>> yeah, look, i think doj absolutely did the right thing here, donahue and jeffrey rosen, who was the acting a.g. at the time. this is why people like me often say doj needs to be independent of the president, because if doj, in fact, did whatever the president told it to do, which bill barr and other attorneys general have taken that position, then there would have been no safeguard here, but because doj is independent, and rosen and donahue stood up for that, we did have a safety barrier in place to prevent sort of the worst case scenario here. >> wouldn't it have helped if they had come out sooner and talked about this? >> yeah, i think that's a fair question. remember, this phone call happened december 27th. that's about ten days before january 6th. if they had come out, this could have been a real sort of pulling back the curtain moment because here you have donald trump acknowledging this is just nonsense, he's asking doj, just sort of make it up for me and i'll take it from here. if that had become broadly known publicly, then perhaps it could have taken some of the steam, out

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so richard donahue is a long-tame justice department employee. he, you know, at one time he was the u.s. attorney in brooklyn. he has been a senior aide in the justice department. at the time of these notes are taken. he has been a senior aide inside the justice department for the trump administration. he's had to run interference and sort of play internal track cop a little bit on these contentious issues involving trump in the election. so he also gets wrapped up in, if you remember, the fights between president trump and the state of georgia over the count. and he has to navigate doj's you know essentially staying out as best they can from that fight. so he keeps touching these very complicated, very tricky issues. i think you are right, the notes are taken for a reason. they were taken because he feels there need to be some kind of record that this is going on. and importantly, he needs to preserve as much what trump said, which is what we are focusing on. i think from the justice department's view, they need to preserve what they said and th

donahue has not responded to our request for comment. poppy, another issue some people have brought up is asking whether this case wasn't because because it was coming to close to the election. prosecutors are discouraged from bringing any politically sensitive cases too close to an election but our sources tell us they were ready to go and ready to charge well before the deadline would have come. now also a lot of questions about whether mr. baric will flip and cooperate in exchange for dropping some charges but he is not expected to cooperate and, poppy, while many people say that, many people can't afford to defend themselves against the justice department and mr. baric is a man with the resources to fight these charges. >> and his team said we'll plead not guilty, right, paula? >> exactly. his team said he is not guilty. le plead not guilty and at this point he's not expected to take any action to cooperate in any state or federal investigation to lessen his exposure. he's going to fight. >> understood. thank you, paula reid for the

as you said, the main quote from this was that donahue wrote down trump had said just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republicans in congress. that came after trump was clearly looking to push with the justice department to investigate voter fraud or try and say there was some possibility that the election was corrupt. donahue at the time was pushing back against that strongly, saying they weren't able to go out and say that, and the justice department never did uncover any evidence of widespread voter fraud, but this piece of new information is really part of a larger constellation of what we learned donald trump was doing in the last days of his presidency after losing the election. we knew he was wanting mike pence not to certify results of the election. we knew from other documents that lawyers around him wanted court cases that cast doubt on the result of the election to go to the supreme court. trump responded saying his words are being misconstrued, but the committee chairman of house oversight said trump directly instructed our nation's top law enforce

donahue warned the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. trump replied he did not expect that. quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and to congressional allies. trump did not name the lawmakers but at other points during the call mentioned representative jim jordan of ohio whom he described as a fighter, scott perry of pennsylvania, who at the time promoted the idea the election was stolen from trump, and senator ron johnson

donahue memorialized everything in these handwritten notes that have now become public. what was said -- donald trump was told by the justice department that they cannot change the election outcome. i'll read you, he replied. i don't expect you to do that, just say the election was corrupt. he then added we have an obligation to tell people that this was an illegal and corrupt election, the two men on the phone told the president that he was getting false information, that they had conducted hundreds or dozens of interviews, rather, and that this was just blatantly false. >> a lot of people are saying that the justice department got woke this week. the justice department turning over those notes over the house oversight committee, instead of protecting them. why is that? >> reporter: that's right, i think this signifies a new tide in leadership. i covered current president joe biden on the campaign trail, and he tried to distinguish himself in many ways during the campaign from then president donald trump but one way in which he did that was by saying that he is going to

rosen and donahue had to know that this was going to be front and center for trump after barr left. this was obviously since september, october, plus after the election. this is what trump was singularly focused on, finding a way to use this lie to overturn the election, and now we have these notes. >> that's absolutely right. and i know exactly how those gentlemen felt. i know what it's like to have your boss leave or get fired in my case and then know that the pressure of the presidency is about to come down upon you, as it did to them and as it certainly did to me. >> you're referring to when the president fired james comey. >> that's exactly right. but i think this time line raises questions for barr knowing that the department was under assault from the white house, being pushed to support this conspiracy to overturn the election might not have been a good idea to stick around and help them withstand that attack. >> the key quote here, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman later in those notes references a number of these repu

