2010 and 2012. and he saw, since this should have been on the board yes go away, twice, before they gotten in 2014. so, he s definitely [inaudible] so, this is a triggering moment for mcconnell. yes, exactly. thank you, chris. thank you for joining us this hour. we have a lot to get to. tonight, a judge in florida says he will likely release a redacted version of the fbi affidavit behind the search of donald trump s florida country club home. new york times justice department reporter katie benner joins us live. and in a new york courtroom, trump s longtime top executive pleads guilty, admitting he conspired with the former president s company to not pay taxes. and now he will testify against the trump organization. to craig, the new york times reporter who has led the reporting on down from finances, is here in studio tonight. and, he is a member of the biden cabinet, dispatched to take the presidents case to republicans and fox news. transportation secretary p
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 risen to the top of the republican field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is shaquille o neal s shoe. oh my god! is that a real issue? he took it off after he handed it to me. i carry like this. tom brady s super bowl helmet. wow. this is mike tyson s belt. shock shoe! tom brady s super bowl helmet, mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is the new york times today describing trump s time in office. quote, white house aides described how excited trump was to show of all the material he had access to, including letters from the north korean leader kim jong-un, which he routinely waved
everybody here in washington is coming to this conversation in good faith. but i am also under no illusions that people who don t already agree with us are going to have any idea what our message is if we don t go out there and talk about it to anyone who will listen. yeah. and by no means, is anyone trying to shame you for talking to fox news or talking to republicans. because that is part of the job, right? but it seems like you are battling something more than just the economics of this. this feels like a cultural battle as much as anything else. so much of the american myth making revolves around the open road and the gas powered engine. those highway videos from the 1950s some people are still very much entrenched in that sort of thinking about what kind of country this is. and i wonder how you think you combat that. people want to hold on to this past of america that is no longer our president and certainly is not going to be our future. but how do you get them to let go of w
battling something more than just the economics of this. this feels like a cultural battle as much as anything else. so much of the american myth making revolves around the open road and the gas powered engine. those highway videos from the 1950s some people are still very much entrenched in that sort of thinking about what kind of country this is. and i wonder how you think you combat that. people want to hold on to this past of america that is no longer our president and certainly is not going to be our future. but how do you get them to let go of what you call i think euphemistically, perhaps, the status quo. how do you think about your work in that vein? i think the most important thing to remember is, if we want to be true to a tradition, we have got to remember that that tradition was about looking to the future. in other words, the best things about our past had to do with getting out of the past. and the worst things about our past are the things we do not have to repea