arabia, as i do with mexico, as i do with everybody. you know, they all buy apartments from me. they pay millions and millions of dollars. am i supposed to dislike them? i love them. china. i sell apartments for $50 million, $30 million, $25 million, the cheap ones like $10 million. i don t bother to sign those contracts because those are the cheap ones. but i get it from saudi arabia. i get it from japan. i get it from everybody. i love these people. willie, what do i always say? when he s talking, there s laugh tracks going in the audience, but you can believe him, right? you can always believe trump when he makes a claim like that. yeah, that was almost a decade ago, too. wow. there s some new information we re getting this morning. we ll get into specifics about how much he enjoys those relationships he was bragging about. yeah, there is a new report that finds those payments continued during his years in the white house. we ll talk about that. good morning. w
day that will go down in american history as unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, and also equally, hey, what took you so long? i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters with joy reid, chris hayes, ari melber. we are gonna be joining you with special coverage by lawrence or diana o donnell, stephanie ruhle, alex wagner, jen psaki, plus all the legal experts and reporters we ve come to depend on so much for our coverage of this still unfolding fairly epic story. by now we all know the basics of what is going on. what s an indictment? well, that s the prosecution laying out its charges against a defendant. that happened last week. when the public got our first view of the unsealed federal indictment of former president trump on friday. 37 federal felony counts. 31 of them under the espionage act. what s an arraignment? that s what happened today. the defendant is brought to court and essentially introduced into the legal system as a defendant. for most, that means the
and could a conviction in any of these cases be a tipping point for voters? scheduling nightmare aside in all of this, the former president might not even get on the republican ballot in some states. we ve got a wave of new developments in the effort to disqualify trump ahead of the primaries. where it s working and where it s getting kind of messy. meanwhile, in d.c., another motion has been filed by jack smith in donald trump s election interference case. what the special counsel is now asking the judge to block the former president from doing during trial proceedings. let s dive right in. joining us now is washington post senior political reporter aaron blake, former congresswoman and msnbc political analyst donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst, democratic strategist, and pollster cornell belcher. thanks for being here. aaron, let s start with you. as we approach the new year, paint a picture of this, if you could, of just how chaotic this could get. only one of do
the race is on to avoid a default disaster. minutes from now the first key vote on the debt ceiling bill is set to take place on the house floor. already it s facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. we ll be speaking to one of those lawmakers ahead. officials in iowa trying to decide whether they can keep searching for five people who remain unaccounted for at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building there. rescuers are entering a no-win situation as we learn that what remains in the building is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. plus the gloves are off. during his first official campaign event, ron desantis taking on donald trump. ahead, see why he thinks the former president s attacks are going to backfire. we are following these developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now the house is in session ahead of a key vote to avoid default on the nation s debts. president biden and house speaker kevin mccart
social media ahead of his cour appearance his ex fixer warning today tha trump s posts should be take seriously. including the image of the manhattan da next to a basebal bat. what he is doing, he is trying to invoke fear. and intimidation but at the same time he is als passing a message to his supporters baseball that s. they work to republican congressma marjorie taylor greene, she is already planning a rally outside the courthouse she is angling to be trump s vice president i know you ran for those things democrats, while they ar already calling out her ba faith attacks on the legal system some of these people are th ones who are hollering a hillary clinton to lock her up now somehow they are now sayin that trump is a victim well, you can t have it both ways you know, you want to lock the democrats up but you want to free the republicans donald trump s indictment confirms our laws do apply t the most powerful and contrary to republican rhetoric, that i proof of a r