once and possibly future president of the united states, it s a different ball game, alicia. that is the most compelling explanation to i ve heard. lisa reuben, as always, you are staying with me. can dilanian, thank you so much. next, the spin machine, it is in high gear. hypocrisy of the republicans who are rushing to the defense and the former president. and a reminder, in case you needed it, this is trump s second criminal indictment, but wait, there could be more. the other legal trouble facing donald trump. that is why lisa reuben is sticking around. but first richard louis who is sticking by with the other big stories we re watching this hour on msnbc. richard? thank, you lisa. but they tell you. the unabomber ted kaczynski as died. he was serving a life sentence in federal prison. he was arrested in 1996 and convicted in a series of attacks with homemade bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others. kaczynski was found dead in his cell this morning at the age of 81.
answers, don t you know it, and everything from the crisis at the southern border, to the economy, to those biden family influence-peddling accusations. the white house last week saying not so fast to the oversight requests submitted before the change of power. but it won t be able to hold them off much longer. just until the new majority can decide on speaker. the g.o.p. is primed to hold the biden administration accountable. you already have the white house coming out, playing political games, saying they are going to slow-walk everything. but what we have seen is really just a continuation of what they have done for the last two years. they are going to do everything they possibly can to stop any request from every committee that is an oversight committee, and they are going to do everything they can to turn the spin machine on to misdirect and show the american people that, oh, look over here, there is something going on, when the reality is they are nefarious things going on w
they ve done for the last two years. i can tell you as the ranking member for a subcommittee on homeland security it took nearly eight months to get responses and receipts that there was a homeless veterans program that redirected to the border. they did it quietly but didn t want to share any information. you can imagine going into the majority they will do everything they possibly can to stop any request from every committee that is an oversight committee. every single committee is an oversight body. they ll do everything they can to turn the spin machine on to misdirect and show the american people that oh, look over here, there is something going on when reality is there are some nefarious things going on within this administration. molly: do you think the white house can slow things down but ultimately answers will come forth? absolutely. the one thing the republican majority is focused on is
to the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy. and i do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against ukraine, a country and a people with whom you share such deep ties of family, history and culture. how do you think that resonates with russians and ukrainians? yeah, it s a really important message to try to reach around the kremlin and the kremlin s spin machine, because the way the kremlin talks about everything that comes from washington, it puts it in a bad light. it says that, europe, the united states and the european partners are the ones that are creating the tension and the ones that are wanting to fight, and they re the ones that are putting russia in a corner and squeezing russia. so to reach around that and speak to the russian people is definitely a way to try to unpick what the kremlin s doing. the difficulty of doing it here, though, president putin has
we do not seek the disdestabilize russia. to the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy and i do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against ukraine. so it was 11:30 at night in moscow when biden started speaking. i don t know if it was carried live. did russian state media air it? reporter: not so far, jake. and i think we can estimate fairly accurately, when they do, it will get president biden s message will get somewhat mangled through the spin machine that runs on state tv. president biden s message, if it lands with the people here, it is one that will perhaps resonate. certainly a lot of people here who don t want war, they don t want to go to war with the people of ukraine. but president putin has so constricted and essentially suffocated the independent media, getting president biden s message to land in the way that he made it is going to be