an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
President biden this week. meanwhile, a break through in the pent gone s months long effort to get russia on the phone. in a call today with his russian counterpart lloyd austin urged an immediate ceasefire in ukraine as well as continued communication with the u.s. it was their first phone call in almost three months since before russia invaded ukraine. joining us now msnbc military analyst retired four star general barry mccaffrey, former member of the national security counsel and helene coopers back an mississippi contributor. general mccaffrey, can you just speak to what happens when aid is delayed. how does it flow? i mean, i heard from ukrainian source that this felt like deja vu all over again with trump stymieing congressionally approved military aid over that phone call and the favor for dirt on the bidens, but this is flowing so fast and furiously, does a hold up like this actually impact how quickly
Let him acquire their company. if you have a guy come in, critique some of your top executives publicly, beat up on the company and walk away, it s not clear that he could ever acquire anyone else in the future if he walks away from this one, garrett. has the feel of the next season of succession. jake ward following the twitter tales for us, thank you. thank you all for watching this hour of msnbc. deadline: white house starts right now. hi there, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. on the heels of that extraordinary news yesterday from the january 6 select committee, its decision to subpoena five of the republican colleagues as part of its effort to uncover the inner workings of the campaign by the ex-president and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, there is brand-new reporting today that simply underscores how the big lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from donald trump continues to pose
It to prevent a future insurrection, not to mention to fully investigate an election subversion attempt by former president donald trump and his allies. quote, this determination to issue these subpoenas was not a decision that the committee made lightly. that s congresswoman liz cheney, she is the capital riot panel s vice chair, quote, but it is absolutely a necessary one she said. the sanctity of this body and the continued functioning of our constitutional republic requires that we ensure that there never be an attack like that again. and that is where we start today. amy gardner is here a washington post political reporter, one of the journalists whose by line is on that piece of reporting we started with, also betsy woodruff swan msnbc contributor out with a new scoop of her own and former rnc chairman msnbc contributor michael steele is here. amy, i start with you. take us through your extraordinary new reporting that to me bolsters this idea that
You about. on sean hannity s program, dr. oz called barnette a gift to chuck schumer. that s where we start the hour, with some of our favorite reporters and friends. a new york times domestic correspondent, and former republican congressman david jolly, the national chairman o. american movement, and msnbc contributor, and the aforementioned, dasha burns is here, nbc news correspondent, live in lancaster county, pennsylvania, an important part of the vote there. take me through, this caught my eye. primaries can be so nasty, and they have this bizarre ability to get everyone to sing kumbaya at the end. it s a little too personal and nasty among figures that have become pretty national names in the republican party. reporter: well, the nastiness may have paved the way for