the building was designed by george post, from an architectural firm in new york.ot of them subcontractors the architect was actually controlled out of new york. we have more of a global look to our state capital than most of the other state capitals that you will see. wisconsin goes back to 1836. at that time wisconsin was part of michigan, then michigan wanted to be their own state. but to set up our own territory, we called ourselves wisconsin. it's an indian word that means the galvanizing of water. we have gathered over 15,000 lakes. we sent our paperwork to washington d.c. approved us, and the president sends ward back here that he had appointed henry dodged to be our first leader. mr. dad was a gentleman from missouri who moved to wisconsin a few years earlier he came to wisconsin to become rich. we find lead in our hills, all kind of minors come rushing to wisconsin to make a fortune. everyone quickly digs holes into the side of the hill. and if they didn't find lead in their whole day would live here. it's a look at those miners, they live like badgers. th

"the washington post" reported that during george w.ush's state of the union address, for every minute of his speech there were 29 seconds of applause. so that is a lot of interruptions in a state of the union address. many people watch. president trump commanded an audience of 46 million americans during his 2018 state of the union. that ranks ninth in terms of viewership of a presidential address before congress, and that includes all presidential addresses. not all presidential addresses are state of the union speeches. president clinton's address in 1993 was most-watched, with 65 million people tuning in. no surprise that those numbers have declined, and probably will continue to decline, if for no other reason citizens have a lot of other options when presidents are on television. those of us of a certain age will remember that when the president was on television, there were no other options, because there were three stations and each one has the president of the united states giving an address. if that seems like a long time ago,

of the book in a really interesting and unique way because of what the country was going through post-georgethink it is about america that that book will stay consistent, unfortunately, for a while? >> you know, i think a lot of it is that people are very afraid to have honest conversations about race. it's been such a fraught, you know, subject. unfortunately, that means that people put it off unthe they feel like they can't anymore, especially white people. what happens then is something happens like the horrific killings of george floyd and breonna taylor and people realize, oh, we have to talk about. this and my book is one that talks about how to make that a little easier when people turn to it. it's sad because i want people to talk about this so we can move to action. this is one of the earlier steps is figuring out what's going on and talking about it. i would hope in 2020 we would be further along, but we're not, that's why i do the work. >> trevor: there's also no denying that your writing has made a lot of people feel uncomfortable, a lot of white people, a lot of white men in par

notes are part -- no small part host: washington's nightmare, that's the opinion piece in the post. georgeashington had a hand in the design of the capital. here's a look. [video clip] >> after choosing the site for the capital in 1791 and laying the cornerstone in 1793 it was his desire that the building be completely done and ready for congress to occupy in 1800. >> his vision of the building was something large, magnificent, to command respect. make americans of every state love their country better and he hoped that it would be first in the affections of all americans. that's his legacy. >> while his aspirations have been more than realized, his hopes for the congress house being finished by 1800 would go unfulfilled due to construction, labor, and weather delays. as you look at the capital as it is today, it does not resemble at all the building in its early years of occupancy, when the house, senate, and supreme court all shared space in a small box like structure on the northern or senate side, from 1800 until a similar side house wing was completed just to the south in 1807. it wou

just as millions of liberal democrats no doubt were shocked by the post george floyd looting. but this is the digital age. the folks in the middle don't assign the debate. the resistance does. the country needs more than anything else right now and immediate bipartisan embrace of zero-tolerance for politically motivated violence of any sort." senator cassidy. speak up i am totally accepting of that, although i would add to it, i'm pretty concerned. i'm real concerned. and so, i would say even when you push the right on the left of center, you are still with those who do not tolerate violence. we are americans first. and it is only the fringe that would embrace it. we are always united against the fringe. they wish to impose their narrow vision of how the world would work upon the rest of us. those are called fascists. and that is not what our constitution is about. so, we need to work together, for us as americans, solutions for americans, but frankly also, to protect our freedoms. the more people abuse our freedoms, the less freedom that you have. one more thing. as i listen

