republicans need to listen -- stop listening to donald john trump. host: what are your expectations for the new congress? caller: i would like for kevin mccarthy to step back and to let jeffrey from new york, the democratic takeover of that. host: you mean the democrat to take over as house speaker? caller: yes. and that's my line right there. and also, republicans need to stop listening to donald john trump. host: you made that point. when it comes to his campaign to become house speaker it was on saturday that kevin mccarthy, talked about his current campaign to make that happen. [video clip] >> how any votes do you need and what's the strategy converting them? >> the difference here, i've been leader for four years some of those election cycles we have only won seats. our goal was to stop the biden agenda, win the majority and fire nancy pelosi. we achieved all of those. if you watch other republicans, in the senate they lost, the governors lost. we are the only line of defense. what we need to do is find a way to come together. we had our primary

representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states, an article of impeachment against donald johnes the first ex-president to face an impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: good morning. all eyes on washington today and the start of former president trump's second impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: the lead impeachment manager, congressman jamie raskin, has been holding daily meetings with the rest of the managers, and they want to incorporate visual elements as much as they can. jamie raskin: thank you very much, thank you. man: thank you for all you do. jamie raskin: thank you so much. have a great day you guys. sarah b? sarah bloom raskin: yeah. jamie raskin: i just thought of something i wanted to say. i just want to make sure that everybody is together when it happens because there is some very disturbing video images that are coming. so i don't want anybody watching alone. carter: oh gosh, that's ominous. jamie raskin: well, america needs to know. (footsteps pattering) i woke up with henry the 5th on my mind. all things are ready if our minds be so. we're gonna pass lincoln's cottage on

cbs news has learned the democratic-controlled house ames committee will release former president donald john trump's tax returns on friday. the redacted documents are expected to include returns filed between 2015 and 2020, the years he ran for and served as president. well, the fallout on the political fallout surrounding newly elected congressman george santos is growing. the new york republican has yet to be sworn into office but tonight very increasing calls for him to resign after he confessed to lying about his education, work history, and his family background. here's cbs's caitlin huey-burns. >> reporter: in various interviews, the congressman-elect confessed to a string of lies about his background. >> i disappointed anyone by resume embellishment, i am sorry. >> reporter: santos told the "new york post" he did not graduate from college, despite claiming degrees -- claiming degrees from college college and n.y.u. i'm embarrassed and sorry, he said. we do stupid things in life. he also admitted he never worked directly for goldman sachs and citigroup, credentials he touted on the cam

general, well known watching out their life in london, wilson had on the program for me as president donald john takes aim in the constitution as he repeats, unfounded claims of election fraud. and the devastating tell of russia's more in ukraine we have from residents living in snug haven't ruins, as the cost of rebuilding right. ah. with that for about the last week, it's been a chill breeze blowing as an easterly after western rush across most of northern europe getting colder and colder and colder. that breeze is still blowing, but it's coming to less aggressive over the next day or so. so the skies are leaden, sometimes full of a little bit snow or cold rain. but the real aggressive when is an older now coming in for monday and tuesday, with a massive snow for norway and eventually come down through the nor see cross the british house already as an early warning out of significance day for the scottish hottest. the high grounds for england, for example, and even london, that cold day will be felt the temperature dropping from 7 hostile down to a persistent freezing on thursday. then he slow

that we are convinced that multiple criminal offenses took place by donald trump and john eastman, and potentially others. and we laid them out very clearly. delivered interference in the cunning of the federal government proceeding. that's the whole point of stop the steal, go in, break it, up and make it impossible for us to proceed. conspiracy to defraud the united states, exchanging the real, honest, authentic presidential election for a counterfeit election with fake electors, and violent force. the filing of these false statements with the government, with the archives, with the congress in the electors and the insurrection itself, assisting and aiding and abetting and giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist, so of course we have to turn over the information that we have got to the department of justice, but we are planning to make the vast majority of it available to the entire public, this is democracy and the people have the right to the information. >> i think that is good, except the general public doesn't read tens of thousands of pages of things, they like the execut

