>> good evening mehdi, thank you my friend. much appreciated. >> and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. we've got a lot to get to tonight. solid on brayden. first of all, i want you to see if you notice a pattern here. i'm going to show you something. and i you notice a pattern here. i want to see if you can sense some consistency over time here. i'm going to put a date stamp in the corner of the screen so you can see when all of these happened, but see if you can pick up on the pattern among them. watch. after ascertainment has been had, that the certificates are authentic and correct in form, the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >> after ascertainment has been had and that the certificates are correct in form, the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >> after ascertainment has been made that the certificates are authentic and correct in form,

the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >> after ascertaining that certificates are regular in form and authentic, the tellers will announce the votes cast by the electors. >> after ascertainment has been had that the certificates are authentic and correct in form, the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >>after ascertainment has been had that certificates are authentic and correct in form, the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >> after the ascertainment has been had that the certificates are authentic and correct in form, the tellers will count and make a list of the votes cast by the electors. >> notice a theme? it's a script, right? it's always the same every four years. whoever is acting as the president of the senate, whoever the vice president is, it comes time every four years for them to open up and count all the

electoral votes, and it's always the same. i mean, you know, with one or two little word shifts here or there, it's always the same thing. after ascertaining that the certificates are authentic and correct, the tellers will announce the vote cast by the electors every four year. the words may shift a hair or, two but it's always the same every four years until this last time. this last time for the first time ever started off as it always does but careened off in a whole new direction we've never heard before. watch. >> after ascertaining that the certificates are regular in form and authentic, the tellers will announce the votes cast by the electors for each state beginning with alabama, which the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state and purports to be a return from the state that as annexed to it a certificate from an authority of that state

purporting to appoint or ascertain electors. >> what was all that at the end? all that stuff that the parliamentarian has advised you? that was all new. as far as we can tell, nothing like that has every been said at any one of these things, but mike pence when he opened the electoral votes january 6th last year, he added that whole new bit. the parliamentarian has advised me there's only one document that counts as a certificate of vote from a state, and that certificate, he says, has annexed to it a certificate from an authority of that state. that's all new language that we've never heard before in this context. vice presidents always say the exact same thing when it comes time for them to announce the electoral college votes. but when mike pence did it, he added this whole new complicated clause saying the parliamentarian had advised him that only one certificate of electors could be counted from any one state, it had to have

the explicit blessing of the authority of that state. that was all new. you know, there's been some minor drama around the electoral college before around previous elections but no vice president ever before felt the need to get a parliamentarian's ruling, basically giving him a clear legal way to assert that he doesn't have to count any forged fake set of electors that might have been sent in to him alongside the real ones. no vice president has ever before had to get some sort of language from the parliamentarian explaining that if two sets of electors were sent in from a particular state, he was only going to have to count the one. but mike pence had to do that, which means vice president mike pence knew in advance of january 6th that republicans in multiple states had sent in forged fake electoral votes, documents purporting to be the real votes

from the states even though they were not real. we know he knew about it because we can see he had to maneuver in advance of counting the vote to get the parliamentarian to give him that language so he could justify not counting the fake votes. reporter kyle cheney at "politico".com gets credit for catching this and catching it at an auspicious time. it was 2:55 in the morning on january 6th last year. january 7th, the night after the attack, kyle cheney that night made note of how pence's language seemed to be different than all previous vice presidents have used for every previous electoral vote count mr. cheney was totally right. it's totally obvious once you lay down what pence said, all that extra verbiage pence said alongside the austere unchanging language the o'times the vice president has done the count

vote other times. reporter kyle cheney figured that out based on the language pence used, figuring that pence's office must have worked with the parliamentarian ahead of time to head off this stunt, this plot, what republicans were trying to do, sending in these forged electoral college votes, which they did, in fact, not only filled out and keep, but filled them out, signed them, and sent them in to the national archives and in to the united states senate as if they were real. and since then we have learned more about how it has happened, particularly in recent days, although, we still don't know exactly who did it. it's at least seven states. republicans clearly were working from some sort template document. all seven documents had the same font, same spacing, same basic language to create these forged electoral college documents. we still don't know who created the template, who sent them the

