georgia last night and offered drastically different visions for the country. i will let you guess which event and happened in. a close biden ally and a chair of the governor association. i'm going to get his reaction all of it. on friday, donald trump hosted a $91 million bond. it sure seems like he defamed her again. i will ask if trumps tab could be going up. also today, state of the union was really something. she was back on the air this morning. shows his response to the response. later, he was a sender, a presidential nominee, secretary of state and climate envoy. prepares to step away from government to sit down for his exit interview. if it was not clear before and it was, the events of this week cemented it. joe biden and donald trump will be the major party nominees this november. let's get it out of the way and say that for a whole host of reasons, this will not be a regular election. for the first time in 70 years, americans will get a rematch of a presidential race. let's start there. for the first time in over 100 years, americans will have a president and former president on the ballot. for the first time in history, one of the candidates will be running under criminal indictment. we've seen both of these guys before. we know who they are. which means for the first time in a very, very long time, a residential race will not include a splashy outsider change candidate who is introducing himself to the public. yet, that seems to be exactly how donald trump wants to sell himself. the new york times reported this week and that according to trumps advisers and allies, he will seek to claim the change mantle. believe it or not, they are trying to position him, the guy who is president less than four years ago, as an outsider. as conway said of trump "he is not an incumbent, he is an insurgent. at this point, i have some real questions about calling donald trump and outsider. he is essentially become the republican party. setting that aside, can often be a winning message. it is how ronald reagan won in 1980, how will bill creighton clinton ran. barack obama. even how donald trump won back in 2016. it is a simple story to tell. change versus the same. as even one democratic strategist put it in the new york times, if the choice is would you rather be state the course or change, i would always change this world we are in. here is the problem with that shorthand political strategic. we need to be clear about what change would actually mean hundred donald trump. donald trump is not a normal candidate. we should not talk about him like he has. he is not running a normal message of change. donald trump and magna's vision of change is not forward- looking. it is completely regressive. joe biden made that point in his state of the union speech on thursday as well as a number of other speeches this weekend. he has been trying to lay out what the change would look like. a world that is friendly to autocracy and against the world of law. a world where reproductive rights are stripped from women and. i understand if you do not want to take joe biden's remarks as gospel but donald trump has no problem speaking for himself. when you compare the two side- by-side, the contrast is something to behold. >> i can tell you a lot about a person he keeps coming with. yesterday, hosting at his club viktor orban. who says he does not think democracy works. call him a fantastic leader. >> i had dinner last night with a great gentleman from hungary. prime minister of hungary. some people do not like him because he is very tough. >> celebrating for our country, our economy and community. >> i will stop this invasion. i will stop the killing, i will stop the bloodshed. i will and the agony of our people that wonder of our cities. the sacking of our towns. the violation of our citizens and the conquest of our country. they are conquering our country. >> we all know donald trump sees a different american. an american story of resentment, regret revenge, retribution. that is not me, that is not you. >> we have a very corrupt country. i fired a lot of bad people. we are going to get rid of the rest. i know who most of them are too. >> is donald trump for change? sure, sure he is! he is for change in your democracy into an autocratic state like viktor orban. demonizing migrants and normalizing the language of adolf hitler. using the power for retribution above all else. by definition, sure. that would be a whole lot of change. let's clear about the kind of change that donald trump is saying he wants to inflict in his second term. starting is off today is minnesota's democratic governor tim walz. i've been looking forward to talking to him and having them on for a while. he is the chair of the democratic governors association. thank you so much for taking the time. i want to start with my thesis. even democratic them will say and they have over the weekend, trump has an advantage because he is running at the change candidate. what i was curious from you, you are the governor of minnesota, you are very popular. you have talked to voters a lot. when you go out there and voters say i don't want more of the same, i want someone who is going to mix things up. what you say to them? >> good morning and thank you. i think your compare and contrast is exactly right. folks know this is a binary choice. you want someone who wakes up in the