They regain power. Theyre telling us. Theyre being straight about it. They will appeal lower Prescription Drug prices and raise drug prices. The Social Security and medicare. Theyll pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, make them permanent, but they are not now individual tax cuts. Delta and the very foundation of american economy, if we dont meet their demands. Heres the thing, thats not conjecture. You dont have to just take the president s word for it. This week, in an interview with punchbowl news, House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy, he laid out his vision as a potential speaker, and that includes holding the economy hostage, refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless his demands for spending cuts are met. Now, this all sounds familiar, it should. Congress raised the that ceiling three times when donald trump was president. The Washington Post reporting it as avoiding the market rattling, economic showdowns that Congressional Republicans had force one democratic president barack
the report includes allegations that the former president, donald trump, oversaw, unquote, the effort to put forward fake slates of electors, in seven states that he s lost. this was released just over an hour ago, that outlines eight chapters. chapter, when the big lie. chapter two, i just want to find 11,780 votes. chapter three, fake electors, and chapter four, just call it corrupt, and leave the rest to me. remember from the public hearings, how? chapter five, a coup in search of a legal theory. chapter six be there, will be wild. chapter seven, 187 minutes of dereliction. alluding to what the president was doing well the attack on the capitol unfolded. in chapter eight, analysis of the attack. and yes, we are going through this line by line, for the findings. we report over 845 pages. we re also, here bringing you tonight the reporting, the analysis you need, to understand and contextualize, in light of what you heard from, on this late thursday evening here in washing
Not just democrats like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like Vice President pence, Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, Majority Whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. All of them did what President Trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. Take a listen. Theyre taking the north front, staff only. Were not going to be able to hold. The door has been breached. People are gaining access into the capitol. Senator schumer is at a secure location. Theyre locked down in the senate. There has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that theres some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the United States. Did we go back into session . Did go back into session. But now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. Theyre putting on Tear Gas Masks . We need an area for the house members. Theyre all walking through the
culpability for the first time. in this new legally binding document cites evidence to show why trump must, they say, legally cooperate. setting deadlines for evidence, november 4th. deadlines for testifying, november 14th. and this new material puts trump at the center of the coup plot to overturn the election. the committee writing that he maliciously disseminated false allegations of voter fraud, corrupted the justice department, ran the effort to transmit false electoral certificates, that may yet yield more indictments. it s basically saying he committed crimes, and pressured pence to help the coup even though according to the committee, trump knew at the time in advance that the pence plot was illegal. and then of course summoning supporters who trump knew were armed, according to the committee s investigation to that d.c. rally, and the storming of the capitol. now, what happens if you defy a subpoena like this. trump aide steve bannon found out today. it s a coinciden
we ll keep a close eye on that. judge, thanks good to see you, judge michael luttig. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight, nning, right now. good evening alex. thanks alex, great guest to have on at this juncture, at this critical moment for democracy. great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. his name is alexander butterfield. he was the deputy assistant to president richard nixon, and as the surprise witness during the watergate hearings in 1973, he changed the course of history with this moment. mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes sir. it was alexander butterfield, who told watergate investigators, and the world, about the existence of secret white house tapes that would, ultimately, expose nixon s involvement in the watergate plot, leading to his resignation. if there is a modern equivalent to w