Silence is not an option. Nobody is asking you to give up the filibuster. I know where i stand. Its time for every elected official in america to make it clear where they stand. Were also following new developments in what is now a global investigation. British police making arrests in connection with that Synagogue Standoff in texas. What the fbi is saying now about a motive and how the now former hostages are doing. Were live on the ground. Plus new details about the Beijing Olympics starting in just a couple weeks. The decision being made today thats affecting both the games and the athletes. More on that later in the show. Im Hallie Jackson with you this afternoon in washington along with our nbc news team kippur on the hill, evan perez. We have seen a drumbeat from people all across the country. Chuck schumer hears that drumbeat. He wants to get a vote planned. Its not going to happen tomorrow, although there may be a new move. Talk to us about the strategy. The strategy is they e
Is worse in the problem. To bypass the 60 vote threshold that fosters more obstruction the bipartisan system. That is more making it hard to vote, and installing partisans. Putting their threat on the scale. Last year, 19 states enacted 34 laws that restrict voiding and altering the voting process. Hundreds more were produced. More coming this year. In terms of violence and intimidation from trump supporters, have force dedicated Election Workers to quit. With the maga lining to pick up their places. Perhaps a sham audit in arizona has copycats around the country. Even though no fraud was found, the fake audits work in sowing doubt in election results. This is so bad that Research Show that 21 of republicans believe that joe bidens election was legitimate. 21 . Now about how trumps allies tried to steal the election, including how republicans in five states sent forged documents to washington to try to get trump elected. And the guy who sells foam pillows are by a rally that it will be
Trumps efforts to steal the election a year ago today. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The Congressional Select Committee investigating the conspiracy to overthrow american Self Governance and the attack on the capital, have just made another huge move tonight. Releasing private Text Messages sent from a fox news personality to the Chief Of Staff of the former president of United States and others in the day before and during the january 6th insurrection. The texts were released in a letter to sean hannity asking that he cooperate with their investigation. You will probably remember this is not the first time hannity was featured in the investigation surrounding january six. Much of that is thanks to Donald Trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. Back in november, meadows turned over a trove about 9000 documents. A combination of texts and emails. Things that he said were not privileged. And then right before it was time to appear before th
Head of the committee doing all of this in just a moment. Todays most recent Group Includes some familiar folks. Press secretary kayleigh mcenany. Trump Senior Advisor Stephen Miller. And also a guy named Johnny Mcentee. He may not be as familiar to you, it is possible that the name rings a bell. He was so powerful inside the Trump White House he has been called the Deputy President. Which of course, we dont have in this country. Weve got a Vice President , we have a Chief Of Staff of president. Not a Deputy President , it does not exist. Now we are learning as set of shocking new details that is sort of trump ego Johnny Mcentee did. And how effective the ran the United States government. But before all this, he actually went viral a decade ago with this video, i actually remember seeing this video, he was the quarterback for the University Of Connecticut football team. Impressive. He successfully through all these trick shots. These unlikely shots. And again, it is really impressive t
Story. This is incredible. Excellent job. You know, i feel like if we could invent awards. Most Compelling Television ever about moles. Most compelling about for sure. Grub worms. Slip knots im very good at. You are very kind. Thank you very much. Thanks to you at home for joining us. Happy to be back. This is just released today. The interview with the investigators went long. It was like a 3 1 2 hour interview in the end. The first swearing, however, did not happen until about halfway through this 3 1 2 hour long interview. This is how the swearing arose. You ready . Here we go. There was no plan. That testimony unsealed today from a man named bj pack. We have been following his story for almost a year now. His shock resignation as the top federal prosecutor, u. S. Attorney in georgia. Forgive me, it stunk to high heaven when it happened, without explanation, in early january right in the middle of trump trying to stay in Office Despite the fact he lost the president ial election. We