and i ve agreed with brady, the chairman of our back bench mps, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. and the timetable will be announced next week. and i have today appointed a cabinet to serve as i will until a new leader is in place. i ve tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to deliver when we re only a handful of points behind the polls even in midterm after quite a few months of relentless sledging and when the economics scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. and i regret not to have been successful in those arguments and of course it is painful to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself. but as we ve seen at westminster, the herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves. and my friends, in politics no one is remotely indispensable. johnson spent days defying calls to step down from dozens of fellow members of his party. after a series of high-profile resignations from member
world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news our sunday the supreme court is asking maryland officials to stop a protest outside of justices houses. in a letter to gary governor larry hogan, the court-martial says maryland law prohibits assembly quote, with another in a manner that perception a person s right to tranquility in a person s home. demonstrators have been ongoing since the decision to end roe was leaked in may. it comes as the battle for abortion rights intensifies. president biden is facing pressure from his fellow gov devin democrats to act. the president meeting with a group of governors yesterday promising to protect a woman s right to choose. also, new today in the january 6th investigation, nbc news confirming reports a catch cassidy hutchison, former aide to mark meadows, was the recipient of a message the committee revealed this week, as evidence of possible witness tampering. of which urging her to quote,
desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
Following the president elect in florida and well go to White House Correspondent kev cannin cork who is traveling with president obama in hawaii, hello. The foreign minister of russia calling the Obama Administration embittered and dimc witted Foreign Policy losers. Not my words but the word of the foreign minister in russia. This comes after president obama punished the russians for what his administration alleged cyber intrusions in the run up of 2016 elections and the including of three dozen russian operative and closing of two russian facilities that is not the sum total of our response. Well take a variety of actions in the time and place of our choosing andc some of which wi not be publicizeed the Russian Foreign minister said the country would retailiate and putin chose patience. As it perceives from international practice. We have the right to retailiate, we will not resort to irresponsible kitchen diplomacy. I dont know what that means but will plan further steps to restor