it is america reports with the second hour and i m john roberts from washington happy we can partner you. gillian: that is a great reminder i was having so much fun with you. i m glad i could brighten your mood. gillian: thank you. it is great to be with you and everyone at home, am gillian turner in for sandra smith. that teacher of the year for new york state coming up including that spirit the critics say his obsession with social justice cost him his job. he ended up bouncing right back. john: brian kilmeade to weigh in all day on this. we will get to him plus karl rove fan shannon bream on deck as we began the breaking news in the battle to control congress. the midterms less then seven weeks away and republicans laying out. the president firing back at them. they control washington pure they control the house, the senate, the white house and the committee, the agencies and it is their plan, but they have no plan to fix all of the problems they created. so
we had some video of the interrogation room from the video august 15, 2020, just made public and shows the mother of two coping question while sitting next to her husband who had been supportive through it all. but vanished november 2nd, 2016 while out on the run. after a significant multistate search to find her, she showed up three weeks later with a chain around her waist, walking on a county road in northern california on thanksgiving with claims that two hispanic women had kidnapped her, kept her in a closet, starter amber handed her. after collecting victim compensation fund and running for years, the detectives discover the truth after tracking down james reyes, her ex-boyfriend in southern california. they tested dna evidence in his house and put through a polygraph test and laid out step-by-step that asked her to pick her up, brand her body and break her nose to make it look like she was kidnapped. listen.
with with us on the, catherine lucy and jonathan allen, veteran political journalist and our nbc news national political reporter. gang, welcome to you both. catherine, i can t wait. i have to show you this. this is a clip. what was the date on this? did we decide? november 2nd, 2016. this is your new acting white house chief of staff talking about donald trump. yes, i m supporting donald trump. i m doing so as enthusiastically as i can. in fact, i think he s a terrible human being, but the choice on the other side is just as bad. so catherine, how many people wanted this job that is now in the hands of a guy who called the boss a terrible human being? i think the thing that s been notable with this process all along is how many people have been trying to distance themselves from the job rather than run toward what is typically a big, highly sought after washington gig. we had a lot of people back channelling that they weren t interested and some people publicly withdrawing th
catherine, i can t wait. i have to show you this. this is a clip. what was the date on this? november 2nd, 2016. this is your new acting white house chief of staff talking about donald trump. yes, i m supporting donald trump. i m doing so as enthusiastically as i can. in fact, i think he s a terrible human being, but the choice on the other side is just as bad. how many people wanted this job that is now in the hands of a guy who called the boss a terrible human being? i think the thing that s been notable with this process all along is how many people have been trying to distance themselves from the job rather than run toward what is typically a big, highly sought after washington gig. we had a lot of people back channelling that they weren t interested and some people publicly withdrawing their names. most notably today the day started like looking like former new jersey governor chris christie was a leading contender. he declared on twitter that it
talks about key advisers and its leadership, and mercer s daughter pressed trump to bring on bannon to save his campaign. there is nothing illegal about using big data to win a campaign. that s common. congressional investigators say they do want to know if russia had local experts to guide its election meddling. one of the things seems curious with the russians on their own, at that level of sophisticated knowledge about american political system, if they didn t at least get some advice from someone in america. that s not all. cambridge s parent company, financial associations, with friedman and dmitry, linked to the putin regime, which leaves many questions for investigators. we had a few of our own. cambridge s parent company responded to the beat today saying they did sign a work agreement on november 2nd, 2016, with flynn. six days before the election. quote, no work was undertaken and no payment was made to