reversal scheme was based on lies but proceeded with it anyway. there s no clear example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and the disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and they re putting up five-second clips. this guy ludig, whoever the hell ludig is, a former judge, and he was saying pence had no choice. more lies from donald trump. in the meantime, the january 6th committee will detail how the trump team tried to get states to fraudulently change their 2020 election results. it was a pressure campaign that trump distilled into one infamous phrase. find 11,780 votes. on tuesday, the man trump said that to will give his side of the story, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will testify publicly along with his deputy in that office, but the plan went beyond georgia. a
and if so, when? we are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. tonight, the latest on the back of forth between the 16 committee in the justice department the connection between the coup plotters and the supreme court and the alleged complicity of certain members of congress, including the senator from cancun. then, the republican governor found vacationing in europe while his state deals with historic flooding. and we will talk new mexico, where they are experiencing the rather disturbing we life on the ground consequences of the big lie. i still believe our elections are fraudulent, i believe that we already have enough evidence when all in starts right now. good evening from washington d.c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. the attempted coup that took place on january the 6th, 2021, infected all three branches of government. tonight, we are going to talk about how members of e
under five. is desantis more interested in catching political points then protecting children s whole? all of this coming up and more. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. with just three hearings province and it s this far, it feels like we have so much to digest, including shocking testimony and surprising new evidence showing how close our democracy came to a constitutional crisis on january 6th. the committee has two more hearings coming up next week. we have allie raffa, live on capitol hill for a closer look. ali? katie, since the january 6th committee started these public hearings that more than a week ago, we have learned so much more about what a former president that trump knew about it before, during, and after the attack on the capitol on january 6th. the committee is trying to connect the dots between the continued to push about the big lie and the violence that we saw the capitol that day. we use the testimony of his own family members, for
the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george the third, and declared him to be a tyrant. there was no way that they would ve put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who is going to be president of the united states. was it your present impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through your colleagues letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and he had been consistent and conveying his position to the president? very consistent. so despite being told that the president kept up a relentless pressure campaign on the vice president, both in private. when i entered the office the second time, he was on the telephone with who had later found it was the vice president. the conversation was pretty heated. it was a different on that i had heard him take with the vice president before. did
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are new questions about donald trump s legal exposure in the january 6th attempted and attempted coup. he and his allies new their scheme was illegal but continued with it anyway. putting vice president pence s life in danger as angry mobs vowed to hang him at the capitol. this was pence on january 6th sheltering in a secure location as rioters overwhelmed the capitol. they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we are learning more about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. here s what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the former president s demeanor. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. . it was a different tone i heard him take with the vice president before. so a major new piece