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in 1893, "washington post" reporter george alfred townson visited tudor place. he asked her whether a clever woman should submit to an inferior husband. to this, britannia replied, "i believe that women by putting themselves forward in the world do not elevate but degrade themselves. it's a woman's part in life to live where she loves." while this statement might be construed by historian today as anti-feminist, it further illustrates the mindset in which britannia kennon was raced and the philosophy to which she adhered. britannia never remarried after her husband's death in 1844 and during that 67-year period of her widowhood, she was afforded by privileges not typically granted to married women at the time. her son-in-law said as a widow, she received no less than three proposalses of marriage. britannia kennon has been called the first constitutor of tudor place and it's a title well deserved. in addition to providing these reminiscences to her grandchildren, she labeled many of the objects in the family's collection, especially pieces that her parents acqui

post. but there is no advice along those lines. >> george christiansen -- will -- youoted false claims don't want to comment on trump, but will you condemn conspiracy theories being promoted by members of your government? >> australia is a free country. there is such a thing as freedom of speech in this country. and that will continue. p.m. trudeau: hello, everyone. we begin by addressing what unfolded in washington, d.c. this week. what we witnessed was an assault on democracy by violent rioters incited by the current president and other politicians. as shocking, deeply disturbing and frankly saddening as that event remains, we have also seen this week that democracy is resilient in america, our closest ally and neighbor. violence has no place in our societies. extremists will not succeed in overruling the will of the people. as canadians, we have all been reflecting on our own country. something i spoke with the premiers about last night. about the fact that democracy is not automatic. it takes work every day. about what a real accomplishment it is to maintain a political system in which t

he follows a line which began with george washington, the first president and the only president elected by unanimous posthe is followed by thomas jefferson. abraham lincoln, whose name stands as a symbol of compassion and humanity. from their home in nearby georgetown on this day, january 20, 1961, mr. kennedy and his wife come to the white house where they are greeted by president eisenhower. vice president nixon, vice president elect johnson and their wives were guest of the white house. for many weeks, the outgoing and incoming administration's have worked together to ensure the orderly transfer of government. mr. eisenhower and mr. kennedy rise to the capital for the inaugural ceremony. the completion of this transition. undaunted by the usually -- unusually cold weather the crowd began gathering early in the morning. the dome of the capital, honored guests are assembling to take their places. members of congress. ♪ former president harry truman and family. poets robert frost and marion anderson. two of many guests. embers of the kennedy family -- members of the kennedy family. justices of the suprem

longer a political force because it's obvious that he is not going to act like george bush or every other president in his post presidency and to be a statesman like and stay out of politics he plans to do the reverse. john you know you're one of them the best legal minds i know when it comes to national security and the institutions of our government and how to set up various new institutions in times of war in times of conflict how to deal with you know detainees how to deal with national security decision making and i think one of the questions that's going to haunt us for a very long time is did our institutions really hold or did we just get lucky did we come very close to seeing you know an autocratic takeover in suspension of democracy as we know it and have known it and and and because those answers at a fork in the road lead you in very different directions and so i my question is one did institutions hold and do you still have confidence in the system or do we need to wake up and say guess what we became very we came very close to seeing this come undone and we now have to go back and look at what we

were directed at the families of your congressman hakeem jeffries and at george stephanopoulos. 85-year-old robert lemke posted , be ready for work. then on the day of the couple right, he's accused of texting congressman jeffries. a message saying quote, your brother is putting your entire family at risk with his lies in other words. we are armed and you're by your house. you had better have a word with him. the fbi says, the message including, included a pitcher of his mother's neighborhood. his wife later receiving a text telling her to quote, calm your husband on. we saw on the hidden camera, he was quite stirred up. the complete added that lemke sent a message to george stephanopoulos the same day. think of the journalist words are putting you and your family at risk. we are nearby, armed, and ready. the fbi arrested lemke at his home and bepoint this morning. a woman who lives two doors down told us, lemke has always been a bit of a stranger in the tightknit neighborhood. >> lived here for 10 years and he's pretty quiet. he stays home and he's alone tonight. we don't really know him like we know our othe

