he will join me later in the show to talk about power, energy and more. then, the velshi banned boat club is back in session. author joins me to talk about her best-selling young adult novel deer martin, and why it s being targeted by book banners and sensors across the country. they ll see begins right now. good morning to you, today is sunday april the 24th. i m ali velshi. as new evidence comes to, light it is becoming increasingly clear that the failed former president did not act alone in his attempt to overthrow democracy. and cling to power, after losing to the 2020 election. brand new evidence filed in federal court this weekend by the house select january six committee suggests a slew of republican members of congress helped the ex president to devise a strategy to overturn the election results, back in december of 2020. deposition excerpts filed by the committee suggest that some of the twice impeached ex presidents most loyal stooges in congress were frequently
two black districts, and we ll talk to one florida lawmaker about how the fight ended later in the show. we begin with new audio msnbc has obtained from the book this will not pass: trump, biden, and the battle for the future. ken mccarthy is speaking to fellow republicans in the days after the insurrection and makes a bombshell claim. let me be clear and i ve been clear to the president, he bears responsibility for his words and actions, no ifs, ands, or buts. i asked does he hold responsibility for what happened, does he feel bad about what happened. he told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. and he needs to acknowledge that. you just heard the house s top republican admit that donald trump not only bears responsibility for inciting the insurrection but that the former president has said so himself. mccarthy continued to double down on that. i know that this is not fun, i know this is not great, this is very tough. what i want to do especially
hutchinson also testifying that meadows knew in advance that violence was a possibility on january 6th but trump went ahead with urging rally attendees to march to the capitol and take back your country. thanks to the disclosure of the kevin mccarthy tapes we have a clear look how the republicans lost the opportunity to push former president trump out of politics after january 6th but were weak and did not seize on that opportunity. incredibly amidst all of these new revelations, trump reportedly thinks he looks stronger. marlene sotomayor said trump reveled on his grip over the gop. alexander burns and jonathan martin of the new york times released the tapes as part of their reporting for their new book this will not pass. in these recordings mccarthy planned to tell trump that he should resign, that of course never happened and just weeks after the violent insurrection, mccarthy made a special trip to marla goe to capitalize on a photo-op with donald trump and he s ba
suggesting he might pardon rioters if he s re-elected. i heard this week that president trump said i had the right to return the election. president trump is wrong. i have no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and, frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. under the constitution, i had no right to change the outcome of our election. and now we re seeing new video of the violence and carnage from january 6th. we should warn you some viewers might find it disturbing, but it shows the actions that just yesterday the republican national committee declared legitimate political discourse. you see in this video a pierce battle between rioters and capitol police. you hear chants of usa, usa as glass breaks and rioters launch objects and police. more than 700 people and just of this video are comments that the justice department is u
points of drunk legal advice later in this hour, after we begin with a sober assessment of the breaking legal news of the day in georgia. at two pm today, federal judge steve see jones issued an order to both sides of the case after hearing a full day of testimony yesterday, and defended mark meadows motion to move his criminal trial from fulton county courthouse, in georgia, to the federal district court, in georgia. judge jones ordered fulton county district attorney fani willis and mark meadows criminal defense lawyers to each file a brief by five pm on thursday, answering exactly one question that the judge has after that hearing. would a finding that at least one, but not all, of the overt acts charged occurred under the color of meadows s office, be sufficient for federal removal of a criminal prosecution? we will get the answer to that question in a moment from our legal experts. less than an hour after the federal judge issued that order, district attorney fani willis