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the calendar pages are turning and the clock is ticking. by this time next week we could no the fate of the former president and whether he will face jail time. in this hour traditions of what will happen. a good day to all of you. welcome to alec witt reports. rescue crews are rushing to reach the site of a crash of a helicopter carrying president ebrahim raisi. state tv is reporting the helicopter was traveling in rough weather when it suffered a hard landing. it happened near a city on the border near azerbaijan. he was inaugurating a earlier
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in the day. dozens of rescue teams have been deployed but they are hampered by very bad foggy weather. let's go to josh lederman. what more have you been able to find out? >> reporter: as of this moment the status of president ebrahim raisi and his entourage is unknown. we do not know if they are alive or badly injured or if they are fine after what has been as described by state media as a hard landing. other sources have referred to it as a crash. we don't know what happened to the helicopter other than it was traveling through a dense fog and bad weather conditions. he was making his way back from inaugurating a dam. according to state media
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they've been unable to reach the site of this landing. the weather conditions are making it difficult at this moment, even though some 40 teams have been deployed. according to the health minister of iran, they've deployed every possible resource including medics and surgeons and all kinds of search and rescue resources to the area so they are prepared to respond just as soon as they are able to locate and potentially evacuate the president and the foreign minister and others. we have seen people praying for his well-being on his instagram account. they've released a message calling for people to pray for his safety. >> there is a lot to get to. keep us abreast of anything you find out. joining me now we have general barry mccaffrey. thank you for being here. first of all, let's talk about
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the helicopter that the president of iran may have been flying on and why risk it during heavy fog. this talk about military operations in that regard. >> you make an excellent point. with these helicopters flying it low altitude and bad weather are at peril. they get above the highest mountain and go on autopilot. but they are landing and taking off with vips, it is somewhat surprising that they will take this kind of a risk. but a larger implication is to lose a president and foreign minister. will this kickoff a power struggle. and the president was a harsh architect of oppression and brutality and to include the morale the angle that they
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continue to subjugate. iranian women who were taken to the streets and and have been courageous. this is a potential lawsuit has tremendous implications. iran as part of almost everything negative going on in the middle east. through their circuits and militias and certainly hezbollah on the north of israel is totally funded, and to some extent, commanded by the iranians. this is a very important point to see who replaces him if, indeed he's been lost. >> before we get to further speculation, the order of command in the wake of his passing, where that to happen, we have no confirmation. i would get back to the helicopter's. it's my understanding that with sanctions a lot of the
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helicopters in the fleet are very old and some predate to 1979. and that it's difficult to get military parts and the like. can you speak to the kind of helicopter that might be up in the air and its viability flying through bad weather? >> are most modern helicopters still require enormous amounts of maintenance. much more than fixed wing aircraft. and the parts have been difficult for soviet era aircraft and other european craft. i think the technology is at risk, and i think in addition we have to recognize that is how well organized and commanded are these helicopter aviation units. we don't know, but it has been
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a shoddy operation for a long time now. >> let's make the point there's a difference between the president and the supreme leader, the ayatollah. the ayatollah is in command of the country. that this is an aging man. he's in his mid-80s at least. >> at the end of the day this is a theological dictatorship and this vibrant healthy country has been suppressed for decades by basically a corrupt dictatorship hiding behind the guise of religious morality. all of this is at risk. can they continue to be held to this regime are not? so far they have managed it by unconstrained brutality. people
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take to the streets and they get killed. they just hung seven people, i believe, yesterday and another one today. this is a terrible, autocratic and repressive government. >> thank you very much for illuminating what might happen and what we know has happened and get us through the particulars. thank you. we will stay on top of this. but we will go to political headlines for u.s. president biden has wrapped up the commencement address at morehouse college. is most direct engagement with college students since the israel-hamas war. and donald trump has no public events today but will be back in criminal court tomorrow as the hush money trial nears the end. we will have more on that ahead. our reporters are on the ground covering all the latest
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developments. we go to aaron gilchrist at morehouse college in atlanta. welcome. talk about the president's message to the graduate class and what issues he touched on.>> he touched on several issues. some conventional. he talked about his faith and the faith that he hopes these young men have. and the 400 men who graduated today. he talked about leadership and talked about democracy and what it means. and i think we can help but notice that he talked about the elephant in the room and that's the conflict in gaza. the war between israel and hamas. we should note there were several graduates in the crowd today who had silent protest, if you will. some of them turned their chairs around. they turned their backs to the
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president and sat quietly as he spoke. we saw one young man with a palestinian flag over his shoulders. there were other symbols of support as well. the president said those protests are something he supports. he believes students to express themselves and he's listening to them. he said he's calling for an immediate cease-fire in gaza. there were also points where the president touched on topics it seemed to be in line with what you hear at a campaign speech. there were hints of his campaign speech here. he talked about extremism in particular and referenced the former president. i want you to hear what he had to say about extremism. >> insurrectionist's stormed the capitol with confederate flag's and are called patriots by some. not in my house.
