emoluments, trump trying to use the oval office to brild the strongest case possible to reach the american public if not republican senators and lawmakers, then at least to persuade the public that trump was dangerous. and so we ve heard a lot of private regret from our democratic sources that trump became more powerful after the first impeachment. and then even after the second, which you could argue was the most important impeachment in our history given that trump incited a riot on the capitol, it was done before you could blink. jamie raskin was trying to call in republican witnesses and really wanted to build a case to try to persuade republicans at a time when trump was the most vulnerable he has ever been and instead we show how he was shut down by his own party. people like chuck schumer who did not want a long trial because he wanted to start working on the biden agenda. the white house now having requests for evidence and to try to bring secret service in, in
30 minutes after the last fund-raising email was sent, the capitol was breached. we re back with our panel. pete strzok, is that legal? i think, nicole, it s a great question. we re talking a quarter of a billion dollars here. $250 million doesn t sound as large in my mind as the billion figure. but i think it draws a whole host of questions about election campaign raising laws and what is and isn t allowed in terms of representation of how those funds are going to be used. i think it s certainly going to cast a spotlight on mark meadows s charitable organization. well, what is that charitable organization? what does it purport to do? how s it spending its money and to the extent it as a charitable organization enjoys any nonprofit tax stus, i think it s reasonable to look at that and figure out what s going on and of course yet again the trump properties are being used as a source of emoluments, whether it s from trump supporters or foreign governments like he used
oversight committee and the january 6th committee, and congressman raskin, it is great to see you. thanks very much for being here. i m delighted to be back with you, rachel maddow, welcome back to your show. thank you very much. i shouldn t be floored, i am floored by this new york times reporting, because it does feel like a textbook example about somebody being compromised by a foreign power and it also feels like a bribe to u.s. public officials. is there a more complex way to see it? or are there other nuances about that that aren t visible to us reading report. it was a money making operation from the beginning. that s the way i see it. and i do fault the democrats for not more aggressively pushing the foreign government emoluments that president trump was from the unite arab emirates
accounting firm. but i want to go back. it s not only the outside investigations. there s also been investigations that have requested mazars files, records in the house of representatives. that has been a huge fight over whether or not he violated the emoluments close when it comes to the old post office building as he was securing that for his hotel. so this accounting firm has been a periphery/central figure in this whole investigation for some time now. and one of the big questions, can letitia james, the attorney general in new york, that s a civil investigation, but she wants depositions from donald trump and two of his children who are big players. senior officials in the trump organization. this would seem, not a lawyer, but this would seem to help her case. your own accounting firm says we were given bad information. you are the senior executives of the company. we need to talk. the trump organization including the children of the former president have said this is a polit
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