instead of everything being trump, trump, trump, we need better policy. we need to do better. host: to francis in michigan. caller: yeah. i have been getting emails from trump to send him money. why does a billionaire need my money? i do not understand that. there are other things that i do not like about him. all the lies. thank you. host: we will continue the conversation about politics, focusing on 2022 and of going elections this year. we will be joined by democratic strategist to talk about political stories ahead. your calls as well. ♪ > c-span is >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. including mid co. ♪ >> midco supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you front row seat to democracy. >> next week on c-span, wednesday, the senate rules committee holds a hearing on the u.s. capitol police since the january 6 attack. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. thursday, beginning at 7:00 a.m., we'll have coverage throughout the day marking the one-area anniversary of the attack. friday, the supreme court hears

trump's first impeachment. hill was a top advisor to president trump on russia. she's an expert on authoritarian regimes and in her new book, "there is nothing for you here," she describes the january 6th capitol riot as the culmination of... bart gellman and fiona hill both join me now. and, bart, i want to actually start with the fact that this is not the first time you've sort of laid out this dark future we may be facing. about three months before the election in 2020, in september, you're almost like the guy, the intelligence report in august before 9/11, bin laden determined to attack the united states. you laid out and even sort of foreshadowed january 6th as a date that would not be pro forma. so, putting that out there, how bad is it? how bad are we looking at the next two years in 2024? >> well, the basic point, chuck, is that donald trump came closer than almost anyone thought he could to overthrowing a free and fair election the last time. and as i walked through it in my new piece for the atlantic, he is in a better position now to subvert an electio

reporting on trump. "betrayal" is a sequel that picks up the story in the administration's final chaotic tumultuous year. jonathan was able to cover a number of things that are not yet been revealed about that time and makes clear just how close our democratic system came to unraveling. as he writes, the simple truth about the last year of the trump presidency is that his lies turned deadly and shook the foundations of our democracy. in conversation with jonathan this afternoon would be another veteran white house reporter, peter baker of the "new york times." peter has authored several books himself on the presidencies of clinton, bush and obama and co-author to macbooks with his wife susan glasser who's now with the new yorker including one about the early years of vladimir putin's will and a biography last year of james baker. he and susan are currently working on their own book about the trump years. jonathan peter take it away. >> thank you very much for hosting this today, and thank you to lisa who

trump, ivanka trump and donald trump jr. in connection with investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled by donald j. trump the trump organization or any matter which the attorney general deems pertinent. the judge's order specifies when the trump family or attorney general's office must file argument on enforcement. the family is trying to block the subpoenas. in a statement the office said as her investigation into financial dealing of the trump organization continues, attorney general james is seeking interviews under oath of donald trump, donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. despite numerous attempts to delay the investigation, we're confident that questions will be answered and truth uncovered because no one is above the law. joining our discussion, tim o'brien, author of "trump nation" and former acting solicitor general and msnbc legal contributor. when you read the argument sequence dealing with these subpoenas, what is your sense of enforceability of the subpoenas is headed? >> these subpoenas ar

donald trump's lawyers were seeking to have the lawsuits dismissed and insisted that donald trump said nothing to provoke the attack on the capitol. once the attack was under way, judge maeda asked donald trump's lawyers, once the attack was under way, wouldn't somebody who is a reasonable person say that's not what i meant? the judge was wondering why donald trump never said that to those people attacking the capitol. you're not doing what i wanted you to do. he never said that. donald trump's lawyers argued that anything said as president can never be the subject of a lawsuit. and as lawyers do, when they think one argument might fail, donald trump's lawyers offered a second argument, which is that donald trump's comments were simply part of doing his job as president. judge maeda raised the georgia case where donald trump called the secretary of state asking him to change the vote count in georgia. judge maeda asked donald trump's lawyers how is he carrying out the function of the presidency by calling a state official? donald trump's lawyers argued that his job is to make sure, quo

