hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nicolle wallace in for alex wagner two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump general told the comm
one of trump s loudest defenses following the has been a chest pounding declaration that he it doesn t matter that they wound up there. he said that, quote, everything was declassified. but so far, that argument has been noticeably absent from any declaration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, in a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. furthermore, they are insisting that actually these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows if these papers are really classified. over and over again in their 40 page filing the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, or referred to by trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply worded filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in b
destruction. putin appearing today at a meeting with military industry leaders as his lower house of parliament with absolutely no warning approved a new bill cracking down on soldier who s refused to fight. this bill says soldiers who refused to serve or resist orders could face up to 15 years in prison. and this move is causing a widespread expectation that putin may even in the next few hours announce a form of a draft. in fact, there was an expectation he could appear today for national address just as he did right before his mass invasion of ukraine. and our matthew chance reports tonight that this widely expected national address from putin is now expected to happen tomorrow morning russia time, which means overnight here in the u.s. it is an address that could up the ante and change the stakes in this horrific war. the fears of escalation already sending russia s stock market plunging today in its worst drop since the start of the invasion. and if putin is going to sta
we re gon around, i feel really good about our chances. we re gonna keep this and keep up a seat. we have a chance of winning the house. that s when i m optimistic, i really am. biden will also be in new york this weekend, campaigning with governor kathy hochul, who is in a surprisingly tight race to keep her job. she ll join me here live in just a few minutes. voters have made it clear across this country, the economy is at the top of their agenda, and today, we had the latest gut check on that economy with the final jobs report just before the midterms, msnbc s peter alexander breaks old. president biden today we ll cutting the better than expected jobs report 261,000 new hires last month. even as the federal reserve tries to slow the economy, and tame inflation. folks, our top economy continues to grow and out jobs even as gas crisis continue to come down. we ve got a lot more to do. but fears of a recession still linger. republicans seizing on the slight uptick in
absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump s private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents is a major interest to prosecutors at doj. new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors and former president trump s handling of national security documents, what a question one of his confident ants about a claim that trup declassified the documents. that confidante is cash patel, one of trump s biggest defenders in the documents investigation. he is a trump loyalist who made a career o