years running elections in a different texas county in that different texas county she had been universally praised by that county s leaders. i mean by all accounts, hood county made a really good choice when they picked somebody to come in and be the sort of technocrat who would administer the elections. and in fact when it came time for the presidential election in november of last year, november 2020, things went off absolutely without a hitch. in hood county. now i should mention that hood county is really, really conservative. it is really republican. to prove my point, these were the results in hood county from the november election. trump won 81% the vote there. he beat joe biden by 64 points. over the entire state of texas, donald trump s margin of victory was six points. in hood county, it was 64 points. absolute landslide. and so, if you were a trump supporter who ferve ently believes what trump says, which is that the 2020 election was stolen from it him, you may b
leaders will, by all accounts hood county made a really good choice when they pick somebody to come in and be the sort of technocrat that nonpartisan official who would administer their elections. and in fact when it came time for the presidential election in november of last year, november of 2020, things went off absolutely without a hitch. in hud county. i should mention that county is really really conservative. it s really republican. to prove my point, these were the results in her county from the november election. the donald trump won 81% of the vote. there he beat joe biden in hood county by 64 point. keep in mind, over the entire state of texas, donald trump s margin of victory was six points in hood county it was 64 points. an absolute landslide. [laughs] by any measure. so, if you were a trump supporter, who fervently believes what trump says, which is that the 2020 election was stolen from him, or you might be mad at that, you might direct your eye or about that,
technocrat, the nonpartisan official who would administer their elections. and in fact, when it came time for the presidential election in november of last year, november 2020, things went off absolutely without a hitch. in hood county. now i should mention that hood county is really, really conservative. it is really republican. to prove my point, these were the results in hood county from the november election. donald trump won 81% of the vote there. he beat joe biden by 64 points. i mean, keep in mind, over the entire state of texas, donald trump s margin of victory was six points. in hood county, it was 64 points. absolute landslide by any measure. and so, if you were a trump supporter who fervently believes what trump says, which is that the 2020 election was stolen from him, you might be mad about that, you might dryer your ire to him about that. you know, somewhere the results don t seem right you to, right? you might have expected trump to win. but biden won instead.
you may remember how they were able to dodge subpoenas under the last administration under bill barr. the republicans would not press these subpoenas and they knew the witnesses knew that they had an attorney general in bill barr who would never hold them in contempt. would never prosecute them for violating the law because after all, bill barr had been held in contempt. now we have a justice department that is independent. that no one is above the law. if witnesses do not show up, we will hold them in contempt, vote them in contempt in the house and confer them for prosecution. and that is i think, that will be a sign that our democracy is recovering. that the justice department is upholding the principle that no one is above the law. it s a stern warning to several of donald trump s allies just ahead of a subpoena deadline to testify before the january 6th committee. washington post today reports this, quote, with just two days to go until the first ex-adviser is sche
it s 4:00. we ve got news we have a behind the scenes legal battle with potentially major consequences for the justice department s investigation into the ex-president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago the washington post is reporting this quote, a federal judge has at least partially granted a request from u.s. prosecutors to force an attorney for donald trump to testify before a grand jury about the former president s possession of classified documents after leaving office that s according to two people briefed on the decision. evan corcoran had refused to answer investigators questions about his interactions with trump. prosecutors sought to show the chief u.s. guess strict judge beryla.howell of washington that there were grounds of a crime-fraud exception. they spoke anonymously because this is under seal this breaking news is is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends jackie alamany is here her by-line is on that neil is here