template. who told them how do this exactly? in five of the seven states that created documents like this, republicans falsely, bluntly asserted we the undersigned being the duly qualified electors of the president of the united states, they actually said they were the duly elected electors. they were not. they were neither duly elected nor qualified, but they said they were and signed their names to it. republicans used that language on these false elector documents in georgia and arizona and nevada and wisconsin and michigan. in the two other states, new mexico and pennsylvania, republicans filed a similar document, likes the same, same font, same language, except crucially in pennsylvania and

new mexico they changed it so they weren't the state's legal electors. in new mexico and pennsylvania the republicans instead inserted some language saying that ultimately some day they might be the real electors and in which case these documents should be processed as their votes. that kind of makes all the difference, right, in terms of whether or not you're trying to pass yourself off as electors when you are not. in making that change to the template language of that document, at least in pennsylvania, that may have saved the republicans who signed that document from prosecution for forgery or another state crime. that's according to a new statement from pennsylvania's attorney general who is explains it was basically despicable what the republicans did, but how important they put in that caveated language, explaining that they will not pursue charges against republicans who filed that. on the front page of the paper today in lancaster,

pennsylvania, is a story about the republican fake electors from that state including one of the electors telling lancaster online that, in fact, it was the trump campaign that told them to file the forged paperwork. in "the detroit news" there's new reporting from a reporter about how the fake electors in michigan came up with a few different schemes by which they plan to get themselves physically inside the capitol while the real electors were meeting to vote, including trying to get a republican legislature to sneak them in. another one of the fake ee lengths tells "the detroit news" that republicans were acting on a request from the trump campaign when they set out to create the forged documents. michigan's attorney general last week here on this show announced that while it's still possible that state charges might be brought against the michigan republicans who signed their names to the forged documents, she has nevertheless referred the matter to prosecutors in

michigan for potential prosecution, we since learned that the attorney general in new mexico has also done the same. the attorney general also is looking at potential federal prosecution. this is a move first reported by the "albuquerque journal." election laws are the foundation of our dmom and must be respected. while review under the state is ongoing, we have referred the matter to the appropriate federal law enforcement authorities and will provide any assistance they deem necessary. so, again, pennsylvania and new mexico both sort of caveated their forgery, softened the language so that they weren't just bluntly asserting they were the real electors when they weren't. nevertheless a state review is growing and it's been referred for prosecution.

that is also true in michigan and also the state attorney general is not ruling out potential state charges there against the michigan fake electors. in pennsylvania, the attorney general says based on the fact that republicans caveated their language and department actually purport to be the real election, his office is referring it not only for federal prosecution but state charges will not be forthcoming at least in that state. so this is turning out to be -- this is turning out to be an interesting story and an ongoing one, but it's not just about something that happened in the past. this is a real-world problem in an ongoing way. i mean, here, for example, look at this. this was last week in florida. they finally held a special congressional election to fill the seat of the late democratic congressman al c. hastings. he was democratic. it was always likely that they

would be electing another democrat to succeed him. florida governor ron desantis refused to hold an he lecz to fill that seat for as long as he could. so long as no election was held to fill the alcee hastings seed, they would be down a democrat in the house of representatives. he held off and held off and held off. he finally got sued to hold the election and finally we did get the election last week more than nine months after congressman alcee hastings died. like i said, this is a really democratic district. the democratic seat was superhot and heavy. ultimately i think the successful candidate in the democratic primary won the primary by only five votes, five votes, but even by that exceedingly narrow margin, she did, indeed, win the primary margin, which means she was the democrat on the ballot last week and she won the general election. she won the special election

