searching for while on the property. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst norm mizen, special council for the house judiciary committee in trump s first impeachment trial, analyst susan glasser and dave arenberg, the state attorney for palm beach county, florida. susan, i almost butchered your name, so i ll begin with you. i ve got to ask you the washington post report is, frankly, breathtaking. i have to ask what is your reaction to the reports that they were searching for not just classified documents, but those that may be related to nuclear weapons, not somewhere where it s secured under the, you know, cover of the federal government, but mar-a-lago? what s your reaction to that? yeah. i mean look, laura, this is a very, very serious allegation. this is the kind of thing that government does not screw around about and obviously the idea of nuclear secrets being held in an insecure way at mar- a-lago is just extraordinary and certainly really changes the conversation i
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa
for nearly five hours as rioters overwhelmed the capitol, looking, chanting, to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route and we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses include ing ivanka said about trump s demeanor on the call. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp, i don t remember, he said, you are a wimp, you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. also a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee, john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results asked for a pardon after january 6th. and new this morning, the new york times obtained a copy of a letter sent by the house select committee to ginni thomas, the way of supreme court justice clarence thomas. they want to speak to her next month. they have emai
growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. that s not true. there were plenty of adults and couldn t contain him and didn t want to. the so-called adults are sharing what they really feel about trump s pursuit for power. we re talking about trump s closest allies, his own people narrating the case against him, star witnesses that included none other than attorney general william barr, a man who spent years defending and serving trump, not the american people, but who via video testimony had this to say about the president slize. bogus stuff and based on misinformation, idiot
john berman here in for anderson. answer for that will depend on the answers for a string of other questions. can the committee in the coming weeks make the ambitious case it laid out last night. what will the justice department that already brought hundreds of charges in capital assault do with the information the select committee uncovered and will the hearings generate the kind of political census that might be needed before the attorney general decides to aim as high as the select committee is already suggesting might be necessary. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. you will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on january 6th, a crime defined in our law as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force, the government of the united states. or, to oppose by force, the authority there of. committee vice chair liz cheney said those words, plot to commit seditious conspiracy while putting the forme