second, we believe there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j. trump, john eastman and others for violating title 18, section 371. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words, to make an agreement to impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful functions of the united states government by deceitful or dishonest means. the former president did not engage in a plan acting alone, he -- entered into formal and informal agreements with several other individuals who have -- assisted him with his criminal objectives. our report describes in detail the actions of numerous co-conspirators who agreed with or participated in the trump plan to defeat the certification of president biden's electoral victory. that said, the subcommittee does not attempt to determine all of the tensile participants in the conspiracy as our understanding of the roles of many individuals may be incomplete even today because they refused to answer our questions. we trust that the department of justice will be able to form a far more complete picture throug

today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump, john eastman, for violations of the statute. the whole purpose and obvious effect to obstruct come influence this official proceeding. the central moment of transfer of power in the united states. amy: the house january 6 select committee has unanimously voted to refer donald trump to the justice department to face criminal charges, including aiding an insurrection as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election. we will get response and's >> no man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again. he is unfit for any office. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house select committee investigating the january 6, 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol has wrapped up its 18-month probe by recommending criminal charges against former president donald trump. at the committee's final public hearing monday, maryland democratic congressmember jamie rask

republicans need to listen -- stop listening to donald john trump. host: what are your expectations for the new congress? caller: i would like for kevin mccarthy to step back and to let jeffrey from new york, the democratic takeover of that. host: you mean the democrat to take over as house speaker? caller: yes. and that's my line right there. and also, republicans need to stop listening to donald john trump. host: you made that point. when it comes to his campaign to become house speaker it was on saturday that kevin mccarthy, talked about his current campaign to make that happen. [video clip] >> how any votes do you need and what's the strategy converting them? >> the difference here, i've been leader for four years some of those election cycles we have only won seats. our goal was to stop the biden agenda, win the majority and fire nancy pelosi. we achieved all of those. if you watch other republicans, in the senate they lost, the governors lost. we are the only line of defense. what we need to do is find a way to come together. we had our primary

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the judge concluded that former president donald trump and john eastman likely violated two criminal statutes. this is the starting point to our analysis today. the first group we invoked a referral title 15 seven c which makes it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding of the united states government. the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump, john eastman and others for violations of the statute. the whole purpose and obvious effect of trump's scheme were to obstruct, influence and impede this official proceeding. the central moment for the transfer of power in the united states. second, we believe there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j. trump, john eastman and others for violating title 18 section 371. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words to make an agreement to impair, obstruct or defeat the lawful function of the united states government by dec

. >> we washington a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from donald john trump.>> joyce? >> took the cold anti-septic language of the law, the language that defines crimes, and then this overwhelming event that we all observe and manage to pull out key points in the insurrection, and they put faces on the testimony, on the narrative that the american people heard. somehow they managed to take this overwhelming event and make it comprehensible, something that people who wanted to could wrap their arms around. i think it's the video and hearings that ultimately tell the story. >> gene? >> one thing we learned is that the plot began before the insurrection, that donald trump began this plot to claim victory and remain in power before the election even took place, and i think that should weigh on the decision of the justice department whether or not to move forward with charges. >> yeah. many points, gene zeroing in on one that's important. if you did it before you knew the results, then you weren't confused, you just never cared about the results, which is putin sty

