And a sign of the times we are living in, the Speaker of the House got sued today over his refusal to seat a duly elected member of Congress.

For weeks, he's refused.

And the person who sued him, I just mentioned her, Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays, is standing by to join me in just a moment.

She's my first guest.

But I wanted to start tonight with another story I just talked with Chris about, the jaw-dropping

news out of the New York Times, that Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice,

which is now under his complete control, pay him $230 million.

Because in his mind, I guess, he thinks they owe him that simply because he was investigated

multiple times for a variety of things.

I'm not even going to list them all here.

You know, I'll know what they are.

And in case you were thinking, that's pretty outrageous even for him.

I didn't even believe necessarily the push alert for a second.

Well, when Trump was asked about the Times reporting earlier today, he confirmed he is in fact

demanding money from the Justice

Department, falsely saying that, quote, they rigged the election. He loves that one, doesn't it?

I mean, I guess there he must be referring to the election that he himself tried to steal and

overturn. That aside. Now, then even getting into how completely baseless that claim is,

or how justified the federal

investigations into Trump or which they were, let's just focus for a second on how Trump

is demanding this reported $230 million from his own Justice Department.

As the Times put it today, Trump is, quote, negotiating, in essence, with his subordinates.

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