Now, according to the trump campaign s assis claims, dominion voting election company worked with a an election firm smartmatic, george soros and the government to steal the election from donald trump. Of course, none that is even true. Days before the infamous press conference, probably airing the baseless claims and there are internal records that prove it. There s the details from the new york times reporting, quote, according to emails contained in the court documents, zack parkinson, then the campaign director s director of communications reached out to subordinates in november 13th asking them to debunk several matters concerning dominion. The next day, it shows mr. Parkinson got a copy of a memo, cobbled together by his staff which largely appeared to be news articles. And the times has a list of rebutted allegations, photo, that dominion did not use voting technology that dominion had no ties to venezuela or mr. Soros. And there s no evidence that dominion leadership had connec
Blockbuster new reporting in this yet to be released report bears that out and adds to our understanding of the horrors of january 6th including the new detail that trump s white house counsel expected trump to be charged with a crime, sedition, on that day. In the new book we learn more about the extreme pressure campaign. Donald trump exerted upon his vice president mike pence to overturn the will of the american people on january 6th. They write this, quote, trump called pence, who was spending the morning at his naval observatory residence before heading to the capitol. Pence again explained the legal limits on his authority as vice president and said he planned to perform his ceremonial duty as prescribed by the constitution. But trump showed no mercy. Quote, you don t have the courage to make a hard decision, he told pence. It s a sentiment he repeated even as the crowds turned violent with the threat mounting. The excerpt says this, quote, as rioters marauded through the capitol
Mob would descend on capitol hill. A new court filing seems to contradict that. Nbc s ken dilanian reports, it was acknowledged in february, a february investigative report, that angry trump supporters were talking openly in the days before the siege about bringing guns to the capitol to start a revolution. The fbi document doesn t say where the fbi s review of social media posts were conducted before or after january 6th. But if the fbi didn t know about the social media post, what exactly were they doing? if they did know, why didn t they take any action to warn anyone? the fbi has charged 40 individuals with using deadly or dangerous weapons or causing serious bodily injury to officers. The fbi has arrested around 465 people so far in question, the insurrection and we re continuing to learn more and more from their court hearings. This morning, hunter palm pled not guilty to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. The fbi provided screen shots from
bill: ask yourself if that was your son. we believe that young boy is between the ages of 10 and 12 as we say good morning. bill hemmer in new york. dana: good morning, i m dana perino, america s newsroom. he is one of more than 19,000 unaccompanied minor children in federal custody now. when you re talking about these numbers it can get overwhelming. we talk about infrastructure bill or with this, 171,000 people. it is hard to get your head around that figure. we try to figure out a way. then there will be a moment in a story like this where you see the effects of the parents who told the little boy told the little boy to go. heart wrenching as that might have been for them and possibly as irresponsible as that might have been. he then gets abandoned in the desert. he was afraid he would be robbed or kidnapped. thankfully our border protection officers have children, and that was very upsetting to me. bill: think of the job they have to do at the border. you are righ
an aide that he received an offer from the national guard when we included mr. stenger we discussed the specific issue as to whether the intelligence warranted the truths and the answer was no. it was a collective answer no, and his recommendation to have them on standby and by recollection mr. sund was very satisfied with that. he briefed the following day that he was satisfied and i saw no concern at any time thereafter. were you concerned, the use of the word optics and the appearance of what it would look like is what mr. sund testified was that there is a reluctance to request assistance because of the appearance, was there something what s the appearance that you were concerned about, mr. irving if indeed you were, were you concerned that having the guard present would look like it was too militarized? were you concerned about the criticism of the guard being deployed in washington during writing earlier this summer? just give us some insight into your thinking as y