months of work in congress to deliver a desperately needed $900 billion coronavirus relief bill, calling for $2,000 per-person direct payment checks. more than three times what was agreed to in the bill. this, of course, after he sat out negotiations on the bill, and declined to make his demand throughout the months that the aid was being negotiated. it is worth pointing out the bill he s blowing up was so universally embraced by both houses of congress that it passed with an overwhelming veto-proof margin. the washington post reports on the consequences of trump s 11th hour standoff with the legislative branch, quote, the video landed like a sonic boom in washington. his own aides were stunned. congressional aides were stunned. stock market futures quickly slumped on the prospect that the economic aid could be in doubt. and the implications for what happens next could be severe. if he refuses to sign the bill, the government will shut down on december 29th. the $900 billio
certainly i will. certainly i will. and you know that. howie: when reuters correspondent jeff mason kept pressing him about the electoral college, the president punched back. look, between you people don t talk to me that way. you re just a lightweight. don t talk to me that i m the president of the united states. don t ever talk to the president that way. howie: the media largely celebrating president trump s decision to cooperate with a joe biden election without concession. the 2020 presidential election was not fair. no honest person would claim that it was fair. they rigged the election in front of all of us. and nobody did anything about it. unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and frankly unlikely manner, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. to say this constitutes living in reality. and if i offered you a false reality, if i told you there was an excellent phenomenal chance that the supreme court was going to step in and deliver a vic
we can get out of maybe next november but first and explosive day in the kyle rittenhouse trial is closing arguments were delivered. for three years rogue prosecutor named robert mueller wasted tens of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to make a case against donald trump-based on a series of false premises from false facts and a phony dossier, ridiculous assumptions that were fraudulent and pfizer applications, prosecutors on tv, often portrayed as valid and hard-working protectors of truth and justice, that must ve been robert mueller. maybe it is all white-collar criminal defense attorney side of me speaking but far too often federal prosecutors and state district attorneys are drunk on their own power and it happened to abuse their discretion. case in point rittenhouse prosecutor thomas binger. they have to convince you joseph rosenbaum was going to use it because they know you can t claim self-defense against an unarmed man like this. you lose the right to self-defens
congress fails to act and the u.s. defaults on its debt will be bad. it s something that looks more possible by the day. the clock is ticking. speaker kevin mccarthy says he wants a deal by this weekend. that it s the only way to give both houses of congress enough time to actually mark up and pass anything on the debt ceiling. but president biden is leaving town tomorrow heading for the g-7 in japan. what punch bowl called a damned if he does, if he doesn t situation for biden with the stakes incredibly high. so with both of those things in mind, the clock and the travel, what is being said inside the white house right now? speaker mccarthy is there meeting with president biden for the third time to avoid a default. look at the background in a second. don t worry. what s on the table and what s even possible. does an acceptable compromise exist? one that actually passes not just the split congress, but this split congress. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent,
seemed to dial things back a bit. particularly with regard to previous reporting about what cohen was prepared to tell the special counsel about president trump and that meeting at trump tower. so michael cohen does not have information that president trump knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand? no. does not. at some point, mr. cohen might be able to be useful to the special counsel about whether president trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the hillary clinton e-mails, and it s not a certainty the way he recalls it. may or may not be useful to mr. mueller. you can tell, perhaps, the hour is late. it s been a long week already. and people are exhausted.
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news.
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news.
jonathan lamere, peter baker, and carol lenning is back with us. good evening to the three of you and wel