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responding. if you details on how important it is to fight against the coronavirus. hospitals are warning they are overwhelmed with patients. that s forcing them to put them somewhere else. legal problems building for donald trump we have several investigations, looking into the election, insurrection and his family businesses. a ransom ware attack on if you mexico smexico s largest ci. welcome to saturday, january 22nd. times we need a deep breath. we are grateful you are joining us this morning. we begin with some tragic news to share out of new york. one police officer is dead. another in critical condition after a shooting in harlem. this is a shooting that happened after a woman called 911 last night reporting she was having a dispute with one of her sons. this was inside her apartment. the officer are the latest to be shot in the line of duty. officials say three others have been shot this month. still in his first month in office, eric adams described ....
and prosecute potential election election-related crimes which trump s outgoing attorney general said were inconse inconsequential. it s the blueprint for a coup laid out in three pages. cnn has not been able to independently verify this draft, and it s not clear who wrote it, but it is believed to be part of a massive batch of documents, about 700 pages now in the hands of the january 6th house select committee. let s go to cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig, former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york. this is just bonkers stuff. if the former president had actually gone through with this executive order back in december of 2020, it would not have been remotely legal, right? no, jim, n-0, no way. absolutely not. everything in this memo is wrong, dangerous, not remotely legal. if you look at this draft executive order it s dressed up with legal language, heretofores there, citations. it is all bunk. first of all, the military, the department of ....
had also directed the justice department to name a special council to investigate and prosecute potential election-related crimes, crimes that trump s own outgoing attorney general said he had very high confidence in that there was no impact on the election from election fraud at all. just two days after the order was drafted, discredited trump lawyer sidney powell was in the oval office lobbying for that special council job according to axios. also in that meeting disgraced former trump adviser michael flynn who promoted ideas on seizing voting equipment. cnn has not been able to independently verify this draft, and it s not clear who wrote it, but to put it plainly, any order directing the military or federal agents to seize voting kw equipment for political purposes is a coup. and just like that democracy nearly died. trump never signed that executive order, but one thing the january 6th committee is still trying to get its hands on, supposed outtakes from an infam ....
would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and appoint a special counsel to probe the 2020 election. we will note that trump ultimately did not sign it. this is just one of hundreds of white house documents now obtained by the committee from the national archives after the supreme court rejected trump s bid to shield them from investigators. president biden is hoping for a reset as he kicks off his second year in office. that includes reviving build back better. the president hoping to pass pieces of his massive social spending bill. some progressives are critical of that approach. one bug comprehensive bill that would pass the reconciliation process. it s mind boggling to me once again, the bipartisan infrastructure framework passed. it adds 256 billion to the deficit, so it makes it worse. and as covid hospitalizations are on the rise in several parts of the country, new reports from the cdc show vaccine boosters provide strong protection ....
pass federal legislation to protect the vote are too large and too par reaching. joining us, ruben guy yag owes. do you support the send sewer of senator kyrsten sinema? i don t think you can dismiss the volunteers, big portions of arizonans who are concerned about their voting rights. i think it is a little too quick and perhaps too like sinema for her not the understand the severity of what s going on. i hope she would take time to listen to these everyday citizens. tees are people that walk, do our door knocking, old men and women that walk during summers. you can t dismiss that. take this time, go back to arizona actually meet with her constituents. it s not just democrats, independents, but people from all walks of life, arizonans are worried about the future of arizona. would you have voted to send sewer here? these aren t political people. these are everyday arizonans that did this. personally, the way i think about this every day is this is a call from ari ....