eastman documented the scheme in a stunning memo obtained by the authors and shared with msnbc. and what that memo proposed was nothing short of a coup. it called for pence to site on going disputes over the slate of electors from seven states which pence would declare invalid and toss out. by cancelling the votes trump would be left for majority and pence could gavel him in with pence himself as having been reelected. if democrats object, eastman proposed sending the matter to the house where republican whose control the majority of states would have voted to reelect trump anyway. their theory it was a win, win for trump either way of course, that s not how the process is supposed to work. for one thing, eastman falsely asserted pence as vice president was the ultimate arbiter of any elections that arise. if the shoe was on the other foot, it s hard to believe any republican would be as enthusiastic about kamala harris wielding that power in 2024. while he rejected eastman s
one supermarket help to save that? a pudding fit for a queen a nationwide competition is launched to mark the platinum jubilee. abysmal arsenal. manager mikel arteta apologises after they re dumped out of the fa cup by championship side nottingham forest. good morning, a fairly cloudy start to the day. we have rain and drizzle in the west heading east through the day. the highest temperatures will be in the west as a result. all the details throughout the programme. it s monday, the 10th of january. overnight, novak djokovic s lawyers have spent hours challenging the australian government s decision to deport him. the world tennis number one has been held at an immigration hotel since his arrival ahead of the australian open, where djokovic will be hoping to win a record breaking 21st grand slam. so what s happened so far? novak djokovic landed at melbourne airport on wednesday, where he was dramatically denied entry into the country. djokovic is unvaccinated, but his legal
now and too frequently been visited on this floor that is not conducive to the exercise of free constitutional politics. former leader of my party, dick gepheart said that democracy was a substitute for war. that we should settle our differences peacefully and nonviolently. the speech that has been the subject of this resolution wills away at the rule of law and the stability needed to constructive debate. indeed, violent words and images are too often a precursor to the practice of violence. we ve seen that. we saw it on january 6th as the president of the united states incited and urged people to come to the congress to stop democracy in its tracks. and people wanted to hang the vice president of the united states as a result of those words because he was not doing that because he thought it was not legal. he wanted to follow the law. my friend gabby giffords and senator kelly know that all too well that violent words and images are too often a precursor, as does representa
tonight on a special holiday edition of the reidout the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans, believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wasn t going to last, and it didn t. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to
hello and welcome to the programme. we start injapan where at least 48 people are now known to have died in the powerful earthquake which struck the centre of the country on new year s day. other people are feared to be trapped in the rubble. the prime minister, fumio kishida, says the quake has caused numerous casualties and extensive damage. hundreds of buildings have collapsed or burnt down, many of them in wajima city as you can see here. some roads are blocked, hampering rescue efforts. mr kishida said he d ordered army personnel to get to the disaster hit areas by any means possible. rupert wingield hayes reports. we ve arrived at the small peninsula where the earthquake happened and we are travelling towards the epicentre. and we keep coming across these areas of destruction where homes have been partially destroyed or some of them completely collapsed. now, they tend to be these older homes and made of wood, the houses that haven t been built to withstand these sort