january 2nd last year with georgia secretary of state where trump urged the republican to find votes to help him win. also, breaking this afternoon, the house committee investigating the january 6th attack wants to interview former first daughter and white house adviser ivanka trump. let s begin with sara murray following the developments out of fulton county georgia. sarah, explain how a dgrand jur could change the investigation. she s been looking into donald trump and his allies for a year in their efforts to overturn the results in the georgia 2020 election and whether that s criminal. it allows her to essentially compel witnesses to gather more evidence and also it has this group of people that are just going to be focused on this trump matter. they re not going to be looking at evidence in any other case. here s how she described it if her letter to the court asking for a special grand jury. she said we have made efforts to interview multiple witnesses and gather ev
and it is the top of the hour, thank you so much for joining us. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s good to be with you. president biden is visiting ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. the president just paid tribute at king s burial site which is near the church in atlanta. speaking of reverend dr. martin luther king. the city is the backdrop to what s being called the president s most urgent plea yet for voting rights. soon he will push for two federal laws that would standardize elections. it s an effort to combat a slew of new laws put into place by republican state legislatures to restrict voting in response to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. this is one of those defining moments, it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before, where were they after the vote. history is going to judge you. it s that consequential. 19 states have already passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, remove ballot drop boxes or take power away f
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
GOWANDA A decision on an additional School Resource Officer for the Gowanda Central School District could be coming soon. Superintendent Dr. Robert Anders