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which eric. could have been eric greitens, could have been eric schmidt. could have been a little known erik mcelroy, a third eric who happens to be in the same race. in any case, brightest and mitt claimed that they and trump were endorsing them. can t make the stuff up. meanwhile polls are still open in the state of washington where to republican members of congress are facing primary challenges over their votes to impeach donald trump. jamie herrera butler and that new house are still of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump after the january 6th attack on the capitol. republican voters in their district are deciding today whether to toss them out for it. congressman herrera butler s primary is also worth keeping an eye on because her trump backed challenger has well documented tied to white when extremists and white nationalist. he told an interviewer quote, i don t think that is anything wrong with there being a white people special interest group. a ....
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we ....
From your sources about how he s the crafting this first big speech of the campaign year? it s no surprise president biden is opening his campaign push with a focus on democracy, as it has been a key focus and animating issue for him in husband reelection bid. president biden will use this speech on january 6th, the three years since that insurrection at the capitol, to really sharpen his argument in warning that former president trump poses a direct threat to democracy. now this speech is really setting up one of the first real political campaign split screens between biden and trump of this year. president biden will deliver these remarks near valley forge in pennsylvania. a revolutionary war site where george washington commanded his troops where president biden will try to make this contrast argument. meanwhile, former president trump will be hitting the campaign trail in iowa as he s working to try to secure the gop ....
Go right up before the midterms when people were encouraging the president to focus on the economy and the president chose his last message to focus on democracy. shotgun that i think was animated for a lot of voters. so i m not surprised by the attack of the white house, a very disciplined white house going into 2024. you make a good point there. it was the last major speech. there was another one as well leading up to the midterms. how pivotal do you think that was in terms of strategy for the democrats success in the mud terms and how well do you think that would work going forward? i think it was critical because it wasn t a threat against cross, it was a threat against your rights. half the people in this country lost a right that they were born with. and other things that happened ....
Interesting to watch how mccarthy responds. he has obviously been highly critical of the january six committee and when, when and if they do make him one of the members of congress, they refer to the ethics committee, how he handles that and what sort of message he puts forward, i think as you said there are a lot of moderate republicans who want to move away from the focus on january 6th as lauren said in the previous segment. the focus on democracy and on january 6th, that was a winning message for democrats in the midterms and not so much for republicans. so how he discusses that, how he backs trump in what is going to be inevitable criticism from him i think is going to be really important for him in both locking down the moderate he seemingly already has done but, also dreaming with the freedom caucus and his their demands that concessions as they go and his focus moving in to the next year and what the agenda looks like for house republicans. it s also telling to me tyler ....