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black police officers, black veterans protecting the capital were called another word as you will recall. they also say out loud, immigrants poison our country. like the grand wizards of sin the past. but you know and i know that we all bleed same color. >> reporter: the president said he will continue to work and his administration will work to root out racism in this country. he said that they don't see you in the future of this country but they are wrong. the president is going to detroit and should be landing there shortly. he will attend the naacp dinner and join a fundraiser there. >> thank you so much for that. let's go to jake trailer in dallas, where donald trump spoke last night at the nra
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convention. how did the former president try to appeal to gunowners? >> reporter: last night the former president spoke right behind me at the annual convention and receive their endorsement despite the fact that he cannot legally purchase a firearm in the u.s. because he's facing multiple felony indictments. he was quick to bring that up and talked about the fact that his legal woes were come here to to gunowners having the rights stripped away. and he said the radical left are stripping away the rights. this is something common from him to take the courtroom and bring it on the campaign trail and compare his legal complications with the issues that voters face every day. i want to point to one assertion he made last night about gun owners saying they are not active in the political process and they don't take part in voting despite research that debunks that claim.
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but gunowners don't vote. i would think that they would vote more than any other group of people and it is just the opposite. they have to get out and vote. >> reporter: that right there could be the last time we hear from him on the campaign trail before we hear of a verdict reached in the criminal trial on monday. we will see cross-examination continue with michael cohen and we could hear closing arguments on tuesday and we could have a verdict this coming week. >> thank you so much for that. in fact, history will play out in a manhattan courtroom this week. but how? we will be back.
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now too weak of history in the making as donald trump get the step closer to the moment of truth and the hush money trial. tomorrow lawyers will resume cross-examination of michael cohen and closing arguments could begin tuesday, but only if trump decides not to testify. the jury could be deliberating by the end of this week. anna bauer is joining me. and david henderson a civil
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rights attorney. i welcome you both. you've been in the courtroom every day. what impressions do you have of the jury? we know there are two lawyers on the panel. have you been keeping an eye on them? and how they reacted? >> there are two lawyers on the panel. overall, this jury has been very attentive and very engaged. some people describe it like spectators watching a tennis match as they move their heads from side to side to keep up with the cross-examination as witnesses answer questions. overall people have been very engaged and at least one of the attorneys has been taking extensive notes. there's this big question of how having two lawyers could potentially impact these deliberations. you have to wonder if these lawyers will be people who will
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be the leaders within the jury. other things i've noticed with this jury is the first time i noticed that they disengaged and became what appeared to me board was during an extended section of todd blanche is cross-examination of michael cohen. todd blanche is donald trump's attorney. he continued to go over and over several points he already covered in a previous section and it was at a time when he was trying to attack michael cohen's credibility and trying to portray him as someone who cannot be trusted and it seemed that the jury at that point got bored and more disengaged. there were other times, however , during his testimony that i saw smiles and it seemed that when there were occasions that
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michael cohen made said something that was unintentionally funny there were smiles. it's hard to say what that means. i don't want to give you my own ideas. >> we are always trying to read the tea leaves. but the new york times saying that the case is the prosecutions to lose. as a former prosecutor, what is your assessment? have they established a clear link between trump and the crimes? >> it's hard for me to say, but if you asked me sitting here right now if i think trump did it, i would say yes. do i think the state has proven it beyond a reasonable doubt? no. they rely too heavily on michael cohen's testimony. we always suffer from the curse of knowledge. and it gets hard to draw line between what we know because he heard outside of court versus
