good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and comment, the cold later rails against th government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david - the infamous leader who wa killed along with 75 of hi cold members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mccartney of 2023 in waco, next weekend, on the 30t anniversary of the waco siege. and, while of course, trump is not accused of the kind of her horrific crimes and delusion that correct was, he is him choosing waco to host maga rally right now is just a little too on the nose for me. but, will he even be there i waco next saturday he doesn t seem to think so. the former pre
embassies garrett hague, mar-a-lago in west palm beac florida. garrett, welcome to you. tell me all that you hearing about trump world about donald trump saying that he is goin to be arrested on tuesday. donald trump s allies hav been preparing for thi possibility for weeks, if no months if following this case closely and as you pointed out, they don t have any more specific information than do you or i i fact, the trump campaign spokesman indicated in his cleanup message to reporters there is nbc news reporting, that made them first aware tha this indictment, if it comes could come as soon as next wee but politically speaking talking only about the politic here, the trump team and his sort of wider constellation of allies have leaned into this moment, have leaned into thi possibility, to be able to cas the former president a standing up against what the see as a liberal, weaponized justice system you are seeing it from trump allies on twitter toda primarily, making th inv
Gates for his decision to free hundreds of millions of dollars of u. S. Money from the World Health Organization in the middle of this pandemic. A trump decision thats being widely condemned by other world leaders. Joining me now weekend today correspondent Kristen Welker, white house is correspondent pete baker and dr. Zeke emanuel from the university of pennsylvania. Kristen, first to you and the president in the road gardse ga backing down on his order to get everybody back to work, reopen the country as soon as may 1 or earlier, even though he didnt have the power to do that, but also this extraordinary decision to take the u. S. Money, freeze the u. S. Money from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic. In a sense, andrea, we saw the president backtrack on two fronts. To your first point about essentially ordering the governors to start to reopen their states by may 1, President Trump acknowledging not every state will be able to reopen by may 1. He even suggeste
You tweeting a comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. Id be careful, if i were you, mr. President. Now the president somehow saying he didnt he fired flynn because he knew flynn was lying to pence . Well, if he knew that then, why didnt he act on it earlier . What were beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. The president should have no comment whatsoever on either of these investigations. Its very clear that flynn was not the only person during the transition who was aware that they were going to be talking policy with russian officials. You dont lie unless you have something to hide, and obviously, Michael Flynn has admitted now that he lied. All right, a lot happening today. We begin with President Trumps latest twitter storm this morning, a series of tweets attacking the fbi and its former director, jim comey, writing i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn. Just more fake news covering another comey lie de
A moment. It was shocking that he said the word him and he so many times, and never said the word she or her. No mention of the women involved in this case. Peter alexander, thank you very much. It is 2 00 p. M. In washington where there does not seem to be a moral red line at the white house. The latest sx examp eest exampl porter. The white house says john kelly wasnt fully aware of the Domestic Abuse allegations until this week. Quote, fully aware . So when was he, quote, partially aware . The Washington Post reporting kelly knew last fall about the allegations. And that White House Counsel Don Mcgahn knew for a year. No action was taken. Did either one know about the restraining order or the Police Report . If they did, it looks like it didnt matter. If they didnt, why didnt they . Why didnt the chief of staff ask why his key man could not get a security clearance . What we now know is in a porter was given more responsibility, more power, a man who handled the countrys most sensit