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at former president donald trumps mar-a-lago estate, about two days ago. the new york attorney general is ramping up the civil investigation into the trump family businesses. a lot happening. hello, welcome everyone. mike, great to have you again. >> mike: great to be working with you, im in for john roberts in washington. former president trump taking the fifth amendment when questioned under -- after the deposition of two of his children, comes on the heels of an unprecedented fbi ra...

And he was a great prosecutor. so you have this radical who is at odds with the eric adams agenda and eric adams was against defunded the police and he actually supports stop and frisk if used legally, and now saying these policies will cause violence to come up on the profession of police, hes got a cabinet if you will. not technically called a cabinet but a group of officials who are around him at odds. now its time for mayor adams to lead us through this and side with the police commissioner....

>> those comments quickly overshadowed the democratic leaders about their legislative agenda. a number of democrats criticized her statement as wrong. but she doubled down later and tweeted. party leaders are concerned that kind of talk could hurt their chances to retake the white house. it is an issue that many of these progressive lawmakers aggressively campaigned on. another freshman making waves is alexandria ocasio cortez who has proposed a green new deal aimed to tackle climate change and ...

#unapologetically me. divisive among the democrats, are concerned that could heard the chance to retake the white house. and its what the freshmen aggressively campaigned on. and alexandria ocasio-cortez looked at a new deal for climate change and inequality and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and paying for it by raising taxes on the most wealthy from 60 to 70%. on an interview with 60 minutes, she welcomes the label of being radical. >> i think that it only has ever been radical sort of c...

>> reporter: those overshadowed the carefully crafted message from democratic leaders about their majority and legislative agenda for the year ahead. a number of democrats criticized her statement as wrong and disrespectful, but talib doubled down saying, i will always speak truth to power. party leaders are concerned that kind of talk could hurt their chances to retake the white house, but its an issue that many of these progressive lawmakers aggressively campaigned on. another freshman making ...

Climate change and income inequality and eliminating all industrial greenhouse omissions and paying for it by raising taxes on the most wealthy to rate of 60 to 70% in an interview in cbs60 minutes ocasio-cortez welcomes the label of being radical. >> i think that it only has ever been radical for the change of this country, abraham lincoln made the radical decision to sign the emancipation declaration and roosevelt the radical decision to embark on programs like social security, thats radical. ...

1972 at the age of 63 the godfather of modern day rabble rousing known as community organizing. >> saul alinsky was in your face and brought it to bear on urban problems, on the problems of urban disempourered communities in the 1930s and 40s in the united states. >> with chicagos archdiocese, alinsky rallied ethnic catholics and later he was made hero to counterculture of 60s. in the 1971 manifesto "rules for radicals" alinsky said, "prince" was written by machiavelli on haves. and rules for ra...

Rhetorically, hes far far right burt when push comes to shove, hes in the mushy middle. he didnt get run out of washington by us in 98 because, pat, he was a fire breather, he got run out of washington because he kept cutting deals with democrats, and they attacked us for being too conservative fiscally. whats his game here, pat? >> i dont understand this, joe. i cant think of a prominent republican nationally who is coming out for a national individual mandate, the obama position. >> attacking ...

Real good chance of getting support from other republican governors across the country right now. for being bold, being radical, and not backing down and doing exactly what the hard right-wingers in this country want. they want to go after unions. they want to go after public employees. what is the upside in the right wing for governor walker, in your opinion? >> well, governor walker is clearly running for the presidency. be it in 2012 or 2016. hes telegraphed that in every way. hes referenced ...

Are thrown out by the courts. they are ruled illegal. and the fact of the matter is, i spoke tonight to lawyers, and to legislators, who pointed out that notice was not received by legislators and by key players in the time period that was required. so we clearly -- every lawyer i spoke to tonight said theres clearly a case for taking this law into court, and having it thrown out. >> john nichols, i want to ask you one question about governor scott walker. it seems to me that he stands a real go...