Dozen times over the weekend calling the russia probe a witch hunt, hoax, democrat scam. Is the special counsel, want to interview the president . Good luck. Youre saying no way . Theyre a joke. Over my dead body. If the republicans and the democrats get together, we are going to end up with Incredible Health care which is the way it should have been from day one. Its an awful, awful ruling. Were going to fight this tooth and nail. The implications if this ruling isnt overturned hurts everybody. Mulvaney to serve as the president s righthand man has had harsh words for his boss in the past. Do i like donald trump . No. Was he a role model for my sons . Absolutely not. I think hes a terrible human being. A lot to get to today. Theres new evidence that russias attempt to manipulate americans in the 2016 election far more extensive than we thought. Nbc news is releasing two reports providing the sweeping analysis yet of russias Disinformation Campaign around the 2016 election. A campaign that was designed to help donald trump win and to hurt Hillary Clinton. The facts are irrefutable. Researchers combed through millions of posts from facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube that were created by the Internet Research agency, the st. Petersburg firm, troll farm, if you will, run by an ally of Vladimir Putin who have been indicted on charges of defrauding the United States of its democracy, of its election. The report found the operation used every major social media platform to enflame rightwing conspiracy theories and suppress the vote of leftleaning groups including of africanamericans. Twitter responded to the report saying, quote, our singular focus to improve the health of the public conversation on our platform and protecting the integrity of elections is an aspect of that mission. We have made significant strides since 2016 to counter manipulation of our service, including our release of Additional Data in october related to previously disclosed activities to enable further independent Academic Research and investigation. Facebook has yet to respond and google has declined to comment. Joining me now, the man reporting this story out for us, intelligence and National Security reporter den delanian and analyst malcolm nance. Malcolm is author of the plot to destroy democracy. Ken, you have been reporting on this new knowledge report. There are so many interesting key findings. What stands out to you . Well, as you mentioned, we knew that the Internet Research agency had been doing this and laid out in a Robert Mueller indictment and the reports lay out the scope and the scale to an extent that we havent seen before and what number stood out to me. More than 256 million engagements with this propaganda on facebook and instagram. Thats not the number of people because a person can have more than one like or share but facebook had initially said that 120 Million People saw this propaganda. The researchers think its more than that. The targeting of africanamericans, we knew that that had been going on and this shows the extent of it and not just on facebook and twitter and instagram but on youtube. For example, the researchers found ten youtube chams that posted 571 videos related to Police Violence, brutality, targeting the black lives movement. Why . In part to suppress the black vote and we know that Hillary Clinton recorded one of the lowest performances among africanamericans in modern history for a democrat and these researches cant say for sure it contributed but theres a threeprong effort to, for example, provide misinformation of the polling places or timing of votes to undermine Hillary Clinton. There was also an undermining of the news media. Just a massive undertaking under the noses, ali, of the social Media Companies and seem powerless to stop it and the u. S. Intelligence community which late in the game figured out what was happening. Malcolm, you have written a book about this. One of the earliest people to study this. Some of it is hard to prove a negative. You cant prove who didnt vote as a result but one of the things of the report the efforts were more integrated than we originally understood and theres no ambiguity of the troll farms supporting. Yeah. Youre absolutely right. When i wrote my first book on this just about six weeks before the election i estimated that the Internet Research agency which we called an Information Warfare management cell whoould have between 300 and 1,000 people. Now that looks minuscule compared to the integrated way that they used and weaponized every social media platform that america had, all of the big ones, and then took freedom of speech itself, the thing that we cherish the most, and used it to shove their narrative of what they wanted the American Public to see. They ran racial groups against each other. They pit political groups against each other and they pushed one candidate while tearing down the other. All i can say is this. As an intelligence professional, none of this happens in a year or two years. This effort began at least three to five years before and they had to have known who they were going to be dealing with and thats how we saw as early as 2012 the russians had contact with donald trump related to his election and that six years seems better timeline to come up with set up something that in these reports. Ken, i want do go back to this targeted of africanamericans. Theres some i want to read from your reporting. The russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting the black community the researches found and 10 Youtube Channels with 571 videos related to Police Violence against africanamericans. What was the intent . It appears, ali, voter