security assistance is asked for after former donald trump lashed out at prosecutors investigating his business dealings and conduct after the 2020 election. but it was another trump comment getting all the attention here in washington. major garrett reports. >> reporter: republicans and d.m.s hammered former president trump today for suggesting he would pardons to convicted january 6th riters if elected again. >> it is traitorous conduct for the former president to say he wants a part in them. >> i don't want to send any signal it was okay to defile the cap poll. >> reporter: this is what the former president told a rally outside houston saturday. >> if i run and win we will treed those people from january 6th fairly, we will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. >> reporter: by dangling the prospect of pardons, trump has complicated future negotiations for potential plea deals for hunlses of varieties. the prosecutor probing trump's efforts toover turn the election asked for f.b.i. security after former president singled out black prosecutors who l

. >> reporter: but neither of those senators objected when former president donald trump announced he would pick a woman to succeed ruth bader ginsburg. >> it will be a woman, a very talented, very brilliant woman. we haven't chosen yet, but we have numerous women on the list. >> reporter: when ronald reagan ran for president in 1980, he too campaigned on a promise to make history. in his case, by nominating the country's first female justice. >> one of the first supreme court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman i can possibly find. it's time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists. >> reporter: of the 115 supreme court justices in american history, 108 have been white men. only five have been female. a black woman has never even been nominated. >> he will choose and nominate someone who has impeccable credentials and is eminently qualified. there's no question in his mind that there is a wealth of qualified talented black women to choose from. >> reporter: and a key democratic senator says it's about time. >> i don't look as it being politic

there's nothing except donald trump. they still adhere to his policies. they don't like the way he says it which still makes me nervous. you have a lot of republicans that are falling off. the more he sounds off like this like providing pardons for those part of january 6th when we all saw that was not a sweet, wonderful group just visiting the capitol for the day. that was an attempt to over throw the election and people recognize that. >> i was going to say i think some people are looking at people like glen in virginia, you can embrace trumpism withoutliing the former president himself and doing it the way he does which is a part of why this trend going in the other direction for the former president. your take on senators denouncing the pardon idea but the hypocrisy of staying open for president running for president. lindsey graham is the guy who said there's no future without trump. yet here he is still being graham, as we saw there, the same with susan collins. >> right. the gop is not going to quit trump. even with his movement we're seeing with r

we have spoken to the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence, this is as donald trump publicly admitting for r the first time he wanted his vp to overturn the 2020 presidential election. we'll bracheak down all the new provocations by the former president. >>> covid cases are declining, america are urging the biden administration offering clear guidelines and how to lift restrictions and move away from the pandemic. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i am wolf blitzer, you are in "the situation room." ♪ >> this cnn's breaking news. let's get straight to the breaking news, escalating tension rieght now between russa and the united states, we are covering all the angles at this hour. our clarissa ward is in eastern ukraine, our nic roberston is in moscow for us. let's go to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. i understand you have new developments we are learning about right now. >> reporter: the united states has just received the written response from russia in the response with the united states and also in writing seek

donald trump lost the house in 2018. and the only question i think among political operatives now is how big are the democratic losses going to be? and, yes, there is every single day they wake up to some new depressing metric about party i.d. or congressional generic congressional ballot. so everything becomes another reason for republicans to start measuring the drapes. but, you know, we have got almost a year to go. a lot of things can happen. and especially i would watch covid and inflation, see if those two things improve. that's what the president and his party really need. >> shannon: i think we all know 9 to 10 months in politics is an eternity. meantime to circle back around to where we started with the dnc. by the way the chairman jamie harrison tweets this out to unnamed sources if you expect me to go away or roll into a ball and whimper you picked the wrong one. party fear and fangsism. you have permission. now get with the program. hugh? >> that's temperate. that's exactly what i like to see the dnc chair pu

