How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
Than a mile because of fears of a possible explosion. A Deadly School shooting in minnesota. One student killed, another in critical condition. And another shooting, this time at a virginia campus. Two officers shot. Overseas tonight, more u. S. Military equipment arriving in ukraine and tonight, Vladimir Putin and his new message about the u. S. And nato, saying, quote, they played us. The January 6th Investigation. New reporting tonight on former President Trump and his alleged effort to seize Voting Machines in several states after joe biden won. Asking the Justice Department and the reported plan that could have allowed the pentagon to seize the machines. Jon karl is here. Tonight, Whoopi Goldberg apologizing after comments she made, saying the holocaust was not about race. What shes saying now amid outrage over her words. The fbi investigating more than a dozen new bomb threats targeting hbcus for a second straight day. The newest threats coming on the first day of black history m
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Historically black colleges just as black History Month begins. Plus, Vladimir Putin accuses United States and nato as using ukraine as a pawn. And with just two days left before the Beijing Olympics kick off, the fbi is urging american athletes to leave their personal phones at home. Announcer live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. Welcome to the show, everyone. It is wednesday, february 2nd. Americas colleges are on alert after several threats of violence right across the country. That includes at least a dozen historically black colleges that received bomb threats on the first day of black History Month. In minnesota one student is dead and another critically injured after shooting at the south education center. Authorities arrested two suspects tuesday evening and heres what happened earlier. Have a look. Officers arrived and discovered two students had been shot on the sidewalk outside of the school. Officers quickly determined that the suspects had fled the scene