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what we know because we heard it inside. the books got cooked and they hid these payments. but you still have to believe michael cohen to believe that. and the cross-examination to been so terrible that there are million different reasons why should not believe michael cohen. and one of the critical pieces of evidence they put in and that's this note from west aberg is let your case ride on someone who's serving five months in rikers. but can i ask you on a personal note, what is like to be an attorney. what is it like to think in your heart and with everything that you know, even outside the courtroom that someone might be guilty but because of courtroom proceedings may not be found guilty? how do you go to bed at night
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with that?>> i ask myself the question every night. is an ongoing problem. and that's why have the hangups that i do in this case. i'm nervous because at times when i was supposed to be convinced to believe michael cohen, i found reasons to doubt him. he makes a secret recording of the former president. and he says he made this recording to be used for the secret purpose but reassuring david pecker loyal. the argument is trump micromanaged everything. here is an example of you telling me you did something that he was unaware of. wise it impossible to believe you did same thing with stormy daniels. the defense is not putting this out of cross-examination. you hear him saying that you
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said mean things about me. so it goes both ways for me in that case.>> can you counter what david is saying with regard to when you had the lead attorney yelling and raising his voice at michael cohen and his demeanor throughout the trial has been pretty steady. a typical of what you would expect from him. did that we can the defense? would there be sympathy for michael cohen being in this position at all? >> yes. i think there potentially is sympathy for him. as someone who was watching it happen in the courtroom, it was not a moment in which todd blanche came off very well and that was a moment at the very beginning of his cross- examination, for example, when he asked michael cohen to start
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things off, he hissed at him and said, did you call me something on tiktok. and that's when the moments that i cite your smile and laugh a little bit. so i don't want to impute my own impressions, but it seems to me that they are more endeared to michael cohen and it could've been that some of these more fiery exchanges backfire. but even if the jury is queasy about michael cohen's character , when you look at the documents . the first statement with allen weisselberg's notes on a plan to reimburse hundred $30,000. should the documents carry more weight than the personality? >> yes and no. i agree with anna. the defense is making michael
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cohen seem more likable to the jury because of how they're handling cross-examination and not and are not pointing out that documents should control apart from the testimony that the people in the room doing the writing. but i will give you reasons. document you're looking at involves handwritten notes from allen weisselberg. if i see handwritten notes from someone and that person didn't testify, i wonder why i'm not hearing straight from the horses mouth. and there's a reason why you don't want me to hear directly from allen weisselberg. we talk about how juries come up with reasonable doubt. no one can tell you what that is. for people to start wondering if it's enough to turn the tide during jury deliberations.>> let's listen to this.
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>> i've heard people say what did he even do wrong? no one understands the crime. there's a falsification of business records within 10 to defraud by concealing another crime. and the other crime is campaign finance violations. the contribution by michael cohen exceeds the $2000 limit. and -- >> has the manhattan da met this burden? >> it's a loaded question. keep in mind what i said about reasonable doubt. first it's a question of you presented any evidence to substantiate the prosecution. the answer is yes. the question about whether you been persuasive is different. as a lawyer i cannot get past some of the parts of michael cohen's testimony and things i know about allen weisselberg.