suppression, fomenting distrust in the system, whether clinton or trump is elected the police will still kill africanamericans and clinton doesnt care much about that. Very sophisticated effort. It appears to have played some role if suppressiof suppressing. They knew which swing states to target including states that clinton didnt know she was vulnerable in like wisconsin, ali. Remarkable. Ken, thank you for your reporting. Maam come, of course, for being on top of this since before the election. Joining me now, nbc news legal analyst mimi roacha and larry. Mimi, you said earlier today, the degree to which the Trump Campaign and the russians or trump and the surrogates and the russians using similar tactics targeting similar groups with the same ends. You said its what prosecutors call circumstantial evidence with the same goals and similar methods. Right. Exactly, ali. Look. There are differences but you cannot ignore the fact that we now know definitively despite trumps xlams claims to the co russia was trying to get trump elected. Trump was trying to get elected. The goals are the same. Not everything that the campaign did was underhanded. But there is a similarity in the approach to attacking the media, the truth is not the truth. Undermining our institutions. Dividing different kinds of different groups within our society and pitting them against each other. Those are very similar. Not just one. Its many. The reporting now goes into great detail about that. And i think that when you look at similar goals, similar methods, you know, you do have to think, well, was this a coordinated effort . Were beyond thinking it. Its being investigated but i feel like every time it comes up that sort of strikes us in the face, it should be obvious. We need to point it out and call it out. We are not seeing new reports. This is a comprehensive one, done with the senate researchers in one case. Two different reports. With outside bodies. Harry, it is the new knowledge report and it said that the russian social media effort was intended to reinforce tribalism, polarize and divide and normalize points of view advantageous to the russian government from social issues to political candidates and it was designed to exploit societal fractures, blur the lines of reality and fiction, erode our trust in media, in government, in each other and in democracy itself. You have characterized this as the most serious attack on the u. S. Since 9 11. Look. I think thats right. Its like a its akin to a statesponsored terrorism going to the core democratic institutions. It is a 21st century style terrorism. Imagine russia figured out how to lean in to Voting Machines and change the votes. It wouldnt have been all that different. As ken points out, its a little bit imponderable how successful it was. It was somewhat successful certainly and just the p perniciousness of going at the desire to vote and affecting the franchise and try to exploit the sorts of worst impulses that even, even trump or others in campaign cant exploit as i think mind bending. Mimi, one of the findings that the is that the russians sought to convey that the Mueller Investigation is a hoax. This goes well beyond the election, continued after the election, that the Mueller Investigation was a hoax and corrupt and that the emerging russia stories were a weird conspiracy pushed by cry baby, liberal cry babies. At some point, i read that long response of twitter. We havent got one from facebook. Google said they dont have one. This is very, very serious stuff. Right . That they have allowed their platformed to platforms to be manipulated. How should we be thinking about this . A legal problem. A regulatory problem . I think its both. I mean, and more than that. Right . Its also a National Security problem. You know . Obviously these Companies Need to do more, need to do better. Our intelligence agencies, law enforcement, you know, they discovered it after it happened but we need to do more in prevention and people to not politicize this. Thats part of the problem is donald trump by saying by saying this same talking point about this being a leftwing conspiracy is politicizing this and so not letting the American Public accept facts as they come out. But trying to put a spin on them and thats hes doing it for his own personal reasons and so dangerous. Thats part of the problem, right . Trivializing of this. The trivializing of the Mueller Investigation, in particular. Doesnt matter where you stand, the concept that we have a group of people starting with the president of the United States trivializing a Serious Investigation that it is in our interest to get to the bottom of it. This is what underlies, some ways more serious than even the question did the president commit crimes. This is an attack of sort of incalcuable gravity and the mocking and bobbing and weaving of donald trump and Rudy Giuliani on tv of the Mueller Probe suggests its silly or partisan and its anything but. This is really a kind of thing that a 9 11 commission or a kennedy commission, some bipartisan national effort, should be immediately taken up to figure out what happened and how to stop it. I imagine thats what the Senate Intelligence committee will be doing. One can hope. They did make a point of saying that the findings are not representative of the members of the senate. Thank you, harry and mimi. New developments connected to Donald Trumps former National Security adviser michael flynn. His Business Partner and a turkish man charged with covertly and unlawfully trying to influence u. S. Politics to extradite a turkish cleric from the United States and charged with conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government. We should note the other man also worked on the white house transition team. This man. Bijan kian coming one day before flynn is sentenced on charges of lying about his communications with russian officials. Next, President Trump says Mick Mulvaney will be the next white house chief of staff. Well break down who he is and why he got the job even though he once called donald trump a terrible human being. That was on video. James comey is testifying again behind closed doors and keeping an eye on the markets for you once again. Another down day as you know. All major markets are now in the red for the year. The dow down 250 points. That is 1 . 