as we get closer to 2024. for the former president, it s his first time back in d.c. since leaving office 553 days ago. and he will be speaking at a summit literally around the corner from the white house he left, refusing, you ll recall, to be part of the inauguration and the peaceful transfer of power. he will lay out a vision for public safety and crime, although trump has proven in recent speech, he manages to stay on topic for just so long before reverting to his old grievances about the 2020 election. on the other hand, his former vice president spoke at a d.c. conference this morning trying to look to the future and taking a shot a the his form boss at the same time. the good news is we have a once in a lifetime opportunity. to save america from decline and decay brought by been those progressive policies and to build a governing majority that will last for generations. but in order to win, conservatives need to do more than criticize and complain. we must unite our
and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that in just a moment. that is the justice department branch of all of this. the congressional side of the investigation picks up in a few hours with a new hearing focused on the former president s pressure campaign to get the department of justice to intervene in the 2020 election. joining me now ellie honig former federal prosecutor. we can tell a lot by this witness list today. we can, john. let s set the scene. mid-december 2020 now it s about a month and change after the election, we are a few
this is the most significant second amendment ruling in more than a decade. in a 6-3 decision, the court struck down new york s law that places restrictions on concealed handguns . that law was enacted more than a century ago. the majority of the court ruling, the constitution protects a person s right to carry a gun outside the home. jessica schneider is live in washington with these breaking details. jessica, what more was in this decision? erica, the supreme court here significantly expanding gun rights and expanding the scope of the second amendment for the first time since 2008. so this is a 6-3 decision written by the senior most justice, clarence thomas. what it has done is it has struck down a new york gun law that you restricted who could carry concealed handguns outside the home. it s a law that stood for more than a century. but the court has now said that that law cannot stand and that crucially here the constitution guarantees the right to carry a gun outside t
false election claims like the former president. arizona voters have picked david farnsworth over rusty bowers in the gop primary for senate. bowers, you may remember, delivered emotional testimony to the january 6th committee in june. farnsworth had said of the 2020 election this is a real conspiracy headed up by the devil himself. that s a quote from the gop candidate there now. but it was the vote to protect abortion rights in kansas that could be a major recursor, a sign at least for november. voters there rejected an amendment that could have led to an abortion ban in that state. let s begin in michigan, though. political correspondent sara murray in grand rapids. looking broadly at last night s results, potentially a major impact on what we see in november. you ve got election deniers winning the republican nomination in a lot of states. in kansas another sign. reporter: oh absolutely. when you look at michigan, it was a great night for election deniers. we saw john g
and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we ve got a lot of theories, just don t have the evidence. that s the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trump s ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy theories were not true. at some point, one of them made a comment that they didn t have evidence but had a lot of theories. that was mr. giuliani. what exactly did he say, how did that come up? my recollection, he said we got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. okay, not having the evidence of any of this stuff did not stop the relentless pressure campaign to overturn the election. the scheme spanned several states and trump s attempts to draw in republican officials from