indicted, wannabe dictator. his words. two of my favorite political experts are standing by as we countdown to tomorrow s iowa caucuses. plus, congressman adam schiff is here with reaction to trump s wildes argument for presidential immunity. also today, the law firm of weissmann and katyal on the intimidation and harassment facing pretty much every judge and prosecutor involved in the trump trials. and later, my day in delaware at biden campaign headquarters, as democrats freak out outside of the general election the brains of the biden general strategy. well, it s finally here. the first contents of the new 24 election cycle. just about 21 hours from now caucus goers and iowa will break record cold conditions, and sub-zero temperatures with life-threatening wind chills to cast their votes for the candidate of their choice. last night, we got our best prediction of what that might look like. every four years, campaign staff, supporters, and the candidates themselves, wai
it through enforcement, professor american history at yale university, and steven levitskiy is a professor of history at harvard university. two days before judge michael luttig got a phone call that may have changed the course of history for this nation. then, a capitol police officer who risked his life on january six is hoping to serve his country to different way, this time as an elected official. plus i will talk to california colorado secretary of state janet griswold on the heels of the decision to see whether trump is eligible to be on the stage primary ballot. another hour of velshi starts right now. good morning, it s saturday december the six. i m ali velshi. it s been three years since that mob attacked the united states capitol as part of donald trump s desperate attempt to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election. that attack lasted only a few hours, but the long shadow of the violent insurrection continues to loom large over american dem
but now there s news of this damning tape that s put more focus on a different jurisdiction on that federal probe in washington where trump was caught on tape admitting key parts of a crime, including stealing documents after leaving office. the tape is from after he was in the white house, 2021, and that s bad for him based on what he appears to admit, because prosecutors are already using it while gathering their grand jury testimony, and it s showing jurors how trump acknowledges and admits himself on the tape that he had classified materials. this is a total breakthrough in the evidence in this case. real talk some people might say, all right, ari we already know trump took the documents down to mar-a-lago and the feds seized them and took them back. didn t we know all that? yes, but in court to win a case like this, prosecutors must prove, one, the documents were classified. two, trump willfully took or directed action to take the documents. and three, he intended to kee
everything in the senate now, requires 60 votes 60 votes. you know how many votes it got? 100, because they basically did it by unanimous consent. unanimous consent is how everything used to go to the floor, you know, like, 30 years ago, and certainly before the trump era and the mcconnell era. so, that moment earlier tonight, when they just went, unanimous consent meant that every single senator who made the slightest noise about getting in the way of this bill was not really serious about getting in the way of this bill. some of them to have points they really need to make and everyone understands that. and that s why they are being accommodated in this fashion tonight. but all of them want to race out of that building and get to the airport at this point tomorrow morning as soon as they can. yes, it s a question of is it a concern about the u.s. default that is making them putting the pep and the steps, or is it just the problem of losing their weekend? only time w
i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes, looked like she was praying. and felt for her pulse. there was no pulse, so i pulled her head up to look at her face. and there wasn t a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy. he was already staring straight ahead. his eyes were fixed can dilated. felt for a pulse. no pulse. mass murder has become a regular occurrence in red states like texas. as republicans keep trying to gaslight us about how the guns somehow have nothing to do with it. plus, new information on the eight victims including three children. also tonight, the new more conservative cnn has decided to give a mega phone to donald trump at the same time that he s being investigated for fomenting an insurrection among other alleged crimes. plus, the blowback from parts of the british commonwealth, especially in the caribbean, following this weekend s lavish and an acronistic coronation. we begin tonight with a question. is it safe t