james comey. plus the debt ceiling hostage situation was not a lesson about bipartisanship as many have suggested. i will tell you what my takeaway was. also today, the supposed pro business anti counsel culture right wing is acting pretty anti business and pro cancel culture lately. a looks putting that in just a few minutes. and later, a trip to pennsylvania for an afternoon with one of the country s most high-profile political spouses, gisele fetterman. we talk about her childhood as an undocumented immigrant, her husband battle with depression and the spaces she commit created to help families in her community. to what donald trump on the campaign trail this week was to watch someone doing his best to make it all seem like he was just a typical front runner for the nomination, nothing to see here traveling through iowa, shaking hands giving speeches. on the one hand, he s still leading the field by very wide margin. but on the other hand he s already a criminal defe
and in the streets. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. so sad. a little historical perspective on wars. there are wars. a little hysterical perspective on this. you know, there was a great profile piece of ron desantis by mark lebovich and it talked about how everything seemed so sort of i don t know i don t know triefd. that it was all just very contrived. when he is going on and on, there will be and he s trying to sound churchillian and he s talking about again, most americans are going, huh? what is this? what? and he just keeps beating it. it s like america is not florida and that one little area in florida, by the way, ron desantis, but he continues to brag about his efforts to fight woke. we ve got a lot to get this this morning. that is seriously so 19 so 2021. it really is. speaking of actual wars, we will have new reporti
campaign kickoff. republicans take the stage in iowa. we have to resist the politics of personality. dispense with the culture of leaving. leaving the baggage ever negativity behind. how many candidates will make the debates and will their strategies to topple the front-runner work? and caught on tape. cnn learns the justice department has audio of the former president talking about a classified document he kept after his term. are charges coming? i ll speak to ranking democrat jamie raskin, next. plus making the case. pr president biden celebrates a win. did democrats get the better deal. people are furious. key noelgtor sha londa young and ken buck coming up. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of the union is on the trail hiding hot. it is campaign season and republican white house hopefuls hit the trail on saturday in iowa for senator joni ernst annual roast and ride. in some cases wearing leather motorcycle vests as they try to anticipate
second hour of a man. the obvious and flailing republican smear campaign against president biden. one gop senator this week, admitted that he didn t care about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m phil ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an honest reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no matter how desperate merit-less or in saying their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bri
were there. we re officially there, my friend. have a good show, welcome back, we missed. you good evening to you, and welcome to ayman tonight. there are tapes, new reporting on that incriminating trump report about a classified documents that he had in his possession after he left the white house. then the porcelain candidate, that is how ron desantis is being described after refusing to engage with reporters, but how long can he hide in his safe space? and, republican rollback, the latest gop trend is loosening child labor laws and i m going to speak with democratic senator john hickenlooper, one of the most outspoken critics of that effort. and much more. i m ayman, let s get started. caught on tape. in an astounding developments, nbc news can now confirm that special counsel jack smith s office has obtained an audio recording of donald trump admitting that he retained a classified document from his time at the white house. now, on that tape trump acknowledges that