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blockbuster new reporting in this yet to be released report bears that out and adds to our understanding of the horrors of january 6th including the new detail that trump s white house counsel expected trump to be charged with a crime, sedition, on that day. in the new book we learn more about the extreme pressure campaign. donald trump exerted upon his vice president mike pence to overturn the will of the american people on january 6th. they write this, quote, trump called pence, who was spending the morning at his naval observatory residence before heading to the capitol. pence again explained the legal limits on his authority as vice president and said he planned to perform his ceremonial duty as prescribed by the constitution. but trump showed no mercy. quote, you don t have the courage to make a hard decision, he told pence. it s a sentiment he repeated even as the crowds turned violent with the threat mounting. the excerpt says this, quote, as rioters marauded thr ....
laws are particularly egregious. in georgia their law disempowers the secretary of state removing him as chairman of the state election board and empowering the gop-led legislature to suspend county election officials. in arizona, the state s secretary of state has been removed as a statewide official responsible for representing that state in disputed election results. in harris county, texas, the new voting restriction expected to pass but for the defiance of democratic state representatives, we ll get to that later, would ban drive-through and 24-hour voting and further tighten the rules for voting by mail, measures disproportionately used by democrat and minority voters in that state. so here we are today. president joe biden putting the full force of his office behind the moral case for protecting the right to vote in 2021 america. a speech he never should have had to give and would not have had to deliver if the gop hadn t lurched toward anti-democratic policies, ....
is a move attorney general bill barr knocked down today, saying he stands by his earlier comments to the a.p. that there s no evidence of widespread fraud. here s the outgoing a.g. just today. i was commenting on the extent to which we had looked at suggestions or allegations of systemic or broad-based fraud that would affect the outcome of the election, and i already spoke to that, and i stand by that statement. do you believe there s enough evidence to warrant a special counsel to investigate that, perhaps sydney powell or someone else? if i thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool, and was appropriate, i would name one, but i haven t, and i m not going to. trump also flirted with invoking martial law this weekend. yeah, he hosted his former national security adviser, convicted felon michael flynn, who trump recently pardoned, and who thinks martial law is a good idea. from the new york times reporting on this, quote, during an appearance o ....
trump to the writers themselves and are sorting through more than 35,000 documents. the so-called green team is following the money trail connected to trump s efforts to promote the baseless assertion that he was the rightful winner of the election, including whether any groups defrauded contributors with false statements about fraud. the gold team is scrutining plans to try to overturn the election in his pressure campaign on local, state, and justice department officials to try to keep himself in power. domestic extremist groups are the focus of the purple team. a fourth, the red team, is digging into the stop the steal movement. together, the teams are trying to answer some of the major remaining questions about the insurrection, including whether extremist groups had any tie to trump world and who knew about the possibility of violence. one group under intense scrutiny, the first amendment tra torians. from the new york times reporting on they will, quote, known i ....
a republican member of congress posts a video in which his cartoon character kills a liberal colleague and then, yes, targets the president of the united states and winter is coming and with it sticker shock. the pandemic travel rebound collides with pandemic inflation. up first for us though the january 6th committee and its turn to donald trump s inner most circle. six former trump advisers now targeted but new committee subpoena blgsz. the list includes trump associates involved in oval office meetings about how to keep trump in power as well as two trump associates who are in steve bannon s hotel bunker the day before the insurrection. the subpoenas are an important new marker and make clear trump and his closest al us are cen allies are central to the committee investigation. bannon ignored his subpoena and now the biden justice department has still not decided whether it will enforce the contempt charge. let s get straight up to cnn s ryan noble up on capitol hi ....