donald trump is dangerous, and donald trump is also stupid, and that makes donald trump a danger to himself, especially a danger to himself legally as his criminal lawyers well know. fani willis has sought no public attention for her quite investigation of election fraud. it took donald trump's public stupidity to force district attorney willis to say publicly, i am conducting a criminal investigation of former president donald j trump. donald trump's public stupidity let him down another road this weekend that his harmful donald trump as evidence to the criminal investigations of election fraud. because donald trump is banned from twitter, yesterday he released a written statement seen by members of the news media and we are not sure who else, that has created more legal jeopardy for donald trump. a statement says that the legislative efforts now underway to clarify the electoral count act of 1887 means, according to donald trump quote, that mike pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could

but with donald trump, thankfully, it's very simple. you can't flush confidential documents down the toilet. you cant rip up classified documents. so i think there is a new line of inquiry with donald trump. but it's unfortunate that we have to live through the consequences of the mistake that we made in 2016 which is waiting a perceived mistake more heavily than we would if it were man. we are seeing this exact scenario with a man. and look, we are so calmly talking about it. nobody's breathlessly putting headlines about emails or classified information. >> what professor eddie s. glaude jr. was, it this is the year it seems where we must finally rewrite this truism that we all listened to our whole lives. originally, it was of course no man is above the law because they're always referring to the male presidents. and now it generally phrase says no one is above the law. it seems like we have to enter a realistic rewrite that says donald trump at least is above saw lobs. because he is going to get away with it, not be prosecuted for at

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donald trump. donald trump's insane ego demands that donald trump released a statement fighting back against that mazars letter. when he does, that when donald trump does that, he contradicts everything that his lawyers have been telling the judge in that case. then, tonight, in the braking's of the night, the attorney general of the state of new york uses donald trump's exact, profoundly stupid words, in his statement against him. that is where that case is tonight. mazars has flipped. mazars has flipped and is working with new york prosecutors in their investigations of donald trump. that is the judgment of our first guest tonight, attorney philip -- who has studied the letter that mazars accounting firms sent to don trump's company. donald trump and the company has plans last week. philip writes, this is a big deal. it means that mazars has flipped and is now protecting itself, not trump. or, as trump put it in his statement last night, that mazars didn't feel it could fight it out. that is undo

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hillary beat donald trump by 3 million votes. joe biden beat trump by seven and a half million votes. it's only the antiquated electoral college system that allowed trump to get to where he was and the young people are coming with our party, the party of democracy, the new americans are coming with our party, the party of democracy. the gop exist completely on a bag of tricks that install minority political power like the filibuster in the senate, like the gerrymandering of our congressional districts, like the manipulation of the antiquated electoral college system. so it's the will of the majority versus their bag of tricks. and i concede to you, we are in a profound struggle for american democracy but what we need is notjudgment and carping from around the world, we need people tojoin our struggle and to help us vindicate the continuing progress of democracy in america. congressmanjamie raskin, we have to end there. i wish we had more time. but thank you indeed forjoining me. thank you for having me. storm eunice is bearing do

i, donald trump, and rich. you can imagine just how donald trump felt this week when his longtime accounting firm, mazars, announced they were quitting. and that they were renounce saying a decades worth of statements of financial condition that they had prepared for trump. those statements, quote, according to mazars, should no longer be relied upon. we've come to this conclusion based, in part, upon the findings made by the new york attorney general. new york attorney general, letitia james, has been investigating trump's business practices, in particular, whether he may have fraudulently missed rest presented his assets to obtain loans and tax benefits. trump's attracting accounting firm. she was like, we are out of here. donald trump's reaction to his accounting firm, basically saying, we can only vouch for trump saying he is as rich as he says he is... well, it was about what you would expect. trump put out what maybe the longest most rantings statement he has ever released since leaving office. the statem

he's not a donald trump loyalist. does not mean he's was never a trumper, but he's not part of that maga base or one of the aunts scurrying around to try to do former president trump's bidding. he was also with pence all day on january 6th. so he has this window into, as the protesters were chanting, hang mike pence, throughout the entire day, no one from the white house, not the president, not a low level staffer, no one called the then vice president or his entourage to see if he was okay. at one point short himself called the white house and said hey guys, just so you know, we are sheltering in this particular location, we are fine. i think the real -- it's not really -- it's all those days and weeks leading up to january 6th where marc short was one of the few people who was often in the room or on phone calls with trump, with pence, with some of trump's lawyers and allies who repeatedly tried to pressure pence to, as trump tweeted out prepared in the statement the other day overturn election. that's one of his --

