one person who used to work for donald trump and one person who is willing to speak out against them. spoiler alert, they re not the same person. plus, speaking as a current republican front one or, we have brand-new reporting on two separate investigations into the twice impeached ex president. and will head to florida, they that currently looks every bit the picture of a trumpian dystopia thanks to trump s own closest competitor, governor ron desantis. then i ll call to order today s meeting as a velshi banned book club, featuring a very important book by a very brave offer who s been targeted for his work. not just by a book banners, but by the taliban. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday during the third, i m ali velshi. if you can believe, if the iowa caucuses which kick off the republican primary season are only about seven months away. the candidates lining up to be the 2024 republican presidential nominees have been filling up for the past couple of mont
13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
for women for years to come. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. some genuine all american heroes are taking us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. it s great to be with my family last week. but i love being back here with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here with us tonight. so, this is how the news today in nashville unfolded on live tv and that city. this was in nashville as it happened, live on the channel 4 local news. we do anticipate this news conference starting any moment. this will be the first official news conference where we can hear where police are at with their investigation. is joining us live with some perspective, some personal perspective on this as well. joy lynn? yeah, there s absolutely no word for what s going on today. i m actually a school shooting
i am in the west. i m mehdi hassan filling in for my good friend ali velshi. i want to start this morning with a little bit of a quiz for you. do you know where and when he went to college? do you know if you attended college? do you know where he worked? do you know if you are jewish or not? of course, you know all the answers to those questions. for republican congressman elect george santos, there have been tough questions, we really tough questions. over the past couple of weeks, he s been caught lying in spectacular and fantastical fashion about each and every one of those things and more. george santos did not attend or graduate from any institute of higher education. he did not previously work for citigroup or goldman sachs. he did not found an animal rights charity. he tweeted that, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. five months later he, tweeted a conflicting statement saying his mother died only five years ago in 2016. we don t know when exactly george santos s m
november the 5th, i m alex velshi, there are only three days left of 2020 midterms, said to be one of the most important consequential elections in modern history. not only is control of both chambers of congress up for grabs, but the integrity of future elections will be decided by a number of key races this year. that is because the majority of republicans running for congress in statewide office, 291 of them according to the washington post, about the question or flat out lied about the legitimacy of the results of the 2020 elections. and many of them are likely to win. those candidates are largely sycophants of the twice impeached insurrectionist ex president donald trump. who have either been diluted by his big lie about a stolen election that never happened, or simply repeat the big lie for their own political benefit. it is a dangerous lie, that is already led to an insurrection at the seat of our government, and i have this year s midterm elections, election officials