house democrats will always put american values over autocracy. benevolence over bigotry, the constitution over the cult. democracy over demagogs. working families over the well connected. yes, we can over, you can t do it, and zealous representation over zero sum confrontation. house democratic leader hakeem jeffries makes it sound as easy as abc. but after 15 tries it s kevin holding the gavel. we re watching the house floor as republicans try to get organized and what kevin s struggles mean for our democracy. also tonight, the nexus of insurrection. steve bannon and the others who cheered on the january 6th attack on the capitol are now exporting that brand of anti-democratic violence to brazil. and that is where we begin tonight. with the notion of contagion. for most of the 20th century and into the 21st, the u.s. considered itself a leading if not the leading exporter of democracy around the world. and while that sometimes involved nefarious acts like overthrowing
trump knew that and we know it from the contents of hunter biden s laptop. but joe biden, as you may h recall, did not even respond. that s russian disinformation, he said. and then he went on the offense. disi your tax returns, biden. demand it. show us your tax returns. and of course, trump refused. biden, by contrast, already set up a website called joe biden .com to showcase his own recent tax returns because he had nothing to hide. unlike donald trump, you coulduo trusu t joe biden. m that was the message. now, whyy ar are we telling yout this tonight? why are we dredging up history when we re doing it? because two years later, the roles have reversed in a bewildering and pretty remarkable and kind ofwa hilarious way. so wey. now have donald trump s tax returns. house democrats grab them law and precedent and privacy be privacy and they release i them to the public becausead donald trump is orange and bad and has no protections under the bill of rights. so now that w
i also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in police custody there. what will come of the demonstrations? i will ask an expert. but first, here s my take. let s not play down what has happened this week. the leader of the world s largest nuclear power publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons. in an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all weapons systems available to us to defend the country. he emphasized it. this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat with add-ones of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use nuclear weapons. but he knows the west has nuclear weapons of its own and that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction has prevented any power from deploying them sinc
phase of this war on ukraine. just today, president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe. i talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. i also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in police custody there. what will come of the demonstrations? i will ask an expert. but first, here s my take. let s not play down what has happened this week. the leader of the world s largest nuclear power publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons. in an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all weapons systems available to us to defend the country. he emphasized it. this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat is an add-on of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use
than 300 classified documents were found at mar-a-lago since trump left office, and not all of them in that unsecured storage room. the doj says three classified documents were found in trump s desk drawer. and as one former top fbi official put it, the new information obliterates claims that trump and his lawyers have been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. the doj response raises the stakes for the courtroom tomorrow. a judge holds a hearing on whether to appoint the special master, neutral third party to oversee the handling of the seized documents. the justice department opposes it and says a special master is unnecessary, and would significantly harm important governmental interesting, including national security interests. in the filing, the justice department also released this photo of some of the evidence found in the august search. you see the documents here to spread out on the floor by the fbi with some of the highest classifica