these agencies and look at how they ve been weapon eyes to go against the people they are supposed to represent. we are going to do that. investigating the investigators. house republicans are getting ready to take a sledgehammer to yet another american institution, with the false narrative that the doj is unfairly targeting the right. also, republicans learned nothing from the election. the new house majority is actively working to take away what s left of women s reproductive rights. voting on two abortion related measures today. hard to believe it, but george santos lied about being a star volleyball player he lied about attending the college. kevin mccarthy decided today to reward congressman catch me if you can instead. we begin with a noteworthy example of how the fbi can go wrong. back in the 1960s, dr. martin luther king jr. criticized the fbi. for failing to enforce civil rights. particularly in the south. hoover denounced the critique by calling king the mos
d.a. s office was it s not going to be a crime because of this irrespective test. the money would have been paid irrespective of the campaign because trump s a famous guy, he wants to avoid embarrassment. with the tax fraud, that s a much bigger issue to overcome. we have michael beschloss here, what can we learn from history when it comes to approaching this scandal and donald trump? do you think that it s just another blip and he survives it, and he actually can use the negative attention to further victimhood status, and actually benefit from this? i don t think that s happening, and i think what joe said about whistling past the graveyard, this really is false bravado, what else would he say? i think that this is that here s a situation where he could be in
being communist and tried to blackmail a nobel prize-winning icon to end his life. yet, still, today s republicans are claiming victimhood status that isn t really for them to undercut legitimate probes of a former president who stole classified documents and incited a mob to overthrow the government. it s the aggressors playing the victim, otherwise known as gas lighting. join me now as we talk with nbc contributor, jason johnson and former republican congressman of florida. thank you for being here. there is a lot of whining and what i would consider co-opting of real history on the part of republicans. your thoughts? this is not new to me. if i were to count the number of white conservatives and republicans that quote martin
presidential harassment. why is that a challenging argument for this president to make? well, the president does not really cut very a figure that people can sort of look at and be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. this is a president who is disliked by more than half the country and he s more seen as a fighter, someone who fights back and not necessarily seen as a victim. so this idea that he s going to play the victim and be the victim of presidential harassment, it may play very well with his voters who think democrats are overreaching. but with the majority of the country that dislike the president, it s hard to see him in a victimhood status. toluse, thank you very much, we ll talk to you again in a little bit. alisyn. in just hours, michael cohen, the president s former lawyer and fixer willing back on capitol hill for yet another day of testimony. today s will be behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. and we re live in washington with a pr
there is still no evidence that bigotry itself increased at all during those years.ea yet, when people felt threatened by a teetering economy they knew claiming victimhood status would give them advantage. can you blame them? no you can t. of not really. they didn t write the rules of our society. they are following the rules like people like don lemon wrote but at great cost. pierce morgan editor-at-large of. pierce, as a guy who has been in the news business for a long time, you must be wondering why were the reporters followingpo this the most credulous of all? why didn t they smell a rat? perfect storm the victimhood culture where you so brilliantly articulated there meets trumpp derangement syndrome this disease which has afflicted to many particularly liberal celebrities. andit i think in jussie smollett had you greed as a motivation, but you also had he wanted to be a celebrity victim as you said.