the new speaker, mike johnson, in an october prayer call, says american culture is dark and depraved. the same mike johnson who played a key role in the depraved effort to overturn the 2020 election. also tonight, the judge in trump s new york fraud trial issues a ruling about trump s request for a mistrial, using words like nonsensical, red herring, and bad faith. and what awfulness does the extremist moms for liberty have in store for us next, following their huge losses across the country on election night? but we begin tonight nearly three years since an army of maga extremists laid siege to the u.s. capitol at the direction of donald trump. in a final attempt to hold on to his seat of power. since then, we have learned a lot about the confluence of events leading up to that day and what occurred on the day itself. but one aspect that continues to be shrouded in some mystery was trump s bizarre efforts to get to the capitol and join the very people he unleashed on