donahue refused to do which is to call the election corrupt. the other part of it which i find fascinating is the part where he says, leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. i don't know what that means, ali. i don't know what they had in store, whether they had planned for this doj maneuver to take place and then they had certain steps to follow, but that is equally disturbing as well. >> who gets to the bottom of that is that the general six select committee or you on the oversight committee? i would very much like to know the answers to those questions that you just asked. >> i think we're gonna pro parked on this. i know that i have a lot of questions for instance about, he brought up jim jordan in that conversation, he brought up ron johnson the senator from wisconsin who he says, quote unquote, gets to the bottom of things. and we just don't know what they are planning to do right after this. however, now that the justice department has basically allowed the oversight committee and us to do our investigation unimpeded by the

i love hillsdale, second of all, is general donahue the norm in our military leadership today? >> absolutely. when you hear him spouting msnbc talking points that shows you the quality and level of education and thought process that goes across all the services. we have 906 admirals in generals in our military and it is increasingly ideologically similar group. laura: americans have a romanticized vision of the leadership of our military i think because film and movies, world war ii, a lot of them have done amazing stuff but here are the reasonable restrictions general donahue and acted at fort benning last july. >> we require anyone coming on the installation that they don't eat in and close it in restaurants downtown. of folks want to go to the gym downtown they can't go into an indoor gym facility. >> why won't leaders like donohoe address the psychological format that all of this inflicted on their troops with these restrictions? >> these guys are woke loses who love cancel culture and they can't see reality. they spent 20 years in afghanistan, spent $2.4 trillion of americ

the acting deputy attorney general richard donahue was on the call. he's turned over his notes to the house oversight committee. those notes say that trump told acting a.g. jeffrey rosen, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the r-congressmen, r for republicans. evan perez joins us now. how did the senior justice department officials respond to trump's deranged request? >> jake, these notes that were written down, that were hand-written notes by rich donahue, who was the acting deputy attorney general really show you that even though we know how much trump was pushing his big lie, it still shows you how much he was trying to do behind the scenes. and so what these officials were doing were pushing back on the president, telling him that they had investigated, there were hundreds of investigations, they had done all of the work, and they could not find any of the evidence that he was talking about. and, as you said just now, the president said, you know, you don't have to do anything, you just have to say that the electio

according to the notes, richard donahue said, understand that the doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. it doesn't work that way. trump responded, say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. yeah, he actually said that. he didn't mean which republicans he was referring to. but the notes indicate, he mentioned jim jordan and scott perry and senator ron johnson. all three supported trump's election lies. joining me now are congressman eric swalwell of california. and the author of "end game, inside the impeachments of donald trump" and joyce vance from the district of alabama and a professor of the alabama university school of law. she is a msnbc contributor. congressman swalwell, i have to start with you. it's hard to believe the second impeachment, in which you were impeachment manager, it was still this year, a few months ago. is there anything, nine pages of notes we have seen, do they fit with what you possibly saw as an impeachment manager a few months ago? >> part of me wishes that we could impeach hi

attorney at the time in brooklyn, richard donahue, he didn't appear to support this case, neither did his boss, bill barr. he wasn't a big fan of these foreign lobbying cases. what's not clear is if donahue did anything to intentionally stall this case or the prosecutors working on it said, look, we don't want to bring it if it's not going to have the support of the boss or the boss' boss. now they're calling on the justice system to investigate. >> we'll see if we get answers. we'll bring in david aaronberg. dave, you have some experience with billionaires who get into hot water, i suppose, from time to time. what do you make of this $250 million bail deal? i guess it is good to be a billionaire. >> it sure is. in life and in the court system. but keep in mind, he is 74 years old, so that mitigates him as a flight risk. although, he does have a lot of money. he's got a private plane and he has extensive ties to the middle east, including to the uae and the saudis. both of those countries have no extradition agreement with the united states. so you can see why prosecutors are concerne

