Plus, testing democracy. What happened on january 6th was not the normal functioning of our democracy. A deep partisan divide reveal Congress Works to make sure the results of a president ial election cant be overturned. And the former president who still refuses to accept the 2020 Election Results speaks out about the classified documents seized from his florida home. If youre the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying its declassified, even by thinking about it. Ill speak with democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, part of the january 6th committee, and republican congresswoman nancy mace of South Carolina. Finally, midterm messaging. We believe in a future thats built on freedom. With seven weeks until election day, the two parties make their pitch to voters. Dont tell me you support Law Enforcement if you cant condemn what happened on january the 6th. Joining me for inside and analysis are nbc News White House correspondent mike memoli, pbs news
plus, testing democracy. what happened on january 6th was not the normal functioning of our democracy. a deep partisan divide reveal congress works to make sure the results of a presidential election can t be overturned. and the former president who still refuses to accept the 2020 election results speaks out about the classified documents seized from his florida home. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. i ll speak with democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, part of the january 6th committee, and republican congresswoman nancy mace of south carolina. finally, midterm messaging. we believe in a future that s built on freedom. with seven weeks until election day, the two parties make their pitch to voters. don t tell me you support law enforcement if you can t condemn what happened on january the 6th. joining me for inside and analysis are nbc news white house c
where they re spending money is on state and local races, something that big-money democrats have not done for a long time. the disadvantage on super-pacs, is that the ad costs are higher, and there s only limited ad space available. by law campaigns get preference other super-pacs for ad time. it s because of small donor dollars, for the reasons jen just outlined. you know, this his tieria we have seen in the press the last couple weeks is a democratic cry for the big donors to step up, but they re not at a disadvantage. i agree. how about that? all right. that s a great way to end this segment. when we come back, why immigrants crossing the border could be a solution to our inflation problem.
gop blocked a vote on a measure that would have required by law campaigns to inform the fbi of offers of foreign help. of course as you know the president has said publicly he might accept foreign help. i wonder, you ve covered russia for some time, does russia look at that as an invitation to interfere in this next election? to offer help to candidates that it wants to help? well, they have to. if you look at this from an intelligence perspective this is what we call classically covert action. that s what the head of russia said in helsinki and the implications for them are the president of the united states says this isn t really a big deal at least initially saying this didn t happen. so if you re in russia and an intelligence officer you re saying what s the cost and the benefit is huge. are you concerned the president would welcome such help? you know, that s a fascinating question. i initially thought until a couple of weeks ago that the issue here like everybody else thoug
takes. we re going to find her. it s an amazing story and of course it s all true but the ad is recycled and it s nearly identical to the one the romney campaign aired in 2007 except for this one small difference. i m mitt romney and i approved this message. restore our fufrp your is responsible for the content of this message. now of course by law campaigns and super pacs are not allowed to coordinate and in a statement to nbc restore our future treasurer charlie spy said, quote, we purchased the rights to the footage from its owner cold harbor films which did not entail interacting with the romney campaign 2008. now that s all factually correct. that s all following the letter of the law. of course the question is, is it following the spirit of the law? but let s talk more about the ad itself. we have questions that go beyond this issue of the blurring of the lines of super pacs and campaigns. one, why is the super pac running a positive ad? two, why isn t the campaign runnin