on the justice department s pursuit of the january 6th perpetra perpetrators. now you are seeing the other side of the picture what was actually going on in at the highest levels of the justice department that was sort of fuelling that fire of the big lie. there was an actual attempt to have states overturn their results? that s correct. we started this reporting back in january. we found that there had been a lot of pressure from the white house to have the acting slate of officials including the acting attorney general jeff rosen and the acting deputy attorney general richard donahue to both investigate voter fraud, allegations that had already been vetted and found to be not credible. they were also being pushed to make some sort of public declaration that the election was in doubt, the kind of declaration that would seed the public mind with doubt. they were being asked to go before the supreme court and see if the supreme court would vacate the results of the election
movi i northeast as we come on t toad wchesyld to new jersey. at least four confirmed tornadoes touching down in wisconsin. ginger zee tracking it all. overseas tonight,he remarkable moment at the summer olympics. america s suni lee nguyens gold in the women s all-around competition. in the pool, swimmer caeleb dressel winning by a fraction of a second. tonight, the american pole vaulter among two dozen new covid cases inside the olympic bubble. james longman in tokyo. billionaire trevor milton charged with fraud. the founder oaf an electric truck company that prosecutors say never produced a single electric truck. gave the false impression the truck was actually drivable. could mililddd m m mdd m mi e bus slamming into a bridge.wrk more than a dozen people more than a dozen people injured. good evening and it is great to have you with us on this thursday night. i m cecilia vega, in for david. and we do begin with president biden using the power of his office, hoping
former obama official who helped normalize relations with havana. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. the fate of hundreds of thousand of people in this country could be decided by just two people that almost nobody has ever heard. oh, yeah, and that actually nobody elected. meet andrew hanan. he s flown under the radar as a federal judge on the texas-mexico border after his appointment by president george w. bush. though he s been one of the most partisan conservatives as slate magazine but he was catapulted to national attention when he claimed daca, the obama era program protecting undocumented kids brought to this country as kids as unlawful. it doesn t affect the 600,000 dreamers in the country but puts an immediate halt to accept new applicants to the program or grant the protections to the people that applying for the program. the democrats have a solution. they could pass immigration reform through budget reconciliation that needs a 51-vote majority and they even seem to
this country as kids as unlawful. his ruling doesn t immediately affect the more than 700,000 dreamers in the country but puts an immediate halt to accept new applicants to the program or grant the protections to the people that are applying for the program. but don t worry. the democrats have a solution. they could pass immigration reform through budget reconciliation that needs a 51-vote majority and they even seem to have the support of joe manchin. oh, wait, there s someone else i need to introduce you to. meet elizabeth mcdonagh, a former immigration lawyer who for the last nine years, has served as a little known but at times hugely power official in the united states senate because the only way a permanent fix to the dreamers problem is going to happen by skirting the filibuster, by reconciliation, is if the senate parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonagh allows it to happen. if she says it can go into the budget reconciliation package, then it can happen. it s her call. no
i m mehdi hasan. the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in this country could be decided by just two people that almost nobody has ever heard of. oh, yeah, and that actually nobody elected. meet andrew hanan. he s flown under the radar as a federal judge on the texas-mexico border after his appointment by president george w. bush.re though he s been one of the mose partisan conservatives as slate magazine described him last year, but he was catapulted to national attention when he claimed daca, the obama-era program protecting undocumented kids brought to this country as kids as unlawful. it doesn t affect the 600,000 dreamers in the country but puts an immediate halt to accept new applicants to the program or grant the protections to the people that applying for the program. the democrats have a solution. they could pass immigration e te reform through budget reconciliation, which only needs a 51-vote majority, and they even have the support of joe manchin. oh, wait,