just ask them to describe donald trump. ♪ - trump is my hero president. - trump is kind of a force. - his aura came in the room before he did. - donald trump is our first rock star superhero president. - he's a very tall man. little bit shorter than yourself. very big man. uh, nice, big hands. - he's a man for all the people, i think. he didn't need this job whatsoever either. the white house is honestly like a downgrade from his penthouse suite and everything. - yeah, it feels like it's a downgrade for america too. - he's just a peaceful person in general, i think. - and he puts those protesters down like that. - yes. - which causes peace pretty quickly. - yeah. - he's got skin that is-- is about as thick as it gets and-- - don-- who does? - donald. donald trump. - donald trump is? - yeah, thick skin. he's-- - thick skin? he gets mad if a celebrity makes fun of him on twitter. - he's the real-life tony stark. they should call him president iron man. - well, tony stark gave a shit about science. - (laughs) uh... - of course, you can't be a true superhero without some tragic flaws. - s

they were good for trump. they were good for giuliani. it is only when the attempted winners become the losers that it wears risk. it makes me go back to the question of why he didn't pardon giuliani before he left office, didn't pardon other people. >> why? >> it seemed like that was about to happen at the end. now you think to yourself, huh, these people really are at risk of being prosecuted. they missed their chance. >> right. it is as if the timing of the things you do for trump is the most important thing because he had no sense of shame or guilt or anything about pardoning so many around him. this will go down in many ways as more extreme than watergate with regard to the coverup. whether the underlying crimes are the same. but the coverup was all in the open. people like matt gaetz were reportedly seeking pardons, but giuliani didn't get one. it is all a story that's clearly not over. we wanted your legal journalistic take in addition to mr. cohen's experience as a participant. thank you for being part

trump: i was told by dr. fauci and by many people the quickest you are going to have the vaccine is three years. and it could be five years. it could be longer than that and it could also not happen. and then i got involved. i said that's ridiculous. i got involved with the fda. they hate me so badly and i understand it. >> sean: give me a list of people that hate you. but you are okay with that. >> mr. trump: we are helping people. we are saving tens of millions of people with the vaccine. so, i pushed them. they had all of the statutory periods.im they have to go a certain speed. if we had it done in less than 9 months, it would have taken minimum three years. i don't think they ever would have had -- >> sean: didn't you back them up financially as well? >> mr. trump: but yes. but i did two things. i backed the companies that financially. pfizer didn't want to admit it. no, pfizer is really income okay? i will give you a little breaking news. pfizer is in with the fda and what the fda did with johnson & joh

they are mega people, trump loyalists. trump has backed both of them. the swamp are trying to bring down ron desantis and matt gaetz. host: what do you think about the accusations against matt gaetz? you have -- guest: you have this jailhouse snitch sitting in trial awaiting trial on sex trafficking. he will say whatever he's got to say tuesday shave time off of his sentence. the story went for about a week and have. i'm not seen any proof that shows any of these are true. host: what makes you believe he is not guilty? guest: in america you are innocent until your proven guilty. i am not going to convict a man in the court of public opinion. i'm not seen one woman come forward. where is the 17-year-old girl that he supposedly trafficked at that is 19 now? there is a story that he went to president trump that he went for an advance pardon and that is fake news. host: our guest is buying crack and if you want to ask them questions about the issue of florida politics, national politics, you can give us a call and let us know. for republicans (202) 748-8001

well, trump world found out. turns out on the trump server, the server from germany, it was the real election results as seen on this map obtained by a dude on twitter. and as you can see in this map, donald trump secretly won the election with more than 400 electoral votes including the electoral votes in california which in reality is a state trump lost by nearly 30 points. but the secret server in germany tells a different story. of all the trump world conspiracy theories after the election, this one about the german servers and the military thing was definitely the most baroque and maybe the most insane. and here's a sitting member of congress, congressman louie gohmert, permitting this, of course, on facebook, also on a conservative tv channel called newsmax. it was also featured on one america news. they even broadcast a picture of the map that was supposedly found on the servers that were seized in the raid. the map showed, among other things, that trump won california. the company that got hit with this c

>> donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. the president of the united states, thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money, as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. i concluded that don jr. was referring to that june 2016 trump tower meeting about dirt on hillary, with the russian representatives when he walked behind his dad's desk that day. and that mr. trump knew that was the meeting that don jr. was talking about when he said, that's good, let me know. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> joining us now is michael cohen. he's the author of a book about his time with the ex-president, it's called, "disloyal: a memoir, a true story of the former personal attorney to donald j. trump." he also hosts the podcast, mea culpa. thank you so much for spending some time with us to

he had said everything he did was for donald trump. what do you think this means for trump? trump made it impossible to think of all this situation without trump in it and as you just pointed out quite rightly, whatever rudy giuliani was doing, he was doing it at the request of donald trump, that's why he was in ukraine. he was there, he was operating without actual -- president trump does not have the authority to name some private citizens to replace his state department, that was problematic. rudy was not just communicating with people that were pushing propaganda, rudy was trying to remove somebody who had the most ideal reputation, enormous integrity. when he talks about it, he basically is lying. as we just pointed out, he lies about every aspect of this case. every aspect of this situation. i think trump is going to go down with rudy the more rudy keeps lying outrageously a bt not just his conduct but the integrity of the justice department. >> abby, this is the thing. this does raise huge risk for trump. rudy knows a lot and he could be staring at the least. this lob

the trump campaign chairman in 2016 was paul manafort, recently pardoned by president trump after trump lost reelection. manafort was described in the mueller report as having sent private, non-public, sensitive campaign polling data, internal campaign polling data from the trump campaign to this guy konstantin kilimnik to help trump. why did paul manafort give kilimnick that secret trump polling data in the summer of 2016? we don't know. the mueller team didn't explain. they described kilimnick as associated with russian intelligence but they never described why manafort was giving campaign intelligence to him. the senate committee described kilimnick bluntly as somebody who was a russian intelligence officer, let's just cut to the chase. but as to why trump's campaign chair was giving a russian intelligence officer sensitive internal campaign polling data during the campaign? the senate intelligence committee said they couldn't tell. quote, on numerous occasions manafort sought to secretly share internal campaign information with kilimnick. the committee was unable to reliably determi

now the former president trump is pushing back on the "new york times" report. in a statement he says the fund-raising efforts were all done legally, and he adds, quote, many people were so enthusiastic that they gave over and over and in certain cases where they gave too much we would promptly refund their contribution or overall dispute rate was less than 1% of total

perpetrated by trump's b.s. derek chauvin claiming those famous words of george floyd's "i can't breathe" resisting arrest. matt gaetz saw a pardon from trump. would you do that if you had not done anything wrong? let's go "out front." good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight, one of the people charged after storming the u.s. capitol agreed to help the justice department in its case against the proud boys' leadership. according to an attorney familiar to the case, it could lead to more severe charges against those allegedly involved in the insurrection. that comes with grave charges for anyone blamed for the insurrection. john boehner is putting the blame on trump for the deadly attack. boehner writes in his book. "trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, per perpetuated b.s." again, to be clear of the significance of this. the former republican speaker calling the insurrection actual terrorism brought on my members of his own party. people he served with like congr

trump didn't invent this scam. he has merely perfected it and taken it to new levels of unethical conduct. >> you're really talking about the part that carries over. to max's point, this goes to the that question of who is really running the priorities, right? max, you once upon a time advised romney and others on policy. it seems there isn't even a pretense, joan, of people getting up and talking about policy on the right, whatever it might be, whether you look at the example of the literally not putting out a policy platform for the first time in the modern era under trump because you didn't need to because policy wasn't important to the dog whistles, the race issue. we're hearing from john boehner who is not a very credible person but saying, gosh, we couldn't keep the party together anymore because it was all about these base issues. the last point i'll make on that, joan, is the group company that was working hand in glove with trump on this was just another for-profit company. they didn't care one way or anot

