confidence and those aren t the only challenges to his reelection, but they maybe the biggest. even so, he delivered a powerful message to the afl-cio today uncysting he is still the right man for the job. i m going to keep fighting for you. are you prepared to fight with me? let s build it together. let s continue to give working families a fighting chance. face our challenges head on. and let s keep building a a better america, because we can do it. on the other side of the coin, republicans are also facing potential head winds, but in the form of the former president. with the january 6th committee unveiling new testimony and evidence that shows former president trump embraced election fraud allegations a as a way to raise hundreds of millions from his supporters. republicans a across the country have to be asking themselves whether it makes sense to keep writing riding trump s coat tails. so far it s been a winning formula. the watts post found 10 primary candidates h
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
here he is unsparing in his rejection of trump and giuliani s election fraud delusions. i told them that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ], and you know, made a statement about that, but i reiterated that they wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims. i specifically raised a dominion voting machines which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations and disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in the system and that their votes didn t count and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it which was complete nonsense, and it was being laid out there, and i told him that it was that it was stuff
president biden on the world stage. we hear accomplished at the summit of the americas. when john kirby, a member of the presidents national security team joins us live from the white house. let s begin this hour on capitol hill. today s news of a bipartisan deal on gun reform. it s the latest sign that public pressure is working, and this time it s different. the framework reached and enhanced background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds. incentivizes for states to implement red flag laws. new funding for school safety, mental health and tele-health. clarification of who receives f else. and penalties for struck here s what s not in the deal. they would not ban semi automatic weapons or high capacity magazines. it would not raise the age to buy assault weapons. it would not apply universal background checks. make no mistake, this would be a historic achievement. a deal is a deal. sometimes politics is the art of the possible. president biden released a statement today saying i
something to hide, and why the threat still exists to this country and where it is all headed next we have an incredible group of experts to help us including, congresswoman harvard constitutional law professor laurence tribe, and house committee member msnbc host amongst and al sharpton and trump whisper at mother jones writer david corn at a whole lot more. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. as we start this special, it is important to remember one thing, what happened on january the six, 2021 was not a spontaneous riot. in fact, it was a coordinated attack. during the first public hearing of the january six committee, vice chairman liz cheney laid out in detail donald trump s seven planned point despite losing the election. that is where all of this begins, trump s loss and his refusal to acknowledge it. even before the election was called for joe biden, donald trump pushed disgusting election conspiracies, but his own team knew the truth. his own team knew that