story. and, beg my theory about it. just a theory, just a theory. is that the source for the new york times authorizing this was donald trump. because the reporters of that story have direct access to donald trump. as they have in the past. and it sounds like donald trump just trying to say, i am in complete control of this. the white house, the former white house counsel did not go and testify there today on his own. without checking with me. i authorized it. that is just a theory. >> i'm in complete control! he is definitely still deferential to me. there is nothing to worry about, all this is fine. i don't smell anything burning. that's exactly what i thought as well. i mean, people who, one time delivered a newspaper to the white house while trump was president. and we're like executive privilege! i can't testify! but having the deputy white house counsel testify? the fact that this is something that doesn't bother trump at all in terms of privilege claims, i would get money that you're surmising at. >> and when you're talking to congresswoman about it, i would watch this carefully. she did what she was supposed to do. she didn't turn away any cards at all. but it certainly had the air of, that had nothing to do with anything happen today. i mean, if you didn't get the feeling that there was the slightest mention of that in the committee today. >> yeah, she was like, you know? it's breaking news. and so, we'll have to wait and see. wouldn't want this -- she was very diplomatic about it. but. i mean, there is a lot that's going on right now that's creating a burning smell around the former president. including, which seems to be rudy giuliani moving towards the end of his criminal investigation. his actions in ukraine. the white house counsel testified today, his daughter and southern law testifying recently about the civil case against him. the new york attorney general. all of this is cooking at the same time. i'm sure it's a little top in here anyways. but if he wants any control, i can relate. >> we'll get that with -- and claire mccaskill. >> thanks for that. >> thank you rachel! we also have a new indication tonight that merit garland has authorized the justice department to investigate donald trump in the trump white house. this comes in a letter to the justice department refusing a request from the committee to provide 50 box records of white house records that donald trump took illegally to florida after he moved out of the white house. and a letter by the washington post, acting assistant attorney general, wrote, quote, the department previously asked national archives and records of administration not to share, or otherwise disclosed to others information relating to this matter in order to protect the integrity of our on growing work. the justice department policy is to it not acknowledge criminal investigations. sometimes we discover that criminal investigations are underway when people testified granaries. there are several ways that they can leak out and become public information that the justice department is underway. and this letter to congress, this letter is one of those ways that a letter to cog ledge by -- refusing to turn over information, to quote, protect the integrity of our ongoing work. that is the strangle strongest indications yet that donald trump is, tonight, the subject of an federal investigation. neal katyal will join us in a while with his interpretation of the news making letter from the justice department. there is another ongoing investigation of someone who worked in the trump white house, and this one is about exactly, and i mean exactly the kind of voter fraud donald trump kept warning against during the 2020 presidential campaign. north carolina is investigating donald trump's last white house chief of staff mark meadows were fraudulently voting in the 2020 election from a fake address in north carolina. the board of elections confirmed to nbc news that meadows was removed from the voter rolls citing quote, documentation indicated he had lived in virginia and last voted in the 2021 election there. like all cases of voter fraud, mark meadows illegal voting had no effect on the outcome of the election. donald trump won north carolina by 74,083 votes. if mark meadows and his wife are found to have both fraudulently voted from an address where they have never lived, then donald trump's real winning margin in north carolina would go all the way down to 74,481 votes. donald trump has not yet condemned mark meadows for appearing to commit voter fraud in north carolina. but at least donald trump didn't say it was genius. donald trump deserves that kind of praise for vladimir putin's murderous rampage in ukraine. rudolph giuliani, as rachel just said, maybe offering some cooperation to the prosecutors who are investigating his activities and ukraine. giuliani is by far the most disgraced former u. s. attorney from the district of new york. it is that same office that is investigating giuliani after conducting raids last year to obtain giuliani's records, and electronic devices at his home and office in new york city. cnn is reporting that giuliani recently helped federal investigators unlocked several electronic devices that were seized in the rays a year ago. two other lawyers who worked with donald trump met with the january 6th committee today. pat cipollone and his deputy patrick filament. they met with the committee. they did not testify under oath. and here is the interesting tidbit, the new york times is reporting tonight, trump authorized them to engage with the panel, according to a person familiar with the matter. a person who might be donald trump. one of the people on trial in washington this week for his part in the insurrection at the capitol is asking the jury to find him not guilty because donald trump made him do it. 38-year-old dustin thompson drove with a friend from columbus ohio, took an uber into washington d. c. on the morning of january 6th, and before long he was in the parliamentarians office where he decided to steal a co-track. he is charged with six counts of obstructing congress joint session to certify the electoral college vote. theft of government property. entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. disorderly or disruptive conduct and a capitol building. and parading demonstrating or picketing in a capital building. thompson's defense attorney is arguing in court that donald trump quote, authorized this assault. it was a plot, it was a scheme, it was a conspiracy