wolf, a very eventful morning. no shortage of subjects for the president to discuss with world leaders from the iran nuclear deal to coronavirus and a minimum global tax. what are we watching for in this hour? it s amazing what s going on over here, boris. we re live at the g20 summit where president biden is meeting now with world leads on some of the most pressing issues, as you point out, facing the developed world. we ve got much more on that coming up in just a few moments. our kaitlan collins is here, jim sciutto is here as well. i want to get to this story, it s very significant. we re learning just now new details about hundreds of records that the former president donald trump is trying to keep secret from the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. according to a sworn declaration from b. john laster with the national archives in washington, donald trump does not want to release more than 700 pages of handwritten notes, dra
resources to seize voting machines. a bombshell new piece of reporting in the new york times cites multiple sources familiar with conversations inside the trump administration and the trump campaign that lays out just how the disgraced ex-president himself pushed to get federal agencies to do his bidding only to be rebuffed by allies of his own government by powers of the u.s. government to take voting machines and take them to trump s inner circle was a bridge too far. the times reports this, quote, president trump directed his lawyer, rudy giuliani, to make a remarkable call. trump wanted hem to ask the department of homeland security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states. giuliani did so, calling the department s acting deputy secretary who said he lacked the authority to audit or impound the machines. trump pressed giuliani to make that inquiry after rejecting a separate effort to have the pentagon take control of the machines and the o
stalwart liz cheney in iowa. she had scathing words not just for her own party for, quote, abandoning the constitution, but also for the united states supreme court, the nation s highest court, for potentially paving the way for donald trump the supreme court to grasp exactly what it is doing the supreme court realize what he s doing is a delaying tactic, and that the american people, it cannot be the case that a president of the united states can attempt to overturn preventing the american people from seeing that evidence in open court is itself suppression of the evidence. that the american people have a right to see that evidence and the court ought to recognize that. it cannot be the case that our justice system is incapable of holding him accountable, from liz cheney. she s talking to you, supremes. she s saying that there is a threat that the courts are now enabling trump from avoid all legal accountability and political accountability from the voters. more th
spills over and brings light and shines warmth on everyone in their presence. thank you for being here. our thanks to matt dowd and marc elias who rolled with me on this breaking news. thank you to all of you. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you, nicolle. appreciate you sharing that story marking that life. we are here another edition of the beat with ari melber, and our top story here begins with this political thunderclap out of deep red alabama where the democrat you see on your screen just trounced her republican opponent by 25 points in the special election. a name you might have just started hearing for the first time today if you follow this kind of politics and news. marilyn lands winning, flipping that statehouse seat, building on a trend of candidates running on women s rights since trump s judges got the supreme court to end roe v. wade. marilyn lands has just won the house district seat in alabama. reliably red district in north alabama
continues with ac 360. for the first time in this country s history, a former president of the united states has been charged with felonies allegedly committed while he was president. i m anderson cooper here in new york along with jake tapper. anderson, the indictment charges former president trump with four things, one that is anti-t anti-thetical. despite having lost the defendant, donald trump, was determined to remain in power, unquote. we learned of the indictment in the 5:00 hour today. shortly after 6 special counsel jack smith made a statement. here it is in full. good evening. fod an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump with conspiring to defraud the united states, conspiring to disenfranchise voters and extending and from disrupting the scene. it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. i encourage everyone to read it in full. the attack on our nation s capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented situation. it was filed in the indictm