struggled as well and pretty sanders became the first runner that helped biden because they could rally around him because they do the sanders nomination would be a disaster from the party on - - for the party. so they rallied around that and have the wherewithal to survive and hold on because you know you will get rotten media coverage coming out of iowa and new hampshire and nevada. and the campaign struggled. they were not raising money. this tragedy on - - the strategy was off. but he wasn't put in a trap with the so

foul play comey went to trump tower and set up the president january 6, 2017.nd fowl play is certainly when comey snuck the people in the white house to set up michael flynn. the idea they call this foul play is ridiculous. >> laura: senator richard blumenthal who had a lot to say about the russian meddling, molly, had his own take.. this was last night on msnbc. about what this u.s. attorney in delaware was really doing. watch. >> the united states attorney in delaware and in pennsylvania has apparently been conducting this investigation. under biden has reacted with grace and dignity. he said he is going to cooperate. there is no reason to appoint special counsel except to try to wound and embarrass the bidenh administration. >> laura: how great is that? it's all about embarrassing the biden administration after what they did for almost five years against this president? a >> right. it says a lot about why they were pushing for a special counsel for the russia collusion hoax which was not real. the guidance for when to start a special counsel when there is a

michael cohen claims that then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 26 meeting at trump tower. >> we begin with a new report, paul manafort, the president's campaign chairman paid secret visits, multiple ones to giuliana sans at the ecuador and london. this is according to the guardian. [buzzer] >> sean: we have all of them exonerated and there was no trump russian collusion. that's a fact. did anyone in the media mob ever correct a record or apologize? did any of these people -- did they ever retract their years of fake and inaccurate reporting? no they did not. to twitter and facebook at anylo point, did they ever censor their unproven, unverifiedea russian disinformation in the dirty dossier? no. i don't remember any editing going out on. the witch hunt was never about getting to the truth. it was to bludgeon donald trump. a political ploy.it i designed to render and illegitimate in the lives of the public. it comes as no big shock that when an prussia hoax was officially disproved, america's institutions, well, they reunited and reorganized and came up with the new witch h

president's erratic behavior where he tweeted the baseless claim of president obama wiretapping trump towerg the 2016 campaign and following through afterwards in terms of firing the director of national intelligence dan coats. this is the place where the president tends to engage in that kind of behavior and given where the president's head is already at, he's considering a range of delusional attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. watch the space and watch what happens during the metroplnext the president spends his holiday at mar-a-lago. >> given how erratic he's been, he can be more erratic at mar-a-lago? >> that's what i would say, john. >> jeremy diamond, get some sleep tonight, you will need it. kirsten powell and rick santorum and john harwood, john, let me start with you of all these questions over the past four days of donald trump's feelings of national security and the rule of law. what do these pardons say to you? >> i think the pardons he did represent open corruption. this is a president whose goal for much of the last four years has been to try to absorb hims

he does a black lives matter sign in front of trump tower. >> laura: does it bother you, the sign? resident trump: no. people are vandalizing it. people are so angry. it's built such anger. you know what is happening. people are going buy and throwing paint on it. it was meant as a bad thing. what we have done for de blasio incredible. what we have done for cuomo. but it doesn't matter. >> laura: are you worried for the push for vaccine, the fast vaccine for covid you might be splitting a coalition of american, frankly in both parties, who aren't comfortable with the vaccine? >> president trump: once you get to a certain number. we use the word "herd" and once you get to a certain number it will go away. so it doesn't have to be. a lot of people are not going to want to do it. a lot of people don't do the flu vaccine. >> laura: should it be mandatory? >> president trump: i never had the flu. i never had a shot. never had vaccine. i come here, "sir you have to have a flu shot." i said why? what is the percentage? i wasn't thrilled. it's like 50%. >> laura: anthony fauci said it might

