Have signaled their firm objection to more transparency. It s the latest example of the majority of republicans goose stepping to the dear leader s tune of erasing a crucial day in our nation s history, the day a protrump mob stormed the u. S. Capitol, looking to attack the sitting vice president. Disrupting one of the core tenets of our democracy. This vote occurred the same day the fbi released new video of the insurrection. Take a look at this footage. This is what a republican just last week said looked more like a, quote, normal tourist visit. Does this look normal to you? it doesn t look normal to me. I imagine it doesn t look normal to anybody with eyeballs and a pulse. That s what republicans led by kevin mccarthy want the country to believe. It s why so republicans testified last week that the violence was no big deal, the same day the party purged a member from its leadership for refusing to go full animal farm. Now today some voted to block an effort to get to the truth abou
Investigators of the government want to talk to somebody, we as journalists definitely do. I can t wait to watch, ari. Thank you. All right, nicolle. See you soon. I want to welcome you to the beat. We have, as mentioned, a show we re excited about. A beat exclusive on this trump organization pro. You won t see these individuals and witnesses anyone else. We will be joined, as nicolle and i were briefly discussing, by three of the people that were closest to donald trump s business, a business he s been running a long time and now are giving him legal problems in new york. We re talking about the former lawyer michael cohen, and david axelrod s daughterinlaw jess fer weiss of berg, and we re talking the senior adviser to melania trump. That s coming up a little later in the program. We begin with the republican party s complete and total inversion of the big lie. This has become a crisis in realtime. The u. S. Senate could vote as soon as this week to investigate the january 6th insurr
With the same man, michael cohen, the former lawyer to donald trump who joins me live momentarily for his exclusive first reaction to this grand jury news. Now, since this first broke late yesterday, the fallout has been swift. A trump adviser says there is a cloud of nerves in the air because this time feels different. Impanelling a grand jury means this case is legally accelerated. Some veterans of the da office say it means indictments are, quote, coming. And that would certainly pressure trump s embattled money man allen weisselberg. The last time legal heat led a trump confidant to turn, it was michael cohen, leading trump to lash out like a mob boss, publically calling him a, quote, rat. Donald trump has lost power. He s under investigation. And in his own words is now worried about rats. Trump could learn from 21 savage here who warned about snitches about rats. Trump may try to win all of this on his money man weisselberg, but as 21 said, snitches and rats, snitches and rats, w
oregon joined all republicans in voting against the package. among the ma items in the vital assistance bill, the sixth round of aid so far. payments to qualified families, increased unemployment benefits, increased assistance to small businesses. billions of dollars to ramp up covid-19 testing and vaccine distribution and to help schools reopen in-person learning. it also raises minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 over the course of four years, however, that specific provision will not pass the senate for a variety of reasons. some which are political and some are due to mundane news. president biden will be speaking live. we ll join him when that happens. joining me now the author of the huddle newsletter. good morning to you. good morning. we know the provision for minimum wage is set to be stripped out of the package. the senate parliamentarian said it can t happen. other than that, what other changes to this bill passed last night are we expecting to run into problems a
more than half a million lives just gone. today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone. as we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in america, we remember each person and the life they lived. they re people we knew. they re people we feel like we knew. we often hear people described as ordinary americans. there s no such thing. there s nothing ordinary about them. the people we lost were extraordinary. as a nation, we can t accept such a cruel fate. we ve all been fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. we have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or on the news. we must do so to honor the dead, but equally important, care for the living, those left behind. for the loved ones left behind. that s what has been so cruel. so many of the rituals that help us cope, that help us honor those we loved haven t been available to us. the final rites with family gathered around, the proper home going. as a nation, w