ana geardadas filling in for the one and only ali velshi. we re live in new york where members of the u.n. are arriing in a few hours. in a little over 24 hours, president biden is set to travel here for the first united nations assembly of his president. could be a contentious few days. in addition to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, which is once again taking the lives of more than 2,000 americans per day, this year s general assembly comes just weeks after the calamitous u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. and days after the biden administration admitted, calling it a, quote, mistake, that a recent drone strike in afghanistan intended for isis-k members killed zero terrorists, but instead, ten innocent civilians, including seven children. things also remain contentious on capitol hill. if you want to get a sense of what s at stake in the days and weeks ahead, the new york times sums it up pretty well with this headline this morning. quote, biden s entire presidential agenda
been. more information revealing how hard he fought to subvert the will of the people and overturn the 2020 election results. reported by abc and not yet verified by msnbc or msnbc news, jeffrey clark, acting head of the justice department civil division at the time, wrote emails that essentially would have laid out a road map for georgia republicans to overturn the will of the state s voters. clark s message intend to tell georgia election officials that the department of justice was investigating, quote, irregularities in the presidential election and wanted state legislators to go into a special session, quote, pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors. that means georgia officials would have received a letter from the doj, on doj letterhead, essentially telling them something was wrong with the way their election was conducted and they should, instead, appoint their own electors, who would back trump leading to a false victory for him. that plan, luckily, did
can while trying to convey to you the forcefulness of the conversation that they report here. with that caveat, here it is. trump had made the nation s leaders choose. not just whether to stay or go, but whether to preserve democracy or devolve toward authoritarian rule, whether the truth mattered or not, whether the end justifies the means. tensions were running high. congresswoman liz cheney, the number three ranking house republican, who had close ties to several military and national security leaders, called chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley on january 7th. she called him to check in. milley asked her, quote, how are you doing? she replied, quote, that f ing guy jim jordan. that son of a word that rhymes with witch, cheney said. she was referring to one of trump s staunchest allies in the house of representatives, congressman jim jordan of ohio. cheney described being together with congressman jordan during the siege at the capitol on january 6th
cheney described being together with congressman jordan during the siege at the capitol on january 6th. remember this conversation took place the day after january 6th. she told general milley, quote, while these maniacs are going through the place, i m standing in the aisle and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him get away from me. you effing did this. you bleepity-bleep did this. that book came out yesterday. the title is i alone can fix it. donald trump s catastrophic e final year. it is the number one selling book in the united states right now. and while that incident was n never reported before carol leonnig and phil rucker put it in their new best-selling book, it is now reported. it is now on the record. excerpts including that one from the book have been circulating in recent days. because of that, we probably should have seen today s news coming. when the house of representatives decided they
tax-related conduct. nbc news reported that the manhattan district attorney was probing schemes where trump organization employees were allegedly able to avoid paying taxes in exchange for benefits such as apartments. and forgive the pun, but this headline was just too good. the tentacles of the investigation now reach trump s former body guard who, believe it or not, is the company s chief operating officer over whether he received tax free benefits. as for the former president, he was in wellington, ohio, last night for what was a score settling endorsement rally for republican congressman anthony gonzalez who voted to impeach trump for the january 6th insurrection. trump s rambling remarks were littered with fear mongrg but comes as the oath keepers has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to the january 6th attack on the cappal to. one other member of the extremist group pleaded guilty to lesser charges and so far 16 members of the oath keepers have been charged.