Ephemeral legislation. Yeah. That went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think its the word of the week. Ephemeral or malodorous, its one of the two. Its still early. We have a couple hours ahead. Maybe we can find another one. Meanwhile, the Florida Governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trumps third president ial bid. Well show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. Is it desantis, is it December Desantis . Did he answer it . He did, and it was unrevealing. Huh. Republicans are still upset with Kevin Mccarthy over the Debt Ceiling Deal. Wah. One calling for a day of reckoning. Are you kidding me . It is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and Kevin Mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the United States economy hostage. They werent able to do it. These guys struck a deal, and struck a deal that passed overwhelmingly.
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of d