beforehand, and it was essentially a diatribe against new york state attorney general letitia james accusing her of being biased against him and conducting a politically motivated witch hunt for political gain. he acknowledged he said in the past that if you re innocent, you have no reason to take the fifth amendment. he said recent events in his life have caused him to change his tune including the recent fbi raid search of his compound in mar-a-lago, florida. he said it just made no sense for him to cooperate in any way with this civil fraud investigation. what s interesting about it is his son, eric trump, we re told took the fifth amendment more than 500 times in a deposition in this very case back in 2020. but more recently, his daughter ivanka and other son don jr. we re told did testify and answer questions in this investigation which is about whether the trump organization committed fraud in its representations to banks and insurance companies. leticia james has alr
we re learning that person is matthew pottinger. and he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then-president trump s national security council. but he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. i i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. a reminder of what that tweet said, quote, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, unquote. when trump was out of sight from the public during the riot, of course, he had time to slam his on vp on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature anywhere across this country, let alone at the capitol. and for all the hours and hours and hours of vid
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
country where more than 95% of buildings don t have air conditioning. forecasters have now been forced to improvise as they deal with the kind of heat they never thought they d see. a number of people have been saying maps in the past never looked this dark, they haven t because we have never seen temperatures as high as this in the uk before. this color scale was designed to not show temperatures like this for the uk. even the maps are not prepared for this. lots to talk about. tim miller is a writer at large for the bull work and msnb political analyst. these temperatures are insane. frankly we are not built for them, we re not built for the impact if they keep getting worse. after years of you and your colleagues warning about climate change, what is your message now today? the message is that this is what we anticipated. it s exactly what we saw coming. and there hasn t been a more urgent plan to act than now. we have such a short window to curb off this dangerous t