Tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days after the election. Asking the department of justice to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud, which would help delegitimize Joe Bidens victory. But until tonight, we did not know how extensive Donald Trumps efforts were. According to the Washington Post, president Donald Trump called his actingAttorney General nearlyevery day, at The End of last year, to alert him to claims of Voter Fraud or allegedimproper vote counts in the 2020 election. End quote. In those calls, the Post Report that Donald Trump raised various allegations of Voter Fraud that he had heard about. And asked what the Justice Department was doing about it. Here is the kicker. These calls did not just stay phone calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, Attorney General rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls, that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donoghue, who was present for some
constitutional sovereignty of the state of south carolina. new calls for a january 6th commission as reports of plea deals surface in the attempt to launder an insurrection continues. they wandered freely through the capitol like it was their building or something. plus, katy porter and the jaw-dropping new trump scam. who needs a pardon when you can have a twice impeached character witness. the denial was a firm denial. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, more than six decades ago, the flagship publication, the national review, published an editorial defense of southern eulogizists. the legendary william f. buckley founder of the review argued why the south must prevail, writing if the white community in the south is entitled to take such measures to prevail politically and culturally in which it does not dominate nothingerically because for the time being it was an advanced race. that was 1967. jim crowe was alive and well.
than nine minutes. use of force expect, jody steiger, a sergeant with the lapd returned to the stand and made it clear that force should not have been used once george floyd was handcuffed and on the ground and that the risks were very well known. because at the time of the restraint period, mr. floyd was not resisting. he was in the prone position. he was handcuffed. he was not attempting to evade, not attempting to resist and the pressure that was being caused by the body weight could cause positional asphyxia which could cause death. two days ago the emergency room doctor who received floyd at the hospital said it was his belief that the causes of floyd s death was, in fact, a lack of oxygen. the defense is trying its best to dispews that. attorney eric nelson put the spotlight on george floyd. nelson played part of a police body cam video and can be heard floyd saying, quote, i ate too many drugs. after the next witness, james ryerson, the minnesota law enforcement ag
were met with strategic outrage from gun advocates and republican lawmakers who claimed to see a takeover. while the rest of us saw one mass shooting after another with no end in sight. the critics also likely don t care about the pledge to stem gun crime in black and brown neighborhoods without sending more americans of color to prison. more on that in a minute, because almost on cue, red states responded to president biden by doubling down on a wild west mentality, even those in the south. shortly i ll talk to the mayor of louisville, kentucky, about what the president s proclamation means for his southern city as its state in evolving on policing, while its neighbors devolve on guns and voting rights. there s also, of course, the chauvin trial. with two weeks of testimony concluded and george floyd s family slated to take the stand next week, nearly a year after his death and months after their meeting with joe biden who promised them justice as a presidential candidate. i
confiscate voting equipment is alarming enough but there s more. a top trump aide to mike pence testified before the house select committee investigating the insurrection as congressional investigators are trying to penetrate the trump west wing. let s start off with cnn s paula reid with more. we previously reported the existence of a draft order tasking the pentagon with seizing voting machines and that document has been handed over to the house select committee. we know from sources, they ve even asked witnesses about it but multiple told cnn the second version also exists but instructs dhs, the department of homeland security to carry out the same task and multiple sources also tell cnn the idea of using the federal government to access voting machines was a brain child of retired colonel phil waldrin and mike flynn. the narrative that the election was stolen from trump but not clear who put pen to paper to draft itself. rudy giuliani was the one spearheading these effo