should have refused to count the electoral votes. and he should thereby have thrown out the results of the presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d.c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, through the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any
presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d. c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d. c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, throw the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any such effort to get pence to do that would be illegal. he was told it was illegal, but he did it anyway. we
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Possible. This as the Hezbollah Terror Group threatens to open a second front in the war between israel and hamas. Good morning, im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you. Gillian im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. Iranian back group is Launching Attacks on israel from across the border in lebanon. The Violence Stoking fears of all anout regional war. Is Israeli Forces continue to hit gaza. Dana Hamas Trading Fire overnight. Idf hammering hamas in gaza. Millions of civilians caught in the crossfire. Egypt agreeing to reopen a southern Border Crossing for aid. Gillian it follows President Bidens trip to israel and u. S. Support for the jewish state and deliver a major Oval Office Address tonight on the war. We begin with trey yengst. He joins us from the ground in southern israel. Hi, trey. Good morning. Right now we are continuing our travels with the israeli army going from location to location along the border getting a sense of what things look like here n
you don t i m saying all right. i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for being with me today. cnn newsroom continues with omar jimenez, right now. welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we begin tonight with breaking news. the israeli military says they are investigating what they re calling an incident in southern gaza that killed eight idf soldiers, making it one of the single deadliest incident involving israeli troops since the october 7 attacks. now, earlier, the militant wing of hamas says, it, quote, carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles meanwhile, rafah s civil defense says there has been new airstrikes and artillery shelling by israeli forces in the areas it s done. cnn s oren liebermann is in haifa for us now, or in the idf just released some preliminary findings from their investigation. what are they saying happened here? so this again is preliminary as you point at the investigation itself is ongoing