We speak with Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer and theologian Cornel West about the January 6 committee’s recommendation that former President Donald Trump and his allies be criminally charged for their role in the insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. “Just because it’s unprecedented doesn’t mean that we can’t have prosecutions,” says Greer.
Schiff, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, wrote that Republicans are receiving “scant attention” for their votes to overturn the 2020 election.
Psaki remarked that Donald Trump must have been “so disgusted” by the witness testimony transcripts released earlier this week.
Lake was among the most vocal 2022 Republicans promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign.
When the Republican leader called the omnibus bill “one of the most shameful acts” he’s seen in the House, Pelosi asked if he was forgetting something.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is among the scores of House Republicans who have criticized the $1.7 trillion package.
We speak with Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer and theologian Cornel West about the January 6 committee’s recommendation that former President Donald Trump and his allies be criminally charged for their role in the insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. “Just because it’s unprecedented doesn’t mean that we can’t have prosecutions,” says Greer.
“This sounds crazy, doesn’t it?” Trump laughed in the Oval Office while talking to Powell on the phone, according to testimony.
Independent and swing voters have been turned off by Trump’s presentation of Republicans as “nasty and tended toward chaos,” McConnell said.
He wanted thousands of National Guard troops to shield him and supporters from any imagined “threat from left-wing counterprotesters,” according to testimony.
U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Jan. 6 House select committee’s report details how military leaders came to fear the ex-president would misuse troops in an attempt to cling to power.
We speak with Guyanese environmental lawyer Melinda Janki about how she’s taking on the oil giant ExxonMobil to stop the company from developing an offshore oil field that would turn Guyana into a “carbon bomb.” Guyana is currently a carbon sink, but Exxon plans to produce more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, which could transform the South American country into one of the world’s top oil producers by 2030.
The House select committee on the January 6 attack released its final 845-page report Thursday, and the word “racism” appears only once throughout the entire document — despite the central role white supremacist groups played in the insurrection. “Those who stormed the Capitol … didn’t merely come in defense of Donald Trump,” says Stanford professor Hakeem Jefferson, an expert on issues of race and identity in American politics.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final 845-page report on the insurrection at the Capitol and Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The report names former President Trump as the central cause of the insurrection and calls for expanded efforts by the government to combat far-right and white supremacist groups.
Six people in Atlanta have been charged with domestic terrorism for taking part in protests against a massive new police training facility known as Cop City. The protesters were taking part in a months-long encampment in a forested area of Atlanta where the city wants to build a $90 million, 85-acre training center on the site of a former prison farm. Conservationists have long wanted to protect the area, the South River Forest, from future development.
The Biden administration recently moved to ease some sanctions on Venezuela and gave Chevron the green light to resume oil production in Venezuela. Venezuela has faced a years-long economic crisis in part due to harsh U.S. sanctions. Miguel Tinker Salas joins us to discuss shifting U.S.-Venezuelan relations, as well as their impacts on Venezuelan migrants to the U.S.
Democrat Katie Hobbs won the state’s gubernatorial race by just over 17,000 votes.
The “deferential” agency was reportedly overwhelmed by an army of Trump accountants and lawyers and the complexity of his tangled businesses.
Republicans are set to take over the House majority next month, and it’s unlikely the ethics committee’s GOP members will go after fellow party members.
“Lots of reasons for him to be concerned heading into 2023,” former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance told MSNBC.
Trump unleashed a rant two days before Hutchinson’s testimony transcript was released. The ex-president claimed he was always certain he won the 2020 vote.
We speak with Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer and theologian Cornel West about the January 6 committee’s recommendation that former President Donald Trump and his allies be criminally charged for their role in the insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. “Just because it’s unprecedented doesn’t mean that we can’t have prosecutions,” says Greer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has wrapped up a one-day visit to Washington, D.C., where he called on the Biden administration and lawmakers to provide more military and financial aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. This was Zelensky’s first overseas trip in nearly a year, since the war began. Ahead of the trip, over 1,000 faith leaders in the United States called for a Christmas truce in Ukraine.
An 800-page report set to be released on Thursday will conclude that then-President Donald Trump criminally plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Twenty-one Republican senators voted to start debate on the $1.7 trillion government funding bill, which appears to be a sign it has the support to pass.
The Fox News host freaked out that Ukraine’s president dressed “like the manager of a strip club” when he asked for more aid to his war-torn country.
On his first trip abroad since Russia launched its invasion, Ukraine’s president thanked the U.S. for supporting his country and emphasized more aid is needed.
The witness, Clay Parikh, has previously spoken at election denial events organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
Six people in Atlanta have been charged with domestic terrorism for taking part in protests against a massive new police training facility known as Cop City. The protesters were taking part in a months-long encampment in a forested area of Atlanta where the city wants to build a $90 million, 85-acre training center on the site of a former prison farm. Conservationists have long wanted to protect the area, the South River Forest, from future development.