why is this more bad news for donald trump? >> as you mentioned, in your opening, jonathan, he's banking on 100 million dollar profit. the sale of that leads to undisclosed purchasers. the it turns out, that lease was procured from the federal government on a quicksand of potentially faulty documents. that includes one document, a statement of financial condition from 2013, that the mazars accounting firm, which is originally certified, is no longer standing by that statement. there are numerous other row misrepresentations, potentially, very similar to the ones that are the subject of the similar -- in new york, with regard to a raft of other financial statements as well. >> the national archives are for donald trump, after discovering he took home classified documents. what is your take on whether or not attorney general merrick garland will act on this? >> my take is that he's going to look very carefully and what those documents were, what was the intent, if he can glean it from taking those classified documents, another ma

before donald trump can sell it. the committee estimates of the trump organization stands to make, get this, 100 million dollar profit from the sale. in a letter to the gsa, the oversight committee of writes, quote, no one should be rewarded for providing false or misleading information to the federal government, or for seeking to profit off the presidency. joining us now, paul butler and glenn kirschner, both are msnbc legal analyst, and former federal prosecutors. glenn, i will start with you. it has been a week of bad legal news for donald trump. what is the likelihood, though, that trump will face any consequences? >> you know, how could he not, jonathan. you just went through the trifecta of really crushing legal stories for donald trump. and it is not just that he is losing these cases, but some of the things the judges are saying, for example, in the civil lawsuit that was brought against donald trump for inciting an insurrection, the judge who i have to say as a former public defender in the courts of washing

and donald trump has a grassroots, a set of votes. no matter what happens, you know, his old phrase, i could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and they'd still be there. probably a 3rd of the of the nation will vote for donald trump, no matter what. and now he's got a scene amount of money. so, you know, if you ask me today is donald trump going to run in 2024? i would say to you, he be crazy not to be has all the things you need to succeed. and joe biden is really inapt and he's not showing any ability to change that. so i don't know if it'll be smooth sailing. i think the media and even the republican party, some portion of it will make it a challenge for trump, but it was never smooth sailing. if you went back 220152016. so i think got trump is used to them. i'm dumb of abby republican rivals, governor. the scientist, for example, is here a slicker type of republican that might appeal to, to some legal society members in our eagles and or across the country folks, our folks are kind of leaders where they are and you're right about that.

as a side note, donald trump turns out not to be a great businessman. there is hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt on properties he has been pumping money into. >> you were talking about the old post office earlier, and i was thinking there's so much going on there. first, we don't know how much he is going to get out of that. everybody is saying he's going to walk away -- i have heard $70 million, $100 million, and we don't know the terms of the deals, and he will have to pay back $100 million to the lender. i was, like, hang on, i have not seen that and i want to caution people about that. the old post office, he's selling it. that's the last asset that he put a lot into, and he's selling it. he must need cash or he would not be selling it, and that's one of the things i think about when i hear that. he has very few of his main assets, his golf courses he has that are making money, you know, he has golf courses overseas and none are making money, and i have seen his tax returns and that's the exception when he is making money, and in

respondents ivanka trump and donald trump jr. are also hereby order to appear for depositions within 21 days of the date of this order. the trump lawyers say they will appeal the judges ruling today. so, those 21 days might be extended by appeal. but in the paragraph, just above that order, in the second last paragraph of the judges eight-page opinion today, the judge makes a stunning, truly stunning, revelation, to justify his order. when he says that the attorney general has obtained copious evidence of possible financial fraud. the judge has examined all of the evidence that the attorney general has already obtained in this case. and a massive amount of documents. the only people who know what that evidence is are the attorney general's office, the trump lawyers, and the judge overseeing this case. in his opinion today, that judge has examined all of this evidence, all of it, and said, in the final analysis, a state attorney general commences investigating a business entity, a covers copious evidence of possible financial frau

those voters are to the right of donald trump. as we know, he got booed for touting the vaccine that he helped push into development. so there's something discordant between him and his base right now. i don't think we could release a how serious it is and it could be for him, but i wouldn't rule out the possibility that donald trump ends up like john boehner or john mccain in the jaws of another insurgency from the right. >> yeah. libya has some great reporting about how that might look like in terms of the insurgency of the sort of matt gates is -- taking over the agenda of the republican house to kind of -- olivia beavers, jeremy peters, thank you both. yesterday the mayor of ottawa and canada declared a state of emergency after more than a week of this. that is a convoy of truckers and protesters who have taken over the downtown area of canada's capital city. they block traffic lane on their horns all day long in protest of the vaccine mandates. america's right-wing politicians are happily turning him off that story. that's ne

