material seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s review. the other epresident of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. two distinctly different approaches to two completely different situations. but why is attorney general merrick garland moving so quickly to appoint a special counsel for the biden documents when it took forever to do the same for trump? also tonight, the quote of the day coming from george santos who said with a straight face, i have lived an honest life. and now, there s new reporting on the multiple investigations into his questionable finances. and did you hear? joe biden s coming for your gas stove. no, not really, but two weeks into the new year, it s a top republican priority to talk about it along with ending so-called wokeness and crt and counting fetuses in the hov lanes. we begin tonight just a little over two months since president
hearing takes new turns. the january 6 committee accusing donald trump of scamming his supporters out of $250 million. laying 0 out the case that trump solicited money from backers by using lies as a fundraising tool. adding that he sent up to 25 emails a day, soliciting donations for illegal funds that simply didn t exist. but is it potentially criminal and will attorney general merrick garland pursue or prosecute it as such? those are the key questions emerging from the hearings overall. and there seems to be a new rift emerging from the january 6 committee itself on the very subject. whether they will make a specific criminal referral to the justice department. as for witnesses, some of the most stark testimony is coming from trump s former attorney general william barr who offered a line-by-line debunking of some of trump s ongoing lies about fraud. and he calls trump detached from reality after the election. cnn is live with the new reporting, trump s supporters, kai
she s on the stand right now. she s actually being grilled by one of trump s lawyers, susan necheles. she s been a backseat player so far. it s apparent that today was her big day. stormy daniels is on cross after hours of testifying to some of the things donald trump and his allies, enablers have spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to hide and suppress. stormy daniels went through all of the painstaking details of her 2006 sexual encounter with donald trump down to the pattern that she remembers seeing in the trump s hotel room. many objections sustained. stormy daniels described reluctantly agreeing to have dinner with donald trump, thinking it could be good for her career. at one point during their time together, she said she asked herself, quote, how did i misread this so badly to get here? that s when it became intimate. sitting ten feet away from the ex-president, stormy daniels said that donald trump would call her sometimes, two to three times a week. from nbc n
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour
don t go anywhere. i will be back with rachel maddow and the whole gang for special coverage of trump on trial that starts right now. the ex-president of the united states. two american courtrooms. facing criminal trial in one. i will go in now and sit. and making a desperate case to avoid justice in the other. we will hear arguments this morning in trump versus the united states. tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. reporter: trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker, how is our girl? as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney who was willing to spread false claims of election fraud what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought presidents couldn t be prosecuted, what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have