morning joe" debut, cofounder of the lincoln project and a contributing columnist to "the washington post," george conway is with us this morning. what a day to begin with mr. conway. we begin with president trump's remarkable hour-long phone call with the officials in georgia where he urged them to find enough votes to overturn the state's election results. president trump can be heard pleading with georgia's secretary of state brad raffensberger and the legal counsel brian germany to alter the vote count. he makes vague threats to them both if they don't comply. do we remember that? the call which took place on saturday was first reported by "the washington post." nbc news has obtained a recording of the conversation. >> so look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state and flipping the state is a great testament to our country. the people of georgia are angry. the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know? that you have recalculated because the 2,234 absentee ballots they're all

conservative lawyer, co-founder of the lincoln project and contributing columnist to "the washington post," george conway joins us this morning. well, a lot to get to, joe. i think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u.s. president to be impeached twice after vice president mike pence informed at this point the house speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. in a letter to speaker pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the vice president wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. i question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. the house convenes at 9:00 a.m. debate on the impeachment resolution is set for 12:30. the vote will be around 3:00 p.m. today. just one house republican, illinois adam kinzinger voted in support of the vice president invoking the 25th amendment, however, there are at least five republicans, including kinzinger who have come out in s

george h. w. bush's foreign policy initiatives at the start of the post cold war world. center for presidential history in southern methodist university, and the george h. w. bush presidential library, cohost of this event in november 2017. >> good evening. my name is tom knock, and i'm a member of the department of history. i served a couple semesters ago as director at the center for presidential history, and i can't tell you what a delight it is for me to welcome you tonight on this very special occasion. before we get underway, i want to express our appreciation to our friends at the george

george w. bush and a "washington post" opinion columnist, and "washington post" opinion columnist gene robinsonome, both. michael, first to you. you have the distinction of having written george w. bush's inaugural address. i wanted to play a little bit of his and barack obama's inaugural speeches, hitting on themes of unity and healing the country. >> my solemn pledge, i will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. >> starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. >> so contrast that with donald trump's american carnage speech and you get the importance, michael, of setting a different tone in this time. >> absolutely. it's going to be a moment of high drama not just because of the place it's given but because that place was occupied just days ago by enemies of democracy. i think he needs to speak words of healing at a moment of profound division in our country. the best inaugural addresses when you look at the history had that theme of national unity, of outreach, of common and shared future. and i think that's th

host: george russell posts, "libertarians have been dealing with this for years.e can start all the parties he wants until we start getting third parties on the debate stage, it is pointless." what do you think, read? patriot party or no? caller: history might repeat itself when abraham lincoln started the republican party into the -- and the whigs, the rinos of the day, moved to the side. we will never get elected again because of this fraudulent election done i the deep state. has biden said anything about straightening out the voting machines? of course not because he was in on it. it serves the democratic party keep this cheat rolling along. president trump should do it. there are a lot of good democrats listening who would join it because they are frustrated. host: where was there enough irregularity or fraud to make a difference in this election? caller: c-span might bring on dr. shar might. i forget his first name. he testified in front of the statehouses houses of all the swing states wrought on by rudy giuliani an hour and a half -- brought on by rudy giu

. >>> a new warning from george conway in a "washington post" op-ed saying donald trump must face the acts detailing exactly how president biden's department of justice can investigate trump's suspected misconduct now that he's a private citizen. conway writes to deal with trump and to do so fairly the attorney general designate merrick garland once confirmed will need to use the mechanism of a special counsel. indeed given the astonishing breadth of trump's wrongdoing garland may need to appoint more than one to get the job done swiftly and thoroughly. joining me now is donald trump's former personal attorney michael cohen, author of "disloyal" and host of the podcast "mea culpa." did i say best-sell bok "disloyal." good to see you. >> alex, what you're just doing now, thank you. >> thank you. within that op-ed, michael, conway asks could you imagine one prosecutor in charge of address trump's finances and taxes, his hush money payments, obstruction of the mueller investigation, the ukraine scandal and post-election misconduct for starters. do you, michael, agree, it would take multi

george w. bush sent the first post-9/11 prisoners to the u.s. naval base in guantanamo bay, cuba.the grim anniversary comes as human rights advocates continue to demand the closure of the u.s. military prison, where 40 people continue to be indefinitely detained -- most without being charged or receiving a fair trial. in a statement, the center for constitutional rights urged the biden administration to close the prison, saying -- "today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of muslim men being unlawfully imprisoned at guantÁnamo. even in a national landscape of brutal and extreme incarceration, the detentions of the men at guantÁnamo are unprecedented and yet largely invisible by now." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered the construction of some 800 houses for israeli settlers in the west bank. palestinian authorities have accused israel of racing against time to build illegal settlements before president trump leaves office next week. in 2019, the trump administration said israeli settlements did not violate international law, despite a 2016 u.n. resolu

it's a remarkable post presidency of george h. w. bush. she insists that her name will be on that. so in the crowd tonight are a number of people from back home who have driven here to hear jean speak, family, friends, coworkers. so, back in martin's bergh, and mexico, they are still pretty proud of her. just between us, i am as well. please welcome my friend, jean becker. [applause] [applause] >> it is kind of odd after that wonderful introduction. i feel bad that the first thing i'm going to say is, when steve picked me up at the airport yesterday, we were not even out of the parking garage when he said, don't you dare tell them that time that we -- and i do know stuff about him. and to his coworkers who are here, i can be bought. am i already in trouble? there we go. this is one of my favorite pictures of president bush and me. oddly, we are at a duke basketball game. for any of you who are college basketball fans, probably seven or eight years ago, when president bush had already been diagnosed with parkinson's, and was in a wheelchair, and his health was declining, coach kay w

overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warming of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of. $11780.00 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is why donald trump has refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is

george h. w. bush's foreign policy initiatives at the start of the post cold war world. the center for presidential history in southern methodist university, and the george h. w. bush presidential library, cohost of this event in november 2017. >> good evening. my name is tom knock, and i'm a member of the department of history. i served a couple semesters ago as director at the center for presidential history, and i can't tell you what a delight it is for me to welcome you tonight on this very special occasion. before we get underway, i want to express our appreciation to our friends at the george w. bush presidential library who are co-sponsoring this event with us, as well as c-span, which is taping tonight's lecture. we are also very happy to have with us tonight general patrick, director of the bush library. i want to also direct your attention to a major event we had on december 7th, when peter baker of the new york times will be a guest to talk about his book obama the call of history. we are also happy to tell you that the dude a trip for june 2018 is fully subscr

george h.w. bush's start of the post cold war world. center for presidential history at southern methodist university and the george h.w. bush presidential library co-hosted this])íññr event in nr 2017. >> good evening. my name is tom knock and i'm a member of the department of history and i served as interim director for the center of president that will history and i can't tell what you a delight it is on this very special occasion. i want to express our appreciation to our friends at the george h.w. bush and to c-span which is taping tonight's lecture. we're also very happy to have with us tonight the director of the bush library. i want to direct your attention, also, to a major event when peter baker of "the new york times" will be the guest of cph to talk about his book "obama: the call of history." and we're also glad to tell you that the d-day trip for june 2018 is fully subscribed but we're taking names for 2014 and there is a dedicated scholarship fund for this program so that no student should miss a chance to miss this journ

overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of. 11780. which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is why donald trump refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is remarkable i

audience for tuning in and "washington post" live will be back tomorrow morning with continued coverage of the transition with jack goldsmith of veteran of the george justice department and co-author of after trump, reconstructing the presidency. join us at 11:00 a.m. eastern and once again i'm allen nakashima with the "washington post" live.

