Falsifying business records, president trump told me yesterday that he has raised nearly $200 million in the last few days including $100 million reportedly from one donor if alone, sheldon adelson s widow, miriam. the good news is that i think we ve set a record beyond all records for fund raising. maria: and the president told me that specifically it was chose to $200 million immediately following the verdict, the donation web site for the trump campaign crashed with a record number of small donors looking to make a contribution to the campaign. the president s legal team confirmed it will appeal the ruling, and the campaign said within hours of the decision the money flooded in, raising a record $34.8 million in small donor donations, in just a few hours. 30 of that total from new 30% of that total from new donors. the case, of course, brought by
It s supposed to be random, maria, you know that. it s not. they re spoon feeding it to a guy whose daughter is making a lot of money off these cases. maria: yeah. we re going to speak with the former dni, john ratcliffe, in a moment. and he told me this weekend this was coordinated with the biden administration. he s going to go through some of the things that he believes happened in terms of meetings with white house counsel. is that what you re saying, that this comes from the white house and joe biden? oh, there s no question about a it, maria. i mean, the number three at the doj, a guy named michael coangelo, he left the doj go into the d.a. s office in new york city to prosecute everything donald trump. he got denoted from the if doj in washington, d.c., the number three, to go to new york to prosecute everything donald trump. where do you think that came from? of course, it s weaponization of the system. biden can t make it up a flight of stairs, he can t get through a sentenc
A few weeks later he quotes a scientific paper to prove that a scientists believe this came from if nature, but he didn t tell people that he committed commissioned and edited the paper. he was behind the origins of the paper. so there s so much dishonesty going on here and so much abuse of power. we ve got to get to the bottom of this and mainly because with this research still guess on. it goes on in the united states, and it needs to be regulated. i have a bill coming forward that i hope will be bipartisan that will have an independent agency that oversees all of this dangerous research. maria: well, i mean, why are they lying and why did they mislead you? is this about money? was dr. anthony fauci being paid by the vaccine makers to push the vaccine on all of us? if. we don t know. and his response to me was this: he said the law protects him and that he doesn t have to reveal loyalties. which is, i think, an affront to the american people. we think the law does not say
But for the past few years, scotland has had the highest rate of drugs related deaths in europe. to tackle the crisis, the scottish government is proposing decriminalising personal drug use. our scotland editor, james cook, has been to lisbon in portugal to find out whether a similar policy, introduced there in 2001, has been working. portugal has come a long way in a short time. half a century ago, this country was a closed dictatorship. nowadays, it s an open and vibrant democracy. this is the public face of portugal a thriving tourist destination in the sun. but i ve spent a few days here now, and if you look closely, there is another side to this country. as it opened up in the 70s, heroin flooded in, and users began to die. that prompted the left wing government to try something radical.
I m david willis. our top stories: one of the greatest footballers of all time, pele, has died in brazil at the age of 82. he won three world cups for brazil a unique feat and scored over 1,000 goals during his career. tributes from the world s top players, politicians and pundits have flooded in, describing pele as the magician, the inspiration and the greatest player of all time. we ll look at the legacy of the man who gave the world the beautiful game and did more than anyone to shape modern football. also ahead ukrainian officials say a fresh barrage of russian missile strikes has inflicted significant damage to the national power grid.