two republicans on the committee. his questions about some of the most damning revelations so far during this hearing. congress and kinzinger said the former president told him cummaquid, just say that the president was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the republican cupboard and. a short time ago i spoke with congress and kinzinger about today s hearing, whether he thinks the former president directed the justice department to break the law. members of congress leading up to generate six? this is about trump s attempted weapon is the justice department, but it ended with the panel revealing the names of republican members of congress, who, witnesses say saw preemptive pardons from president trump, they include congressman mo brooks, matt gates, andy biggs, louis gomer, scott berry, perhaps marjorie taylor, these are sitting members of as a preventative, should they be censured? should they be removed from committees? what do you think? i think that is i guess, a dec
left is walking down the street in bedroom slippers, wearing his pajamas beneath a bathrobe. this man is vincent and the fbi says he is the mafia boss of the richest mafia family in the country. his doctor says the man in pajamas is mentally ill not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child, afraid of the dark. he s crazy as a fox. and he has played this game for many years. the last time that gigante was arrested, in a bribery case in the early 70s, the charges were dropped, when his lawyers produced letters from psychiatrists, calling him a schizophrenic, with little chance of recovery. gigante has even been hospitalized here from time to time. his younger brother, a catholic priest on the right, walking down the street with gigante in these photos, says gigante is a sick man, too sick to talk with us. the priest called the fbi s version stupid. police insist that gigante is a mastermind. a smart man would be smart enough to act a little crazy. just before midn
swing the election to the former president. this is what it looked like in michigan back in december when those fake electors actually showed up at the state house and tried to talk their way past police. the electors are here. they ve been checked in. we re electors. we re electors. all 16 electors are inside. the elector college has been checked. but these are the rest of the electors. he said the rest of the electors. there s no such thing. it may seem ludicrous watching that, but according to testimony that we ll hear more of tomorrow, this was part of a multi-pronged scheme by the president and his allies to overturn the results of the election. it is unprecedented in our history. the seriousness and the risks are important to remember. adam kinzinger tweeted a letter he said he received at his home. it was addressed to his wife and mentioned how she and her husband and their child would be executed. he warns it s a vision of what s to come in our politics in o
for the first time the january 6th committees moved beyond washington tomorrow. until now, the committee has been delving into the actions of those surrounding then-president trump, what he knew, and when he knew it. now it s what did trump himself do and what is a criminal act. and you can be sure, this moment will be part of the focus. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. that is just a really short clip of the one-hour call between then-president trump and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger four days before the capitol insurrection. it is key to the question of how far donald trump went and how much of a role he personally played in the efforts to overturn the election results in georgia and six other states. raffensperger is set to testify before the committee tomorrow. so too is his deputy gabe sterling and a third republican, arizona house speaker rusty bowers. he also resiste
cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. sarah sidner, thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. i can t tell you how important this is. so pay attention to me, please. this is something we can both side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair elect