george -- georgia. nbc news confirming a "washington post" report that president trump placed a separate call to georgia-election officials pressuring them to, and i quote, find the fraud while trying to overturn the results there. i mean, how do you expect this thread of the story to come into play, alicia, as congress considers impeachment? >> well, we already know who president trump is. he's been telling us who he is since he took out a full-page ad in "the new york times" calling for the death penalty for the exonerated five. but i think the real question here is what is the biden administration going to do, moving forward? and my organization, the black to the future action fund, last february, put out a black agenda, talking about how it is we make black lives matter, from city hall to congress. and attacking white nationalism as the largest threat to this democracy was one of our pillars. what we have to be able to do, first and foremost, is understand, with clear eyes, what racism is and what it isn't. and that way, we can design solutions to actually address it. we don't have anything to do with people

the department posted this photo on its facebook page of 12-year-old george lee moses. her body was found next to highway 101 along petaluma boulevard at santa rosa. police say she disappeared two weeks before. they also shared this police sketch. witnesses say they last saw her with a 25 to 30-year-old black man but no one came forward to it to defy him back then. the county is offering a reward of up to $2500. >>> the new coronavirus variant in the uk could be more deadly. it is already shown to be more transmissible but a new report is now showing infection with the variant is associated with a high risk of death. even still the report says the overall risk of death from the virus is low. m h, rain slick roads in walnut creek, s drains, they have not this wint the rain came down pretty hard in san francisco earlier today, plenty of people to got their umbrellas for the first time in a while. >>> the storm dumped some fresh powder on the sierra. now the snow leading up, the blue skies coming out. they have dropped the chain controls along i-80 and highway 50 after wor

how facebook the indian world of george washington, that fascinated me as well no question, world war ii has been several conflicts cheaper she the century really post world war ii era, obviously you have to understand were leading into it what came out of it to understand the time in which we live really arise of the united states was a great power before the second world war became the superpower after so understanding the cauldron because he went through and how it changed who we are, how we think, how lonely is really kind of indispensable grounding that you have to ask you want to be active and immigrants time. >> is larson one of those writers or historians that if you read a book, you read it? >> he is an absolutely superb writer and, i mean sometimes it's almost like reading a novel. the descriptions, and yet , it's all footnoted and it's, but he had a real talent and for, and again, seizing on something that to look at more closely, we had a lot of really fine biographies of winston churchill. robert andrews most recent one is probably the best but this idea of sending out a year, is another i can't even remember the author's name is the sa

notes are part -- no small part host: washington's nightmare, that's the opinion piece in the post. georgehington had a hand in the design of the capital. here's a look. [video clip] >> after choosing the site for the capital in 1791 and laying the cornerstone in 1793 it was his desire that the building be completely done and ready for congress to occupy in 1800. >> his vision of the building was something large, magnificent, to command respect. make americans of every state love their country better and he hoped that it would be first in the affections of all americans. that's his legacy. >> while his aspirations have been more than realized, his hopes for the congress house being finished by 1800 would go unfulfilled due to construction, labor, and weather delays. as you look at the capital as it is today, it does not resemble at all the building in its early years of occupancy, when the house, senate, and supreme court all shared space in a small box like structure on the northern or senate side, from 1800 until a similar side house wing was completed just to the south in 1807. it would

posts. so, dean rusk remained secretary of state. mik george bundy remained national security adviser. and robert mcnamara remained secretary of defense. from the testimony of many, many people at the time, johnson was in absolute awe of these men. he felt terribly insecure in foreign affairs. as much as a master as he was in domestic affairs, he was a neophyte, a tender foote whfoot came to foreign policies. notice kennedy is killed in november of 1963. that means johnson became president almost exactly a year before the next presidential election, which meant that he had to start running for office almost immediately. the area which he knew he was weakest, the area in which a republican opponent would be able to score the most points against him was in foreign policy, his utter lack of experience in foreign policy. one event which everyone forgets was the communist chinese explosion of a nuclear bomb in 1964. as you might imagine, this increased the threats by communist china to the west. there's a racist dimension to this as well. in the minds of most american policy makers, the sov

