highly classified, you go to jail for that. and you go to jail for that. you should know that. classified information. you should go to jail for that for many, many years. lock him up, lock him up. jimmy kimmel with a mashup of donald trump s words concerning other people s mishandling of classified documents. but, wow, meanwhile, stunning new reporting this morning that the nuclear secrets of a foreign government were among the materials seized from mar-a-lago. we ll have the latest on that. plus, steve bannon set to be indicted. how the case related to fundraising shows the limits of the pardon he received from donald trump. and caught on tape, new video shows a fake elector in the 2020 election. escorting members of a tech firm into a georgia elections office on the same day a breach was detected. we ll explain how this ties into the overall election scheme. we re also following the latest in the fight over control in congress. new polling on the impact of the ab
it is the top of the hour. so glad you re with me today. i m poppy harlow. we re following several major stories. growing worries among republicans over the january 6th committee s damning revelations about former president trump has many openly cheering for other republicans to jump in the 2024 race for the white house. that s even if trump announces he will run. also, anxiety building in the party in circles about the committee s new hearings in september, and what impact they could have on the midterming. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, liz cheney says a subpoena for ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, is not off the table. all of this as today, the governor of georgia is scheduled to testify by video before the fulton county grand jury investigating whether trump tried to interfere in the 2020 general election there. let s begin with my colleague on capitol hill. you have new reporting, melanie, on republicans pushing for other republican
Take it. Join the team at contra costa college. Start today at contracosta. Edu a shocking accusation from Cassidy Hutchinson against Rudy Giuliani. The lead starts right now. In her new book, the star witness in the january 6 Committee Hearings, Cassidy Hutchinson now said Rudy Giuliani groped her. This according to an excerpt obtained by the guardian. Now giuliani is responding. Plus, interrogated on the hill. Tough questions putz to Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Special Counsel Investigation News hunter biden an into donald trump and the Justice Departments decisions to proceed with charges. Who does he report to . Again im not going to get into. Is it you. Im ultly responsible. Is it mr. Weiss did not have to report to anybody. He was the supervisor and Decision Maker in these matters. Also this hour, a brandnew cnn poll zeroing in on the primary state of New Hampshire. A state trump won the primary for but lost in the general election. Then and in 2020. Where does he
Line you want the American People to know . There was a very sophisticated multi part plan overseen by donald trump. You cant ever accept when they steal and rig and rob. To attempt to stay in power. As the longest, largest investigation into Donald Trumps attempt to stay president comes to a close, we put it all together. Ive got Three Men Walking Down The Street in fatigues and carrying ar15s. The explosive testimony. I heard the president saying something to the effect, i dont care if they have weapons, let my people in. New insight from witnesses. I said, you want me to take my state, 3. 2 million voters, and just throw them out the window . Was he asking you to commit a crime . It gets back to the criminal intent issue. I dont know what he believed. Hang mike pence and what might lie ahead. The former president and his allies represent a Clear And Present Danger to democracy. Not because of what they did On January 6th. You better run, cops its because of what they pledged to do i
had no legal weight, referring to the fake electors as, quote, dead on arrival in congress, end quote. trump campaign aides and outside lawyers shared their concerns about the scheme in e-mails reported on by the new york times maggie haberman and luke broadwater. and did they think what they were doing was legal? in one e-mail a lawyer working in arizona literally describes them as quote-unquote fake electors, so what we would be doing is sending these fake electors, he has fake in quotes, to go cast ballots. in another e-mail there was a discussion about fear from some officials. this would be seen as quote-unquote treasonous. what might have happened had pence trying to go through with this idea that he could reject electoral votes and send them back to the states biden won such as arizona, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia? he would have immediately plunged the country into what i