President trump is furious over democratic investigations into his administration and his personal finances. In less than 30 minutes, trumps acting attorney general will appear on capitol hill despite earlier threats to skip the hearing entirely unless a subpoena was dropped. If you think the news could not get any stranger, im going to blow your mind. In one corner, youve got jeff bezos the founder of amazon and the richest man in modern history. In the other corner, youve got david pecker, the head of American Media and the National Enquirer whos a close friend for decades of President Trump. In the middle, youve got threats of blackmail, extortion and hints that the whole thing was very politically motivated. I have a great team here to break all of it down, but first, i must explain what this is all about. It started last month when the National Enquirer published a huge front page story about bezoss love affair with a former tv anchor named lauren sanchez. The enquirer called it t
Shortly after publication, he hired a team to find out how the tabloid got hold of those Text Messages and photographs. In a blog post posted an medium. Com, bezos said don howard threatened to publish additional photos unless bezos called off his investigation and made a specific false Public Statement to the press. There was no basis for claiming that ami had a political agenda. This can be seen as yet another battle in a larger war between trump allies and his critic. In a statement, ami says it was merely involved in good faith negotiations. To revolve owl matters. The company has acknowledged using the practice known as catch and kill to keep two women Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal from publicizing their claims that they had affairs with the president. Throughout the campaign ami acted as a pr wing, you might say, of the trump campaign, promoting the candidate and savaging his opponents. For more, im joined now by glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, mclaughlin mar kay,
Number could be very low. The latest joining the field today, and many more joining this incredible and an apology not accepted, Iowa Republican congressman steve king dialing back comments, why South Carolina senator tim scott says it is not comments as much as Republican Leaders response to those comments that trouble him the most, and he is the republican. And then almost a year after his daughter was gunned down at Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, andrew pollach responds to Florida Governor ron desantis suspending Broward County sheriff scott israel. The sheriff says he will fight to get his job back, hes here and only here not if he has anything to say about it all that and protest in paris that will not let up and now a gas explosion that is making things worse. All now, all here, all live, a lot to get to, so lets get to it. Okay, 22 days mark it in pencil, im neil cavuto and what to make of a shutdown that simply will not let up. Right now the president and congress are fa
Elrod and associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene Robinson will be joining us in just a moment. Weve got a lot to get to. Wow. New poll numbers in virginia. What it means more the states leadership. It looks like the governor might stay but fairfax might go. Plus saudi arabia denies any involvement in a blackmail attempt. And President Trump sends a glowing tweet about north korea. No mention of that countrys nuclear arsenal. Well get to all of that. First, joe, another busy weekend for the president ial field of democrats. Another busy weekend. It continues. Michael bennett on meet the press yesterday suggesting he may jump into the race, a colorado senator who recently took on ted cruz on the showdown of the Government Shutdown, with the showdown on the senate floor would be a very impress of candidate, certainly occupying a more centrist vision of what the Democratic Party should be going up against donald trump. But im just curious, Nick Confessore, why go with the Washingto
When it comes to things like you call the brown menace. That was the biggest reason that he got elected. There is no question that he tapped into something. Look, it is never the case in any political contest that one thing winds up being overwhelming, right . You can get a Critical Mass of something. You can get a tipping point. But its always an equation. That was overwhelming. Im just telling people do the research. Look at the studies. It will show you that is the number one issue right. By why were they afraid . Why were the identity politics in play for them . Economic insecurity, the feeling the process doesnt look out for them. Im glad you pointed that out because the right is always accusing the left of identity politics. Mmhmm. And there is no greater identity politics than what is going on now. Yes. With the Republican Party and with the trump supporters. Go on. Sorry. We havent seen this in a generation. We have not seen this in a generation. We have not seen somebody activ