taylor budovich served in all incompassing role, how, he s ahead of the trump-aligned super pac maga inc. so what did jack smith s team want from him? he testified for about an hour, a source familiar told nbc news that among the questions he was asked was one about a past public statement on behalf of donald trump. that the former president did not retain classified documents, the source tells us jack smith s team wanted to know how he knew that. in other words, did someone tell him that, misleading him. and if so, who was that, or was he guessing. for his part, budowich tried to frame the questions react tifl publicly right after he appeared privately. we ll tell you what he said in a moment. the question we have now is that it? budowich with that decision. and hurt from mark. meadows and testimony from 24 secret service agents. joining me nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and in florida, nbc legal analyst lisa aruba. lisa, let s start in florida.
good morning. s it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m ryan nobles. after years of broken promises and legal battles, some of former president trump s tax returns are now public. a short time ago, the house ways and means committee release trump s tax returns from 2013 through 2020 and returns from some of his businesses. it comes more than six years after the former president made this pledge to release the returns. i ll release them when the audit is completed. i have had audits for 15 or 16 years. under audit, when it s complete, i ll release them. he never did release them. the committee obtained the returns in november after a long legal bat thal went all the way to the u.s. supreme court. the panel hoped to res lease the documents last week, but it delayed the disclosure so they could redact personal information. the former president responding to the release with a statement saying in part, the democrats should have never done it, the supreme court shoul
meeting there you see the entrance gates of balmoral. the queen 24 hours ago had to cancel her meeting, it was via zoom with her formal advisers after her doctors advised her to rest. all of this just two days after the queen met with the newest prime minister of the united kingdom, liz truss. there you see the photos. joining us live from buckingham palace is nbc s keir simmons, and katty kay, an msnbc contributor. keir, let me start with you. what do we know at this hour about the queen s condition? reporter: jose, the last update from buckingham palace was around an hour ago. it was that statement that people are concerned by because that statement itself saying doctors are concerned for her majesty s health. it is highly unusual for buckingham palace to make a statement like that. i have seen again and again questions to buckingham palace about the queen s health. beyond with, we never comment on that. with a statement like that, that has people worried, of course. th
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Moment. i thought vivek had a good moment, climate change is a hoax. you have nobel prize winners saying climate change is a hoax. we should have all the above policy. i like desantis, desantis said he fired some local attorneys, some local prosecutors, i thought that was good. everybody had some moments. but i don t think yet they made the sale that bidenomics has completely failed and that republicans can be better stewards of the economy and prosperity and growth and so forth. i don t think the sale was made last night 100%. and obviously i m no fan of joe biden, but i don t think they quite made the sale and that s troubling me. we are going to talk about it on our show tonight. sandra: i should have had a beener ready, like larry kudlow s review of the night in a nutshell. larry: politics like anything else, you have to make the sale.