stepian s recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about today s theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. we re also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. we ll bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. let s start with today s hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committee s plans after laying out how this would play out during the first prime time hearing last week. indeed, it does. because as we ve seen before, in-person testimony is so much more powerful even than the clips they showed of ivanka trump, for instance, on thursday night as we were showing on friday in the hearings. so the appearance in person would have been much more impactful. of course we re excited for them and his wife and their impending new baby, but that is the reality of what ha
Reaction to this, do you think that the impact of this among republicans, the 40% who still believe the big lie according to many polls. do you think there is any persuadables in that cohort? i do. i think there s been recent polling that shows there s a growing number representing about 25% now the republican base writ large across the country. that can considered themselves accountability conservatives. they re conservatives who want some accountability, to see some accountability for what happened on january 6th. they have not like some others in the party, lost their minds when it comes to donald trump. they are still very much objectively looking at to chuck s point, the evidence. the evidence that we know of so far that s been produced from some of the hearing, the private hearings. so they re objectively looking and waiting to see. that s going back the our
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