elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one single new supporter. his republican antagonist have also failed to pick up support although they have introduced two new names into the mix for speaker. oklahoma congressman kevin hern. and donald trump. the twice impeached former president of the united states. today congressman matt gates officially nominated donald john trump to be the speaker of the house. which he can technically do. but the speaker of the house does not actually have to be a member of congress. after being nominated trump who has endorsed kevin mccarthy managed to get only one vote for matt himself. that didn t stop trump from
thanks for starting your week with us. donald trump s false claims about the 2020 election now have him calling for the constitution to be terminated. it came after a twitter owner elon musk promised to expose how the company suppressed free speech by blocking the new york post story about hunter biden in the runup to the 2020 election. these so-called twitter files were released late friday afternoon but failed to show any evidence the democrats or the government pressured twitter into suppressing the story. still, that didn t stop trump from tweeting this. with the revelation of massive and widespread fraud and deception and working closely with big tech companies, do you throw the presidential he headquarters results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner or do you have a new election? a massive fraud of this type and
first of all, the attorney general will still make the final decision about whether to prosecute. and obviously, there was a special counsel with the russian investigation, but that didn t stop trump from calling it a witch hunt. i mean, i have to agree with you, i do not think even now, the special counsel has been appointed, and donald trump is still making it something that it is not. neal katyal had something to say about this last night, he is the former acting u.s. solicitor general, and this is what he said on msnbc, listen to this. i disagree pretty strongly with the decision by attorney general garland to seek a special counsel. i do not think it is needed under the regulations and i think that it risks delaying this investigation, needlessly. now, nil county all, he literally drafted the special counsel regulations 20 years ago. and now he is saying that he doesn t necessarily think it is needed. now, do you think that he is correct here? you know, simone, i think
of the importance of the investigation that fulton county district attorney fani willis is conducting into that infamous phone call. now, in part, that is because this is the case in which president trump s most directly implicated. they have him on tape. multiple witnesses corroborate it. that is hard to deny. but the other big reason to keep tabs on this case is that it wasn t just a trump pushing raffensperger on this. trump s phone call was part of the larger fake electors scheme that led up to january 6th itself. last month, fani willis s office notified georgia fake electors that they could be prosecuted for their actions. earlier this week, the president s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was also notified that he is a target of the investigation for his role in the scheme. trump legal advisor, jenna alice, is scheduled to testify before that investigations granted show enough thursday. the guy who got trump into the fake electors scheme in the very first place, john eastman, he
to all of this, who is doing everything he can to avoid this investigation. south carolina senator lindsey graham. two months before secretary raffensperger was pressured by trump on that infamous call, senator graham made a very similar call. graham asked whether raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of non matching signatures. raffensperger said he was stunned that graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. it sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road, raffensperger said. now, lindsey graham claims he was just calling to ask some questions, to do his, you know, due diligence. and he has been trying to get out of testifying about that call for months now. today, a federal judge in georgia rolled that senator graham couldn t do that. he was subpoenaed, and he has to testify. a date is now set.