is still donald trump's party, still finding ways to pay donald trump money. a veteran of the reagan and bush administration. great to see you guys. jason, give me your assessment. how much power does donald trump still have over the republican party? he has all of the power until they come up with another leader. josh hawley, ted cruz, none have the charisma or reputation of donald trump. it is not uncommon for the last president from the party to be the party leader. he is disgraced and hated with a large chunk of the population. i don't know why republicans keep going to the same well. i don't think they have a lot of ideas. we saw that last fall. they literally had no party platform other than reaffirming their loyalty to donald trump. they will stick with it as long as they can. what they can't accomplish in the ballot box, trump is the number one way to get it done. >> you have a message with the group that you work with. i want to play just a little bit of it. >> lindsey graham, ron johnson. they are go to mar-a-lago to kiss donald trump's ring. to pled

and that just because people who were in the capitol were wearing trump shirts and trump hats doesn't necessarily make them trump supporters. anybody can get those shirts. >> reporter: but a lot of them have been shown to be trump supporters through indictments. >> i don't know that to be true. >> reporter: i think some people who watch this who are not trump supporters would say here's a trump supporter in denial about january 6th. >> you don't have to say that to me because i've had friends and family say that to me. they think i'm crazy, i'm a conspiracy theorists because of the election was stolen. >> reporter: speaking of your family calling you conspiracy theorist marjory taylorgreen is going to be speaking here this weekend. she's known as the qanon congresswoman. >> i don't know what's so terrible about qanon. can you tell me? >> it's a baseless conspiracy theory. >> well, what is so terrible about conspiracy theories anyway. can you tell me? i mean there were conspiracy theories behind jfk's assassination. i'm old enough to remember all the conspiracy theories that swirled ar

and the trump organization. now, allen weisselberg has a couple of sons, but the one that we're focusing on is a guy by the name of barry weisselberg. barry was married for 14 years to jennifer weisselberg. so, why do we care about jennifer weisselberg? well, she just turned over three boxes and a laptop to cy vance's office and investigators that included financial documents, account statements, credit card statements, bank account statements, that included not only her ex-husband's stuff but allen weisselberg's stuff, because apparently, barry and his dad, allen, had joint accounts together. and what they're doing is they're trying to build and what i think in my legal opinion, the cy vance's office is trying to build a legal case against allen weisselberg's son. and in order to do that, that would then incentivize allen weisselberg to flip on donald trump. allen weisselberg has declared his complete and utter loyalty to donald trump and the trump organization, but as i previously wrote in a column for msnbc o

that is what trump world. it is and of course, trump world is still essentially in control in the republican party. but today felt like a minefield in terms of stories like that. these things left behind that we are still mired and as a country that we sort of can't escape the stink of as a country. even as the country is trying to take off a new different erection. for example, today the united state supreme court, the court in its infinite wisdom assigned to justice brett kavanaugh the task of writing the majority opinion in a sweeping new ruling that essentially reinstates sentences of life without parole for kids. there was no outright rule banning that that -- life without parole for juvenile offenders -- but there was strong settled supreme court precedent making that sentence only available in a very narrow circumstances. people convicted of crimes that occurred while they were children. justice kavanaugh's opinion today blows that up. it blows up all that precedent. which is one thing on its own terms,

the trump administration got caught multiple times. they got reamed out by multiple federal judges for ways they were trying to engineer an under count of people, basically, of people of color, ways they were doing the census wrong. ways they were dragging their feet and just not getting it done right. the last time they were in court over the census was when they were deciding to end the census early that they wanted to stop counting before they were done. that was i think the last thing they went to court for. they went to court over a lot of the different aspects of ways they appeared to be deliberately screwing it up. so given that, when we look at the new census numbers just out today and they say u.s. population growth is down, way down, down further than it has ever been except for the 1930s in the great depression, maybe that's true. it's totally plausible that that's true, but there's lots of reasons to think this is going to be the big asterisk census in modern american history because of who carried it out, right? this will

you couldn't get trump to do anything that was not 100% in favor of trump. even his own voters know that. he took all your money, he said he was going to set up lawsuits and it went over 60 lawsuits. he pocketed the rest three separate and he's a con man. everybody knows it. republicans like him because -- but when it comes to joe biden it's not like oh my god we made it its shangri-la. the guy is the definition of the corporate -- and has been for years. his current bills is war and drugs now has he gotten better? yes he's adjusting to the political whims and right now the country is a veryd. progressive. voters are n massively progresse are but the onlyss reason he became president other than bernie sanders is because he was the only oneer who could be dond trump. barely a donald trump but did we have to push joe biden? >> guest: to push them a lot to get into a halfway decent place. if you want i cano give you one example. >> host: pleaseul do. >> guest: the 15-dollar minimum wage. every democrats said we are in favor of the 15-dollar minimum wage for the

they have the extra dose of trump to get over the trump hangover. i actually admit, i mean, i covered trump a lot but i don't deny that i enjoy it. i actually think he's the most interesting political phenomena of my lifetime so i actually look at -- i never deny that i'm doing it which is why we are more honest than they are. they pretend, they pretend it's suffering and stressful but they are getting clicks off the conflict that they create. howie: all right. you've talked about -- you've been critical of major league baseball for moving the all-star game out of atlanta and also of the business community. you said screw all corporations. is it your view that a lot of the companies are totally completely obsessed in interesting in making money? greg: well, actually it's cowards. i think corporate america, a lot of corporate america has made a deliberate decision to protect themselves from a tinny, tinny woke collective. we are talking like a thousand people. maybe ten thousand and sent two signals at least to me and people that have been paying att

they're choosing donald trump. donald trump didn't choose any of them. you could take or leave any of them. this affirmative selection of him to be their leader, they have to boost him up. he doesn't have a platform on which to communicate. they're propping him up to continue to lead them. why go out of their way to perpetuate that dysfunctional relationship that now distributes to a domestic violence extremism threat in the country? >> because where do you go? where else during at this point? for normal people, yeah, you would go somewhere else, you would back away from it. kevin mccarthy has been given opportunity after opportunity to set a different course, to raise a different narrative. but the reality, he wants to be speaker of the house, this is the path to take to get there, if the moment should come, donald trump is not going to be there for kevin mccarthy because donald trump will find somebody else more legitimately trumpian than the speaker of the house. these folks put themselves out there for someone that doesn't care about them, would not

during the trump years. and i think what we're seeing now that's also going to be a very rocky and really interesting period in the next couple of months is the cutoff between u.s. and russia which was bound to happen at some point after the trump administration. >> so, andrew, clint uses the word "coup." i'm going go there. do you think we will ever know if trump could have won without putin's help? >> no, we won't know that. i don't think -- i don't think that's really actually knowable because i don't think you can really have any individual will be able to say i'm not really sure why i voted this way or that way. but in terms of the systemic issue, it's really important that none of us ever have to ask that question again. and i do think what happened today is something that we should really expect to see more of. we now have a rule of law administration that now has access to the data that was available to the trump administration. and so this is a huge bombshell today in terms of information, but i wou

trump in a way that might upset him, is this story going to be all about trump, mr. mccarthy asked after back-to-back questions on him. and then liz cheney, does not seem to have a liberal bone in herbody and is now essentially being shunned by her party because she voted to impeach the former president after inciting a deadly insurrection. and we have a piece on the fall-out of the vote and the party's fear of trump's rath. colleagues confided that the party is happy to move on from trump but saying it in public was a different story. it risked getting the liz cheney treatment. that cheney was willing to face trump's wrath called attention to the fact that most of them were not. a writer at large for the "new york times" magazine joins me now. robert, one thing that came through in the great piece as i was reading it and it's something that i think you have tweeted about, is that i think a lot of us who, you know, consume media across all sorts of landscapes and are not steeped in right wing media. donald trump is off twitter and he is not in the white house and giv

you would argue today trump is the republican party, and republicans are donald trump. and the scheme was to make the opt-in/opt-out selection increasingly complicated. and apparently with each evolution it got trickier and trickier for donors to understand whether they were opting in or opting out. what strikes me, alex, though, and this goes to kind of the value set of the organization, it would be rare for a president of the united states to know about the software platform for fundraising and collecting from donors. my question is did donald trump know about this scheme, and i would say maybe he didn't, which is even more indicting. the team around donald trump was as corrupt as he is, this is the culture of a trump organization, and the political team had a green light to engage in this type of predatory behavior when it comes to people's finances. >> let me take that one step further. that interpretation, which i hadn't thought of, that would also indicate that those around him would say, look, donald trump may not know about this but even if he finds out, he'll b

