when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
three different codifications including an unspecified number labeled ts slash sci. documents are sensitive that they could only be viewed in secure locations. this part of the trump drama appears to have started in june, when trump was hit with a federal subpoena for classified documents. according to new reporting from the new york times, at this trump one trump lawyer signed a statement saying that all information marked as classified mar-a-lago had been returned. for people with knowledge of the document, msnbc news has not independently verified this report and trump has not responded to nbc s request for comment. this isn t trump s only legal whoa in the news. two days after the mar-a-lago search, he pleaded the fifth more than 440 times in a deposition with the office of attorney general tish james, leading a civil investigation into his business practices. joining me now, an all-star panel. congress dean of pennsylvania, a former house of. manager anna house chair
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
Either we live in a country where no man is above the law right. or we don t. that s the bottom line. that s something merrick garland has to figure out. yes, it is merrick garland who, he loves investigating. i don t know where he is. i don t know if he likes actually bringing top political figures to justice or not. we will find out. yeah. that will be his legacy, and that will determine what leaders do in the future, if they feel they can get away with anything, including trying to overthrow the united states government. so many people are it s cut and dry. serving time for what they did in the name of trump. that s what the january 6th committee is working very methodically to prove. that line between trump and the people who carried out the attack, and they re sewing together an incredible story, a reality show. because it was reality. it was trump s reality. and the film s director we re
Ready to do his will. the good, bad and ugly of people standing up and calmly telling the truth and for that facing the wrath of trump and untold thousands of frenzied supporters. that s what drove home to me where we are in the country, not just in washington. i think that one of the things that stood out to me in all of these proceedings is how seamless this process has been, how choreographed it s been and what a huge strategic error kevin mccarthy made by not seating any of his members, allowing republicans to basically sit this entire thing out. imagine how different all four of these hearings would have been if you had the jim jordans, the matt gaetzs, introducing new narratives, false conspiracy