president was going to turn publicly against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to mr. pence because of the. the vice president team feared that the president of united states posed a legitimate threat to him, believe it or not. in the very next day, sure enough, the trump mob stormed the capitol, chanting, hang mike pence. more from the report, quote, mike meadows, the white house chief of staff, is reported to have told colleagues that mr. trump said that perhaps mr. pence should have been hanged. we now know that the january six committee is investigating this reporting. they are also looking into a newly-revealed plan to overturn the 2020 election. in a recent court filing, we learned of a memo approach up attorney, john eastman, that sketched out a plan for mike pence to hold out the certification of the victory, overturning the election. a judge memo said that it is potential criminal acts committed by donald trump and john eastman. against the backd
learned of a memo approach up attorney, john eastman, that sketched out a plan for mike pence to hold out the certification of the victory, overturning the election. a judge memo said that it is potential criminal acts committed by donald trump and john eastman. against the backdrop of all these new details, a shift is taking place within the republican party. they re in the 2020 election, as we all know, republicans claim that voter fraud was happening everywhere you look, all the time. now, as this year s primary unfold, we are seeing a very different reaction to election results. suddenly, everything is fine, there is no fraud anymore. you see, when it is republican races on the line, all the votes are somehow magically legitimate. curious how they have changed their tune in such a short time. joining me now is david jolly, an msnbc political analyst and national chairman of the conservative movement, molly jong-fast, it contributing writer for the atlantic and author an
Will shake the Political Landscape for the rest of the year, and potentially you could argue for the next four. Once the trial begins in earnest tuesday, it will likely run two weeks at minimum. At the same time, President Trump will try to stay focused on his job. He is heading to the davos World Economic forum, and then having rallies. The caucus is coming up february 3rd. And the very next day, february 4th is the president s state of the union speech. One he may deliver while he is still on trial. Lets get more on whats going on now. Garrett hague is on capitol hill. Kristin welker is at the white house. Garrett, what do we know about what the democratic Impeachment Team is doing behind closed doors, what do we know about their preps . Reporter they kept preps and planning tight lipped. We expect seven impeachment managers to work through the weekend, some of them in washington, some of them back in their districts remotely. They have a lot of work to do, they have to prepare legal
The tensions between the former exxonmobil ceo and johnny destefano. Joining me is the author of the story, alex eisenstat and White House Correspondent for the daily beast. This has been driving discussion since President Trump took office. Welcome to you both. Alex, your story. Tell us who was there and when it happened and what it was about. Sure. This was a meeting that happened last week. It was in the white house. You had secretary of state Rex Tillerson there. You had johnny destefano. Oversees white house hiring. You had Jared Kushner there. You had Reince Priebus there. Tillerson exploded. He yelled at destefano over the hiring issues. Tensions over hiring. He believed destefano had been taking over control. This is tension that has been going on for months with the state department and white house. It is one of the reasons why a lot of the state department is not staffed up. They cannot decide who to fill the roles. Back and forth with the state department and white house. Wh
President trump tweets the east coast could use a little global warming, but the joke may be lost on americans suffering from wildfires, floods and hurricanes. Welcome to the lead. I am in for jake tapper. Down in florida away from many of his aides and mingling at his golf club, in an interview with the New York Times the president sounded a tone about special Counsel Robert Mueller even as he repeatedly insisted there was no collusion with russia, and on twitter hes making a series of claims that dont always comport with the facts. We will come through it all with my panel, but first lets go to cnns ryan nobles who is joining us from west palm beach. We heard a lot from the president over the past 24 hours despite the fact hes still on a working vacation, and hes still golfing but got his messages out, many of them. Reporter thats right, dana, and the president has made news on a number of topics, including in a wideranging interview with the New York Times that could serve as a prev