should have refused to count the electoral votes. and he should thereby have thrown out the results of the presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d.c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, through the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any
presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d. c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d. c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, throw the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any such effort to get pence to do that would be illegal. he was told it was illegal, but he did it anyway. we
actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy last week. prosecutors revealed that an individual, whose identity is known to the grand jury, sent this blueprint to proud boys leader enrique tarrio on december 30th, 2020. one way to think about the attempted coup and i think the way that the committee is discussing it, and the way we discuss it on this program is sort of broadly two different efforts that merged on january 6th. there was trump and his circle of people around him, who were pro-coup, attempting to overthrow the rightfully elected president, joe biden, to keep donald trump in power. they were trying to use every government mechanism they had at their disposal
we got an answer about the mob that day looking for individual members of congress, hunting down individual lawmakers they wanted to target. the answers we got today were the worst possible answers. we have been looking at this. we ve been asking questions about this for a long time, since right after the attack, including multiple segments here on this show talking about it. now, as of today, the whole country looks like we finally know. it started, for us, we first got word of this worst-possible scenario, as i say, right after the january 6th attack. it was a week after january 6th, 2021. congresswoman mikie sherrill, who was a navy veteran, former federal prosecutor, she made a just hair-curling public allegation about other members of congress, republican members of congress. it was very, very worrying, again, one week after january 6th. not only do i intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn t have access to classified ma
And San Benito County today otherwise low clouds clearing back to the coast with seasonable temperatures. A modest inland warming trend thursday and friday with long range trends showing seasonable july temperatures and persistent marine layer along the coast. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 james a gas station clerk is killed during an Armed Robbery attempt in the east bay. And this morning we have learned that the shooter is dead. The shooting happened on monday at the valero gas station on hillcrest avenue in antioch 57yearold mohammaed ataie was working when he was shot and killed by a thief. Sources have confirmed to kron four that the gunman was found dead, but police have not released more information. We spoke with the victims daughter who says her dad