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January six committee that she tried to talk the president out of it multiple times and eventually, just talk talking to him. she did not even show for work on january six because she was so disgusted with the way that things were going. she had repeatedly tried to dissuade him from continuing down the path that he was on. he basically would say to people and meetings, hope does not believe in me. hope does not believe in the stuff. commissioner, similarly said the president genuinely thought that he won but if you are the the department of justice it s important to smoke out these people. you need to understand what their testimony is before you charge the former president for example, or others. i also think that jared is a very valuable witness with respect to other aspects of this investigation. not limited to the campaign finance angle that we understand from the washington post, might be a focus for jack smith. okay, lisa reuben as always, good to see you. i will see you again ....
Weeks including trump s son-in-law jared kushner on whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had lost. jared kushner was not the only one of trump s closest advisers, but as msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin reminded me, other than trump adviser jason miller, no one was more involved in the post election fund-raising efforts pushing the big lie that jared. that could also mean the campaign finance angle of the investigation is also very much alive. it s the latest sign of a potential third indictment for the twice- impeached, twice-indicted former president and the second coming from special counsel jack smith. while smith has already brought charges against trump for his mishandling of classified documents, as we see he has also been hard at work on this other investigation. from what we ve been able to learn it goes well beyond just the events of january 6th including everything in the ....
Him. neither group has said whether they plan to return the money the washington post reported. joining us is ari redburg, he s formerly served 11 years in nonpartisan roles at the department of justice and the treasury department under the bush, obama, and trump administrations. that is a track record. but i want to start with what we re talking about, the washington aspect of this. and whether or not you believe, based on what you heard yesterday, that sbf has committed that he s violated these campaign finance laws. yeah. what s really interesting first, thanks for having me. what s really interesting about this case, particularly the campaign finance angle is oftentimes someone will be indicted or charged and reputationally members want to return donations or contributions. here it s different. these contributions are part of a large can be as the u.s. ....
The president s net worth and cohen said trump won t release his tax return because he s afraid of an audit and possible penalties. candidate trump says he was under audit saying that is why he couldn t give up the documents. so here s the question in your mind, what are the main areas of exposure that the president now faces? so, brooke, there s so much to unpack from yesterday, but number one, it s the campaign finance angle. this is no longer a hypothetical, right? michael cohen is going to jail in two months in part because he committed campaign finance fraud. he directly implicated the president in that criminal behavior and what we heard yesterday was further evidence, not hypotheticals, but evidence in terms of testimony and documentation that the president personally directed him to do this and even signed one of the checks. that to me is the most imminent of the many threats that are now swirling around this president. i was reading this morning that there was essentially ....
Accurate. that report one of several stories about russia investigation. the washington post detailing the lengths to which president trump went to conceal his conversations with russia president vladimir putin and the wall street journal with an incredible story on how michael cohen tried to rig polls ahead of the election to put donald trump on top. joining us for this conversation, is michael rothfield a reporter who worked on that piece for t the wall street journal . your focus has been on the campaign finance angle of this for some time. what we ve seen in the buzzfeed reporting, in the journal s reporting. trump tower moscow becoming a real source of focus, yes for journalists, assuming it s the focus for robert mueller as well. speak to that if you could, the port of that part of donald trump s biography. the importance of it is that trump was trying to get something from russia, from vladimir putin during the campaign and so that would suggest he was you know trying, ....