thank you so much. tonight, we have a report on some of the key evidence that can inform whether there are charges in the trump probe by special counsel smith. that s amidst new reports crossing the wire late today in the new york times about his aggressive approach to all probes, including this one. that s coming up. by the end of the hour, we turn to the director behind a movie obama says he lived. cameron crowe makes his beat debut tonight. show me the money, et cetera. but we begin right now with the top story in america. the new order in washington. this is the first formal week of speaker mccarthy s tenure after his late start. while there was talk about inflation and pocketbook issues, the gop s new house majority is using its power to highlight abortion and its stances against abortion rights, with votes on two separate bills. one appears to be a kind of while it does not apply to over 99% of procedures. the other using the force of federal law to basically take
trump had in the basket. he was trying desperately to hold onto power, and it was the fake elector scam that he thought would get them through this complicated scheme involving pressuring pence, showing up at the capitol saying wait, there are these other electors, you can t certify the vote. so that s what prosecutors do when they put together a case, they have to look at all of that evidence in context. and as you say, the key piece of evidence here is the testimony of ronna mcdaniel, where she talks about not one, but two phone calls with the former president. first eastman is introduced, and trump brings her, in essence, into the scheme, asking for her participation. she then calls back to say yes, she ll go ahead and work with them. and ultimately, again on december 14th, she testified that she called when the lists were prepared. when you put that all together, you have the strong contours of a conspiracy charge. yeah, i think you laid out,