to discuss what this means for defendant trump. but first, donald trump is a weakened man. no longer in office, no longer protected by presidential immunity. but while the man himself has been diminished, his anti-democratic ideas are gaining strength, and that should worry all of us. donald trump s lie about the election tons spread because it s not just donald trump s lie anymore. it is a lie backed by the republican party. the gop is a party dedicated to one man right now and to that one man s lies. but they re not just repeating the lies. they re act on the lies. it is now harder to vote in arizona, florida, georgia, and almost a dozen other states because republicans are making policy based on trump s lie. the brendan center for justice says between january 1st and may 14th, 2021, republicans enacted 22 laws that restrict access to the vote. at least 61 bills with restrictive provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures. in states like texas, republicans are even
they re also inadvertently triggering a backlash. for the first time kevin mccarthy is publicly saying what so many had surmised, that he wants to purge his fellow republican leadership of one liz cheney because she told the truth that trump lost the election. he wants to replace her with congresswoman elise stefanik who has been parroting many of trump s election lies. we will have a vote next week and we want to be united in looking moving forward, and i think that s what will take place. do you support elise stefanik for that job? yes, i do. that s how it goes down, official there. he s also now just put out a letter we just got ahold of to house republicans but of course to the nation because everyone will be able to read it and see it that urges them to formally remove cheney. the vote is set for wednesday. if all this sounds familiar and seems like republicans are making it hard on themselves, that s because it is familiar. the republican house caucus already
caucus, today s vote forces them to get on the record as choosing the side of the disgraced expresident and his disinformation fueled push to whitewash the insurrection overupholding the powers of the legislative body on which they sever and even democracy itself. for the third time this week liz cheney is calling out her fellow republicans for lashing out what happened on january 6th at first. and then trying to appease the former president. watch. there are people in this chamber right now who were evacuated with me and with the rest of us on that day, do you go that attack. people who now seem to have forgotten the danger of the moment, the assault on the constitution, the assault on our congress. right there is where we start today. ben rose is here, former deputy national security adviser to president obama. now an msnbc contributor. also joining us, anna palmer. and robert costa is here national political reporter for the washington post and coauthor with bob wood
stunning for having been foreshadowed for so long. this is a federal criminal indictment of the former president for trying to overturn an election and keep himself in power. the indictment also describes six unindicted coconspirators. five of the six of them, lawyers, primarily those who crafted the bogus legal arguments that underpinned trump s alleged attempts to undermine the electoral process. i say hm because there s been interesting efforts within the legal profession to essentially police itself, and without accountability of various kinds for a lot of different trump lawyers who took part in this plot. this ratifies some of those efforts within the legal profession to say this was a plot that wasn t just hatched by trump alone, he did have coconspirators and in many cases, they were lawyers who ought to know better, and if by the political, the professional bars to which they attend, or if by their profession, if not by the criminal justice system, they should be hel
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