Despite all that outrageous behavior. Plus, looking ahead to next weeks republican primary debate in which trump now says he will not participate. Im not making Chicken Noises right now, but i really, really want to. And Morgan Freeman joined me, yes, i said Morgan Freeman. Joined little old moi to talk about his new documentary on The First Black Tank Battalion to fight in world war ii. That interview is straight ahead. But we begin the reidout tonight with the clearest picture yet of the expansive plot trump and his allies unleashed after he lost the 2020 election. The January 6th Committee and Special Counsel jack smith exposed the what as well as the who in the plot. But it was the georgia case led by Fulton County d. A. Fani willis that really shows us the full scope of characters in the trump gang. The indictment is full of bizarre cameos like Texas Attorney general ken paxton who is referenced on page 30, when prosecutors note how donald trump attempted to get the Georgia Attorn
that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo
Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
tonight s special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence o donnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people for presidential candidates taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. also two of them are debating, tonight nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that final hour debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate who of course has refused to participate in any debates at all of this year, but
i said, thank you very much. i knew exactly what he meant. 2 million lives. that is perhaps the most important admission from donald trump last night, again bragging about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. and here s donald trump s problem, is he goes into, i would call it softball, a softball event. i ve never seen one as fawning. i m not even sure, why did they have two hosts there? they could have just had one, sit there and smile and say, you re great. great. ask another softball question. it s like t-ball. he swung, hit the tee, and the ball rolled off. he bragged, katty, about terminating roe v. wade. he said, if it weren t for me, that 10-year-old girl in ohio that was raped by an illegal immigrant, if it weren t for me, she wouldn t have had to flee the state. if it weren t for me, women wouldn t be, like, dying outside of emergency rooms because doctors are afraid to conduct women s he