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There are lots of new January 6th developments to unpack. And it isn’t even a hearing day! Including new videos of a GOP congressman leading a group on a tour the day before the attack.
@JillWineBanks and @nicholaswu12 join Mehdi tonight to make sense of it all. Tune in!
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Rep. Cheney previewed Thursday’s 1/6 hearing by restating Trump & John Eastman likely violated 2 federal statutes in trying to stop Pence from certifying electoral ballots.
@JillWineBanks tells Mehdi how much trouble the two could be in — watch full intv on @MSNBConPeacock!
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
TOMORROW: Join us for the next January 6th hearing. Special coverage kicks off with @mehdirhasan at 12pm ET and continues with @mitchellreports and @HallieJackson at 12:30pm ET, followed by the hearing in full. Streaming on Peacock in the MSNBC hub.
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A decision on the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. is expected this week.
Assange’s brother @gabrielshipton shares an update with @MehdiRHasan.
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The grift that keeps on giving.
@MehdiRHasan presents new evidence from the #January6thCommittee about the alleged scam angle of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’. Watch:
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“How is Fox News different?”
@catthekin of @CheckMyAdsHQ tells @mehdirhasan about her organization's difficulties getting Ad Exchanges to drop Fox News for allegedly promoting violence such as the insurrection.
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“The Eastman strategy was not only illegal and unconstitutional, but also kind of stupid.”
@woodruffbets looks ahead to potential questions the #January6thCommittee might have in their upcoming hearing centered around Mike Pence.
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“[Barr] has been very much a person focused on an extreme level of executive power his whole career,” says former Deputy A.G. @Donald Ayers (whom Barr succeeded during the George H. W. Bush administration.) WATCH:
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Trump’s Justice Dept was not involved in efforts to subvert the 2020 election results. But according to @PostKranish, it would have been had a plan hatched by an obscure DOJ lawyer named Jeffrey Clark succeeded. @MehdiRHasan breaks down the chain of events:
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Former Bush 41 Deputy Attorney General @DonaldAyer6 joins @MehdiRHasan to talk about the standoff between the DOJ in the Oval Office just 3 days before the January 6 Insurrection.
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TONIGHT: @woodruffbets joins @MehdiRHasan to talk all things January 6th, including a preview of the upcoming hearing centered around Mike Pence and his decision not to bow to Trump’s demand not to certify Biden’s win.
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
THURSDAY: Join us for the next January 6th hearing. Special coverage kicks off with @mehdirhasan at 12pm ET and continues with @mitchellreports and @HallieJackson at 12:30pm ET, followed by the hearing in full. Streaming on Peacock in the MSNBC hub.
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Fmr. AG Barr told the 1/6 cmte. Trump was “detached from reality” pushing the ‘Big Lie’. But Barr has praised his ex-boss since leaving office and said in March he’d vote for him again. Says Mehdi: “Doing the bare minimum and doing it under oath does not make you a hero, sorry.”
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In today’s hearing, “Not only was it proved what [Trump] was told, but how many people told him, how often he was told,” @JillWineBanks says of his 2020 loss. His denial of facts could have legal implications, she adds. “Negligence is one thing. Willful ignorance is another.”
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Instead of governing, Republicans have begun making plans to investigate Hunter Biden. And 'big tech'. And Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Now, add the Jan. 6 committee to the list. (via
@MaddowBlog) msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show…
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.@kurtbardella: “Let the record show that our national nightmare began with drunk Rudy espousing advice that the president of the United States decided to follow instead of listening to, oh I don’t know, everybody else in the room that was sober and telling him the truth.”
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“Mr. Trump decided that regardless of the facts and the truth, if he lost the election he would claim it was rigged.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren outlines how then-President Trump began to lay the groundwork for his Big Lie months before the election:
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
I'll be back on @MSNBConPeacock at around 1:15pm ET, anchoring live coverage and reaction to the second 1/6 public hearing with Guardian reporter @hugolowell and my panel of @JillWineBanks, @DavidJollyFL, and @kurtbardella.
Join us!
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr told the Jan. 6 cmte. that “everyone understood for weeks” there would be a surge of Dem votes from mail-in ballots after Election Night.
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
Jan. 6 Cmte. Chair: Donald Trump lost an election and knew he lost an election; and as a result of his loss, decided to wage an attack on our democracy. An attack on the American people by trying to rob you of your voice. msnbc.com/live
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