finding lawyers that are not only willing to deal with the reputational taint that comes with dealing with trump, but also the fact that his lawyers over and over again over the years, and including right now have themselves found themselves in legal peril because of what trump requests of them and asks them to do, and you know, as any lawyer will tell you, the last thing in the world you ever want to do is find yourself in the cross hairs of prosecutors, and i think that is a really good open question, whether he is going to be able to find the legal resources to deal with this because there s d jones day is his campaign s long-term law firm. i think it s unlikely they are going to jump back on this band wagon right now, and i m not sure who else might. dave, we have covered enough legal peril for one show. that s not enough for donald trump. the court of appeals ruled against him last night to trump appointees, part of that
never say in court. i sympathize with these lawyers. they have said, essentially, well, the president has the power to declassify documents, but they won t go so far, they would be putting their attorney s stamp on statements like trump just made with hannity, which is that he was sitting in the white house dethinking all of these documents. i don t know how you would do that. this is where you end up, isn t it, when there is no explanation for having classified documents removed from the white house and taken to your beach club, you effectively say i used the force to declassify them. yeah, you know, on a serious note, because, you know, this is just not a mature discussion of a defense. what he s really just saying is i m above the law. this is just not serious. but the 11th circuit, the court of appeal s decision cuts this argument out from under donald trump because they first point out that this is something that
donald trump is unwilling to say in court in spite of repeated opportunities including just noting that the day before, before judge dearie in brooklyn, the other thing that the court of appeals said and this is now a court of appeals decision with two trump judges, it s irrelevant. it has nothing to do with a legal defense here. so it is really a question of donald trump is just engaging in distractions. it is not a legally relevant thing, even if you could somehow declassify things by merely thinking about them. the court of appeals has a complete decision saying that this is just a bogus line of defense, and we shouldn t be distracted by it. and you re so right, andrew, it does remind you of the protests of the 2020 election where donald trump and others would go on tv and be at rallies and say wild things and when the
investigative reporter, suzanne craig, she has reported extensively on the finances and taxes of donald trump, and won a pulitzer prize for that work, and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and andrew weissman, the former general counsel for the fbi. good morning to you all. just as a big picture look at what we re talking about here. there s so much going on around donald trump, around the elections, around his finances. it s hard to keep track. so what exactly are we talking about here in this lawsuit from the new york state attorney general? it s important to note that this is a civil lawsuit. it s not criminal. so if it ends up, you know in a court, he faces civil fines, and there are going to be other remedies, she wants to limit their ability to do business in new york. she wants to limit their lending, limit their, you know, ability to build in new york for a certain amount of period, so those are sort of the remedies.
continues to double down on the mandates, vaccine mandates or mask mandate, i don t think he s going to do himself or the country any favors. both parties, they are losing him in the courts and we have the court of appeals decision last month, the federal judge in kentucky shot down a mandate workers, federal contractors so these are mandate not only unpopular, they may be unlawful and i don t think this is a direction the country should be going. the biden administration seems to think it s the way forward. paul: kim, he wrote a column this week saying biden has a i want you to respond to that but look, we can t predict variant. the omicron, you re asking us to