recording of a phone call between president trump and george's secretary of state is raising legal questions. in the audio released by the washington post the president urged secretary of state brad raffensperger to find him enough votes to overturn the election. >> look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> president trump also threatened brad raffensperger with criminal consequences if he refused to pursue the false claims of voter fraud. the phone call lasted about one hour with brad raffensperger ending the conversation by thanking the president for his time. >>> nancy pelosi was reelected speaker of the house today is the 117th congress convened for the first time. she won 216 votes narrowly beating the 209 votes cast for kevin mccarthy of bakersfield. the next two years may be her final term. she will be faced with the challenge of having the slimmest house majority by either party two decades. >>> a battle is brewing among republicans on capitol hill as some gop lawmakers say they plan to challenge the results of the electoral college during the ce

post." among their well-wishers was president george h.w. bush. it was an unconventional marriage, but both got what they wanted. viola had a charming companion for her busy life, and albrecht had access to some of the most influential people in washington, d.c. two decades later, that unconventional marriage came to an abrupt end with viola draft's sudden death. and as detective jackson examined the house, he found evidence that her death was anything but natural. >> i started documenting the scene. then, i went upstairs. she was laying supine on the bathroom floor and i noticed the bathroom was in disarray. there was makeup on the floor. it looked like there had been a shade pulled off the wall. i started to examine the body. i touched the bottom of her feet. she was cold to the touch. it appeared that rigor mortis had set in. i worked my way up to the head. it looked like she might have some trauma around her neck and possibly some hemorrhaging in her eyes. >> what is that a sign of, in your experience? >> the brain losing oxygen. you see it mo

posts. so dean rusk remained secretary of state, mick george bundy remained national security adviser and most important robert mcnamara remained secretary of defense. as we know from the testimony of many, many people at the time, johnson was in awe, absolute a wey of these men. he felt terribly insecure in foreign affairs as much of a master as he was in domestic affairs, he was a neophyte, a tenderfoot when it came to foreign policy and he felt he needed the services of these brilliant and worldry advisers. notice kennedy is killed in november of 1963. that means johnson became president exactly a year before the next presidential election which meant that he had to start running for office almost immediately. the area in which he knew he was weakest and which is his advisers knew he was weakest, the area a republican opponent would be able to score the most points against him was in northern policy, his utter lack of experience in foreign policy. one event that everybody seems to forgot in retrospect which was terribly important at the time was the communist chinese explosion of a nuclear

. >>> we have posted the entire hour plus long phone call between the president and the george geor georgiaecretary of state online. listen to it and get the latest reporting on the fallout at nbcnews.com. >>> just ahead, how should congress respond to the president's message to the georgia secretary of state? i will talk to virginia democratic senator and former vice presidential candidate tim kane up next. >>> a slow vaccine rollout. concerns that a surge in holiday travel will mean another surge in hospitalizations. [ fizz ] joining meeting. [ coughing ] [ gasping ] skip to cold relief fast with alka seltzer plus severe power fast fizz. dissolves quickly, instantly ready to start working. ♪ oh, what a relief it is so fast. >>> welcome back. we are not even a week into 2021 and we are facing down two days that could fundamentally alter the dynamics of the senate and of the republican party itself. first, we will have tomorrow's senate runoff in georgia. that, of course, is the moment of truth in the fight for senate control. the day after that, comes the certification of the electoral vot

overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i use one of. $11780.00 wells which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong donald trump refused to accept the loss the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this cal

audio recording of president trump talking to george's secretary of state is raising a lot of legal questions tonight. in the audio released by washington post, he urged secretary brad roethlisberger to find him enough votes to overturn election results. >> will look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, one more than we have. because we won the state. >> in the call, he also threatened brad rothenberg or with criminal consequences if he refused to pursue false claims of voter fraud. it lasted one hour, with brad roethlisberger thanking the president for his time. >>> nancy pelosi was reelected speaker of the house as the 117th congress convened for the first time. she wanted 216 votes, nearly beating kevin mccarthy of bakersfield. the next few years may be his may be her final term. she's faced with the challenge of having the slimmest house majority in 20 years. democrats are in control of only 222 seats. joe biden reacted, saying a trailblazing leader, one of the most effective and accomplished legislators in national history, i have no doubt that speaker nancy pelosi will continue to lead the house with dignity, an