4:00 in new york. happy friday. it is a very busy day of news here with the disgraced twice impeached ex-president subpoenaed today, and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. also in the news today, trump ally steve bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison behind bars for his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th select committee. a member of the committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren will join us in a few moments. we begin with an incredible brand new piece of reporting from the washington post that makes it crystal clear that donald trump keeping government records including classified document at his private residence and members club was nothing short of a serious national security crisis for the united states. the post is reporting this quote some of the classified documents recovered by the fbi from trump s mar-a-lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding iran and chi
Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
messes. Certainly didnt want to talk about migrant children. But the people she listed, so proud they want to revehicle the cl
and in his administration because he wanted to look tough. he didn t want to wear a mask. he wanted to be strong and try to win re-election. day after day our reporting shows in this book trump prioritized his own personal political fortunes over the health of the country. carol, to that point, there was what we saw publicly and then there was what was happening behind the scenes. there s an excerpt from the book that i want to go to. this is trump raging against alex azar around mid-march. alex, testing is killing me, trump bell owed. it s going to lose me the election. what idiot decided to have the federal government do testing? the whole testing idea was jared s, mr. president, azar said. jared didn t f this up, trump retorted. who f ed this up? square jared is fixing your problem. why is the cdc doing testing? the cdc had a responsibility to create a model for public health labs. it becomes clear, right, that he doesn t understand the role of
in. much of jared s ivanka got a nice little boost from counsellor to the president kellyanne conway telling fox viewers go buy her stuff. a big moneytizatiomoneytization. i need to remind you when the trump family did an interview on 60 minutes that nite ivanka s own employees sent out an e-mail telling us where we could get her bracelet. please, sarah sanders, gag me with a spoon on this. joining us john john harwood. before the inauguration, president trump said he would donate proceeds to the united states treasury. how closely is this tracking? well, i don t know how closely they re tracking it.
but we ve also heard that mueller is investigating the possibility of financing of jared s whether it s 666 or some of the other properties. are you hearing we heard earlier meetings with qatar, possibly dealings with saudi arabia. is mueller looking into that where jared wasn t sure if he was going to be in government or new york and it was that way for november and december of the transition. is he looking to see whether he was using these supposedly official meetings to finance 666 and some of the other properties? it s still unclear to us how much mueller is focused on the kushner search for cash. we know it s well known, he spanned the globe looking for financing for this albatross around his company s real estate