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This is staying connected with xfinity to make moving. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and twohour appointment windows. Click, call or visit a store today. There will be a new acting chief of staff in the white house. Mick mulvaney. Currently serves as the director of office of management and budget. The white houses budget office. Throughout 2018, hes also served as the acting director of the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau which was basically put in place to dismantle. Prior to joining President Trumps cabinet, he spent six years representing south carolinas 5th district in the United States house of representatives and there he aligned himself with the Tea Party Caucus and a Founding Member of the Freedom Caucus and the voting record is a clear picture of the values. Opposed obamacare. The Affordable Care act. Voting to repeal as republicans did. He supported an amendment to prevent samesex marriage and opposing gun control. He also supporting eliminating federal regulations which is a favorite of the Trump Administration from this record and his work in trumps cabinet it appears that they are aligned on many issues. But that may not be the quest n question. A lot of people in the country are aligned with donald trump. Can he be a good chief of staff . Joining me is chris whipple, author of the gatekeepers. Chris, i have been waiting to talk to you about this. To get your view on whether this is going to be the guy whos going to be useful to donald trump as a chief of staff. Well, its good to be back. Look. You know that i was extremely critical of john kelly during his tenure as chief of staff but this is the wrong fix. You know . I heard our friend and colleague andy card this morning on the radio saying he thought mulvaney might be a good choice. I love andy card. Right. He is the Eternal Optimist and we could talk all day about the reasons this will not end well. Number one, mulvaney really is a trump sycophant. Thats how you go from a budget hawk to signing off on a tax cut that will balloon the deficit to 1 trillion. Right. He as a congressman would not approve of a tax cut. Joining the Trump Administration it was a completely different story. Thats the last thing you need as white house chief of staff, malleable, not tell donald trump hard truths. Now, you know, people talk about his having said that trump was a terrible person. Equally famously, he once said that he never met a lobbyist who hadnt previously paid him. Specifically said in april of 2018. He made a speech f. Youre a lobbyist that never gave us money, i didnt talk to you. If you gave us money, i might talk to you. Thats i understand that might happen. Its definitely not a princeipl espoused by the chief of staff. He doesnt have the judgment. He may come from capitol hill and not liked on capitol hill. And, you know, you have also got the problem of he wants to be omb director and chief of staff at the same time. Anybody who was omb director and then became chief of staff, you know, like jack lew would be the first to tell him, josh bolton, and others, you cant do that. You cant do both jobs at once and being acting chief of staff is also a recipe for failure because youre Walking Around with an Expiration Date on your forehead and people will not take you seriously. You know, there are many other things we could talk about but another huge problem is that this president is headed into a world of trouble, a series of investigations that will make al hagues final days look like a walk in the park. You want a chief of staff without an Expiration Date with authority and Mick Mulvaney doesnt meet the standards on those fronts . There was no plan b. Plan a was nick ayers. They threw into the chair somebody who gets along with donald trump. His principle qualification is that he played golf with trump and that trump can stand to have him in the same room. So interesting. Nick ayers didnt want the job on a permanent basis or decided he didnt want to. Trump didnt agree to that because he wanted to name a chief of staff to stick around. What does this say . We are at a point of trump having to appoint a deputy chief of an acting chief of staff and, again, not somebody that answers the qualification thats actually required . I think it tells you they were more decembsperate to get something in the chair than the right person. It looked desperate, pathetic, nobodys interested in being chief of staff for the long term. Why trump finds it accept to believe have a chief whos acting when he didnt when ayers made that a precondition is anybodys guess and a formula for failure. Chris, good to see you. Thank you as always. Thank you. Chris whipple is an author of gatekeepers. 