It is a great place to start. Especially given the Vice President ial debate that we all watched. It is entitled, this is why maga loves j. D. Vance. And you wrote in part quote, weve seen all this before. In 2016 and 2020, Mike Pence was the gentleman debater. He was less polished and less effective than vance, but he had a similar, softening effect on the ticket. In 2016, his Earnest Faith and apparent kindness might have reassured voters that Trump Couldnt be that bad, not if he had chosen pence. We know exactly how that turned out. In choosing advanced and discarding pence, trump traded actual decency for a man who could simulate decency, and thats exactly what advanced did on tuesday night. But he couldnt keep it together for the entire evening. At the very end, the mask slipped. On tuesday night, walters learned exactly why maga loves vance so much. Hes a talented communicator. He has a compelling life story. He can make the ideological and Policy Case for republican populism bet
Ukraine scheme. Later we will breakdown the latest news from the president ial race including the latest on the Georgia Election Board ruling on counting ballots. But first i want to get right into it with the Executive Producer of from russia with lev, my colleague, Rachel Maddow, who gets to add a new and important moniker to your resume. You are the Executive Producer of this amazing documentary we just watched. Congratulations, first of all, my friend. Thank you, it feels so great to have it out in the world. Have to ask you, did you like it . Not only did i like it, i was set up not to like it. I dont mean that for any other reason than lev is a complicated character and it is an honest documentary about the complexity of lev. His Wife Talks about the complexity of lev. You had the first interview with him all those years ago. So i was not sure what i wanted to know that i did not already know and you stitched the whole thing together in a way that makes me wish i knew all of this
phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators yesterday. former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we are going to have more on that right in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former presidents effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in the 2020 election. take a listen to this incredible moment recalled today of a white house meeting just days before january 6 involving jeffrey clark, today s witnesses, the white house counsel, and then president trump. clark had just explained his plan, and here s how white house counsel eric hirschman responded. a warning, now, some of the language is a little bit sal
the house has just sealed a critical win for the democrats. giving final congressional approval to a landmark climate, health care and tax bill and sending it to president biden to sign into law. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re following major breaking news. a federal judge unsealing the mar-a-lago search warrant a little while ago at the request of the u.s. justice department. there s a lot to unpack this hour. let s go to katelyn polance. what does the fbi say they found in the search? i m looking at the itemized list handed to former donald trump s lawyers whenever the fbi left and it is 33 items ultimately that were seized from mar-a-lago as possible evidence of crime. among that list there are 11 sets of documents that appear to be classified or confidential at some level in the u.s. government. in one there s a box of documents noted that has various classified documents inc
before congress about antisemitism on congress. specifically calling for the genocide of jews, does that institute bullying harassment? if it is directed and severe, it is harassment. so the answer is yes. it is a dependent decision. that s your testimony today? calling for the genocide of jews is depending upon the context? that was tuesday. and there was the clean-up attempt by liz magill on wednesday. in that moment i was focused on our university s longstanding policies aligned with the u.s. constitution which say that speech alone is not punishable. these policies need to be clarified and evaluated. that obviously was not enough and of course, she is now stepped down. so has the chair of the board of trustees at the university of pennsylvania. and we have team coverage on all of this. what s the latest? the developments have been swift-moving with liz magill announcing that she will be stepping down amid that growing chorus of calls. in light of the tes