themselves as well as on their families, having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors. some of the most personal and damning testimony heard today came from arizona s republican speaker of the house. rusty bowers is his name. he was one of those officials who was pressured directly by the former president s legal advisers. he offered more evidence today that they all knew their scheme was illegal and he spoke of his refusal to help not only in terms of law but also his faith. it is a tenet of my faith that the constitution is divinely inspired, of my most basic foundational beliefs. and so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. there was also a key moment of testimony during today s hearing that for the first time directly linked the former president to the utterly bizarre scheme to install fake elector
good evening, i m anderson cooper along with my colleague, jake tapper. tonight, we are going inside one of the most riveting days of testimony in the four days of hearings so far. the fourth hearing by the january 6th committee, there s just no other way to describe what we saw today. a series of republican state officials putting country ahead of party, testifying to the intense pressure they were under by the former president and his allies to help overturn the 2020 election. this is also a deeply emotional day as well for many of these witnesses, some having to collect themselves as they spoke about the toll their decisions have taken on themselves as well as on their families, having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors. some of the most personal and damning testimony heard today came from arizona s republican speaker of the house. rusty bowers is his name.
appreciate it. and thanks at-home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. you are getting more of me than you bargained for this week, i m sorry. if everything goes as planned which honestly is basically never, in the news business, but you can t break your plans unless you make them in the first place, if all goes as planned, i will be here tonight hosting the rachel maddow show and tomorrow night as well, and my usual time of 90 am eastern, hosting the rachel maddow show tuesday night tonight, winds and a tomorrow. and then thursday night, i will be here as well, with an all-star team of all of my msnbc colleagues. because thursday night we expect to be doing another primetime recap of the january 6th hearing that is going to be happening during the workday on thursday this week. so, we will see. right? hi tonight, hi tomorrow night as well, my usual 9 pm eastern time. and then big special coverage starting at 8 pm eastern thursday night, after the next january
but you can t break or plans unless you make them in the first place, if all goes as planned, ha. i will be on tonight, hosting the rachel maddow, so answer mounted as well, at the usual time 90 am eastern. hosting the rachel maddow show, tuesday, night tonight, wednesday night tomorrow, and then thursday night, i will be here as well. the all-star team of msnbc colleagues, because thursday night we expect to be doing another primetime recap of the january 6th hearing that is going to happen during the work day on thursday this week. so, we ll see, right? hi tonight, hi tomorrow night as well, my usual 9 pm eastern time and that big special coverage starting at 8 pm eastern on thursday night. after the next january 6th hearing. that is the plan. and the only reason we make plans is so there is something to break when the news gods inevitably throw us ten curveballs at once, and all the plans had to be thrown out the window. we will see how it actually works out if that is the
his skin. on his son s 3rd birthday. ten people were killed saturday at tops friendly market in a racially motivated attack allegedly by an 18-year-old white man who is now in custody. wasn t even the only mass shooting this weekend. we have learned a lot about the alleged killer already. his background, prior red flags, the racist poison he apparently drew on and how widespread it sadly is, and we ll talk about all of it tonight, but we re not going to use his name or show his photo. he livestreamed the killings. he wants fame. we don t want to be part of giving him that. instead, we begin tonight by telling you what we know about those whose lives were stolen on saturday, like andre mackneil. by the way, he went everywhere, we re told, with his son. his fiancee said his little boy would follow his dad like a shadow. saturday she said today my baby was born, but today my soul mate was taken. how do i tell my son his daddy s not coming home? how do i as a mother make it okay?