Obstructed in the counting of the electoral vote. dan is right about the moral deficiency of our former president. that s not news. but we have to do, if you are told someone accountable in a criminal court, and prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a unanimous jury, it s prove intent. and prosecutors will tell you, it s always largest thing to do. that s why you have to talk to the people who were around mr. trump. you can t just rely on the text messages. they re interesting, they re important, and they may even be evidence. but they do not conclusively established intent. they sell books, but they might not result in punitive consequences. carol, you are our expert when it comes to the secret service. and according to friday nice january 6th committee court filing, his secret service agent had warned meadows about possible violence on the sixth. what do we know about that agent? it s a really complicated and controversial hosting. this was a very senior leader
Learning a lot in this new book by these new reporters. and here s the thing, we ve learned a lot from these books. but shameful-ness and hypocrisy, those are resulting crimes. it mueller anything that could translate into real political consequences? from this book, we learned a few things that helped fill out the character of the republican leaders on capitol hill. of course, the news from the jonathan marksman, alex book this week about kevin mccarthy. wanting to call or a house members telling trump to resign. but, then tonight, we learned an excerpt that our colleagues obtained, that mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, late in the night of january six, said that he believes that event, that right at the capitol is going to be fatal, politically, for trump. he said something along the lines of, i m paraphrasing here, he really shot himself in that this time.
People are thinking about how these bathrooms need to be moderated and studied, and still is gonna make a private. there s no indication that he s gonna go along with any of that. so, as cameras, it s a weird piece of news. this guy is such a strange person to be taking over something like this. it s a very surreal day for all of us who watch the stuff. and what is gray area that the color blind? kara, last question to you. is it a foregone conclusion that trump is gonna be back on twitter? i think if you wanted to be, i think elon was against the ban at the time, so i would assume he continues to be that way. trump is messing around with a rumble, and some sad little merger over there. they are trying to revive trump s social app. and he said he wasn t, i think you can resist, honestly. if he runs, he s gonna be on twitter. he just can t resist. he just can t quit it, let s just say that way.
Last i checked, he won his last election and trump lost. step, mitch mcconnell staying in power is extraordinary. right now, it seems like he is the only republican who has confronted trump on numerous occasions. who has called out donald trump s lies. i know that his record has not been perfect according to many, but certainly there is a few times where he has been explicit in denouncing trump. we know that he has not spoken to him since before the 2020 election, and he still has extraordinary support inside of the senate republican conference. my money is on mitch mcconnell always. he is one strategic beast. but you mcconnell, carlos avelo, always good to, see you thanks for joining us tonight. when we come back, the best of humanity, my takeaway from spending a week in poland, when the 11th hour continues.
Named white house deputy chief of staff. so, at the moment that he was giving donald trump political advice about how to get reelected, run good campaigns, or, for example, clear protesters who are peaceful from lafayette square on june one, one of the more authoritarian moves of trump s presidency. when he was serving donald trump, he was not a secret service agent. he was white house deputy chief of staff. he has since then returned to the secret service. but one of the most disturbing things for my source, current and former service agents, as this individual was essentially enabling donald trump and everything that he did. and here, now, we are learning that he had plenty of incidental from the secret service. that january 6th could turn bloody. and, yet, that didn t change how the department of homeland security, is department of justice, the fbi, the entities that are supposed to protect our country, from domestic extremism. that didn t change how they behaved. it could turn bl