we have a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump formally taking his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. we ll tell you what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, back in 2020, donald trump hired an expert to prove election fraud. instead, that person found the 2020 election was not stolen. we re going to speak with that expert about what his data firm actually uncovered. also ahead, we ll dig into the ultimatum from house republicans following their visit to the southern border. do they want a deal? along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc host jen psaki. she s a former white house press secretary. good to have you all on board this morning. willie? let s start in colorado. former president trump s legal team officially has petitioned the supreme court to overturn last month s co
Foundationless set of false claims. so, ken, let s go back to the days just after november of 2020, after the election, and explain for our viewers, if you could, the circumstances under which you were hired, by whom, and then, ultimately, what you found in your investigation. absolutely. good morning. i was hired by lawyers attached to the trump campaign initially to look for voter fraud on behalf of the campaign. what many people don t know is that there were more than one camp of lawyers attached to the campaign. i was reporting to a fairly careful group of lawyers who wanted to conduct proper due diligence ahead of filing any court cases. my job initially was to look for voter fraud, look for deceased voters, look for duplicate voters, that sort of thing. my mission changed over time because they realized that i had a lot of capabilities i could bring to the table, and they
Family, obviously. friends. right. if you re given the gift of health, you know, you live longer, okay? mm-hmm. what happens to the friends aspect when your friends begin to die? people you ve known for 50, 60 years. one of the things that s really important that we remember is that we shouldn t have friends that are all the same age. when you re young, get more old friends. when you re old, get more young friends. one of the best ways for you to have friends all the way until your deathbed is you have people who are decades younger than you are. it s the important thing. by the way, when you re in your 20s, you should have friends in their 60s because they re interesting people and you ll learn from them. if everybody is marching through first grade, second grade, third grade, by the time you re 60, they re 60, it is a big problem. it is also boring. that s good advice. you refresh a little bit. yeah. meet new people over the course of your life. totally. brings ou
Eligible. yeah, i mean, this is a bizarre document, and i think it reflects i think it reflects the weakness of trump s position, actually. let me explain why. if you took a seminar on appellate advocacy, the first thing they tell you is you have to focus in appellate court, at any level, on the two, three, sometimes four will be pushing it, key issues, the ones that you think are the weak spots in the decision you re challenging. that s on steroids when you go up to the supreme court of the united states and file a petition for a writ of certiorari. it s not like the case with madison where the chief justice looks at everything in the case. they choose the issues on the basis of their importance. here, what trump did on page on the inside cover, you re required to put the question presented. the question presented here is
Started running a whole bunch of claims that others brought to the attention of the campaign. they asked me to determine whether or not those claims were true. every single claim i looed at, i was able to prove they were false claims and not true. we re talking about dead voters, was one thing. mail-in ballots was something that donald trump was crying about right after the election. he didn t like that system all of a sudden. what were the specific claims the lawyers were making that you chased down? there were about 15 of them. we re a little bit ahead of where the book comes out, so i m going to hold those back a little bit, but i can tell you that some of the claims were really bonkers. they were wild claims. they were easy to prove that they were false, and there were other claims that relied on complex mathematical theories that took a little longer to figure out. i was able, in every circumstance, to show the people that brought these claims forward that they just didn t app