remember, maria it was january 6 , 2017, when president trump goes up, when james comey goes up to trump towerit's president-elect trump and james comey gives him a defensive briefing but it was a setup so they could leak the fact they talked to the president about the dossier so that is another key distinction they need to figure out why is that always the case, democrats get the defensive briefings and instead president trump gets setup by james comey january 6, 2017 when he talks to him about the dossier. maria: so nancy pelosi getting briefings, as speaker of the house, and then making a decision to put eric swalwell on the intel committee, all the while the chinese spies are coming around him, raising money for him to be a member of congress, and then he gets elected. >> yeah, i mean, again, it's why i think we should look into this and understand what director ratcliffe told us whose done a great job as odni. understand how serious this threat is, and deal with it , and also, i think it underscores another important fact. this president, president trump, has stood up to china more than a

trump just became the president of the u.s., jack ma was the first china person who went to the trump towermet with him and promised millions of millions of jobs he's going to create if he were going to show some goodwill in return to china. i mean, clearly his status is international and has way exceeded a normal business tycoon xi should be the person who meets with the person of the u.s. on an equal-to-equal level, not the boss of an internet company. >> june, it's funny, i pointed out to that meeting as one that ran ascance to the leadership of china, sort of along the lines of jack ma kind of raising their ire. let me come back to alibaba as a company and get your take of the state of the chinese consumer and on the state of their overall business right now >> so i mean, i think -- i guess you refer to the e-commerce part of alibaba group, so that's the entity in the u.s., and i think it is not -- it's not a dynamic strengthening monopoly it is, of course, still the largest market share in the e-commerce business. it's about 55% of the e-commerce market, versus three or four years ago

he had the trump tower with the gold and he was kind of famous and i thought oh, you know, i don't likeim, i think he's not well liked, i don't like a lot of things he has to say, but maybe he's a good businessman, maybe he can do good for the economy. also, at the time i didn't pay much attention to politics. i certainly do now and certainly will going forward. so i kind of listened to my mom at the time and went ahead and voted for him. within shortly after he came into office, i completely changed my mind and i can't even fathom the things that have happened. like you couldn't make this stuff up. the divisiveness that he has created and the suffering he has caused so many millions of americans is just so deplorable. >> megan, you mention your kids. you said they're having a hard time. >> yeah, they are. >> what has this been like for them? >> well, because of my autoimmune disease, my kids have to make sacrifices, too. they have to stay home. i have like a little bubble of people that we include to come by, they each have a friend that can come over, but they have to remote school an

controversies have erupted from here, including that president obama was responsible for wiretapping trump tower during the 2016 campaign. those happen here. at a time when the president is in such a volatile state, i think you can expect there would be a lot of aides and advisers who will be concerned about what they may see from the president over the next couple days and certainly will keep us busy here. >> seung min, jeremy is makings a good point that the president is upset with leaders in the senate, because they have acknowledged the truth that biden will be the president of the united states. are they bracing for just more erratic behavior from the president during his final 28 days in office? >> certainty. a lot of republican source were floored, obviously at the video message castigating this covid relief package last night, and they are bracing particularly as we head to january 6th, that critical joint session day in congress where there will be a formal tabulation of the electoral college votes. they will certainly by on their toes, on the edge, regarding the president's behavior, b

donald from junior and i saw firsthand what the media did to him because he took one meeting in trump towert resulted in nothing and it resulted in him having 20 plus hours of testimony in front of the senate intelligence committee, millions of dollars in legal fees and his name slandered in the media almost daily for a year and a half. he was not someone that was part of the intelligence committee and he definitely had his a lot of examination, where is that when it comes to hunter biden? we have thanks to tony bobohlinsky, joe biden was involved in the business dealings of hunter biden internationally. if joe biden becomes president of the united states on january 20th this is a national security threat that every american deserves answers for because the chinese communist party is bragging about how they are purchasing, blackmailing and extorting us politicians, we saw that with eric's wall well. is joe biden also on the list? shannon: we heard about tony bobalinsky but just a reminder of how the media has been treating the hunter biden story before election day. >> we know this is a cla

