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
also this hour, we will bring you the latest from the justice department issuing a flurry of subpoenas to trump insiders in connection to the january 6 probe. a former top u.s. attorney levels new accusations against bill barr for allegedly targeting prominent democrats for political prosecutions. we will have a report from new hampshire where the midterm s last primary today is taking place featuring a republican battle between a trump candidate and a more mainstream republican to challenge the democratic senator in a contest that could decide control of the senate. we begin overseas with nbc s kelly cobiella and keir simmons in london and andrew roberts and jillian tet. the casket departing earlier today than expected. tell us about the reception as the coffin left after an outpouring of people scottish people in chilly weather lining up to pay their last respects. there were tens of thousands waiting in that long line overnight. some waiting up to five hours or more,
explained how trump and his aids spread lies the election was stolen even though they knew they were false and delivered a message to those who still support trump. in our country we don t swear an oath to an individual or political party. we take our oath to defend the united states constitution. that oath must mean something. tonight, i say this to my republican colleagues, you are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone. your dishonor will remain. the committee heard from capitol police officer edwards who was knocked unconscious by rioters. and played a 12 minute video showing the most violent scenes from the day . advised the capitol police need reinforcements inside. we re coming in. you back up! what really made me want to come was the fact that i had supported trump all that time, i did believe that the election was being stolen. and trump asked us to come. he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thoug
out in multiple other states. as the congresswoman s work on the committee showed, steve bauers testified to rudy giuliani saying, oh, we don t have any evidence yet. still, the lies destroyed the lives of many trump republican support hoarse refused to manufacture evidence of fraud that doesn t exist. how powerful is evidence that it was the trump campaign that developed evidence before the select committee even existed, that fraud didn t exist? i think what s so important about that is, again, we re getting to the intent. because so many of these different aspects, the criminal liability will result will come from the intent of the actors. and i think all along, trump s been trying to create his own you and i have talked about this create his own defense of, i truly believed it, i truly believed there was fraud, therefore, i couldn t have done anything corrupt, i couldn t
like it s wanting to be arizona s governor, finch for secretary of state. both have been hard lined election deniers despite the fact that joe biden s victory in arizona has been declared legitimate multiple times after the state performed its own even the fraud didn t find that donald trump won the election. lincoln fincher is rising figures in the gop. liz cheney is on the out. she s chosen for country over party. standing up to a challenging donald trump s autocratic tendencies. even though trump s name won t appear in any ballot, anywhere in this country and november, the satin unfortunately undeniable truth is that his corrupting influence can be felt all over. many republicans have taken their dues for interim, crafting the political persona s after how. line their way to power. copying his combative style in order to avoid having to answer for their past moral, ethical, and political shortcomings. we are living through an exceptionally tumultuous era in