on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
campaigning, elections set to show much of a grip donald trump still has on the gop. our correspondents are standing by live later on in the show. i m hallie jackson with you on this monday afternoon in washington. so let s get right to ken delainian and danny. ken, we haven t heard from guy during the trial. he didn t testify on his own behalf. he wasn t expected to make a statement today, but that has changed and he s now going to speak, we understand. reporter: yeah, the latest twist in a day that s been full of them here, hallie. earlier, guy reffett was trying at the defense table as his daughter was testifying in his defense and talking about his mental health issues and trying to blame what happened on donald trump. and after that, the justice department suffered a major setback when the judge ruled against imposing a so-called domestic terrorism enhancement on the sentence, which is the first time the doj tried to do that, saying that this conduct was domestic terro
temporarily seized control of the plaza that houses the residents of brazil s new president, also the congress and supreme court. neither were in session. but two years and two days after the snushg on insurrection insu- damaging property and rifling through paperwork, using barricades as weapons and injuring officers along the way. the similarities are no coincidence. from the associated press