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everybody. i m lindsey riser in for katy tur in new york city. the big news today, the potentially historic battle surrounding house republican leadership and the growing resistance to kevin mccarthy, as he scrambles to find and secure the 218 votes he needs to become the next speaker. despite that, we learned over the weekend that mccarthy has already moved into the speaker suite in the capitol, if he secures the votes, no problem, but if he doesn t, he ll have to move out and that is seeming like more of a possibility by the day. before sunday, the number of republicans openly opposing kevin mccarthy was five but that number has appeared to grow after nine more republicans released a letter saying that mccarthy s concessions up to this point have not been enough to win them over. one of the original five, congressman bob good says the plan is to deny kevin mccarthy the votes he needs and see what happens. what we ll do is we ll block kevin. i suspect there will be 1 ....
As the january 6th committee counts down the hours to the dissolution, overnight the panel released another trove of underlying evidence from the 18-month investigation into the attack on the capitol. politico report, quote, as the january 6th attack unfolded, the west wing aides sent horrified messages about trump s incendiary tweets and inaction. after the attack, some trump allies discussed continued efforts to derail the incoming biden administration. joining us right now kyle cheney sr., legal affairs reporter for politico, and lisa ruben, an msnbc legal analyst some of the both of you by the way, i should mention, have been following this incredibly, and everybody follows you on twitter and you have been breaking all of this down. kyle, that was your reporting we were just reading. from talk about new revelations that came from the latest batch of evidence. sure, so i would say, i would ....
Aware that folks didn t want to come in through the magnetometers. why? because they were armed and dangerous. and the president dismissed that, saying they don t want to hurt me. we saw in this trail of documents, for example, a text exchange between hutchison and ornato that corroborates her testimony very nicely. those are the sorts of things that i think the folks at the department of justice will be interested in. the other thing that i think they ll be interested in is evidence that trump and others saw this coming. one of the other pieces of evidence that folks like kyle and i honed in on is a text exchange with mike lee, and mitchell, where mike lee is struggling to find a way to satisfy mitchell s urges to sort of expunge what they think is these allegations of fraud, but do it in any way other than executing the january 6th plan, which senator lee says would be bad for the president, and bad for the country. those sorts of documents, i think, are going to be incredibly import ....
Department of justice as they move forward. kyle, your reporting references continued efforts discussed to derail the biden presidency. what sort of efforts do you mean? so this was again a reference to the steve bannon conversation where he is talking to a press assistant of his, alexander, who testified to the committee and gave texts and one of the texts january 8th, so the whole country is still reeling from what happened on the 6th and trying to make sense of it, and he s saying, we still got to turn up the heat, and she is saying this isn t over, when is donald trump going to leave the white house and he isn t going to say, bannon says he won t stay there past january 20th but what if we show up the next day and a million people surround the capitol and surround it in silence a little bit cryptic but it is the sort of the mentality that this is not done yet, we re not done. and this is happening simultaneously, when you have other groups that were sort of present on january 6 ....