and the most important thing is, it doesn t have to be absolutely true, it has to be supportable. they have to prove that i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. you know, it s so fascinating about what he just did there. yeah, it s good stuff. good stuff. it is as if he read david french s column yesterday in the new york times talking about maga man. mm-hmm. and what it takes to be a maga man. he mentioned rudy giuliani as the prime example but listed mark meadows, kari lake, listed a number of other people who may have all done different things in the past, may have all had different backgrounds, different political ideologies, but the key was once they became infected by trump, there were two things you had to do. yeah. again, david french wrote this before rudy went on and lied again last night. he said, number one, you have to lie. the key is, if you re going to follow donald trump, if you re going to be a part of donald trump s team, you ve got to be
it s that time of year when yearbooks come out and everyone gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts and senior quotes. you get to look back and remember when certain classmates seem so nbt and others seem so awkward and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style. who could have known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington this week. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy posing with almost all of his living predecessors. there is newt gingrich, of course, who was speaker of the house from 1995 to 1999. there s nancy pelosi who was speaker 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to this year. there is john boehner speaker 20 # 1 to 2515. and then there s kevin mccarthy the current speaker of the house. if you re wondering about the years 19991 and 2007 that is when dennis has rt is speaker of house. and he s very much al
are no stranger to the disgraced, twice-impeached, four-times indicted ex president saying the quiet parts out loud. it is basically his calling card. often it meant speaking in code using dog whistles telling the proud boys for instance to stand back and stand by or saying there are good people on both sides after white supremacists marched through the sheets of charlottesville chanting, jews will not replace us. but now? now, donald trump has dispensed with the dog whistles. he is going for. . as a rule we don t air video of donald trump lightly on this show but we thought it was important that you hear this, that we all bear witness to what the ex-president and current leading republican candidate is saying here. we re like a rocket ship, who s like a rocket ship sent by kim jong-un, just like that. who is very nice, i will tell you. he is not so fond of this administration, but he s fond of me, and we had a very good relationship. vladimir putin of russia says that bi
janelle buoy. good job, buddy. thank you for joining us this hour. this morning new york congressman and serial fabulist george santos surrendered himself into custody. congressman santos is now out on bail, but he has been charged with 13he felonies, and if convicted he canphasy up to 20 years in prison. and that s just for the most serious felonies. which ones are the most serious felonies, you ask? congressman santos had had so many scandals it would be genuinely difficult to talk about here. it s not about mr. santos inventing his entire résumé or about inventing spiderman, turn off the dark. it s a weird lie, or not even he was a college volleyball player or that his mother was in the southt tower on 9/11 or steali money from a veteran s gofundme, though the fbi is looking into that one, too. today is about how santos made his money. santos reported a salary of $55,000. by 2022 santos reported a salary of $750,000 a year plus a million dollars in dividends. he d some
have actually had an abortion. thanks so much for coming on. thanks, chris. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight gens right now. good evening, alex. it s such an essential conversation you re having, chris. there s been a flood this evening with major developments related to the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation, and there s brand new reporting regarding financial payments made not to clarence but ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice already under fire. and we re going to get to all of that today. but first there is this. do you remember during the peak of the pandemic when people would bank pots and pans from their windows and cheer for essential workers every night at 7:00 p.m.? this is kind of like that but only for maga die hard. since august almost nightly trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at 9:00 p.m. the january 6th defendants inside the jail, they flicker their lights on and off, and that s