i am stephanie ruhle. it is the eve of another critical january six committee hearing, the panels fourth, one starting tomorrow at 1 pm eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d.c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this brought effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. in another hearing, means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, bowers gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victo
eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d. c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this broad effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. another hearing means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victory in arizona. joining bowers tomorrow, two other republican officials, who were targets of a very similar pressure campaign. georgia
chris hayes. one of the two republican members of the january six committee just offered a stark, personal warning about the threat of political violence in this country. a topic he knows a thing or two about. this threat that came in was mailed to my house. we got it a couple of days ago. it threatens to execute me, as well as my wife and five month old child. i have never seen or had anything like that. there are people, there is violence in the future. i m going to tell, you until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we cannot expect any differently. that is adam kinzinger, illinois. he has been in congress for more than a decade. the vast majority of that time he has acted and voted like a conservative republican, which is what he is. he voted in line with donald trump s position, 90% of the time. but after the attempted coup on january six, kings inner was one of ten republicans who voted to impeach trump. and since then he has been essentially ex communicated
trump s inner circle seemed to understand was completely illegal. also tonight, it s right out in the open now. new evidence of the violence and menace at theeart of today s maga driven republican party. but first i want to show you a bizarre moment from the 2020 news worm hole you probably don t remember. here? here. the electors are here. they ve been checked in. they re also electors, not all all 16 electors are going to be vote in the electoral college but these are the rest of the electors. the official sealed document and certificate of the electors are here trying to do their constitutional duty. i understand. the constitutional duty requires them to be at the senate chamber today at 2:00 p.m. now, what you just watched was a group of people claiming to be official electors from the swingy swing state of michigan on december 14, 2020 demanding to be allowed in to participate in the electoral college process despite the fact that joe biden won mi
i am jonathan capehart. exactly seven years ago today, june 26 2015, the supreme court handed down the historic ruling in which gave same-sex couples a constitutional right to marry. an amazing leap for equality five decades after the stonewall riots upheld the modern gay rights movement, just a half hour from the i-seven. later this evening, in unprecedented display of acceptance, the white house was emblazoned with rainbow colors of lgbtq pride. but if this is a high-water mark of its nation living up to its ideals, what do we call it happened on friday, when the supreme court s conservative supermajority overturned roe v. wade? as a result, abortion will soon be illegal in as many as 26 states. in louisiana, abortion is illegal after federalization. and kentucky, it is now a felony to perform, or attempt to, perform an abortion. and in one clinic, abortion serves as immediately, stranding woman in rating rooms. what does the of roe, have to do with lgbtq rights? ever