. >> a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump, john eastman, and others for violations of this statute. we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j. trump, john eastman, and others. >> criminal referrals of donald j. trump and others. >> okay. so the "and others." on one hand, it felt vague. now jamie raskin, who is you just heard there, he obviously told cnn that there were other people involved but you were stymied, was the word he used because more than 30 people plead the fifth, claimed executive privilege. do you think any of these others are cooperating with the department of justice? >> i think the department of justice has greater powers than even congress does to compel these people to participate and gather more information. and, so, we wanted to point them down that path without necessarily naming the specifics because we were stymied. there were a lot of people we wanted to get testimony from to build the evidence around that we just weren't able to get access to. >> so, in the

the judge concluded that both former president donald trump and john eastman likely violated two federal criminal statutes. this is the starting point for our analysis today. the first criminal statute we invoked for referral therefore is title 18 section 1512 c, which makes it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct, influence, or impede any official proceeding of the united states government. we believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today, and assembled throughout our hearings, warrant a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump, john eastman, and others for violations of this statute. the whole purpose and obvious effect of trump's scheme were to obstruct, influence, and impede this official proceeding, the central moment for the lawful transfer of power, in the united states. second, we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j. trump, john eastman, and others, for violating title 18 section 371. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words, to make an agreement to impa

i think we're not fully, we're both anticipated, we're not fully prepared for, is the trial of donald johnere's going to be a trial. and that, i don't know if everybody is fully ready to realize what that is going to look like. >> there is no doubt that if that were to happen, that would up-end the entire political universe. and if you talk to legal experts, they agree on one thing, that this former president faces more legal jeopardy than perhaps any other president in u.s. history. and so i think that it would, you know, certainly be a diversion from all of these other headlines that we are discussing, the work of congress, the work of the white house, and the economy, as well as the war in ukraine. >> chuck, you said trial singular. >> we're talking indictments plural here. it is what the federal investigation and the special counsel has been running on two different things, right, on the mar-a-lago documents piece, and on the january 6th piece, but there is also that investigation down in georgia, where a lot of legal experts have said he didn't think, maybe in more legal jeopardy in g

one of the key pressure points perhaps the key pressure point that john eastman and donald trump togethertry to attack o january 6th, was created by th 135 year old electoral count act. a piece of legislation tha governs precisely how congress counts presidential electors how they elect the president and it was passed a decade after the contested election o 1876 now, it had all kinds of problems that are long - nobody thought to exploit them in this fashion until basically, john eastman and donald trump. but now, thanks to a series of provisions that were talke away in that omnibus spendin bill congress passed last week the electoral count act, the thing that they gave this this little bit of daylight to tr to push through, that has been reformed with the clear intention o making sure that neither donal trump nor anybody else can use it to try, ever try to overtur an election again. joining me now is -- professor of law and political science in ucla, founding th election law block what's been calling consistently and loudl for formal electoral count act rick, this has been somethin we hav

the judge concluded that both former president donald trump and john eastman likely violated two federal criminal statutes. this is the starting point for our analysis today. the first criminal statute we invoke for referral, therefore, is title 18, section 1512c, makes it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding of the united states government. we believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump, john eastman, and others for violations of this statute. the whole purpose and obvious affect of trump's scheme were to obstruct, influence and impede this official proceeding, the central moment for the lawful transfer of power in the united states. second, we believe there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president trump, john eastman and others, for violating section 371. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words, to make an agreement to impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful

second, we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j trump, john eastman and others, for violating title 18, section three 71. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words, to make an agreement to impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful functions of the united states government by deceitful were due saunas means. third, we make a referral based on title 18, section 1001, which makes an unlawful to knowingly and willfully make materially false statements to the federal government. the evidence clearly suggests that president trump conspired with others to submit slates of fake electors to congress and the national archives. the fourth and final statute we invoke the referral is china 18, section 23 83. the statute applies to anyone who insights, assists, or engages in insurrection against the united states of america and anyone who gives aid or comfort to an insurrection. >> leading off our discussion on this historic night, we are lucky to be joined by andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former

those words that we heard yesterday, donald j trump, john eastman, and others.ers part that we have been wondering about for a while now. tomorrow we are going to know a lot more about and others, and i think back to the special prosecutor, prosecuting the watergate case involving richard nixon,, richard nixon and members of the administration, over 40 of them, indicted and conducted of crime. this number can start to approach that. >> that is right, the and others, you know, i think that it is something that we do not right now have a good enough handle on exactly what that number is. whatever that number is we know that there has been a lot of internal disagreement on the committee about how much to focus on the and others, versus focusing on trump. you know, i think what we will learn tomorrow is that it is trump, plus these others, and the evidence against the others is going to be important ultimately in a case against donald trump should one be broad by jack smith, because the way that prosecutors work is by prosecuting the and others, the lower fish first

