passed the house was the basis for the trial in the senate, president trump was also impeached for threatening and pressuring georgia state officials to falsify election results in that state. telling them they should announce that they had recalculated the vote totals in georgia. he told them they should tell the public that they had found enough votes to declare that actually, donald trump and not joe biden had won georgia. now, former president trump was impeached for that in the house. it was part of what he was tried for in the senate, but it s also a crime in the state of georgia to pressure an official into messing with the administration of an election. and so this veteran prosecutor, 19-year prosecutor in the county where that alleged crime occurred in fulton county, georgia, has now opened an investigation into the pressure that was put up against georgia officials around the administration of the presidential election, fulton county, georgia, is where atlanta is, a
which interrupted and tried to stop altogether the certification of the presidential election results, you will recall that in the article of impeachment that passed the house was the basis for the trial in the senate, president trump was also impeached for threatening and pressuring georgia state officials to falsify election results in that state. telling them they should announce that they had recalculated the vote totals in georgia. he told them they should tell the public that they had found enough votes to declare that actually, donald trump and not joe biden had won georgia. now, former president trump was impeached for that in the house. it was part of what he was tried for in the senate, but it s also a crime in the state of georgia to pressure an official into messing with the administration of an election. and so this veteran prosecutor, 19-year prosecutor in the county where that alleged crime occurred in fulton county, georgia, has now opened an investigation int
it is very hard to imagine anything but 2024 being a step change of more broken and more illegitimate and more likely to be a constitutional crisis than anything we have experienced, frankly, since 1876. wow. all right, ian, thanks for that. or not. but we appreciate your honesty, candor and analysis. ian bremmer, the host of gzero world on pbs. we re just getting started. straight ahead, senator alex padilla joins me to discuss the future of president biden s big agenda and defending america s democracy. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning. sunday, 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. i m ali velshi. the january 6th insurrection was the starkest reminder of the deep divide in contemporary america. in the year since that day has left an unreconciled feeling across the country. a recent usa today poll finally found something that an overwhelming majority of americans agree on. turns out 83% of the country is somewhat or very worried about the future of demo
the judge handed down her ruling tonight in the form of what s called a minute order, which means it s short. and in this case, it s short like poetry is short, it s short like i think i might commit this to memory and sing it to myself in the shower one day. here it is in its entirety. as to defend anthony robert williams, denying defend s motion for permission to travel. defend, while on pretrial release and facing charges including a serious felony offense, stemming from his alleged actions on january 6, 2021, wished to leave the michigan winter to spend 10 days in the warmer climes of jamaica to meet the family of a woman with whom defend has been in a committed relationship for, quote, more than a year. then the foot note in the minute order indicates that that more than a year is a quote from what he said about himself in his motion where he asked for permission to travel to jamaica. more than a year. the judge continues, quote, although such a meeting pay be an importa
minute order. as to defendant, anthony robert williams, de nine defense motion to travel. defendant, while on patrol release and facial charges including serious felony, offense stemming from his alleged rapunzel january six 2021, which is to leave the michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climbs of jamaica, to meet the family of a woman with whom the defendant has been in a committed relationship for, quote, more than a year. footnote in the mid order indicates that more than a year has a quote from what he said about himself in the motion where he asked for permission to travel to jamaica. more than a year. the judge continues, quote, although such a meeting might be an important step in the defendants personal relationship, defended surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when also more than a year ago he in 2021 he follow-through, by joining a mob at the capitol, that in his words, took that building. an event he allegedly viewed as the