rudy guiliani and donald trump have had their wires crossed throughout the trump administration, and rudy was a key figure in both impeachments involving donald trump, and let's remember there are two guiliani associates are under indictment, and part of that case relates to money from fraud guarantee, and that's the name of the company, and for reasons we don't quite know, and that could be part of what the southern district is investigating here. >> david, the political circle of life, if you will here, is quite remarkable. many americans know rudy guiliani as being mr. trump's personal attorney, and he's also known as the new york mayor, and he was being tough on crime and tough on the mob federal prosecutor in the attorney's office in new york that just served a search warrant on him? >> i don't know many people that have served as the u.s. attorney that later in life gets a search warrant executed in some investigation. but you are right to note the trajectory here. think about what we are talking about. rudy guiliani was the image of law and order at the beginning of his politi

donald trump is no longer president so the others ride off with their pardons from trump but giuliani has no protection and clearly narrowing in on him seriously. >> we talk to congressman schiff after this so thank you for starting us off. we'll talk about it here. thanks to all three for starting us off. >>> someone who knows just how sbi cattily tied to the ukraine rudy giuliani really is. congressman adam schiff will be our guest. >>> and we are a few hours away from president biden's first address to a joint session of congress as the opposition party with an assist from conservative media desperately attempting and failing to beat him back throwing everything from beef, books and dr. seuss his way. >>> plus some advice from a former republican to democrats hoping to capitalize on the popularity of president biden's agenda. focus on the suburbs and make the gop own the insurrection. all that and more when we continue after a quick break. don't go anywhere. where. [doorbell rings] thanks, baby. yeah, we 'bout to get spicy for this virtual date. spicy like them pajama pants. hey, t

a con artist, as my fellow guest noted, promoting trump casinos, trump universities, trump mother-in-laws, and the trump administration which ended up being a scam and we know the trump campaign was a scam. donald trump once told me in office -- an oval office meeting that he believed even if he didn't have a reason to sue someone, it was good to sue them because you got them to settle and do what you wanted. my suggestion for people who have been affected by this is maybe they should consider using donald trump's own advice and suing him back. but we'll see what happens. >> what an oval office conversation. >> thank you both for being here. >>> coming up, impending disaster. hundreds of millions of radioactive wastewater is on the brink of flooding neighborhoods in florida. the race to contain this next. >>> tonight nbc news senior national correspondent kate snow investigates for-profit companies that run youth homes. it's a system some say profits off of and has failed many vulnerable children. so, what is being done to fix it? you can watch "children that pay" tonight at 10:00 p.m. ea

trump voters support the dream act and trump voters believe that kids who were brought into the country through their no fault of their own have right to deserve citizenship and emphasize the word earn and hostile to immigrant population is inaccurate, howie. the press' responsibility particularly now with conditions this difficult to tell the truth and tell it accurately and in this case on immigration, they're not accurately communicating where trump voters really stand on the issue. howie: fascinating. i would also say that the border is the one issue where the media have been by in large pretty tough on president biden and his handling or lack of handling of the mess, but i also sense that the coverage is starting to fade a bit because the story has gotten a bit old and not much has changed, your thoughts? frank: that may be the case, the issue right now this is a long-term challenge and we have to find a way to separate the border security from the immigration itself. the american people believe that the system is broken that there should be a legal, lawful way for those who want t

>> well, of course, congressman gaetz wants to make this all about trump and the anti-trump fervor. trying to associate himself with the trump base, of whom he's been a leading champion in the last four years. saying it's all political, all the same kind of persecution that they went after the president that the supporters all admire. the problem is, he's not actually been embraced by many of the figures in trump's world. trump himself has only issued a two-sentence statement saying, no, he didn't directly ask me for a blanket pardon. he didn't say he believed him or that he's being unfairly treated. he didn't come to congressman gaetz's defense in any way. you see the congressman trying to put himself in that position as yet another victim, that people are out to get him like the trump view. >> and for everybody who hasn't been following the story, this comes on the heels of joel greenberg, the seminole county tax collector. his lawyer suggesting he'll make a deal with prosecutors, saying i'm sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. michael cohen issuing a kind of war

