together. it s very nice to see you, i hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nikole all us two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump g
hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nicolle wallace in for alex wagner two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump general told the comm
two days after election day in 2020 before the results of the presidential election have even beenio called. president donald trump s chief of staff received a text message laying out a veryte detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. the text was from donald trump s son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn t remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great
faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica