only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k
this counting electors required in states to send electors for the candidates who actually won and bans a retroactive change over rules when it comes to governing elections. those seem like pretty common sense reforms to me. but here s the thing, only nine republicans, yes, nine republicans in the house voted for that bill. perhaps unsurprisingly all of those lawmakers are set to leave congress next year. in the end, 203 republicans voted against a bill that was aimed at protecting and strengthening our democracy. over in the senate pennsylvania s patrick me one of the many soon-to-be gop retirees has signed on to his chamber s version of the bill as a cosponsor, he becomes a tenth republican to do so which means that if all democrats and independents sign on, they have enough votes to beat the usually fatal filibuster. there is no cause for celebration just yet, both chambers still have to work out some key differences in their bills before anything gets to the presidents de
a russian politician publicly calling for putin to resign. as dissent in russia appears to grow over its failures in ukraine. a municipal leader in st. petersburg spoke to me moments after leaving court today just after he paid a fine for speaking out against putin. in his first television interview, he was unafraid. he doubled down on his call for putin to step down. translator: we will continue to insist on his resignation. perhaps our words about putin have a harmful effect on russia, and the need to leave power will continue to spread. i said it s extraordinary, right? when he went to pay a fine and it could get a lot worse than that. he came out, and he doubled down. so i asked him, why is he speaking out right now? taking these incredible risks. and here is what he told me. translator: i have two little children. i don t want for them to go through what i am going through in 15, 20 years, namely, to be afraid of going out on the streets to speak their minds at dem
supporters to go home. trying to make the case that trump chose to allow his supporters to carry out that deadly assault on the capitol. on january 6th, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance. president trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes the between leaving the ellipse and telling them up to go home. he chose not to act. one of the committees key points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no effort to stop the violence. at 1:25, president trump went to the private dining room off the oval office. from 1:25 until 4:00 the president stayed in his dining room a hits connected to the oval office fire short hallway witnesses told us that on january 6th president trump sat in his usual spot at the head of the table facing a television hanging on the wall. it would take probably less than 60 seconds from the oval of
187 minutes of what was described as donald trump s dereliction of duty on january 6th. we also heard testimony from two former white house insiders, deputy national security advisor matthew pottinger, and sarah matthews. they both resigned shortly after the insurrection took place. the panel tonight focused on those three plus hours between the time donald trump left the rally, and when he sent out that tweet telling his supporters to go home. trying to make the case that trump chose to allow his supporters to carry out that deadly assault on the capitol. on january 6th, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance. president trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes the between leaving the ellipse and telling them up to go home. he chose not to act. one of the committees key points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no eff