a small audience at the january six hearing on capitol hill with what ended up being a 12 minute snooze fest that was very heavy on rhetoric. the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test. oh , i get it. so now bennie thompson cares about the transfer of power and making sure it works okay. remember, he s the same benneton who voted against certifying george w. bush s election win. and by the way, i m not even talking about the 2000 recount . we re talking about 2004 and the blowhard of the evening award goes to liz cheney. now if you saw her interview were rough to watch a little soporific when it was off the cuff. try watching her for 34 uninterrupted minutes of screen reading our oath to defend the united states constitution and that must mean something. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues who are defending me indefensible. there will c
been for me to keep that secret? i feel relieved it s out in the open. sometimes in the newsroom you get a tip or a lead, but it s not reportable yet. but nothing i wanted to celebrate as much as this. yeah, no, it was awesome, and we love reporting good news. i thought you and her had a great conversation. we were all watching and feeling great about it. thank you for all of that and we ll see you soon. you got it. thanks the alicia and again, our big congratulations to nicolle wallace. our time neighbor and a valued colleague among so many of us, and happy news for her and her family. we did want to say that. that is the personal local stuff. we ll get into all the big news in the world. we re tracking several stories on the beat including heat on a trump codefendant in georgia. the white house touting these democratic wins as they gear up for what they say could be a campaign season of blue wave momentum. we have a special guest on that tonight, someone you may
with everyday issues. will the american public be tuned in crazy about health care, about to find a way to make this horrific on our democracy interesting and important to many american ? but that s where we are. people aren t tuning in to watch what democrats will be extremely persuasive argument. is that going to change their minds? and let s keep democrats always flock in primetime against just a given. remember this that americans not caring about democracy. it s that americans don t believe that democracy was truly, really at risk on january six there was no possibility that anything that happened at that riot which we spoke against vociferously that night and i didn t tweet that day that riot on capitol hill one of undermine the results of the election. there wasn t a single serious person in dc who believe that biden wasn t going to be sworn in as president on january 20th after that insurrection that wasn t everyone knows what a coup is. guns standoff, maybe hostages