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it. i love it. happy valentine s day, buddy. you,s too. and thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to all of you outle there. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn theor 2020 election and into whether trump unlawfully obtained classified documents and obstructed efforts to uncover them. first the breaking news tonight in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran, who s been representing the former president in negotiations with the justice department over documents foundst at mar-a-lago. corcoran has already appeared before a grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms special counsel jack smith isrm invokin the crime fraud exception in seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing of a judge overseeing the grand jury nbc reports that doj prosecutors say they have evidence of some of trump sso conversations with corcoranti were in
it s such an impossible question to answer what do you say to the lawyer, hush money happens all the time. there s hundreds of them thank you, my friend, as always and thanks for joining us this hour the battle to be the standard bearer for the american far right has officially begun ron desanctus, everybody ever heard of him. he was bad against ethanol and he also fought against social security. he wanted to decimate it he wanted the minimum retirement age to be lifted to people 70 years old. he also voted to severely cut medicare i will not be cutting medicare and i ll not be cutting social security ron was a disciple of paul ryan, who was a rino loser who currently is destroying fox and constantly vote against entitlements ron reminds me a lot of mitt rumny. reminds me a lot of mitt romney which is the most epic burn you can levy in today s gop. he of course is not stopping there. trump had some unique things to say about his potential rival and vice president mi
speaker. we do know house republicans joined a conference call to talk about a possible new deal on the table. but multiple people on the call tell nbc news, kevin mccarthy acknowledges he still does not have enough votes to become speaker after 11 rounds. we spoke with kevin mccarthy ahead of that call and this is what he this is all leaving one-third of our government functionally paralyzed just as the nation marks the second anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol. politico making the note that, quote, a handful of republicans who remained in the january 6th sights throughout its investigations are now leading the effort to deny mccarthy the speakership. one officer who defended lawmakers on january 6th pointed out the irony of what s happening on the hill right now. no matter what anybody s thoughts about which way it s going, the right that think the fact that they have the right to be able to do that in a safe environment is kind of what we provided