tonight on the read out . the best advice i would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people. just get the [ bleep ] away. wherever you have to go, just get away. the right wing panic over race and culture. nowhere is that in sharper focus than in florida, where ron desantis has had more success pushing authoritarianism than donald trump ever dreamed possible. plus, breaking news in the dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox news, including our first look at some of the sworn testimony from rupert murdoch on why he allowed his network to spread election lies. also tonight, senator elizabeth warren is here on how we are still living with the consequences of trump s judicial choices. from an imminent decision on reproductive rights to student loan debt relief and beyond. and the water crisis in mississippi has echoes of 1890 post reconstruction with jackson s overwhelmingly black population being told by white state lawmakers we know what s b
Including one covering, quote, incitement of insurrection. The plan is to introduce them on monday, leading to a vote later next week. Twitter, today, permanently suspended the president s account. Raising the question, will a social media platform bring more accountability to this president than any sanction provided for in the constitution . That would be, well, something. Late today, Lisa Murkowski became the first republican senator to call on the president to resign after wednesdays insurrection. Many are now trying to sweep this all down the memory hole. People, like House Minority leader kevin mccarthy, who tweeted today, impeaching the president with just 12 days left will only divide our country more. Or lindsey graham. He tweeted as President Donald Trump stated last night, it is time to heal and move on. Adding it is up to president elect biden to step in, and allow the nation to heal. Late today, the White House Deputy press secretary weighed in quoting from his statement n
Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, told house investigators he was concerned President Trump was blocking 400 million in aid to ukraine to force that country to publicly announce an investigation into joe biden. According to two sources familiar with his deposition. When he raised concerns about the transcript of the now infamous july 25th call between President Trump and the ukrainian president , he was told to keep quiet by the National Security councils top legal adviser. An aide to former National Security adviser john bolton, tim morrison, supported previous testimony about how long the effort to block military aid had been going on. He confirmed an attempted quid pro quo but said he did not view the july phone call as illegal. He did however, ask the same nsc lawyer to review it. No surprise the president is putting that nugget in the win column. But complaints about the process of impeachment were answered by democrats with the formal guidelines this week which mean we could
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Fox News host Tucker Carlson not credible after his prime-time show portrayed January 6 as a peaceful gathering.
it would have been stupid. in fact, they almost did the right thing to try to set the record straight on the eve of january 6th s insurrection but remains quiet and only focused on their bottom line. the filing states on january 5th rupert discussed whether hannity carlson and ingra ham should say some version of the election is over and joe biden won. he hoped these words will go along way to stop the trump myth that the election was stolen. scott told rupert that privately they are all there, but quote, we need to be careful about using the show s and pissing off the viewers, so nobody made a statement. joining me is jessica levinson and katie phang. this makes it very clear that rupert murdoch never believed the election fraud theories but he made it clear he was about about the bottom line.