forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and see a
this law of the land. it says, no person in the united states shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in being denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. again, in honor of this anniversary, we unveiled a portrait which will hang in the halls. it s about our first. the first she s actually the first woman of color to serve in the congress. so she s honored for her first burt also for what she accomplished. we already have good friday morning. i m garrett haake in washington listening to house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to what is the most seismic supreme court ruling in a generation. continuing breaking news coverage. granting abortion rights nationwide. this is the most highly anticipated decision in this supreme court session. probably the most highly anticipated decision in at least a decade. this decision centered on the case dobbs versus jackson inv
president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
mar-a-lago. the government now warning of increased violence against federal agents because of the rhetoric of donald trump and his allies following the search at mar-a-lago. also, this sunday, the money trail. the former president fled v 400 times when sitting down with the new york ag s office. this hour, perspective from journalist, david who has won awards for his reporting on trump s finances. plus, democrats have another big win to run on with the passage of the inflation reduction act. but will it the infrastructure bill, and the supreme court s reversal of roby enough to help them expand control come november? we begin this hour with heated rhetoric of donald trump and his allies and how these verbal attacks on the fbi are putting real lives in danger. the fbi and the department of homeland security no warning threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since the search of mar-a-lago. in a joint intelligence bulletin, agencies say the threats are coming from on l
for the first time the january 6th committees moved beyond washington tomorrow. until now, the committee has been delving into the actions of those surrounding then-president trump, what he knew, and when he knew it. now it s what did trump himself do and what is a criminal act. and you can be sure, this moment will be part of the focus. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. that is just a really short clip of the one-hour call between then-president trump and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger four days before the capitol insurrection. it is key to the question of how far donald trump went and how much of a role he personally played in the efforts to overturn the election results in georgia and six other states. raffensperger is set to testify before the committee tomorrow. so too is his deputy gabe sterling and a third republican, arizona house speaker rusty bowers. he also resiste