morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
for louisiana congress and the first district. still ahead this hour, according to a recent reporting, the justice department suggests this infamous pilot documents seized mar-a-lago might not be all trump has. plus, a blockbuster new account for the new york times claims that trump may have had plans for the documents. i ll be joined later this hour by trump s former personal attorney and fixer, michael cohen. he s a man with no shortage of experience whelan in dealing with behalf of the failed ex president. plus, we ve been honing in on crucial states to watch this midterm season. today we re taking a hard look at georgia. we have two controversial candidates in the spotlight. notable election denier, and qanon conspiracy theorist, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. and then a candidate, herschel walker. el walker i like to vöost it, vöost it my vitamins can boost it i like to vöost it, vöost it we like to vöost it
leading up to the fbi raid of trump s florida resident that turned up a trove of classified documents. even if you are, and most bizarre right, now enclosed trusted to julia dealings from our twice impeached ex president, this one is actually a doozy. let s get up to speed on all we have learned about the mar-a-lago document investigation just this week. number one, according to reporting from the washington post stating multiple sources familiar with the matter, earlier this year, trump asked his lawyer, alex cannon detail the national archives that trump had already returned all of the documents that they national archives for seeking. canada refused to convey the message for trump, because he was not sure if it was true. spoiler alert. it was not true! trump still had thousands of documents, including some highly classified ones according to publicly released inventories, from the justice department. we should note nbc news has not independently verified the post verifying on that s
traditional political playbook is no more. this is the trump era in republican politics, you don t apologize, you double down. no kidding. aaron, in a head-to-head debate, because in a lot of states there are unusual republican candidates running. there are democratic opponents have refused to debate them in some cases because of the weirdness of it. and this, case is going to be a debate. raphael warnock, whose policy and herschel walker, by the, way talks about his fatal the time, raphael warnock is actually a pastor. how does that go? do you think that s a good idea for warnock to debate walker? how do you think that will go, and what will people see when they actually have these two guys on the stage and able to compare them side to side? yeah, i mean, this gives the debate in georgia that people want to see obviously. in the governor s race, we have stacey abrams, and incumbents. we also have we seen them on the debate stage, but we ve never seen these two on a debate stag
bank. lanny davis was on all this stuff, on every single television shows showing, i m a guy who s never been audited in my entire life, i did never not pay taxes. i never did not request an extension of time, i pay over $5 million in taxes during that time period. and all of this was in the sentencing memo that we provided to judge william h. polley the third, who ignored it completely. and we believe, according to release statements by fbi agents, some who are still in and some that are out, which you will read in the book, they all knew it was a lie. yet they needed to go ahead and do this. if you think about what came out recently in berman s book, where he makes the statement that the attorney general was putting pressure on their office to eyewash trump, or individual number one from any of the, you know, statements i had made, and only folded on tax evasion, and can t be financed, as well, i am