last week in an absolute landslide. her name is sheila cher full lus mccormick. she's got a great story. she's the child of haitian immigrants. her parents were a taxi driver and a made. she is now a lawyer and a ceo of a health care company. and thanks to her blowout victory, she's now the first haitian-american ever elected to congress from florida, the first elected to congress ever. a great story all because she cleaned up in that race. she got 79% of the vote in that election last week. the republican who ran against her got less than 20% of the vote. her margin of victory if there that special election wuls almost 60 points, just a complete blowout. but because of where the republican party is right now and what they're now wired for, that republican who ran against sheila cherfilus-mccormick, he's

refusing to concede and is contesting the results. he's brought a lawsuit to try to block the results. said after election night, quote, i did not win, so they say. he recently told one cbs station in florida, quote, we'll have some stuff coming out that we've recently discovered. the dude lost this race by 60 points. he did not break 20% of the vote in a two-way race. i didn't win, so they say. republicans now, any race, anywhere in the country, any margin of loss, it doesn't matter. why would they accept an election result unless they won? why would any republican losing any election anywhere in the country from this point forward admit that they had lost,

concede, and congratulate their opponent? think that's the way to get ahead in the republican party right now? sheila cherfilus-mccormick will be sworn in tomorrow on capitol hill. her republican opponent who she beat by more than 60 points, he is not conceing that she won that race, even as she's slated to be sworn in because republicans, because that's the way the republican party works now. they're a post-election party. at the rally former president trump held this weekend, one of the republicans who signed a forjd document, he spoke as one of the warmup acts for trump because why not. this is whattet a rally is like now for a presumed republican presidential nominee in the next election. >> who won the election? >> trump. >> you're right. trump won.

trump won. we're going to fix 2020. i hope we going decertify 2020. how about you? [ cheers and applause ] >> trump won, see you later. >> and no more are they going to be able to get away with this kind of deception, this kind of fraud, and illegal activity, not only people in general, but the election workers. we want indictments of the election workers so that they don't continue to do this. >> i'm sure you've read my name in the paper. oh, well. screw the media. the fake media right back there that donald trump always points them out. fake news media. boo on the fake news media. boo on the fake news media. i don't believe a word they say. i don't believe a word they say,

a word they print. i've had several media outlets call me, "washington post," cnn, why i wasn't a trump elector. i called on the legislature to vote to decertify the 2020 election. >> putting people who signed the forged elector paperwork up on stage so everybody can cheer for them to get them warmed up for cheering for the former president. i mean, this kind of stuff does seem crazy. like this seems like the whole vibe on the trump rally thing is kind of like low rent and out there, right? but this is what it's like in the republican party right now. this is how they are gearing up for the next election. you know, indict the election workers. but it is working for them as planned, even in the high rent districts. i mean the new texas voting restrictions like in many

states, they were passed on the pretext that all that election fraud, that justified lots of new laws in texas to make it harder to vote in that state. that's paying off already. you saw the headline this weekend. election officials in texas reject hundreds of ballot applications under state's new voting restrictions. quote, election officials in one of the most populous counties in texas have rejected about half of the applications. they established new limits on voting over the objections of democrats, part of a wave of efforts by republican-led states to impose new restrictions. many in the republican party echoed phammer president donald trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election in arguing for the new lee striczs. the county clerk's office in travis county, the fifth most populous county, home to texas's capital cited changes to i.d. requirements, rejecting about

half of the 700 applications for mail-in ballots. they're throwing out half the ballot applications because the new restrictive voting law says they have to, and you had to pass that voting restriction law because of all of the fraud. decertify, decertify. it's working perfectly for them. i mean it looks crazy to the rest of the country, but it's working perfectly for them. and what's to stop them? kyrsten sinema and joe manchin? this week in washington president biden will mark one year in office. today on the federal holiday to honor the late dr. martin luther king jr., the king family said there should be no celebration without legislation, meaning without voting rights legislation. there was a major voting rights march in washington today including members of dr. king's family.

