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what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? lets bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? >> heres what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record a...

>> john: begin "america reports" with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current presidents son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. >> sandra: we made it to wednesday. im sandra smith in new york. "washington post" reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020...

Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments a...

A junior conservative justice on Wednesday launched a bid to become president of Israel's Supreme Court, an unprecedented move that legal scholars said is yet another challenge to the tribunal's independence as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government advances with its plan to overhaul the judiciary. In Israel's 75-year history, the committee that selects the president of the country's top court has always nominated the most senior judge for the position...

Include jamie raskin and david cicilline, and kurt bardella joins me along with charles blow, "new york times" columnist and msnbc political analyst. kurt, you wrote the article. you have seen what it looks like when republicans go wild on oversight. that is going to be the committee where all the crazy is going to take place. what should democrats do? >> they need to match up. back in 2010 when republicans took back congress after that election, democrats actually realized they were in some dee...

Be laid off first. why would they want to sign on something that violates the long-standing seniority system? >> it is largely because many institutions, including the union are being driven by ideas such as affirming racial equity and achieving with the policies like this. and yes theres a lot of members of that union who are going to be disadvantaged by this. they are going to be very upset and probably will drop out of the union which would keep dues paying members but as i was saying earlier...

Record for interviews shes been a little bis dismissive of aoc and shes basically a little bit old school in this sense politically, respect the seniority system and the leaders in the house and dont take to social media to settle -- to take your grievances there and do it internally. >> paula, how do you see aoc, is she a strength for the party or liability. >> a huge strength. shes a phenom and a comet and shes amazing. but she got where she is, by winning a primary by getting precisely 15,897...

Leadership on that decision. and she won. she became the first freshman member of congress to have a committee assignment changed by house leadership. and from there on, she just kept going. >> how do you feel being the first black woman in the house of representatives? >> i have mixed feelings. first of all, im very glad to have been able to make history in this country by being the first black woman. and boys and girls, as far as im concerned, actually, its overdue. >> there are so many things...

She became the first freshman member of congress to have a committee assignment changed by house leadership. and from there on, she just kept going. >> how do you feel being the first black woman in the house of representatives? >> i have mixed feelings. first of all, im very glad to have been able to make history in this country by being the first black woman. and boys and girls, as far as im concerned, actually, its overdue. >> there are so many things in the congress i would like to change. i...

When pelosi was making her rise that women had to wait longer and were punished in the seniority system and was of course ultimately the first woman to serve as house speaker. but shes not the only woman making waves in this new congress. take alexandria ocasio-cortez. she is just 29 years old and will be the youngest woman ever sworn in to congress after an election. shes been taking on lobbyists, talking tough and joined climate change protests inside incoming speaker pelosis office. and they ...