The request includes records from the trump White House relating in any way to former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence and in total to 30 other Key Figures in trumps orbit. In letters demanded from The National Archives and several other agencies the Committee Chairman signaled an expansive Investigation Touching not only on what happened on January 6th but also materials that could shed light on matters such as the former president s knowledge of the Election Results and what he communicated to The American people about the election. The requests include information on communications within and among the White House and Executive Branch agencies during the leadup to January 6th and on that day as well as attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government after the election. The committee is hoping to fill in. A campaign that culminated in the deadly attack as congress tried to certify the Election Results. Here is a little bit of wh
Petition by Governor Greg Abbott And House Speaker Dave falan overturned an earlier ruling. That ruling had determined that the two officials, both republicans, did not have the authority to order the arrest of their fellow lawmakers. Ted cruz, texas democrats And all democrats across the country say they so desperately need. Senate Majority Leader Chuck schumer promising action next month but without any movement on the filibuster, there is essentially no path for federal voting Rights Legislation. Let me be clear. Republicans refusing to support anything on Voting Rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. Voting rights, Voting Rights will be the first matter of legislative business when the senate returns to session in september. Our democracy demAnds no less. In a tweet texas democrats summed up the situation like this. In the dead of the night, Ted Cruz blocked critical federal voting Rights Legislation in the senate. This morning, texas republicans are hunting down our
Tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days after the election. Asking the department of justice to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud, which would help delegitimize Joe Bidens victory. But until tonight, we did not know how extensive Donald Trumps efforts were. According to the Washington Post, president Donald Trump called his actingAttorney General nearlyevery day, at The End of last year, to alert him to claims of Voter Fraud or allegedimproper vote counts in the 2020 election. End quote. In those calls, the Post Report that Donald Trump raised various allegations of Voter Fraud that he had heard about. And asked what the Justice Department was doing about it. Here is the kicker. These calls did not just stay phone calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, Attorney General rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls, that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donoghue, who was present for some
The bulletin warns that militia violent extremists were emboldened by the january 6th attack and therefore pose a higher overall threat. That warning coming as the congressional investigation into the insurrection drilled into the dangerous holdup in the deployment of National Guard troops that day. William walker, the commander general of the National Guard today described what he called an unusual delay in the between for troops and approve, a delay he believes had significant consequences. At 1 49 p. M. I received a frantic call from steven sun, where he informed me that the perimeter of the United States capitol had been breached by hostile rioter, chief sun, his voice cracking with emotion indicated a dire emergency. He requested the immediate assistance of as many available National Guardsmen that i could muster. Immediately after that 1 49 call, i alerted the u. S. Army Senior Leadership of the request. The approval for the chiefs request would eventually come from the Acting Se
You watching us here in the United States, canada, and all around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom efforts to air drop aid into gaza turned deadly as a parachute malfunctions. Were live in cyprus with look at what this says about the ongoing struggled to respond to an exploding humanitarian crisis. Plus us President Joe Biden takes his fiery state of the Union Message on the road. As he kicks off a Battleground State tour. Well look at how his message is resonating on the Campaign Trail and bragging about turning to roe v. Wade. Have no clue about the power of women reproductive rights are hot topic this Election Year will look at how the issue is motivating those going so the polls live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber in the past hour or there has been a new air drop of aid into gaza. Have a look here. You can see the parachutes and aid pallets in this video. Now we dont know which country dropped this aid, but its one of many airdrops thats happe