>> so let me be clear. when states are engaging in lawless voter suppression, only the law can stop them. senators sinema and manchin also say if they -- if the bill doesn't get bipartisan support, it shouldn't pass. well, the 14th amend, which granted citizenships to slaves in 1868, that didn't have bipartisan support. should formerly enslaved people been denied citizenship, senator sinema? the 15th amend that gave formerly enslaved people the right to vote in 1870, that didn't have bipartisan vote. should former slaves be denied the right to vote? senator manchin n 1922, '23, and '24, some senators filibustered an anti-lynching bill that passed in the house. would senator manchin and

senator sinema supported blocking those bills too? i'm just applying their logic here and showing that it's not logical at all. to them the filibuster's sacred except for when it's not. in 2010 senator sinema supported the idea of using reconciliation to get around the filibuster and pass health care reform. just last month they both supported an exception to the filibuster, to raise the debt ceiling, but they draw the line at protecting the rights of millions of voters. history will not remember them kindly. so no matter what happens tomorrow, we must keep the pressure on and say no more empty words. don't tell us what you believe in. show us with your votes. history will be watching what happens tomorrow. black and brown americans will be watching what happens tomorrow. in 50 years, students will read about what happens tomorrow and

know whether our leaders had the integrity to do the right thing. mr. president, senator manchin, senator sinema, members of the senate, pass the freedom john r. lewis act now. if you can deliver an infrastructure vote for bridges, you can deliver voting rights for americans. if you do not, there's no bridge in this nation that can hold the weight of that failure. >> martin luther king iii speaking today, on the holiday honoring his father. in 50 years students will read about what happens tomorrow and know whether our leaders have the integrity to do the right thing. what he is referring to there is the united states senate is tomorrow finally taking up voting rights, unless senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema want to take up voting

rights, it will fail. you look at the kinds of pressure and argument you had there. the chair of the congressional black caucus, congresswoman joyce beatty was there at the march as well. she's been not just a stalwart on this issue but leaning forward where a few members of congress can be put on the line and be arrested for civil disobedience last year. we're going to be speaking with her live in just a moment. a lot to get to tonight. stay with us. moment. a lot to get to tonight. stay with us

constituents and voting rights advocates if the bill isn't passed at the 2022 midterm elections? >> i feel sorry for those on the other side who didn't support this, you know. we're very clear. our constituents understand where we are. our constituents understand at

all levels. they understand victory. they saw a black president-elected because they voted and they stood in line for five to seven hours to vote. you have heard the president himself say thank you majority whip clyburn, thank you, south carolina. thank you, black people for voting overwhelmingly to elect him. that then got us our first female black asian-american vice president. our people know that. our people understand that. who should be afraid are those who won't stand up for voting rights. so we're sending a clarion call, and you can print this. shame on you for not doing it. black folks will vote no matter what. so it's not what's going to happen to us. it's what's going to happen to them. >> it's not what's going to happen to us. it's what's going to happen to

them. you can print that. congresswoman joyce beatty is chair of the congressional black caucus. that was her speaking last week talking about the people on the wrong side of that vote and wrong side of history in her estimation. the passion you heard from her is not new. since the beginning of the biden administration, she's one of the leading voices in washington pushing to keep voting rights on the agenda even when it wasn't at the top of the agenda. in july, you'll remember this footage, we showed it at the time. it was congresswoman joyce beatty who led a group of civil rights leaders where they called on members of the senate to end the filibuster and pass a pair of voting rights bills. congresswoman beatty was arrested that day along with several of those civil rights leaders. this image is just indelible. well now today as the nation

honors the martin luther king holiday on the eve of the senate finally taking up votes rights legislation tomorrow, congresswoman joyce beatty is once again at the front of the pack. she was at the march with dr. martin luther king's family and she joins us live now. congresswoman joyce beatty, member of the black caucus. thank you so much for being here and making the time. >> thank you so much for asking me to be on your show. today is a special day with the nation watching. >> the nation is watching. a lot of the nation is holding their breath about what's going to happen tomorrow. we played some words from martin luther king iii from the march today, held them to that banner, deliver for voting rights, "deliver" being the operative phrase there. do you think the united states will deliver? are you optimistic about what's going to happen tomorrow? >> i don't know exactly what will happen tomorrow.

