morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
this sunday, the sun is in our 11th of vote-a-rama as democrats push to pass legislation that will just climate and taxes. if, pass the inflation reduction act would be the largest common act in u.s. history. it also lower the cost of prescription drugs for millions of americans. this potential win for democrats, and addition to the politics of abortion, could result in a boost for them at the polls in the november midterm elections. meanwhile, trump backed candidate swept the arizona primaries, which means election deniers are now at the top of the ballot in at least four of the six battleground states that determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election. all eyes are now turned to tuesdays wisconsin primaries, as you can government ella barnes is set to be the first black major party nominee from the badger state. and you will be taking on republican senator ron johnson joining me now, charlie sites, msnbc contributor and editor at law at the bulwark, plus proud
pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
lawyer is trying to block the january six committee to block a key piece of information that would tie the ex president directly to the efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. you may remember that john eastman was the attorney that orchestrated the failed former presidents last-ditch effort to overturn the legitimate election lost. he drafted memos that laid out a xiaojie for vice president mike pence to unlawfully strew swing the election results and donald trump s favor. with a late court filing, eastman urged a judge to maintain the confidentiality of his work for the ex president. he may have given us the clearest insight yet into the flurry of miscommunication, or the flurry of communication, between the former president, the top aides, and the campaign lawyers. political reports quote that the filing also describes the direct role of trump himself in developing strategy, detailing two-handed written notes from the former president about information that he thought migh