Department. Bill barr was Donald Trumps loyal Attorney General for about two years, until December 1st of last year when Bill Barr had this shocking moment where he came out and publicly said, to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. That was pretty much the end of the longstanding trump barr relationship. Barr was gone a few weeks later. In came Jeffrey Rosen who had been number two at the justice department. He moves up and becomes the acting Attorney General and Richard Don owe hugh becomes number two. Donald trump wasted no time pressuring these two to try to get on board with his Election Fraud theme. He called them we know from Richard Donohues notes, what he told them to do was just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, and the r republican congressman and as you just said with Ambassador Bolton, the chief of Staff Mark meadows got in on the act. He started emailing these two, giving them crazy theor
particular smell on the money. the bank said they would take back taped together bills that had the full serial numbers of visible on the front. the couple sifted through his droppings with gloves and washed the money they found. in the end, they recovered an impressive $3,550. carrie said, i never thought i would be able to say i have laundered money, but there it is, apparently up first-time for everything. i don t know, maybe cecil should stick to dog biscuits next time. that is a ridiculous story that i hope you get to tell your kids in the morning, and on that note i wish you a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me, i will see you again tomorrow. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. ron desantis described it as a crisis at war. donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today, trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines regi
overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks, trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed farfetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet, thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement on hold, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not nearly rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january, he had a monster 20 point national lead over his closest rival, florida governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump s lead has only widened. at this point, a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet, while trump s march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x-factor that he has had to contend with, a series of criminal investigations. as the year began, trump was the subject of
worked for giuliani for two years. in a 70-page complaint filed in state court on monday, she said that after giuliani hired her in january 2019, he sexually assaulted and harassed her, refused to pay her wages and often made sexist, racist, and anti-semitic remarks. she has recordings of numerous interactions, laying out a litany of shocking incidents, involving sexual misconduct. we have decided to spare you some of those details. it also contains, though, this bomb shell allegation involving the disgraced ex-president himself, from her lawsuit, quote, giuliani also asked ms. dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million that he and president trump would split. he told her she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through quote, the normal channels of the office of pardon attorney. correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the freedom of information ac
during a call with house gop leader kevin mccarthy while the capitol was under siege on january 6th along with congressman the three had been facing trump s wrat. republicans in two of those states, arizona and wisconsin, set to make their picks for statewide offices in the next few weeks. arizona today and wisconsin next tuesday. amid a rift between donald trump and mike pence that dates back to january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, two gubernatorial candidates in arizona and wisconsin backed by trump will face-off this month against those endorsed by former vice president mike pence. who split with trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. but make no mistake, this year s republican primaries have been shaped in large part by who donald trump is endorsing. and competition for his endorsement took a surreal turn last night when trump endorsed eric in the missouri primary. just eric, no last name, you know, like beyonce