Chuck schumer is taking steps to bring the bill to the floor next week. And if it fails, house speaker nancy pelosi is warning democrats may go it alone, strongly signaling that she will approve a democraticled house select committee if the bipartisan bill fails in the upper chamber. With no commission, many of the biggest questions about the day may go unanswered. At least by this forum. Like what did former president trump say to kevin mccarthy during their phone call that day? and what exactly was the president doing as the violence unfolded at the capitol? also this morning, a u. S. Capitol police officer on the front lines that horrific day is slamming republican leadership for not supporting the bipartisan commission. This officer anonymously sent a letter saying it represents the views of 40 to 50 of their fellow officers and writing in part, it is inconceivable that some of the members we protect would downplay the events of january the 6th. Let s begin on capitol hill with lau
Originating from a lab accident and wuhan, china. State department correspondent has the latest tonight. Speak a good evening. As the world confronts the covid19 pandemic still, there is a greater focus now on how it all began. And how much that thinking about its evolution and how it began as evolved over the last year. An inside look into the early pandemic response. Thousands of dr. Anthony fauci s emails. Buzzfeed securities for the freedom of information act. One email from april 2020 the director of the national the national institutes of health, dr. Francis collins, sending county a link referencing a fox news report that multiple sources believe the coronavirus originated in chinese lab before accidentally escaping. He called that conspiracy done. He now says by conspiracy he meant rumors that the virus wasn t an engineered bio weapon. There is this other idea that maybe it was an accident. Lab lake. That the institute that had been studying this virus had happened in nature an
With future allegations of voter fraught. As donald trump and his allying bludgeoned our democracy, and lobbied and strongarmed local officials. Those efforts may have worked to overturn the results, if all of these voter suppression laws had been in place back in november. Texas is the latest battle grown with democrats and the legislators there buying some but the brave actions will fail if here s bet on o rourke even though they were in a fairly deep minority here in texas, i hole that are watching their example. These guys were able to stop a bat bill. They have the numbers to do it, and democrats need to stick together, stand up and fight, we win. I hope the senate democrats will do that while they have a chance. The senate democrats and the white house now have a choice to make about how hard they have to fight for the one thing that oar. Free and fair elections, they re pleading with the president to do so. We knew today the eyes of the nation watching actions in austin, that we
Donald trump told his supporters to watch arizona, watch georgia, watch pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. All states that he lost. And like clockwork, those states are now ground zero for republican efforts to steal future elections by suppressing the vote. To disgrace republicans math gaetz and marjorie taylor greene are doing trump s bidding in arizona tonight. They are holding a rally to defend trump s efforts to overturn the election results in maricopa county where joe biden beat trump by more than 45,000 votes. And the sham audit in arizona, riddled with partisanship and incompetence, starting to fall apart. The conspiracy driven company leading the odd audit, cyber ninjas, had to backtrack after accusing election officials of deleting information from a voter database. An accusation that the former president amplified. Republican officials in maricopa county called on their colleagues this week and what they are calling grift, disguise as an audit. This board is done explain
Watch for progress on that potentially over the weekend or on monday early in the day. I ll see you again monday night. Now it s time for the last word where ali velshi is in for lawrence tonight. Good evening, ali. We will keep an eye out for that. Thanks again for an amazing show. Have an excellent weekend, friend. Thanks, ali. You too. Good night to you. The republican party is no longer a party of principle. It s become a party, well, perhaps a cult of one man and his big lie about an election that he lost. Republicans are lining up behind that man to parrot his lie and to legislate off of that lie, hoping to suppress the vote in almost every state. But as stacey abrams told lawrence last night, these restrictions are about more than just blocking access to the ballot box. The republicans have said to themselves, we may not like the outcome, so we re going to wrest away the power that we have invested in our election workers, people who are putting their time and their talent and t