welcome to primetime weekend, i m rachel maddow. let s get right to the week s top stories. donald trump has not come up with the magical solution to prevent new york attorney general, letitia james, to prevent the process of attaching his assets, to pay the $454 million judgment against donald trump. the announcement today from trumps social media company, with a much higher company called the digital world acquisition corporation can do nothing to change donald trump s financial capacities on monday. when donald trump it s the deadline for satisfying the judgment against him. if donald trump had $464 million, he could just post it with the court as a guarantee that he can cover the judgment, if he loses his appeal of the case. but, donald trump does not have that much money, despite claiming to have much more than that, for many years now. and donald trump has not been able to get anyone to lend him that money, so that he can post bond with the court for the judgment, whi
weekend. here the week s top stories. standing before congress and from of the same people who aided and abetted donald trump in trying to overturn the 2020 election the very scene of the crime that is the january 6th insurrection, president biden on thursday night, painted a picture of a republican party that has fallen so far that it no longer respects or adheres to the very basic norms of our democracy. many of you are here on the darkest of days, we all saw with their own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots, they have come to stop the peaceful transfer of st power. january 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose the greatest threat to you as democracy since the civil war. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. i will not do that. this is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. here s the simple truth. you can t love your country only when you win. remember your oath of office, r
movement led by sdon don. he is mon shod the 13 13 times. trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. new york times describing the president s state of the union quote unleashed an unyielding. mr. biden seemed to relish the showdown. while he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. he men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. we will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. he was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. president biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. with us at the table board member analyst is here and national affairs analyst is here. the host of politics nation here, and the president
welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand, they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to lone donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical president for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city, and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company or. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cashed himself as a winner. now, he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks loved h