anyone. none of his advisers wanted to hear his views on foreign policy. they wanted trump to be quiet. he wouldn t. what is the point of nato he asked 30 years after the fall of soviet union. shut up racist. trump kept going. why would we fight russia, he wondered. wouldn t making russia our enemy drive putin in to the arms of china and create the most anti-american block in history? nobody bothered to answer him. they impeached him for it and starred a war with putin. in retrospect, trump asked a deeply patriotic question. if russia ever joined forces with china, american global power would end instantly. you d have the world s largest land mall and the natural gas reserves aligned with the world s population and the world s larger economy. a russia china axis would be not just more powerful than the united states but much more powerful. it would have the scale to control a lot of the world s economy and trade routes and raw materials. it could project military force that w
But, listen, the classified has even more to worry about because the county six committee, they will have at least one more hearing planned before they submit their full report. According to Committee Chairman bennie thompson, they are debating inviting some pretty big names like former Vice President mike pence and maybe even trump himself. We are going to dig into all of this. Joining me now is elie, he is the justice correspondent for the nation. He is also the author of the bestselling New York Times book, allow me to retort, a black eyes guide to the constitution. We have to give you all your flowers, elie. When all of this is going down the paschal of weeks, you were the only person that i wanted to talk to about this and get your take. Im a little confused by the multiple lenses here. An appeal, the doj is no longer appealing fighting a Special Master and they are only asking for a small state for part of the order. What do you think the dojs play is here . What is the reasoning
justice department from getting back to work on more than 100 classified documents. also, in puerto rico, huge search operations happening to try to find trapped survivors after hurricane fiona. things may get worse before they get better. we ve got a team on the ground there with the latest. plus, what went wrong in the agency s response to the baby formula shortage? coming up. a lot of new details for you. i m hallie jackson with vaughn hilliard, tom winter, and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. vaughn, i know this has just wrapped up. what went down? reporter: right. both sides just exited the course house seconds before we came to air. as well as the trio of trump attorneys provided no comment but this hearing lasted about 35 minutes rather speedy hearing in which really the central component of the argument at hand. i was talking the andrew weissman as we exited the course house, about whether trump s teams would have access to the documents marked as classif
violence. no surprise there, really. many republican senators, susan collins, told the new york times this week that she wouldn t be surprised if a senator or house member were killed, strong words. meanwhile, mentions of civil war on twitter and other social media are spiking, and things may soon even get worse. so, it turns out elon musk may actually by twitter. we re here again. he s already pledged to let trump back on, and as of january 6th committee remind us, twitter is how trump actually talks to his base. trump s followers took to social media to declare that they were ready to answer trump s call. one user asked, is the sixth the day, is that why trump wants everyone there? another asserted, trump just told us all to come on armed. this is happening. the third took even further. it will be wild means we need volunteers for the firing squad. yeah, that was a reference to actual firing squad. maya wylie joins us now she s presidency of the leadership conference on c