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Big story, the future of obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care act, in question after a federal judge in texas ruled that the law is constitutional. The judge agreed with arguments of 20 states attorneys general. The Trump Administration celebrated the ruling but has said the law will remain in place. Obamacare will remain in place during the appeal. If the ruling was upheld obamacares Popular Consumer protections would disappear and that could have enormous consequences for tens of millions millions of americans. The urban institute estimated 17 million americans would lose their health insurance. Protections for people with preexisting conditions would also disappear. This means insurers could deny coverage for those patients or charge more potentially causing insurance premiums to skyrocket. If the current law went away insurers would no longer have to cover these socalled essential health benefits. Look at this long list. Emergency services. Hospitalization. Maternity and newborn care. In other words, you can buy coverage that wont have these protections so people who need these protections pay a lot more. Other protections to disappear including caps, bans on annual or lifetime limits. Important if you have a chronic or term call illness. They can charge more based on age, gender or profession and young people would not stay on insurance policies until theyre 26 years old. Theres a lot that could go wrong here. Joining me is a doctor, whos a practicing physician at Johns Hopkins university. Good to talk to you. Thank you for being with us. Great to see you. This ruling one day before the end of the obamacare open Enrollment Period for 2019. Millions of people signed up or renewed coverage for next year. For people who get their insurance in some fashion through the Affordable Care act, what does this mean . As of today, nothing has changed because the ruling did not have an injunction with it and quite honestly as you mentioned it is going through a process and i hope it doesnt get past the Appeals Court much less to the Supreme Court where a lot of people on both sides of the aisle on legal, conservative and liberal scholars have said this was a really weak ruling but whats really chaotic, ali, is that if you listen to just the headlines youre enrolling in the Affordable Care acts insurance and thinking you lose coverage come january 1st. Thats not the case as of today. I think the other story that people arent talking about is the Trump Administration said enrollment is still open, we are enforcing the Affordable Care act and we wonder if that changes at some point. All of these things are in play leaving, you know, every day americans with a lot of questions about whats really going to happen in the next year or two. So the chaos is important because its kind of what the administration wants and what a lot of republicans want. The biggest dream is fewer people wanted to sign up for obamacare or just walked away from the whole thing to prove its not as popular but in the last Election Health care itself was the most important issue to most americans. So whats the worstcase scenario now . What can happen next . If a higher Court Upholds this ruling. Oh, its even you put out probably the most salient fact that, you know, tens of millions of people would Lose Health Insurance but lets just talk directly to people on medicare who might comfortably think nothing changes for them. The Affordable Care act really redesigned in a positive way the Medicare Program and how we pay for care for elderly and people over the age of 65. So, this would really rip out to just put it simply, it would rip out the infrastructure, the essential highway of delivering health care and that i think is going to be the chaos and if youre a republican and you tried to campaign on the fact that you want to protect people with preexisting conditions, this really putts you, you know, in a corner because if this ruling were to be upheld that takes the protections away. The judge, just useful the look at the specificity of this. The judge agreed with the agreement that the law doesnt work taking out the individual mandate. You were instrumental in building this. What do you think of that reasoning . So whats interesting is that the entire law is not just dependent on the man date. The mandate is important but there was an incredible amount of the law that was built around exactly how we pay for these services, as well. So if you have to think about it, ali, it is really there needs to be some willingness to purchase the insurance. Thats part of the mandate and has to be insurance thats affordable. Thats the affordable part of the Affordable Care act and then we have to make sure that the care you get is good quality. That its not bad care, lowquality care and thats the third part of the stool around the quality. People forget about that. I will say i am disappointed that the mandate has a zero penalty attached to it and certainly were going to see a lot of this debated now that we have the democrats in the house. Thank you for joining me. A fashion at Johns Hopkins medicine and was one of the architects of obamacare. All right. Next, the United NationsClimate Change talks ended with a major global deal. Ill break down whats included and whats left out and speak with an author of a recent United Nations report on Climate Change. What she says is the most important thing you can do to fight it. Youre watching msnbc. door bel its open hey. This is amazing. With moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay . 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One of the most significant parts of this is a section on transparency which sets a timeline for countries to update each other and includes guidelines for the type of information that countries must disclose. Like sources of harmful emissions and how theyre analyzed. Whats not included in this . Developing countries that hope to get a robust promise from rich nations about the kind of aid theyll get in combatting Climate Change walked away disappointed. The conference tabled a discussion of Carbon Trading rules for credits to developing nations that cut emissions. And while a number of delegates want wanted to endorse a Climate Change report issued by United Nations in october participants opted to express, quote, appreciation and gratitude for the findings. The earth is warming and were expressing appreciation and gratitude for the findings. Despite President Trumps vow to abandon the Paris Agreement, the United States was at the conference and did agree to follow this new paris rule book. Joining me is Katherine Hayhoe from texas tech and coauthored a november report on Climate Change. Thank you for being with us. My pleasure. Is this rule book in your world, does that feel like a success . It is very much needed because the Paris Agreement is like a potluck and every countrys bringing a different dish to the table and if one is bringing a pie and another different type of apple pie, you want this tome have the right number of apples in them sort to speak. Thats a good way to think of it. I took away that i thought was most important is this uniformity or standards. What do you think is most important thing to come out of these negotiations . Also, what do you think is most important thing left out . Thats a great question. We know that the poorest countries in the world are disproportionately suffering the greatest impacts so i think its important to remember that there is a lot of suffering already going on today that will get worse and worse the more the planet warms but its encouraging to see that countries moving ahead because although the Paris Agreement was ambitious, it didnt have concrete detail and now the countries are adding detail you need to know the ingredients of every dish thats on that potluck table and you need to know that we have enough food sort to speak, reductions, to actually hit the target. Thats an advantage. Theres a new poll, this confuses me. A new nbc news wall street journal report on Climate Change. This is partisan saying 71 of democrats believe its serious and requires immediate action. 15 of republicans agree with that sentiment. What kind of a challenge does this pose for you as a researcher . It seems to be appealing to people of a political stripe opposed to everybody. I agree. A thermometer is not republican or democrat. It doesnt give us a Different Number but when we act as if it does we are making decisions that are not informed by the facts and when were making decisions that affect hundreds of millions of people then we can potentially be harmed by that. The reality is that climate is changing. Humans are responsible. We have checked. Over 150 years. We really are sure of that. And the impacts are serious and increasingly becoming dangerous and we have to act and thats where the politics comes in. We need robust bipartisan discussions and debates over what the most Important Solutions are. All right. Well continue this conversation another time about how we achieve that political action. Great do see you. Coauthor of the Climate Change report as a director of the Climate Science center at texas tech. Next, new challenge to title ix protecting women athletes. Now some men claim it discriminates against them. Well dig into that. But its time for the monumental american. We honor world war ii hero wilfred dufor. After joining the Army Air Corps in 1942, he was assigned to the 366th air Service Squadron and served in italy in world war ii, he was an aircraft technician and painted the red tails on the planes giving them the nickname the red tail. He worked for the u. S. Postal service over 30 years, honored last month in a ceremony renaming a Manhattan Post Office after the tuskegee airmen. He was found dead earlier this month in new york. He was 100 years old. If you have a monumental american, please tweet us. Shaquem get in here. Take your razor, yup. Alright, up and down, never side to side, shaquem. You got it . Come on, get back. Quem, you a second behind your brother, stay focused. Cant nobody beat you, cant nobody beat you. Hard work baby, it gonna pay off. You got this. 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Reporter this student filed a cam plant arguing that the university of Southern California was violating title ix a law that prohibits discrimination in programs on the basis of sex. Intended for equal opportunities for women, he says it is working against men at a time when women are almost 57 of College Students. Its really incomprehensible to me that the female only scholarships going on and theres like colleges. Reporter now the department of education is investigating. Its looking into his allegation that by funding the women only programs, usc is discriminating against males students. This lawyer defends title ix. What we have seen is affirmative action works and that women have seen their participation and enrollment in college go up. You cannot ignore how we got here. Because if you do well end up back there. Reporter meanwhile hes filing more complaints. Why is it your business to file complaints against yale and princeton at all . You dont go there. No, i guess mainly kind of like to inspire others, i guess. Reporter and in a way he has. Hey, do you have a couple minutes . Reporter university of michiganflint professor mark perry filed more than 20 complaints of his own focused on science camps for girls. I saw that as blatant discrimination. How these and similar cases are decided could send a signal to schools across the country. Is it the time now to be reevaluating the programs and policies . Might be a time but