this world better. former president barack obama, they re giving us a little bit of hope in these very difficult times. before we go everybody, do not forget, you get a little bit more sleep tomorrow morning. set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed tonight. it changes at two a.m. eastern time. i m yasmin vossoughian, i ll be back tomorrow at two pm eastern. symone starts right now. greetings everyone you re watching symone. israel defense forces not letting up in gaza. strikes are intensifying, with a deadly toll on civilians, despite calls from president biden for a humanitarian pause. here in the united states, the war is sparking protests, and tension on college campuses. antisemitic threats are on the rise, adding fear to the jewish community. we re talking to cornell student body president about that, plus, as former president donald trump prepares to testify in his new york fraud trial, he s also facing legal efforts to keep him off the ballot in two states
legislature overturn the results and deliver the electoral college votes to president trump. the rule of law egforbids us too that. mr. giuliani and ms. ellis made their case here at least twice, on monday at an unofficial public gathering hosted about asmall group of legislators and again on tuesday during a closed doorag meeting at the state capitol with republican leaders from both chamberst of the legislature. both times the trump team made claims that the election was tainted by fraud but presented onlyin theories, not proof. keep in mind what is going on here. this is the one dog that barked. he is alerting the public to the fact that there has been an unofficial gathering between republican legislators and people from the trump campaign, and then following that, a closed door meeting, between republicang, leaders and the ste legislature and people from the trump campaign, and this guy is a republican house speaker who says this might be happening behind closed doors but the publ
0 of the january six investigation is gonna be tomorrow, tuesday. it starts at 1:00 eastern. we available to watch out live, you should know that we are going to have a primetimea primm hearing, we will recap all of the most important stuff on the hearing and what it means tomorrow night, in prime time, starting at 8:00 eastern and that is true both for tomorrow s hearing and for the second hearing this week which happens on thursday. two january 6th hearings t tuesday, 1:00 eastern. thursday, 3:00 eastern. and again, whether or not you can watchd those live, we will have prime time recaps of each of those, 8:00 p.m. eastern, tuesday and thursday nights. now, in terms of what we are expecting tomorrow, this is kinds of the one that i ve been waiting for. it s at least the stuff that we have covered most intensively on this show, as these stories, as this part of the plot has started to come into focus. the hearing tomorrow is about how trump and his cohorts, co-conspirators, what do
charge, and that generally is 20-30 years punishment, it could be life in prison but that generally doesn t happen. the funny thing about this is this particular aggravating murder charge isn t used very often. in fact, one of the lawmakers behind this, tara simmons, herself by the way a convicted felon who madeke it into the ste legislature, she says it has only been used once. i don t necessarily think that is the case, this is not something very easily trackable, but let s say it was in fact usn just once, that literally means it is not racist, it is not being t used to target black peoplepe and this would have zeo impact whatsoever on racial equity in the criminal justice system. one time does not mean it is a problem. in fact, the argument should be we are not using it enough. will: so with the rationale, jason, that lawmakers and californians have used it to go about leaving shoplifting can for example, and small theft unpunished because they cite disparate impact on