states senate today, senate majority leader chuck schumer is going to join us. and rachel, this new information tonight, the new tape of donald trump making a call to georgia to an election official, this one before christmas. so earlier than the one that we already heard is just such stunning additional information about what was clearly an ongoing campaign to try to change the result of that election. and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone calls. and it also fills in some of the pieces about who was involved in this campaign and what the pattern of corrupting events were. and this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from that district attorney s office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person surprised at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee ballots in cobb county. he showed up in person and then the next day he apparently told the presi
and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone calls. and it also fills in some of the pieces about who was involved in this campaign and what the pattern of corrupting events were. again, this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from the district attorney s office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person, surprise, at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee ballots in cobb county. he showed up in person. then the next day he apparently told the president to call the investigator leading that audit while he told her what answer he wanted and how much she d be praised when she produced that correct answer, which was that he mysteriously won the election. i mean, that s just it s starting to read like an elmore leonard book. and you hear on the phone call something you d otherwise never hear in a phone call with the president of the united states.
Sedition. Before votes to commit sedition, months of lies about the election. Now cory bush has introduced a resolution to expel the lawmakers who sought to invalidate the election results. Thats twothirds of the House Republican caucus of the she specifically mentions ted cruz, josh hawley and congressman mo brooks, who led objections to the electoral college. Brooks even more specifically and directly incited that protrump crowd on the morning of the terrorist attack, telling them this. Today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. Now theres a growing call for these republican lawmakers to face at least some consequences for enabling and inciting this deadly delusion and attack, as democratic senator joe manchin and republican senator pat toomey told me yesterday. Whether they should resign or not, i dont know how they can live with themselves, knowing that people have died because of their words and actions. Theyre going to pay a big price for this. I
Hours to proceed with the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. If that does not happen, they will move forward with the formal vote to impeach this president. Also breaking this afternoon, the d. C. Attorney general says his office is looking at potentially charging President Trump and others for inciting violence in speeches before that riot. We are also learning today that both white House Counsel Pat Cipollone and former attorney general bill barr have warned the president not to pardon himself. This is what were getting here at cnn from multiple sources there. Barr sent the warning before he resigned last month, and now in the days leading up to joe bidens inauguration, authorities are bracing for the possibility of even more violence as there are further threats proliferating online. While all of this is happening, where is the president . Lets begin this hour on capitol hill with manu raju there. Manu, whats next . Yeah. We expect an Impeachment Vote that will happ
Babies thinking, weve only seen one. You just have to be older than ten months to have seen your first impeachment trial already in this country. This is where we are. True, true, true, true. Rachel yes . Fascinating to hear you with Michael Cheryl talking about what she called a possible Reconnaissance Mission in the house. And to realize shes using the term professionally. She doesnt throw that word around as i would as a air force veteran, former federal prosecutor. Stunning information she was delivering. What ive been trying to track out is what records might there be of the names of people being given those tours by republican staff or republican members. And apparently there are some ways they could have slipped past having their names recorded as having entered the complex. But most people, almost everyone, has to get a record of their entry into that complex at this point. But who knows what happened that day . Right. But it is interesting that you raised that point about her