fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
today marks the midterms going into high gear. the unofficial sprint towards election day as president biden touts his domestic recording with including those late summer break throughs while also arguing that democracy and believe it or not in a very real sense, trumpism are on this ballot. if you re counting, election day is just about nine weeks out. the maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rites and economic security, they re a threat to our very democracy. i do think anyone who calls for the use of violence who fails to condemn violence when it s used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, that is a threat to democracy. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. the trump-fueled effort to take over once independent election offices is clearly up for a test in these midterms. about half of americans, roughly, will choose their leaders from a ballot with at least one
Legally we call it sedition. they saw the bond to donald trump was so deep that trump would take what was still a controversial act and pardon him. trump has fallen out with all sorts of figure and they go their separate ways. he pardoned roger stone. roger stone owed him in many ways and was now putting himself at risk again with january 6th. it sounds like you haven t confirmed it but it is the biggest question if there is a coup trial of how far back that line goes. we re indebted to you for some of the reporting. we credit you for the reporting. folks can check out a storm foretold coming to a theater near you. up next, do you know how hot it was last year? 2024 is expected to be even hotter. expected to be even hotter thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory.
Dangerous. i take your point. assaulting an officer is not the act of knucklehead. it is the act of a criminal. but i still think there is a more important case out there. i still think there is a conspiracy to attempt a coup. and whether you call it sedition, or treason, or a coup, or an insurrection. that is the case i care most about. point well taken. but there is a whole range of people who showed up on january 6th. from the stupid, to the evil. and we have to focus on the evil. one of the biggest issues is, that mission is not over. those people behind that attempt are still driving it forward. yamiche, let s turn to voting rights. they re trying to change the filibuster for voting rights. why is biden focusing on voting rights legislation now, when there could be no way of even getting it onto the floor because of sinema. the white house s point of
Elected leaders, staff members who may have conspired in the activities of that day. i think that their constituents and the american people deserve to know if there were individuals who participated in sedition against this country. calling it sedition now as we should. this morning, d.c. police officer michael fanone demanding answers about the planning behind january 6th that may have led to the riot where he was dragged and beaten by insurrectionists. as the january 6th committee works to get to the bottom of all of it, at least one republican member of congress says he would be proud of his staff if they contributed to the rally that led to fanone s pain and suffering, physical and mental. in the deadly attack. republican congressman mo brooks of alabama denied involvement in planning that morning s insurrection or the rally where he spoke. and the same one he admittedly wore body armor to. he tells the birmingham news