is donald trump hurting it? >> if they were able to move on from january 6th -- it's ironic because you hear constantly from republicans that democrats need to move on and then donald trump waltzes like the kool-aid man coming through the wall saying let's talk about january 6th again. let's go back to this. you heard matt gaetz condemning mike pence for having strong statements about how he could not actually overturn the election. this is a case in which if donald trump were a different version of donald trump they could move on. for donald trump the idea he lost the 2020 election, which he did, is the biggest slap in the face imaginable. i think you're going to see increasingly this year's elections and in 2024 whether or not you believe the big lie is going to be a litmus test. i think we're going to see that moving forward. it's interesting. people keep saying politicizing january 6th. january 6th was a political event. the point of january 6th was that someone who lost an election believed he didn't lose a

donald trump is, indeed, the threat now. did he think that was, sort of, a one day laps in another wise good behavior of donald trump? that is not the donald trump that america's come to know. he is an enemy of our constitutional order. >> in the -- sunday, there is a moment that i actually forgot until i saw that there, which is, michael cohen's testimony. michael cohen, who of course was trump's fixer in big bend, says, look out. here is that section of the documentary. >> given my experience, working with mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will be never be a peaceful prat transition of power. this is why i agreed to appear before you today. >> michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that, if donald trump lost, there would be no peaceful transition. that is a frightening and startling thing for a presidents own lawyer to say about him. but, it seemed far off at that point to a lot of people. people have said for the beginning, there is no way he would do that. there is no way

when you have someone like donald trump, who doesn't care about anyone but donald trump, who doesn't care about a larger european war we might be pulled into, that doesn't concern him, he's thinking about his own attention and how he can make more money off the situation. it will be interesting to see how this shapes the republican party in the months going forward, especially if putin continues to double down, because there's a real divide between republicans who care about the country, but also don't want to see a worldwide incident especially with someone with nuclear arms, and then the other faction of the party that's consistently growing, the donald trump wing, where they're just so interested in xenophobia and following along with whatever rhetoric donald trump is saying, they fundamentally don't understand the danger putin poses. >> tim, there is a divide within the republican party on this, but there doesn't seem to be any daylight between the united states and the alliance when it comes to pushing back against putin. and that, i think, to my mind, is the more important rela

[habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] leon: el exvicepresidente mike pence le aclara a donald trump que esta equivocado al afirmar que Él podrÍa haber anulado las elecciones que ganÓ joe biden. la presidencia sÓlo perteneceal pueblo. los nuevos casos de covid—19 en estados unidos estÁn disminuyendo en 49 de los 50 estados del paÍs, al igual que las hospitalizaciones, aunque hoy se superaron las 900.000 muertes. leche sin sabor, granos integrales, comida reciÉn hecha. parte del nuevo menÚ para los almuerzos escolares, segÚn nueva pauta del gobierno. ¿se lo van a comer los estudiantes ? se preguntan algunos nutricionistas. comienza la ediciÓn nocturna. locutor: Éste es un noticiero univisiÓn ediciÓn nocturna con patricia janiot y leÓn cause. >> buenas noches. le bienvenidos. le saluda paulina. leÓn, buenas noches. leon: un gran placer. comenzamos con el primer rechazo del exvicepresidente mike pence a su ex jefe donald trump sobre su papel en la certificaciÓn de joe biden como ganador de las elecciones del 2020. contradijo las afirmaciones de donald trump de thilo keher

donald trump is wrong. from the loyal vice president. the most loyal person to donald trump in that entire administration until the day of january 6th is -- it's an extraordinary moment in all of this. as you know when i interviewed donald trump just two months after he left the white house and said to me when i asked him, you know, if he was concerned about mike pence and what about those that were chanting on january 6th hang mike pence, he said to me, the exact quote that i said. they're chanting hang mike pence. his next words are it's common sense, jon. that interview was last year. in my book. we haven't heard condemnation of any significance from anybody in the leadership of the republican party to those words from donald trump and yet we have this condemnation here. extraordinary. >> take me inside the reporting is sort of torquing up the volume out of trump world. the members have been identified that are of interest to liz cheney. i think she knows who was talking to donald trump that day. jim jordan and kevin mccarthy. you hav

donald trump lost. by the way, again i understand that right now they think they can sort of run this obstacle course and somehow get to 270. republicans have lost the national popular vote, what, six out of seven times. six out of the last seven elections. i understand democrats, demographics aren't braying this same identical way the way the democrats would want but they're breaking the democrat's way. this is a losing long-term formula. i know everybody has their hair set on fire and running around in circles in the blogs on fear, but this is just a formula for losing if this is the dominant gene in the republican party, and they know it. >> well, i have not -- i think some of them know it and yet they're in the short term, because politics as you know, joe, is driven by short-term politics. they say, i understand, but if i am going to get pry married -- but as jeremy said, is this the party of donald trump or marjorie taylor greene. if that's the debate, that's not mainstream versus crazy, if that's

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what was happening with donald trump? was he trying to find the answer he want to that would keep him as president? did he really believe there was fraud? what was all this recounts and seizing the machines do? >> a bunch of different questions there. so many different answers. [inaudible] present trump believe there was fraud. it's hard to get in the guise psyche. i've talked to people that says at times, when he spoke to the president, they felt he was in on the joke. new, basically, that electrified hadn't occurred. he went on a case believing there was fraud to other people. i don't think he was willing, however, to go to every conceivable means, for every team -- trump was interested in looking at the justice, seizing the machines, then the department of homeland security. the military option was one that seem to bother him. patrick byrne, the overstock ceo said, he had a conversation with rudy giuliani. giuliani had told burn why he had advised trump to not go with the military option. he said, we will end up in pri

they drafted an executive order for donald trump's signature. according to "the new york times" donald trump was front and center in this thing, sort of leading it, trying to get whatever answer he wanted, going with whatever claim came up as long as it kept him president. you know that man, how did that go down with all these people around him jockeying for position trying to convince him that he could remain president? >> there's nothing new here i saw. i watched donald do the same stupid things over and over again during my more than decade with him. here's the scenario. donald is actually a stupid man. the way you ingratiate yourself in into his orbit is you say ridiculous things knowing that it's not true, but knowing it's exactly what donald trump wants to hear. so you are 100% when you say he has a fragile ego. he has the most fragile ego of anyone you would meet. the fact he lost the election is impossible to him. anyone that would come to him and say, mr. president, donald, whatever they call him, mike pence has the ability to go ahead

of donald trump and his ilk. and it doesn't get any more plain than what we saw today with the rnc. >> right, and eugene, senator mitt romney tweeted, shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience. so, how will that play in the party? >> not well. mitt romney is one of the very few voices in the party like this. the two that he talked about, can singer and cheney, himself and some others, especially in the senate, who have been a little bit more vocal because they have six years between their elections, right? so, they have less fear of donald trump. she is right, this is about donald trump and his grip on the party. their fear of his base, their fear of a man who is -- him endorsing a candidate in the primer -- this is also about choosing to back someone who said the quiet part out loud really recently, that he wanted mike pence to overturn the election of 2020. and this is after months of republicans trying to convince everybody that all trump wanted to do -- was sent him back to the states. t

donald trump and lawmakers. as he's trying to get them to overturn the election and storm the capital. what they got was a bunch of missing hours. where there was no documents or testimony of what had actually happened. it raises all these questions. the tremendous roadblock from the committee trying to piece together and account what happened that day. one thing is that donald trump was conducting a lot of business on his personal cell phone, on an aids phone. we have some -- people were passing phones back and forth and using each other's phones. we do not know exactly who is calling who, wood phones are being used. this makes the yeah, committee's i would just know one thing, investigation all the more difficult. john when you talk about the norms, vis-À-vis the presidents record. it's of the law, to. the presidents record is quite clear on this. it says, whoever willfully in unlawfully considers news mutilates, obliterates or destroys -- doesn't say flush down at all, epithets implied, or attempts to do so,

persons, in donald trump's campaign, with ties to russia. going on. this is not my. they say first fisa request named trump was denied in june, denied by the court of, but second was granted in october, after evidence was presented of a server possibly related to trump campaign and alleged connection to two banks. i know people are hung up with trump's wiretapping, but how did they get access to this information? exhibit two. guardian. a right wing british paper. quote guard yet again learned that fbi applied for a warrant from foreign intelligence survey against court over the -- surveillance court over the summer, suspected is of irregular contact with russian officials this is during the election. fisa court turned down the application asking fbi counter intelligence investigator to narrow its focus, they were granted a warrant in october. mark: pete, we know that fbi was granted a fisa warrant in october. we know it was extended 3 times. we know that one of the banks involved was alpha bank, the russian bank. where clinton world tried to tie donald trump to this

being people who are for donald trump. kevin mccarthy has for a while tried to push cheney out. it was clear since cheney joined the january 6th committee after mccarthy pulled back the republican parties. cheney stepped into it, doing her patriotic duty. mccarthy addressing the fact they could be open the flood gates. elise step an stefanik came out against cheney. most of the gop seems like they will be lining up against her. >> you know, it is so interesting that she would do this so soon after kevin mccarthy because i've been hearing from a lot of republicans on the inside that kevin mccarthy will never be speaker. if the republicans win, donald trump will either try to insert himself or try to sufficient somebody who he believes is officially layer and at least with elise stefanik, somebody who has rapidly has been in a race to kevin mccarthy to the trumpian bottom, she lines herself up in a position where she makes maybe donald trump will select her as speaker of the house. so we'll see what happens. fascinating. pet

one featuring donald trump and one featuring donald trump, jr.. if trump senior runs, the primary voters will be about 50% according to -- would support president trump. ron desantis and president trump garnering just over 10% in that polling. other names that got significant numbers, mitt romney, ted cruz, nikki haley. this is linda out of birmingham, alabama. you are next. caller: good morning. how are you? host: i am doing well, linda. your view on mike pence and his role in the republican party today? caller: there was no reason for him to send those electoral accounts back to the states. there was no fraud noted. the big lie was going on then, the big lie was going on now. donald trump lost that election. host: as a republican, did you vote for trump in 2020 -- 2021? caller: no. host: who is the last republican you voted for that you like? caller: george bush. host: who did you vote for in 2016? caller: i voted for hillary clinton. host: what makes you if republican here today, linda? caller: i am headed out of that. host: you are headed out

trump, donald trump will and already has started just to get out there with his no much more muted megaphones which is not on twitter, but claimed that this is all a hoax, all partisan, but this is why merrick garland was hired. he's a judge for 20 years. he's an apolitical lawyer. he was not involved in anything related to the trump administration. he wasn't in any other administration dating back all the way since the clinton administration when he was in the department of justice. he's the right person for this job because he is a political, that he has to do his job. he's going to have to take the heat if he does decide that we don't have a king in this country. >> daniel goldman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. joining us now, the justice reporter for nbc news digital. ryan, you have been chronicling and covering all of these prosecutions of the people who attacked the capitol, the people who the republican party now officially declared to have been engaged in legitimate political discourse. what are the things you would want

donald trump junior. in other words, tell me you self published, without telling you self published. donny junior has been bragging to me about the bonkers early sales of the book. according to cnn, it's made nearly $20 million, so far. a sum that doesn't actually really stack up, in comparison to the early cells of trump's predecessors. but, when does the truth ever stopped team trump from bragging. joining me now, -- for president obama, and was also the official photographer in the reagan white house. pete, some much for coming. please explain to me how this works. to cover of your coffee table books about the obama presidency, both of them, they carry your name. yet, this coffee table book about the trump white house, for which trump served as, correct me if i'm wrong, he was president, not photographer. he lists his name on the cover -- are the photographers images, this is a week in which president was caught stealing documents, i should've gone to the archives, so you can understand my confusion. >

. >> donald trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump jr. are ordered to testify. today's wild court hearing and why the ruling has a huge ramifications for the civil and criminal investigations. plus the sad collapse of a maga wannabe and what the trump endorsement actually means. new reporting on large clusters of miami voters mysteriously switching to republican without their knowledge. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. tonight, at this, hour we are closely watching developments and ukraine and along its borders. as it appears, more and more likely that russia plans to invade that country. that imminent threat is the reason why the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken, appeared before the united nations to lay out in striking detail how that attack might unfold. >> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against ukrainian government. second, in response to this manufactured provocation, th

donald trump calls it fake news. suddenly he calls, as willie and i like to joke, he suddenly calls his book fake news and suddenly he tells the committee he's not going to cooperate. they're going to cooperate behind the scenes but they can't be seen as disloyal to donald trump, publicly at least. >> pence is in an extraordinary position. i don't see how he does it. i don't see how he can walk the tight rope between satisfying donald trump's january 6th supporters who said that they wanted to hang him and then those who put the party first. i don't know what you see his political future, but that seems to make his chances of becoming the nominee very difficult. >> he wasn't naturally thought of as the heir apparent. >> right. >> as a political observer i think it is interesting to watch him try. pence has gone so far to signal to people inside the party that he may run for president even if trump decides to run himself. we know how that would turn out. >> i hope he has good security. >> pence may not want to go anyw