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it's impossible to guess what the jury is feeling. but can we anticipate the verdict? and that is harder. the defense has made such a mess out of this case. if they asked me from the beginning i would say you have to admit you had with stormy daniels. there's no doubt that you had with her and there's no doubt that cohen was paid hundred and $30,000. the question is is when the books were cooked we in on it. and you could've made the argument that these things went down without my knowledge. that that's not the way they presented this case and that's why it's a tossup trying to anticipate how people might feel. >> anna, do you have anything on what the prosecution will include in their summation and how they go about closing arguments?>> i know that we
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expect that joshua stein glass will do the closing arguments. and the closing arguments will be different from opening statements. and in the closing arguments they will take everything they the senate over the past several weeks and argue the case to the jury. what we are going to get, and again, i don't know exactly what the prosecution will say. but i think one thing they will really focus on is michael cohen's credibility. they will say you don't have to take michael cohen's word for it. he's someone who has maybe an
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extra grind. but all these phone records and they will meticulously go to all of that cooperation to bring it home to the jury. >> thank you for your time. david stay with me. within the past few hours there is an on camera response from sean "diddy" comb to that terrible hotel video. and one joe biden's big moves. is a good news or bad news are none of the above? th —point lifn opens my nose for maximum air flow. so, i breathe better. and we both sleep better. and stay married. i was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant. vraylar helped give it a lift. adding vraylar to an antidepressant is clinically proven to help relieve overall depression symptoms
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mark breaking news. sean "diddy" combs is apologizing in a new instagram video. come days after surveillance video showed him physically abusing his ex-girlfriend. here is a short clip of his apology. >> my behavior on that video is
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inexcusable. i take full responsibility for my actions and that video. i'm disgusted. i was disgusted when i did it and i'm disgusted now. i went and sought out professional help. i had to go into therapy. in rehab. had to ask god for his mercy and grace. >> nbc news has reached out to cassie ventura. so first up, how do you interpret his apology?>> i think it's a legal decision. eight years after the fact and there've been some discussions that have occurred that led up to this. my understanding is there's a settlement related to this incident. it was believed this would stay
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under wraps. and now the best thing you can do when it's clear in the video is make a public statement and hope if other people come forward that you can please say i acknowledge it and i apologized.>> for those potential -- we believe there ongoing lawsuits. and for anyone else, the fact that he is denied all allegations and everything in the past and set i've never done anything like this. what kind of a precarious legal position does it put him in?>> the way to think through this. and imagine you go to trial and you decide you want to defend these claims because there's too much liability at stake and you say i've never done anything like this before and never accused of anything like this. you just set yourself up to be impeached. you have to come clean and there's another issue here.
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since he cannot be prosecuted according to the local prosecutor. but even in states like texas that are very conservative, you have moral turpitude crimes. a man hitting woman is a moral turpitude crime. you can be cross-examined not only in similar cases but anytime you testify under oath to show that you don't have the kind of character that a jury should rely on.>> thank you. the possible implications of what iranian state tv calls a helicopter crash involving the president. i will get reaction coming up next. ve up our memorial day sale.
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media is describing as a hard landing. here he is earlier today. this was in azerbaijan. state media reports that emergency personnel have yet to find signs of helicopter that landed in a forest. but due to foggy conditions there is no possibility of any air rescue. joining me now is seth moulton. he's a member of the house armed services committee. i don't if you can see the screen. it stands to reason why it is hard to locate a helicopter. talk about the implications if this crash is as serious as it appears to be? >> first of all, we've heard that there's a lot of
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speculation about role-play. and there'll be speculation about domestic fowl play because the iranian regime has a lot of problems at home. people are unhappy. but there will be speculation about foreign foul play. and we have to withhold judgment. the whole situation in the middle east but surrounding iran is very tense. so let's find out the facts before anybody takes action. >> it certainly is a powder keg. we know the president was briefed on the conditions. probably not much more than what we know. because of the difficulty. go ahead.>> you can see how foggy it is. there will be a lot of speculation but the most obvious answer is that it
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crashed in the fog. >> it's been described as a hard landing. there were reports that i will not report because we haven't confirmed them. and it would appear to make things okay. but it's iranian state tv. so let's move on to the situation in gaza. jake sullivan met with benjamin netanyahu in israel today. he's trying to urge the prime minister to limit their operation in rafah. palestinians have already fled and we are seeing widespread destruction. does the u.s. actually have any influence over its allies actions at this point? >> we do. we've had a lot of influence over our allies including israel's historically.
