manhattan, prosecutors have spoken to stormy daniels in the hush money investigation her lawyer says she s willing to be a witness if needed it also appears michael cohen is finished with his time in front of the grand jury. he told reporters yesterday that he has not been subpoenaed for additional testimony or documents. and that it appears to him that a charging decision could come soon so how is donald trump and his team reacting? we have details on that as well. joining me from atlanta is blayne alexander and in west palm beach to the former president s former home is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard blayne, i ll start with you. talk to me about this call well, katie, this is a major development. before yesterday we didn t know that a recording existed and we didn t know that it was one of the pieces of evidence considered and put before the body investigating the former president for potentially meddling in the 2020 election. we know this came to light because fi
that office. i don t know what s in the documents. laura: hold on a wilmington minute. the man who promised to raise the bar for ethics and trust in government. he is now feigning ignorance? i see nothing. i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. laura: more than two months after these ten classified documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this inconvenient truth. president returned dignity to government, had actually been derelict with government records or someone close to him was. now, when trump was found with classified documents, biden called it totally irresponsible. of course, the media has taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. accidents do happen. it is not a good reason but it is a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number is smaller. in president biden s case, he and his lawyers appear to have actually done the
share information about ongoing investigations. including donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. what that means for the gop s efforts to probe the agency. plus, donald trump dropped the lawsuit against new york tierney general letitia james a day after he and his lawyers or saw plus 1 million dollar fine for another, quote, frivolous case brought against hillary clinton. could we see trump upending even more lawsuits? and, congressman george santos long list of lies and controversies just keep piling up. a small newspaper exposed much of his inconsistencies weeks before the election. but, no one paid attention, why? i ll put that question to the papers publisher straight ahead. we have a team of reporters from capitol hill to the white house and ukraine following the latest for you this morning. and a good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. thanks for starting your saturday here on msnbc. house republicans have made it clear that they plan to use t
today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,
hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt