Im rereading ben stillers blurb for your book on the back of the book which remains my favorite blurb for the book because, because, rachel, youre going to want to know this. At the end of the hour tonight, ben stiller is going to join us here on the last word. Youre kidding. And i dont really know what were going to talk about. He might want to spend the whole time talking about bag man by rachel maddow. Spiro agnew and bag man. So youre going to want to see that. Thats going to be at the very end of the hour tonight. Will you please tell him hi for me . You know, i will i will confess to you i wrote, like, thank you notes and sent little thank yous to everybody who blurbed the book when the book came out this past week and when it came time to write a thank you note to ben stiller i was so, like, intimidated and overwhelmed that i didnt send him a thank you yet because i have to, like, psych myself up to it. I feel like such a goober. Have to be cool enough to send ben stiller a thin
Covering all of this for us. Lets begin with the last ditch effort from several republican senators to contest results of the 2020 president ial election. In a joint statement, senator ted cruz and ten other gop senators say they intend to vote to, quote, reject the electors from disputed states as not regularly given, and lawfully certified, unless an emergency ten day audit is done. Shannon, can you tell us what the audit is, what theyre calling for, and will it go anywhere . Well, it is also unclear why theyre waiting until now, days before theyre set to vote to certify the Electoral College votes to call for the audit, according to the statement description would be extensive. Theyre saying they want to see full examination, factfinding authority to conduct an emergency ten day audit of the Election Results in disputed states. Once completed, the individual states would then evaluate the commissions findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in the
Tory rec sr requisite. Democratic senator Chris Van Holland slamming the efforts last hour on weekends with alex witt. These are political arsonists at this point in time. They are undermining the integrity of our democraciy. Many of them talk about America Needs to be a voice for freedom overseas but theyre taking a blow torch to that idea here at home. Those efforts by Congressional Republicans were dealt a major blow in court. A trumpappointed federal judge dismissing a lawsuit aimed at giving Vice President pence the power to overturn the Election Results. Meanwhile, as President Trump rails against the november Election Results, hes also making unfounded allegations on twitter that georgias two Senate Runoffs are illegal and invalid. Democratic senator ben cardin reacting on msnbc earlier. Right now hes raising doubt about the Georgia Election because he recognizes that democrats may very well twin Georgia Elections. Its not about our democracy. Its not about free and fair electio
Extraordinary and so it requires extraordinary measures. Nearly 250 lawmakers now calling for the president s removal. That line also get something traction among some republicans, including senator pat toomey who says the president has committed impeachable offenses. And investigators are making more arrests after that mob attack. Among them, a West Virginia state delegate. A new reporting from nbc news about Vice President mike pence and where he stands on the issue of invoking the 25th amendment. Good sunday morning, everybody. Glad youre with us. Im lindsey reiser. Im kendis gibson. We have a team of nbc correspondents and experts following the very latest for you right now. Josh lederman has new reporting from the white house. Heidi przybyla has the latest on the impeachment efforts and monica alba is on capitol hill with the newest details on the arrests following wednesdays attack. Lets start with josh right now. Good morning. You first there. There are reports that the Vice Pre
Bolton releasing a statement, wellestablished russian saying, quote, the president interference, not just in americas democracy, but on all believes that the next bilateral western democracies, as a matter meeting with president putin should take place after the of fact. Look, the indictments that the russia witch hunt is over. So weve agreed that it will be special counsel, director after the first of the year. Mueller, issued for the 12 uniformed members of the russian now, we dont know whether the russians have agreed to that or Intelligence Services is a master piece of criminal not, they havent said. But after the first of the year investigation. And i confidently predicted it is a big change from this fall, will go down in the history which is what the white house books as such. Announced on twitter. To be able to trace their names, so why is this meeting suddenly on ice . Well, our jeff zeleny asked. Recreate the paper trail, as it were, is brilliant detective mr. President , wh