pleads guilty admitting he conspired with the former trump company to not pay taxes and now he will testify against the trump organization. sue craig, the new york times reporter who has led the reporting on trump s finances is here in the studio tonight. and the biden cabinet, dispatched to take the president s case to republicans and fox news. transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins us live. but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already started the top of the republican field leading off the polls and found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is the shoe right ther that is it? tom brady s super bowl helmet. this is mike tyson s belt. shaq s shoe. tom brady s super bowl helmet. mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trumpow likes to collect memorabilia. if you will. and so when trump
you know what i mean? there is a question why donald trump has simply not explained why he hasn t given the government papers back. if you look at his behavior during the russia investigation, he played against the fact that he knew that robert mueller was never going to say anything and he was able to use that to his advantage and you saw him kinds of doing the same thing in the beginningam of the revelations about this investigation, and he assumed the attorney general merrick garland would be very silent and he wouldd be able t fill that void completely but the justice department interestingly has found ways to fill the void without compromising or speaking directly about the investigation or without saying anything in particular about donald trump and i think you are seeing a recalibration happen in terms of how trump and his supporters are going to respond. right, because i think trump s learned behavior from the mueller investigation was, poke the bear and nothing is going to