hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
It only gets worse hourbyhour. Thank you very much, avril benoit of doctors without borders, and that does it for this edition of Andrea Mitchell reports. Chris jansing reports starts right now. Good day, im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city, and we are following three big Breaking News Stories with farreaching implications. The humanitarian catastrophe in gaza is spiraling deeper into devastation, desperate civilians clinging to hope because increasingly thats all they have left. With food, water, and medical supplies almost gone, packed trucks and 60 tons of aid are heartbreakingly close. Just on the other side of the egyptian border, so why isnt it getting through . And the house is considering a new plan to break the deadlock on capitol hill that would let Patrick Mchenry keep the speakers gavel. Well get you caught up on all the head spinning developments. Jim jordan out but only for now, possibly, and mchenry potentially in. How it might all take republica
not fraudulent in fact, giuliani explained they didn t have the evidence otherwise. so this is really just a corrupt scheme to overturn the election and potentially more than one election and you know, when you step back from it, we got so involved over the two years with the committet it s just starkly outrageous what these individuals did i mean, what a threat to our democracy, really. well, the committee has referred four crimes to doj. conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to make a false statement, insighting assisting and aiding or comforting an insurrection. i mean, none of the people we re talking about, sidney powell, rudy giuliani, none of the lawyers involved have been charged or it hasn t been reported any of them have received word they re targets of a federal investigation. trump doesn t stay in power if he only overturns georgia. i mean, georgia s nonsensical.
where s the beef that s all he wanted to know described by january 6th committee member jamie raskin as, quote, the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. where you just heard from white house counsel pat cipollone talk about a quote disregard for backing up what they said with facts. it was a wild meeting held in the oval office on december 18th, 2020 now, remember that date because what ensued that night was an hours-long duel between trump s own insiders, his allies on one side included sidney powell and mike flynn and several white house lawyers on the other they clashed over outlandish claims of voter fraud and ideas about what donald trump should do in order to overturn the results of the 2020 election the meeting at times, as you just heard there, became very heated people shouting and hurling insults at each other according to people who were in the room now, among the many out there election conspiracies discussed that night in that meeting was
transparently about the georgia results thrice audited there was never any fraud in georgia. what is your sense of the significance of that testimony from lyons so there is there s been a lot of testimony, and we played a fair amount at the hearings and you see it in the report about this sort of insane unhinged nature of the fight that was mostly over these executive orders and whether the president should sign an executive order to seize the machines and also the issue of whether sidney powell should be appointed special counsel to lead that investigation. the part that derek lyons is talking about is that at the end of the meeting, after this towards the end of the meeting, after it had moved from the oval office up to the white house residence late on the night of the 18th rudy giuliani came over he was summoned and joined the meeting late and started talking about a plan to voluntarily access the machines. rudy was against excuse me, mr. giuliani was againsted concept of s