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president reagan withheld weapons from israel several times when he did not like what they were doing. but the reality is there are limits on how much influence we have. a lot of us, myself included, have been calling on benjamin netanyahu to have an endgame. and not allow so many thousands of civilians to be tragically killed. he has not been listening. now his own cabinet is revolting calling for a political and game to the situation. this is exactly what the administration has been saying for a while. some of us have been saying literally for months. so a lot of people want to criticize the administration, but his own more cabinet saying the same thing.
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>> we were reporting that yesterday. there giving him three weeks to come up with an endgame or there's a threat of a walkout. when it comes to withholding weapons, the offensive weapons that joe biden held back, would it be an effective deterrent based on what you saw during the reagan years? >> caught the israelis attention. weapons that the president has held back are massive bombs. they have no place in urban warfare like this. they lead to dozens of civilian casualties so it was a sensible decision. i think it's catching the israelis attention and it seems like they are finally listening to things we've been saying. >> let me ask you about ukraine with the new york times reporting their requesting that the u.s. lift restrictions on
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the use of american weapons to strike targets. ukrainian officials have asked the us to provide intelligence. are those a nonstarter for you? >> i absolutely think we should allow the ukrainians to target what they need to target to protect the country. what's happening now is russian nose this rule -- it's not a great idea to tell the enemy. and they are amassing troops across the border from key ukrainian towns and cities. this is a huge handicap that they have. my suspicion is it will be lifted but we need to lift now so ukraine can defend their freedom.>> you said -- you sit on the select committee and president biden has imposed new tariffs on things from china.
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and a 100% tax on chinese electric vehicles. it could be good for workers because it makes u.s. products more competitive but it makes goods more expensive. the end result. does it do more harm than good? >> we do not know. but what the president is doing is the right thing to protect american workers against totally unfair trade practices by the chinese. this is in us responding to nothing. this is the fact that china has massive state subsidies for these industries. they regularly steal our intellectual property and sell it back to us. at the moment there are not any chinese ev's being sold anyway. so it's not like consumers are used to buying these. so what
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he's doing is targeted and in response to chinese actions and i think it's the right thing to do.>> you just dodged a bullet. i was can ask you about the chaos in the house oversight panel. thank you. good to see you. the panel will tackle the president's message to morehouse graduates and what to make of the chaos started by marjorie taylor greene. what? the dodge hornet r/t... the totally torqued-out crossover. it's hard to explain what this feels like. ♪♪ moving piles of earth. towing up to 4,000 lbs. cutting millions of blades of grass. nothing compares to experiencing it for yourself.
