good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. thanks for being with us. at the center of this investigation, alleged false filings about rush money payments by former trump legal adviser, michael cohen, to former adult film star stormy daniels in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. mr. trump railing against manhattan d.a. alvin bragg in a series of social media posts. after a saturday morning post, he wrote, without any notice, officially, that he would be arrested tomorrow, calling for supporters to protest and take our nation back. joining, nbc s garrett haake, senior national political correspondent, ashley parker, and the former chief of the fraud section in the department of justice, and the former chief
the party. but even more so than they did before. even more with trump railing on his budget platform. the question becomes, what s the message the eu think people need to hear? look, the united states, we have universal values, and i think that still binds democrats and republicans. but understanding and appreciation of democracy will bind us and we will continue pushing that there is a threat to. it will be tell, you a year ago i was saying we need to be highlighting how bad the republicans are right now, what a threat they are to democracy. i was told by the professional class, that s not what people need to hear. people don t want to talk about that right now, don t bring it up. i stuck with it because i still believe in universal values, and guess what? now it s coming around to. that so we should never right away from defending democracy. it s something that i think we will always be proud of, and i think in the end the voters in the country will reward us.
to the tune of millions of dollars. and there s a person running for attorney general whose threatened to arrest politicians if they certify the election of 2020. this is not normal. these are not normal republicans. the republican party has been taken over and they are a threat to democracy. these very radical fringe i would say republicans, and unfortunate to have power in the republican party. what do you think the most effective message on that is. obviously, the theory that biden had in the beginning was, show the government can work, to try to craft some bipartisan legislation which he has managed to get past, and to lower the temperature and to basically isolate the more fringe elements. in the intervening two years, those elements have been pizzazz to sized, and control the party. but even more so than they did before. even more with trump railing on his budget platform. the question becomes, what s the message the eu think people
unlike in past years, the event was largely closed off to the media. but desantis only opened the conference center doors to those who would give him positive coverage. and the next day, former president trump left mar-a-lago for tampa, for the conservative student organization turning point usa, holding a summit of its own, there trump spoke for nearly two hours, railing against the january 6th committee and any other groups looking to hold him accountable for his actions. with a politician, there has really never been, probably in a large scale in length of what s going on, it just never ends, but there s never been a president treated like this. there s never been a politician, and for the most part there has just about never been a person treated like this. well, trump ally and former white house strategist steve bannon has been convicted of contempt of congress, after a swift hearing that featured just two government witnesses, the jury reached unanimous verdict in less than t
including one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history and the revival of a 1920s law banning abortion have all tightened the governor s race in texas. the new york times reports the unrelenting challenges facing texans over the last two months are hurting governor greg abbott and making the race for governor perhaps the most competitive since democrats last held that office in the 1990s. polls have shown a tightening single digit contest between governor abbott and his democratic challenger, former congressman beto o rourke. according to the times, o rourke is raising more campaign cash than abbott, reporting more than $27 million in the last filing. that s compared to abbott s roughly $25 million. an arizona rally originally meant to promote candidates endorsed by former president trump divulged into a venting session on friday. trump railing against the january 6th committee and a campaign style event, calling the hearings, quote, a hoax, and implying the investigatio