today of course is january 5th. a year ago today, in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected two new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. there were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seats one year ago today and the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing two democrats to their two u.s. senate seats, that s how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that s what flipped control of the u.s. senate from republican control to democratic control. that s what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to enact all the legislation they ve passed in the past year including covid relief and the big infrastructure bill and all the rest of it, not to mention confirming president biden s cabinet, confirming judges, all of it. all of that made possible by what happened a year ago today when those senate elections happened. that said, it wouldn t be until a year ago tomorrow, it wouldn t be
good day. i m chris jansing live in beautiful cleveland, ohio. this state home to one of the most critical and close races in the country. you can t go anywhere without finding someone with a strong political opinion. that doesn t mean their minds are made up. how many of you have decided on every single person you re going to vote for? no. i talked to a panel of cleveland area voters. all of them still waiting to cast their ballots about why they are still on the fence and whether the brutal attack might play a role in pushing them off. as we speak, the candidates are in five senate races separated by three points or less, including tim ryan and j.d. vance. but are voters happy with the choices that are out there? we ll talk about that and why millions of voters are identifying as independents and living their tickets potentially, a phenomenon not just in ohio but critical races around the country that could make a difference. finally, the message voters want to send to ca
developments in the attack on paul pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the house, as we re coming on the air. pros cures just finaling two federal charges against filing two federal charges against the suspect, including attempted kidnapping. we have new details about what the suspect planned to do if he had found speaker pelosi inside the lome. we ve got those disturbing new details coming in. also, this hour, new strategies and new names heading into the campaign trail, a big name democrat, now adding arizona to the calendar for a last-minute rally to push candidates across the finish line. we re live with that, as republicans plan to kick off a rally any minute. in georgia, new rallies, on the powerhouse race, one not so close and another couldn t be any closer. our team covering all of this, standing by. plus, former president trump is asking the supreme court, what he is asking the supreme court to do today and the new reporting coming from the white house team o
we here at msnbc will have a prime time recap of tomorrow s hearing right here tomorrow night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. hosting that tomorrow night, along with my dear friends chris hayes and joy reid and nicolle wallace and lawrence o donnell and the whole team, 1:00 p.m. is when the live hearing starts, and 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night is when we will start our prime time recap. i can tell you one thing in advanceim of tomorrow s hearing. i can tell you for sure that the tattoo quotient among the witnesses isth about to go way, wayth up and i do not want to speculate what any of these folks might haveat lurking unde their collars, it is totally possible of course that like, you know, rusty bowers has an amazing torso full of tattoos, who knows or just michael luttig had a full sleeve tattoo working under his very silver suit but in terms of visible tattoos, tattoos visible o even in busins wear, in terms of face tattoos, neck tattoo, head tattoos, hand tattoos, tomorrow is
He was having none of that staying he stopped them from going down, saying he stopped other rioters from going down and he wasn t working with them in any sort of capacity and wasn t seeking their help. there was another separate incident earlier just after shots fired down on another floor. there was apparently confusion on the defense team where airy dunn, there were individuals who did step around harry dunn but that was a separate incident. we have testimony from young happening right now. he pleaded guilty not just to conspiracy charge but other serious charges and is cooperating with the government and talking how he got sucked into conspiracy theories on facebook and youtube, thought the election was stolen and was working with the oath keepers and travelled to dc on january 6th as part of this effort that this trial all centers around here, chris. ryan reilly, thank you very much for that update. right now we re also watching opening statements in the high profile case agai