were not there yet. In fact, we may have to disdiscuss dis considers his ti complaints, he says hes hearing from sympathize heres want to file their own. All right. Katie joins me now. Womens representation in universities overall has increased over time, not in all areas, and there seems to be a question about what happens if you took away title 9. What does that allow for . Thats the law. Sure. The department of education regulations specifically allows for a university to take affirmative action or remedial action to correct for historic discrimination. Thats an important point. Critics say numbers on campus dont tell whole story. Men may be underrepresented in nursing or education but not because of the institution al discrimination. It is that discrimination that title 9 allows universities to adjust for. It is worth mentioning that the men we talked to for this piece, they all feel like the administration, the department of education secretary will be more sympathetic to entertain a legal challenge than administrations in the past but we dont know exactly when the department of ed is expected to rule on these. Ill bet my viewers will have a lot to say. You can find her piece if you want to watch in it full, go to youtube. Com nbc left field. All right. Were looking for break throughs in Space Tourism sthxt a new era or humans or just a new type of travel . 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Virgin galactics second spaceship flew its highest and fastest test flight yet reaching a peak altitude more than 50 miles above the earth, or space, by some definitions. The two pilots on board are now officially astronauts and it is a major step toward the companys major goal to send people into space to see earth through a very different lens. Joins ever joining me now, the ceo of the xprize which sponsors competitions to solve the worlds challenges. She has been in space. She was the first female private space explorer. A good time on visit with you. Not only xprize but your family having sponsored spaceship one got us into this competition that were in. What does success look like for you . Commercial space as opposed to engineered by governments . I hope people will be buying this for birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, so a lot more people can experience it. Having been in space, seeing earth from space is transformational. I think we need that type of transformational shift. It changes how you look at resource battles on earth or racism or issues between people. When you see earth as a singular entity far away. Absolutely. What you see is the whole. You realize that were interconnected is that interdependent. It makes you look at the world in a different way and be mo collaborative and feel more a part of a community of earthlings versus people of certain countries. Lets talk about commercial space travel. It is advancing alongside a problem we have with inequality. How do we make sure that commercial space travel doesnt end up being just a play thing for the rich . Well, it is like the first commercial airline travel. It is expensive and rare. I think if we nurture it, it is accessible. Special lay sub orbital flight. It doesnt have special training and a lot of people can do it. It allows for repetition and volume which brings the cost down. Over time i think this will become more and more affordable and people will be able to experience chit opens the door up for the bigger step, which is going to the space station or even to a lunar base camp. Do you think that well get the same sort of benefits from Space Tourism and commercial space we got from the Space Programs gave us so many technological advances because we were finding our way into space . Absolutely. Space has been a base for research for a lot of things we use today in our own world. And as more research can be opened to everyone in the world so democratizing space so more people can have access and come up with different ideas. Commercial ideas. I think we will see a new era like we did after internet. When internet opened up, people became very creative. Well open up space so people can be as creative is that find all sorts of solutions for our problems on earth. Great to see you and continue the great work youve devoted your life to with space travel. That brings my hour to an ends. Ill be right back here at 3 00 p. M. Connect with the show online. Right now, my friend katy tur picks up the show. You have another minute and i want to hear more. I love this idea that it would be affordable for the regular person i love the idea. If youre a roller coaster enthusiast, this would be the ultimate. That would be a great idea. If regular people can enjoy this. Shes confident that it will happen. Absolutely. I believe in it 100 . I always like where you have an opportunity to change your perspective. The reason i have an extra minute, im getting old and im far away from the camera so i thought i was right on time. Ali velshi, see knew an hour. It is 2 00 p. M. In washington and 11 00 a. M. In the west. Nearly every organization once led by donald trump is now under investigation. From the for Profit Organization to the charitable nonprofit trump go foundation. As the Washington Post puts it, the mouming inquireries building into a cascade of legal challenges that threaten to dominate trumps third year in the white house. Come january, 2019, democrats are poised to take control of the house. The party has promised to pursue their own slate of investigations including crossing a line the president once told the New York Times was uncrossable. The president has wanted to draw a red line and say you cannot look at my business. If the president s business is