i am stephanie ruhle. it is the eve of another critical january six committee hearing, the panels fourth, one starting tomorrow at 1 pm eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d.c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this brought effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. in another hearing, means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, bowers gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victo
eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d. c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this broad effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. another hearing means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victory in arizona. joining bowers tomorrow, two other republican officials, who were targets of a very similar pressure campaign. georgia
would agree with them. some states as less, 30%. what is going to stop this is, there are clear majorities in this country, very clear, i believe joe biden was elected president. they do not believe homosexuality is an abnormal life choice, they believe in the voting rights act. they believe that we should have things like background checks, and raise the age on assault weapons. if those people vote for, basically, the equivalent of the leaders who just put for this texas document, we are going to be in, grave grave trouble here. i think that is a really important message, is to understand that this is not 5%, this is not 10%, this is not 15%. this is a big, big percentage of the republican primary electorate. and to your point, republican politicians are trying to follow them and not get stampeded by them. tim, these revisions were approved as the official texas gop platform. last i checked, this is george bush s home state. what s happened to george bush
life choice, they believe in the voting rights act. they believe that we should have things like background checks, and raise the age on assault weapons. if those people vote for, basically, the equivalent of the leaders who just put for this texas document, we are going to be in, grave grave trouble here. i think that is a really important message, is to understand that this is not 5%, this is not 10%, this is not 15%. this is a big, big percentage of the republican primary electorate. and to your point, republican politicians are trying to follow them and not get stampeded by them. tim, these revisions were approved as the official texas gop platform. last i checked, this is george bush s home state. what s happened to george bush republicans in texas? well, we can do a whole symposium on that, but the short answer is this. this was always a minority within the republican party, is not just a new thing, we
the face you re making. just saying good morning. i like it. i like it. working on my impression. i have to work on my mug for the camera. it s called being happy to be here in the morning. we used to call it the nightline nod, nod at the camera. nod at the camera. let s start with this trayvon martin investigation. there s new videotape. have you seen it? i have not seen it. you ll get a chance to see it this morning. it s from abc news. george zimmerman gets out of the patrol car they brought him in the night of the shooting. we ve talked a lot about george zimmerman and around george zimmerman and his friends have come up to talk about what he has said happened. but now to take a look at what he looks like on this videotape and also to try to match some of those zripg descriptions that a is amazing. trayvon s mother spoke as well. she said her reaction to see in this videotape was pretty amazing. take a look. this video is the icing on the cake. this is