campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us toni
his campaign knows he lost. his administration knows he lost. and nevertheless, he tells the country, i won. we have much more evidence to show the american people on this point than we can reasonably show in one hearing. and today, we will begin. tonight, new testimony from the very top of trump s own campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big rip off. tonight, committee mem
of election fraud were just lies. what they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us tonight. i m rachel maddow here at
All right, i start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015. Back when we were still figuring out what the dating term ghosting actually meant. And what a lot of us didnt know how much about that Fringe Movement that was the alt right. Of course, that all changed with Donald Trumps Golden Escalator Ride at trump tower when he announced his long shot president ial campaign. Trump of course started by courting the fringe Alt Right Movement, retweeting their memes, enlisting the help of steve bannon then Executive Chairman of the far right Site Britebart to run his campaign. This was concerning for conservative commentator david french. He wrote an op ed in 2015 calling out the movement saying quote, many of them are White Nationalists, hate interracial adoption, and other race mixing practices. French and his wife and ghost writer nancy were quickly bombarded with threats from the alt right troll. As french writes in her new book ghosted, an american story, the most
On this new hour of ayman, What In The World happened to reagans Republican Party . Our first guest wrote the book on how the alternative right took center stage. Also, the clock is ticking for trump to pick a running mate. Who he chooses could boil down to one thing, loyalty, and believing the big lie. And, the mindnumbing conversation between ann coulter and Vivek Ramaswamy that earned them the title of worst of the week. I am Ayman Mohyeldin. Lets do it. I start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015, back when we were still figuring out what the dating term, ghosting, actually, meant, and what a lot of us did not know about that Fringe Movement that was the alternative right. That all changed with Donald Trumps Golden Escalator Ride at trump tower, when he announced his longshot president ial campaign. Trump, of course, started by courting the fringe alt rights movement, enlisting the help of steve bannon, and then Executive Chairman of breitbart. This early