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that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. the executive order, whose author is unknown, is dated december 16th, 2020. that s more than two weeks after trump s attorney general william barr said the justice department had found no evidence of election fraud. politico also says the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. now, think of those dates. that suggests that it could have been a gambit to keep trump in office until at least mid-february of 2021. nbc news has not yet reviewed these documents. earlier on this network the trump official who ran the department that called the 2020 election the most secure in american history had this reaction to politico s report about the draft order. it is actually a clear violation of the act which means the department of defense cannot use federal troop ....
trump and his al us. we now know trump campaign officials were directly involved in efforts to install bogus pro-trump electors in at least seven states trump lost, and that effort was apparently led by rudy giuliani. now, this news is on top of all the new developments from new york to georgia this week. we ve learned the new york attorney general s investigation into the trump organization turned up several misleading statements and add missions in financial documents, so now she wants to get donald trump, don jr. and ivainuku under oath and the fulton county d.a. has requested a special grand jury and just in, a source telling cnn the january 6th committee has received hundreds of trump white house documents just two days after the supreme court rejebtd trump s executive privilege claim to keep these documents secret and now the committee is setting its sights on the inner circle speaking records from the family and ivanka trump, all of that as the former white house ....
but the clock is ticking, so we gotta hurry. there s new rotisserie-style chicken, new peppercorn ranch, new hickory-smoked bacon, new. (whistle blowing) did you just spike the footlong? sorry, i didn t want the delay of game. save big. order through the app. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. happy friday. the sprawling investigation into the capitol insurrection now has in its possession hundreds of records, the twice impeached expresident tried really really hard to hide from them. he took that case of course all the way to the united states supreme court. these are documents that promise to reveal the inner workings of the trump administration in the run-up to the insurrection. we are now getting our first glimpse at some of those records thanks to some extraordinary reporting from our friend bets ewoodruff swan at politico. she obtained an executive order that was never issued but would amount to a dangerous power graph. it directs the defense diplomat to ....
and cnn s latest poll of polls, it is a low outmatched in modern times only by the former president. the figure reflects his his decisions on covid, shortages, inflation, and more broadly speaking, it speaks to a question president biden was asked this evening when he spoke to reporters in the east room does he now, after a year on the job, think he overpromised on what he could accomplish when taking office? the fact of the matter is that we re in a situation where we have made enormous progress the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans o ....
we have made enormous progress, you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans on what he says is their lack of policy or vision beyond just standing in his way. he did acknowledge that his signature build back better legislation was unlikely to pass, as is. but he was optimistic it seems about getting major pieces of it done this year. as for the package of voting reforms on the line tonight, he expressed hope of salvaging major portions of it as well and expressed confidence in his point person on it. you put vice president harris in ....