is seeking to stop the january six committee from obtaining to handwritten notes that he allegedly received from the former president his self. the lawyers have characterized the notes as quintessential privileged material. such communications are protected by attorney client privilege. no word yet on whether the argument will hold up. as the january six committee prepares to take its pro public, it becomes every day that the attack on the capitol was part of a larger scheme to overturn the election results, and that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. you remember that the ex president and his allies focus most of the detention and election lies on battleground states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, where biden s margins a victim were relatively narrow. one wave did not get of way with it was because the governors of those states decide to not be complacent in helping the fraudsters overturn the will of the majority of their voters. those actions, a fire wa
clean slate of actors is chosen. she did not respond very comment. she is under scrutiny for similar text as she said to chief of staff mark meadows around the same time. this has renewed questions about potential conflicts of interest for justice thomas. also, remember this? i also intend to see that those members of congress are embedded. those members who had groups coming through the capitol that i saw on january 5th, our common sense for the next day, those members of congress that incited this violent crowd, those members of congress that attempted to help the president undermine our democracy. i m going to see that they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure that they do not serve in congress. republicans on the house administration committee, then allegedly reviewed security footage and denied that there was any tours in the days before the attack. in a new letter, loudermilk calls a claim into quote that this contradicts it. they ask for meeting with hi
to appeal the decision. we have live reports from the barge border in just a few minutes. for the january six committee, sitting down with one of the most high-profile witnesses yet, rudy giuliani. the former attorney met with the panel on friday after nine hours from when he was subpoenaed in january. you reported today, according to the emails obtained by the washington post, ginni thomas, a wife of supreme court justice, clarence thomas, pressed lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside the joe biden popular vote victory. she wanted a clean slate of electors. we are going to talk to legal analyst melissa murray about. this first, reporting on today s top stories we go to mike in a sole, erin mclaughlin in ukraine, and sam in texas. big welcome to all of you. mike, we talk to you first. a very busy day for the president. he is not just making international air headlines, but he is taking care of business over there. what can you tell us? i ve traveled overseas with t
though, we heard repeated sounds of explosions and were forced to turn around. this is still a city under attack, under assault, by the russians. there were reports of shelling earlier in the suburbs. ukrainian officials tell us that those americans howitzers have been moved into place there to defend this city and the russians are trying to take those howitzers out. meanwhile the focus of this war really shifted to the donbas region. ukraine s industrial hemp heartland where russia has been making gains, slowly but surely, according to u.s. officials there. the progress has been incremental and all eyes right now are on the city severed enacts, overnight ukrainian officials announcing a vague evacuation plans of the entire luhansk region as russians and pushing in, killing civilians,
this comes as russia continues its assault in eastern ukraine, nbc s erin mclaughlin joins me now from kharkiv with the latest. hello, aaron harry? doing he catie. well here in kharkiv, they have been facing yet another russian assault in the over night hours on a market. starting a big fire here near the center of the city. meanwhile, the this morning there has been heavy shelling in a suburb northwest of the city, towards the russian border, killing at least one civilian and wounding 20 others. ukrainian officials tell us that they have actually moved the u.s. supplies to howitzer into that area, and russian forces are in the process of trying to take those howitzers out. so while military analysts say that ukraine has won the battle for kharkiv, it is very clear from what we are seeing here on