let s hand it over to kasie hunt and cnn tonight. you re right. we don t talk about grief enough. i m very much looking forward to listening to that podcast. thank you very much. i am casey hunt, and this is knight. we re in the midst of another general election season that will test donald trump s impact across the board. independents turned away from him in 2020. and as criminal investigations widen by the day, those independents are being reminded why they still don t like him. two third of independents say in a new poll that they don t want the ex-president to run for office again. and though he is not on the ballot this november, democrats, led by president biden, have tried to frame the midterms as a choice between democracy and trumpism, which the president defines as a threat to democracy. democracy voters, meanwhile are energized over abortion rights, trump, and more 62 days before the final votes are cast. where does that leave republicans who are on the ballot?
it has reminded us of this. laws are just words on paper. they mean nothing without public servants dedicated to the rule of law, and who are held accountable by a public that the leaves over this matter more than party tribalism or the cheap thrill of scoring political points. oaths. we must demand more of our politicians and ourselves. boths matter, character matters, truth matters. if we do not renew our faith and commitment to these principles, this great experiment of hours, our shining beacon on a hill, will not endure. i yield to that gentlewoman from virginia. thank you. throughout our hearings we have provided many facts and painted a vivid picture of the events of january 6th. the violence, the human toll, both emotional and physical, including the tragic loss of life. the threat to our constitution, the rule of law and the danger to this nation. a nation we all love as americans. and tonight s hearing, we have gone into great detail about the events inside the w
republicans gathered as well, including in the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official, they are certified and they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met as exactly the same time, right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met and chose donald trump. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic vice president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capital, georgia republicans were meeting for their own meeting to select republican electors for donald trump. those fake republican electors signed forged certificates, purporting to be the real electoral college votes and, in other words, asserting that in fact donald trump had won georgia. those fake certificates were actually mailed to the national archives as though they were official. and it s not like they
jersey shore. and i am wishing all of you a very good and very safe night and a great weekend. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i want to thank you for staying up late with us. i will see all of you next week. i will see all of you xtne week welcome to the special second hour on all in. it s made it clear that the march on the capitol on 2021 was arranged by donald trump and his allies with in fact a specific goal. it wasn t just an expression of anger at the supposedly stolen election, nor was it the idea that the mob would somehow disrupt the certification of joe biden s win and then magically donald trump would stay on as president. no. the plan was to put pressure on republican lawmakers and the vice president, mike pence, to carry out a very specific plan. and that plan was set in motion actually weeks earlier, back on december 14th. that was the day that presidential electors gathered in all 50 states to cast their official electoral college v
before, after 1973 and the yom kippur with the army and the government exchanged very similar accusations. well, we re going to have to leave it there. i m so sorry we re out of time, michael, but we will discuss. always good to be with you. thank you so much. and yasmin vossoughian picks up right now for chris jansing. hi, everybody, good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing. he went out as a member of congress. he went out in infamy. george santos expelled in an historic vote just hours ago. where does that leave republicans and then new yorkers in his district. we re live on capitol hill for that conversation. israel resuming an all-out assault on gaza launching hundreds of attacks on land from air and sea. plus, the new report raising questions about what israel knew about hamas s plans more than, get this, a year ahead of time. and then remembering the first woman ever to serve on the supreme court. we re going to honor the life of sandra d