donahue wants to remind people it's important to leave wild animals alone. if you are not helping, you are harming the coyote you what i understand that you think maybe you can make wildlife your friend. >> but you can't and you cannot control the fallout. so the fallout from people leaving this coyote food is now coyote is 10. >> officials want to remind people that it's illegal to feed wild animals. so if you're caught doing it, you can be fined or even go to jail live in san francisco. amanda hari kron 4 news. >> amanda, did you get any advice today and what's the best way for people to coexist with wild animals like coyotes. >> just the news for this observed them from afar. you don't want to become a food source for them. so like i said, don't feed them but don't become an inadvertent source either. so don't leave out pet food, don't leave garbage unsecured and don't leave any fruits that may have fallen from trees in your yard on the ground combat could attract the animals as well. also, if you see a coyote getting too close for comfort laying in front

donahue was done. he was are inducted rather into the college football hall of fame back in 2000, you see la says donoghue died at his home in newport beach after a two-year struggle with cancer. >> and now kron 4 sports from the 18 t fiber sports desk. >> well, folks, it was a beautiful day for some baseball down at 3rd inking. the giants opening up a series with the st. louis cardinals and not the harris. the east bay native all american running back at alabama and now first round draft pick of the pittsburgh steelers throughout the first pitch right down the plate. it's a pretty talented cast. the giants were on their fingers defensively in the 4th jaylin davis. he makes a diving catch and then. he throws the first double up to end the ne. just ending later wilmer flores he's going to make diving stop sticks. and he makes a tough play to first and darin ruf. digs it out. the dirt. the car didn't get a hit off all-star kevin gausman through 6 innings. but in the 7th right after that they broke throug

and these new details are all coming from these contemporaneous handwritten notes that richard donahue took about this december 27th call between trump, donahue and the then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. affording to these notes in this call, trump pressured his two top justice officials to declare the election results illegal and corrupt. according to these notes, he told them just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. according to these notes, rosen told him, look, that's not the way this works. i can't just snap my fingers and change the outcome here. this is a really extraordinary example of how the former president was applying pressure to an agency that was supposed to be independent of the white house as part of his wide ranging campaign to delegitimize the election results. these will be under investigation at the hill. >> i suspect they will be called to testify before the select committee. on another legal matter, the justice department today said that trump's tax returns, which democrats in congress have been fighting to g

the week article reports that -- jeffrey rosen and his deputy, richard donahue. john hughes handwritten notes from that conversation have been released by the house oversight committee. one notes summarizes trump saying, quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. trump didn't lawyer name the lawmakers, but at other points during the call, the times reports, he did mention republican congressman jim jordan, scott perry of pennsylvania, and senator ron johnson, of wisconsin. the times also reports congressman jordan and senator johnson deny any role in trump's efforts to pressure the justice department. congressman perry did not respond to requests for comment. earlier today, one member of the oversight committee was blocked about the implications of these new revelations. >> i frankly think this is a criminal conspiracy. i believe that the contemporary news notes that were released today by deputy attorney general at the time donahue, clearly reveal, out of donald trump's own mouth, and the illegal attemp

from a december phone call between trump, the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and rich donahue to document the conversation. according to those notes, he told the president to, quote, understand that the doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. it doesn't work that way. trump reportedly responded, quote, i don't expect you to do that. just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. other words, trump was asking the top law enforcement agency to sacrifice its own credibility to legitimize his election lies and continue to push his baseless claims despite being told the major allegations are not supported by evidence. in fact, the officials put it quite bluntly saying, much of the information you're getting is false. for instance, trump claimed on that call that the error rate in the ballot count in mifrpg was 68% but in reality it was less than one hundredth of one%. and yet trump insisted that we have an obligation to tell people that this is an illegal corrupt election. this wasn't some idle re

according to the notes richard donahue told trump quote, understand that the doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, it doesn't work that way. trump responded, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. yeah, he actually said that, trump didn't mention which republicans he was referring to but the notes indicate that at other times on the call he mentioned congressman jim jordan and scott perry and senator ron johnson. all three supported trump's election lies. joining us now are democratic congressman eric swalwell of california, he served as the house impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of president donald trump and is the author of endgame, inside the impeachment of donald trump, and joyce vance former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, she is an msnbc legal contributor and thank you both for being with me. congressman swalwell, i need to start with you, it's hard to believe that the second impeachment

donahue wants to remind people it's important to leave wild animals alone. if you are not helping, you are harming the coyote you what i understand that you think maybe you can make wildlife your friend. >> but you can't you cannot control the fallout. so the fallout from people leaving this coyote food is now this coyote it's 10 officials want to remind people that it's illegal to feed wild animals. if you get caught doing so. >> you can be fined or even receive jail time in san francisco. amanda hari kron 4 news. >> for 25 years. the disappearance of kristin smart now has been a mystery. and tonight we're getting a look at the evidence that convinced investigators, the cal poly freshman was murdered for 2 years. investigators have searched the property belonging to the father of murder suspect paul flores in arroyo grande investigators believe smart was once buried under the home and was recently removed. newly unsealed court records show ground penetrating radar indicating a, quote, major disturbance in the soil. investigators also found traces of human b

donahue, would not support it. he was then subsequently appointed by then-attorney general bill barr to a top job at the u.s. department. job well done. how do we reward this guy? only after trump was going and these appointees were out of leadership roles, only then could the case against tom barrack go ahead. what is that all about? i mean it is interesting about the prosecution of tom barrack but it is worrying about the u.s. justice department. i mean was that a favor to the former president? was that a political favor to the former president being done by law enforcement officials? if the justice department has been used in that way, doesn't that have to be fixed or at least ferreted out? shouldn't there be some accountability for that? two democratic members of congress are asking exactly that question today, and i think this is provocative and interesting. democratic congressman ted lieu of california and congresswoman kathleen rice of new york. the two of them have just written to the inspector general at t

near donahue nor rosen did any such thing. the justice department has told them both to cooperate with congressional investigations into trump's actions. >>> and in a big setback for the former president, he democrats have been trying to get them for two years, citing a federal law that says trea over individual the former president can now try to block the handover in court, >> pete williams, thank you. >>> now to disturbing interview, two whistle-blowers speak out to nbc's julia ainsley. >> reporter: tonight, nbc news obtaining these recent images of crowded conditions inside a facility for migrant children at fort bliss. >> there were these tents just crowded with kids. >> reporter: arthur perlstein worked there until just last month. he told us covid spread among hundreds of children. >> covid spread very, very rapidly amongst the kids and ultimately amongst many of the staff as well. >> reporter: another employee, lauren staff were told to hide what was happening. >> we were told to not be on social media, to limit our co

this is such a wild wild story, first of all a i love hillsdale second of all, is general donahue the norm in our militar leadership today? >> absolutely. when you hear him spouting msnb talking points, that shows you the quality and the level of education and thought process that goes across all of the services. aura, we have 906 admirals and generals in our military, and it's increasingly bloated group and in ideologically similar group as well. >> americans have a romanticize vision of the leadership of our military i think. because of film and movies and lot of them have done amazing stuff, but here are some other reasonable restrictions general donahoe enacted at fort benning last july. watch. >> we're going to require anybody coming on the out of isolation that they don't eased enclosed sit in restaurants downtown if want to go to the gym downtown, they can't go do in indoor gym facility. >> why would leaders like address the psychological torment that all of this inflicted on their troops with this restrictions. >> i want to make really clear, these guys are vocal losers who lo

there are notes of some of the calls that were written by a top aide of rosen, richard donahue, the notes could be turned over to congress in the number of days. the phone calls came in late 2020 and early 2021 when trump and his supporters were furiously pressing for officials at all levels of government to intercede in the usually routine process of certifying the election results. so phil, you cover those final weeks in your book. what was going on in the administration and do you expect these notes to end up in the hands of the january 6th commission? >> well, chris, i think it's very telling that these notes exist and that they could end up in congress in the coming days. i think that's important and we should keep an eye on that. but in terms of the broader context here, ever since the november 3rd election, trump was pressuring bill barr, the attorney general, to do just what you described with rosen. calling him every day and pestering him about whatever conspiracies he heard from rudy giuliani, or from sydney powell, the lawyer, or from mike lindell, the pillow guy, or on fox new

donahue, of course, after these decisions, subsequently promoted by the attorney general bill barr to become associated at the justice department. that is the job that is the operations officer for the deputy attorney general. it's a long title and has a lot of diminutive objectives, but it's a big deal job at the justice department. but cnn is reporting here is that federal prosecutors had their case last year. they had enough to charge back last year. but this trump appointed u.s. attorney apparently wouldn't let the charges be brought. then, he was brought to washingtonand given a big promotion and made a scene of the leader named justice. only after a new president took over, and the trump appointees got out of there was the case able to go ahead. but reportedly, it's unchanged in character since the time they first put it together which is deaf just delayed, and for a long time. and will take a credit to cnn for this reporting tonight, will doing what we can to match. we'll take issue with one way they characterize the indictment yesterday against tom barrack and this is like cha

donahue warned the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. trump replied he did not expect that. quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and to congressional allies. trump did not name the lawmakers but at other points during the call mentioned representative jim jordan of ohio whom he described as a fighter, scott perry of pennsylvania, who at the time promoted the idea the election was stolen from trump, and senator ron johnson of wisconsin whom trump praised for getting to the bottom of things. the notes pointing to trump's perceived coup accomplices are now in the hands of those members' peers in the house oversight and reform committee, which is investigating trump's efforts to overturn his defeat. the extraordinary new window into conversations with top justice department officials and the ex-president represent fresh smoking gun evidence of trump's abuse of power and frantic efforts to cling to power at all costs. the notes illuminate a well worn theme of the trump presidency, the ex-president's imperviou

his attorney, kevin we donahue. i >> think the police are just wrong. >> no forensics. no witnesses. not even a body. the defense might have stopped right there. instead they decided to gamble. michael is a nice guy. the jury should see that. >> do you solemn state -- >> and if the details were a little different each time he was asked to tell the story, here is his chance to straighten it all out for the jury. how odd then that mike, under oath no, amended his story. just a little. again. like when he added the detail that carol was in the bathtub when she said something mean to him. she said, you make my skin crawl. also slightly different, the way he discovered she was gone. >> i opened the front door, went out, and the grudge door was open. and the car was gone. >> in earlier versions, didn't mike say he heard the garage door go up? but then saw tail lights as carol drove away. why had his story changed again? >> what's the deal with that? did you hear the garage door? >> i don't think so. >> why do you think that now? what has dogged your memory? >> because i think

attorney in brooklyn at the time, which are donahue expressed misgivings about the case. it's unclear if you delay the case outright or if prosecutors chose not to move forward at the time knowing the u.s. attorney would not support it. he was then subsequently promoted by attorney general bill barr to a top job at the justice department. job well done! how we reward the sky. only after trump was gone and a new president took over and the trump appointees were out of these leadership roles, only then could the case against thomas barrack go ahead. what is that all about? it's interesting about the prosecution of tom barrack but it's worrying about the justice department. why is that a favor to the former president? was that a political favor to the former president being done by enforcement officials? if the doj is used in that way, does it have to be fixed doesn't this? two democratic members of congress are exactly asking exactly that question today. i think this is provocative and interesting. it's congressman ted lieu and congresswoman kathleen rice of new york. the t

attorney rich donahue didn't like the case. the lawyers ended upbringing the case now, just now. and we knew that bill barr, the attorney general at the time, just didn't like these cases under the foreign lobbying laws, and he didn't think very much of the law itself. so, we don't know exactly what the motivations were, but the members of congress are asking for an investigation to determine whether there was any politics involved. >> i'm sure they are for good reason. >> right, there's connections. tom barrack and donald trump go back decades. >> they need to get to the bottom of that. all right, evan perez, thank you very much for that. let's get the insights of criminal defense attorney joey jackson. joey, $250 million bail deal. i mean, i'm trying to figure out, is this the biggest bail posting of all time? it's got to be up there. >> it's up there, jim. i think putting it in context, though, we have to remember that this is a person whose company earned 1.5 billion with a b in the last three years, of course, as it related to his work on behalf of, i gather, the united arab

>> well, i mean, according to the notes taken by richard donahue, the second in command at the department of justice at the time, they had pushed back on a number of false claims of voter fraud the president had presented them at the time, and no matter really how much pushback they gave -- the president responded along the lines of, well, i just don't think that you're paying attention to the same internet i am. and just this morning the president released a statement not denying anything that was released in the notes, but instead saying -- what's wrong with trying to uncover. so he hasn't backed away from it and i think a key thing here is sort of the change in the justice department's position from when trump was in office. when he was president, it is very likely that some of these documents would have never been turned over, but the biden justice department has taken a different view of executive privilege and therefore have provided these documents to the house oversight committee which is examining his conduct. >> we heard about 50%, 60% of what you said. certainly the most salien

but there are notes of some of the calls that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donahue who was present for some of the conversations. those notes will by the way soon be turned over by the senior judiciary committee to see why bill barr so suddenly left the justice department after the election. those notes could head to congress in the matter of days. unless donald trump moves to block that from happening. joining us now is devlin barrack, one of the lead reporters on the blockbuster story in the washington post tonight, dublin, thank you for this and thank you for being with us tonight. as unorthodox as things were during the door donald trump presidency, this goes for. they're the idea of a presidentl interest with this attorney general is stuff that we think about when we think about richard nixon. >> right, and one of the things that we've all been working to understand a little better is exactly how hands-on did trump get with his aides and his senior officials. as he pushed for this and as he sought to frankly pull the justice department into things like litigati

