Smiled a lot, talked about personal issues, she was different in appearance. but she wants to make it illegal to wear a head scarf in public, that kind of thing, so her basic politics have not changed. but it has become somehow more acceptable and that s why we re seeing a likely margin that is so much smaller in the second round than it was five years ago. roger cohen, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. coming up, is a criminal referral in the works for former president trump? what a leading lawmaker on the select committee is saying about that. also ahead in our continuing coverage of the war in ukraine, clint watts is at the big board, breaking down the map, the new attacks in eastern ukraine and the new white house coronavirus response coordinator joins us amid rising case numbers in many parts of the country.
This and what shows their intent from the very beginning is these text messages were being sent around while the votes were still being counted. they knew they were going to lose. they knew they were going to act illegally. they knew they were going to try to subvert the constitution. they knew they were going to try to get the legislatures to ignore the will of the people and not allow a peaceful transfer of power. this is extraordinarily damning. i know people get tired of hearing this stuff, but this is extraordinarily damning that the mindset for donald trump s staff, if we are taking junior s attorney s word for it, is we re not going to win the election so let s rig it. let s find a way to stay in power. this is more than two months before january 6th. if you were ever looking for intent, if you were ever basically looking for people saying no matter what the results are we are going to figure out a way to game or rig the system to essentially
We have not made a decision about referrals on the committee. i think that it is absolutely the case, it is absolutely clear that what president trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, that they knew it was unlawful. they did it anyway. there s not really a dispute on the committee. the committee is working in a really collaborative way to discuss these issues, as we are with all of the issues we are addressing and we ll continue to do so. republican liz cheney, investigating the attack on the capitol, says the committee has enough evidence for a criminal
Referral of the president should the committee decide to proceed with that course of action. meanwhile, the new york times reports former president donald trump s eldest son sent the white house chief of staff a text message two days after the 2020 presidential election that laid out strategies for declaring his father the winner regardless of the electoral outcome, people familiar with the exchange said on friday. the text was sent by donald trump jr two days before joe biden was declared the winner of the election. it is very simple, trump jr wrote to meadows on november 35, 2020. he wrote at another point, we have multiple paths. we control them all. nbc news has not reviewed the messages in question. this is according to the times. the message went on to layout a variety of options that mr. trump or his allies ultimately employed in trying to overturn the results of the election from legal challenges to promoting alternative slates
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