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and welcome to morning joe: weekend. lets dive right into the weeks top stories. lets begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trumps presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitutions foreign -- cause. the report finds ...

telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? >> part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald...

and good evening, im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, weve got a lot of theories, just dont have the evidence. thats the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trumps ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy the...

georgias secretary of state brad raffensperger who lost a child to fentanyl poisoning sounded the alarm. >> i want to really emphasize the seriousness of this. some people like to call fentanyl a drug. but its actually poison. it will kill you. it will kill you very quickly, very easily, and it is very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. it is very, very serious and we take it that way. anyone who holds electe...

And lockheed loves him. Intel building a 7 billion plant in arizona that they took off the shelf during the obama years. So, yeah, lots to talk about. Thanks to hugh and our guests. That was the scene from a town hall earlier tonight with arkansas senator tom cotton. The mood is indicative of what were seeing at town halls across the country. We have news tonight from this new administrations continued Whiplash Pattern of radical changes in course. Tonight the Justice Department, which is now le...

This year. >> the possibility of running elections by calling into question the well run elections through the use of false narratives is certainly a challenge. >> but just like any other elections run by autocrats, rapid minute relations does not only ruin elections, edge sows uncertainty, which also dense democracys reputation. it should be a abundant year for voting, but it is in the start of its lump. >> joining us now, president emeritus of the foreign relations, the book titled the bill of...

Think a lot of us are as inspired and emboldened as ever and seeing new people, young people, who want to get involved in the business of running elections. its inspiring. >> i hope we are seeing that because we hear so many reports of other, the pain people feel. secretary benson, ruby freeman and shea moss, we heard from them, the mother and daughter, trump says they passed this usb to each other, cheating votes, and it was a mint. and yet, you heard shea moss talk about her entire life changi...

Outrageous rhetoric from the president attacking just again most americans think a valid i.d. to vote is a reasonable measure. you would have a large number of americans who think that you shouldnt be able to mail in a ballot with no post mark after election day and have it count. the procedures that states have decided on are imminently reasonable and casting them as some kind of threat to the republic but what he did in his thursday remarks is after all this rhetoric attacking states, claiming...

Bill gates is a conservative republican who worked on voter integrity issues for the arizona republican party for years. >> im one of these kind of alex p. keaton kids from the 80s. ive been a republican my whole life. >> vice chair gates -- >> nowadays hes the vice chair of the maricopa county board of super supervisors, the governing board for the county which is arizonas most populous. among the boards responsibilities -- running elections. >> this election was run well. there was no fraud in...

Reporters on that remarkable piece for reuters. tim reid, national political correspondent at reuters. mr. reid, i believe we have sorted out our technical gremlins. i hope youre there and you can hear me. >> i can hear you great. thanks for having me. >> great. im sorry about the earlier hiccup there. >> no problem. >> thank you for being here. thanks for this reporting by you and your colleagues. talk to us about what kinds of powers these secretary of state candidates would have if they were ...