passed an historic bill to ban assault weapons. we will get reaction from oversight committee chairman carolyn maloney. and then the end of roe v. wade can overwhelm those struggling foster care system in america. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. the january six committee might be on a hearing hiatus, but the justice department investigation into the attack on the capital appears to be finally kicking into overdrive. this week, reporting from the washington post later confirmed by nbc news, signaled a new focus in the department of justice criminal probe. donald trump, himself. prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump held in the run up to january six. in recent days, two former top aides to mike pence, his chief of staff mark short and lawyer greg jacob, have been called before a federal grand jury. witnesses have reportedly been asked about conversations with trump, his lawyers and other members of his inner circle. they post al
might be on a hearing hiatus, but the justice department investigation into the attack on the capital appears to be finally kicking into overdrive. this week, reporting from the washington post later confirmed by nbc news, signaled a new focus in the department of justice criminal probe. donald trump, himself. prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump held in the run up to january six. in recent days, two former top aides to mike pence, his chief of staff mark short and lawyer greg jacob, have been called before a federal grand jury. witnesses have reportedly been asked about conversations with trump, his lawyers and other members of his inner circle. they post also reports that back in april, the justice department got their hands on phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration, including former chief of staff, mark meadows. as the saying goes, when it rains, it pours, because the new york times is reporting that f
in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. that s basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expected that vote would be the most favorable vote for karrin taylor robson so she needed to take the lead, she needed to build a little bit of a pad, because it was expected that the vote that was cast today, and then the final votes that will be kind of not till tomorrow, would be more favorable to kari lake. robson succeeded and getting a pad here. a pad of eight and a half points. it may well end up being enough to hold off lake. we are going to see some of the same day votes getting added here. like its number take up a little bit here. but robson came in today as the underdog. right now at 60% in, has a real shot at this. over the next couple hours, we re gonna see a trickle of the vote that was cast today get added to this. but that is basically gonna stop, and then maricopa county is the biggest one. here the
was listening to the great interesting conversation with kelly about it being difficult to prove but this stench think, you know, you remember there used to be a day when that kind of stuff just lead to shame in and of itself. and certainly kept you out of political life later. but that s not there anymore either. whether you can prove or not prove quid pro quo, that absence of revolving door that you described is compelling. well, the shame issue here, i, think is compelling, ali, because obviously, the republicans, particularly trump partisans, are aware that it is shameful to use government service or family connection to government service, to make private gain for yourself, and have private business game. because they use this as a way to try to attack president biden s family, for example, all the time. they know that this is something that is shameful and terrible, and that nobody should ever want to do, and they try to pin all sorts of stuff with that kind of a ca