and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald trump s orbit was that his attorneys were engaging on this issue, this notion that he took documents with him when he left the white house that the justice department wanted back, but what we are learning is authorities were suspicious that the trump team wasn t being truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents, that they weren t putting forward everything that they had available, and they were also concerned that some of the documents could potentially
and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we ve got a lot of theories, just don t have the evidence. that s the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trump s ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy theories were not true. at some point, one of them made a comment that they didn t have evidence but had a lot of theories. that was mr. giuliani. what exactly did he say, how did that come up? my recollection, he said we got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. okay, not having the evidence of any of this stuff did not stop the relentless pressure campaign to overturn the election. the scheme spanned several states and trump s attempts to draw in republican officials from
georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger who lost a child to fentanyl poisoning sounded the alarm. i want to really emphasize the seriousness of this. some people like to call fentanyl a drug. but it s actually poison. it will kill you. it will kill you very quickly, very easily, and it is very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. it is very, very serious and we take it that way. anyone who holds elected office, anyone who wants to hold elected office coming through post 2024 elections, they re running for high office in this land, they need to contend with this stuff. when someone asked, what do you think about this? if they don t condemn this, they re not worthy of the office they re running for. this is domestic terrorism and it needs to be condemned by anyone who holds elected office and anyone who wants to hold elected office anywhere in america. for our part, we will keep track of who
And lockheed loves him. Intel building a 7 billion plant in arizona that they took off the shelf during the obama years. So, yeah, lots to talk about. Thanks to hugh and our guests. That was the scene from a town hall earlier tonight with arkansas senator tom cotton. The mood is indicative of what were seeing at town halls across the country. We have news tonight from this new administrations continued Whiplash Pattern of radical changes in course. Tonight the Justice Department, which is now led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that they are reversing the Obama Administration policy on the rights of transgender students in american schools. We have known that the white house intended to roll back lgbt rights. We thought they might first take aim at kids. Weve been waiting all day for the official notice. Here it is. Very high turnout election. It was an unusually long ballot in montana this year, because they had a bunch of stuff to vote on in the state, but all in all, usu