we beat trump. but, ted, i was thinking of sending a fainting couch over to fox news and their studios, but i figured they had plenty of those along with some pearls to clutch. your thoughts? i mean we just saw, you know, trump, he drove all of these attacks against the media. what happens to the media, do you think, if trump runs again and wins? >> well, jim, it was very amazing. it's great to be with you, and it brought back a lot of memories. i think what we're going to see are continued attacks on the press. the legitimate news gathering that's so important. the supreme court has said over and over again, including in citizens united, a case that conservatives like and liberals don't like, that the first amendment protects the ability of citizens to hold the powerful accountable, to get the information they need to govern themselves. and so this disinformation campaign coupled with attacks on the press is really harmful to our democracy, which is, i guess, the topic of this entire show. >> no qu

trump's triplex apartment was only 10,096 square feet. it was signed by mr. trump. but the square footage is just the start. there's also this. the supporting data for mr. trump's 2015 statement reported ta t value of his triplex apartment was valued at $327 million. mr. weisselberg admitted that the valuation of trump's personal apartment amounted to an overstatement of, quote, give or take, $200 million. the error was, "give or take, $200 million." the most expensive apartment in the country was $169 million. trump said his apartment was worth almost double that. year after year in financial statements he said his apartment was worth nearly twice as much as the most expensive apartment in the country and it was three times larger than it actually was, which is wild and flagrant and almost impressively dishonest, and it does make you think back to his hand size at the debate. too on the nose, right? according to the attorney general, it's not just an interesting personality pa tholgy. it was part of the behavior pattern of trump and it was partly illegal. quote, si

they were there because donald trump sent them according to them donald trump sent us. >> after the attack, we try to get information from the justice department about its investigation and the people who have been arrested. along with other news organizations, we sued for access to get evidence they had been gathering. >> i thought there were going to be battles. i thought was going to be fighting. >> interrogation who admitted to assaulting a police officer. >> i tased them, yes. i thought it wasn't going to happen like that. i thought trump was going to stay president. >> regis has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have argued that he was mean to be elated agents. >> we thought they stole this country, that it is gone. america is or. it is destroyed now. >> the arrests after january 6 may have quieted the move for a time, but it would turn out to be short-lived. in rallies across the country, i see momentum building around overturning the 2020 election. the crowds include characters in groups i have en tracking. i see more more mainstream americans. according to polling data, around tw

from ivanka trump at some point. congressman jamie raskin, the subject of the new nbc documentary, love in the constitution, premiering next month. thank you so much congressman. >> pleasure is all mine, thank you. coming up, remember the investigation into trump's call the georgia's top election official, when he demanded they get the more votes. the da is asking for a grand jury, and that is a really big deal. i'll explain why, next. jury, and that is a really big i just want to find 11,700 and 1880 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. , because we won the state. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54, what's my price? you can get coverage for

many of them are trump's. they refused to be believed and controlled into falsifying the results of the election. that was a heartening thing to discover. >> yes, i want to talk about a few of those examples. but matthew, going to you about the level of coordination here. you've got receptive voices of the local level pressure coming. sometimes people traveling to the states to try and make this happen. not just in washington but at the state level as well. >> yes. you mentioned ruby freeman, the election worker there in georgia who is approached by a publicist who is working at some capacity with con u.s.. that was something we found out and a story that we broke in the book. it was just a level of harassment. it was poured out on these election workers who are not in it for a lot of money. they were just there to do their duty. and there was coordination internationally to heat the peak on these peoples lives. >> this sort of mob mentality and the way that these people are delusional, i think that they are d

it has become the trump party, without the trump name, and they no longer need the trump name to brand themselves. >> victoria, that was a real gloomy spin on something i thought might have indicated something else. what do you make of? it that's a hell of an argument, that trump's transform the party, and now one doesn't have to separate or make that distinction between being a trump supporter and republican. >> i agree with my friend, matthew. i think that will we've seen, a shift of the republican party. the other thing, this in happen overnight. i want to take us back to 2010, to that midterm election, to the rise of the tea party. what we saw there was really the seeds of this extremism, within the republican party. i might even take a little farther, and say in 1990, for new gangrenous. this was an effort that was building. trump was able to consolidate that movement, put his branding on it, put is -- i think that we have seen a shift, at least for the medium term, of the brand of the republican party. i'm all with matthew on this one. >> matthew, let's talk about donald trump. h

