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responsible or acquit him of inciting an insurrection. at this hour, nbc news confirming brand new reporting out tonight about what trump knew and the actions he failed to take as rioters descended upon and then looted and desecrated our capitol in his name, while also hunting for the speaker of the house and the vice president. kevin mccarthy had a phone call with trump as the head of the riot was underway. as mccarthy pleaded for help, trump is said to have responded, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. at one point, mccarthy said, who the f do you think you re talking to? according to a republican lawmaker familiar with the call. sources tell nbc news mccarthy was shaken up during the call and was asking the president for help. sources describe the call as incordial and borderline incoherent. today trump s lawyers mounted their defense using under three hours of the 16 hours they had allotted to them. they argued trump wa ....
trump is said to have responded, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. at one point, mccarthy said, who the f do you think you re talking to? according to a republican lawmaker familiar with the call. sources tell nbc news mccarthy was shaken up during the call and was asking the president for help. sources describe the call as incordial and borderline incoherent. today trump s lawyers mounted their defense using under three hours of the 16 hours they had allotted to them. they argued trump was not to blame for anything that happened at the capitol on 1/6, that his rhetoric at the rally was free speech. they denied their use of what-aboutism before engaging in rampant what-aboutism. facts got twisted, history got rewritten on the fly, and there were the grievances we ve heard before from their client in florida, that this impeachment is all about hate and political vengeance. no thinking person could seriously believe that t ....
overnight new reporting on what s being described as an expletive ridden phone call between kevin mccarthy and former president trump as the riot was unfolding. mccarthy called trump shaken asking for help. the then president told mccarthy, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. at what point mccarthy told trump who the expletive do you think you re talking to? this as the teams are gearing up to make their closing arguments. will these new developments throw a wrench into what the trump team was hoping would be a quick wrap up? sheldon whitehouse tweeting out, one way to clear this up, suspend trial to depose mccarthy and tuberville under oath to get facts. this comes on the heels of a heated question and answer session yesterday where leading house impeachment manager jamie raskin said the former president should be brought in to fill in the blanks. this is about preserving the republic, dear senate. that s what this is abo ....
without power since monday has been rationing oxygen tanks for their 5-month-old baby boy born premature just home from the hospital. they built a make shift heater from a pot on bricks. the family is boiling bottled water because there s no water pressure. this is no longer just an emergency. it s clear that it is a disaster. we ve seen a cascade of effects that have turned what is already a dire situation into something much worse. residents are frustrated. they re angry. they are cold. what they re enduring and continue to endure is heartbreaking. in the town of del rio, the wastewater plant is offline. officials are begging residents, do not flush your toilets. panic buying across the state leaving supermarket shelves bare. the state agriculture commissioner says they re, quote, looking at a food supply chain problem like we have never seen before. nearly 12 million texans facing water service disruptions this morning. look at that. nearly 1/4 of the state is un ....
plus, president biden may be facing the first big defeat of his term. his nomination to head the omb neera tanden is now hanging by a thread. senators on both sides of the aisle are hesitant to confirm her because of some of her harsh tweets she wrote in the past while head of a progressive political group. so we ll talk about what this means moving forward for the biden administration. also today, cnn has new reporting that donald trump is already planning to run for president again in 2024. plotting revenge against his critics, he is preparing to deliver this nationally televised speech at cpac. that s the annual conservative conference. but how the republican majority, how will they handle this trump resurgence? that s a question we re asking. but first i want to begin with what we re about to see at the white house. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is there. and, kaitlan, is this an event really to persuade people to get the vaccine? reporte ....