morning is competent and compassionate or do you want somebody that creates chaos? that short clip should terrify a lot of folks in i think the good news is the majority of folks in minnesota and across the country to believe that. look, we lived under donald trump's presidency. when he was telling us that it would be gone in a week. we saw joe biden come in and tackle these tough issues from the economy to covid. now, putting a positive vision, donald trump has been the minnesota law. he comes to these big rallies, gets everybody in red hat and does not deliver a thing. joe biden gets out here, get the billion dollars for the most important bridge and when is good minnesota where trade matters, things matter, jobs matter. we will get out there and tell the story. i think some of the me too media callings wake up and say a new joe biden. no it is not. it is the same that has been delivering for us. governors understand because we have to do it every single day. >> does not deliver a thing. someone out there is making t- shirts with your quote, governor. in minnesota, i think it is a point of pride. but in 2016, independent candidates picked up over 5% of the vote in the state. how concerned are you about the impacts? we are in the general election, we are fully ended up third- party candidates. >> we do have an independent. my predecessor was a professional wrestler and governor of minnesota. it is out there but look. i think people are hearing what you are hearing and i appreciate you framing this. this is not a normal election. quit treating it like a horse race, like the normal metrics that are out there. every time donald trump is on the ballot, democrats win. we saw win kentucky last year with a progressive message about job creation in that state. we've seen special elections go whether it's up in new york's third. look. i know that folks are going to be out there. at this point in time, we are a broad party. we do not all wear those same hats. we got a lot of different ideas. there is this tendency to look. joe biden is consolidating that. his message is clear and the results are obvious to folks. as we move closer to november, the binary choice between a trump chaos and slipping away of democracy versus a guy who gets it done. that was the state of the union. his new at is spectacular and tell the story. you're going to see more and more of that. >> do you worry that a third- party candidate could take a bunch of the vote from joe biden and help trump in your state? >> well, i think they should be worried, even in my state where we had folks expressing a deep desire in this satisfaction with gaza. at the end of the day, trump lost more votes than nikki haley and the president did on that. i do not know how you're going to consolidate on this message vision of america. that is not what is there. at the end of the day, when you go in there, it is not a protest vote this time. we do not have a luxury of saying i wish i had a perfect candidate. none of us are perfect. this is a binary choice that could not be clearer. those 30 party folks, look. nonsense about vaccine denial is not going to go anywhere. our home growing candidate has support by the president as he should've. i think that bodes well. >> you are also the chair of the democratic governors association. you have a full plate, i think it is fair to say. one of the alarming things that happened this week in north carolina? the democrats, i should say, have a great candidate in josh stein. the lieutenant governor mark robinson is the nominee on the republican side. he is more transparency than almost anyone. donald trump loves him. he went for to him as martin luther king on steroids, which is a bizarre thing to say. what i am curious about from your perspective is how do you use the extreme nature of mark robinson to help drive out more vote in north carolina to help put that in the win column for joe biden and for josh stein? >> i think that is right. governors are delivering. i think folks across the country know that if you've got a demographic governor, your reproductive rights are protected. trying to do something around gun violence. you saw in north carolina. vaulted north carolina to the top job creation state. expanded medicaid expansion in protecting women's rights. josh stein, the attorney general delivers that, making north carolina safe and prosperous for all. then you got mark robinson. i do not even know what to say. a holocaust denier, someone who mocks the survivors of school shootings. continues to go down this road. this is the party of donald trump now. this is the party of no vision. how is that rhetoric going to make anyone's life better? he says teachers are evil people. i'm going to take this personal. i am a public school teacher. i ask you to think about your fond memories of your fourth grade teacher and think about your children when they go to school and the care that they are shown to say that those are the evil people and his desire to destroy the public schools. that message is going to be strong. i will say it once again. in every election, i do not care with opposer on this. every election that donald trump has been on, we are going to be there. mark robinson, were to make sure people get to know mark robinson. to make sure that he's very clear. the contrast is this. a compassionate, visionary leader like josh