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approached butler with a pitch. imagine, half a million veterans marching on washington a move financed by some of the most powerful corporations in america. the purpose to stop president franklin d. roosevelt s new deal opposed by wealthy business leaders as a socialist doctrine. this army of veterans would pressure the president to hand over executive powers of government and if the president refused, he would be forced to resign. the bond salesman after, you know, casually pitching the violent over throw of the u.s. government asked butler if he would be interested in heading this march to which general butler replied my one hobby is maintaining a democracy. if you get these 5,000 soldiers smelling of anything of fascism, i will get 5,000 more and lick the hell out of you and have a real war. the general reported this exchange to the government and here he is revealing the so-called business plot before a panel of the special house committee on unamerican activities. ....
trump candidates peddling the big lie. remember what trump tried to do to georgia s secretary of state who refused to overturn the will of the people. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. there s breaking news on that front today. the request by a georgia district attorney to seat a special grand jury to look into that infamous call and other potential election interference by trump has just been granted. the fulton county georgia d.a. will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. and that is ominous news for the ex-president. this is a criminal investigation and some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven states with fraudulent ones. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there wer ....
and helping him stay on target. he gets one-on-one coaching when he wants some advice, and can adjust his plan whenever he needs to. and now he s so prepared for retirement, ben is feeling totally zen. that s the planning effect from fidelity. don t miss full circle, our digital news show. 6:00 p.m. eastern on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. watch it on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues with jim acosta and democracy in peril. thank you. i m jim acosta. this is our special series to expose the ongoing threats to our democracy post-insurrection as we head into yet another election season. the stakes could not be higher. less than ten months away from the midterms, we all need to be paying more attention to what s going on to disrupt our political system, like the changing of laws nationwide to restrict access to voting or election map rigging where all the trump-back the candidates who keep peddling the big lie now running for positions that ....
ukraine. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have late breaking developments regard regarding a trove of white house documents that the ex-president has been trying to block the release of. in a huge rebuke to donald trump, the supreme court has rejected trump s attempt to block the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection from accessing those documents from trump s time in the white house. this evening the committee was set to receive a tiny handful of documents, four pages. but in light of this decision that happened 90 minutes ago the committee will have access to all of the hundreds of pages of documents it requested. that s not the only big news tonight. we also have new round of subpoenas from the january 6th committee which we will be getting to in a bit. but to put the supreme court ruling in context, trump had been fighting the release of these documents since last october when he claimed they were protected ....
in the wake of the other insurrection, the slow motion one that did not culminate on january 6, but rather commenced with it. to date, 19 states have passed voting restrictions. all of them disguised as election integrity measures. despite the fact that trump s ag, bill barr, found no evidence of fraud. even worthy of investigating and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, struck out in every legal challenge. that did not slow gop efforts or shame gop leaders. all of this creates the backdrop for today s speech. president biden and vice president harris traveling to georgia. the battle was kicked off with a passage of a sweeping voter suppression bill there in april. that bill so objectionable that at the time, major league baseball moved the league s all-star game out of georgia to colorado. since then, at least 12 bills have passed. the president s speech today is about urgent action needed right now, but it s steeped in civil rights history and and acknowledgment of past battle ....