Stolen. He amplified these lies at every turn, seeking to convince supporters that they were victims of a massive electoral conspiracy that threatened the nations continued existence, but every single court to consider the president s attacks on the outcome of the election rejected them and state and federal officials from both parties refuse President Trumps increasingly desperate demands that they break the law to keep him in power. With his options running out, trump announced a save america rally. It was an january 6th. He promised it would be, quote, wild. Each of those facts cited by House Democrats is indisputably true. Goes on to draw on Donald Trumps exact words at the january 6th rally. Words we can just play for you because trump said them publicly in front of cameras. We won this election and we won it by a landslide. Were going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and were not going to stand for that. Were going to walk do
Hoover brought to you by robertgranari. Additional funding is provided by corpora funding provided by stevens inc. Representative will hurd, welcome to firing line. Thanks for having me. Member ofa Republican House of representatives representing texass 23rd district. Thats right. 29 counties, two time zos, 820mi s of the border. Which makes you the only republican in the house of representativethat represents a border district with the u. S. Border and mexico srder. Thaorrect and the longest border. Youre also on the how Intelligence Committee which has this week been undergoing impeachment hearings of were at the endf the second week public testimony and this week, we heard from dr. Fiona hill. President trumps former Russia National Security Council adviser. Heres what she said in her opening statement. Lets take a look. Ani refuse to be part of effort to legitimize the government that thrnukrainian gont is the adversity and ukraine not russia attacked us in 2016. These switches are
And sun, sea but few signs of tourists. Sri lanka struggles to shrug off the impact of the Easter Sunday attacks. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the evening in washington, where theres been a dramatic escalation in the war of words between President Trump and his Democratic Party opponents, on the question of impeachment. The president has given a series of irate News Conferences. In one, he accused the leading democrat adam shiff whos chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of being a low life whod committed treason. In another, he said democrat president ial hopefuljoe biden and his son were stone cold crooked. More now from my colleague in washington laura trevelyan. It should have been a routine visit from the president of finland but with President Trump in the centre ofan with President Trump in the centre of an unfolding impeachment drama, there was nothing routine about to
Weekend. Here the weeks top stories. Standing before congress and from of the same people who aided and abetted donald trump in trying to overturn the 2020 election the very Scene Of The Crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night, painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far that it no longer respects or adheres to the very basic norms of our democracy. Many of you are here on the darkest of days, we all saw with their own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots, they have come to stop the peaceful transfer of st power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose the greatest threat to you as democracy since the civil war. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Remember your oath of office, re defending to al
billionaire, maybe not so much, whether or not that s literally true, and none of this, by the way is filed until the judge signs off on all of it. that it has not stopped yet the former president for making hay of it politically. he went on social media with one of his favorite charges, the phrase, say it with me now, witchhunts, and claiming that our legal system is being used as a political weapon but here s the thing, do damages that are vastly bigger than any we expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him and frankly will it help him politically, after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. i ve got to get your reaction to this, gwen, thinking about the fact that this is and $83 million verdict. this is not the $5 million from last year and this is not a trial about whether sexual abuse occurred, that s already been decided but what was your react