are pending as well. last thursday lawyers working for trump personally and for the trump org. ronald fischetti said on friday prosecutors are going forward with the case against the company because weisselberg wasn t cooperating and saying what they wanted him to say with respect to whether trump had personal knowledge about his cfo az alleged use of cars, apartments and other compensation. and while the cases in new york are flashing red today, they do not represent the only legal dilemmas for the ex-president and his legal circle. a cornucopia awaits the ex-president, his familiar-and his friends. in washington, d.c., quote, recent filings made by the ag s office shows a probe is starting to home in on the actions of trump s longtime financial confidant and others. topping the list of witnesses d.c. investigators now want to interview is allen weisselberg who is, of course, also at the center of the new york city probe. and over in san francisco the fbi confirmed to the s
a very good day to all of you. from msnbc news headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. new polling from nbc news shows overwhelming majorities believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and there s a real threat to democracy. senator bernie sanders responding to the low marks democrats are receiving, saying the party needs to start taking a different, more aggressive approach. i think there s widespread understanding that what we ve done in the last mix months has failed. we need to change course, and find the courage to take on the republicans, and let manchin and sinema decide what side they re on. today, bennie thompson says the january 6th panel has already spoken with william barr. do you intend to go to the attorney general, bill barr, to follow up on this? yes, we do, we have had conversations with the former attorney general already. we ve talked to department of defense individuals. meantime, tensions between russia and ukraine ar
senior in the former president s orbit and there are even lawmakers among them who i believe have good reason to be quivering in their boots. tonight, justin stockton and jennifer lawrence will join me for their first interview together to talk about what they know about january 6th. then guess which congressman just out himself as one of the lawmakers texting mark meadows? this is as wrong as it gets. and i think deep down everyone knows it. plus, joe biden is pausing the push for build back better. there is nothing domestically more important than voting rights. single biggist issue. and dr. anthony fauci on whether america is ready for a massive wave of omicron cases. when all in starts right now. jim jordan of ohio, one of donald trump s top allies in the house, send a text message to mark meadows how the white house can attempt a coup. vice president mike pence as president of the senate should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitut
earlier this week, those texts were read into the record by members of the committee before they voted. i today, one of those anonymous lawmakers came forward himself. what jim jordan from ohio. of course one of donald trump s top allies in the house. sent a text to mark meadows the day before the insurrection about how the white house could attempted coup on january 6th. quote, on january six 2021, vice president mike pence, as president of the senate, should call on all of the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. in accordance with guidance from founding father alexander hamilton in judicial precedents. i think he means precedent. it goes on to include a lengthy citation from the federals paper like they do and text messages. now, nbc is reporting that that text was reportedly sent to jordan from a conservative lawyer and former adviser on donald trump s 2016 campaign and then jordan looked at the text and thought good idea. so
official proceedings to count electoral votes? and tonight, another committee member was asked to be criminal referral for trump was a possibility. we will go wherever we need to to get the information that we need in order to understand what happens in a run up to january six and what happened on january six feels that they are above the law. and that we never have this happen again. we will follow the facts to whomever where they lead. the man today, who actually did leave the 2020 election spent much of his afternoon in the state of kentucky. offering hope and comfort to victims of those devastating storms. more than 30 tornadoes hit kentucky in seven other states over the weekend, killing dozens of dozens of people. this afternoon, biden promised to send whatever is needed to those communities to rebuild. the government is going to cover 100% of the cost for the first 30 days for all the emergency work. from clearing everything to every costs, the federal governme