stein following in the incredible leadership that roy cooper provided. folks in north carolina know life is better when you have a governor that actually cares and is not in all these weird, bizarre conspiracy theories. we are looking forward to it. we are going to do this across the country. from washington to new hampshire. we will show people that when democratic governors are in charge, family issues matter and compassion rules the day. >> governor tim walz, i think people are going to learn a lot more about the lieutenant lieutenant governor. it is a race to watch for sure. thank you for taking the time. we really appreciate you joining us. coming up, donald trump posted a $92 million bond in the defamation case and he might have defamed her again last night. after the break, i'm going to ask about all of it. we are just getting started today and we will be right back. back. you know that thing your family does? 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who is in a position to help him? what could they possibly gain from trump if he returns to the white house? joining me is our law firm, everybody's favorite. the former general counselor at the fbi. he is also the co-author of a brand-new best-selling book. the trump indictments, the historic documents with commentary. okay, andrew. i want to start with something you tweeted. you tweeted my guest trump made someone like elon musk cosigning so the bank is comfortable being on the hook for the judgment. the same could happen for the bond of 450 mullen million dollar judgment. can you explain to us what you mean, how that works? what you think is happening? >> sure. listening to your first segment, jen, about whether donald trump is going to be successful in running as an outsider, this is an example of his running as an outsider but as an outlaw. not stressing the criminal cases but you have these civil cases where he has judgments. up to $91 million. the 400 50 million in the new york fraud case. the concern in the civil cases with these civil judgments is who is the candidate to hold into? is he somebody who is going to be making policy and being differential to people who have put up money? there is a simple way of looking at this. he is 450 million reasons to be differential if somebody else is putting up the money or cosigning. for instance, elon musk, i am not saying he is the cosigner but he has said i have not given up money. that is not the only way that you can help donald trump get a bond. he can actually cosign it. that issue of who is actually behind this is something that people who are voting should know. >> it sounds very clear what andrew was talking about. i think it is important to understand why that matters. it sounds like trump is to someone. we do not don't know who it is. we may never know who it is. regardless of who it is, what dangers does that pose? especially since he could be president again? >> he is dangerous, jen. first of all, not every day that someone posts a $92 million bond. >> not even close to that. the bond he has to post this month. the point that if someone is guaranteeing that bond besides trump the way a parent might cosign a lease for their college kids apartment or something, that can make them and added to that person. it can give a whole new meaning to the term political, dark money. indeed, like when you have a national security position, as you know, you go through a background check and one of the key things they try to investigate is who are you beholden to financially? and right now, we have a presidential candidate who put up a $90 million bond. has to put up another $454 million bond. the public has absolutely no idea what arrangement led them to do that. maybe he has his own collateral. but i expect may go to bed as early as tomorrow. >> looking forward to that. who is behind it is the question. i want to play for both of you some of trump's speech last night which i hope you were not up late watching. i want to talk to you about it on the other side. >> i just posted a $91 million bond on a fake story. >> 91 million based on false accusations made about the by a woman that i knew nothing about, did not know, never heard of. i knew nothing about her. >> i want to start with you. did you hear that? did he cross the line? did he defame again? >> it sure sounds like it. many days that i wish i was, she has been so phenomenal as a lawyer but today is the day i wish i was because donald trump is basically writing the third lawsuit that she's going to file right now and it is absolutely within her rights to bring that lawsuit in and create. trump lost in front of a jury of his peers on this question of whether he had defamed. and now he is doing it again. i'm sure she is sitting there scribbling it all down. >> this is a sign you love your job. by the way, which is a good thing. let me go to you. first of all, do you agree that he cross the line and defamed her again? also, even if you cross the line by law, do you think should just keep suing him or -- how do you feel about that? for rule of law in the cycle of it? >> i think there's two issues on that which is is there enough for to sue again? i think the answer to that is yes. the issue of whether it is definition can make that decision. the clip you played and it's actually more of it where he refers to her as being crazy. he said this happened because he has the affliction of being rich meaning that this is a lawsuit that is a gold digger. those are all the kinds of things that would give a basis for a third lawsuit. there are already two juries that have found him. yes, she could bring this. she constitutes something that happened against rudy giuliani until he filed for bankruptcy. seeking an injunction because at some point, obviously, now that donald trump has found some sort of sugar daddy to pay off the bond in this case, he feels no compunction going out and making the statements. another remedy which is harder to get, is to get an injunction that would be a court saying you cannot do this anymore. at some point, you actually have to stop. this is continuing damage to. as a jury found, and it was argued successfully, this is a man who first sexually assaulted her. was found by a jury and then continued to defame. if you just remember who the victim is, at some point, it really has to stop. money is no longer a sufficient deterrent. >> i love her bold statement too. thank you, both as always. thank you for joining me today. up next, i got a few thoughts of my own. i have been saving them up and what it tells us about how bizarre things have gotten. later, i will get to talk with someone who knows a thing or two about the maca world. we are back after a quick break. break. even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. to 50 years with my best friend. 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from a trump plus one district into a trump +16 district. also, maggie is one of a drug. the only example of this allusion to be there. take katie britt. you know her now. she came up in politics as a stafford for richard shelby who is an old-school republican. she was seen as one of the parties rising stars. last year, did not give the official response to the state of the union but she did the response up on youtube. here is a taste of what sounded like. >> my senate republican colleagues and i are fighting every day for faith, family, and freedom. parents and families know best. the state of our union is strong when parents and families are strong. together, we can build and we must, a bright future for generations to come. >> okay. that was 2023. you may not agree with everything but it is not scary. i am guessing by now you have seen 2024. we are going to play it for you. >> mr. president, enough is enough. the free world deserves better and it does not have to be this way. we all feel it. we hear you and we stand with you. we are steeped in the blood of patriots. we are here because they stood back up. >> that was obviously super weird for a range of reasons. a little alarming at times. it was also incredibly misleading. during that speech, she shared a graphic story about a woman who told her about being sexually abused over and over by members of mexican drug are tells. she implied it happened in the united states and she told that story in an effort to criticize the biden administration's border policy. an independent reporter named jonathan did a little digging and what he discovered has gone viral on tiktok for a good reason. for one, he found the victim had shared her story many times, not just to katie britt privately. including the congress back in 2015. the horrific added, she talks about actually took place in mexico. it happened when george w. bush was president. all in all, a super weird speech with at least one very misleading part about immigration. sound familiar? it should. it is a page out of trump's playbook. some republican members of congress basically entered the political world looking and acting like this. they ran as a full throated mega fanatics without pretense. it did not evolve. for others, there has been a bit of an evolution. that tells us something important. even when you are elected as more of a mainstream, there is no incentive to stay that way because the mega movement is no longer the french. it is the republican party. in order to stay in office and rise to the ranks, you have no choice but to go full maca. what thinks about all the crazy things we witnessed in politics this week and there was a lot. joins me after a very quick break. break. with nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. what is cirkul? cirkul is the fuel you need to take flight. cirkul is the energy that gets you to the next level. cirkul is what you hope for when life tosses lemons your way. cirkul, available at walmart and drinkcirkul.com. a pivot out of nowhere into a violent story about trafficking. rest assured, every detail about it is real except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened. >> i think it is fair to say saturday night live had a lot to work with this week. the writers at the show are hard at work. so much material they may not know what to do with it. joining me is the contributor for the daily show. i am so excited to welcome him back to the show. i have been wondering what you thought bubble was going on in your head when you were watching that katie bit response. there is a lot to unpack but what did you make of it? >> it was definitely my least favorite tennessee williams play but i was glad to see it resurfacing again. frankly, performative outrage is a skill and something you saw her take her first swing at which is always an exciting time for a performer. as a failed actor myself, i know what it is like to be handed a shaky script and not have the skills to communicate with my audience. i felt a certain kinship with her sedative there. she gave it her best. she knew who she was playing to in an oddly sexual way more often than not. it felt like she was coming onto the moderate gop moms of america with stories of human trafficking but if that is the game plan, good luck. >> she did tell horrific stories, as you mentioned, involving a migrant and human trafficking. she strongly implied it happened in the united states on joe biden's watch. it actually happened in mexico when george w bush was president. let's listen to what she said on thursday night and how she tried to clean up this morning. >> we would not be okay with this happening in a third world country. this is the united states of america and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. president biden's border policies are a disgrace. >> did you mean to give the impression that this horrible story happened on president biden's watch? >> no, look. i very specifically said and this is what president biden did during his first 100 days. minutes after coming in office, he stopped all deportations. >> look. it is a horrible story but she clearly got herself into a bit of a pickle. did you feel watching that she cleared cleared things up for everyone? you have spent a lot of time with maga voters at rallies. >> i do not think a lot of people pay attention to the cleanup. it is one thing to go on fox news on sunday morning but a lot of the people i talked to at maga events have only seen the context clip they put online. yeah. i think she got the headlines she needed. she spoke with fear, outrage. she had the headlines. those got digested into the. the follow-up that happened this morning, i think it is compelling. i am happy to see the media pushing back on the narrative. yet again, that is not how people digest the narrative. they digest the initial tidbit and they move on. probably from her perspective, and many ways, mission accomplished. >> crazy to say. before super tuesday, you've entered a nikki haley rally in north carolina. i want to play a little piece of you talking to a haley voter about why she was still support donald trump in a general election just to give everyone a taste of what you witnessed there. >> why can't you be done with donald trump? >> come on, just the fact that you have all the criminal stuff. it is insane. >> it is insane. >> no one should support him for president. if it is him versus biden, you will support them for president? >> i think so. >> you were all of us in that moment. you talked to a lot of these voters. what is your biggest take away from all those conversations you had with these nikki haley voters? they are horrified by trump but a lot of them would still vote for him from the ones you talk to. >> we were really curious about that question of where this group of voters go. i think the big take away is the biden team needs to be worried about this. these folks did not need to be explained to about the dangers of donald trump. they articulated it better than the folks on the left that i talked to would articulate their fears and anxieties. also, joe biden is dead in the water in their minds. he needs to articulate a vision to get them back on that page. i expected there to be much more openness to the idea of accepting somebody outside of their original party but when we pressed, a lot of people said they would not vote. most people went back to knowing they do not want to support donald trump presidency but not being able to allow themselves to support the idea of joe biden as president. we walked away feeling like joe biden needs to start communicating to these voters or find a whole new option. the joe biden, in their mind, is one of which they will not support. >> hard to watch. okay. before i let you go, real fast. everybody wants to know how much jon stewart talks of katie burt is there going to be tomorrow night? what should we expect? >> i am always excited to go to the morning meetings where we get to digest the news of the day or the weekend. that is why i have the best job in the world. we all get to sit around the table and watch the chaos around us and make lots of lovely, insightful, thoughtful jokes and/or cries to the gods about the things that we saw. i definitely assume they will be a little bit talked on the daily show. >> i bet. lots to work with. i will be tuning in. thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate it. i love all the stuff you do. it is so interesting. i sit down with my former boss john kerry for his exit interview as he steps down as the u.s. special presidential envoy for climate. people talk about his career in public service and what concerns him most about the next few months. we are back after a quick break. break. from your first big move to retiring poolside - and the other goals along the way. wealth plan can help get you there. ♪ j.p. morgan wealth management. wanna know a secret? 