tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
to tripledemic illness on th rise. what you need to know, heading into this holida weekend. looking back at thi consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad. our favorite historians, here to put it all i perspective, as a special, extra early addition of th 11th hour is underway, on this friday night. good evenin once again. i am stephanie ruhle. nearly 24 hours after its final report was mad public, tonight, the january 6th committee released a new batch of witness transcripts they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump. we will brea down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, th committee s report is wrapping up its 18 month investigation, and it is very clear about the main reason for the attack o art american democracy. th panel says, the central caus was one man. former presi
congressman, carlos curbelo, now an msnbc political analyst carlos, can explain how th update of the electoral coun act is gonna work? well, steph, what i ll tell you is what i think is mos important. so, we know what donald trum thought the weak spot was. he thought that he could convince mike pence to just ge up there on that speakers rush room in the house, and just do whatever he wanted, cancel votes, declare certain votes invalid. so, the most important thing people have to understand abou this electoral count act refor is that it makes it very clear that the vice president s role is purely ministerial. the vice president does no have any discretion to allow o disallow certain electors to recognize certain votes and no others and that s important, becaus it eliminates the human elemen in all of this we were very fortunate tha mike pence, on that day, decided to do the right thing. that may not be the case in th future this reform takes care of that it happened in a bipartisa
cooperation. mitch mcconnell signaled month ago that this was important to him as well, and now, it s the law of the land, and hopefully people don t have to worry about this kind of event eve again. doing what you do best, how would you explain th importance of this to th average person i think you have to look at it, like, the electoral coun act was written in the late 18 80s, right so, it s horse somebod language and it s that kind of language that allows some of someon like donald trump, whose kin of the loopholes, to find a wa and say, well, wait a second what if i did it like this and they were like, that s actually not written down that you can do it like that, but everyone knows, it s ceremonial everyone knows that it s bee approved by all of the states. they ve all sent their slate o electors and they said, well, what if w don t do that. and i think with this language
house took a big step in tha direction, passing the 1.7 trillion dollar omnibus fundin bill one part of it modernizes th electoral count act, making it a whole lot harder for someone to try, what trump tried to do in 2020. joining me now to discuss is linda gallon, aka th internet s very popular an informative politics girl. and former florida republica congressman, carlos curbelo, now an msnbc political analyst carlos, can explain how th update of the electoral coun act is gonna work? well, steph, what i ll tell you is what i think is mos important. so, we know what donald trum thought the weak spot was. he thought that he could convince mike pence to just ge up there on that speakers rush room in the house, and just do whatever he wanted, cancel votes, declare certain votes invalid. so, the most important thing people have to understand abou this electoral count act refor is that it makes it very clear