released transcripts from interviews with 34 witnesses including some of donald trump's key allies, including trump attorney john who was also named in the criminal referrals to the justice department with donald trump. others include justice department official jeffrey clark, former national security adviser michael flynn, and former trump campaign advisor roger stone. oath keepers leader's -- leader, elmer stewart rhodes and infowars alex jones, many invoked their fifth amendment right against self incrimination to just about every single question the committee asked. joining us now andrew weizmann former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division and eastern district of new york, he is a professor of practice at nyu law school neil katyal former acting -- and joann banks who served as an assistant watergate prosecutor, and a -- and is a co-host of sisters in law podcast, all three are msnbc legal analyst. andrew, i just wanted to do a quick note on the fifth amendment since i know people are puzzling over how you can take the fifth amendment when you are asked where you went to college for

through and discussed their plans for the criminal referrals against the former president, donald trump, and what john eastman could be for as well. now we can report the three referrals they're likely to put against donald trump on conspiracy, insurrection and obstructing an official proceeding. another person likely to see a criminal referral today is trump lawyer, john eastman. you're right, hallie. the architect of the fake electors scheme and also at the center of the pressure campaign against former vice president, mike pence, and other key state level officials. this committee detailing all of these different threads of the january 6th plot over the course of multiple hearings and now tieing them together today each member during this meeting will do what we've seen them do over the course of these many hearings, which is each taking a specific thread and showcasing it to the american people, continuing to highlight evidence we've seen presented. of course, that will all ultimately come in the final report that we're going to see released on wednesday, but certainly, we expect to see them talk

the entir country aside from participant in the mob who seamen bothered by the mob's actions donald trump and john eastman. john eastman writes an email after the attack, to the general counsel -- greg jacob basically being lik well, the two hour window of t be under the law has bee breached so throughout the law -- had been violated already, b allowing debate beyond two hours -- vice president pence should no longer be concerned that wha president trump and eastman ha pressured him to do also would violate it this really jumped out to me renata, almost as a sort o character evidence about who john eastman was and how he wa operating in tandem with trump at this time >> yeah. you know, there is a wor lawyers you sometimes, disingenuous it is a very polite lure way o saying that somebody is full o crap and i think mr. eastman here was very disingenuous. because what he was essentiall telling pence all this time is i know that this violates th electoral count act and you ca just totally disregard it. that law, yes it is on the books and has been on the book for a long time, but you can just ignore t

justice department concerning former president donald trump and at least one of the lawyers john eastman, who advised trump before, during, and after the attempted overthrow of the government on january six last year. >> we believe the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j trump. john eastman and others. the dangerous assault on american constitutional and democracy that took place on january six, 2021, consists of hundreds of individual criminal offenses. most such crimes are already being prosecuted by the department of justice. we propose to the committee advancing referrals where the gravity of the specific offense, the severity of its actual harm, and the sensuality of the offender to the overall design of the unlawful scheme to overthrow the election compel us to speak. ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail in the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. >> ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail, and the ringleaders get a free pass.

but, there have been no charges leveled yet against donald trump or john eastman.nt to set forth the elements of these crimes and all of the evidence that is coming to the possession of our committee. laura: former vice president mike pence, the rioters were calling for him to be hanged. he said today that mr. trump was reckless, but seem to imply he was not necessarily criminal. wouldn't it be divisive to prosecuted former president? mr. raskin: first of all, reckless is the very least you could say of someone who responded when told his vice president mike pence was being subjected to a mob yelling "hang mike pence," and trump said in response, perhaps he deserves it. i think mike pence like the rest of us is a politician, he is running for president. he wants to do anything he can to scramble tondear himself to trump's millions of followers. i think all of the evidence -- donald trump was not just reckless, he was absolutely determined to overthrow the election and to knock out the constitutional order in order for him to seize the presidency. yeah, ihink it is

