reporter: you never had an insurrectionist president before who would seek reelection. the president of harvard university resigned today weeks after her controversial testimony before congress about antisemitism. the average, came not from her academic peers, but rather from her political foes led by conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny. i think it s going to be very tremendous victory in iowa. i will defeat president trump, foreign square. i have no doubt about that. i m the only one who has a chance to beat trump and win the general election. you saw with our own eyes, when that mob stormed the united states capitol. everything is on the line right here, the question is what kind of century is this going to be? when a democracy is still americas separate causes the most urgent question of our time. they left weaponized government and the same threat to democracy. we all know who donald trump is, the question we have to answer is, wh
states supreme court has never truly grappled with. we never had an interaction s president seeking reelection. the president of harvard university resigned today, weeks after her controversial testimony before congress about antisemitism. yeah rage came not from her academic peers, but from her political foes, led by conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny. i think it is going to be really a tremendous victory in iowa. i will defeat president trump fair and square. i have no doubt about that. and the only one who has the chance to beat trump and win the general election. three years ago tomorrow, we saw with our own eyes the violent mob stormed the capitol. everything is on the line right here and the question is, what kind of century is this going to be? the democracy is still america sacred cause, the most urgent question of our time. he s weaponized government, he saying i m a threat to democracy. we all know who donald trump is. the
like something is going on in the news today, doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does, something that might seem unprecedented, like we ve never faced something like this before in the news. it turns out more often than it, it does have an antecedent in history. the very first episode dropped today. it is about something that s very much like january 6th that happened before. i would have more to say about this later on this hour. but chris is right, it s just drop. today we are super excited about it. that s all still to come, it s called rachel maddow presents deja news . all right, so, here s what it said when they finally showed what they had to the public. this was from the u.s. justice department at the time. quote, the following statement is respectfully submitted to the court by the government at the arraignment of the defendant. it constitutes a detailed resuscitation of the facts and evidence developed by the investigation to date. that presentation
you on mondays anymore. how come you re here? you know, there is stuff going on. thought it would be good to be in the chair today. can i say i listened to your debut deja news today which i loved. thank you very much. fantastic stuff. i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today calle
[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it