Post. Taking us inside cheney s months long effort to get her party back to reality. The post reports that recent gop retreats, staffers with the national republican congressional committee left out key findings about trump s weakness, his unfavorable ratings, which continue to grow in district republicans need in order to win back the house. Congresswoman cheney claims nrcc leadership willfully hid that bad polling from its members to avoid telling the truth about trump. The nrcc denies that, but we do know that cheney and trump loyalists have long battles over whether or not the party should directly confront the damage trump caused. But it s clear this party is choosing instead to defend trump s actions and parrot his lies which is the only way republicans can win if you ask lindsey graham. I would just say to my republican colleagues, can we move forward without president trump? the answer is no. I ve always liked liz cheney, but she s made a determination that the republican party
imprisonment of japanese americans. we will that s been my mission in life. george, thank you very much for joining us tonight. your perspective on this is invaluable. george takei. thank you very much. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. good evening once again. day 28 of the biden administration. the president is in the midst of his first trip outside the white house to move public support for his massive coronavirus relief bill. on this very same day, when his predecessor launched a vicious attack of the highest ranking republican elected official in our land. while there are glimmers of hope, we indeed remain in an uncontrolled pandemic. let s not forget. the folks at the covid tracking project show cases falling in friction states, even though the total number of cases is closing in on 28 million and we re nearing 490,000 deaths. we ll get to half a million in short order. tonight at a town haul in milwaukee, the president made a cautious predic
senate managers presented a 13-long hour display of the most powerful evidence of that day. it showed looting and desecration of our capitol building on january the 6th. impeachment managers followed that damning video, promising to present a case to convict trump based on what they called cold, hard facts. the argument is if you commit an impeachable offense in the last weeks of office, you do it with a constitutional impunity. this would create a brand new january exception to the constitution. impeachment exists to protect the american people from officials who abuse their power. who betray them. it exists for a case just like this one. the president of the united states literally incited an armed attack on the capitol by seeking to retain power by subverting an election he lost and then celebrating the attack. perhaps most memorable as moments from today go was lead manager congressman jamie raskin s emotional account of his own personal experience on january the
mccarthy really think of the most extreme members of his own caucus. the audio reveals that mccarthy was worried that the rhetoric coming from the likes of matt gaetz would get democratic colleagues hurt or even killed. it reveals that the number two house republican, mr. steve scalise thought that comments by gates could be potentially illegal. here s a bit more from those tapes. take a listen to mccarthy saying, he can t put up with inflammatory rhetoric from his members. what did mo brooks say down at that rally, though? it s the kicking [ bleep ] and taking names thing is the one that i ve seep the most from people. i didn t watch the speech, but that s a number of members said he heard that term. and louie said like we need to fight or something, right? didn t he say something a couple of days out that was horrendous? it was something like that. yes. it was incendiary. i mean, you got the maxine waters and all that stuff, too. so, i mean, i know the dems are in
good monday morning, everyone. it is 8:00 a.m. here on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. out west. so happy to have victor blackwell with me this week. glad to be here. good weekend? very good. we have a lot to get to. breaking overnight, helicopters collide while fighting wildfires in california. three people killed including a fire chief. an investigation now underway. plus, thousands of beyonce concertgoers forced to take shelter as severe storms swept through d.c. how much her tour spent to keep metro trains running. and simone biles is back. blowing away the competition after a two-year hiatus. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. this is where we begin this morning. donald trump just hours away from a crucial deadline in the 2020 election interference case. a federal judge has ordered him to respond to special counsel jack smith s request for a protective order by 5:00 today. smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making public co