electors. make no mistake that the vice president s life was in danger. the committee is going to reveal the details of the pressure campaign. i am telling you, if it is coming we are going to drag him through the streets. [inaudible] remember the word wimp. he said that you are a win. when is the word i remember. it is a different tone tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what s she said, if i recall. that the key word. good morning. it is saturday, a june 18th. i am michael steele sitting in for velshi. we begin this morning with a special hour on another stunning week of revelations from historic public hearings of the january 6th select committee. we have the clearest picture yet of a president donald trump s farfetched plot to overturn the 2020 election loss in a run up to the attack on the capitol and his role to induce violence. they presented evidence that trump was told numerous times that he had lost the el
bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
turned from protesters, to rioters, two insurrectionists. not only did president trump refused to tell the mob to leave the capitol, he placed no call to any element of the united states government to extract that the capital be defended. i can just remember my breath catching in my throat for her, because what i saw was a war scene. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues who s are defending the indefensible. there will come a day where donald trump is gone. your dishonourable remain. good morning. it is saturday june 11th. i m michael steele in for michael velshi. this morning we are bringing you a special hour on the first ever public hearing on the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack. we know more than we ever have about how the attack was planned and carried out. house investigators made it clear this week that they believe, and intend to prove to the american people, that the intent to overthrow the government originated with one m
Good morning. it is saturday june 18th. it is 9 am in the east and 6 am in the west. i am michael steele filling in for michael velshi. we begin with another week of stunning revelations from the january 6th committee doing a pair of public meetings on capitol hill this week. investigators share the fine details of their investigation. they showed panel clips of the trump administration to explore origins of the big lie. one of the key figures that emerged from the hearing was a
Watching will make sure that their friends who are republicans, or their family who might have bought into this big lie or mythology, i hope you encourage them to. watch an apple bomb, you always bring the smarts. pulitzer prize-winning historian and staff writer for the atlantic. thank you so much for taking time this morning. really appreciate it. there are many things we can take away from the january 6th insurrection, and the hearings. so far. perhaps the most crucial is the fact that, this is far from behind us, folks. and with the next presidential election just two years away, it should serve as a warning for what is to come. we will get into that and much more news when velshi returns after a quick break. return after a quick break. after a quick break. stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn t find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce