hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump s second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we finally got our first real glimpse into her work. the work of fulton county district attorney fannie willis. portions of her report compiled by a special grand jury were released this morning. the report gives us a sense of the depth of her investigation. 75 witnesses, a mountain of documents and data. along with testimony from
Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. And we are live with you, everything you need to know heading into what will be a very important weekend. Lets get an update right away on the negotiations to get a deal done to raise the debt ceiling and end the shutdown. We go to nbc newss luke russert. He is live on capitol hill for us this evening. Good evening, luke. Reporter good evening, larry. A lot of optimism today when it started and came to the knowledge that there had been ongoing negotiations throughout the night between staffers for the House Republican leadership and the white house. But there is still no deal to report. Weve seen some different frameworks. First, the House Republican framework. They would have a thing with two tracts, an extension of the debt limit till november 22nd and a separate funding of the government. The extension of the debt limit would be done in exchange for large scale negotiations, figure out a way to address the large sca
Permanent one, but i know from the flimsy deal its only a few weeks maybe a couple of months at most before my washington vacation is over. And the political ugliness is once again front and center. However, the simple removal of washington from the equation coupled with the slew of Earnings Report contributed to strong Market Action today. Dow back slid two points, but the s p rallied. 67 , nasdaq climbed. 62 . You have to discount the dow, these days, by the way, because ibm, Goldman Sachs new dow entry and united health. Three big stocks all reported disappointing numbers. So much for that indexes representational powers. So tonight im going to talk about the triumphs and tragedies in the corporate world. Companies executing magnificently along with the companies that seem to have lost their way and desperately need a shakeup. Because the difference right now between whether a stock is going up or down may very well be whats happening in the corner office, not down the potomac. The
Donald trumps and his companys financial records, today revealed that his investigation into the president and into his company just might be much broader and more serious than previously known. It was a year ago that the manhattan d. A. , cy vance, subpoenaed eight years of tax returns and financial records from the president s accounting firm. Vances office had opened a criminal investigation into the role that the president and his business played in that hush money scheme payments that were made in the runup to the 2016 election. The hush money, if you remember, went to women who claimed they had had affairs with donald trump. Karen mcdougal and porn star, Stormy Daniels. The president tried to block the manhattan d. A. s subpoena, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Arguing that he, as president , had total and complete immunity from criminal investigation. But last month, the Supreme Court ruled against the president , saying that the president does not have immunit
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e