that s an hbcu, is condemning a drug search that was carried out on the school s women s lacrosse team s bus, which players and coaches are now calling traumatizing. this happened while returning from a game in florida. the team s bus was stopped in liberty county, georgia. officers told the bus driver he was improperly driving in the left lane. what happened next is drawing nationwide scrutiny as the police and a drug-sniffing dog began searching the players bags. the liberty county sheriff says he didn t believe any racial profiling took place. delaware governor carney is calling videos of the event is concerning, upsetting and disappointing. joining me now is nbc news continental blayne alexander in atlanta. what more do we know about this incident and what s the sheriff s office saying now? reporter: well, garrett, this happened down in liberty county, georgia. this is in south georgia about 3 1/2 hours south of atlanta. this is something that really started probably as routinel
election. joining us now is blayne alexander in atlanta and jonathan la mere. why is the january 6th committee pursuing these republican lawmakers? do they think they re going to get them or just put it out there and see what happens? reporter: the first isndy biggs. he has gotten a letterith several specific issues the committee wants to talk to him about. he participated in planned meetings in the run-upo january 6th including one person at the white hoe. he was named by a far right activist as coming up with the idea to bring protesters to d.c he worked to persuade state officials that the election was stolen, which of course was a lie. and he requested apparently a
and thought he won in georgia and was asking them to find votes that he thought belonged to him, that might be crazy, but it s not a crime. so any prosecutor would want to talk to the people who talked to president trump, whether it s raffensperger on the phone or those who work for trump at the white house. i want to remind folks of the timeline of this, right, of the former president. blayne, you remember it, we talked about it last year. craig, you covered it every day. chuck, we talked about it on this show. it started even before the results of the election were announced. just after election night, right, when president biden, then, of course, president-elect biden was called as winner in georgia, and you then had former president trump demanding a recount, a hand recount, confirm that joe biden won. the attorney general in december came out and said there was no widespread voter fraud. january 2nd was the phone call that we ve been talking about, the insurrection, of course, h
where she stands on whether to vote about the filibuster and where manchin also stands too, outside of that. i think what we are seeing right now is a very strong effort for democrats and also allies and civil rights leaders to make it very clear how important this bill is, even if they can t get the votes to pass this week and they won t get the votes to pass considering how the senate is right now. we can only expect that this issue will be compounded even further into the year, into the midterms, and knowing that they re going to double down on this message of how to have a coalition, how to bring a deal to the table that s going to make sure something gets done, if that is the electoral count act or something else that is much more aligned with sinema or manchin and all democrats aligned too. thank you so much and to garrett of course and to blayne alexander in atlanta. joining me now is patrick gas par, president and ceo at
what the committee wants to know, and what could happen if she chooses not to talk. i m hallie jackson in washington on what is shaping up to be a busy thursday. here is blayne alexander in atlanta. our justice correspondent pete williams in our washington newsroom. political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution greg bluestein is here along with former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official and current msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and let me take a beat to lay out the back story of this special grand jury request. remember, the big reason why we re here is because of that phone call a year ago, january 2nd, 2021, now infamous, when former president trump called up the georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, looking for extra made-up votes watch. so what are we going do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. you know, we have that in spades already, or we can keep it going. but that s not fair to the voters of