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it was in addition with that conversation because everybody was a what happens if you know who comes back? >> we really thought about that hard because it was a key to being able to move people forward and come together around some kind of major step as we did in dubai. the real key was that the economy has already changed. globally. companies, the biggest companies in the world are moving to deal with the climate crisis. >> let me ask you about this information. you have talked about this quite a bit and about on climb. you have been the target of this information when you ran for president and your career, your military service was tarnished by the swift boat veterans. you have been very aggressive, i would say since then in writing back against this information. talk to me about what you have learned and why it is so important to fight back. >> if you lose the truth, that is the centerpiece of decision- making and the aspirations in the country. you have lost democracy. you have to have truth. we do not have the same arbiters, the same referees that we used to have in our political structure. first of all, politicians are not the best validators anymore in our country. >> because of distrust? >> because of distrust, it all seems to sound the same. people don't seem to see enough progress in different areas that they would like to see progress because there is gridlock after gridlock. budget after budget is not passed. people are looking at that and saying this is not working very well. mind you, i think you know this. in other countries, particularly countries that are not that friendly, this is being exploited. people are pointing to it and saying look at these guys. they are incapable. they are not the strong, big america that we knew in the past. obviously, we are the most powerful military in the place face of the planet with the largest economy in the world. there are doubts about whether or not we can get the job done and lead in a way that we used you. >> i did have to ask you about russia. do you think they are going to intervene? do you worry about that? >> we are already intervening in our election. that is happening now. others are we also engaged in that. it's going to be absolutely critical that you all in the media help the american people to be able to understand the disinformation and what is happened. it is really a level that is deeply deserving. >> one of the things that is difficult for people to evaluate themselves is foreign countries, as you know who have their own audiences. i want to ask you about putin. he keeps threatening that is going to use nuclear weapons. is that something people should be fearful of in this country? >> i think russia and president putin have a lower bar in their philosophy about nuclear weapons and or scenarios. i think one has to be not intimidated but truly alert to what the potential is to get into a situation that spirals out of control. i think putin and others are watching with great interest whether or not who will be the next president of the united states. people need to ask themselves very carefully who they feel has the experience and the temperament and the record of managing that kind of potential conflict in the way that president biden has. >> you have known joe biden for a long time. what you think people don't understand about them? >> i think there is a standard being applied to him which is some of the double standard. >> has a? >> if you look at the leading candidate for president on the republican side, there are a lot of things. i am uncomfortable getting into the politics of this but there are a whole series of actions over time that would really raise serious doubts about running for president. years ago, the candidacy would've ended with many of the kinds of things made public over these last years. i want to come back to one point. the republican party, traditionally, has been a party of strength and feeling important to stand up to american values in the world. our values are being fought for by other people in ukraine. if we do not stand up there, yes, it will happen somewhere else and we will be dragon. history tells us that. the whole history of the last entry tells us. i am so sad and angry about the fact that some young shoulders soldiers are fighting for those and don't have enough ammunition is not able to do what he needs to do today. every american should be incensed at the notion that we are contributing to the crisis and perhaps, the loss of life for that person who is willing to fight for our values and they are not getting support or aid from us. >> you have had a career rooted in these global values. have you ruled out ever serving in public service? >> no, if i continue to feel healthy and energized as i do, i look forward to it. i also look forward to having some time. you asked me what i'm going to do. i promised my grandson for christmas that he was going to go to the manchester city liverpool game coming up. >> are you going to take them? >> yes, indeed. >> that is pretty good. >> with his family. >> that is something to look forward to. thanks to my old boss john kerry for sitting down with me. cannot see what he's going to do next. looking forward to it. i have one more thing to share with you today and i will show you after one more quick break. with nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. bother the bugs. not your family. ahh! zevo is made with essential oils which attack bugs' biological systems. it wipes cleanly, plus is safe for use around people and pets. gotcha! zevo. people-friendly. bug-deadly. 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