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romney with a time to say, what are you doing dude? santos needs to go. >> what did you think? von >> santos, for him to play the victim here. but it is just so absurd. but it is mid romneys privileged background. all around that. its about the fact that you are a pathological liar. but romney, yes, he did work in investment form. youre on a ponzi scheme. >> does he have millions or is he -- did he really equal all those 199 dollar or 99 cent dinners that the restaurant? that was on th...

returned them the next day. although, not comparable at all to donald trump ignoring subpoenas and keeping hundreds of classified documents for more than a year at mar-a-lago, the justice department is investigating. trump and republicans are pouncing. this hour, house republicans set up an oversight committee with broad powers to see the nations top secrets. the justice departments investigations into their own alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. new questions about th...

For centuries. people of using long-standing chips to spread vicious lies by the jewish people. comedian are not, rugged comments are no joke. >> that is to your point. he does have a responsibility because he is so popular. with millions of listeners who just have -- you should have a higher morals wants built. >> why is this dangerous? we are talking about this just the other night. which is its a kind of conversation, more widely popular podcaster. when elected member of congress, some of our...

Becoming mainstream thinking in our society. and on january 6th, that was one manifestation of that. but that type of thinking has not gone away, it still exists. >> i was just going to ask you about that poll. we through the numbers up there, that is extraordinary. a third of the people to be thinking that violence is justified against the country. >> it very often depends on how you ask the question. i have seen polls done earlier that suggest that 30% of republicans are prepared to result to ...

President and they repeat a lot of the same election falsehoods and they track how most republicans feel. in recent polling a majority of republicans think that the election was rigged in 2020. so its gone beyond being something that former president trump talks about to being a main stream belief of the republican party that there is widespread election fraud and that in some cases theyll say that biden is not -- was not elected president. so it is part of the mainstream thinking here. and when...

And so people needed to seek out information, right? they needed some kind of source to seek out, and so often, they would go to social media or places like youtube. and once you input into places like youtube, right, or other social media, and lets say you enter something that is conspiratorial in nature, your feed automatically populates with more of that information. and then it just continues and continues. and so, its not hard to understand how people have become victim to conspiracy theori...

He allows may actually happen. >> thank you so much. >> joining me now, francesca chambers. charlie savage, msnbc contributor and our washington correspondent from the new york times. charlie, we have heard all of these reports of the president rejecting advice not to do this, did he get a lot of resistance from aides on this? >> the president wants to make a call in his administration if theyre not willing to resign, suppose to say yes. we do know that trump has been personally much more intere...

I dont care what the federal government has said. im going to do what i want to do. and he was kicked off the bench twice fwl and got removed from the bench twice for his trouble. the interesting thing is that voters of alabama re-elected him twice. he got through the primary for the senate seat, got through the run-off for this senate seat. even before all the stuff with the women came out it must be a very strange state, joe, that you went to college in. they really seem to like a guy who is s...

Absent a visa and for humanitarian workers. >> so in your prior meetings, i know you didnt have them in north korea in the first place, but this is information they wanted, right, about president trump. can you tell us about this request, what it is they wanted to know? >> i dont want to go into details of the request. certainly within the change of the administration youd expect north korea to be reaching out to people who perhaps have more access to the trump administration than perhaps people...

Sponsoring terror. >> nobody disputed bad guys supporting terror. this is a big deal. the fact that the administration is backed off. dont forget, candidate trump said we tear up the deal on day one. now he is looking at it and say leave it in place. another sign that you have more mainstream thinking. even from hard liners like james mattis on iran. now the secretary of state saying they are compliant. lets let it ride out. that is a significant development. >> david gregory, phil mudd, thank y...