life as well when he held on to documents contain something of the nation s most sensitive national security secrets and then stonewalled efforts by the government to retrieve those documents. we ll start with the trump organization going on trial. jury selection began in the case brought by the manhattan d.a. against the trump family business alleging a 15-year scheme in which top executives were compensated off the books in order to avoid paying taxes. as the new york times reports the trial marks a reversal of fortune for the ex-president s business. the business that was the basis for the image trump peddled to voters as a businessman and deal maker, even if that image was smoke and mirrors. from the reporting the dawn of donald trump s presidency his family business appeared poised for a windfall. it unveiled new hotel lines, held ribbon cuttings around the world and attracted major tournaments to his golf clubs enough for eric trump who ran the company while his fathe
Recent piece of evidence that invoked them was a text message from hannity to meadows that said the white house counsels will walk if the president doesn t cut it out. any sense of them being in the room may witness up witnesses like sean hannity if not in communication was cognizant of what they would do? i would have thought that they asked cipollone about the hannity text and curious why he had insight into the counsel potentially threatening to quit. we know in the days before the january 6 attack cipollone was part of a meeting that had in addition multiple very senior doj officials who met with the president who said that they would all quit if the president replaced the attorney general with jeffrey clarke who was another senior doj official on board with the president s project. that meeting itself has gotten a
A comfortable issue for republicans to be talking about. they know they re in a bad position here because of what the former president incited that day. so they re trying to misdirect people to other issues, but at the end of the day, the committee is doing the right thing by getting to the bottom of what actually happened that day and who was responsible and what this record should be for the american public. charlie dent, carrie cordero, always good to have you bot h here. thank you. the hannity text shows that just hours before the attack he was very worried. however, after the attack, hannity was blaming trbad actor for the attack. we know there are bad actors, those who will influence president trump, those who are part of the conservative
I appreciate it. joining me now cnn s senior political analyst ron brownstein and kirsten powers and former chief strategist to the romney presidential campaign stewart stevens. they always have perfect grammar. they do everything correctly. good evening to all of you. let s start with you. let s start with the hannity text and the committee wanting more information from him. so this is what he was saying behind the scenes not to his audience. what do you think of this? i think the problem we have is we fall back on pleasing about this under the thinking about this under the way our sort of political societal structure has existed before which isn t the right one. hannity is not a journalist. fox is not a news outlet. fox are propagandists. the history of how this works is clear. you can look at germany, hungary, venezuela. it is a pattern here and we have to just accept that the republican party is an
Was. and they seem to forget that. they re like a perverse groundhog who finds their conscience once a year, but then they see their shadow and they go back into hibernation. that s a disappointment. one striking revelation, not just from the hannity text, but all these texts, is just how many people knew not just of the threat of violence, but of a plan to straight up overturn the election, reject the electoral votes on no basis from several swing states and therefore hand the election to the loser, donald trump. is the kind of country any safer today, set aside the acts of political violence, but any safer today from the ability to overthrow an election? in a way i, don t think we are. if you can forget and deny in the days after a violent attack on our capitol, on our democracy, a year later, so many