at the same time, the more that donald trump is in the ne, the more that this -- as we get closer to the mid-term elections, the more that republicans have to talk about dond trump or distance themselves from these false statements he is making about january 6, the better it is politically for democrats. that's the kind of thing that really fires up their base. it alienates independent voters. and fundamentally, i think that the leadership on the republican side really does want to put this behind them and move forward. and donald trump is making that very, very difficult for them. >> woodruff: asma, how do you see the political calculus at this point for republicans? >> i mean, i agree with amy that really i think this is u putting a lot of pressure on having a bipartisan consensus. it is languishing to some degree in congress because democrats are hoping more transformational voting rights. you have susan collins of maine, mitt romney, who have been pushing for that. it has been, i would argue, more of the progressive democrats, who have been concerned about moving forward with the

trump, american carnage. and actually had the despair of the midwest of the united states that came from this kind of these kinds of actions. you talk about in the book, well elected trauma. you know, let's talk about the in westerman the midwest. was d industrialized. and one of the reasons why we lost so many industry was the high cost of electricity, particularly because of these private utilities, raising a cost of energy to the rough. ok. now, the over arching issue is a philosophical on the mayor of cleveland, who founded our municipal electric system. at the turn of the 20th century, tom l. johnson. he said they should, i, i think that, you know, his words are, were very eloquent and i want to repeat them. i believe in public ownership of public service, monopolies of water systems, of schools, electric systems, of parks and on. because if you do not own them, they won't chime on, you, dell, corrupt your politics, role your institutions, and finally destroy your livers. that will show over a 100 years

you'll recall he was also donald trump's liaison to capitol hill. what he will shed light on, the imminent danger that make pence was in. he'll be able to talk about the pressure campaign by president trump and some advisers around him to try to get the vice president to take on this extra constitutional role throughout the electors. so i think it is very interesting testimony. >> it's pretty clear marc short would not have cooperated with at least some sort of sign-off from former vice president pence. he's a very loyal man to make pence. do you think pence himself will testify if he is asked or issued a subpoena? >> it is hard to say, right? there's a fine line between chief of staff going up and the vice president himself going. it's going to be a big, let's wait and see. i would not expect to see the vice president. marc was there. i've spoken with marc after, about the events of that day. he's a patriot, a good man. i think he has a lot to share with the xhae. i would not expect to see the vice president himself testify. >> let's turn to mike n

trump towers. he is atop the polls. collins is why donald trump remains a threat. a republican party that cannot deal with the cancer, not just in the republican party, but to our democracy is the reason we have trumpism. >> i got to tell you the truth. the last person i would probably pick on in that regard is susan because she voted to impeach him at least. to convict him on the impeachment. there are other republicans that deserve our disgust over the failure to call out this guy and the things he says and the things he does. and as a quick aside before i make the point i want to make i want to congratulate tim for not beginning his talk today with a taunt about his team beating the chiefs yesterday. congratulations to the bengals, tim. congratulations to a team that was strong when they had to be and wish them the best of luck going forward. the point about the january 6 committee is this. here's the most important job right now. communicating to the people in america that need to hear the evidence. they have gathered a lot of evidence at this point. they won t

otherwise, the scariest — we see in donald trump. otherwise, the scariest thing is this guy is not going _ the scariest thing is this guy is not going to seize power by coup, even _ not going to seize power by coup, even though he is talking about things— even though he is talking about things that are really terrifying, but the — things that are really terrifying, but the real horror is the idea that this man _ but the real horror is the idea that this man could yet be democratically elected _ this man could yet be democratically elected and that is where i think the focus — elected and that is where i think the focus of right thinking americans across the board, including _ americans across the board, including in his own party, should be. ~ ., , ., ., including in his own party, should be. ., , ., ., , be. well, he does want to be 47 aaain. be. well, he does want to be 47 again. president _ be. well, he does want to be 47 again. president number - be. well, he does want to be 47 again. president number 47, i. again. presiden

