donald trump is now counting on those three as portrayed by snl in his new york fraud trial. and today he whined, leave my children alone, like they were toddlers on a playground. and today donald trump jr. took the witness stand for the first time, answering questions about his role in the alleged scheme to falsely inflate the trump organization s assets. eric and ivanka are waiting in the wings. also tonight, arizona secretary of state adrian fontes joins me on set following his testimony today before a senate committee on the on going right wing threat to free and fair elections. and to election workers. but we begin tonight with new speaker of the house mike johnson s first official day at work. now that the people s house is back in session. we ve already established that johnson is an ultra right wing kris man nationalist who will probably push a nationwide abortion ban. but for the time being, the priority is recrimination and votes on dualing censure resolut
happens. okay, so january 15th, 2021, this organization comes to fourth this is pathetic, sad, and quite gross. when a democrat on the hill has to pay in a bipartisan letter to the state department to reenlist them. when democrat and congressmen are telling them to step it up, i laughed out loud when i said this. in terms of consequences on the 17, we have a long-standing and deep pressure campaign. so let s talk about that deep pressure campaign. it entailed unfreezing $6 billion to iran. in any oil increasing by 650%. it included delisting the huthi. that is a long-standing campaign. if you want to get tough and get serious, call for the
let s now bring in my political panel. msnbc contributors and political strategist amy terra canyon, a republican and craig byrd alone, a democrat. let me go first to former president trump, he is expected to speak tonight at a campaign rally in las vegas following an appearance last night in iowa. the hawkeye state just announced today that its caucus date of january 15th 2021 2024. , amy ran the state gop in about, what can you tell us about trump s from political strength there. sure, well i think the current leadership that is actually running the state party, they want to say they are remaining neutral when it is very far from that case. the day they actually even put out on twitter that this was the first event that is going
january 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2,500 troops. president biden must decide whether to continue. all his national security advisors advise against pulling all u.s. troops out. april 14th, 2021 u.s. president joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditionally by september 11th. july 2, 2021 u.s. troops pull out of bag gram air force base leaving in the middle of the night surprising afghan partners and leaving thousands of prisoners un the taliban take kabul and take over the presidential palace hours after the president fled the country. scenes of desperation at the airport ensue. u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and the largest
joining me now cnn political analyst alex burns, and kim whaley, visiting professor of law at american university and author of how to think like a lawyer, so good to have both of you on. these lawmakers are demanding transcribed interviews with key staffers for the inspector general about the dropped efforts to recover these text messages. how does this need a broader investigation? well, there s a potential number of federal statutes both criminal and civil that could have been violated here. the big question for me is where does the buck stop? the buck stops at president trump who was in charge of homeland security at the time that congress on january 15th, 2021, asked for this information and, don, it