remember what they did to president-elect trump, jim comey goes up to trump tower and talks to him abouto what? go leak it and it becomes a bigger story, so it seems like democrats always get the defensive briefing and republicans get set up, i think that is a question, think frankly there are some questions speaker pelosi will have to answer. what kind of information did she received on this issue when she made the decision to put him on the intel committee. those are the questions that the speaker will have to answer. >> dana: you try to keep those wheels on the bus. congressman, thanks for being on the show. we will be in touch. >> thank you, take care. >> dana: months after a gunman killed her son, federal judge is speaking out and she joins me next. and now you can save $3000 a year. veterans can shortcut the process with newday's va streamline refi. there's no appraisal, no income verification, and not a single dollar out of pocket. rates are at the lowest they've been in our lifetimes. one call can save you $3000 a year. ú?pvg3?ñ and now with q4 wrapping up, the north pole has to

remember trump tower and the elevator, looking back at the biden campaign, what do you think, apart from the cliburn moment, what made it work big picture? >> he caught a couple of breaks. he had a long-established connection to communities of color particularly black voters, the other front runners didn't have so after pete buttigieg emerged from the mostly white state of iowa and new hampshire he pretty much had nowhere to go. 0% with african-american voters. you can't win that way. most of the other contenders struggled as well and bernie sanders became -- was the front runner which helped biden as well because people were able to rally around him because they knew a sanders nomination would be a disaster for the party. so he benefited from those things and i do think he has the wherewithal to survive and hold on because you know you will get rough media coverage coming out of iowa and new hampshire and the campaign struggled, they were not raising money. the strategy was off. they allow him not to get put in the trap with the socialist message and other messages mentioned earlier tha

freight i saw firsthand what the media did to him because he took one meeting in trump tower that resultednd it resulted in him having 20 plus hours of testimony in front of the senat intelligence committee, million of dollars in legal fees and hi name slandered in the media almost daily for a year and a half. he was not someone that was par of the intelligence committee, and he definitely had his thorough examination. where is that when it comes to hunter biden? we have now thanks to tony's reason to believe that he was involved in the business dealings of hunter biden internationally, if joe biden becomes president of the united states on january 20th, this is a national security threat, one that every american deserves answers for the chinese communist party has been bragging about have they been purchasing, blackmailing and extorting u.s. politicians. we saw that with eric swalwell brickey we've heard from tony before the election, but just a reminder of how the media was treating the hunter biden story before election day. >> we do know that this is a classic example of the right-wing

these guardrails have been obliterated by a president who when he walked down the escalator of the trump tower five years ago, he started right away attacking our communities. think we havey a real opportunity here -- that is why i think we have a real opportunity here, but we need to sustain it. that is exactly what we are going to continue to do. continued to climb the mountain in texas. we made progress in certain parts of the state. texas, i am certain, is going to be a real battleground state in 2024. here's a reason. one word. latinos. >> thank you, tom. before i go to my questions from the audience, as a republican, is this the republican party of donald trump? >> yes, unfortunately, it is. i'm not very optimistic about the republican party returning to the party that i joined before. i became a republican because i was concerned about economic issues in the latino community. i was not seeing that voice being addressed. part that ismuch a driven by identity and many reasons -- in many reasons. everything the party has shown for decades has shown to be a facade. everything they advocated

he still wants to build that moscow-trump tower. when he tried to build it during the campaign and lied about it, at that time, it was going to be the most lucrative deal of his life. so, he still may want money and opportunity from putin. and this is a president, who is driven by nothing more than his desire for more money. >> mr. chairman, between this, what we are seeing with russia and what we talked about in the beginning, with his efforts to overturn -- his overt efforts to overturn the election. that's not hyperbole. he is out there saying he wants to see the election overturned. what's the danger, you think, of normalizing this? >> it's enormously dangerous. look. there's going to be, whether he runs again or he doesn't, there's going to be someone running in the trump lane. someone running in the xenophobic, populist, i don't care about democracy lane. and this president has now made that, somehow, normal. and you can expect others to propose the same kind of cheating in elections. others tried to get electors to help them