instead of everything being trump, trump, trump, we need better policy. we need to do better. host: to francis in michigan. caller: yeah. i have been getting emails from trump to send him money. why does a billionaire need my money? i do not understand that. there are other things that i do not like about him. all the lies. thank you. host: we will continue the conversation about politics, focusing on 2022 and of going elections this year. we will be joined by democratic strategist to talk about political stories ahead. your calls as well. ♪ > c-span is your unfiltered view of government. including medco. ♪ >> midco support sees. giving you a -- c-span, giving you a front row seat to democracy. > next week on c-span. holding a hearing on the u.s. capitol police since the january 6 attack. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. hearing oral argument in or a mandate for a larger, private companies. but the house and senate return in january for the start of the second session of the 117th congress. taking up the social spending plan known as build back despite west virg

and ivanka trump. ivanka and mr. trump jr. have long been executives at the family business, as is their brother eric who testified in this investigation already last year. the new york attorney general apparently wants testimony from all of them now. now, what attorney general tish james is conducting in new york is a civil investigation, which means the end result could be a lawsuit by the attorney general, not criminal charges. but that's not necessarily a small thing. it's been lawsuits from the new york attorney general's office that have already successfully dismantled donald trump's fraudulent trump university and his bogus trump foundation charity thing. neither of those exist anymore, and millions of dollars in fines have had to be paid in shutting them down and settlements for those lawsuits. so the civil lawsuit from a new york attorney general is a powerful thing. and that may be where this is going. but in addition to that, there is also a parallel criminal investigation into trump's business practices being run b

donald trump cares. and i've got evidence this week, as soon as this story broke that we were meeting, guess who doksed my phone number, the people close to donald trump in maga circles and my phone was melting down with messages from his supporters who said miles, how dare 30 people counteract the 80 million of us. what that tells me is that they are spooked. donald trump is spooked. he knows it, and it's why he hasn't said anything this week about us meeting behind the scenes. he is worried. he's worriedabout the contact these people can have on his political plans, and that's why we're rolling forward. >> i'm glad you're rolling forward, but there are some hills to climb as you make that roll. based on what i'm going to share with the new results from the gallop poll, it shows that overall slightly more u.s. adults reported leaning democrat in 2021. okay, that's for the whole year. however, look at the fourth quarter. that saw a dramatic shift in party preference with republicans having a five-point a

keith kellogg, ivanka trump, other trump aides who are watching trump nearly scream in the phone in the oval office and this follows, as joe scarborough mentioned, the fever pitched night of bannon, giuliani at the willard, trump and pence in the oval office one-on-one as intense as it could ever get. >> and, bob woodward, for me the quote of the day on january 6th was the president himself saying i will be there for you as he was guiding everybody to go to the capitol. i know you have had extensive time with him, conversations with him on the covid crisis and how he handles each moment. how clear was it to you when he said that, that he would not be there for his supporters? >> it was not clear. he's a man of impulse, as you and joe know. so don't ever predict what trump is going to do. but this whole thing, and this is why i have some faith and robert costa does in the january 6th committee. they are moving swiftly, talking to lots of people. whether they will find big, new answers, we don't know, but they have got an investigative method which is sound and proven. so let's look a

ok, do you believe trump will run again? you do, don't you? and if he does, can america afford to deal with a 2nd claim? false claim that he won the election more, which one's more defeat more ruined lives as a result of him running and losing again, kind of what i would tell you. i don't think i don't think america can afford to not have president trump come back and i'll point to some very specific examples i point to the hyper inflation that hitting american families really hard right now. i would also point to the increased gas prices out. what the, the shipping crisis, where over a 100 ships that are camped off the coast to california and joe biden is completely enough to dealing with it. i'd say joe biden is refused to stand up to china. in fact, miss 9 dash line now effectively extends to honolulu. if not the west coast, we see the testing of ballistic missiles. i'd say his handling an afghan to stand where 13 service men and women were killed. was it absolute heretic. if we had the votes there, i'd say that he should be in peach simply

