still looking to talk to some key people, including ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. chairman bennie thompson telling reporters the committee wants to know about her communications with trump attorney john eastman. eastman devised the scheme to pressure then vice president mike pence to block the certification of biden s 2020 electoral win. it s verified, appeared to be regular in form and authentic. something pence ultimately refused to do. we have sent ms. thomas a letter asking her to come and talk to the committee. we look forward to her coming. ginni thomas issued a one-line response to the committee via the conservative publication daily caller saying she can t wait to clear up miscommunications. eastman denying he ever discussed litigation that might come before the supreme court with ginni thomas or justice clarence thomas. eastman writing, we can verve in
adam kinzinger. and censuring liz cheney and adam kinzinger because they are trying to find out what happened on january 6th, huh? and house speaker with the mounting pressure he s under to endorse a primary challenge tore cheney, but cheney responded by calling gop leaders, quote, willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election. and secretaries he has pardoned defendants some of which have been charged with seditious conspiracy. yet another development, phone records reveal on the morning of january 6th the former president called representative jim jordan and spoke to him for ten minutes. this directly contradict what is jordan told the rules committee which is that he only spoke to the president that day after the attack. that afternoon, jordan took to the house floor to object to the certification of president joe biden electoral win. okay. so what does it all mean? i m not surprised that former
Congress to continue Biden s presidential certification despite violent protests at US Capitol ANI | Updated: Jan 07, 2021 06:56 IST
Washington [US], January 7 (ANI): Despite the extremely chaotic situation at the US Capitol on Wednesday following violent protests by supporters of President Donald Trump, lawmakers in both parties and chambers said that Congress will continue the work of certifying President-electJoe Biden s electoral victory in the evening. I have faced violent hatred before. I was not deterred then, and I will not be deterred now. Tonight, Congress will continue the business of certifying the electoral college votes, House Majority Whip James Clyburn said in a tweet.
commercials phillipe that democrats can use that will drive a lot of this home if he s an impeached president. there s a difference between clinton there s a huge difference. bill clinton won in a legitimate electoral landslide in both 92 and 96. donald trump s electoral win was ranked 46 in american history. his 63 million in popular vote was 3 million behind hillary clinton s 66 million votes. this is not the same as bill clinton. and by the way and i ve written about this before in an op-ed it did hurt bill clinton long term. yes, people don t know that he was impeached but not removed. they know he finished his term. but republicans did pretty well in the following 20 years. right. so i really don t think there s anything and also what is donald trump competing with? is he competing with impeachment is going to stain his legacy on infrastructure, on bullying? what is it that is going to have
today is tuesday and yet another primary e llection day. the polls are open in four state, wisconsin, minnesota, wisconsin and vermont. the focus is the midwest, the region as you will remember that carried president trump to the 2016 electoral win. but an election after elections since then, we have seen the republicans grip on once safe districts slip. joining me now is msnbc s steve kornacki and the washington post political correspondent steve weegle. and break it down for us, steve. well, start out in wisconsin and of course, donald trump carried the state in 2016 before there was trump though, there was ben for democrats and the bain of the political existence in wisconsin has been scott walker, the governor that they feel is four times the charm now when it comes to taking out