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Ranking member chuck grassleys office put out this report, the president pro tempore emeritus of the senate defending trumps coup attempt multiple times as, ready? not unreasonable. do you think they would therefore offer what was a reasonable basis for him to question the election let alone try to overturn it? they dont. but again, this is not about logic. the proof of grassleys perfidy bad faith is clear from the past. after the capitol attack senator grassley said this. the courts didnt back ...

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More evidence of the presidents fingerprints on pressure on the department of justice, which is supposed to be the independent law enforcement operation in this country. and it is a department of justice that found no fraud during this transition period. but despite that trump just kept pushing. >> laura, according to the senate report here, this is on january 3rd, the then president said to the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, "one thing we know is you, rosen, arent going to do anything ...

>> grab them by the pussy. do anything. >> still shocking after all these years. of course you remember that. thats the infamous "access hollywood" tape. it was released five years ago tonight. and a lot of people expected that that moment would cost him the presidency. look, thats us on the air in 2016, october 7th. all night trying to figure out what happened. and everybodys face, look how serious everyone was. they thought it was the end of the trump candidacy. well, we all know how that ende...

Good to see you. thanks for appearing. im going to start with you since you are not as frequent a guest as laura on the program. these four trump aides who appear to be defying their subpoenas were intimately involved with president trump in the days leading up to the insurrection. youve done extensive reporting on this. in fact, your book "peril" is cited in several of these subpoenas. what do these guys know that they dont want to share here? >> don, great to be back with you tonight. defiance...

But theres also something i want to talk to you about that every single american needs to hear. okay? and i want you to listen right now because this is really important. theres a clear and present danger to our democracy tonight. right now. were in very real danger of losing our democracy. were learning tonight just how close we came to that and how close we are right now. the former guy attempted a coup. he tried to strongarm the justice department to help him and he is still at it today, tryi...

Aka attempted. for example, if i try to rob you but i fail, its not okay. we all get this. and so do trumps defenders. but this is not about logic. ranking member chuck grassleys office put out this report, the president pro tempore emeritus of the senate defending trumps coup attempt multiple times as, ready? not unreasonable. do you think they would therefore offer what was a reasonable basis for him to question the election let alone try to overturn it? they dont. but again, this is not about...

What happened. just deny what happened. lets talk about whats in front of us right now. youve made it very clear who you find responsible for the stalemate in washington right now. and cnn reports that president biden told lawmakers that he has spent many hours with senators manchin and sinema and said, "they dont move." so if they wont move or they dont move for him, the president, whats supposed to happen? >> well, don, you know, in my conversations with the white house i hear that senators ma...

I think were going to get it done. >> okay. so again what needs to be done to meet that 1.9 to $2.2 trillion budget the president has floated? is that number something that you are even willing to consider? >> well, as i said to the president just a couple of days ago, i am really hoping that it can stay much closer to 3 trillion. just remember, don, we are spending $750 billion a year on pentagon spending and even if we spent the full 3.5 trillion thats over ten years. >> over ten years. right....

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