January 6th certification process. The electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from trumps early efforts in the states to Wider National efforts to create confusion about the results, and it went all the way up to mike pence, all the way up to an attempted, ultimately thwarted pretext that was going to be presented by pence to help stage a coup on jan 6th. In essence it involved Fraudulent Electors or getting states to appoint Trump Electors in the states that biden won or was winning and try to send those to congress. Unlike some of the other plots that weve covered, this ones already at the center of three different cases, including indictments by dojs jack smith, plus the probes in michigan and now georgia, where d. A. Fani willis just charged several Trump Lawyers and aides for these types of plots as part of the larger rico conspiracy. That is why tonights scoop, this video, may be of interest in the two big cases led by these tough prosecutors who mean business. The defend
york, a live look of the hearing room, the vice chair of the committee, liz cheney giving a preview yesterday. she says the panel will examine a plot by former president trump and attorney john eastman to prevent former vice president mike pence from counting lawful electoral votes. john: the hearing is expected to feature two witnesses, greg jacobs. served as special counsel, chief counsel, rather, to vice president pence and former federal judge who also advised mr. pence. ludig is called the last ditch effort to keep trump in power incorrect at every turn. we are going to pause for one moment to let our fox stations join us now. and this is fox special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th insurrection. we are going to pause right now. all right, this is fox news special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th capitol riot. i m john roberts in washi
erin burnett out front starts right now. reporter: out front next, a ruling from a colorado judge on whether to disqualify trump from running in the state. breaking, powerful explosions rocking northern gaza. israel now warning it will strike anywhere hamas is found as hamas release as new hostage video. new video of house speaker mike johnson making anti-gay comments weeks before he was elected speaker, more as we learn from his wife s ultra conservative views. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. we begin with breaking news. a judge seconds ago just ruling on whether former president trump should be kicked off the ballot in the state of colorado. the judge deciding trump is eligible to run for president even after his role in the january 6 insurrection. a group of voters filed a lawsuit, and this was based on the 14th amendment, arguing that amendment would bartrum from federal office. a judge, though, ruling the other way. a team of reporters stand
Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps out the blueprint and rules of the road
for what democrats say is the next public phase in this impeachment probe. Now many are expecting a Party Line Vote today. Lawmakers will vote on these ground rules which includes moving the closed door depositions of all of these key witnesses into public hearings. Weve seen squabbling over this process. Were expecting in our special coverage to hear from Spe
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