that began at the highest levels of government. donald trump encouraged people like dustin thompson to storm the capital. >> when you have the president of the united states grooming you to believe that the election was stolen, or democracy is at stake, fight like hell, we are never going to concede, it is either you get down to the capitol and i will be right there with you, or else an illegitimate president is going to take office. it is not hard, at least from my perspective, to understand how vulnerable, unsophisticated, politically speaking, people who have been fed this diet of bs would behave in accordance with their presidents wishes. >> that was his lawyer with chris hayes earlier tonight. he testified in his own defense today saying quote, i thought the election was rigged to put biden in office. thompson now says that he realizes he was misled. thompson told the jury, quote, if the president is giving you almost an order to do something, i felt obligated to do that. like, i had to do something to gain his respect, or like, approval. dustin thompson told the jury that he believed he quote, was following presidential orders to go to the capitol, that he is now, quote, deeply ashamed. that was the phrase he used. deeply ashamed. donald trump is not deeply ashamed for telling dustin thompson to go to the capitol, and telling dustin thompson and the rest of them to lie that he donald trump would go with that crowd to the capitol. rudy giuliani looks like someone from a planet where shame does not exist. and mark meadows is not deeply ashamed. for voting in a state where he did not live. using address where he has never lived. dustin thompson's shame is well earned, and his lawyer is trying to convince the jury that shame should be the only penalty that he has to endure. for an attack on democracy. but would he feel any shame at all if he didn't get caught? leading off our discussion tonight is neal katyal, who served as -- the department of justice. he is an msnbc legal contributor. and neil, let's work backwards through this series of stories. first of all, the defense, donald trump made me do it, for a january 6th capitol insurrectionist who among other things was in the senate parliamentarian's office and stole a co-track. >> i think first it is important to take a step back and look at all of the individuals we mentioned. because the contrast really underscores something it goes to show you that lofty government positions do not make it better at seeing reality, and seeing the truth. dustin thompson is just an ordinary guy. he sees what's so many of us see. donald trump prevented would happen on january six. trump used -- for his own selfish, evil, and anti-democratic and. then you look at the fancy guys, the mar-a-lago crowd, the giuliani, as the meadows, all of these people you mentioned, none of them can see it. none of them can see the truth. so i think that it is not often that you hear defense lawyers opening statements reveal the truth of the thing. but here, this is what happened in court. the lawyer for dustin thompson said it was basically all trump doing. trump authorized, and fermented the january 6th assault. >> what is your reading of the former white house counsel meeting with the january 6th committee today, not under oath, and this odd leak of sorts in the new york times tonight from one source saying that donald trump authorized them to meet with the committee? >> yeah. so it isn't surprising as a congressional committee has called them. they are obviously critical witnesses. and the new york times story says that trump authorized the quote, engagement of these two attorneys. i don't know what that means with respect to engage in congress. i doubt it means that they are fully cooperating, because the trump administration's modus operandi has never been to cooperate. while executive privilege has been thoroughly destroyed, as an argument for trump including by supreme court decision that was 8 to 1. i am sure these people will come up with other privileges they will make up attorney client privilege, or this or that, or the other thing if they want to. and if that is what trump orders them to do. it is a little weird because the white house counsel is someone who actually maybe trying to break with trump a little bit. there are some signs of that. there is also some weird text from sean hannity, that congress has saying she pony threatened to resign. it might show that cipollone did threaten to resign. it -- that sean hannity has ever tried to investigate the real story. >> thank you very much for starting us off tonight. >> thank you. >> joining us now, former democratic senator from missouri who served as campaign manager and white house senior adviser of president barack obama. both are msnbc political analysts. clare, there is that moment in a january six trial where the defense council and the defendant are saying i did it, he did it, because of donald trump. and that may not get him off the hook for stealing a coat rack, but there could be some jury sympathies for why he was in that building, and my sympathies, i mean acknowledging that there is something to his argument that donald trump urged him to do it. >> yeah. i think it is a sound defense strategy, assuming that there will be people on the jury that have common sense and can see that it is in front of their face, and realize that donald trump did in fact encourage people to do this, and did egg them on, and did work with others to create this mob of insurrectionists on january 6th. on the other hand, it is a little awkward because the prosecutor is now tasked with convincing the jury that this man is criminally responsible for his own actions regardless of what trump did or didn't do. so there will be some things said by the prosecutors in this trial that will really please the lyre that hangs out at mar-a-lago. but lawrence, i have to jump in here, this mark meadows thing, i mean crystal mason it's a black woman who went to prison for five years because she voted a provisional ballot not realizing she couldn't, while she was on parole. and we have the chief of staff, and the president of the united states fraudulent lee registering in a double wide trailer in north carolina, and no one has arrested him yet. that is why people are so frustrated at the current state of affairs in terms of who really is subjected to the rule of law in this country. >> david, what about that? that is the kind of story, as clear points out, that is a very clear story. that story, the mark meadows story, has easy resonance. it goes directly to this republican charade about massive voter fraud that affects the outcomes of elections. and it is exactly what donald trump was saying that democrats were going to be doing all over the country. >> well first of all, i wouldn't be surprised if mark meadows bragged to trump that he did it, and trump probably gave him an attaboy. a second thing, the clearest point, it is a felony. let's see if we have equal justice here. but what is scary to me having worked in the white house is this is the white house chief of staff. so on the one hand, it is a felony. on the other hand, it is indescribably stupid. and it just reminds us that this person, this is one of the most important jobs in the world as the white house chief of staff, that this guy looking at all of the intelligence, helping make decisions, helping chart the course, is just a reminder of what we have dodged when trump lost his second term. it is frightening. i can't imagine a white house chief of staff, imagining anything like this, doing anything like this, but i think what is important now is how is he held to account? there is another report today that some trump supporters down in the villages in florida, or voting multiple times. so to your mention at the beginning of the show, these individual things did not affect the outcome. but so far, the only voter fraud i saw that happened in 2020 was trump supporters, including the guy who spent the most time with trump in the oval office, then anybody in his administration. >> that sounds like the message on voter fraud, that what david just identified right there, that it seems democrats would want to be able to make that point. >> yeah. frankly, i think one of the problems that democrats have, lawrence, is that there are so many points to make. look at the boxes of records that were illegally removed from the white house, they contained top secret files. now, pick out of context with hillary clinton's emails. it is so unbelievable to me, we have so many scandals, it is like we are numb with scandals. and we just don't know where to look. it is like the whack-a-mole of scandals. and one pops up almost every day. i agree with david. this is the most stupid, to have a chief of staff that thinks you can register in a double wide trailer that you have never stepped foot in. this is beyond dumb. and it is clear that they just thought they could get away with it and that the rules don't apply to them. >> the honda marty words for this segment. thank you both very much for joining our discussion tonight. thank you. coming up, one republican member from the house of representatives voted against his own bill, and he was asked later why he did that. his 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how many of them were choosing not to say that thing about jews? because they were not quite sure of the person they were talking to might be jewish. she points to a 1964 new york times poll that showed quote, 54% of white new yorkers said the civil rights movement was going too fast. the real problem in the 1960s was that not enough people felt any shame at all. alabama's governor felt absolutely no shame when he tried to block vivian malone and james hood from registering as the first black students in the history of the university of alabama. now, representative marjorie taylor greene who feels no shame about anything complains that democrats quote, tried to shame her. for supporting the january 6th insurrection. a new york times editorial board need not worry about marjorie taylor greene's burden of shame, since she is so obviously incapable of feeling any shame for anything at any time. joining us now is my pleasure to introduce the associate professor at the university of north carolina chapel hill. and the newest opinion columnist for the new york times. thank you very much for joining us tonight with this discussion of your debut column, which i was just delighted by word for word going through it. one very important distinction that you make early in the piece, which i would love you to discuss now, is this distinction you make between shame and stigma, and how sometimes people who think they are talking about shame or actually talking about stigma, and there are other people who don't even recognize the existence, or function of stigma. >> absolutely. thank you so much lawrence, not only for reading it, but for really pulling out the pieces that really mattered the most to me. when i was thinking about where we are in the public discourse, and what i think is missing, i give people the benefit of the doubt. i really honestly try to do so at least with readers not always with politicians. i think we are missing the language to talk about what we are really wanting to talk about. so this issue of shame, being conflicted with stigma, was one of the things that mattered most to me. there are two good reasons for that. one is that when we talk about being shamed, or a feeling ashamed and the way we talk about it these days is too easy to weaponize the idea. it covers every negative feeling that people have. it also obscures the fact that sometimes, shame makes you do the right thing. and in public life, our primary concern has to be doing the right thing, not necessarily how doing the right thing will always make you feel. stigma now, on the other hand, stigma is what i think a lot of wellmeaning people are trying to describe. stigma is something that people do to you that says there is something about you that is inferior, or unworthy of participating in public life. what is interesting to me is the way shame has become a political wedge to say that anything that makes you feel ashamed, and upsets too because you feel ashamed, has stigmatized you. one of the ways we are doing that is by doubling down on the stigmatization of other people. trans kids, women, people of color, immigrants, who are actually stigmatized. their lives are impacted because other people see them as inferior. that is not the same thing as shame. arguably, stigma is the public problem we should be concerned with. >> you approach this as a sociologist, and as a brilliant, and entertaining writer. you really opened my eyes to perspectives on this that i did not have. but this point in the poll, and in the times poll that there are so concerned about that 55% of people are holding their tongues, i have to tell you in my personal experience, that is a great thing. i grew up in boston where the language was extremely racist, and over 90% of the people, i watched them over time gradually hold their tongues more and more and more. and in the holding of the tongue, they actually learned things. and improved slightly, at least marginally, their view. that would not have happened if they were not shamed into holding their tongues. >> imagine that? learning something because we are listening instead of speaking. i know, right? i saw that finding and thought, first of all i think 55% is too low! i would have thought the number would have been higher. i would think that more people are thinking about how they would be perceived by others before they speak. the reason why that feels so oppressive to some people, and why it angers so many people, let's put a finer point on it, it particularly angers white men, right? there is a reason why they are angry about having to hold their tongues. that is because for a very long time, just by virtue of who they are in this country, other people have had to hold their tongues around them. so spreading around the burden of being more thoughtful about what you say about other people's fundamentally a good thing. it is not that more people feel like they have to hold their tongue, it is that there are more people having to hold their tongue who used to not have to hold it. that is called social progress. that is called democracy. democracy isn't just all of us being treated equally and having equal opportunity, democracy is about us sharing the burden of the responsibility for other peoples participation in public life. that is actually a good thing sociologically, and i would argue democratically. >> professor tressie mcmillan cottom, thank you very much for joining us. and your stellar debut with the first new york times official column, what has shame got to do with it. please everyone read it, you will learn. thank you very much professor, and please come back. >> thank you so much for having me, i will take you up on that. >> thank you. coming up, ukrainian president zelenskyy has been asking for more weapons to fight back against vladimir putin's invasion today. president biden answered that request with none other than 100 million dollar commitments in equipment, and reports indicate that the flagship of the russian fleet attacking ukraine has been abandoned by the crew. that is next. my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®. mom's a1c is down with rybelsus®. 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>> yeah, really worried. and i think about every day, actually. and they're scared of that because, i know what it was like in 2014 with donetsk and all the other, like russian controlled area of my region. and i'm really scared of it because i don't want to lose my hometown and my ability to live in there and that stuff. >> and lawrence, she's just 19 years old. she's a journalist, she doesn't want to leave this country. she wants to document what's been going on in her country. and it's people like her that make you think, you know, no matter how much pressure the ukrainian people are under, they just make it through this brutal war. because it's that fortitude that you see amongst teenagers the makes you think, these are some really, really tough people in this country. >> yes. so impressive. ali arouzi, thank you very much for that important reporting. really appreciate it. >> thank you. and joining us now is retired army major general john spencer chair of urban warfare studies with the madison policy forum. his upcoming book is, connected soldiers, life, leadership, and social connections in modern war. what is your reaction to this reports tonight about this flagship of the russian fleet. ukrainian thing, they attacked it, they hid it. russian saying that there was, there are reports used to claim that there was a fire on board, not saying with the origin of the fire is. but both sides seem to be agreeing that that ship is out of this war. >> yeah, i think it's huge lawrence. i mean it would be the biggest loss of the russians since they lost the war for kyiv. and there's one thing that i find interesting, the russians have lied more than they told the truth. and it's a really funny thing that i like that the russians are lying, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but they still they lie. so i actually think that the ukrainians did take this down with a neptune missile. and possibly at great loss of life. not evacuated crew members. >> and what does it mean in terms of ukraine's ability to operate in that region? >> yeah, it's just significantly increase -- you think the ships that are in the harbor, they're in the harbor basin as they can be seen from odessa. that they're going to stay back. not only do facilities provide naval can support to the troops within the coastal area and further in. it'll greatly help, it's a huge win and it'll push the shifts back further and hopefully they can take more down. >> and pentagon spokesperson john kirby said that this new shipment of, this new 100 million that president biden spoke with presidency about today, is tailored, it's designed to be effective in eastern ukraine. >> yeah, absolutely. this is huge. i'm very happy to see some of the things that are on that list, likely how it sir, the 40,000 rounds of artillery, the fight in the east of ukraine, this knee where that he is trying, putin is trying to start for eastern ukraine. involves a lot more open space. a lot of maneuvering forces, you show the picture the convoy. ukraine thing the ability to reach further out. the howitzers shoots up to 18 kilometers with severe lethality. all those systems, the switchblade, i'm a personal, i'm an old in for sure man so the claim or, protective anti tank personal minds are huge. this is a big deal. it seems like we're really backing, we really want them to win. i think president biden's words for a straight, this is genocide, we've already seen documented war crimes. crimes against humanity and to be frank, genocide. >> john spencer, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tonight's last word is next. word is next. inner voice (design studio owner): i'm over here waiting... ... looking intensely for a print that i never actually printed... ... so i don't have to deal with that terrifying pile of invoices. intuit quickbooks helps you easily send your first invoice in 3 steps. simple. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for whatchya... line? 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