has donald trump finally gone too far? this weekend he basically accused two prosecutors going after him, two black women, of being racist and mentally sick. he dangled out the possibility of pardoning criminal defendants charged in the january 6th insurrection. he admitted he wanted vice president pence to overturn the election. and republicans are pushing back on his latest outrageous rhetoric. will they finally stand up? plus, a so-called freedom convoy shutting down some of the busiest streets in canada. residents making there anger felt about vaccine mandates and more. leading this hour, russia, front and center at a u.n. security council meeting today offering no explanation for its heavy troop build-up along the ukrainian border. the u.s. leaders say russia walked away with one clear message, knowing ukraine has support from around the world if russia does dare an invasion. joining us live from the united nations, nations,. >> reporter: incredibly sharp divisions on display here, revealing in this public setting no

donald trump is saying that the prosecutors are racist in an effort to really trigger his voters. he knows that sort of language is going to get a sense of righteous indignation that they are being discriminated d d aga. it's like tphrase we're hearing reverse racism. they are justified in reacting how they want. she's been clear she is unbiassed and takes no pleasure in this investigation and skrus try -- just trying to get to justice. donald trump knows he can use these words to create fear. >> dana i know you had conversation about supreme court nominees, so tell us. >> one of the big things, comment from last week is roger wicker, the senator from mississippi who said that the idea of the president announcing that he is going to pick a black woman for the supreme court is akin to affirmative action and quotas. that is another thing that is putting his colleagues in a very uncomfortable position because not everybody agrees with him at all. that's something else that i talked to the new hampshire governor about. >> i'm never for quotas. in the opportunity of bringing somebody t

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they wanted the election turned over at the request of donald trump, to griff it to him, even though -- to give it to him, even though he had lost. i never thought i'd see something like this. i remember when i was a young law student at georgetown law school, i'd come up here and say the in the gallery and -- and sit in the gallery and watch this place and see both republicans and democrats debating everything from the civil rights to voting rights, routine matters, and i thought, what a place to be. these extraordinary senators from both parties from all over the country speaking about the laws of the constitution of our country. i remember even after i went back to vermont and started practicing law and became a prosecutor, i thought of the days i was here. my parents and others just watching this body and how thrilled i was when i came here thinking the u.s. senate can and should be the conscience of the nation. and then i look on television and see a man who was decisively defeated for reelection to the presidency saying to followers, if i'm elected president again, i can pardon

donald trump continues to spew these divisive dangerous ideas from his exile in mar-a-lago. and his calls have been echoed by a vocal faction of republican lawmakers. lawmakers who are actively encouraging their supporters to treat political opponents as hostile adversaries. other republican lawmakers have remained silent, refusing to condemn them. for example, last year, a republican congressman tweeted out an animated video showing himself murdering one of his democratic colleagues. another house republicans has expressed support for quote national divorce. national divorce between red and blue states. i might remind this congressman that the last national divorce, our civil war, cost more american lives than any conflict before or since. some may weigh this for political office or political buster or just a bad joke but the reality is more troubling. these tacit and even explicit endorsements of violence have taken a tragic toll. over the past two years, our nation's public servants have faced a wave of violence. one survey found in nearly one in five local elected offici

so did donald trump. remember that narrative. that is the narrative that he ran on where he wanted to bring law and order to your communities now he's telling you straight out that law and order to him means pandemonium and chaos on the street and danger. that is what law and order is for him. it is no longer a convenient narrative for him. >> and harry going after three prosecutors, the fullon county d.a. and a.g. as well and you heard in the sound bite called them vicious, radical racist, these are three african americans. we know the president's history on race, highlighting these three as racist, you hear what? >> i hear, i'm not very silent dog whistle and that is starting to rise and all of this, i think, is supposed to be read meat to his followers and it does it to get libs furious and but nevertheless, it is just unspeakably foul. we've spent four years dividing us, there is a emerging consensus that terrorist as tacking the capitol to deter the rule of law is a bad thing and that is exactly what he goes for. and anythin

