How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
day, but we ll learn more, i suspect, as this goes forward. i m glad you brought that up, joyce, because we have let s just listen to ali alexander explain his role in all this. i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea, with congressman gosar, congressman mel brooks and congressman andy biggs. we four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on congress, while they were voting, so that who we couldn t lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside. now, having been reminded of ali alexander and what he said, how worried should congressman gosar, brooks and biggs be at this point? well, talk is cheap. it depends whether there is
convince me president trump didn t actually win this thing based on all the things you see. and what about, you know, the biggest fish of them all, trump? and those who whipped up the crowd in the days leading up to on the very day that the crowd stormed the capitol? i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea. i don t know how this is going to end but if they want a fight, they better believe they ve got one. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. and we are going to the capitol. we re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. let s have trial by combat. we re coming for you, and we re going to have a good time doing it. today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! according to garland, everyone will be held
he s suing to challenge the panel investigation. jessica schneider has the details. who won the election on the 3rd? who won the election on the 3rd? donald trump. i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea. reporter: trump allies have repeatedly questioned the election and the investigation into the deadly insurrection january 6th. this evidence exonerates me and will exonerate president don t j. trump. reporter: now they re suing to stop the committee from getting access to their records and testimony. the former president has filed his own lawsuit, trying to stop the national archives from