During Thursday’s third public hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann described in recorded testimony his call with John Eastman, the lawyer advising former President Trump on the plan to overturn the 2020 election. The call took place on January 7, one day after the deadly insurrection.
“I think some Southern Baptists lost their minds when a Black man was elected president,” said minister Kevin Smith.
Facebook removed a video by Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he’s hunting Republicans who go against the party.
“Ultimately, we want same-day voting — one day — and only paper ballots,” Trump said.
Republicans blocked bipartisan commission, then stopped cooperating with the House committee. “Very, very foolish,” Trump says in interview.
After the party declared “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice,” furious opponents counted the ways Texas Republicans are “abnormal.
In the final part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we look at Harvard University’s recent report detailing the school’s extensive ties to slavery and pledged $100 million for a fund for scholars to continue to research the topic. The report documents dozens of prominent people associated with Harvard who enslaved people, including four Harvard presidents.
In March, the United Nations marked the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’s groundbreaking 1619 Project, addressed the U.N. General Assembly. As part of our Juneteenth special, we air her full address. “It is time for the nations that engaged in and profited from the transatlantic slave trade to do what is right and what is just.
In a Juneteenth special, we mark the federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We speak to the writer and poet Clint Smith about Juneteenth and his new book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.
We speak with Bishop William Barber and Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about plans for Saturday’s Moral March on Washington and to the Polls to demand the government address key issues facing poor and low-income communities. The march will bring together thousands of people from diverse backgrounds to speak out against the country’s rising poverty rates, voter suppression in low-income communities and more.
During Thursday’s third public hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann described in recorded testimony his call with John Eastman, the lawyer advising former President Trump on the plan to overturn the 2020 election. The call took place on January 7, one day after the deadly insurrection.
We air highlights from the third public hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which revealed that President Trump pressured Vice President Pence to overturn the 2020 election results even though he knew it was illegal. The hearing included testimony from Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob, who said the plan’s main architect, attorney John Eastman, actively admitted his strategy violated the law, and yet continued anyway.
In a blow to press freedom, the United Kingdom has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed off on the transfer after the U.K. Supreme Court denied Assange’s appeals earlier this year, part of a years-long legal battle that rights groups have decried as an attack on journalism and free speech.
Lofgren accused Trump of “unleashing” a new era of lawless violence in the nation with his actions during the insurrection.
Nick Akerman said Trump has “zero defense” against a criminal probe into 2020 election meddling in Georgia.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll also found that 60% of those surveyed believed the House select committee is conducting a “fair and impartial” investigation.
It also opposes “all efforts to validate transgender identity,” and supports “Reintegrative Therapy” to eliminate “unwanted same-sex attraction.
Sen. Roger Marshall is “hiding behind his doctor’s degree” to try to scare women about medication abortion, said Sen. Tina Smith.
We speak with Bishop William Barber and Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about plans for Saturday’s Moral March on Washington and to the Polls to demand the government address key issues facing poor and low-income communities. The march will bring together thousands of people from diverse backgrounds to speak out against the country’s rising poverty rates, voter suppression in low-income communities and more.
During Thursday’s third public hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann described in recorded testimony his call with John Eastman, the lawyer advising former President Trump on the plan to overturn the 2020 election. The call took place on January 7, one day after the deadly insurrection.
We air highlights from the third public hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which revealed that President Trump pressured Vice President Pence to overturn the 2020 election results even though he knew it was illegal. The hearing included testimony from Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob, who said the plan’s main architect, attorney John Eastman, actively admitted his strategy violated the law, and yet continued anyway.
In a blow to press freedom, the United Kingdom has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed off on the transfer after the U.K. Supreme Court denied Assange’s appeals earlier this year, part of a years-long legal battle that rights groups have decried as an attack on journalism and free speech.
They were ready to “tear Pence limb from limb.” It was “as dark as it gets,” says former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman.
Callous post follows videos aired in House select committee hearings showing Trump supporters demanding Mike Pence be “hanged” at insurrection.
Maybe “someone should tell him that he has the right to remain silent and anything he says can and will be used against him in a court of law,” said Conway.
A production crew for “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” were charged with unlawful entry of the Capitol. Tucker Carlson called it an “insurrection.
“I’m good,” he told reporters after U.S. Secret Service agents quickly helped him up.
Trump “wasn’t just stirring up his insurrectionists to create chaos,” she said. He put Pence’s life at risk to illegally stay in Oval Office, Mary Trump charges.
“Equal time means sitting your lying ass in a witness chair. We’ll wait,” tweets the California Democrat.
“Get home and raise your kids!” Christian Walker lectures men as the public learns his own dad has three other children.