republican party is once again siding with lawless insurrectionists mob. crimes. today, bragg s office responded calling that republican letter unprecedented and writing, quote, the letter only came after donaldok trump created a hmvuit(sáqxd expectation that hd be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact is illegitimate basis for congressional inquiry. ñrcongresswoman zoe lofgren,ñi e served on the january six committee and she joins me now. odzcongresswoman, it s great to see you. what is your reaction at this9■ point to all of this coming from kevin and!u■ marjorie taylr greeneq involving ashley?;■ babbitt s mother and those insurrectionists who are now ini jail? á well, i don t know. i mean, i wasn t in on the meetingçó between babbitt si] mother and the speaker. ñiobviously, this woman was killedq. itn( sad and she lostc her life because she wasxdu researched. so, we laid everything out. the videos, the doc
lot of mothers of young black men killed by police out there who would love to sit down with the speaker of the house and talk about police reform. so, why don t y all just call the speaker up and ask for a meeting? or is mccarthy only interested in throwing red meat to the part of his base that s sympathetic to the mob? or trying to make amends with them, after he said babbitt s shooting was justified just a few weeks ago? one of the first things marjorie taylor greene said that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashley babbitt was murdered or you do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. for her part, ashley babbitt s mother said she spoke to mccarthy about those comments, specifically. i called thought speaker mccarthy was delightful and i know i would imagine you were upset when he said that the cops who shot your daughter was doing his job. did you discuss that specifically? we did. and wh
called me up three or four times. oops. for the first time, donald trump lets slip that he actually lost the 2020 election to joe biden. the journalist who extracted that confession joins me in a moment with even more never before heard clips that will make you wonder what s going on with this guy s mentals. also tonight, trump s getting exactly what he needs from his allies on the supreme court, who continue to drag out their decision on presidential immunity. plus, louisiana s governor forces the ten commandments into public school classrooms. when his state has far more pressing concerns. like its extremely low education rankings. but we begin tonight a week out from the first and historically the earliest presidential debate between biden and trump, and how it will set the tone for the final months of the presidential campaign. over at the new york times, trump whispering maggie haberman has new reporting on how trump is preparing or not to face president biden