defeated confederates couldn t accept the verdict of the war. they had lost. so they say they embrace what s known as the lost cause, a self-serving lie the civil war was not about slavery but about state s rights and they call that a noble cause. that was a lie, a lie that had not just a law lie but it had terrible consequences. it wrought on jim crow. president biden yesterday in south carolina condemning white supremacy at the site of a deadly race related mass shooting back in 2015. the president s campaign creating a clear contrast between the words and actions of his potential opponent in 2024. speaking of the former president, we ll get expert legal analysis on a key hearing today for president trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. also ahead what investigators are learning about that alaska airlines flight that had a section of the plane break loose while mid-flight. good morning and welcome to way too early on this
i am stephanie ruhle. it is the eve of another critical january six committee hearing, the panels fourth, one starting tomorrow at 1 pm eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d.c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this brought effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. in another hearing, means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, bowers gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victo
eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d. c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this broad effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. another hearing means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victory in arizona. joining bowers tomorrow, two other republican officials, who were targets of a very similar pressure campaign. georgia
to. take, effect in just hours at midnight today. i m moving past republican obstruction. usually the executive authorities hello me as president, to do what i can on my own to address the border frankly, i would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation because that s the only way to actually get to kind of system we have now this broken fixed now the measure would shut off asylum access to migrants who cross the southern border unlawfully once daily encounters hit threshold of 2,500. he would also allow authorities to turn away migrants to mexico or their order version country, on accompanied myre miners would be exempt. now, this is the same authority, former president donald trump tried to use while in office, president biden s announcement comes today, just weeks before his first debate with his republican rival today s move as president biden s most aggressive crackdown, yet on illegal immigration. it s an issue that has long been one of his
from him it s so interesting because anytime a jury gets to hear the defendant s voice when he or she doesn t testify, it s very powerful. usually it would be in the form of a wiretap evidence or other recorded evidence. so usually it s the defendant saying things that they wouldn t want anyone else to hear that directly. locates them in the criminal behavior. here. this also implicates him in the criminal behavior, but not in the same way. this is a book of course, that he voluntarily wrote and that he decided to narrate himself as an audio book. so i agree with pollock could cut both ways. of course it has evidenced in its the prosecutors want to get in around the timing of drug use, but there isn t his own words talking about his struggle and i think that for the sake of completeness, if the defense wants to put other portions in, if they re relevant at all, the judge will probably let them do so. so they may get a lot of information from hunter biden in his own words, so that h