on privacy and content concerns, as well as the company s connection to the chinese government. we ll have the highlights for you just ahead. plus, what we re learning about a drone strike overnight in syria that killed at least one american and injured a handful of u.s. service members. a lot going on. good morning. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s friday, march 24th. you know, it is friday. you know, willie, it is interesting. you have trump raising $1.5 million off of this. puck noted last night that people around donald trump see this as a bad sign. his fundraising prowess is dried up. he s worn out all of these lists. he sent spam out for six years, seven years. the small money donations just aren t coming in. you know, right after access hollywood, he raised $11.5 million off of small donors. after the fbi raid last summer at mar-a-lago, as he called it, he raised $2 million in two days. he s raised $1.5 million over the week. what we
with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina
a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help, and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the fur furnace. he finds himself in the basement with a furnace shoveling documents as we hears demonstrations down on the street. they are burning the files as fast as the furnace is blowing up. putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and so credits as the crowd closed in. with the fire stil
december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dredden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladamir putin s life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden, they found a target. a local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help, and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the buil
Eleanor mckey, Now Eleanor Monager is officially a high school graduate. She says im only 99. I might go ahead and take some College Courses now. It is all a great reminder that it is never too late to finish what you started. Especially something this great. And on that note, i wish you all a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, ill see you tomorrow. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. The scenes we have been following courtesy of the sketch artist. The jury likely to begin deliberating next week in the only Trump Case Slate Today Go The A jury before the election. Thats a scenario which has people questioning if there is real accountability. If donald trump. If simple narrative offered by various groups dont capture what is happening in these strange around extraordinary times that brings us to our stop story right now. Here is convicted trespasser, a convicted trespasser, we are about to explain. You can see him pushing forward. This is brazen