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His role in january 6th, he was charged in the District Of Columbia for his role in january 6th. Owes 400 million to the state of new york for defrauding the state through his taxes and he has been judged a rapist. You want to be perceived understandably as credible. I want to first see if you will pledge to not accept an appointment from donald trump if he is congressman, im not here to testify about what will happen in the future. Seems like an easy question. I am here to talk about the report...

of sight since trumps charges were filed, but that ends today. an event set to begin any minute now is focused on violent crime, but the real question is will he talk about trump or special counsel jack smith? and a group of kids suing the state of montana over their right to a healthy, livable climate. is it meant to make a political point or is it a real case based in the law? but we start with brand new nbc reporting from inside trump world that the former president is bracing n...

understand. i just -- >> dont you think the american people might question that that every few days more documents have been found at his house. >> what im telling you is what the president has said. he takes this very seriously. >> neil: and i think he also was surprised. president biden back at the white house. more questions swirling around a new batch of classified documents found in his wilmington delaware home. third time that they found more there they thought were there. the co...

>> welcome to "the lead." im dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organizations finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying hes the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if youre innocent, w...

Make sure that they understand that youre not attacking donald trump and its more about the weaponization of the doj. whats interesting, you know -- >> how does that issue work for you? seems like that issue would work for trump? how does that work for mike pence? >> it was just a few days ago the former vice president was talking to the wall street journal and said the actions of the former president are something he cannot defend and were seeing nikki haley and tim scott also saying these are ...

Honor a subpoena. let me play for you what marco rubio said. >> what was the damage? was this stolen and sold to the iranians? sold to the saudis? given over to the russians? that allegations not made in that indictment. no ones made that allegation. so at the end of the day, we have to weigh the damage of the indictment versus the damage of the allegations if proven true. its just not even a fair way. >> so this is an issue of fairness, michael? >> what the hell is he talking about? what are yo...

Documents and for releasing them all. and for anybody else, any other government employee thought to be holding documents and have them squirrelled away, they have the evidence that they compiled with donald trump, their move would be to indict that person, but that is not happening here, and perhaps, you know, even though legal experts say this appears on the surface to be a strong case, as with donald trump, and other matters, and the mueller case, and as the trump organization, he seems to ha...

Administration to block trump lawyers from holding documents? >> i think its an important step. we need the truth and the country needs the truth, and history will not look kindly upon us if we allow people to paper over what took place on january 6th, and you and i have talked about this. i was trapped in the gallery and it was traumatic. i am grateful for the reporting you have done. i have had many people inside and outside of congress say they sought treatment about their trauma, as well as ...

To mueller. you can dove tail on obstruction. you may lose votes. are you worried if you reach back to mueller you may lose votes? >> i dont know how listing more crimes loses votes. under nixon articles of impeachment it lists four instances in which he obstructed. this president obstructed four times in one day. by with holding documents. >> keep it to ukraine. dont go beyond that or will you lose it? >> i havent heard people tell me that personally. its easy to add into an article that includ...

If it was, it doesnt rise to the level of impeachment. >> that wasnt the question. >> that was my answer. i didnt answer it the way you wanted me to. >> youre spinning. it is a spin. youre not answering the question. >> go ahead, rick. >> several things obtained here. you have to give rob props for the engages in the version of performative the defenses of donald trump. this is a we didnt do anything wrong. if we did, it wasnt wrong. we did something its not wrong. we did something wrong so what...