A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. Developing at this hour, some new reaction to the rnc Censuring Congresswoman liz cheney and congressman Adam Kinzinger for their role in the house probe of january 6th. That resolution receiving some major backlash for referring to attack as, quote, legitimate political discourse. Fellow 1 6 Committee Member jaime raskin just telling me what struck him the most about that move. Theyre licensing Political Violence in america. Theyre essentially embracing insurrection and coup as a mode of taking power in the country, and one thing that was particularly alarming to me about it was that it wasnt even clear that donald trump was the one pushing them to do this. Theyve so internalized the Command Structure of the new Republican Party under donald trump as a cult leader that they just do his will without even being told. It comes as former Vp Mike Pence delivered his Harshest Rebuke yet of
according to one passage, the prosecutors have hours of detailed questions in meetings trump held in december 2020, and 2021. his pressure her pranced overturn the election, and what trump told his lawyers in electors, and sending the election again this is the same day that the attorney general speaks out. and the former president returned to washington since the first time since leaving office. and what s male kyle told nbc s lester holt when the president again might tear the country apart. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we attend to hold anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surviving january 6th and any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from any administration from one to another accountable. that is what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change a schedule. or how you move forward or move forward? i
morning after officials there is a nearly 50 chinese planes entered taiwan s air defense zone and an aggressive move. today s publication followed a show of force differently from the communist regime when at least 11 chinese missiles landed waters to the north, south and east of taiwan. secretary of state anthony blinken calling the exercises a significant escalation and a furious china has suspended the lead with the united states on issues ranging from climate change that military relations. all this after nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan which china calls an egregious provocation. president biden s response to growing crisis is raising questions. reporter: when russia was getting aggressive, the president without telling putin don t do it and now john is getting aggressive around taiwan and we are not hearing anything like that from the president. i beg to differ. we have been talking about our concerns about what china was preparing to do. i stood at another podium out
news that we have heard about marc short, that he s testified in the doj s probe. what does that signal to you about where the investigation stands? well, i mean, i look at it and it says obviously there is some interest. there was a lot of frustration, just kind of personally, for the last, i guess, year and a half, like what s doj doing? i think our investigation, though it is not a criminal investigation, certainly has brought some things to light that doj is watching, and it seems like between that and some of the search warrants that have been served and some of the other things we have seen that they are moving forward. look, i think it is important for the department of justice to get a handle on what the criminality of what happened is, and if there are crimes to prosecute them because we cannot live in a country where we send a message that a president is above the law as long as he fails at a coup attempt, but by the way, if he ever succeeds at a coup attempt, the
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