hearing takes new turns. the january 6 committee accusing donald trump of scamming his supporters out of $250 million. laying 0 out the case that trump solicited money from backers by using lies as a fundraising tool. adding that he sent up to 25 emails a day, soliciting donations for illegal funds that simply didn t exist. but is it potentially criminal and will attorney general merrick garland pursue or prosecute it as such? those are the key questions emerging from the hearings overall. and there seems to be a new rift emerging from the january 6 committee itself on the very subject. whether they will make a specific criminal referral to the justice department. as for witnesses, some of the most stark testimony is coming from trump s former attorney general william barr who offered a line-by-line debunking of some of trump s ongoing lies about fraud. and he calls trump detached from reality after the election. cnn is live with the new reporting, trump s supporters, kai
campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us toni
his campaign knows he lost. his administration knows he lost. and nevertheless, he tells the country, i won. we have much more evidence to show the american people on this point than we can reasonably show in one hearing. and today, we will begin. tonight, new testimony from the very top of trump s own campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big rip off. tonight, committee mem
of election fraud were just lies. what they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us tonight. i m rachel maddow here at
stolen by fraud. that was testimony from former attorney general bill barr, played during the second hearing into the attack on the capitol, saying donald trump was detached from reality, as he tried to overturn the 2020 election. we will have the key take-aways from day two of testimony. plus, after yesterday s intense sell-off, stock futures are in the green so far this morning. as investors brace for a larger than expected interest rate hike. we ll have the latest read on the economy. and the race to turn that bipartisan compromise on gun safety into law and the process of writing the bill hits a snag. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 14th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin today with the second hearing into the january 6th attack on the capitol. the house select committee made the case yesterday that donald trump had an inner circle of advisers telling him the truth, that the election was not stolen, but t