but some notes, including to richard donahue who was present and those notes could be turned over to congress in couple days. now from california, chair of the house administration committee which held a hearing today on election sub version. congresswoman, your reaction to this "washington post" reporting tonight. >> well, it's in keeping with many of the other reports we've had about the president's efforts to try and subvert the election, frankly, and we will surely in the select committee want to know more about that. >> you're on the january 6th committee that held a hearing yesterday. you're investigating what led up to the attack on the capitol as well as everything that happened that day. >> exactly. >> but the question of what led up to it is rather broad, it is not exactly clear where that boundary is. were these phone calls to the attorney general part of what led up to what happened on january 6th? >> well, we'll find out. we're going to follow the fact where's they lead us. you know, it's one of the officers that said yesterday, a hitman was sent, we need to find out who

details come in contemporaneous handwritten notes by the former acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. in these notes, he describes a december 27th meeting between former president trump, himself, and the then-acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. during this meeting on december 27th, the president allegedly told them that they should declare the election illegal and corrupt, reportedly telling them, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. according to these notes, the acting attorney general told the then-president that, look, we can't just snap our fingers and make things happen. that's not the way this works. this evidence has been handed over to lawmakers. that's how it was released and made public. it's likely to be used in several ongoing congressional investigations, looking at the form president's efforts to try to undermine confidence in the election and the events leading up to the january 6th insurrection. both of those former justice officials could potentially be called to testify. now, in another major legal development related to the former presiden

and, according to the note, richard donahue, the number two official at the doj told him flat out that much of the info he's getting is false. we look at allegations but they do not pan out. the doj launched dozens of investigations into voter fraud claims, but trump continuing to hold on. you guys may not be following the internet the way i do. now, all this comes as the department of justice has determined that the treasury department must hand over trump's tax returns to house investigators. dan. >> all right, ike ejiochi, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >>> let's switch gears now and get the weather. brittany bell as mentioned earlier from wabc is right here filling in for rob this morning. brittany, what's happening nationally? >> the heat continues to ramp up across most of the country due to that ridge of high pressure building in. but there is a fall preview on the way across the northeast. check out these temperatures. down into the 40s this morning and higher elevations and the 50s elsewhere. it is really going to feel fantastic, especially if you have an early morni

attorney in brooklyn at the time, richard donahue, expressed misgifgz about the barrack case. it's unclear if he delayed the case outright or if prosecutors chose not to move forward at the time knowing the u.s. attorney wouldn't approve it. a spokesman did not respond to request for comment. donoghue was promoted to principal associate deputy attorney general at the justice department. that's a job that's usually called -- it means you're the operations officer for the deputy attorney general. it's a long title and has lots of diminutive adjectives in it but that's a big deal job at the justice department. what cnn is reporting here is that federal prosecutors had their case last year. they had enough to charge barrack last year. but this trump appointed u.s. attorney apparently wouldn't let the charges be brought. then he was brought to washington and given a big promotion and made a senior leader at main justice. only after a new president took over and the trump appointees got out of there was the case able to go ahead. but reportedly it's unchanged in character since the

committee released handwritten notes that they say are then acting deputy attorney general richard donahue taken in a call where he urged jeffrey rosen to declare the 2020 election fraudulent. according to the notes rosen told the president understand that the doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. the president then responded, again these are in the notes, don't expect to you do that, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the r congressmen. essentially he wanted a press release. well, oversight committee woman says that they have begun scheduling interviews to continue the investigation. >>> up next, a close primary race with some brutal tv ads. and it is high completing the deep divides inside the democratic party. party know this about the jungle, everything that you see wants to kill you and can. ♪ ♪ ♪ born to be wild ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ born to be wild ♪ ♪ ♪ see disney's jungle cruise. applebee's and a movie, now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. the rule in business used to be, "location, location, loca

donahue was hired to be personnel director for the niners in 1999, then took over the top management job two years later. he died at his home in newport beach after a two year battle with cancer. the death of an nhl goalie in michigan is being blamed on fireworks. columbus blue jacket goaltender matisse curve. lennox died last night. medical examiner says the goalie died of chest trauma caused by a fireworks, mortar blast. police say the 24 year old from latvia was with other people in a hot tub when fireworks caused everyone to rush out. he was taken to a hospital where he later died. the blue jackets called his death a tragic accident. closer to home police in modesto. we're searching for a father they say kidnapped his son and stabbed the child's mother. the abduction of 11 year old adler lopez laura saturday night triggered an amber alert. police say the child's father, walter laura, kidnapped his son after attacking the boy's mother in the parking lot of a motel six near highway 99. there was a woman that was laid down with, like stab wounds or wounds just coming right out, and