. >>> still ahead, donald trump floats the possibility of pardoning those charged in the attack on the capitol. >> if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. >>> also ahead, we will go to washington ahead of a busy stretch for returning lawmakers at the top of their long to-do list, a battle over the next supreme court pick. >>> joe rogen apologizes sort of after a number of artists pull their songs off spotify. their songs off spotify.rble. big boi quartz. word? realtor.com to each their home. i could've waited to tell my doctor my heart was racing just making spaghetti... but i didn't wait. i could've delayed telling my doctor i was short of breath just reading a book... but i didn't wait. they told their doctors. and found out they had... ...atrial fibrillation. a condition which makes it about five times more likely to have a stroke. if you have one or more of these symptoms irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or lightheadedness,

when donald trump does it, he says he's some kind of a victim. so the party is well past the time where they have to step away from this guy and they realize he's just going to be a disaster in 2022 and 2024. >> and laura, not only did trump say he wants to pardon those january 6th attackers but also issued a statement wrongly claiming that his vice president pence could have overturned the election and, quote, unfortunately he didn't exercise that power, end quote. now couldn't all of this be evidence to prove trump's intent that day that he wanted the election to be overturned by pence and the fact that he wants to pardon these january 6th attackers, that he supports, he condones those actions? >>, it could. it also undermines any statements he may have made in those videotaped statements he released, anything that might be in the national archives, documents that were handed over. i can imagine members of the committee almost salivating to have these missing pieces. especially since they have not yet called for him to testify. so this might co

we go to capitol hill where republicans will be asked to comment once again on donald trump. leann, so republicans now have two questions as they try to figure out the future of their party, how they want to approach the mid terms, like what do they want to be for and do they break themselves away from donald trump when he keeps saying stuff like this about what happened in 2020 and beyond? what do we know about how that tension's playing out in the party? >> well, garrett, a clean break from the former president seems to be very hard for republicans to do, even though republicans continue to separate themselves from him. last month mike rounds up here in the senate said that with the president's false claims about the election are in fact that, false, and that the party needs to get louder in denouncing them. then just yesterday you had susan collins, who has never been a supporter of the former president say that she is unlikely to support him should he run again in 2024. now, we all expected her to be much stronger on that issue, instead saying just unlikely. so there does

at a texas rally, donald trump talked of a comeback. his list included talk of pardoning those convicted of attacking the capitol and the country on january 6th last year. then last night, trump issued a statement the january 6th committee will take as a confession. the former president says it is unfortunate that mike pence didn't overturn the 2020 election. let's begin our conversation with maggie haberman of "the new york times." you tweeted last night that trump was saying the quiet out loud when he issued this statement. i want to read it. he's talking about the efforts to reform the electoral college act. actually what they are saying is that mike pence did have the right to change the outcome and now they want to take that right away. unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power. he could have overturned the election. the vice president does not have that right. but what did that tell you about donald trump's mindset and thinking at this juncture? >> he's in, john, burn it all down mode and has been for some time. it raises quest

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donald trump admitting he wanted mike pence to overturn the election and declaring that he could pardon the rioters charged in the january 6th insurrection if he were president again. >> tuning out spotify. the c the company responding to criticism with joe rogan and misinformation on his podcast. >>> we begin this hour with the united states and russia facing off at the united nations. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting on the crisis in ukraine. the u.s. requested the meeting in hopes of forcing russia to publicly explain why it is amassing tens of thousands of troops on the ukrainian border. u.s. ambassador laying out her case declaring moscow's recent actions poses a clear threat to international peace and security. while those talks play out in new york, the white house continues to look for ways to punish moscow if it does further invade ukraine, identifying several elite russian government officials and business leaders to hit with sanctions. and cnn is also learned that senior administration officials including secretary of state tony blinken will deliver a

donald trump held a rally in texas saturday, where he teased a possible presidential run and defended people charged for their involvement in the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. pres. trump: if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6 fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly. amy: trump called for mass protests if prosecutors find him guilty of attempting to overturn 2020 election results or of financial crimes through his businesses. on sunday, trump released a statement confirming he wanted then-vice president mike pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, falsely claiming pence had the authority to do so. in related news, the house committee investigating the insurrection subpoenaed 14 people friday who lied about being electors for trump in states that were won by joe biden. in another blow to voting rights, a pennsylvania court on friday struck down a state law that expanded mail-in voting. the court ruled pennsylvania's constitution requires voters to ca