i know the nation is pained and frustrated because of what we've been going through. you know, we're looking at individuals who are not supporting, reauthorizing the voting rights act, and four republican presidents reauthorized it. five presidents in our time have reauthorized it. so tomorrow it will be on the united states senate to do their job. the house, we voted on voting rights more than three times. this is not new for us. but tomorrow, you will see us standing and watching as history will be made. and let me just say this. for all those who don't support the freedom to vote john r. lewis act, they're obstructionists, and it will be on their hands because our communities and all of those who know what we have to lose,

especially black and brown people have so much to lose, that they will react, but you won't keep us from voting. and the senators should be scared about that because we know we don't cheat when it comes to elections. we get out, we stand in line, noond matter how they try to suppress the vote, democrats and black and brown americans will vote. >> you've talked about the congressional black caucus as being the conscience of the congress on issues like this and so many others. i wonder if you can give us a little window into their strategic thinking right now. the way you have turned the question on its head the way you did just now and the way we played that sound of you speaking earlier last week, about the people opposing this are on the wrong side and they're the ones who need to worry about their future and how the politics of this will play out, i know you're thinking three steps down the road, five

steps down the road, ten steps down the road. if things do fail tomorrow in the senate, if senator manchin and senator sinema decide they want to go down in history this way for this reason, is there a way, you know, under, over, or around that wall? is there another way to approach it? >> well, you're absolutely right. we have been strategizing, and certainly as you said, the congressional black caucus has been a leader at this. six months ago i got arrested. other members have been out there, marching, protesting, writing legislation, trying to work with those on the other side of our two senators over there who are having some initial problems that they're having. they're for the voting rights. it is the big elephant in the room, the filibuster. but it reminds me of when martin luther king jr. and fanny lu hamer and so many others were

going across that famous edmund pettus bridge. they didn't go over it the first time. they came back around and strategized, and then there was bloody sunday and they got it done. i'm saying we won't give up. we will go back and we will go back and we will get it right because the voting rights act must be reauthorized. so we'll go back and we'll recraft and we'll restrategize, but we won't stop talking about it. we won't stop fighting for it. we won't give up. and so i am hopeful that we will get there. i am hopeful that we will have enough of the senators to do what's right. you know, someone said today if we had state rights in washington, d.c., we wouldn't have this problem because we would have two senators who would be voting with us. we don't have that, but we will see what happens tomorrow. but there will be another tomorrow and another tomorrow.

>> ohio democratic congresswoman joyce beatty, the chair of the congressional black caucus on martin luther king day on the eve of the historic debate coming up in the united states senate on voting rights. madam chairman, thank you so much for joining us. it's really good to have you here. >> thank you. >> all right. we've got much more ahead here tonight. stay with us. we've got much more ahead here tonight stay with us

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i'm so grateful, so unbelievably grateful that we are tonight, unlike every other service like this that i have done, tonight we will not be saying our traditional prayer for mourning. that no one will be saying --

for me or for any of us this evening. thank god, thank god. it could have been so much worse, and i am overflowing, truly overflowing with gratitude. >> that's rabbi charlie cytron-walker, leading a service tonight his congregation between dallas and fort worth. those services you saw that clip from tonight, this is the congregation's first service since the rabbi and three of his congregants were held hostage at gunpoint for 11 hour this weekend on saturday. the fbi has now identified the

