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That is our show for today. A. M. Joy will be back tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Up next, alex witt with the latest. Alex okay, glamourama. Im literally looking at you, like come on on a saturday morning. Look at that. You look great. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, my friend, it was a great show. Bye. Good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. It is noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Twitter tirade, the president pulling out profanity as he goes after the one gop senator who most forcefully criticized him. Also, could ...

In rudy giuliani, in pompeo, in attorney general barr, all rallying around this, essentially conspiracy theory, that it wasn't russia that interfered, that it was somehow the democrats in cahoots with ukraine that did this. and so, you're seeing this administration mobilizing around something that is honestly conservative make-belief. >> is this what they're going to mobilize around, though, abigail? the message from the white house going forward is going to be, it's our duty to investigate corruption? is that the line we're going to hear? >> yeah, i think you've seen them try to deploy that l...

Country. >> joining me now, pamela levy with mother jones and abigail treacy from "vanitypompeo's statement there, not at all addressing trump's stated desire to specifically investigate the besideens, making it instead about investigating possible election interference by ukraine? does this answer pass the smell test? >> not really. you know, first of all, as you said, you know, the biden piece of this is huge because that's the piece where this is directly about winning the next election, right? so, he's standing there talking about wanting to make sure you prevent foreign interference in el...

Know, there was a point where they also pushed for greater specifics that were specifically linked to the bidens and hunter biden's work in ukraine. so i do think, you know, when we're looking at this, it really isn't about corruption and there have been so many signs of that, whether it's rudy giuliani and the statements he's made or the fact that the president didn't have an answer to that, again, very good question. >> mm-hmm. okay. pema, abigail, ladies, thank you so much. always good to see you both. meantime, reading between the lines. what the lipses in the transcript tell us about wh...

About investigating their political opponents and rewriting the story of what happened in 2016. and it's incredibly blatant. and you know, so -- and this is what happens in a lot of regimes, you know, people who are experts on authoritarians and oligarchs point this out, that there's sort of this history around the world of people saying, i'm going after corruption and, really, they're going after their opponents and they're consolidating power. so, it's really a dangerous tool to be able to say you're going after corruption, and it's really important that we look at what they're actually sayi...