here are a few others from republican members. quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. another one, the president needs to stop this asap. another one, fix this now. hours passed with no action by the president to defend the congress of the united states. this brings up another point. did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct congress official proceeding to count electoral votes? carol, it seems this is all putting the investigation closer to the oval office before and during the january 6 riot. absolutely, chris, and i think you get a good sense from liz cheney s question right there. it s almost as if she is in the u.s. attorney s office and asking not the question of the
he s provided this motherlode of information, but they still need to talk to him about trump s state of mind, planning in november and december, what was unfolding on january 6, and there might be because he never wanted them to come to this contempt vote and a possible indictment, it might be too much pressure for him and he might have to fold and end up speaking with them. he really has a lot of financial considerations that are bearing down upon him, and if trump is never going to speak to him again, anyway, he might, in the end, buckle. and it is so compelling, carol. the committee now seems to be willing to let the public see what they are collecting as evidence. what do you know about this as part of an overall strategy by the committee? the committee s overall goal,
lead to a major surge of infections as soon as january. we have a leading doctor standing by to take our questions on that later in this hour. and in kentucky tonight, search efforts continue following those deadly tornadoes that roared through the south this past weekend. there are still more than 100 people unaccounted for. president biden will visit one of the hardest hit regions in kentucky tomorrow. with that let s bring in our lead-off guest on this tuesday night, carol lennig, with the washington post, philip rucker with the best-seller i alone can fix it. associate editor and columnist for real clear politics, and paul butler, a former corruption prosecutor at the justice department, currently a professor at georgetown law. good to have all of you here. as that book continues, carol, liz cheney wrote more texts to lawmakers this morning before tonight s vote. take a listen.
philip rucker and carol lennig. nbc news has not independently con firl them. here is one of the excerpts i think is among the most startling. milley saw trump as a classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. he had earlier described to aides that he kept having a stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of 20th century fascism were replaying in america. he saw parallels between trump s rhetoric about election fraud and adolf hitler s insistence to his followers at the nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. this is a reichstag moment, milley told them. what do you make of that? i would have to be sitting in the room when mark said that. i know him to be a very sober man, a very good academic as a matter of fact. he didn t go to west point, he went to princeton. i think he was probably drawing a political a historical
want to just reiterate these are excerpts that are reported by philip rucker and carol lennig. nbc news has not independently con firl them. here is one of the excerpts i think is among the most startling. milley saw trump as a classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. he had earlier described to aides that he kept having a stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of 20th century fascism were replaying in america. he saw parallels between trump s rhetoric about election fraud and adolf hitler s insistence to his followers at the nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. this is a reichstag moment, milley told them. what do you make of that? i would have to be sitting in the room when mark said that. i know him to be a very sober man, a very good academic as a matter of fact. he didn t go to west point, he went to princeton. i think he was probably drawing a political a historical parallel not to shock anybody but to just talk abo