ivanka trump not the only person persuading trump to do something he didn't want to do. in today's letter, new insight into the 9:00 p.m. host on fox news to try to change trump's tone at the days after the insurrection. we already knew sean hannity had been part of the trump inner circle, almost like a staffer to the president, had been texting with trump's chief of staff, today we learned he was also in communication with trump's chief spokesperson kaly macinny, hannity texted ms. mcenany, laying out a five point approach for conversations, laying out a plan as follows, no more stolen election talk, yes, impeachment, many people will quit. in response, ms. mcenany replied, yes, thank you that is the play book i will enforce. wow, that's fox host sean hannity game planning a post insurrection approach which current fox news commentator kaley mcenany happily accepts. jamie rascen of maryland, january 6 committee, author of the excellent new book "unthinkable" trials and truth of american democracy, i spoke about on the podcast, congressman raskin there is a lot here. i g

your reaction to trump asking for a protest as david was saying against these racist, as trump called them, racist prosecutors who, by the way, happen to be black. >> right. you know, for those of us who have been listening and paying attention to donald trump, he's been calling for race war since the beginning. ever since he came down the gold plated escalator and said that mexicans are rapists. he's been trying to tell white people out loud that the immigrant, the blacks are stealing our country. january 6th was just manifestation of people who are coming together under his direction to follow his orders to over turn what he told them was an illegal election that was not free and fair and that was stolen from him. the fact that the republican party, on january 7th said this was terrible and it can never happen again. you ask them now and they start mealy mouthing and saying it wasn't that bad. we saw police officers fighting for their lives against people armed to teeth, who said they were going to take their country back under the direction of a sitting u.s. president who had just

trump. >> for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country's interests and america's interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. >> on that dark day a mob of angry trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. it was two months after trump lost the election. trump spent weeks, months refusing to accept the results, challenging them every way he could, in court, on air, on social media, through intimidation of public officials, and private and publicly. trump told his supporters, come to d.c. on the day the electoral votes would be officially counted in congress, january 6th. trump said it w

trump did? >> yeah, well, a lot of people are auditioning. i've got my eye on ron desantis, who, you know, we can laugh at him copying trump's hand gestures. i won't demonstrate. but he's in florida creating his own little autocracy. it's like all these people are rehearsing for their parts in the autocracy to come, and there's tucker carlson, minister of information. and this is very typical. what we're living through now is the gop is constructing a authoritarian political culture to support a liberal rule. and a lot of the stuff going on now -- like, look how many people were involved in january 6th are running for office. that's because -- >> right. >> -- you need extremists in government and in the party. and then you have these mini-trumps who have learned the lessons of trump and want to surpass him like desantis. so, all of these things are legible, are understandable through the, you know, making an authoritarian culture for the future. >> and based on all -- should we even view the rep

trump. given how li tinlous the trumps are i think it is only a matter of hours before we see a lawsuit about former executive's favorite child privilege. but i think that's, you know, that's likely to happen. i think the timing of this is not surprising. it comes on the heels of a remarkable loss for donald trump by the u.s. supreme court last night which in my judgment is a key step in restoring the rule of law in this country. what that decision last night -- what has gotten lost in the last 20 hours is what that case, nicolle was about. by that i mean the specific documents. congress was trying to know what trump was doing on january 6th. they wanted his diary. they wanted a handwritten note that he wrote. they wanted to know what he did that day. and he went into court, including all the way to the supreme court, and said, no, the american people don't have a right to know what i was doing on january 6th. and he lost that claim 8-1 in the supreme court. and so it is not surprising today

i think the president trump, i said this probably before. in fact, we're given a full and accurate description of some of the books have even said that to some of the book authors. but president trump has, i think with raj henry 6 i think could have said something sooner. absolutely, but i also, at the same time, don't think that even if you had said something a little bit sooner, fundamentally, it would have changed what happened on that day, and i'm gonna tell you why. as we've seen, the video we've seen these images is that people are whether they're storming barricades or climbing up walls or are doing different things. folks are not sitting there with smartphones and he can watch exactly what's going on. there certainly weren't jumbotron screens with cnn or fox news, or m s d n c, or any other outlets that were up there to where people would have seen his comments. i fundamentally don't think that would change things, but i agree and even even said publicly that i wish they had said something more declarative early. and again, going to

