anne he you de hogue he haut a. ,, when chat group on discord they start soon after th invasion of ukraine in 2022, reaction to the new wrinkl from democratic ranking of the house armed services committee adam smith, later for this hou for you. new today, and had some theory alvin bragg, now resolving a dispute of house republicans agreeing to have forme prosecutor, mark pomerantz deposed next months as part of a trump investigation. that and - coming after federal dru declined to block the intervie in an appeals court deleted. plus, the reaction today a president biden prepares t make his 2024, that s a lot of twenties, reelection bid election next week kamala jayapal told msnbc wh she supports the president campaign i do think he deserve reelection, i ve been public about this, even though he wasn t my first choice in th last election in the primary, have been, really amazed at ho much this president has gotten done we are doing so many thing that i didn t think,
compare me to the alternative. when you put that alternativ up, that dealt and that worr and that concern, evaporates o democrats. they re wholeheartedly behin and because they don t want to either see a return to donal trump or they don t want to se one of the newer versions of donald trump that you see in either desantis or somebod else, who s not really all tha different other than just th packaging. they don t want to see us go back to that, either that unites democrats an pushes us forward. let s try to figure out wha seems an idea you might be pushing forward in thi particular candidacy the president has been havin one political theme here robert let s listen to this first this isn t your father republican party this is what i call the maga republican the majority of the party, i called the maga republicans ar controlled - unfortunately, extreme mag republicans, not all, but tree maga republicans ar threatening to undo all this
against. so that s why reporting like this and stories along these lines that come out, in recent months as part of the reason that this investigation is so important. because it s a rare opportunity, and process allots opportunity to get all of these folks who are involved, to know the whole story, and to get them to tell a story. robert, there is a lot in your book on that willard hotel meeting, and again, that is one portion of the sort of plan here. but it is pretty clear that meadows at the very least is in touch with the folks that are in that war room. and planning to make the sort of big last stand on the six. so many people on the president circle were involved, certainly mark meadows was chief of staff to trump at the time. and was intimately involved with everything that was going on about the six. and you have to think about what they were trying to do to prevent biden from taking office. that there was a violence that happened on the six and the committee is probing wh
about the closing weeks of the trump administration which of course includes this period of time. and robert let s start there, your book includes quite a bit of reporting on, this and you ve done quite a bit of reporting specifically on the presidents inner circle. and their coordination about the date of the six. give us a sense of what you found and how much outreach there was to members of congress. i at times looking at all of these events and episodes can be like looking at an abstract painting at the wall. with a lot of colors and different points. but the want to focus on i would suggest, as a reporter, is trump himself. what is trump doing. he is the commander-in-chief, the president at the time, january 5th calling into the war room as we depict in that, from talking to ben, and talking to giuliani. also talking that night to senator ted cruz of texas. trying to whip up senate republicans to object to every state. this is an effort that had a
does he have i mean is he right to criticize john mccain when that s the extent to which he s gone to help veterans in this country? i think those two things that you just said are two more things than john mccain has done for veterans. oh come on robert really? robert let s just focus on what donald trump has done. okay. okay. but i don t know anything that john mccain has done either at least donald trump helped raise $1 million to build this memorial. you know and as commander in chief he s not running against john mccain. john mccain is not running for president. understood. so let s go back and donald trump is. so what is he going to do for veterans? he says he s going to build all new hospitals. i think that s one of the things he said. but you know that s harder than just saying it right? so what has he done and in the end doesn t it come down to issues? absolutely it comes down to issues and i wish we would get