on january six and shame on us if we don t take it seriously. and don t prepare for it right, we have actually see this before so we want to make sure that having known how thi can unfold, we take al precautions that it does not involve this way thanks to both of, you great t see what joe and freeman is professor of history and american studies at yale university, the author of book about political violence. they feel the, blood violenc and congress and the road to the civil war. jennifer reuben is an opinio writer with the washington pos and an author of resistance, how women save democracy from donald trump, still ahead former vice president mike pence said this week no man is above the law including former president but he also maintain that the trump indictment is quote the criminalization of politics straight ahead, i talk to hi former senior adviser olivia troye about pence s thinking and political calculations a he continues to mull a 202 white house run. another hour of velsh
he had the opportunity t present a witness to the grand jury he presented his former lawyer robert costello, who tried t undermine michael cohen. i think the version that was presented was that storm daniels approached michael cohen and i think, you know, sort of engaged in some kind o shakedown that trump had nothing to do with this. michael cohen did this on hi own, to respond to her request and the facts are that this wa being done as a part of larger arrangement with th national enquirer to bur stories that were potentiall damaging to donald trump befor the election and it was david pecker wh forwarded stormy daniels t cohen. those are the facts, you know? you re not going to be able to spin in a court of law the way that you can in public, and think he s going to have a muc more challenging time there. - came from the washington journal s editorial boar response to the indictment the other day that the wall street journal said, once a forme
way. oh, you know, all engine forward. let s go cynthia, thank you, a always we appreciate it since the auctions of former prosecutor and an msnbc lega analyst. we just got an update, by th way, out of arkansas there have been a number o deadly storms across the south and the midwest, including i arkansas here, you are seeing video o the governor of arkansas, sara sanders, who just made som public comments. i m going to check with my controller do we have those yet or are we going to be turning that on? all right, we re going to turn that around for you. at least 11 people are dea across the country, across the south and the midwest becaus of a series of storms that hav taken place overnight. and of course, there are mor storms that we had just th other day. we will bring you complete coverage on those multiple catastrophic tornadoes tha have torn through severa states stay with us stay with us i swear”) plays jaycee tried gain flings for the first time the other day. and forgot
industrial area. it s a buildup city, it s go city level infrastructure that typically doesn t get damage by these kinds of storms they got hit hard. they got hit very hard an it s a city of about 200,000 people, and the mayor and th governor just said that abou 2000 or so residents homes wer impacted and that is what has happene to some of them. you can see some of the damage behind me. it s just unbelievable to se trees ripped up by their routes, roofs off of homes, and these, as you say, are substantia homes. the governor pointed out tha there have been five confirmed fatalities in this state there s still about 27 t 30,000 people without power. she s been in touch with president biden and fema she said and the federal government has offered to help in any way they can. unclear resources they may b sending here but yes, it s been quite a scene here not all over little rock, bu
prosecution or not there is the answer. not exactly it, this is moment, a defining moment fo our country i believe. and the damage that all of these people are doing wel likely last decades becaus it s very hard to come bac from this, especially for th democracy. and they could be exhibiting leadership instead they could choose to say let s play out, let s sit back and see what happens by the way all of these people who want the crown, the crow jewel of the oval office a lot of these people ar running for that slot. you know and instead, instea of exhibiting the leadership that our country needs right now, i think this will backfir on them in the end because loo not all republican voters ar okay with this not moderate voters, i mean we are all sitting there and ar conservatives like me who ar appalled at how this plays out because it used to be th republican party believes in the ideals of the rule of law. the party of like strong government line force, meant defense bu instead here we