worked for giuliani for two years. in a 70-page complaint filed in state court on monday, she said that after giuliani hired her in january 2019, he sexually assaulted and harassed her, refused to pay her wages and often made sexist, racist, and anti-semitic remarks. she has recordings of numerous interactions, laying out a litany of shocking incidents, involving sexual misconduct. we have decided to spare you some of those details. it also contains, though, this bomb shell allegation involving the disgraced ex-president himself, from her lawsuit, quote, giuliani also asked ms. dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million that he and president trump would split. he told her she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through quote, the normal channels of the office of pardon attorney. correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the freedom of information ac
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the days
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
headquarters in new york city. call it a perfect political storm. fresh off his headline-grabbing trip through iowa, governor ron desantis is back on his home turf, again throwing shade at donald trump. his pitch to voters just an hour ago, pick me if you want someone who won t spend all their time on cable news and social media. for me it s like okay, what s that true north? you obviously have to win or you don t get a ticket to the dance. once you do that, how are you going to be able to bring about big change to make people s lives better. president biden s surprising new southern state strategy. why his campaign is weighing a big money bid to win states like florida and north carolina. is he nervous his political firewall from 2020 won t hold? the surprising at the stougt earn border. crossings defying expectations for a third straight day, down to less than 5,000 on sunday, the lowest daily rate in two years. we ll go live to texas in just a minute. we start with