unable to identify anyone on the defense team at all. it s not clear what s behind this exodus. maybe the former failed president is so certain there are enough republicans who will vote in his favor that he doesn t think he needs lawyers. or perhaps he simply decided to stop paying them. he does have a bit of a history of refusing to pay people who work for him. starting tuesday night the body of capitol hill police officer brian sicknick will lie in rest at the rotunda. so far no one has been directly charged in officer sicknick s death. authorities are also searching for the people who placed two pipe bombs blocks away from the capitol. this video by the washington post appears to show the suspect planting one of the bombs, reportedly done the night before the insurrection. authorities have arrested the woman who posted a selfie video of herself walking out of the capitol after the siege while saying, quote, we broke into the capitol. we got inside. we did our part.
how coronavirus transmits helps save their season. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the first ever second impeachment trial set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. and was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. first, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. at least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big poisonous lie he s been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. this comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of
he clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. and it was a project, let s be clear here, that almost the entire republican party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. the times reports trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. hm. mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. he also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. trump would eventually cede to reality. remember that texas lawsuit challenge the election results that 18 republican state attorneys general signed on to? right? that was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. the lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers in
we ll have more on where the investigation stands straight ahead. plus, tensions and threats heat up as talks stall and worries grow over a possible second russian invasion of ukraine. president biden and his administration telling cnn this morning that a written response to russian security demands could be presented as soon as today. the kremlin warned it will take what it calls an appropriate response if it deems the u.s. response not constructive. and if the west continues what russia describes even as it mounts forces on the border as an aggressive line. we begin this morning with the doj investigating the fake electoral college certifications. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez sat down for an exclusive interview with deputy attorney general lisa monaco, an extraordinary interview. what did she tell you? well, bianna, one of the first things that we wanted to discuss obviously was the idea that the justice department is looking at the coop la we have be
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we re beginning with the breaking news, a tsunami advisory currently in effect for the entire pacific coast as well as alaska. it comes after an underwater volcano erupted early this morning off the coast of tonga in the pacific ocean. you can see here that nation s largest island was hit by some pretty big waves. just last hour, though, hawaii ended their tsunami advisory. no major damage or injuries being reported at this hour, only some minor flooding. let s go right to nbc s guad venegas. i m going to be honest and tell you i got an email from a friend from new port beach saying they were alarmed about it and wanted to know what the latest was. reporter: right, so, a lot of people saw the alerts. they ve been seeing posts on social media talking about the tsunami. a lot of the images that we ve seen that we were just showing come from tonga. this is where they did