welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. he is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. he dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. that is how the new york times described donald trump in 1976. if you asked donald trump then and now, he d say his most valuable asset was his brand. and for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich? be like trump. you walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. i ve never figured that out of never really understood it. but it s something that s been happening. and i took great offense that. and now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. i don t know what it is. but perhaps they re going into a
donald trump again comparing his treatment by u.s. prosecutors to imprisoned, torture and martyred russian freedom fighter alexei navalny. it s a horrible thing. it s happening in our country, too. we are turning into a communist country in many ways. if you look at it, i m the leading can t i never heard of being indicted before. a form of navalny, a form of communism or fascism. house republicans are pushing on with their impeachment inquiry into the president. today interviewing his brother james, even after the key witness, an ex-fbi informant, was charged with giving false information against the bidens fed to him by russian intelligence. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell. another american is in custody in russia. a 33-year-old los angeles ballerina is a russian american dual citizen detained on suspicion of treason for allegedly donating $51 to support ukraine. they released this video showing her being led into a courtroom where a judge denied her bail. h
want to destroy it. we believe in heritage, whether it s conservative, whether it s president trump or someone else in the field, will replace president biden, thank goodness. and it isn t enough for whoever that is to govern conservative, tactically, they have to wake up every day and say, what part of the american administrative state i m going to destroy today? that was heritage foundation president kevin roberts, describing his organization s presidential transition plan, called project 2025. it was put by the new york times, it was a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies, and recruit and vet government employees to free the next republican president from a system that roberts of use as stacked against conservative power. now the architects of this plan have even suggested firing as many as 50,000 federal workers. make no mistake about it, roberts and his allies are deadly serious about carry
on this new hour of ayman, congressman, jamie raskin, goes on the record about the in epic embarrassment facing his republican colleague james comer, after a star witness gets charged with lying to the fbi about the bidens. plus, in a yet another sad first for america, donald trump gets a date for his criminal trial involving that preelection payoff, to a porn star, and the whopping issue president biden and his party can no longer ignore as we barrel towards november. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s do it. the basis of the gop s yearlong impeachment probe of joe biden, the basis of countless subpoenas, thousands of pages of emails, and bank records, endless hours of conservative media monologues, well, it utterly imploded this week. on thursday, the probe star witness, fbi informant, alexander smirnov, was arrested, and charged with fabricating a multi million dollar bribery scheme involving president joe biden, his son, hunter, and ukrainian energy company, burisma. smirnov
states very busy in california raising money and a ton of us. he s also moving to save money for a lot of student loan borrowers. this time to the tune of about $1.2 billion. that makes $138 billion that he has directly or indirectly provided in student loan relief. some people are crying foul that no less than the supreme court has put the kiabash on this and he s keep doing it. now to peter doocy at the white house and how they re explaining this. officials here are hoping an emphasis on climate change and gun control and student forgiveness put people in line. a four-point edge for biden over trump. that is even though trump is seen as having better physical fitness for biden and mental fitness for office than biden. the president joked to donors about this in california. he said, by the way, i m only 40 years old times two. the only thing i do know is that i may not run like i used to, but i tell you what, i ve been around long enough to know what s going on. as it re