all of his trump supporters to forget. your letter says that you wanted to talk to kevin mccarthy about discussions he had with donald trump about the potential that donald trump would face a censure resolution, impeachment, or removal under the 25th amendment. kevin mccarthy discussed with donald trump the possibility of him being not just censured by the house but removed under the 25th amendment? >> there are multiple indications that there were a lot of administration officials and even cabinet officials who were broaching the subject within the administration. and remember, there was a pervasive sense around january 6th that this was the straw that broke the camel's back. something needed to be done. and we were, you know, facing a clear and present danger just by the continuation of trump for his final two weeks in office. everybody across the political spectrum was talking about these different possibilities. censure, impeachment, 25th amendment, something to try to harness the ferocity of donald trump's temper and

trump called him a jerk. rounds is now come out just in the last few minutes and says he's standing by his claims. that the 2020 election was legitimate. how can you make more and what can your group do to make more mike rounds on this issue? give more republicans that kind of backbone to basically say the truth and then not back down when donald trump calls him names. >> well, isn't it breath taking? that was a headline today. a sitting republican senator merely said that the election was legitimate. i'll tell you this, it first started with all we had today it fell. when i tried to do something sum lar a year ago, you know, i said to the folks on the call today, it was basically, a bowl of popcorn and a couple people on the zoom. folks were scared. they were scared to step forward and actually stand out against the ex-president. now those numbers are increasing. the best way to do that is show there is strength in numbers. right now there is a tribe of the tribalists who are in the republican party and oppo

trump lost michigan. this was an effort to say effectively don't worry, as a state legislature, you can send an electoral college state of electors for trump, even though he lost the state. that's under your authority. you'll do that, right? the voice mail says we're having everybody send in fake electors from states that trump lost. the president asked me to call. he's counting on you. forgive me for saying it this way. it's weird that, that call is so lame. and the reason i say that is because -- i don't know that there is a punchy way to do a call like this. but this was a rote enough function of what the trump campaign was doing as of december 1st, 2020, that they had campaign randos leaving this kind of things on people's voice mails. hey, so and so, we're falsifying the election results tooverturn the election. give me a call back. that was clearly somebody exhausting from making calls all day long. i surmise from the tone. which isn't fair. but the benality of the effort tells you this isn't someth

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he was in the room with ivanka trump and the former president donald trump on the morning of january 6th. according to the committee and what we found out today he provided a first-hand account of a phone call he and ivanka saw, observed when the room -- between trump and mike pence the vice president that morning. his testimony is cited in the letter. the committee asks kellogg, and i quote, another report of this phone call is that trump said, mike, it's not right. you can do this. i'm counting on you to do it. if you don't do it i picked the wrong man four years ago. you're going to wimp out. do you remember anything like that the committee asked kellogg. kellogg responds. words like that? yes. and according to the committee, kellogg testified that at the end of this call between trump and pence ivanka trump turned to me, quoting the letter, and said, mike pence is a good man. i said, yes, he is. well, here is something else we didn't know in this letter. they talk in here about a text from someone outside the white house urging team trump to do something, anything. we hadn't seen

and donald trump jr. was specifically involved these properties, and once the former president -- once donald trump, the real estate magnate, became president, he sent -- you know, he put his funds in charge of the business. they continued to sign off on these financial statements. >> kara, let me jump in here because i'm getting some more information i want you to weigh in on it. specifically the new york attorney general's office says it is zeroing it on several specific alleged misstatements, including the size of trump's trump power penthouse, miscategorized assets outside of mr. -- thereby overstating his liqu liquidity, and ways that the statements did not disclose, failed to use fundamental techniques evaluation like discounting future revenues and expenses to their present value or chooses as comparables only similar properties to impute valuations from public sales data, misstated the purported involvement of outside professionals in reaching the valuations, and failed to advise that certain valu

trump and others. the times ads, pence has grown annoyed that the committee is publicly signaling that it has secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides, than it

former president trump has continued to spread lies about the election. on thursday, president biden addressed the nation. >> the former president has created a web of lies about the election. you cannot love your country only when you win. you cannot obey the law only when it is convenient. you can't be patriotic when you enable lies. yamiche: in a statement, former president trump said president biden was engaged in political theater. he set the democrats want to own the day so they can stoke fears and divide america. congresswoman liz cheney called out her republican colleagues for downplaying the riot. some trump loyalists quickly fired back. >> they out to be ashamed of themselves. history will judge them. >> we are proud of the work we did to make legitimate arguments about election integrity. yamiche: tonight, joining me are four reporters who wrote the first draft of this chapter of american history. the white house correspondent for the new york times area a washington post investigative reporter. she is the co-author of a book about donald trump

and ivanka trump. he said if the former president has no executive privilege to hide evidence of an attempted coup or insurrection, neither do his family or friends. if ivanka trump was with donald trump as the attack unfolded, she is a material fact witness. i look forward to her testimony. what does he mean by that? >> he is a hundred percent right. what the supreme court did yesterday in the 8-1 decision is it said that trump couldn't hide from the american people documents about what he was doing on january 6th. if you can't hide the documents and this is congressman raskin's point you also can't hide the witnesses from testifying. that includes ivanka, it includes a whole cast of characters. that whole team insurrection banked on the fact they thought they had the supreme court so this could make these absurd privilege claims and the supreme court would bail them out. not only did the supreme court wound their defense fatally it did so on an expedited schedule. and so their unified front turned ou

yeah, trump said. trump blinken kept watching television. kellogg looked around and realize the west wing was nearly empty. meadows was in his office, but trump was essentially alone. leading off our discussion tonight, bob woodward, two-time pulitzer prize-winning author, and robert costa national reporter for the washington post. they are the coauthors of the book, peril. thank you both for being here. on what is a sad in historic night, in this country. bob woodward, as we gather more detail to the very detailed account that you already have, in peril. what strikes you as the most important thing for people to know about what the president was doing on january 6th? >> well, there is more in the book about trump threatening pence. i want to be very accurate, and quote accurately, he said, you can to do this. other words, certify biden as president. i don't want to be your friend anymore. you've betrayed us. i made you. your career is over. another point in all of this, trump said to pence, i picked the wrong man four years ago. and then yo

and easily accessible by trump. of courting to the 2015 financial statement, reported by the value of the justice department, was -- supporting damon from the 2016 financial statement. the value of the trump's plight -- was overstated own most by three times. in a test to the attorney generals office, mr. trump said that the a valuation of trump's personal apartment value to an overstatement of, give or take a couple million dollars. the statements overvalued was give or take 20 dollar million dollars. the most expensive department not only in new york city, but in the entire nation, the most important -- expensive apartments. year after year on financial statements, he said it was more than twice then the most expensive department in new york. and he said it was -- it is wild, and fragrance, and very dishonest. it does make you think back to bragging about his hand size at the debate. it is two on the nose. but according to the attorney general, it is not just an interesting pathology, it was part of a pattern of b

trump invoke it. as well as attorney-client privilege, could you please explain these two privileges and how they come into play. here >> certainly ali. that is true those privileges are applied, but only to donald trump. the letters to conversations, that at least some of these individuals had with members of congress as well, which of course would not be subject to other privilege. executive privilege is the concept that the president should be able to have free discussions with the senior staff and those around him, without fear that it would come out later and in a congressional hearing, or other matters. and so, it pertains to conversations that donald trump had himself with others around him. it does not include, conversations that are unofficial. perhaps with the campaign. and certainly the supreme court has held, it does not include conversations that relate to improper misconduct, or other illicit activity. attorney client privilege, but it's only to a lawyer and his client. that would includ

donald trump started this all. he started it by lying about the election even before it happened, and he kept -- he was the one who basically told them to go up on capitol hill. and there are any number of theories he could be, you know, potentially held criminally liable for this stuff. i mean, harry litman, who you just had on, talked about 18 usc 1215-2, which is the perfect fit. it talks about, you know, criminalizes -- it says if somebody should go to jail for not more than 20 years if they corruptly object instruct, influence or impede any official proceeding, that close a proceeding of congress, and the judges in this district and the district of columbia have held that official proceeding of congress includes the january 6th counting of electoral voits for the joint session. the question is, did he try to obstruct, influence, conspire, obstruct or influence or impede that proceeding? yes. did he do it corruptly. let us count the ways. he lied his ass for two months about the election. that seems pretty corr

this is a bad day for donald trump and a bad week for donald trump. he canceled that press conference. republicans may not have wanted him to do it, but he doesn't usually listen to republicans. he canceled that an hour after sean hannity's text to mark meadows were made public. his base may dismiss this speech, but this was a very powerful attack on trump by biden. >> yeah. what president biden said is we have to now determine, and i'm anxious to get your thoughts, what kind of nation are we going to be. the big lie was formed by the former president and it's still out there. jim sciutto is watching all of this together with all of us as well. we're seeing the motorcade getting ready to leave capitol hill and head back to the white house with the president. i'm anxious, jim, for your thoughts. as i keep saying, people in the united states are watching president biden, but people all around the world are watching what the president of the united states had to say about the peril to american democracy right now, and they're probably scratching their he

because in 2020, senator cruz didn't hold up any of donald trump's state department nominees when trump was refusing to implement sanctions, when the russians sent ships that started showing up to restart construction. not even when construction restarted in the fall of 2020. nope, during this time all of trump's state department nominees sailed through without a single republican objection or blockade. on trump's last day in office, his last day, literally as he was packing up the oval office, january 19, he sanctioned one ship and the company that owned the ship. essentially a signal of how little he cared. on the day he was leaving, he sanctioned one company and the company that owned the ship, but by this time 95% of the pipeline was finished and then he begrudgingly hands the keys over to joe biden and leaves the incoming president with a mess, a pipeline 95% built that donald trump could have stopped if he had used the sanctions that he was given. so you can understand why some of us wonder what the motivation is behind senator cruz's extraordinary tactics now when the pipeline is

trump was a primary contract for the trump organization's largest lender, deutsche bank. it required these things to be submitted to the bank and the federal government. that is not good. one attorney general says about you specifically, while asking the general for your testimony. you just had to plead the fifth over 500 times in this recent deposition. but now, on the same 48-hour period, we have this bombshell letter to ivanka trump for the january 6th investigation. and in this january six investigation letter to her, we do not have partial allegations against her, personally. the way we do for example, the new york attorney general. but we do have a surprising number of eye-popping revelations. about what the committee has found out thus far. about what the committee knows. and there are lots of questions for miss trump to come in and talk about which he knows. given apparently how much she features in other people's testimony. there was so much going on in this today. we are going to get expert help to understand the importance of some of these revelations in just a

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donald trump junior, and ivanka trump for their testimony. eric trump has already given an under oath deposition in the case, in which he refused to answer questions, citing his fifth amendment rights over 500 times. in the filing released, the attorney general says, since 2017, donald trump junior has had an authority over numerous financial statements containing misleading asset valuations. donald trump junior should be compelled to testify before the office of the attorney general. until january 20 17th, miss ivanka trump was a primary contact for the trump organization's largest lender, deutsche bank in connection with this work, miss trump cause misleading financial statements to be submitted to deutsche bank and the federal government. ivanka trump should be compelled to testify before the office of the attorney general. in a press release, the attorney generals office noted that they have, quote, not yet reached a final decision regarding whether this evidence merits legal action. the trump organization, which is currently under indict

well, donald trump... exactly. donald trump's role in january 6 last year is being investigated currently by a house of representatives committee, and we know that they are exploring all angles, including trump's role. now, if there is sufficient evidence of criminal activity by the president and his key associates, i guess we can assume that will be acted upon by the department ofjustice led by the attorney general. well, the attorney general, merrick garland, is a very good man, a friend of mine, a former student of mine, and i am hoping that he will do exactly what you say, but i'm not confident. the reason i'm not confident is that there is very little reason to believe that anyone other than the foot soldiers, the people who actually stormed the capitol is being investigated. the fact is that the investigation ought to extend to the plotters, the planners, the funders, the people at the top — and it is quite possible that the committee that you're describing, two of whose members are former students of mine

yeah, trump said. trump blinked and kept watching television. kellogg looked around and realized the west wing was nearly empty. meadows was in his office, but trump was essentially alone. leading off our discussion tonight, bob woodward two time pulitzer prize winning author and associate editor aft washington post where he worked since 1971 and robert costa, the co-authors of the book "peril." thank you both very much for joining us tonight on what is a sad and historic night in this country. bob woodward, as we gather more detail to the very detailed account you already have in "peril," what strikes you as the most important thing for people to know about what the president was doing on january 6th? >> well, there's more in the book about trump threatening pence. i want to be very accurate and quote accurately. he said, you can't do this. in other words, certify biden as president. i don't want to be your friend anymore. you've betrayed us. i made you. your career is over. and another point in all of this, trump said to pence, i picked the wr

>> trump is racist. trump gained his political power on birth tourism, which was denying the legitimacy of barack obama, a black man. and the laws that are being passed, they are as subtle and as vicious as the jim crow laws at came up in the 1890's and early 20th century. they don't say we don't want black folks to vote, but the laws are written in the way they use the socioeconomic characteristics of african-americans to stop and block african-americans from being able to vote. if you thought the jim crow laws were racist, than the ones we are dealing with right now are equally racist. amy: carol anderson, professor at emory university and the author of the new book "the second: race and guns in a fatally unequal america." also the author of "one person, no vote: how voter suppression is destroying our democracy" and "white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." next up, we look at the lead up to the insurrection and what followed with newsweek's william arkin. stay with us. ♪♪ [music brea

nobody around president trump including president trump. none of us had any idea that the events at the capitol would happen. and actually i'm on record as soon as i saw the events at the capitol that any and all violence needs to stop. >> do you remember what time you tweeted that since you brought it up? >> i believe it was around in the 2:00 hour. >> it was about 2:30. it was a bit into it, but go ahead. >> there you go, ari. why did you have to ask if you already knew? thanks for pushing my twitter out there. >> why do you and peter not understand in an interview i ask questions. i ask you questions. you did say this. facts matter. you said please stay peaceful, respect the law. you posted it at 2:30, you say. so i give you back the floor to discuss the first part of the question, were you on board with what we heard from navarro, that you would kick this to the house and somehow override the results? >> well, first of all, the results are the results based on legal votes, so the results as i believe them to be based on the 83,000 unlaw

>>> targeting the trumps. new york attorney general wants answers from the former president and his children as she alleged fraud in the family business. >>> no backing down. u.s. officials warn russia could be preparing to seize ukraine's capital. the high-stakes test the white house now faces with putin. >>> free masks for all. the biden administration says it will give away millions of free n95 masks amid a disturbing rise of covid cases among children. thanks for being here. let's begin this hour with former president trump and his inner circle facing serious legal jeep difficult. new york attorney general leticia james says her office has uncovered, quote, significant evidence of fraud and misleading statements in financial documents presented by the trump family business. there's also big developments in washington. the house select committee investigating the insurrection has obtained phone records from donald trump's son eric and donald trump jr.'s fiancee, kimberly guilfoyle. the committee issuing new

he went to meet with donald trump. quote, the select committee does wish to discuss any communications you had with president trump at that time regarding your account of what actually happened on january six. your public statements regarding january six have changed markedly since you met with trump. at that meeting or at any other time, did president trump or his representatives discuss or suggest what you should say publicly during the impeachment trial, if called as a witness, or in any later investigation, about your conversation about him or on january six? here's what kevin mccarthy said on january six, in an interview with norah o'donnell, cbs news, while the capital was still being attacked. >> you said you spoke with the president, what did the president say he would do? >> i don't know. he had put a tweet out of. there i told him to talk to the nation. i told him what was happening right. then i was very clear with the president when i called him. i said to stop. and he said go to the american public and tel