Ultimately, what President Trump said is, lets go with option d. Lets just halt, lets pause the voting and allow the State Legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to the as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly. Thats constitutional law. Thats not an issue of criminal activity. I will be joined by nancy pelosi on the charges against the former president. The republican support for him, which is increasing, plus the challenges for congressional democrats. Reaction from the officers who defended capitol hill on january 6th. They were in the courthouse yesterday to watch it unfold. It was refreshing, if you will, so to speak, to see the president the former president treated like any other criminal who violates the law sitting in that courtroom going through the judicial process. It isnt closure. I wish it would have happened. I said he should have been arrest order chared or charged 7. Its not closure, but its not a necessary step to get that closure.
delay the proceeding. that s a pause of ten days, which would have resulted in chaos. that was quite a show of flamboyance from the vice president, that struck me, from his normal style. it s an admission that they did exactly what the u.s. code in the indictment says is a crime. they made an agreement to do something unlawful by trying to put off the january 6 certification. there s also that s why there are four counts. he actually did it. things were delayed. that was, in fact, lauro saying, ten days, what the heck. they did it for two hours. that was a crime. the whole idea was, in fact, to impair the official proceeding. ken, one of the other things that you talked about yesterday, which i found so intriguing, you were in the court in florida.
donald trump is raising campaign money off his third indictment. trump described washington as he said as he was watching as he left town, as a city full of filth and decay adding, it s emblematic of the corruption that has taken hold of our nation s capital. new york times polling shows the gop presidential primary is trump s race to lose. more than half of republican voters say they are sticking with trump. that was taken the polling was taken before the indict ment. joining me, jackie alemany, sam stein, and charlie sykes. all three are msnbc contributors. charlie, to you. donald trump is on the attack. he is trying to convince his supporters he is being charged because of the gop frontrunner.
these weren t fraudulent claims. he felt these things were true. the problem is, there s a lot of evidence in this indictment and elsewhere to the contrary. no less than bill barr, his attorney general, says he is convinced donald trump knew he lost. harry, i want to talk to you about, first of all, mike pence s response to trump s legal team. let s watch that. let s be clear on this point. it wasn t just that he asked for a pause. the president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the house of representatives and literally chaos would have ensued. harry, this gets to the heart of something that s on page 34 in the indictment. i want to play something that the defense lawyer seemed to be acknowledging last night.
online that i have a guitar now so people stop bringing them. she didn t. she had a better idea. she had an idea where we can donate the extra ones to guitars to kids. hunter donated 20% of his profits to make-a-wish. what a young man. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. see you tomorrow night on nbc nightly news. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell is next. right now on andrea mitchell reports, former president trump defiant after his arraignment in washington on charges stemming from an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election. his lawyer goes on tv confirming what is spelled out in the indictment. mr. trump did pressure his vice president on january 4th and other times to stop the electoral count on january 6 and send it back to the states, even though that violates the electoral count act.