'Laughable': Trump's fraud case not likely to change despite dubious plea from his lawyer
Trumpland with Alex Wagner
NBC News
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin our show, Donald Trump is nearly finished picking the people he wants in his cabinet, |
| 0:04.3 | with just two cabinet-level positions still unfilled. |
| 0:07.8 | Over the past 24 hours, the Trump transition has announced a new wave of administration picks, |
| 0:13.2 | low cabinet level, but still requiring Senate confirmation. |
| 0:16.9 | Today, Trump announced he will nominate retired Army lieutenant general Keith Kellogg to serve as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, a new position. |
| 0:25.8 | General Kellogg, who served as National Security Advisor to Mike Pence in the first Trump administration, |
| 0:31.4 | has advocated for a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement to the war. |
| 0:35.3 | A strategy paper Kellogg authored earlier this year also suggested conditioning |
| 0:39.1 | further U.S. military for Ukraine to entering peace talks with the Russians. So far, Trump has filled |
| 0:45.7 | nearly 60 spots in his administration, all at breakneck speed. It's not just the speed and |
| 0:52.3 | the qualifications of the various nominees that are turning heads. |
| 0:56.3 | This week, multiple news outlets reported that the Trump transition is investigating longtime |
| 1:01.8 | Trump advisor Boris Epstein for trying to personally profit off Trump's presidency. |
| 1:07.9 | According to the Washington Post, Epstein asked potential administration nominees |
| 1:11.7 | to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump. Of course, |
| 1:18.4 | this sort of behavior isn't new to Trump circles. During the first Trump administration, |
| 1:23.5 | Trump's then lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was also accused of trying to cash in on his proximity |
| 1:28.7 | to Trump. |
| 1:31.1 | And tonight, NBC News is learning new details about those payments, including some from |
| 1:36.3 | companies that had business pending with the new administration. |
| 1:39.5 | A senior official at pharmaceutical company Novartis telling NBC News Cohen reached out to the company's then |
| 1:45.5 | CEO shortly after the election, promising access to the new administration. The company says |
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