and subway choking victim jordan neely s family calling the indictment of daniel penny, quote, the right result for the wrong he committed. what nbc news has learned about the charge he ll be facing coming up. but we ll start with new reporting that former president donald trump had multiple opportunities to resolve the standoff over classified documents amicably but opted out every time. according to the washington post trump time and time again rejected the advice of lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and repeatedly refused to give documents back, even when some of his longest-serving advisers warned of peril and some flew to mar-a-lago to beg him to return them. other advisers told the post that the fact that the fbi and national archives wanted the documents so badly made trump even less inclined to give them back. now the former president s lifelong penchant for digging in and doubling down isn t just putting hmm at legal risk, it s drawing republicans
Msnbc here in los angeles. New reaction today from the January 6th Committee after it subpoenaed for President Donald Trump both through documents and testimony. The vice chair told nbc news today that they will not let trump make a spectacle out of it. We are going to proceed in terms of the questioning of the former president under oath. It might take multiple days and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves. We are not going to allow the former president hes not go to turn this into a circus. Earlier today how Speaker Nancy Pelosi had sharp words when asked if she thinks trump will cooperate with the committee. I dont think he is man enough to show up. I dont think his lawyers will want him to show up because he has to testify under oath. I dont think he will show up. I dont think hes man enough. We will see. We will see. First, Breaking News. A new nbc news poll just out today is giving us a look at where voters stand just 16 days until
msnbc here in los angeles. new reaction today from the january 6th committee after it subpoenaed for president donald trump both through documents and testimony. the vice chair told nbc news today that they will not let trump make a spectacle out of it. we are going to proceed in terms of the questioning of the former president under oath. it might take multiple days and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves. we are not going to allow the former president he s not go to turn this into a circus. earlier today how speaker nancy pelosi had sharp words when asked if she thinks trump will cooperate with the committee. i don t think he is man enough to show up. i don t think his lawyers will want him to show up because he has to testify under oath. i don t think he will show up. i don t think he s man enough. we will see. we will see. first, breaking news. a new nbc news poll just out today is giving us a look at where voter
to make central. so i want to show people two polls, eugene. one tracks president biden s approval rating. the other tracks people s opinions of whether the country is on the right track. and if you take a look, these polls have barely moved over the course of the year. what does the white house think that is? and are they considering obviously they think that talking to people s pocketbooks is a good idea. but is there a different strategy they re considering? at this point on the right track/wrong track question what you see in those polls is that people think those for different reasons. if the country s on the quote unquote wrong track, democrats may think that because of issues they care about aren t being pushed through. republicans think that because it s a democratic administration. so they don t feel that they can do a ton there. but on his overall approval rating they say that that is there are sometimes historic lows, all they can do is go around and say what joe bid
four or five really bad candidates in states they have to win. we are not seeing the big pop for republicans into this poll. this might be good news for house republicans today as a snapshot. i don t think it s good for senate republicans and mitch mcconnell. moving forward with that category, we have 71% of voters who say the country is heading in the wrong direction. compare that with 20% who say it s on the right track. what do you make of that? what s at stake if republicans win both houses in the midterms? i actually have a problem with the premise of the question. i have for a while. i don t like the right direction, wrong track question. it makes it hard to see what voters are actually concerned about and why they think the countries on the wrong track. if you look at that, you assume that they are saying that we wish we had republicans in power instead of the democrats. you have to consider how many of those people in that statistic are democrats who are who want biden to