they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa
when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
the only thing that will stop iran is knowing that, if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome and will continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. all of this ahead of the president s controversial trip to saudi arabia next, a visit opposed by human rights groups, but aimed at fostering closer ties between the saudis and israel. here at home, nbc news has learned a member of the trump white house support staff is the key witness referenced in vice chair liz cheney s warning about possible witness tampering by the former president himself. that comes as the january 6th committee is preparing for a primetime hearing next week, a week from today, graphically illustrating president trump s refusal to take action during the riot and in fact goading the mob on with a tweet slamming his own vice president. when he tweet
2017, former president obama, you might have forgotten this. the new york post remembered. they shipped 30 million pages of sensitive and possibly classified materials to chicago. all right. and now trump and his advisers have yet a new excuse for why trump kept classified documents. plus, arizona used to give us republicans like john mccain. well, now the fringe is firmly in control of the party there with election deniers and extremists rising to the top. also tonight, an important victory in sali berisha for reproductive rights, but across the country more young girls are being forced to give birth. and fresh off her defeat in the wyoming primary, liz cheney is blasting kevin mccarthy and had some thoughts on the possibility that he could potentially be the next speaker. good evening, everyone. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid and we begin with the ever-evolving excuses from donald trump and his team over why classified documents, including some classi
conspiracy charges. he lived with rhodes for months and is expected to reveal how he capitalized on conspiracy theories to build membership and funding. he met with the committee for three hours and also met with the commit personally. steve bannon, with his criminal trial for contempt of congress approaching, bannon now says he is willing to testify. that s a pretty remarkable about face among those least wanting to testify. in a filing today, the department said that trump attorney justin clark confirmed the former president, quote, never invoked executive privilege over any particular information or materials in response to the subpoena bannon received. like pat cipollone s lengthy testimony on friday, panel member zoe lofgren says his testimony will be similar. would it be a public hearing or would it be behind closed doors? ordinarily, this goes on for hour after hour after hour. we want to get all our questions and answers and do that in the right format. joining