according to notes taken by acting deputy director richard donahue, the ex-president directed him and jeffrey rosen to, quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and to congressional allies. and the doj now says the treasury department must turn over six years' worth of trump's tax returns to the house ways and means committee. the congressman who serves on the committee telling msnbc how they could be used. >> the reason we sought the returns in the first place was because the ways and means committee needed this information to determine whether or not we need to legislatively require the president's returns to be audited on a regular basis. >> and breaking on capitol hill, the senate has convened for a rare saturday session as it hammers out the final details of that bipartisan infrastructure plan. let's go right to nbc's ali vitali. how optimistic are the lawmakers feeling right now? >> reporter: you can really feel the energy here on capitol hill. the desire to get things moving on this bipartisan infrastructure package. we actually just heard from sen

calls, but there arene notes of some o the calls that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donahue who was present during some of the conversations. those notes could soon be turned over to the senate judiciary committee as part of its probe why bill barr so suddenly left the justice department after the election. those notes could head to congress in a matter of days unless donald trump moves to block thatve from happening. joining us now is develin harris. thank you for the reporting and being here tonight. as unorthodox as things were during the donald trump t presidency, this goes further, the idea of a president dealing in his own personal interest with the attorney general is stuff we think about when we think of richard nixon. >> right. and one of the things we've all been working to understand a little better is exactly how hands-on did trump get with his aides and senior officials as he pushed for this and as he sought to, frankly, pull the justice department in to thinks like litigation and attacks on the vote certification. we know he called on rosen. it's possible in a

. >> and leigh ann to peter's great point, the justice department that provided donahue's handwritten notes to the oversight committee, and the house will not impeach him a third time, we don't think, but there is an avenue for the house select committee investigating january 6th as part of the work is looking to the lead-up to the insurrection, and do you think that the january 6th committee will go down this road? >> that is right, geoff. we don't know for sure. the select committee members have not responded to my request just yet on what they will do with this information, but it is possible, especially considering that the scope wants to be broad and look at what happened from the election up until january 6th, and they have not ruled out talking to white house aides and even the former president. there's something else that is really interesting in the handwritten notes, there is mention of three members of congress, including representative jim jordan who representative liz cheney who is on that select committee said could be a material witness for the select committee. and so

donahue wants to remind people it's important to leave wild animals alone. if you are not helping, you are harming the coyote you what i understand that you think maybe you can make wildlife your friend. >> but you can't and you cannot control the fallout. so the fallout from people leaving this coyote food is now coyote is officials want to remind people that it's illegal to feed wild animals. if you get caught doing so. >> you can be fined or even receive jail time in san francisco. amanda hari kron 4 news. >> and meanwhile, there is new video this morning of coyotes roaming in the inner sunset neighborhood. this is some dash cam video sent to us by a viewer. the animals were spotted near noriega and 12 last night. this is reportedly the second time in as many weeks that coyotes have been spotted and the area. so definitely be careful. 2 attacks in less than 24 hours on the same block in oakland's chinatown in both incidents were caught on camera. 2 women violently pushed to the ground. their belongings stolen right by madison park kron four's, michelle ki

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you being mister bower who wrote about it, or somebody wrote about it on the book, i appointed norah donahue to take a look at that. she did a very thorough job, got complete cooperation from the white house. ultimately concluded that there was a lot of bad form. yes, you don't fire u.s. attorneys by having somebody, several notches a down the chain call them up and tell them to clean out their desk. you have somebody, perhaps the attorney general, call up and say on the authority of the president, they are being asked to move on. as i understand, the clinton administration fired all 93 u.s. attorneys as they have a right to do, and replace them. that was the norm. then getting into questions about someone was or was not do their job properly, that is a huge mistake, and it was in the bush administration. >> if i could briefly follow up, in the book that i wrote with jack, we talked about that investigation and the report that norah donna he produced. that was ultimately the substance of where the legal lines were ultimately adopted by the obama administration, and deliver to congress in a l

peters: you've referred in your testimony to the individual who is the head, john donahue, the director of intelligence on the us capitol police. did he receive that report, but he did not pass it on to you as head of the uscp? steven sund: again, i have no knowledge that he received that report. i've been told it went over to a official with the rank of sergeant and didn't move any farther from there. sen. peters: okay. that's very concerning. were there not procedures for the head of the intelligence on the us capitol police to get the intelligence report, to review it, especially when there were significant other indications of potential violence, and make sure that you, as the leader, had that knowledge on which to develop additional plans, if additional plans were needed? steven sund: i'm sure that's something that they're looking at in their current after action. yes, there is a process for it, but again, as i mentioned before, that was raw intelligence that was coming in. again, taken in consideration with everything else, none of the other intelligence was showing that we're loo

