very outstanding presidential record. that s not the reception that trump is used to receiving. the former president was boo d and heckled saturday at the libertarian national convention. we ll have more from that event in just a moment. plus, the latest on a bipartisan show of support for taiwan. a group of u.s. lawmakers visiting the island days after its new president took office. and we bring you a live look at arlington national cemetery in virginia, where a memorial day ceremonies will get underway in a few hours from now. good morning, welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, may 27th. it is indeed memorial da thank you for being with us. we have lots of in touz bring news to bring you over the next couple hours. polls showing a tight race for the white house, donald trump made a pitch to libertarian voters over the weekend who were less than enthused to hear from the former president. without further ado, i would like to welcome to the stage, the 4
get the pentagon to seize the machines. then they tried to get the justice department. they tried homeland security. they tried state lawmakers. they tried a local prosecutor. they never got anyone to say yes. but they really, really did try to make it happen. joining us now is emma brown, investigative reporter for the washington post, who broke the story today, with her colleagues john swaine and jackie alamaney, ms. brown, thank you for taking time to be here tonight, what is fascinating about this is the basis upon which they were creating these requests and these demands, this idea that sidney powell and others, and part of the trump legal team, had created that there were outside influences who must have been meddling with these machines, not just local democrats, but outside, foreign countries, that they were using this as a basis to seize the machines. i m not sure what would have happened if anybody gave them the machines, or agreed with them. well, the thing that happened
the washington post reported a possible link between cutchner and ginny thomas. november 13th ginny thomas texted mark meadows about her outreach to jared potentially a reference to jared kushner. she wrote, quote, just forwarded to your gmail an email i sent jared this morning, sidney powell and improved coordination now will help the calvary come and fraud capitalized exposed in america, all caps, saved. back with jackie, mike, and john. the ginny thomas texts, mike, have been in the possession of the january 6th committee for a while, but we understand that they only recently and then today after this contempt we ll talk about bringing her in. what are the stakes of that for the committee? i am not sure that high for the committee. the stakes are higher for the
they show her pressuring over and over again and guiding then trump chief of staff mark meadows over and over again to overturn the election. sending shock waves throughout washington last week and demands that her husband recuse himself from future january 6th related cases. joining our conversation, jackie alamaney. the author of the early 202 newsletter. lucky for us an msnbc contributor. i want to read from this judge s opinion which really was for anyone following every development in all this, he sort of seemed to put into black and white what many have been waiting for someone to actually say out loud. he writes this, the illegal
and some religious support to mark meadows, who at times did respond to some of her text messages. described the election as the greatest heist of our history. this was someone when was seeped in false conspiracy theories and very attuned to them as they were playing on cable news and she was in the weeds trying to communicate this in a direct way to the white house. they are amazing. worth a read. jackie, mike, john, thank you all so much for spending time with us on these headlines. a quick break force us. we ll be right back. stay with us. us