we have a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump formally taking his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. we ll tell you what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, back in 2020, donald trump hired an expert to prove election fraud. instead, that person found the 2020 election was not stolen. we re going to speak with that expert about what his data firm actually uncovered. also ahead, we ll dig into the ultimatum from house republicans following their visit to the southern border. do they want a deal? along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc host jen psaki. she s a former white house press secretary. good to have you all on board this morning. willie? let s start in colorado. former president trump s legal team officially has petitioned the supreme court to overturn last month s co
Internal strife as Bernie Sanders targets the partys rules and its frontrunner in a fight for transformation. The Democratic Party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. It can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. And new rules from the Obama Administration making millions more americans eligible for overtime pay. Around the table tonight, dan balz, chief correspondent for the washington post. Lisa lerer National Politics reporter for a. P. The legal editor for reuters and alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capital. This is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding is provided by once again, live from washington sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john harwood of cnbc. Good evening. The Republican Party has wrestled with bi
Internal strife as Bernie Sanders targets the partys rules and its frontrunner in a fight for transformation. The Democratic Party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. It can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. And new rules from the Obama Administration making millions more americans eligible for overtime pay. Around the table tonight, dan balz, chief correspondent for the washington post. Lisa lerer National Politics reporter for a. P. The legal editor for reuters and alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capital. This is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding is provided by once again, live from washington sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john harwood of cnbc. Good evening. The Republican Party has wrestled with bi
The president told woodward that the virus was deadlier than the flu and he was intentionally hiding the truth from you, the American Public. Here now is trump in his own words in a series of taped interviews by woodward with the president s own permission and for his new book on the Trump Administration. Listen for yourself. And so what was president xi saying yesterday. We were talking mostly about the virus. And i think hes going to have it in good shape. But it is a very tricky situation. Indeed it is. It goes through air, bob. That is tougher than the touch. The touch, you dont have to touch things but if you just breathe the air and that is how it is passed. So that is a very tricky one. That is a very delicate one. It is also more deadly than your, even your strenuous flus. People dont realize, we lose 25,000, or 30,000 people a year here, who would think that. I know. And what would that do for this is more deadly. This is 5 versus 1 and less than 1 . So this is deadly stuff. N
And calls are now growing louder for the Justice Department to the appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. Cnns tom foreman has details. John koskinen admits a few people in his agency once held up granting tax exempt stat to us some consecutive political groups. He admits emails possibly related to those events were lost. However, that was before he got there and he has been furiously denying talk in congress of a further conspiracy or i an coverup. What i didnt hear in that was an apology to this committee. I dont think one is owed. But listen to what he is saying now to the public. I apologize to anybody who had their applications held up needlessly. Everybody needs to be confident that the irs is going to treat them fairly no matter who they are, republicans, democrats. Conservative websites are exploding saying koskinen despite the interview is simply widening a tangled web of deceit. Republicans are calling for the attorney generals impeachment if he doesnt appoint a special