captions by vitac www.vitac.com today on inside politics ease, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, eight words that set off a five-alarm political fire inside the biden white house and sent the president himself into a fury. plus nikki haley s yolo strategy. she s trolling donald trump like never before and seems to be having some fun doing it. this year s super bowl ads won t all be about drinking beer and buying cars. new england patriots owner robert kraft s foundation is spending $7 million on a commercial to fight anti-semitism. kraft joins me live from the super bowl site in las vegas. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. when the history books are written of the 2024 election, there will be a lot of ink spilled about february 8th. that s how my colleague terrance burly described yesterday, and he is so right. the supreme court seemed likely to side with donald trump in the first election-related case to come before
former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that raid. he also fundraised off of it and really, he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was for a deep state which hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement said exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order the documentary from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be cool declassify the open moment he met them. they idea that a paper pushing delegate delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification, is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all of these documents. whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ri
multiple crimes, neither dropped by the republican party. have the gop no shame? plus, the texas father who lost a son in the uvalde massacre kicked out of the state capital this week for demanding some action on gun reform. he will join me to share his story and his message. and elon musk, lisa styled free speech absolutist caves to an authoritarian government demand that he censor his tweets. actions speak louder than words, elon. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. on wednesday, the house was debating an unemployment benefit fraud bill, legislation to help incentivize states to recover funds stolen during the coronavirus pandemic. the stunning case of cosmic irony, that bill being debated on the same daisy that one of its co-sponsors found him self indicted for that very same crime. yes, that s right. justice finally caught up with now infamous serial liar and fabricator george santos. on wednesday, federal prosecutors in new york announced a 13 count indictment against the rep
come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. our borders are not open. the united states tells migrants to turn around. that after title 42 comes off the books. evidence border fults are stretched way beyond what they can handle. plus here s a debt ceiling personal tu test. the view, a cancelled big meeting pushes the country further towards default. they are more important than camera ready sit-downs. and a proposal from a gop candidate. to raise the voting age to 25 with service members and first responders. young americans should earn the right to vote. the math show it is may well be a blatant attempt to help republican odds. it s a new day at the border and one of uncertainty. both for the thousands of migrants trying to enter the united states and the personnel charged with trying to turn them away. title 42 ended and so did the power to quickly expel people who enter the united states illegally. the homeland secur