about some of the taxes and penalties for businesses that might take jobs or manufacturing overseas. so last night it was about the parody of him on snl. today, starting sunday talking a bit more about policy, but, again, all via twitter. i don t know. i ve got to think the more he tweets about alec baldwin, the longer he secures that job on snl. that s just me. but okay. kelly o donnell, thank you so much. joining me is amy parnes, she s in the middle of writing a second book on hillary clinton and the campaign. let s get right to the recount efforts. as the stein campaign keeps moving the goal poston the recount funds. it just met the $7 million goal last week. now raised 9.5 million bucks. when the lawyers say they can t afford this $1 million bond in pennsylvania, does that make sense to you? it does a little bit. while they re still raising
now it has turned into a desperate search forum for family members and friends and more than $100,000 has been donated to the victims. all right. to politics we go together here. this morning green party candidate jill stein says she s now taking her recount efforts in pennsylvania to federal court. she dropped a lawsuit yesterday after a court demanded a million dollars to keep that recount going. now stein s attorneys say that they will file for emergency relief in federal court on monday demanding a statewide recount on constitutional grounds. so let s talk about this with a. scott bolden, former chair of the washington democratic party and ben ferguson. thanks for being here. good morning. good morning to you. i want to ask you a quick question about jill stein, scott. so everybody s hearing that the judge is saying you need $1 million to continue this. she s saying they don t have the
we wrote dodd/frank to provide relief for the smallest bank, probably didn t succeed as much as we would have liked to. if that s on the agenda, that s a good thing. this idea of wholesale repeal is first of all unrealistic and secondly profoundly dangerous. you and i could talk for a long time, representative himes. the new chair of the new democratic coalition, thank you so much. jim himes, appreciate it. ? thank you, richard. for more on the challenges facing democrats in the age of trump during this time as representative himes was discussing at least fiscally, i want to bring in mike morrie, former communications director for chuck schumer and senior white house reporter for politico. mike, let s start on this topic right here. as i was thinking through what has been happening in the recount efforts, and we talked about michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, criticism that s coming across as nothing s going to change, the outcomes don t appear, at least what donald trump is tw
ground, being in his position. reporter: he could feel his skin starting to melt. you realize the volume of this when you think that s just one story among dozens. bob, by the way, knows this community very well. he says there may have been upwards 20 to 25 people living inside this artist commune. he says the number of 50 people may be more like 80, 90, 100 people in the warehouse at the time the fire started cutting through. that s consistent with the number the percentage that crews are working with right now as they move slowly through this building. it s a really tough process. we re going to be here for a long time covering it. back to you. that interview was gut wrenching. four steps between life and death. steve patterson, thank you. now to politics and the trump team fighting back the recount efforts. here is the vice-president-elect
that are harmful to the democracy by keeping people out. so far what has been raised is $7 million in favor of the recounts in the three states, and so far, people are trying to understand whether or not they can trust the system potentially here as to why they are giving money no the recount efforts. when you are looking at it, steven, that 7 milli$7 million s that say that there is a lot of people that just don t really are the trust the system to you? well, it is harder to defend the system when people are who are pushing the false narratives out there that there is undocumented people voting en masse, and that you know, that people are registering illegally, and books out there for the potential of voter fraud, but nup of tone of the accusations come with evidence. when you have a full assault by the folks pushing the narrative