chairman benny thompson says no. but you don t, just to be clear, you don t anticipate that the committee, itself, will offer up a formal referral? no, that s not our job. our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around journal 6. what caused it and make recommendations after that. but is ranking member liz cheney saying maybe. she tweeted the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. we will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time. all right. the committee laid out a case for the why when the president refused to accept the results beyond just a hurt ego. yesterday, we heard about alleged grit that the trump campaign spent months fundraising off supposed election fraud even as it knew there was no election fraud. campaign aides and lawyers admitted that they did know it under oath and said they told the president the truth as well. all while, all the while, millions of dollars were pouring in. a
republican that will be chosen today. adam endorsed by donald trump is the front runner, adam lacksaw a former attorney general from nevada has supported trump and supports the idea there was election fraud. in fact, the member%, voters that have shown up today tell us they do believe there was election fraud and the people that are coming here to vote because they say they want to change are blaming the democrats for the problems they are facing in the state of nevada. this year, what do the vote verse to say? if you like $8 a gallon gas and you like continued rising costs on every single type of goods that we every day people depend on, every day, then vote democrat. but if you like $2 gasoline and lower food prices and jobs flourishing. tell only reason there was an issue was because of the pandemic. otherwise, this country was
matched against biden, bernie sanders or mayor pete buttigieg. now, again, it s very early, but you re an incumbent president with unemployment below 4% in two states you won in 2016 and you re having trouble in michigan getting above 41%, 42%, 43% and in texas getting closer to 50. what does that tell you? part of that is the soft numbers on independents in some of those polls where people took a risk on trump, and they support obama and then they went to donald trump, and those people are having some second thoughts, and i think that s leading to some of the softening here. we talked about this earlier in the show, but michigan and texas are those states that are impacted by these tariffs, so to the extent that trump heads down this path there is some politic political peril for him. hand in michigan we have the issue of auto tariffs which is about six months out. we don t know what s going to happen with that. and again, just don t listen to anyone that these polls you what
nbc and other places, it s too early to call this. but it certainly seems to be going against doug jones. then boom it showed he was going to lose six out of the seven swing states. that didn t happen. the vote verse a last word and, boy, they shocked the world last night. we want you to spell it out for, given your insight. let me set the table first. we have veteran columnist mike barnacle, former aide to the state department, elise jordan. associate editor for commentary magazine noah rothman and heidi pryzbilla and national political reporter for the new york times and white house correspondent for pbs news hour as well. not sure what happened there.
a millionaire real estate heir charged with first-degree murder is now on suicide watch. sheriffs officials in new orleans say robert durst has been moved to another facility in louisiana that houses inmates with acute mental illnesses. his attorneys say they don t believe he suffers from mental health issues but police arrested durst over the weekend. he s charged with killing a close friend. he was acquitted in a neighbor s murder and his first wife the body of his first wife has been missing for decades. at the end of the hbo documentary the jinx durst could be hearing essentially saying sounding like a confession i killed them on. next may be a whole lot of names on the list for president in 2016 but it looks like a lot of vote verse no clue who most of them are. we talk about our new cnn poll coming up next. plus oh, boy, i am finally giving you this inside look into my climb seven-day makeup free