the trump campaign chairman was paul manafort, he was recently pardoned by donald trump. he was described in the report as having a shared polling data, internal campaign data to this guy paul manafort konstantin kilimnik during the summer of 2016 while they were working to try to influence the election to help trump. why did paul manafort give konstantin kilimnik that secret polling data in the summer of 2016? we don't know. at least we didn't know. the mueller team didn't explain. they described him as associated with russian intelligence. but they never said why paul manafort was giving a campaign to this guy associated with the russian intelligence. that is how mueller left it. and then the senate intelligence committee looked at it too and they couldn't explain, and they went further in describing konstantin kilimnik bluntly as a intelligence officer. they said that he was associated with russian intelligence, we but they say that he is just a russian officer. as to why trump's campaign chair was giving a russian intelligence officer sensitive internal polling data d

>> well, we know donald trump is only going to look out for donald trump. he has his own legal troubles facing him, so he has no time for someone like matt gaetz. the first article of the constitution is the legislative branch, so we know for the framers intended for this to be a branch to uphold democracy. he does not have a lot of long-standing friends. we're seeing that people within the republican party are trying to move away from this right wing extremist notion that donald trump solidified in four years and try to become a little more moderate so they actually have a future moving forward in 2022 and 2024. matt gaetz is not part of that plan. why would you cast your lot with someone facing possible pedophilia charges and other charges when the republicans have bigger fish to fry when they're trying to win back state houses and push forward a different type of agenda. this is a distraction for someone they barely know, and they're not willing to sort of risk their own reputation for someone like him. >> yeah. and, michael, when somebody says that they

on november 24th when donald trump and matt gaetz were pretending that donald trump would be president for life he went on fox to prepare for what he hoped would be pars for everyone. >> he should pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has to. you can see from the radical left a bloodlust that will only be quenched with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the american people. i think the president ought to wield the pardon power effectively and robustly. >> "new york times" reports that it is unclear whether congressman gaetz or the white house knew that he you was the subject of a sex trafficking investigation approved by trump attorney general william barr at the time that he was asking for the pardon. mr. gaetz didn't tell white house aides that he was under investigation when potential sex trafficking violations were being investigated. congressman gaetz denied he has violated any laws. joining us is a career federal prosecutor and now legal analyst. now this is so striking, this notion that while matt gaetz

theer trump businesses. which is remarkable given of courseof all of the fuss they made about hillary clinton. there were early reports that senior white house officials were using what we call disappearing message apps. two of them basically you get a message on your phone, and as you are reading literally as your scrolling vanishes. so that no record is preserved. along with some historians and other government actually challenge that practice in court and was nott successful. we know that people like jared kushner were frequent users of another application called whatsapp. it is far from clear again that was on his personal device, whether or not he transfer those messages with all the metadata and attachments to an official e-mail account. and we know, again this was the >> of w a lawsuit that crew and others are brought, we know the president really resisted creating records in the first place. for example, the multiple times he met with putin he took steps to make sure no records weree created. he did

and trump tried to cheat after the vote after the vote that beat donald trump with the same lawyer, giuliani, going around the country trying to find people to change vote tallies and find votes in georgia and stop the electors, leading to the violent and failed insurrection to stop those electors on the last possible day. on that formal certification day of january 6th. you remember it. we remember it. the president is going to speak about it at some point tonight, we're told. we all lived through it. but today with this legal news, we are learning that during much of that time prosecutors were urgently pushing to get live evidence from giuliani who was protected reportedly by trump's aids as giuliani fought to keep trump in power illegally. they tried to end american democracy and overthrow the election. even today, if i sit here and say that fact to you in the news, it sounds sort of extreme to say. but it's what they tried. it was extreme. trump remains under criminal investigation for that plot in georgia right now and giuliani is under increasing, heavier pressure right now. and then i

trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! >> invade the capitol building! let's take the capitol! >> take the capitol! >> take the capitol right now! >> joining us now, laurence tribe, university professor of constitutional law emeritus at harvard law school. he's won 35 cases in the united states supreme court. thank you for joining us. i've been eager to get your analysis of these police officer lawsuits, because they're a kind of less legally complicated sort. this teams like a much more traditional tort after an injury suffered because of someone else's reckless conduct. >> exactly. the lawsuits filed by the congressmen, including representative swalwell and representative thompson are very strong. they rely on laws going back to the civil war era. and the question of whether members of congress have what is called standing to file suits of that kind is going to be at least somewhat complicated. here, it's very simple. everyone knows about assault and battery. you don't even have to go to

you have used the word in connection with donald trump. how much thought did you give to the consequences of using that word? well, i mean, to be very clear, when we talk about fascism, we're not talking about something, which is in a laboratory somewhere, you know, in some kind of an experiment, we're talking about a current of thought and action, which was very much present in the united states and europe. it didn't win everywhere. it won in some places, but it was present pretty much everywhere. in the 1920s and 1930s, the germans were inspired by the americans, notjust the other way around. fascism is an international trend and it's still with us. now, with mr trump, what i said very specifically was post truth, which is his way of carrying out politics, is pre—fascism. that is to say, if by way of technology and talent, you clear the field of the idea of factuality, you're opening the way for the big lie. and the big lie is the trap that people fall into and leads them to do things like, for example, violently storm a parliament, wh

and donald trump, cornered, and donald trump unable to control the flow of information, is donald trump who becomes more radically inept. and -- and unwired. and -- and i think, this is only going to get more unspooled as this goes on. >> donald trump, throughout his life, as you ever reported, has been sued for all sorts of things he's done, in business. he always tried to wear the other side down, with increasing-legal bills. he is now being sued by two capitol police officers for the injuries they suffered in the attack on the capitol. they are -- if they can survive the procedural challenges that all-civil suits face, in order to get to a jury. actually, get it to a jury in washington, d.c. a washington, d.c. is going to be offered the opportunity to visit an unlimited amount of punitive damages on donald trump for the attack on the capitol that injured these police officers. that will -- there are more of these lawsuits coming. i see a world, in which he could be bankrupted by the lawsuits that just come out of the attack on the capitol. >> well, the first thing to remember is he c

trump said, enough is enough. time for the republican party to actually stand with its voters and effect a platform that is more closely aligned with what these voters want. immigration, trade, on foreign policy -- trump's foreign policy -- i think mike anton of the claremont institute would describe it as "jacksonian." what that means is his instincts are to be more reserved, to have a more nation-state, national interest, realistic credential foreign policy. but when provoked, you lash out and let them know who is boss. we saw that in the trump presidency, the action of the targeted killings of qassem soleimani, abu bakr al-baghdadi and so forth. similarly, on economic issues in general -- holding trade aside -- trump understood intuitively that the voter was not necessarily a devotee of friedrich hayek or milton friedman. the difference is -- and it gets back to the george h.w. bush speech, the conception of conservatism viewed the free market as an instrumental means towards the ends of the flourishing of comm

it's not about whether q believes in trump or not. we want everybody to realize there is something wrong with the status quo. this movement isn't just limited to japan. it's a global movement. that's why i joined. >> reporter: qanon in japan shows how easily unfounded claims can move from the darkest corners of the internet to draw in people from around the world. in january, twitter suspended the accounts of the members we spoke to. they say they've now moved to other platforms and are recruiting offline, including jay here, who is a financial consultant and travels across japan to recruit, spreading misinformation along the way. >> it's been one of the most self-sustaining communities and resilient. the major danger of qanon is just an undermining of voices that are intended to deliver public information. >> reporter: q army japan flynn members tell cnn their numbers have increased during the pandemic. they say they have members across the country, male, female, rich and poor. experts say recent actions from social media companies a

president donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the accord in 2018 calling at the worst deal ever negotiated. trumper imposed sanctions on iran with more than 1500 measures. tehran responded by scaling back commitments and enriching uranium levels beyond the 2015 cap. european signatories have tried to keep doing business with tehran. i ran once sanctions lifted before it returns to the record. u.s. insists iran must dismantle some of its activities. our diplomatic editor is at the united nations. . he says the actions of the previous administration has complicated negotiations. >> all the key participants find themselves back in vienna. the austrian capital is aware the nuclear deal was signed nearly six years ago but so much has changed since that signing in the summer of 2015. it was the trump administration in 2018 that pulled out of the deal, preferring to go for maximum pressure policy against iran. many experts believe that did not end up isolating iran. in fact, it isolated on this ise u.s. with some of its closest a