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against extremists who want to take the country backwards. >> i never thought i would be in a time where there's a national effort to ban books. to race history. they don't see you in the future america that they are wrong. to me we make history. not a race it. black history is american history. >> a flag for the democratic republic of congo was held up. but with me now i have my family. don calloway and susan dell curcio and is that a morehouse college logo i see on your
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sweater? here is the theme. what was your biggest take away? what would you great the president?>> he somehow made it very clear trying to contrast without getting political. he never mentions the previous president by name. and he showed his decency and the empathy he has with the common american experience in coming from immigration and lesser circumstances to being where they are. morehouse is one of the finest institutions in the history of the world and they found a way to get the point across with faculty protesting. there were students who turned their back and it's indicative of how hbcus have handled the gaza protests. have not gotten violent and
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unruly and there've been no injuries or casualties. but they have gotten the point across. i was proud of the young valedictorian who called for a cease-fire. but all students who have shown what a proper protest looks like because we come from a deeply rooted disposition of civic protest. >> to think this will resonate beyond the community he was addressing?>> i think it will. but he has to address the divide that exists among all demographics of people. their young african american voters who don't see joe biden as someone who's been around and they hold him to account for student loans and palestine. but he has to find a way to talk to younger african american voters in addition to keeping the season saints on board. >> the biden team said the speech was met with the
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students and not the public. it's hard not to consider a campaign speech. how did you interpret his comments? and yesterday i was asking guests how he could distinguish between inspiring the graduates about the future and not making it about his future? >> i think what we saw at morehouse we continue to see is that governing is hard and defending democracy is messy. what he communicated through words and ethos is that discourse is welcome and disagreement is welcomed. civil disobedience is welcomed. and under donald trump it might not be. so what you see in joe biden is a caring leader who said this is the direction i think america needs to go at home and on the world stage. i will defend democracy and your rights and under my
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opponent you may not have that right. i think the empathy carried in his remarks. >> and now to the flipside because donald trump spent part of his weekend at the nra convention. he implied he would not be content with just two terms. >> fdr. 16 years. i don't know. will we be considered three or two? >> more than two terms would violate the constitution. that was passed after fdr was elected. even the suggestion. how concerning is that? >> it is once again donald trump telling you what he thinks. remember when xi jinping was made president for life in china?
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donald trump applauded that and said how wonderful it is. i was just going to say vladimir putin is serving his fifth term. but donald trump, he cannot help himself when he starts thinking about these things. i don't think he likes the job enough to want to do it for a second term, but he has to do it stay out of jail. as long as he's facing potential jail time, he will want to be president.>> trump ended his remarks by saying nra members need to fight for america like no one has fought before and the final battle. what does that mean? >> it's harbingers of violence.
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it's not even foreshadowing. matt gaetz yesterday tweeted a picture of him and say they are standing back and standing by. for what? the violence we've already seen? none of this is a joke. he said these things and then they come to pass. he said he wants a third term. he's been saying that for a long time. he's talking about -- if you recall, the speech on the day he was inaugurated was about american carnage. it was not about looking to the future or bringing us together. it was about carnage. he's always had this undercurrent of violence and physical imposition against people who disagree with them. i wish people would look at it and see it as the violent premonitions that it is. he's telling us years and months in advance.>> he may
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have another platform to do that because we learned that we will see the candidates on the debate stage. not to the commission. the cochair criticized joe biden for bypassing them but said trump's campaign agreed to these terms. how different will these debates be compared to 2020, and who goes into them with the edge? >> joe biden really roped him on this. he got two instead of three and moved them forward and got no audience. the last part represents the sobriety of joe biden. he wants these debates to be cerebral and communicate to the people and donald trump wants a professional wrestling match and he's in to get that. one thing we know about joe biden is he always delivers.
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there when trump calls. what you think he meant? >> a few reasons. one is we had people who wanted to audition for president trump and others wanted to stay on his good side like mike johnson. then there are others like congresswoman bulbar and congresswoman gaines who just go to add to the dramatics and frankly they like the camera and they want to show they are still out there. however, one congressman was still speaking when her colleagues left. >> don and david, your opinions. don't, you first. >> they are all showing up. >> there is nothing better to do. these are members of congress and i don't know if any are relevant in a working house of representatives which mike johnson is a working speaker.
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they have nothing else to do and did that have no business in their districts? why are they showing up in new york city. but it is a nod of approval to trump who could be next president and they want to show they are with him. >> david, is it i audition? >> i think these are small and weak people with little compass and that's it. >> it's good to have you back and hopefully we will have you back as soon as possible. and breaking news we have told you about in an apparent search and rescue for a helicopter. i bid you a good day from the msnbc world headquarters. once again the breaking news with new developments on the search for a ran's president wh

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