How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
when it may take to get that big health and tax bill passed. and sure enough a glue pull could get in the way. and then there s a big twist in the alex jones trial. years of his own text messages and emails and up in the hands of the very people who want him to pay for his lies. that and more as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. there s even more evidence tonight that the justice department s january six investigation is zeroing in on some very powerful officials in the in the trump white house. and d.c. news has confirmed the top lawyer in the trump administration former white house counsel pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. his testimony was a significant report of the january 6th hearings. remember cipollone was the guy who witnessed that infamous oval office meeting about seizing voting machines a, meeting the took place just weeks before the capitol riot. i opened the door and i w
who witnessed that infamous oval office meeting about seizing voting machines, a meeting the took place just weeks before the capitol riot. i opened the door and i walked in, i saw general flynn, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see these people in the oval office. i don t think any these people were providing the president with good advice. the idea that the federal government could come in and sees election as jeans, i don t understand why we even have to tell you that s a bad idea. it s a terrible idea. and there are new reports that pat philbin white house deputy has also been summoned to appear before the grand jury. adam kinzinger says that his testimony could be key. if he goes before the grand jury, it shows that this is more than what did john eastman do, the attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. and there is probably a very deep interest of what the president did. i hope pat cipollone just actuall
problematic because of where we get the components for them. they have a chance to vote to make that situation better. so let s give them a chance to put their money where their mouth is or put their vote where their mouth is and in the meantime that will reduce the deficit. it is earned praise from economists, people who aren t always supportive of the administrative policy coming together to say yes, this is good legislation and border line no-brainer territory and in washington that means at best we re hoping for it to pass with 50 votes which is exactly what we think it is on track to do. we are live at the top of our fourth here on morning joe. just after 9:00 on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we re talking to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. mr. secretary. speaking of major legislation, it was just nine months ago that the united states senate passed and president biden signed that $1 trillion infrastructure package that you pushed so hard to get throug