at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about
to outflank him with kind of quote/unquote moderates by kind of calling into question the abortion bans that his own administration has made possible. it s a phony argument, but he s kind of put desantis into a corner where he can t abandon anti-aborg extremism. but he also can t win a general election with it. and you know what donald trump didn t do when he was president? sine a six-week abortion ban. he can say i didn t do that. he can say he s to the left of him and to the right of others, and no cussing on tv. i apologize for that. he just infuriates me in a specific way. michelle and susan, thank you for pointing out that he won by subtraction. still ahead, the clock is still ticking on raising the debt ceiling as biden suggests he s willing to negotiate with the republican hostage takers. some risks.
congresswoman saying to, quote, unquote moderates, try us. we can sink the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill when there s talk like that, and granted, that is from wednesday. we re now at sunday. are you concerned that the divide between the two wings of the democratic party won t be bridged to a sufficient manner to allow all of these things to pass this week in the way that the speaker wants? well, first remember, political years are like dog years. right? wednesday is a long time ago. here s exactly where we re at. we want to get the entire agenda that joe biden has done. that agenda, the build back better agenda involves the build back better act, also known as the reconciliation bill. bills we re moving together. that s exactly what s going to happen with them. but to the democrats, people support these values. i don t think any democrat right