awesome. but it s critical. until all 50 states vert if i the results of their election, we don t get a new president. and perhaps this is overstating it a little bit, but last november, this guy with the awesome name from michigan, he kind of saved democracy for all of us. on zoom. we have a clear duty to certify the results of the election, as shown by the return that was given to us. we cannot, and should not, go beyond that. as john adams once said, we are a government of laws, not men. and this board needs to adhere to that principle here today. this board must do its part to uphold the rule of law, and comply with our legal duty to certify this election. i will be supporting the motion. i will be supporting the motion. by which american democracy was rescued from the brink. that low-key zoom meeting happened on november 23rd, just a few weeks after the 2020 presidential election. joe biden had definitively been called the winner. donald trump had lost. biden had won
started so well last night with majority leader schumer. there are so many i think people learned about budget reconciliation and all that stuff about ten years ago with obamacare suddenly, parliamentary procedure. rachel, i think we re going to have to know a lot more based on what i saw on the senate floor today. so we ll be doing a little more of that tutorial, but people, it should take it easy. you can always rewind this video and kind of go over it again, you know, what was that that they just said? and i have a feeling we re going to be talking about this stuff all year. so you don t have to learn it in one night. well, i feel like we have the big advantage over everybody else trying to explain this stuff because we have you and you re the only person who can explain the senate stuff like it s an episode of law and order where you re hanging on every word to find out how it ends. like you get the poetry of this stuff. and i ve learned most of what i know of senat
alisyn. see if any of this leads to regulation or any change for the industry. that s the point of the hearings to see how to protect kids. brian fung in washington, thank you. it s a brand new hour. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. russian aggression. president biden just spoke with ukraine president zelensky as his country braces for an invasion. showing how russia is building up troops and supply lines along the border. one u.s. official warns russia s military capacity on the ukraine border is much larger and much more lethal than its 2014 invasion of crimea. in a phone call tuesday biden warned russian president vladimir putin against any escalation, threatening strong economic sanctions. meanwhile, the u.s. is helping ukraine boost its self-defense by sending small arms and ammunition set to arrive this week. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. matthew chance in ukraine. phil what do we know about this president biden pho
a very good day to all of you from the tom brokaw news center here in los angeles. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the fulton county courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. three senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. here it is. donald trump is going to get a justice system that he s never been willing to afford to others. he always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. he s gonna get all the due process, he s gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from his pee
a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s reporting this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything, and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified