votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa
this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. president biden last week addressing thursday s primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we re hours away from the committee s second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we ll tell you what s in the deal and how soon it could get to the president s desk. one of the leading negotiators, senator chris murphy, will join us live right here on morning joe. we re also keeping an eye on wall street, as the markets are tanking ahead of the opening bell. looks like a bad day ahead. good day to go to the track. we ll get some insight on what is fueling this latest sell-off. plus, the average price of gas hi
election defense fund that never existed and how he repeated his own top officials, even as they investigated one wild fraud allegation after another and found nothing. he said dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote and he meant people on native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. there were instances where the president would say people are telling me this or i heard this or i saw on television this impropriety in atlanta and we were in a position to say people already looked at that, you re getting bad information, that s not correct. i told hmm the stuff his people were shoveling out to the public were [ bleep ]. right now i want to bring in jonathan lemire, paul butler, barbara mcquade, great to have this all-star panel. ali, i think there s a pretty clear through line here all about the fact that the president was told over and over that the allegations of fraud didn t hold up and he went out and spread them anywa
39 past the hour. ukraine is being outgunned and outmanned in its effort to stop russia s takeover in the eastern donbas region and are losing grip on a key eastern city. nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter reports. reporter: this morning, russian forces inching closer to encircling the city of severodonetsk. ukrainian president zelenskyy says the fighting is for every meter of that city, now almost entirely under russian control with an estimated 10,000 civilians still inside. russian state media showing smoke rising from the ukrainian-controlled azov chemical plant, where the regional governor says 500 people, including children, are sheltering. in nearby villages, as the fighting creeps closer, not everybody wants to evacuate. this woman says, sweetheart, where can i go? who is waiting for me there? let others go, they are young. president zelenskyy says russia can still be stopped but with
for the last several weeks has been that region. and most of their firepower is concentrated on severodonetsk and its twin city across the river bank. by all accounts, the battles there are fierce and bloody. street-to-street, sometimes house by house. and it s the battle for those two cities that is shaping this war. and the russians are throwing everything they have at it, and they re pushing ukrainians into smaller and smaller pockets of control. as you mentioned, there s that azov chemical plant, where there are around 800 civilians hiding. and the ukrainians are on the outskish outskirts of the city. the russians are blowing up bridges from severodonetsk across the river. they blew up two bridges the other day and destroyed the third and last one today. so severodonetsk is cut off from the rest of ukraine. ukrainian troops can t get