being a loser. yeah. so, there is a story that has been reported out that after election day, a number of people close to him, including hope hicks, go and say, work on your legacy. move on. and he says, according to the reporting to hope hicks, if i m a loser, there is no legacy. all right everyone stay with us. we still have much more to cover, including this, wisconsin republican senator ron johnson who was last seen trying to avoid reporters earlier in the week pretending he was on the phone rather than answer their questions about the revelation that his office tried to pass on a slate of fake electors to vice president pence s office. today johnson is finally saying which member of congress office he believes passed along those names and that slate to his office. the details ahead. and norm eisen, the former special counsel for democrats during the former president s first impeachment will join us to discuss what was most damaging today for donald trump and his allies, a
instead of go along with his unconstitutional, perhaps illegal scheme. on the other hand, you have the trump loyalists that we just mentioned, these republican members of the house. do you think in your opinion, are they fit to remain in office? again, i don t want to go there. that s decision between them and their constituents. i you know, i ve been able to present what i ve presented. i will say this, though. let s contrast them to these three gentlemen that were in front there today. i m sure all three of them voted for donald trump. i m sure all three of them were sad he lost. you know, i m sure all three of them wished the election would have been different. but when faced with that pressure, i mean, i don t think it s tough to explain how much pressure it is when you have a president of the united states putting that on you for all of them to stand strong, for all the deputy, you know, attorneys to basically make the decision that they were going to all resign. it s an ama
new developments tonight in the mystery of a fake slate of electors senator ron johnson wanted to give the vice president last january 6th. here s what happened when manu raju tried to speak to him after the committee made the revelation. why was he asking something about that? because someone delivered this to the office. do you support the efforts to get the slates to the vice president? no, i had no knowledge of this. i had no involvement in the proceeding, slate of electors. i had no idea it needed to be delivered to us. it got delivered staff to staff, chief of staff did the right thing, contact the vice president s staff. they said didn t want it, so we didn t deliver it. that s tend of story. who s the person that
to change. i mean, it clearly didn t, right? he said as much. he said, look, just write me a letter. just tell me it s fine, and then the house me and the house republicans will take care of it and we ll all be good. these officials that stood up today i ve seen some criticism from democrats that they were late to the party. i ve heard from some sources that the department of justice was under a lot of pressure from the trump administration well before what you saw in the context of that meeting. but i think this underscored and illuminated at the end of the day these guys showed up and said this isn t good enough. this is not okay. and they stood in the breach. and they re joined by a lot of other heroes we ve also heard from in these hearings. i think what convinced trump to not do this through the justice department was not the facts and the evidence are not going to change. it was an angle. the head lawyer at the office of legal council at the justice department saying if y
willie. we want to begin with the fifth and final june hearing of the january 6 house select committee set to get underway in a few hours now. today s focus, former president trump s pressure campaign on the department of justice. the house committee will seek to make this man jeffrey clark something of a household name. he is the environmental lawyer who former president trump wanted to take over the justice department to help in his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. if trump had gotten his way, clark would have replaced then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen who resisted trump s pressure campaign. rosen is one of three key witnesses scheduled to testify at today s hearing along with his deputy richard donaghue and also expected to testify, assistance a.g. for the office of legal council, steve engle. all were present during a meeting days before the january 6 attack. they re expected to testify trump s efforts to replace rosen and to make clark the acting