republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like today s we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony about the choices officials have to make, the tests that trump posed, tests that, by the way, many republicans have fail bid cowering to a would be autocrat by minimizing threats of violence and coups, by only speak out late, if at all. some have walked back from some of those public humiliations. others just live in them. but today s testimony by this republican here offers a view of what it looks like to stand up. i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath that i
another new development. previously secret white house tapes are now with congress. the jan 6 committee subpoenaed the filmmaker with major access to trump and his aides including interviews with trump and his family and allegedly never before seen footage from the fateful day of january 6th which makes it key evidence. stay tuned for both the reid report and tonight at 8:00 p.m. i ll join all of our folks including joy, rachel and nicole for our recap special tonight from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. eastern. keep it locked right here on msnbc, and the reidout is up next. msnbc, and the reidout is up next here to meet those high standards is the walgreens health and wellness brand. over 2000 high quality products. rigorously tested by us. real world tested by you.
a ven diagram we often see maybe donald trump did listen to some of the doctors. pick your poison. there s a lot of reason to get informed and make if the decisions. i have neal katyal standing by, so i ve got to move. say hello to neal. doctor fauci will be here tonight on the reid report. a check on one of the most destructive voices of the year. we re talking about tucker. that s coming up. by the end of the hour, we re going to get more personal, as irshare something about the era we are living in. was 2020 a hard year for you? hardest year in news for me, for sure. very sad. hard times, we re going to
very quickly. one last question but you said empires expand always to the detriment of the nations who sponsored them. but can you see the united states or the u.k. getting anything out of benefiting any way to the outward expansion of u.n. and nato? of course. eisenhower 70 years ago identified the military intelligence trail complex to industrialcomplex. it still alive and well and they already have benefited already terrifically. in terms of peace, culture, nationhood. it all has been a massive massive mistake. tucker: i appreciate that. those words are remarkable to see eight years later. an update on a story we ve been following in the corner of our eye. not that long ago, a future msnbc anchor then called joy and read wrote a blog called the
of john mccain s head on the body of the virginia tech shooter and other conspiracy theories. reid released a statement saying in part, there are things i deeply regret, am embarrassed by, things i would have said differently and issues where my position has changed. today i m sincerely apologizing again. anti-gay remarks were among the previous writings. reporter: look closely. that s arizona senator john mccain s head photo shopped on the body of virginia tech shooter. the offensive blog post was first discovered this week by buzzfeed on a now defunct blog called the reid report, once belonged to msnbc host joy reid. this post was titled baghdad john strikes again and published in october 2007. that discovery just one day after buzzfeed found another disturbing post from 2006.