Tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days after the election. Asking the department of justice to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud, which would help delegitimize Joe Bidens victory. But until tonight, we did not know how extensive Donald Trumps efforts were. According to the Washington Post, president Donald Trump called his actingAttorney General nearlyevery day, at The End of last year, to alert him to claims of Voter Fraud or allegedimproper vote counts in the 2020 election. End quote. In those calls, the Post Report that Donald Trump raised various allegations of Voter Fraud that he had heard about. And asked what the Justice Department was doing about it. Here is the kicker. These calls did not just stay phone calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, Attorney General rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls, that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donoghue, who was present for some
Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early, the show that entirely too often uses the doggy paddle. Im Jonathan Lemire on this thursday, july 29th. Lets start with the news. Folks, theyve got a deal. Senators celebrated yesterday after finally coming to an agreement on a 1 Trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The break came after weeks of disagreements over sticking points such as Transportation Funding and how to pay for it. Chuck schumer held a vote exactly one week after the previous vote failed. It passed with every democrat and 17 republicans including Minority Leaders mitch Mcconnell Signing on. Despite the popularity of it and the need for it, Washington Hasnt been able to get it done. This time were going to get it done. Its a matter of building a relationship and having trust. I trust each one of them with my political life, i really do, because i know we want the same thing, whats best for our country. This group of senators is proposing to the
What is in the bill. But first, we have breaking news, right off the top. Heres the Brandnew Headline Tonight at the Washington Post, quote, as trump pushed for probes of 2020 election, he called acting Attorney General rosen almost daily. Now we have known before tonight that Donald Trump had tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days after the election asking the Department Of Justice to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud which would help delegitimized bidens victory. But until tonight, we did not know how extensive Donald Trumps efforts were. According to the Washington Post, president Donald Trump called his Acting The Tierney General nearly every day at The End of the last year to alert him to claims of Voter Fraud or alleged improper vote crowned in the 2020 election. And quote. In those calls, the post calls the personal them and asked what the Justice Department was doing about it. Heres the kicker, those calls did not just a Phone Calls. There is a paper trail. Q
Were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to Senator Tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. Democrats. Its quite something. It really is. I saw your interview with john tHroughout the problem and hes very realistic about what the possibilities are. Hes not someone who tHrows around a lot of false optimism. He is one of the keys to watch it get this far. Its not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. Looking forward to your show. Have a good one. Thank you, ali. As i say, the senate delivered a huge Vote Tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for Joe Biden in the senate tonight. It was also a huge win for Chuck Schumers legislative strategy in the senate passing a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill followed by a larger Democratsonly Bill, and at the very same time, this part was completely unnecessary and he brought it on himself but at the very sam
We know he had tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days prior toic the election asking them to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud, but until Tonight We B did not know how extensive trumps efforts were. Trump called his acting Attorney General nearly every day over claims of Voter Fraud in the 2020 election. In those calls The Post reports Donald Trump raised various allegations of Voter Fraud he had asked about and asked the Justice Department what they were doing about it. Heres the kicker. These Phone Calls did not stay Phone Calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, attorney Rose Entold few people about the Phone Calls, but there arene notes of some o the calls that were written by a top aide to rosen named Richard Donahue who was present during some of the conversations. Those notes could soon be turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its probe why Bill Barr so suddenly left the Justice Department after the election. Those notes could head to congress