he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
official who spoke up on the side of the rule of law and the truth. the challenge i wouldn t call it a challenge, but the sort of fly in the ointment for the trump side here is that all the witnesses will be deep, deep trump insiders and all the testimony will be on tape and in texts. it s in their own words how they tried to politicize an election and overthrow the u.s. government. (. right, i think trump will just continue to lie about it in all his, you know, fund-raising requests that he sends out and any interviews that he gives, but this puts every republican candidate, nicolle on defense. you know, you can t say i m not a member of the proud boys. i wasn t mark meadows in the white house that day. i don t know how it got so far out of hand, and have been silent all of these months when all of the revelations that we already know have been divulged,
capitol, creating an environment where an angry group of thousands of people is demanding mike pence do something, that the members of congress do something, and sort of setting this stage where violence could be considered almost inevitable, and you know, so cassidy hutchinson is one of those lower ranking aides who when their bosses wouldn t talk to the committee, the aides did, and she told them very valuable information, not just that mark meadows was told well before hand that there could be danger but that some at least one republican member of congress was in favor of telling the crowd to march to the capitol and that this was actually a topic of discussion among the members of congress as well. and we also know that cassidy hutchinson was asked about other important matters including, you
pursuing litigation against members of the trump administration. you had mark esper on earlier this week, and he flatout said that mark meadows, trump s chief of staff, said there s no way that vindman is going to get promoted. and i sensed that, and that s why i left. i want to or i knew it, frankly. look, i i think that because it s in your wiring, obviously, to hold your head up high and have this sort of peace of doing right by the constitution and the country, i just want to press both of you on what it s been like, because i think we don t always get a chance to come back to victims of retaliation and smears, and also, on sort of at least for you, alex, watching world events unfold while you re not serving your country. i have to sneak in a quick break but we will be back for a very special conversation with the twins, yevgeny and alexander vindman. don t go anywhere. yevgeny and r vindman. don t go anywhere.