but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
who, are you i really want to know who, who, who, who? ainsley: wisconsin, they still have the christmas tree up with all the christmas lights. look at the star on the building there. steve: keep it up until the epiphany january 6th this year. brian: i thought epiphany sudden idea you weren t expecting. ainsley: like i just had epiphany. steve: that isn t capitalized this one little christmas capitalized january 6th. ainsley: since you are catholic do you keep your lights up until epiphany? steve: absolutely. ainsley: how about you? lawrence: after january they come down. steve: end of january? brian: everything came down last night. most credit belongs to dawn. lawrence: did you help? brian: of course. bag ever the tree does not work. whose idea was that put the bag underneath the tree? it didn t work, there is a stand there. so it s underneath the stand. so you got to undo the stand, because my guy did it. in the customersry and he hammers
but as always, the finer details reveal the true winners and losers of the gop s latest manufactured political crisis has a new york times writes, the president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed republicans to claim big spending cuts, even as the reality was far more modest. joining me now is one of those negotiators, shalanda young, director of the office of management and budget director. welcome back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. let s put on the screen some of the provisions of the law. i know we did that in the introduction. imposes new caps on federal spending for two years, restarts the federal student loan repayments, new work requirements for food stamps, cuts 1.8 billion dollars in irs funding, rescinds 30 billion dollars of unspent covid funds. now, the president the speaker both said they didn t get everything they wanted. what didn t the white house came? look, we always said, if you have a true budget discussion, if
tomorrow thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all about trump, but he is so much more. fake lead. so good. that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was positioning himself as a trump understudy. someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studied all
attorney general ken paxton. what is behind it and what it would take to officially remove him from office is next. also, deal or no deal. key negotiators say progress is being made, but with no deal on the table yet, and lawmakers leaving washington, what is being done right now to prevent a massive default in as littles as six days. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. that extraordinary move out of texas where just yesterday a republican led house investigative committee voted to bring articles of impeachment against attorney general ken paxton. and guad venegas is joining me. tell us about the allegations and what comes next. the investigative committee decided to move forward with the 20 articles impeachment and it will go to the full chamber of the house where 149 members will vote. if they decide to move forward, paxton will be suspended, he will have to wait for the process to then go to the is that the. governor abbott would have to appoint