and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
spoke to the washington post on the condition that only her first name the used to protect her privacy, was 30 minutes away from the clinic when she got the call, stopped at a red light, as soon as she heard the news, she said, she broke down crying, trying to figure out what she would do now. texas is just one of 26 states that are certain or likely to ban abortion care in the coming days and months, according to the institute, the research and policy organization that advocates for reproductive health and rights. half of those states have also had trigger laws which take effect automatically now that roe v. wade has been overturned. and, in nine of those dates, the bands have already gone into effect. and there s enormous erosion of civil rights, ushered in by a disconnected conservative majority supreme court, will only be the beginning. as protests across the country look to the streets yesterday, many voiced their worries about what other rights might be taken away. ta
Now, congressman . Well, neil, what i see right now is the senates not willing to work with the house of representatives. Im a no on the cr because i cant, in my right mind, allow this administration to destroy this country. We sent those Appropriation Bills over to chuck schumer. I highly recommend you get your house in order in the senate, pass those bills and get joe to sign it and 73 of this Discretionary Spending will be taken care of. 73 of the government will remain open. Chuck, go to work. Neil theres a lot of Finger Pointing back and forth and many say the house should get to work. The meeting, this one started about an hour and a half ago, Kevin Mccarthy wanted to call a member conference. Its just letting out right now. I dont know whats coming of it. Aisha hasney on capitol hill. The meeting just let out and a whole bunch of congressmen and women coming out and many of them looking, very, very frustrated and Marjorie Taylor greene came out and told reporters, its the same g
here to de oliveira and walt nauta in your eyes. do you think prosecutors could still get them? i think they can. they both face conspiracy to obstruct justice which is a very serious crime. as well as each making false statements. so if convicted of these charges on the evidence is very strong here, they could face serious prison time, their best option is likely to cooperate. my guess is the reason we had the delay in the addition of carlos de oliveira in this case is that prosecutors were probably working with him to get him to cooperate and flip, it seems like he is somebody who could put himself there as a witness on the scene and talk about what walt nauta and what donald trump said, hear the boss, and put together, providing narrative for why they were obstructing justice and how this all went down.
insight into donald trump s support limits and how he ropes them into his alleged criminal schemes. first there was world nauta, the former white house fellow who became trump s personal aide or body man after he left office, it s not always indicted in june as his coconspirator accused of packing up classified documents and hiding them from the federal government. now we know that nauta wasn t alone in his scheme. as a superseding indictment lays new obstruction counts alleging trump and his aides attempted to delete mar-a-lago surveillance video last summer that showed his mishandling of documents. the indictment charges a third person with federal felonies. carlos de oliveira who is identified as the property manager at mar-a-lago and a former belly as well. de oliveira has been charged with conspiracies to obstruct justice, altering and destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object and making false statements. according to the washington