not only lied about in a tweet that pence agreed with him about his constitutional authority and the thing that is most shocking is that as the capitol was under assault is that as these men and women of congress were running for their lives and as the secret service was trying to remove pence from the capitol because they feared for his life, trump was tweeting, attacking pence. knowing they had already breached the capitol. it is shocking in how debased it is, what trump did at that moment. so in history, pence will always have a bright spot for standing for the constitution when the electoral college votes were counted, but in history, i don t think there will ever be the word president in front of his name. rev, your reaction to it, to mike pence and all of this and his position and his silence and
history. today is the 50th anniversary of the infamous watergate break-in, when burglars connected to the re-election campaign of president richard nixon broke into democratic party headquarters at the watergate office building in washington, d.c. the cover-up and the president s efforts to obstruct justice ultimately led to nixon s resignation, and of course, it changed the course of american history. bob woodward, one of the washington post reporters who broke that scandal 50 years ago, reflects on that moment and why donald trump s role in january 6th is actually much, much worse. suppose there was a watergate today, what would be the response? well, we have had a watergate today. we have had the trump administration. nixon was a republican. his own party had turned on him. when nixon resigned, it was inconceivable that he would come back or be the leader of the republican party. now, we have such a different
directly. here s my message to democrats. don t underestimate the role of corruption in our politics. remember the candidacies of donald trump and bernie sanders back in 2016, although in trump s case, it was totally hypocritical. both of them made huge inroads with the voters using an anti-corruption and anti-establishment message. in general, the american people are rightly fed up with political and moral and financial corruption. in washington, d.c. so there s an open goal here, democrats. don t miss. coming up, at the top of the hour, former trump dhs official miles taylor, joins amin about his discussion to quit the gop and what finally got him to the breaking point. that s next right here on msnbc. that s next right here on msnbc. it s still the eat fresh® refresh, and now subway® is refreshing their classics, like the sweet onion teriyaki sauce, topped on tender shaved steak. it s a real slam dunk. right, derek? wrong sport, chuck. just hold the sub, man! subway keeps refres
recertificate and then trump could get supporters to follow suit. details are included in a new book this will not pass: trump, biden and the american future by jonathan martin and alex burns. trump detailed his thinking to others including the top senate republican mitch mcconnell as he tried, the former president, tried to enlist others to help his scheme. manu raju, in trump s view brian kemp was the first domino. if he could flip kemp, the other pieces would fall into play. this is right after the election, right after he had been called for donald trump to have lost the race, that joe biden won. in trump s mind then and now there was widespread fraud, the election was stolen, joe biden did not win and they needed to do something to change that. what he told leaders in this call according to the book is