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arabia, as i do with mexico, as i do with everybody. you know, they all buy apartments from me. they pay millions and millions of dollars. am i supposed to dislike them? i love them. china. i sell apartments for $50 million, $30 million, $25 million, the cheap ones like $10 million. i dont bother to sign those contracts because those are the cheap ones. but i get it from saudi arabia. i get it from japan. i get it from everybody. i love these people. >> willie, what do i always say? wh...

oversight committee of the house of representatives has discovered corruption of foreign influence pedaling by a president of the united states. >> a startling i should scare every american and quite frankly shows the illegal grift that donald trump and his family have put on this country. >> youll see that we used very conservative accounting methods here and the republicans have not been able to find one thing wrong with this report. theyve basically accepted the facts. >> house demo...

Raised from the saudis, from the uae, from the persian gulf, basically, in exchange for what? well, we can guess. weve become numb to this, to these numbers and to these violations of the way this country is supposed to work and the way the presidency is supposed to work. the constitution says presidents are supposed to behave a way, yet here we are. the entire republican party is going to ignore this and say its no big deal and lets move on. what about hunter biden and his laptop? >> yeah, to t...

Last month, judge chutkan paused the federal election interference trial while an appeals court considers trumps claim of presidential immunity. however, theres nothing in the order that bars federal prosecutors from continuing to proactively provide discovery or file motions, even though the deadlines were lifted. a statement from the trump campaign praised the defense teams motion, calling the prosecutions work on the case, quote, harassing litigation. the special counsel declined to respond t...

Where trump visited on his first foreign trip as president, paid his businesses more than $600,000. the information stems from documents obtained from trumps former accounting firm in 2019. the report only covers the first two years of the trump presidency. once republicans regained the house majority in 2022, they ended democrats investigation. we know also, willie, that jared kushner, after leaving the white house, got a lot more money from saudi arabia. >> yeah. >> but this also makes the rep...

Opposed jared kushner. kushner puts together a $110 billion arms deal with saudi arabia. saudi arabia, at the same time, is spending monies of thousands of dollars that we have records for, because im sure its a lot more than that, on trump properties here in d.c. and other places. this is clearly a major grift. most importantly, it is a violation of the constitution. republicans need to do the right thing here. we need to get all the records and information and hold donald trump and his family ...

President biden will mark the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack with a campaign speech near valley forge, pennsylvania, today. biden is expected to focus on the importance of american democracy in the 2024 election, emphasizing the danger another trump presidency would mean to the american institutions. the speech was moved up a day because of that impending winter storm we just told you about. so itll be on the 5th rather than the 6th. biden is going to draw some parallels to george...

Safety through the presidency to other governments, even our enemies. >> thats absolutely correct. i think, first, lets be very clear. a president cannot take gifts, certainly cannot take bribes from any foreign government while they serve as president. whether they have business interests or not. that is clearly in the constitution. while weve uncovered about $8 million, and likely, of course, millions and millions more that we dont have records from, even taking one gift is a violation of the ...

This has both national security implications but certainly violations of the constitution. >> congressman, you can anticipate, and i know you havent heard yet from donald trump, from the campaign, and we can expect a truth social post at any minute, id expect, but that he stepped away from his businesses. his sons were running the businesses at the time and, therefore, somehow, this was okay. we never fully steps away from his businesses, but what do you say to that argument, that it was, in fac...

Accepted payments while he was president. plus, well dive into a piece entitled, "its maddening that the supreme court could decide 2024." well bring in a former federal prosecutor to discuss that. welcome back to "morning joe." it is friday, january 5th. jonathan lemire is still with us. joining the conversation, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle and editor at the non-partisan group protect democracy, amanda carpenter is with us this morning. president biden will mark tomorrows three-...