gunman who held them hostage, a 44-year-old british national. his family said he had mental health problems and political demands during the hostage crisis. the rabbi let him in thinking he was a stranger who needed warmth and shelter. the rabbi even made him some hot tea. once the services started, the man related he had a gun. luckily pry prayerly the service was virtual. because of covid, there were only three congregants who attended in person, but they were the people who got held hostage. the standoff as i said, ultimately 11 hours. ultimately the way it ended is the fbi's hostage rescue team entered the synagogue and shot and killed the gunman shortly after the hostages escaped. that was around 9:00 p.m. saturday night. it's incredible that none of the four hostages were hurt, at least physically. obviously they were traumatized

by this, but none of them were physically hurt. last night rabbi cytron-walker put out an incredible statement as to why he thinks that is. it's specific in ways that knocks you on your back. he said over the years my congregation and i have participated in multiple security courses from the colleyville police department, the fbi, the anti-defamation league, and the secure community network. we're alive today because of that education. i encourage all you wish congregations, religious schools, and others to participate in active shooter and security courses. on the one hand, practical advice and a practical explanation of what happened, but also just as sobering as can be he then goes on in his statement to detail his escape, how this thing ended. i could read it, but i think it's best heard from the rabbi himself. watch. >> the last hour or so of the

standoff, he wasn't getting what he wanted. he was getting -- it didn't look good. it didn't sound good. we were very -- we were terrified. and when i saw an opportunity where he wasn't in a good position, i asked -- made sure the two gentlemen who were still with me that they were ready to go. the exit wasn't too far away. i told them to go. i threw a chair at the gunman, and i headed for the door. and all three of us were able to get out without even shot being fired. >> joining us now is george salim. he's senior vice president at the anti-defamation league. he focuses on national security and programs like the one that

trained raby cytron-walker about how to respond to situations like the one this weekend. thank you for joining us this evening. i appreciate you being here. >> good evening, rachel. thanks for having me. >> what can you tell us about the kinds of training that adl does. obviously the rabbi is crediting those trainings in part for how he was able to escape and live. >> yeah. let me join you with exactly as you referred to it with with it's remarkable that the hostages were able to escape and the rabbi and those that were held hostage were able to get out, you know, unscathed. part of what the adl does or has been doing for the past several decades is serving as the leading provider of education and professional development both to communities as well as federal, state, and local law enforcement on the patterns and trends of anti-semitism as we see it manifest itself across the country and across the world and also different types of

extremism and terror patterns we see. we're really a facilitate over the education, the knowledge, and bringing together the experts to help train fortunately, thank god in this case, as raby cytron-walker illustrated, the best and brightest of our community, to help train and educate him and his congregants what to do, if god forbid, such an incident should happen. >> is there a direct line that you at the adl observe now contemporaneously between anti-semitic tropes in political language, anti-political conspiracy theories and violence targeting american jews and jewish institutions? >> there absolutely is a direct through line. there was a story that ran earlier today in which rabbi cytron-walker was quoted saying something to the effect of what happened the him in texas was not merely an accident, and we -- he was kind of saying this more broadly -- we cannot let

comments, words, phrases, insinuations that are anti-semitic in nature, horrific anti-semitic tropes, we cannot let ghoes unchecked as a society, because the point he made at the end of the article was not that they're in and of themselves horrific and anti-semitic, but they lead themselves to acts of violence. rachel, when i left federal service in 2017, the first week i was back at adl, there were white supremacists marching through the streets of charlottesville chanting jews will not replace us. the second year i worked for adl in 2018, we witnessed a horrific terrorist attack at the tree of life synagogue. 19 in california at the habad. so to answer your question, there absolutely is a through line with the anti-semitic tropes, the han garage, conspiracy theories, and the acts of terrorism that continue to demonize communities of faith across this country and specifically against the jewish

