risk. good evening from studio b in new orleans. site of tonight s national day of racial healing town hall, which i will be hosting tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern along with chris hayes and trymaine lee. i ll tell you much more about that a little later. we begin tonight with the real life confluence of a toxic stew of election denial, extremism, and political violence. the type of nightmare scenario that is all too real in america. police in new mexico arrested failed republican legislative candidate solomon pena, who they say orchestrated a string of shootings targeting democratic officials in the state. last november, pena lost to his democratic opponent in a landslide, by nearly 50 points. but claimed he really lost because of so-called fraud. apparently he s both an election denier and a sore loser. after the election, a very stable pena wrote on twitter, i dissent. i am the maga king. he later posted a photo of himself in maga gear, noting much like donald trump, he n
us as we take a moment to rest and reflect a bit. we here at deadline white house are thinking about the families in ukraine, and what this holiday season must feel like for them. christmas eve marked ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up even though it s now in the thick of winter. when russia unleashed the air strike on december 24th, it was the largest attack on that state since world war ii and then putin s forces two weeks later laid siege to maripol. devastating, and yet the twice impeached disgraced ex-president continues to claim with no evidence whatsoever, if he were the president ukraine would be just fine. on the day russia invaded ukraine, russia released this gem. if i was in office this deadly situation in ukraine had never have happened. to think if only trump were our president there would be peace in ukraine it s laughable thanks to an exhaustive and riveting new piece in the new york times, we have reason to believe trump was s
chairwoman betty thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from the secret service. not just texts. the text messages themselves, in many cases, are gone. interesting. but there are other forms of investigation, like teams messages and emails, other forms of communications. we have received probably about 800,000 pages, at least, of material. now, the hearing comes just after the committee secured one of its most high-profile interviews yet, ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas is expected to sit down with the panel in the coming week
bipartisan panel is set to return for a blockbuster presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. we ve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the vice president and the congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what we re going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. earlier this week, chairman bennie thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from t
hopefully rest and reflect a bit, we are here at deadline white house. our thinking about the families 4700 miles away in ukraine. with this holiday season it must feel like for them. christmas eve mark ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up. even now, as we head into the thick of winter. when russia unleashed that first air strike on february 24th, it was the largest attack on the european state since world war ii. it is a gut punch that capture the world s attention more than any other, came less than two weeks later. putin s forces laid siege to the port city of mariupol, unleashing ripped through a children hospital and maternity ward, sending pregnant women fleeing for their lives. we are only beginning to grasp the scope of the atrocities there. according to the bbc, satellite images show that since june, more than 1500 new graves have appeared at a mass burial site inside mariupol. devastating. and yet. and yet the twice impeached, disgraced