republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like today s we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony about the choices officials have to make, the tests that trump posed, tests that, by the way, many republicans have fail bid cowering to a would be autocrat by minimizing threats of violence and coups, by only speak out late, if at all. some have walked back from some of those public humiliations. others just live in them. but today s testimony by this republican here offers a view of what it looks like to stand up. i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath that i
Thank you, nicolle. We appreciate you. Im ari melber. We begin this broadcast with Breaking News out of the Georgia Rico Case against trump and his aides. Guilty. For the First Time Ever were reporting Tonight A Trump lawyer in the 2020 election case has now pled guilty. Sidney powell, who you may remember from presentations like that one she gave with giuliani after the election, a key coup lawyer. A key player, we should mention. Jack smiths case against trump. And most critically tonight, a rico defendant in that georgia case where she was booked for her mug shot. She was awaiting trial next week. The news tonight . She just pled guilty today, a bid to duck potentially harsher penalties in that criminal case. Unlike the federal case, today the cameras were rolling today in the georgia courtroom. You can see the defendant now convict sitting there this is where a onetime president ial lawyer became a convict. She admitted her guilt in the efforts to overturn trumps loss, and like any
the government for redress of grievances are gone. also importantly, i m an attorney. and, you know, the people that i was representing had a right to counsel. and what s going on here with the bar complaints against anybody involved in any of the litigation, this fulton county complaint. the unindicted co-conspirator and the federal action they are trying to stifle people from get representation in election challenges. they made that very clear what they are up to and we can t allow it to happen. laura: their argue; i guess, on the other side of that is you can pierce the attorney-client privilege if no reasonable attorney could have adopted the position, ya da ya da ya da. they cite this i guess, mark zeligman bar expert who looked into both the 12th amendment and the 1887 electoral act on the issue of the electors. but on the issue of the attorney-client privilege they claim that there was no
matter in large part. tried to sort of concoct a scheme to use fake documents and fake electors as if somehow that would legitimatize the efforts pushes down from the campaign. so this is part of a story. it s not the end of the story. and i think we re getting further into it. so i think it s an important building black. but if you re asking me to build a house, i m saying we re down near the foundation, and we re going keep working as we get further up to make the structure, if in fact that s the criminal case. understood, and appreciate your precision there. that s the law. libby, the wider story that congress is telling today, it has legal elements. we heard republicans worry that trump was breaking the law and when they tapped out. but it was also a story today, the country, that really brought this back to the states. there s a reason why we have it cut up this way. the creators founded federalism, ya da ya da. but there s also the fact we re not in d.c. anymore today. we weren
of reasons. we can debate the reasons. the truck drivers, though, i understand the ushers, but the truck drivers, i would guess, their livelihoods depend on this. i m curious why they re deciding not to have these jobs when, again, every story i ve read is, you know, about the endangered truck drivers soon going to be vanishing. now, we have more jobs. we have more jobs. more jobs. people aren t filling them. i know people will be on twitter going, oh, you this, you that, ya-da. maybe they don t want to work. great. i know a lot of people throughout time that haven t wanted to work, but they ve had to work. i m curious, perhaps this is, finally, the dawning of the age of aquarius, and we don t have to work if we don t want to. couple pieces. first of all, we have 11 million open jobs in this country, more than ever before. if you don t feel like driving a truck, if you don t want to be