you see what john donahue said this week? we are a brand of china and for china. that's your businesses taking the moral stand against it can you say nba? how does the nba think about china? >> we had that interview with joe a week and a half ago where we he put the question to him. clearly, he supported the chinese government as i think we all imagined he probably would the question is can you -- is there some kind of constructive engagement going on behind the scenes clearly if you come out publicly and say something negative, you can't have that engagement behind the scenes. i don't know there is that engagement behind the scenes >> after looking at the last couple decades, it doesn't seem like there is a lot of conversation behind the scenes taking place >> money money. money. thanks, eunice we will talk more with kyle bass in the 8:30 hour he will talk about his views on what china is up to. >>> up next, a lighter story, andrew >> up next, i promise you. nothing will glaze over. if you get the pun there krispy kreme returning to the public markets today after

and when a retired marine questioned him about the impact of the military's lockdown policies donahue tweeted university where the marine is a student quote come get your boy. that retired marine speaking out with a warning on the ingraham angle. >> when you hear shim spouting msnbc talking points that shows you the quality and the level of education and thought process that goes across all of the services. we have 906 admirals and generals in our military and it's increasingly a bloated group and ideologically similar group as well. brian: he was talking about hillsdale come get your boy. here to react senate candidate and army infantry captain sean parnell. sean, is this the military you left? did something really change? >> brian, 10 years ago this wouldn't have happened in the military. i served under president barack obama back then. as to why this general decided to wade into the dumpster fire that is the twitter debate to troll people that he has spent his life protecting is beyond me. it's certainly conduct unbecoming an officer of his stature. and, look, when we were in -- wh

donahue's notes, after he told him the justice department will not change the outcome of the election, it does not work this way. another point of the conversation, mr. trump criticized the top two official same people are angry, blaming the department of justice for an action in the doj failing to respond to legitimate complaints and reports of crimes, according to the notes. if you go below that, there is another story about the former president's tax returns, saying the justice department had to buy the treasury department to turn over the former president's returns for the house panel that sought them in 2019. according to him, friday, saying the panel had invoked sufficient reasons for the request, and a memo by the justice department office of legal counsel, the biden administration is weighing in on a political question that has dogged the former president since he first ran for office when the public had a right to know what he paid in taxes. you can read more of that at "the wall street journal" this morning. back to the topics of the eviction moratorium, which ended today. a

donahue back, i'm not a time. thank, thank you for your time. >> you don't. >> thank you. thank. typical new yorker typical new yorker, take more, to take more time time. with, but but we appreciate it. chair we appreciate it. >> recognizes chair another new yorker recognizes another, mr. new yorker, mr. tourists, for torres for five minutes. >> five minutes via mister. chairman, >> he's more congressman gottheimer is senior than i am so i can more senior than i am, defer to him. so i can defer to him. >> oh, when >> are you are you sure, mr. sure trudeau? >>? >> yes, i'm yeah, happy happy to to. >> do the. >> thank. mr. thompson, mr. thompson is that okay? is that ok? >> >> if it is the. >> vice chair, alarm go over because he is the vice this one, chair, or let him go with this one. go ahead, go ahead mr. gardner. mr. congressman. >> thank >> you, mr. torres. and i thought thank you mister taurus you, mister, and i chairman, you are thought you were gonna call me going to call the aid a new yorker which new yorker, which of course, would of course been would have been deeply in

peters: you've referred in your testimony to the individual who is the head, john donahue, the director of intelligence on the us capitol police. did he receive that report, but he did not pass it on to you as head of the uscp? steven sund: again, i have no knowledge that he received that report. i've been told it went over to a official with the rank of sergeant and didn't move any farther from there. sen. peters: okay. that's very concerning. were there not procedures for the head of the intelligence on the us capitol police to get the intelligence report, to review it, especially when there were significant other indications of potential violence, and make sure that you, as the leader, had that knowledge on which to develop additional plans, if additional plans were needed? steven sund: i'm sure that's something that they're looking at in their current after action. yes, there is a process for it, but again, as i mentioned before, that was raw intelligence that was coming in. again, taken in consideration with everything else, none of the other intelligence was showing that we're loo