good morning. it s saturday, july 31st. i m ali velshi. a number of stunning new revelations about the twice impeached ex-president. apparently his efforts to overturn the election results of 2020 were greater than we knew. just 11 days before a violent mob of supporters would attack our nation s capitol, the ex-president appears to have attempted a coup of his own. in brand-new reporting from the new york times, notes from top doj officials reveal that the former president pressed the justice department and the attorney general himself to declare the election results corrupt. even though there was no evidence to support that claim. according to notes taken by the former acting deputy attorney general, the ex-president directed him and the former acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, to just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and to congressional allies. leave the rest to me. for the first time we re starting to uncover specific details about the
hey, dude, it s me. you need to [ bleep ] call me asap. de could they set the perfect trap? these people might literally get away with murder. deadly conspiracy. hello and welcome to dateline y extra. i m craig melvin. with doting grandfather jack jessee at the helm his big and blended california family seemed like one happy bunch. then jack was found stabbed to p death in his living room and police wondered if the jessees weren t as close as they seemede the case went unsolved for years until an ace detective hatched an unconventional plan to catch jack s killers. here s keith morrison. with deadly conspiracy. reporter: the game is called mousetrap. a little ball on its track. the tiny taunting mice which, unless every lever works in unison, will not be caught. and how often things go wrong to allow the mice to get away. so odd that what really happened could so eerily mimic a children s game. oh how nice! reporter: these are the people it happened to, th
with a major ruling, upholding a republican-backed voting rules in arizona that a lower court had said is committed against minorities. let s find out what this means not just for arizona, but also for the rest of the country. fox news chief legal correspond, anchor of fox news @ night, shannon bream joins us this evening. good evening, shannon. good evening, bret. the court wrapped up its term today with two contentious 6-3 decisions along ideological lines as the public pressure on justice breyer to retire heats up. at the national debate over state election laws rages, the supreme court upheld two key provisions of arizona s election framework. opponents say it s aimed at suppressing minority voters. arizona discards ballots when voters cast them in the wrong precinct and bands ballot harvesting or allowing a third-party to collect and deliver someone else s vote. the majority found that neither violated section two of the voting rights act and that the ballot harves
russia sees from the ukraine. moscow has called it a violation. at britney spears is going to have her day in court, she tried to overturn a legal arrangement against her father sweep the control over much of her life. one of hong kong s biggest newspapers has shut down in what s been described as a major defeat for free speech in the territory. apple daily has often been criticial of the beijing government and supports the democracy movement. after the authorities seized its assets and arrested senior staff it decided to close. this is the final edition thursday s being printed. these copies will soon hit the newstands in hong kong for the final time. let s look at what led to this moment. it reads hound congers bid a fitting painfulfare it reads hound congers bid a fitting painful fare well it reads hound congers bid a fitting painfulfare well in it reads hound congers bid a fitting painful fare well in the it reads hound congers bid a fitting painfulfare
joins us to respond and to tell us why he s running for governor again. plus, it seems like the justice department under president trump secretly obtained reporters phone records. more on the washington post coming up. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson welcome to the week. well, the battle lines are getting sharper in the fight for the future of the republican party. donald trump has been working behind the scenes to banish people that he deemed disloyal. today, the washington post reported that congresswoman liz cheney, she s the chair of the house gop conference, has been working just as hard to keep the former president from being the face of the party. publicly she voted to impeach president trump and said that he has no place in the party. she also quietly organized an op-ed last fall among ten former defense secretaries. they warned the military to avoid getting involved in donald trump s election protests. now, the post