trump and donald trump himself, by the way, has a track record of doing this. remember back during the muller investigation. he was constantly dangling pardons and ended up delivering pardons to people who refused to testify or started to cooperate and then stopped. paul manafort, michael flynn, roger stone. if the purpose is to stop people from talking whether against donald trump or other people who stormed the capitol on january 6th, that could be obstruction. >> but if he didn't face actual charges when he did it as a sitting president, why would he face it, you know, as someone who might be running for president, might win but isn't president today? i just wonder. the system hasn't proven itself capable of policing this, has it? >> jim, i completely agree with that question that you're posing, and i think it leads to the next question, where is the united states justice department on this? they have charged 700 plus capitol rioters, they charged some oath keepers with sedition of conspiracy for the first time but quite still literally at ground level. has

recalling similar pledges by ronald reagan and donald trump to nominate women writing in part quota, president biden's promise is in line with the best traditions of both parties and our nation. but a new poll finds 76% of americans say bind should consider all nominees not just black women. >> i believe that diversity benefits the supreme court. but the way that the president has handled this nomination has been clumsy at best. >> reporter: and no matter who president biden selects, she will make history if confirmed. a 50/50 senate like this one has never confirmed a supreme court justice before. the white house knows they will need every democratic vote and they are keeping a close eye on republicans like collins and graham hoping their nominee can get bipartisan crossover support. >> thank you very much. >>> now an outpouring of grief and support in the wake of the sudden death of cheslie kryst. former miss usa winner and tv host. jumping to her death from a high-rise apartment building in midtown manhattan. morgan, good morning. >> reporter: police say this all happened just bef

donald trump doesn't kaerp about that. het wants to get people riled up and in the streets to support him. it's kind of a gangster move in a lot of ways and it's what we've come to expect from donald trump. >> laura jarrett, this isn't the first time that the nformer president hasn't said that out loud. what we heard was him coming out saying that vice president pence at the time should have overturned the election, the electoral counteract. it's now being revisited by bipartisan support from congress is what he's pointing to as justification for why he's saying out loud now what he did want the vice president to do, what he thought he was capable of doing at the time and ultimately did not. >> so over a year into this, he's still wrong about what he says pence could do. let's be clear, under the act pence has a purely ministerial role. he's supposed to be opening envelopes, reading the ballots and saying goodbye. trump is still saying he could overturn the e ooh lex when he was advised that's not true. the question for in

until that outsider emerges who can crystallize those issues that donald trump and donald trump alone managed to take over the republican party from people like asa hutchinson in the first place, then it's going to be donald trump. stuart: okay, i hear you loud and clear, charlie hurt, first thing on a monday morning. >> great to see you. stuart: a new poll shows president biden getting failing grades on his handling of key issues for example, inflation, good morning, lauren. lauren: let's start there 69% disapprove of the way president joe biden has handled inflation, which is at a four decade high that according to abc and while the economy is certainly a major point of contention here, more than six in 10 respondents give president biden a thumbs down on gun violence, and on crime, so you have a presidency surrounded by a host of problems and many of them if not all are kitchen table issues. stuart: the voters recognize it, lauren, thank you, let's get into the markets bring in jason katz. off the top of my head here is my question. we've seen the correction, we've had a correction

i can tell you donald trump plays no role in legislating on capitol hill, has no sway with any member of the senate, obviously has some sway with members of the house. but i would just say that with some time i think that we now see and i think it's abundantly clear what happened on january 6th, and if donald trump says it's nothing and says he wants to overturn it, i'm not a fortuneteller, but that seems like a bizarre political strategy and sububstantively, a chuck said, ridiculous. some folks have said these people deserved to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> the law and order guy, who has had a lot of support from police, military, law enforcement, what in the world will they think if trump says, yeah, those riots, a-okay? i'm guessing not good. chuck rosenberg, jake sherman, thank you both so much. we have to save time for spotify. spotify paid $100 million for joe rogan to be on their platform, and amid the controversy, it's lost more than $2 million many market value to keep him there. what do they do next? does money talk? it appears to. it appears to. joints

donald trump went a political realightment. the republican party under trump brought in the working class voters and made it a working class party including many who voted for barack obama. and working class voters are not for smaller government. they want -- unlike elites they are depending on their social security and medicare and in some cases medicaid. so they are not clamoring for less government. what we have is a democratic party that is spending on a level that is even unprecedented. talking about trillions upon trillions of dollars of spending. even working class voters don't want that as joe manchin showed us with his vote. there is no party left in washington that is for limited government and smaller government. >> eric: some saying the republican party used to stand for budgetary restraint and this sort of thing. former president trump blew up the budget so where is the republican gop budget constraints that used to try to get a handle on this? >> it is gone. there is no party advocating that in washington today. i

do you think he should be investigating donald trump? >> for all we know, he may be investigating donald trump because merrick garland has said that nobody is going to be immune from the kind of investigation they're doing. the fact of the matter is that there are investigations going on. the january 6th committee is reviewing all kinds of things, including some -- i would say there were some plans ahead of time which led to the insurrection and the riot that occurred on january 6th. really, john, there's no question in my mind that these rioters, if they found any of us, that we would have been hurt or worse. >> senator mazie hirono, i appreciate your time this morning. thank you very much. >> thank you. thanks, john. >>> here is what else to watch today. >>> a california man accused of setting off two car explosions just days apart. what we now know about a possible motive >>> one of the americans kidnapped in haiti is breaking his silence. we'll speak with him about the terrifying 62 days that he was held captive. >>> time now for fiv

i don't know donald trump personally, obviously. but i lived under the stewart rhodes regime for a long time, so i certainly know the patterns and the behaviors of a grandiose narcissist who has a bit of messiah complex. i recognize an underlying threat immediately when i hear one. and the threat is that he's afraid he's going to be indicted, skpefpted to weaponize his supporters. and it's an absolute threat. . >> so help us understand. because obviously you know many of these people really well, skpwupb how they think. so when they hear donald trump say, yeah, i might pardon you, what do they hear? >> they hear it's their chance. they're afraid. he is speaking directly to the people who are afraid of being arrested now, i think. he's giving them an out. and now, they see this as their out, if they're, you know, give their support to their president, they might get away with something. they might get away with not being arrested. or if they are later arrested, they may be pardoned. >> so you think it may influence present and future

what i do not understand is how blind can republicans be towards donald trump, the man incited this insurrection. i think it should be called terrorism. the man sent the rioters to the capital to change the vote but yet we have republicans in office that are blind. host: why do you think those in arkansas keep electing those leaders? caller: it is because the republican party lies. the democrats lie the same way, but the republican party lies. they keep lying. we keep electing these people that are already rich, that own businesses. i as an independent, as a democrat -- i have been living here since 1999. host: are you an independent or democrat? caller: i am an independent. host: you described yourself as independent and than a democrat. i want to make sure you picked the best line that accurately represents you. from pennsylvania on our line for democrats, this is nicholas. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i am also a truck driver. i have been a truck driver for 30 years. most of your truck drivers when i go to different places are getting the vaccine. they are also wearing

they went in they went all in for donald trump. they spent more than 30 million dollars on his first selection campaign more even than the trump. super pac. did that cycle one thing that's interesting in misfire. is that when everyone was fleeing from donald trump? after the axis hollywood tapes all his republican allies fleeing that the nra actually increased their ad by and increase their support, they thought that it was so necessary that donald trump be elected that they were willing to kind of double down at that point. but that arrogance that grew during the obama era really becomes an undoing during the trump era because ironically because of the way the incentives are they really hit a cash crunch. in the obama area. sorry in the trump era because they made no strategic plans on how to make ends meet when money isn't coming in as quickly. and as there's this contraction in the finances of the organization. some of the problems begin to bubble up to the surface. and all you know and many of those problems are outlined misfir

trump or a france. i mean, is it that his ideas appeal to a part of the electorate, peter, or are people than fed up with the status quo? well, i do think he's innovative in the sense that he has to sort of different take compared to modern happen a 1st of all, a very important thing about the mood is that he's an immigrant himself. he's a jewish immigrant from algeria. who is you could say perfectly assimilated in france, and i think this is important to understand his program because what he's really keen for is to tackle this kind of parallel societies that you have not only in france, but in many, many european countries. and i think that that's a problem, that many people from the left to the right to recognize as, as an issue. now, the solution for that, according to the more, is let's say, the traditional approach of the french state, which you could argue in some respects is quite a to retiree. and i think it's too easy to brand us as fascist. it's, it's not a precise label. i think he makes som

donald trump is no adolf hitler. no one is an adolf hitler, who is in a category of evil all his own, but yesterday in 1933 on that day, that's the day that adolf hitler came to power. he came to power in germany. he was handed the job of chancellor formally and officially by the president who said that hitler will behave. hitler said, you make me chancellor, i will still clear of anti-semitism. he actually said it. he said, i will govern sanely, i will govern constitutionally. all of these things are lies. you can't believe a word. all i'm saying, mika and joe, is that if you have donald trump even before a potential run for president in 2024 already dangling pardons in front of participants in january 6th who could get into trouble trying to get them on his side to make sure they don't say anything that incriminates him and threatening violence, that's an idea -- that's a preview of coming attractions when an autocrat speaks, listen. >> jonathan lemire, we have to go back to first presidential debate where he said

trump doesn't change, but donald trump doesn't change. the statement is almost identical to what he said right before the riot at the capitol. that, you know, it walks up to the line of calling for violence. the implication is to call for violence. but he doesn't exactly say he's calling for violence. however, his supporters understand exactly what he's saying. and he's calling for violence. so, you know, we've all been warned, and we'll see what happens as he likes to say. >> what do you think, s.e.? >> reporter: well, we know he's very good at turning americans against each other. he did that in his campaign of president in 2015, throughout his presidency, and he is still doing it. we talk a lot about his ego and the need to be adored and see his power in evidence. but we talk a little less about his affinity for anarchy. part of this is he just loves to see it. he loves to see it burn. he loves breaking with social norms for the sake of it. he loves the disruption. striking a match and watching it burn. we saw that on january 6th. we h

>>> plus, a stunning admission from donald trump as he puts in writing that he wanted mike pence to quote overturn the election. the question is, are prosecutors listening? >>> and a surprising super bowl 56 is set. the cincinnati bengals versus the los angeles rams. after pulling off a stunning comeback in the afc championship game, the question is will the bengals be able to overcome the rams at home? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. and welcome to "way too early," the show that misses tom brady already. i'm jonathan le mire on this monday, january 31st. we'll start with the news. former president donald trump is providing new evidence to those investigating his efforts to overturn the election. in a statement released last night, trump offered a rather stunning admission about what he expected from his vice president mike pence, on january 6th of last year. trump wrote this, if the vice president had absolutely no right to change the presidential election results in the senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the democrats and rino republicans, lik

none would have happened if donald trump was still in the white house. it's a breakdown post afghanistan of america's leadership role in the west allowing our enemies to flex their muscles, we are in a bad place, what the biden administration needs to do. i repeat the point. it needs to win back the trust and their allies. >> they must try. mainlyingel. thank you for your talks. we appreciate you coming in this morning. talk. >> todd: aneat area, john kirby dismissing concerns of wokeness in the military. >> i think a lot of it, quite frankly, is driving a stake through a straw mat, this argument of wokeness in the military. i was in the military for 30 years, things like diversity and inclusion makes us a better military, we conduct better ideas. more unique perspect tifs. someone's perspectives that might make us smarter on the battlefield. >> some lawmakers tom cotton raising concerns about moral. whistleblowers complained about pentagon diversity training. >> 25 minutes after the hour, tens of thousands across the north-east after the monster storm.