community. >> mr. saudi arabia alim, you alluded to your past government service there. with your national security background, having served under multiple administrations, presidents of both parties, thinking about this from a national security policy perspective, is there more we could be doing as a country, particularly as acts of violence targeting american jews are becoming not only more frequent but more lethal, as this pattern becomes inexorable and the anticipation of this attack. we're all devastated by the most recent one. >> yeah, thank you for asking that. i think there is more we can do. there's a number of things we can do. when it comes to this type of incident, anti-semitic, extremist in nature, there's a lot more the federal government can do as well as state and local governments and community-based organizations, we can do more in advertising

the threat of anti-semitic rhetoric, making sure both sides of the aisle call it out when they see it, irrespect active of the political party and the nature from which it originates from and making sure that every level of government, federal, state, local, and community, is equipped to deal with these types of threats, of insinuations, of language head on, and making sure that communities are equipped, they're prepared, and they fought through all the measures of preparedness they need to take so, god forbid an incident happen like this again, individuals like the hero that he is, rabbi cytron-walker are armed with the knowledge to keep their congregants safe. >> george salim. senior director at the adl. thank you for being here. i'm sorry for the circumstances but thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. e right back stay with us

that's about to happen. what would be a firm court deadline seems to indicate it could happen tomorrow. it was last month we first learned that former president donald trump had been subpoenaed to testify in an investigation led by new york state attorney general tish james. the attorney general sought trump's testimony as part of her investigation into alleged tax fraud, bank fraud, and insurance fraud at the trump family real estate business. we later learned that the new york attorney general in addition to subpoenaing former president donald trump had also subpoenaed two of his adult children, ivanka and don jr. to give testimony for the same investigation. you'll recall that eric trump, the other adult child who's been a major part of the trump real estate business, has always testified in this case. a few weeks ago trump family lawyers filed a motion to try to block those subpoenas, to try to block trump and donald junior

and ivanka from having to testify. tomorrow we're expecting the new york attorney general tish james to respond to that effort by trump's lawyers to block these subpoenas. she has a court-ordered deadline tomorrow to explain to the court why she believes this testimony from trump and his adult children is necessary. because of the type of filing this is, because of the type of case this is, we expect that this new filing from tish james tomorrow will tell us more about the case than what we know now. the reason we expect this is because we've kind of seen this movie before. in august 2020, the same new york attorney general went to court to compel eric trump's deposition after he refused to provide testimony. when the attorney general did that, went to court in the case of the eric trump subpoena, she told us a whole bunch about what it was she was investigating, including new details about the trump organization's valuations of multiple properties from new york to california. after that filing from the new york attorney general in 20, a judge, in fact, ordered eric trump that he needed to sit for

the deposition. he did end up testifying in this case. but, again, the new york attorney general's filing to the court arguing why she now needs depositions from former president trump and his two other adult kids, that is due from tish james' office tomorrow, and we expect that to be a public court-facing filing tomorrow in new york. that filing will include new details about the seriousness and scale of the investigation into trump and his family business. so watch this space. family business so watch this space.

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well, as we've been talking about tonight, as we've been talking about for months, tomorrow the united states senate will finally begin debating voting rights protections. the senate is going to consider a combination of two bills that have already passed the house, the freedom to vote act and john lewis act. they'll bundle it to allow them

to get around an initial republican filibuster. what happens after that, i don't know. we've previously been told to expect a vote on that tomorrow, but that's now been pushed back. we're not sure when the vote will happen, but the debate will start tomorrow. that's going to do it for us for now though. that's going it for us tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next. senate democrats are set to begin debate on new voting rights protections today, even in the face of almost certain failure. the questions are why is chuck schumer forging ahead? what's the plan here? plus, we're learning dramatic new details about the hostage standoff inside a synagogue near dallas and how the rabbi and others were able to escape from the gunman. the question is why did this happen in the first place? and former president trump was asked what republicans should do if they take back congress? it seems he had little to offer by way of specifics. the question is does he have any actual id