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times, but i just dont know to do anything but left. thanks for watching. well be right back here next sunday at 8 pm eastern, you can now find the show on the msnbc hub on peacock. new episodes of the mehdi hasan show posted during the week on peacock. now, its time to handed over to my friend richard louis, good evening, medina i do richard. awe know you love your children, -- great to see you mary, thanks so much. -- coming up a name, in the trump grand jury in manhattan is expected...

week. ill be joined by eric swalwell in just a moment. plus, exclusive nbc reporting on rhonda santas presidential aspirations, and why republican donors are afraid to lend their support as of today. and will head to mississippi to get an update on recovery after some of the deadly storms there and what president biden is doing to help the region. lets get started. another week has come and gone since donald trump claimed that he would be arrested and were still waiting to see whether ...

They are all serious though. the more serious ones, of course, involved in january 6th and donald trump and fighting the mob and aiming the mob at the capitol, and then of course, trying to put pressure on election officials in different states. and then obstructing the effort to investigate that. and then the sense of top secret document and striking the effort to -- those are the most serious, in my experience as a former prosecutor, it will take time to put those together. prosecutor knows th...

That desantis with some early state strength in yes, iowa and new hampshire. and in fact in iowa, desantis is up by eight points. and head to head, even 39-39 in new hampshire. what do you make of that michael? >> look, richard, i think some of those polls are pretty obvious at this point. i say that for this particular reason. ron desantis is a number two guy. he will have to go out after donald trump. in some of the capacity you see his poll numbers increase. you are also going to have to pote...

That is not the legal standard, proof beyond reasonable doubt is the standard, but donald trump is going to put an absolute pressure campaign, a public pressure campaign on any of these charges, and so you are going to have to make sure that you can really knock out every element of each crime in front of the jury. but again richard, at the end of the day, we cant control what donald trump says. he is going to bring more violence. but as leaders, we cannot condemn the violence. i invite my repub...

Him another shot, in 28 trump will be significantly older. so there are a couple of factors i think -- time to select a new leader to lead the party forward. with that said, i think desantis, along with other republican candidates, have a serious problem. how do you defeat donald trump at this primary? if you attack him, your members will go down. if you dont engage him at all, you may be viewed as too weak to gain the nominees for the party. so it appears, for the most part, that donald trump w...

Narrative? >> i will tell you what it does not signal. he wont win a grammy for this. but, he is glorifying violence. richard, i come from a republican family, and i have brothers who were in law enforcement. for many decades, republicans would beat democrats up, saying they backed the blue and democrats dont. well, democrats have stood with the january 6th officers. this effort by trump is an effort to erase it. my republican colleagues are absolutely silent. republicans in congress, kevin mcca...