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arizona democrats turning on the senator, holding her on notice. welcome to a new hour of american voices. thanks for being with us. i m alicia menendez. we begin this hour with the legal fights facing the trump family on multiple fronts. two of them huge. one involving the beloved family business. another, attack on the u.s. capitol. start with the civil investigation into the trump organization. two trump children, ivanka, don jr. and their dad, fighting subpoenas from new york attorney general letitia james. she s seeking documents and testimony as part of a civil tax fraud investigation into the trump org s business practices. the big question she is working to answer, did trump and his family inflate value of assets for tax breaks and loans? the trumps may be fighting, but attorney general james fighting, too. she tweeted, quote, over two years of delay tactics won t stop our investigation because no one is above the law. as for investigating the attack on the ....
puppet of his own choosing. revelation ramping up tensions in a region on the brink of war. in washington, d.c., what s described as a who s who of the anti-vax movement hitting the streets to spread misinformation. we re live on the scene. plus, the biden administration taking stock after some tough new nbc poll numbers out today. they suggest what s gone wrong for the president but also offer a possible road map for a comeback. good to have you with us. we begin with breaking news in the january 6th investigation. committee chairman bennie thompson confirms the panel has been having conversations with former attorney general bill barr. that development on the heels of the committee getting its hands on a trove of trump white house documents that the former president had been fighting to block for months. joining me now, nbc s julie tsirkin on capitol hill, and barbara mcquade, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney general in michigan. julie, bring us up t ....
would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and appoint a special counsel to probe the 2020 election. we will note that trump ultimately did not sign it. this is just one of hundreds of white house documents now obtained by the committee from the national archives after the supreme court rejected trump s bid to shield them from investigators. president biden is hoping for a reset as he kicks off his second year in office. that includes reviving build back better. the president hoping to pass pieces of his massive social spending bill. some progressives are critical of that approach. one bug comprehensive bill that would pass the reconciliation process. it s mind boggling to me once again, the bipartisan infrastructure framework passed. it adds 256 billion to the deficit, so it makes it worse. and as covid hospitalizations are on the rise in several parts of the country, new reports from the cdc show vaccine boosters provide strong protection ....
territorial integrity. today s meeting also comes a day after president biden clarified his comments about a minor incursion, insisting that any russian troop movement inside ukraine would be considered an invasion. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin, he has no misunderstanding. if any any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border that is an invasion and it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response. let there be no doubt at all that if putin makes this choice russia will pay a heavy price. let s go right to richard engel in ukraine. good to see you. what more can you tell us about what went on during this meeting between secretary blinken and the russian foreign minister and is there any early reaction there in ukraine? reporter: well, this negotiation suddenly became much more complicated for the u.s. side. sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister is a skilled diplomate, he s been doing this for many years, he is ....
but the clock is ticking, so we gotta hurry. there s new rotisserie-style chicken, new peppercorn ranch, new hickory-smoked bacon, new. (whistle blowing) did you just spike the footlong? sorry, i didn t want the delay of game. save big. order through the app. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. happy friday. the sprawling investigation into the capitol insurrection now has in its possession hundreds of records, the twice impeached expresident tried really really hard to hide from them. he took that case of course all the way to the united states supreme court. these are documents that promise to reveal the inner workings of the trump administration in the run-up to the insurrection. we are now getting our first glimpse at some of those records thanks to some extraordinary reporting from our friend bets ewoodruff swan at politico. she obtained an executive order that was never issued but would amount to a dangerous power graph. it directs the defense diplomat to ....