I first i want to focus on the letter itself. You make a discrete and important constitutional argument about the role of congress this wednesday, january 6th, specifically what is congress job in terms of the electoral votes on wednesday . Well the 12th amendment makes it pretty clear that congress has the job of counting the votes after the Vice President , the president of the senate opens the envelopes and that is congress job. It is not to second guess the state legislatures, not to second guess the secretary of state or governors signature on those ballots, on the information that has been sent to us. It is simply to count votes and you would think that a body that could create 30 trillion of debt could count a few hundred electors. You think they could do that properly. Their job, your job is to simply count the votes. That is what the constitution says. There is an 1887 law which goes into greater detail about the process itself, but who has, according to the constitution, the
Starts right now. Good evening from new york on this Martin Luther king jr. Day. Im chris hayes. There are now just four days until donald trump is sworn in as this nations 45th president. Right now, he is poised to enter office amid a swirling and growing tornado of controversy that at least for any other political figure would widely be seen as creating a major legitimacy crisis. Trump, of course, will become president despite Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote. The widest margin of any losing candidate in american history. He will take Office Despite any assessment from the Intelligence Community that the russian government interrupted to boost his chances and what influence the russian government may holdover him. While most president s have seen their popularity hit a high point right before they are sworn in, trump is at historic lows. Comparing to bill clintons favorable rating of 66 and george w. Bushs 62 and Barack Obamas nearly 80 , trump, by contrast, is sitting right
Right now. Good evening from new york on this Martin Luther king jr. Day. Im chris hayes. There are now just four days until donald trump is sworn in as this nations 45th president. Right now, he is poised to enter office amid a swirling and growing tornado of controversy that at least for any other political figure would widely be seen as creating a major legitimacy crisis. Trump, of course, will become president despite Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote. The widest margin of any losing candidate in american history. He will take Office Despite any assessment from the Intelligence Community that the russian government interrupted to boost his chances and what influence the russian government may holdover him. While most president s have seen their popularity hit a high point right before they are sworn in, trump is at historic lows. Comparing to bill clintons favorable rating of 66 and george w. Bushs 62 and Barack Obamas nearly 80 , trump, by contrast, is sitting right now at
Sold and ran during the campaign. And the New York Times is reporting today in a front page article that, quote there is evidence that twitter may have been used even more extensively than facebook in the russian influence campaign. All this while the president seemingly unaware of the now Public Information about russias use of social media in this country to influence the Political Landscape largely in his favor tweeted this. Facebook was always antitrump. The networks were always antitrump, hence, fake news. The New York Times apologized and the Washington Post were antitrump. Collusion . Question mark, end tweet. To decode it all, we have a truly allstar panel. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent keir simmons, former rnc chairman michael steele, Washington Post political reporter philip bump and former chief of staff at both the department of defense and the cia jeremy bash. Now an Msnbc National Security analyst. Philip bump, let me start with you because youve gone deep into Donald Tr
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