attack unlike any we ve seen in our lives. the manager s case straightforward and comments by his violence supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. as for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled united states. those are the ex president s lawyers. from there they argue an ex president cannot be convicted on constitutional grounds. in addition, they make a claim that s easily disproved, reading from their brief quote it is admitted that after the november election, the 45th president exercised his first amendment right under the constitution to express his belief that the election results were suspect. the brief goes on to say quote insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable juriest could conclude the 45th president s statements were accurate or not and thereafter denies they were false. in
states across the country with no legal authority. protrump electors including many local party officials tried to ward their states electoral votes to trump instead of biden and in arizona, nevada, wisconsin, michigan and georgia g, they even vouched with their signature they were duly elected and qualified electors, which they were not. now, these fake trump electors are under renewed scrutiny after the attorney s general of michigan and new mexico called for federal investigations into their conduct this week. more importantly, we re learning these weren t isolated incidents that just happened to coincident unfold in seven different states. the washington post and cnn yesterday confirmed suspicions this attempt to falsify election results was part of an organized top down scheme as cnn reports, trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani over saw the efforts to put forward the illegitimate electors with giuliani s team coordinating the nuts and bolts of the process on
implication for the former president. the supreme court rejected trump s effort to block administration s records from being sent to the january 6th committee. we ll have much more on that coming up. we begin tonight with the united states senate, one step closer to putting themselves on the historical record on voting rights. versus embracing the current phone in version of the filibuster. any minute now the senate is expected to begin a series of votes on voter protection legislation. which is expected to fail. teeing up majority leader chuck schumer s plan to move forward with a vote on a proposed filibuster rule change. that, too, is likely to fail since conservative democratic senator joe manchin in the tradition of the bonnie to his clyde krysten sinema reiterating his support for the 60 vote threshold with no requirement to do it in person. the united states senate has never in 233 years been able to end debate on legislation with a simple majority vote. allowing one
in the probe to date. rhodes appearing in a federal court in texas. he was seen in jeans and a t-shirt and pled not guilty. he remains in custody, facing up to 20 years in prison on that charge alone. while his estranged ex-wife spoke out today. i think he planned it very carefully. i think he planned for himself to not get arrested by seemingly stay out of the capitol himself, but that entire stack, the people that went in, the entire event, to me i see his fingerprints all over it. and i think even though from the outside, oh, i told them not to go in, we were just there for we were just there for you know, to guard people, it s silly, but it s also very carefully planned to keep himself you know, to keep himself out of trouble. she helped him in some ways start the oath keepers but that s her view of what s going on now, the view of someone who knows him. prosecutors are drawing on a range of evidence to actually make a similar point, that this defendant planned
states, and i want to show you how in the world it happened so quickly. the first case of omicron was identified in the u.s. back on december 1st. that week the cdc said it caused around 1% of all the cases in the entire u.s. the rest were delta. just one week later, it was still less than 15% and then last week, that number jumped to more than 70 percent with omicron cases far out numbering delta cases almost 3-1. we saw 244,000 new covid cases just yesterday, that is the highest for a single day since mid september. hospitalizations are up 14% over the last two weeks however, this is good news. deaths are basically flat. the numbers are bad enough that it prompted the nhl to put the entire season on a temporary hold. in some cities and states are now starting to take back their restrictions and go to where we were months and months ago. places we thought we left behind. washington d.c. reinstating a mask mandate starting today. rhode island did the same. it raises new quest