views of more than 74 million americans who voted for slump in this is shameful and deceitful. this is why millions of people are coming to parler. 8 like 8 lights for 8 nights. ugly lighting will be this afternoon in washington, d.c. steve: good morning, everybody. it s thursday, december 10th. we start today s show with a fox news alert. take a look at that map. the trump campaign in 17 states are backing a lawsuit filed by the texas attorney general challenging the general election results from november. ainsley: that s exactly right. he says and 17 other states are arguing that 62 electoral college votes from georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin should be invalidated. the texas attorney general claims that those states acted unconstitutionally when they moved to expand the mail-in voting saying only state legislators could challenge election laws. brian: this came as a total surprise. meanwhile house republicans request a special counsel to investigate the ele
and white house cleanup efforts, which is not to say that president biden s missteps are meani meaningless, they do matter, but do they matter as much as pocketbook issues? this brand-new nbc poll shows what matters most, only 22% of americans saying the country is on the right track. many feeling the pinch of inflation, one of the pollsters described america as divided, doubting democracy and tuning out. that last part is really interesting, tuning out. quoted nbc, interesting in the upcoming november midterms is down, not up. people aren t paying attention to what might happen ten months from now. they re tired, demoralized, some are just tuning out the news. with that in mind what was the most surprising story this week? well, i would nominate the successful launch of the government s website for ordering free covid tests. it s surprising partly because it took so long, two years into the pandemic now they re finally doing it and it s coming after the latest surge in many
with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, alex, i was listening to your coverage about the possibility of donald trump testifying to the january six committee, even after he gets a subpoena. and of course, he will fight it all the way. and we ll pretend though at the same time, through strategic legs, oh yeah, he s thinking about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone cal
about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone calls from the secretary of state about the presidential election along with donald trump s famous phone call. one of those striking things about the three judge panel 12 judges, appointed by donald trump. and of course, voted for by lindsey graham. the irony! the irony! the irony! lindsey grime has fought to do this with every out in his qu
senate where the impeachment trial is underway for homeland security all hundred me orgasmic listen to mitch mcconnell, the senator. as a court of impeachment were called not to speak, not to debate, but to listen. both to the case against the accused and to his defense. at this point in any trial in the country, the prosecution presents the evidence of the case, counsel for the defense does the same and the jury remains silent as it listens. this is what our rules require of us as well. but the senate has not had the opportunity to perform this d duty, the senate will not hear the house managers present the details of their case against secretary alejandro mayorkas, that he willingly neglected the duties of his office and he lied to congress about the extent of that failure. likewise, we will not hear the secretaries representatives present the vigourous defense to which he is entitled. our colleagues know that we are obligated to take these proceedings seriously. this is