Ties to extremists linked to the insurrection at the capitol still has room for liz cheney, a conservative stalwart, who had the audacity to hold donald trump accountable for the incitement of the riots in january 6th. Also on the line today, who will have the fortitude to go on the record against the real threat, a Conspiracy Theorist in its own ranks. Right now the republican conference is behind the closed doors ahead on a vote tomorrow to remove congresswoman greene from her Committee Appointments. A woman who is dubious about whether the attacks on 9 11 were real, endorsed calls to assassinate barack obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton. House Republican Leaders Kevin Mccarthy, for one, is reportedly feeling torn at this hour between cheney, a former State Department official, the daughter of conservative former Vice President dick cheney on one side, and a member of congress, Claire Mccaskill refers to as the q aknown lady. Reports of what went down inside the room. Mccarthy
he would maybe be the best person to have. i mean, how mad can you get that joe biden? and a remarkable scene inside the capital, warehouse members protested senators on their way to vote down a federal right to abortion. all in starts right now. good evening everyone, i m ayman mohyeldin, in new york, in for chris hayes. the ex president knew the conclusion he wanted. he wanted to overturn the results of a free and fair election. he wanted to install himself as the winner. he just needed to manufacture a way to get there. and that is where john eastman comes into the picture. eastman, of course, is a lawyer, and a die hard trump ally who was the architect behind much of the attempted coup and in fact he even spoke at trump s january 6th rally at the lips, the one where trump incited the insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, a
insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, and americans will find out whether they have control of the government or not. we no longer live in a self governing republic if we cannot get the answer to this question. this is bigger than president trump. it is a very essence of our republican former government and it has to be done. and anybody that is not willing to stand up and do it does not deserve to be in the office. all right, so, that is what eastman was saying publicly. but more notably is the work that he summoned was doing behind the scenes. he altered the now infamous coup memo, where he actually urged then vice president mike pence pence to literally throw at the results from seven states that joe biden had one before he, quote, gavels president trump as reelected. in order for that scheme to have work, trump and eastman n
they could pull it off. and is just waiting for the next presidential candidate. what,, then is to stop them? have we done anything in the last two years to prevent that scheme from being executed by a future, more savvy or president? not yet. and again, the strategy is to create confusion and to take it from there. what we need to do is really clarify. it is already illegal, amen, but if they really want to clarify the famously confusing electoral count act of 1887, then that would make it clear that they could not have even started with this bogus scheme. thank you so much for your, time harry litman, i appreciate it. thank you. i appreciate your insights. congresswoman elaine luria, is a democrat from virginia, she sits on the bipartisan committee investigating the january 6th insurrection and she joins me now. congressman congresswoman gloria, thank you. there is some damaging information of these emails published by politico. how do erasing these emails and their content
have we done anything in the last two years to prevent that scheme from being executed by a future, more savvy or president? not yet. and again, the strategy is to create confusion and to take it from there. what we need to do is really clarify. it is already illegal, amen, but if they really want to clarify the famously confusing electoral count act of 1887, then that would make it clear that they could not have even started with this bogus scheme. thank you so much for your, time harry litman, i appreciate it. thank you. i appreciate your insights. congresswoman elaine luria, is a democrat from virginia, she sits on the bipartisan committee investigating the january 6th insurrection and she joins me now. congressman congresswoman gloria, thank you. there is some damaging information of these emails published by politico. how do erasing these emails and their contents? would i would say is that the 100,000 documents that the committee has received i cannot comment on spe