country. i believe in the very soul of this nation, and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe in my core there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. we have to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decide to invest their make chips in america, billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again, and now i m going to take action that i ve been looking forward to doing for 18 months. [ applause ] i m going to sign the inflation reduction act. [ applause ] hey, everyone, it s john heilemann here, i forgot to say aloha, namaste, and gutentag. i m here for nicolle wallace yet again, and we are here interrupting our regularly scheduled programming which you re all too familiar with, to bring you a special bulletin regarding what president joe biden would in an earlier incarnation surely have referred to as
going to happen is if these republicans are defeated. you can t negotiate with these people. how do you meet the guy in the camp auschwitz sweatshirt halfway? you just have to crush them. you have to fight. and liz cheney knows that and she s a fighter. james, i want to ask you this question, question i m now asking everybody. donald trump gets indicted over this doj probe, can donald trump be nominated by the republican party while being while under indictment? do you think that s a plausible scenario? i think it s certainly a plausible scenario, yeah. the republican party even with, could be overwhelming evidence and indictment, you re like, that s that s not what matters. donald trump s power over the party is so absolute now, that will just be seen as another witch hunt. the indictment won t matter? i think this is the terrible political box that merrick garland and the whole country is in right now. a lot look, we re dealing with lot of hypotheticals here. a lot de
what happens in a court of law. so, all of these statements are going to be admissible, and i don t think are going to help him. i want to get to the threats on law enforcement, joyce, because you re here. i think it s good to start with you. is there any way in which you know, we ve seen the things we talked about at the beginning of the block, we saw what happened in cincinnati last week. there s a lot of concern among everyone in federal law enforcement about the atmosphere that we re now in, and i will say that although there are a handful of republicans who are not going hard at law enforcement, man, if you watch right-wing television right now, it is some crazy, crazy stuff that s getting said out there. is part of the reason why, another reason why the doj i mean, they have a lot of good reasons to not release this affidavit, but if they were to release this affidavit, there might be further risk to fbi officials as part of that process? so, in the document that you have
of homeland security under barack obama. he s talking about the declassification matter, which, at some level, i find their assertions, their arguments so laughable that i almost don t want to waste time on them but they are what they continue to say, kash patel and others, so let s read what jeh johnson says. the defense by trump s team that trump issued standing orders were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them is nothing short of laughable. it s like saying that the speed limit on the new jersey turnpike is whatever speed the governor chooses to drive at any given moment. i think of it as the water to wine. if i carry water out of my kitchen, as soon as it goes into the family room, it becomes wine, makes me the pope or something, which is a horrible thought. how could it be that they think they get mileage out of this? because it does it beggars
covert operative, and msnbc legal analyst andrew weissmann, a former doj prosecutor and senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation, and here with me onset, i can t believe my luck, the joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, now law professor at the university of alabama. guys, so much happening here. andrew, start with you. just tell me about the interviews of philbin and cipollone. what does it mean? what does it portend? is it significant or something that s just matter of course? well, it s not a matter of course the department of justice interviews former white house counsel, but it is to be expected here, and there s a reason it would be those two people who were in the white house counsel, because they were two of seven people who were selected by president trump on january 19th of 2021, just shortly before he left office, to be his representatives in terms of collecting and dealing