. >> donald trump did this earlier, right? he did this throughout his presidency, he was very warm in his rhetoric to vladimir putin, even though his policies were tougher in some respects than joe biden's. the challenge is he's trying to exploit these divisions. he's doing it in nato a on international scale. it wasn't helpful, i think, when the president talked about nato divisions almost as an analyst, like he were here with us on the roundtable. >> he spoke honestly. >> honestly, but when rob portman said in his conversation with you was a lot more appropriate for a leader fortunate country like the united states saying, look, we're doing what we can to bring nato together. on the domestic side, there is no question that republicans are divided on this. i hear republicans saying irresponsible things about vladimir putin, pretending he's not the threat that he is. >> part of the reason you're seeing this alarm right now is because the window is closing for any sort of diplomatic resolution. if you look at the timeline in te

trump. but that now that kind of effort has changed tactic in north career and they're now looking to put pressure on the us administration to go back to the table and to see if they can ease some of the sanctions. i think that's the real kind of strategy behind these, these escalating missile tests that we're seeing. certainly since the beginning of january are just a few days to go before the winter. olympic games opened in beijing and ethics have been arriving. our district covered 19 protocols. 37 new cases have been reported among olympic personnel. team members, coaches, support staff and media adjoining and the big bubble to keep them separate from the public. some ethics have already had to pull out of the games after testing positive. let's speak now to katrina. you who's in beijing, katrina so the bubble has still been breached once the latest. that's right. the slight, china's best efforts covered 19 cases are continuing to mount within the winter olympics bubble. now, according t

president donald trump won't let go of the fourth narrative that his vice president had the power to overturn the 2020 election. trump issued the statement sunday claiming the bipartisan group of lawmakers working to reform the electoral count act believe mike pence had the right to change the outcome. let me read it out to you. >>> actually, what they are saying is that mike pence did have the right to change the outcome and they now want be to take that right away. unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power. he could have overturned the election. >>> now, his argument echos the memo by conservative lawyer john eastman who outlined steps for the transfer of power. the republican on the house committee investigating the insurrection called trump's statement massively unamerican, as you can see there. fellow committee member zoe lofgren had this analysis. have a listen. >> i guess the former president is saying that the vice president gets to choose the next president, in which case kamala harris will be presiding at the counting of the votes. and i guess he's saying she gets to cho

>> look, i'm going to say the same thing i said when donald trump was nominating justices. elections have consequences. the president of the united states has the right to pick whoever he wants for that seat and nominate them. then they have to face the scrutiny of the united states senate. it wouldn't have been the way i would have approached it by preannouncing something like that, but joe biden won the election. he gets to make the choice. every 100 senators has the right to scrutinize this person's background, experience and decide whether or not they deserve lifetime tenure. >> donna, we know this pick won't change the balance on the court. it will likely still be 6-3. what difference could it make on the court to have the first black woman? >> it brings someone with a different experience, a black woman's experience. it makes the court look like america. it makes it look fairer and i'm not surprised the majority of americans think he ought to just pick the qualified candidate. that's, in fact, an advancement that we ought to pick the qualified candidate. a black woman

trump. but that now that kind of effort has changed tactic in north career and they're now looking to put pressure on the us administration to go back to the table and to see if they can ease some of the sanctions. i think that's the real kind of strategy behind these, these escalating missile tests that we're seeing. certainly since the beginning of january, the united arab emirates says it's intercepted and destroyed a missile fired by who the rebels and yemen. it was the 3rd and recent weeks and came on a day when the israeli president was visiting the gulf station for the 1st time. the target was unclear, but the defense ministry says debris fell outside of populated areas and that nobody was hurt. the us has launched a strike in yemen in response to comes a fortnight after who the drawing strike on the capital of darby killed. 3 people earlier this month will add tweets for you. ease, general authority of civil aviation says and movement in the country is going as usual and all sides op