ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
inside the memoir are a ton of revelation, including this one, to perk up the ears of prosecutors and jack smith s office. cheney reveals mccarthy told her two days after the election he talked to trump and trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election. he needs to go through all the stages of grief, he said. cheney writes, she thought to herself those stages seemed to involve tweeting in all caps. we all know what happened after the election. donald trump fights desperately to overturn his election defeat. kevin mccarthy enabled him every step of the way. liz cheney says about the current speaker, cheney recounts how johnson pressured members to throw out election results from four states trump had lost. when i confirmed with him the flaws in his legal argument, he would say something to effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. according to cheney, that effectively became the republican party ice agenda. here s what happened just before the capitol was
colleagues who have been covering the trial from the beginning. msnbc s legal analyst lisa rubin, new york times investigative reporter susanne craig, and former federal prosecutor and former sdny criminal division deputy chief, kristy greenberg. katy, let s set the stage for what s going on at trump tower where we anticipate him speaking in about an hour, right? the assembled press is here. this is the first time i believe everyone has been back in this lobby since the donald trump transition. donald trump is going to come town his golden elevators behind me as a man running for president again, as a former president, yes, but also as a man who has now been convicted on 34 felony counts. the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime and certainly the first one, former president to be running again now that they are convicted on all of those felony counts. and he s doing it, guys, at the literal scene of the crime here in trump tower. this is where david pe
. if he continues to lie he can t serve in the republican leadership that s the terrible tragedy. right. and robert carol, the story once said that power doesn t corrupt as much as it reveals. it says a lot about who we are. power has said a lot about who kevin mccarthy is and who mitch mcconnell is and if we don t elect people of character, then none of it works no matter how brilliant the constitution is and no matter how we reform the electoral count act. if people don t go into the oath of office, none of it works at the end of the day. the stakes are very, very high for the public phase. very high. thank you for spending time to talk to us about the stunning developments. we are grateful for your time. thank you 37.
knows what he is saying is just another big lie. what do you make of the fact that, you know, this series of vents that he s on these leadership calls with liz cheney. she at the time was in leadership so he must know he was on the calls with her. then he flat out denies he said what she heard him say. a lot of people are trying to source those tapes to liz cheney. do you want to disabuse anyone of that? liz cheney won t leak tapes and deny it. that s not who she is. one thing this chapter revealed and something the historian robert carroll said, power doesn t corrupt as much as it reveals. it doesn t reveal the best but says who we are. it revealed liz cheney to be a person of great courage and conviction. it revealed kevin mccarthy to be utterly craving and in fact, so many of the other members of his team like elise stefanik who