Sandra house conservatives also taking aim at Conference Chair liz cheney, calling for her removal from that post after she voted to impeach former President Trump. We have affecting coverage to kick things off on this wednesday afternoon, Kristin Fisher with more of the Biden Administrations next steps but we begin with Jacqui Heinrich live on capitol hill for us this afternoon, hey. Hey there sandra Marjorie Taylor greene did not make things easy on House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy during our long meeting last night expressing no remorse, im told over past comments she made when elective promoting conspiracy theories. Mccarthy was forced to call in the Stearate Committee and lawmakers with their assignment. Whatever mccarthy decide to become it was not enough for House Democrats who Just Announced they are moving forward with a vote tomorrow on the floor to strip green of her committees. Democrats in the meantime seizing this moment watching half a Million Dollar ad campaign and
What it stands for in the aftermath of the trump presidency. Kevin mccarthy expected to meet very soon with representative Margery Taylor green who is under a lot of fire right now for spreading dangerous and false Conspiracy Theories and lies. Senate Republican Leaders including the republican leader Mitch Mcconnell is now condemning what he calls greens looney lies saying theyre a cancer on the gop as democrats are working to throw her off committees. All this comes a week before the second trump Impeachment Trial. House democrats laid out their case today saying the former president s blame for the deadly riot at the u. S. Capitol is unmistakable. Trumps lawyers are resorting to the argument that the senate has absolutely no Constitutional Authority to try him after leaving office. Also tonight, the white house says President Biden hasnt budged on his 1. 9 trillion price tag for covid19 relief after meeting with republican senators last night. This hour, ill talk with the White Hous
How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
Stolen. He amplified these lies at every turn, seeking to convince supporters that they were victims of a massive electoral conspiracy that threatened the nations continued existence, but every single court to consider the president s attacks on the outcome of the election rejected them and state and federal officials from both parties refuse President Trumps increasingly desperate demands that they break the law to keep him in power. With his options running out, trump announced a save america rally. It was an january 6th. He promised it would be, quote, wild. Each of those facts cited by House Democrats is indisputably true. Goes on to draw on Donald Trumps exact words at the january 6th rally. Words we can just play for you because trump said them publicly in front of cameras. We won this election and we won it by a landslide. Were going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and were not going to stand for that. Were going to walk do