brian kemp in his race against trump-backed david perdue. trump versus pence. we ll also play more from elise jordan s eye-opening focus groups that she does with voters out of georgia. they re absolutely fascinating and give you a real sense of the state of play. with us, we have president on the council of foreign relations, richard haass, who has golf reporting for us this morning. very excited. we ll give him another chance. don t know how don t screw it up. this is your last chance. thank you for the support. former aid to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. analyst and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. white house bureau chief at politico. and also host of the circus, affairs analyst john heilemann. good to have you with us all this morning. president biden today said the u.s. military will get involved militarily if china invades its island neighbor. this is how the president answered a reporter s question this m
sat for a lengthy interview with the committee investigaing the january 6th attack on the capitol. people familiar with the interview say it was virtual and lasted more than 7 hours. it is unclear what he told the committee. because of his efforts to help overturn the results of the 2020 election, he could potentially be a pivotal witness for the panel. giuliani was one of the last major witnesses the committee had pushed to speak with before holding public hearings next month. we re also learning more about the efforts of ginny thomas to overturn the election. wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas sent emails to arizona lawmakers, calling on them to, quote, choose a clean slate of electors. this is according to the washington post s reporting. thomas sent the emails days
poll. political poll. 60% of republicans now, 60% of republicans believe the 2020 election results should be overturned. and you have people openly talking about violence in order to ensure that they maintain control of this country regardless of election results. what is your alarm level at this point, one to ten because it feels like we re getting close to ten. i think it s at a ten there is a sustained effort before the election, during the election and after the election to this day to discredit the whole idea that we can still rely on elections to decide who should govern and if you pull that pillar of our democracy out, it comes crumbling down and what is left other than violence? if you don t trust the ballot box, resolve differences, what is left but violence? it s what led to january 6th and what may lead to further violence and joy, i think you re
to speak with him. you know, i would have tried to delve into that more but we didn t have time to do that. thank you very much. very interesting finds there talking to these two men. thank you very much. appreciate it. with me is congressman adam schiff of california. he is on the committee investigaing the january 6th attack. is there any response from his attorneys? i can t comment on what engagement we ve had with him but i can tell you we re very interested in his testimony. he s obviously at the center of efforts to overturn the election and listening to that audio and watching that video is just shocking particularly after earlier he tried to disappoint his a coup and these are insurrectionists and they re not done. they re out there trying to strip independent elections
only reason he didn t is because the violence had already begun and appears to speak in solidarity with the right wing militia claiming that the fbi set them up. what do you think if trump came down on the 6th, it would change things a little bit? if he came down? yeah, he said he was coming down. oh, down to the capitol? i don t know. because the breaking of the windows stuff had already started before his speech was over. if he got down there, then all of that would have been blamed on him. i mean, they re still blaming him but they would have had more basis for him. but he had been planning oncoming down, though. i know, i know. the whole thing is a setup. the oath keepers and the proud boys had not just kind of wall flowers sitting on the side of the organization but people instigating within the