pence s life in danger during the capitol riot when he refused to go along. approximately 40 feet. that s all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. i ll talk to one of the committee members, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. plus, the economy. prices everywhere going up. everyone had it up to here really. interest rates too. we re strongly committed to bringing inflation back down. leading to a sinking stock market. this week was brutal. today was brutal. over fears of a coming recession. my guests this morning, former treasury secretary larry summers, who says a recession is likely. also, thanks to the troubled economy and president biden s aides, democrats are worried about the president s 2024 chances and whether he should even run again. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. maria teresa kumar president of voter latino. republican strategist brendan buck an
overturn the 2020 election. the star witness tomorrow georgia republican secretary of state brad raffensperger who resisted trump s demand getting one more vote from joe biden in georgia. a new abc ipso poll shows 6 in 10 americans want donald trump to face criminal charges for his role in the plot. a georgia grand jury is already investigating. on friday, trump doubled down on comments from the attack. promising pardons from the rioters if he s re-electeded and slamming vice president percent for certifying the re-election. on the biggest issue facing the biden white house, the economy, treasury secretary janet yellen insisting that a recession is not inevitable. in the fight against covid, the moment millions of parents have been waiting for. beginning tomorrow, children as young as six months can get vaccinated. but will parents sign up? and juneteenth is being celebrated in many states in the nation s capital. we ll have a full report. this hour, i ll speak to califor
and certainly not taken seriously until months later, which is why the evidence matters. it s why, when you hear people saying, gosh, haven t we talked about this enough? sometimes they are guilty people or apologists for coup plotters. we re talk about how trump and his aides were hoping to mount an attack, hence secret at the time, to submit a false slate of fraudulent elector that would somehow inject last-minute doubt into the january certification. aides initially hid the plot, but evidence and emails have come out which shows how they were discussing it, and then we of course have tried to interview them to learn more about it. now there are reports that even the lawyers pushing it knew at the time that s they did not have the law on their side as the washington post is now reporting, so the plots are coming into more view. trump had seven plots thwarted. the lawsuits that game into court, somehow calling the military to help. that got shutdown inside the government.
more than 1,000 people dead. later this hour we will break down the results from tuesday s primary election. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. the big board. this morning, the house january 6th committee is preparing for its next public hearing, tomorrow, one day after hearing powerful testimony about former president donald trump s efforts to intimidate state lawmakers and election officials into overturning the results from the 2020 creeks. testimony from someone who detailed phone calls from trump and his allies pressuring them to find votes for trump or send fake protesters to washington. the trump team never produced evidence of fraud. he got emotional when he insisted he would method violate his oath of office. for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. some of the most emotional testimony came from a former georgia election worker and her mother who have been harassed and threatened after the
detail the schemes to state legislators involved in overturning the election don s favor. here is what the committee s vice chair liz cheney said at the end of thursday s hearing. over the course of our next hearings, you will see information about president trump suffers john eastman s efforts, the trump legal team s efforts to apply pressure to republican state legislatures, state officials and others. and we will examine the trump team s determination to transmit materially false electoral slates for multiple states to officials of the executive and legislative branches of our government. now, tuesday s hearing will revisit one of the most infamous moments from the last days of donald trump s presidency. scheduled to appear as a witness is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. now, on january 2nd, 2021, raffensperger received a call from trump during which the former president asked georgia s election administrator to simply find him some more votes in his fav