donald trump, they just want to keep riding the trump train. let's remember, this is a guy who ran for president and failed to get over 47% of the vote plus. what's happening here is a doubling down on donald trump is their forever leader and so many of the decisions that political leaders are making in the republican party is based on newsmax, oann, and sean hannity and 10% to 15% of the country which is the activist wing of the republican party. and so as a democrat, the healthiest thing we need as a country is for the republican party to heal itself and become more competitive because we are going to live under constant threat of this democracy vanishing. they have fully embraced autocracy now. there's a lot of odious parts of the bill in georgia but the state legislature saying no matter what the voters say, if we don't like the outcome, we can overturn it. similar efforts in arizona. this is a very dark time for democracy. there's no optimism in the republican party right now. it's all darkness and grievance and blame game. it's about as f

>> we want trump! >> it was the biggest threat to american democracy since the civil war. >> if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> in a joint collaboration, nbc news and the online investigative group have reviewed and in cases uncovered thousands of hours of cctv footage, intercepted audio and cell phone video, much of it taken by the rioters themselves. we have identified more than a dozen critical moments and individuals that, together, show the attack was both planned and improvised. while police were completely overwhelmed. at noon in front of the white house, president trump is making a final bid to stay in power. >> we will never concede. it doesn't happen. you don't concede when there's theft involved. >> he's urging his supporters to stop congress and his vice president from certifies joe biden's victory. >> we love you! we love you! >> this year, using the pretext of the china virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, democrats attempted the most brazen and

so now, dance camino, who works for president trump, just because you work for president trump, you can't post on facebook. why is anybody on facebook anymore that is a conservative? it's time to leave if you are not wanted there. >> it's amazing. when you look at the span, it not only applies, sean, to your point, to the 45th president of the united states, who they are trying to erase from historyus but also all campaign accounts and all former surrogates of the president. that is a very deep list here that we are talking about. meanwhile, i just went on facebook right before we went on here and i am seeing speeches by louis farrakhan, who refers to he says i'm not anti-semite. i'm anti-termite. that's okay. but you can't have a benign interview that the former president of the united states did.ha i asked him, what did he say during that interview that is so offensive that you have to hide the sensitivities of the people that are on facebook, the billions that are on there? for facebook to do this, even george orwell is probably watching this from somewhere and saying yeah, that is pre

i can see why trump feared him for good reason. and joe biden is proving to be a very good communicator. >> congressman adam schiff. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> much more to get to tonight from president biden's first joint address to congress. from vaccines, to police reform. we'll talk about the most memorable moments right after this. ♪ the light. ♪ it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. ♪ as you charge ahead. illuminating the way forward. a light maker. recognizing that the impact you make comes from the energy you create. introducing the all-electric lyriq. lighting the way. ♪ >> the worst pandemic in a century. the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war. now, after just 100 days, i can report to the nation, america is on the move again. >> joe biden waited longer than most presidents to deliver his showing to dress the congress. on the eve of the 100th day in office, biden was able to celebr

but it is quite interesting that the investigation was begun by the trump justice department when trump attorney general bill barr was in george, when bill barr has instituted or told guidances to the justice department to be very careful when it comes to looking at elected officials. so that, you know, again you want to be careful and we should

and i watched mitch mcconnell flip from being very anti-trump after january 6th to pretty pro-trump now. mcconnell has said he would also support trump if he was the nominee in 2024 as well. so what you see is where the real party is not the elected officials but the base and the local activists. and they told the party, we're a trump party. if you're republican, it means you support donald trump and now you have seen the nikki haleys, the mcconnells and so on flip back because the party activists told them they had to. >> yeah. and it just shows the value you can put in any of those words for a former president for all the talk of what he would do, he's around but he's not loud. he's not on television that much. he's not on the internet that much. they're just afraid of the hold he has. that's why that autopsy analysis makes sense. thanks for being here. >> good to see you. >> yes, sir. >>> coming up, there is late-breaking news on the doj suing roger stone. also, new heat on ted cruz. we will get into why he keeps finding himself in these controversies. >>> and something very special