michael cohen claims that then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower>> we begin with a new report that paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, paid secret visits, multiple ones to julian assange to the ecuadorian embassy in london according to "the guardian." >> sean: we had four investigations. all four exonerated this president for the trump russia collusion. there was no trump russia collusion. that is a fact. did anyone in the media mob correct the record or apologize? did any of them -- i could run an hour worth of the tape. did they retract the year of fake and inaccurate reporting? they did not. did twitter, facebook, did they ever censure their unproven, unverified russian information and the dirty dossier? nope. i don't remember any editing going on. the witch hunt was never about getting to the truth. it was to bludgeon donald trump, political ploy. designed to remove the president from office, render him ill legitimate in the eyes of the public. so it comes no big shock when the russia hoax was disproved, america's institutions, well th

but then it was trump tower. we admired that wealth. we admired it. r a lot of complicated reasons. so trump then, we had this attraction to that. the moneymaking part of it. so when the 2016 election came up, there is a sort of i don't know the word is. and you can say it. ben: the fantasy. speech yes a fantasy. it's a weird parade so i was done with line. and there is a any parallels in our books scared me. my husband said you need to call him right away and tell him to quit cupping lines the book. this drive from 2016 election . he gave them some glimmer of hope. maybe the outcome in 2016, they were the biggest trump voters. was against obama. but just about we need something anything. we are so desperate. this is a chance. this guy they followed. please he would do something, they didn't even care what parade is something. just so attritional party. ben: . kerri: i think i could go on but i won't . ben: towards the end of the book, and we may be getting the point where we stop and take questions. towards the end of the book, there's a slovenly summ

all of the vetting and security information he had gathered was thrown in the dumpster next to trump tower. >> astonishing. i will tell you tonight chris christie said that this case that he prosecuted was, quote, one of the most loathsome crimes i ever prosecuted. this is where this lands. andrea bernstein, author of "american oligarchs: the kushners, the trumps, the marriage of money and power." thank you for being here on short notice. i really appreciate having you here. >> i don't know whether i should say like andrew said, i'm not glad to be here, but i'm always glad to speak to you, rachel. >> thank you. that's very kind. yeah, it's gross circumstances, and yet here we are. >>> all right. we've got much more ahead here tonight. we're also going to be joined by the head of the house intelligence committee, chairman adam schiff. >>> plus i've got something to give you a heads-up about in terms of what the president is threatening when it comes to covid. that is not getting enough attention, i think, but i think i can lay it out in a way that makes clear what the risk is of what's he's

three different guys who were at the heart of that whole thing where trump said obama wiretapped trump towerwho made up the heart of that whole debacle are now the chief of staff at the pentagon, the top legal counsel at the nsa, and the chief of intelligence at the pentagon. and that last guy, the new pentagon intelligence chief, all of 34 years old, he's now not only the pentagon's intelligence chief. he's also in charge of, well, you can't quite believe it. trump's new last-minute lame duck defense secretary appointee just changed the structure of the military so that special ops, special operations, think like navy s.e.a.l.s, they all now report to that 34-year-old guy. and now that 34-year-old guy, the junior staffer who's running the pentagon's intelligence operations and special ops -- his name is ezra cohen. now he's just been given more responsibility. the trump administration has now suddenly and without warning ousted the head of the defense department's defeat isis task force. this is an intelligence officer who has worked counterterrorism jobs in the u.s. government for two deca

indictment of the russian lawyer who met with him, and new questions about what else happened in the trump tower>> sandwich between those calls back and forth is a blocked call, and we wanted to know, did that come from the president? >> martha: so, juan, i mean, byron, why the laptop curiosity about the story? >> well, i think bias explains it, but i think what was going on in some journalists' minds was they looked back to the 2016 campaign. there was the release of the hillary clinton emails and the john podesta emails. as a result of russian tax. they felt bad about that, that might have played a role. in public opinion and the election, and vowed never to let that happen again. so when the hunter biden laptop comes out, they make up a story about it. they say it's russian disinformation too, and therefore we should ignore it, e mistakes of what were made in the past. the problem was there just wasn't any evidence it was russian disinformation. 2016 was not repeating itself, it was legitimate information. they didn't know it at the time, but the justice department had been investigating thos