we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election, and everyone knows that. especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. so go home, we love you, you re very special, you ve seen what happens. you see the way others are treated. that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel. but go home, and go home in peace. that was donald trump s video response to january 6th, issues hours after the capitol had been stormed by a violent mob of insurrectionists. he is that moment once again repeat the very election lies that motivated the rioters to storm the capitol in the first place, and then told that violent mob that they were, quote, very special. that video, and another post annoyingly election, with the straws that finally broke the camel s back over america s largest social media companies. for years, trump had been allowed to use websites like twitter and facebook to vilify immigrants and religious groups, to promote vio
the lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another apparent lie from george santos, a republican congressman from new york who fabricated just about everything on his resume. he s been caught lying about his late mother. santos long claimed his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and later died from cancer. new immigration records confirm santos mother was in brazil and never in the u.s. and now a navy veteran from new jersey is accusing santos of stealing $3,000 from a gofundme account. santos de
with the breaking news of the night. justice department officials searching president biden s delaware home for more than 12 hours. the search concluded with ej finding and removing six additional documents of classification markings. that is according to president biden s personal lawyer. some of the items with those markings were from president biden s time as vice president. others were from his time at the u.s. senate. msnbc news can also report that the search was conducted on the offer of the biden legal team. department of justice did not issue a warrant to search the property. the president special counsel, richard sauber, released a statement earlier this evening that said, in part, quote, i did the president knighted first lady were present during the surge. the statement ended with a commitment that the president s lawyers and the white house counsel s office will continue to cooperate with the doj on this matter. joining me now is my saturday night panel. msnbc da
harris: we begin with a question. what about bob? the house gave republican george santos the boot. now many people are asking why is accused felon bob menendez still in the senate? he is the democrat senator with gold bars and cash stashed inside his home. some dirty details now are coming out and for one exactly where the gold bars came from. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. congress established a new precedent last week by expelling george santos even though he is not convicted of a crime. the case hasn t happened yet. taking the power right out of the hands of the courts and the voters to decide on him. bob menendez has a rather unique legal predicament. he has been indicted before more than once. this time on corruption-related charges. the democrats are in no apparent rush to give bob on the left from jersey the santos treatment except for one liberal senator john fetterman of pennsylvania. fetterman has been the one outspoken dem since the sto
war on american democracy. joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. this is the latest trump defense against accusations he is being anti-democratic. yesterday, the trump campaign handed out signs to supporters during a rally in iowa. the i know you are but what am i playground retort is a familiar response from the former president. from everything i see has no respect for this person. that s because he would rather have a puppet as president. no puppet. it s pretty clear you are the puppet. you won t admit you are the puppet. with eyes on his next shot at the oval office, trump is previewing aboding message, telling supporters to guard the vote. guard the vote. you should go into detroit and go into philadelphia and you should go into some of these places, atlanta, and you should go into some of these places and we gotta watch those votes when they come in. the anti-democratic comments a