predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
will ever s get. they ve got about eight opportunities for pickups, whereas the democrats are playing defense upeverywhere.re as we saw last cycle, there s no sure t thing. so given those pickups versus defense, brendan, after the gop s autopsy report did not mention trump as a reason for those 2022 losses, he s now being called the party s secret weapon. do you agree? you know, actually, i can t fault this strategy at all. look, we lost we didn t win the senate last time purely based on candidate quality. we had people like herschel in georgia, dr. oz in pennsylvania, kari lake in arizona. all veryi winnable states where we should have wonon those race and didn ta because donald trum chose the candidates there. mitch mcconnell with his teamm basically went to war trying to pick more electable candidates in thosele states, and donald trump overpowered them. steve daines clearlywe thinks h can convince donald trump redirect some of his energy towards candidates, work with him for