during that siege? were you worried about his safety? no, i heard he was well protected. i heard he was in very good shape. but the chants, that was terrible on the he could have well, the people were very angry. they re saying hang mike pence. it is common sense, john. it is common sense that you re supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? wow. former president trump defending the january 6th rioters who were hunting down then vice president pence. jonathan carl interviewed trump for his new book, which is chalk full of new reporting on the lengths the former president and his allies went, trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. among that new reporting is then white house chief of staff mark meadows, who played a key role in trying to convince pence he had the authority to stop the certification, sending an email to a top aide, for the former vice president, detailing
bill. it would be limited to repealing the obamacare is of individual and employer mandates and the medical device tax. the measure would go to conference to cut a deal with the house. after the procedural vote, majority leader mitch mcconnell pledged to keep working to get there and noted democrats doug two struggled with passing obamacare. we watched a similar process seven years ago. they had a lot of differences. we are going to sort this out with a so thoroughly open amendment process and a situation where 51 votes can change the bill. this democratic leader tried to convince moderate republicans to oppose this effort. don t be fooled by this ruse. a vote in favor of the motion to proceed will mean deep cuts to medicaid, it may be even deeper than in the house bill. it won t be an easy lift going forward, but leadership was able to get past the first hurdle and has an opportunity to keep working at it to keep a campaign promise going back
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washington. i m elizabeth prann. leland: i m trying to figure out a saturday that wasn t busy in recent memory. nice to be with you. i m leland vittert. it s the weekend, but president trump is getting ready for the election mode. we have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the campaign trail for some g.o.p. candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. hi, ellison. hey, leland, president trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. he s set to head to tampa on tuesday for a campaign rally there. traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but president trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. i am going to work very hard. i ll go six or seven days a week
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when a meeting of that nature, would it constitute a violation of the law? you have to look at what laws, rules, regulation statutes are violated here. when did you learn that the denial wasn t true? well, let me tell you two things on that. i was on the case a couple of weeks, and there was a lot of information gathering and as rudy giuliani said, i had bad information at that point. in a situation like this, you have over time, facts develop. that s what investigations do. let s start with nbc s white house correspondent, kelly o donnell who was covering the president in new jersey first. before we g to to to the rest o great panel this sunday. what are you hearing right now? the president is certainly going after the special counsel today, isn t he? reporter: well, good to be with you, richard, and the president is really hitting a number of his major frequent targets, the special c
we re used to seeing from the president. perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague ashley parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. he wasn t available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. look, it s important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. we know from our reporting that there s anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that he s worried about don jr., worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and there s a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. we don t know what that might be. but this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. all right. so there s the issue of the trump tower meeting which we know mueller has a good dea