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>> well, you have to start with donald trump, john. e's no question that the committee established quite clearly that all of this happened because of donald trump with donald trump's knowledge and to some extent with what donald trump was hoping to accomplish. also, let's keep in mind the committee has been sort of clear about their list of the usual suspects. in fact, in their subpoena to donald trump they said we're particularly interested in your communications with jeffrey clark, john eastman, michael flynn, steve bannon, roger stone so i'd look to see if they named them as well. >> sara, when you go up on the hill, we do know congresswoman cheney has had a particular focus on donald trump so i think elie is right, you'd have to put that to the top of the list. is it going to be we believe crimes happened here and you should look at our report or we believe a, b, c and d committed crimes and here's the evidence. >> that's what we're waiting to see how specific they are going to get. what we know the committee is really under a time

you >> could hear you, john. >> donald trump, just let this sink in, is being accused of a multi partyacy when he was president to overturn an election and the accusations are backed up by more than 800 pages of what looks like credible evidence and witness testimony often under oath. you know, it's a momentous day. but with all that evidence, is there a direct link between donald trump and the actual violence on that day on capitol hill? >> i think there is. i think that's why when the january 6th committee had its final hearing on monday, they talked about insurrection. and one of the criminal referrals was for at least aiding and abetting those who actually did storm the capitol. i think that, based on all the evidence, all of the witnesses, all of the documents they looked at, you can draw a through line between the former president and what happened in the capital. and let's remember for those who want to criticize the report, and want to say, no, you can't do that through line, the evidence, the witnesses here. almost exclusively where people who wanted the former president to wi

entered the christomathy of the special services, in addition to the philby movie - this is donald mcqueen covergess johns, they worked for moscow from the interface offices and the british special services. anthony blunt, he rose to the rank of counselor to the king. all of them were recruited under the scheme of the dech, young promising aristocrats of the leftist persuasion. as you said to grow up and they grew up yes, it was their efforts that moscow learned in time about the start of work in the west on atomic weapons, something absolutely vital for russia, what is communist, what is the current one. and it was they who supplied moscow with information that made it possible to unfold the situation on the kursk bulge. actually. he has a rather short 4 years for this business trip. he was in the uk, he personally attracted more than 20 agents for cooperation. that is, beyond the cambrian five. there is another five. and also oxford. the group is mentioned somehow as they said that when you began to comprehend the language of the profession, the game was presented as a catalan, that is, this is his ide

services of course, the so-called cambridge five entered, in addition to kim philby - this is donald mclean covergess johncross, they worked for moscow from the interface office and british intelligence services and antonin blunt, he rose to the rank of adviser to the king. all of them were recruited under the scheme of the dech, young promising aristocrats of the leftist persuasion. as you said for growth and they grew up. yes, it was through their efforts that moscow learned in time about the start of work back in the west on atomic weapons, a thing absolutely vital for russia that communist what? and it was they who supplied moscow with information that made it possible to unfold the situation on the kursk bulge. in fact, he has a rather short 4 years for this business trip. he was in the uk , he personally attracted more than 20 agents for cooperation. that is, behind the cambridge five. there is another five. there is also an oxford group, the group is mentioned. you just said something like this, that when you began to comprehend for your professions, the game was presented.

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select committee investigating the insurrection is considering referrals for former president donald trump, john d.o.j. official jeffrey clark and rudy giuliani. norm eisen, good morning. thank you for sharing part of your sunday morning with us. norm served as the house judiciary committee special counsel during donald trump's first impeachment trial. what are the odds, norm, that the committee refers donald trump for prosecution? >> bore is, they're extremely high. the committee has accumulated an overwhelming amount of evidence that donald trump was personally involved in phony electoral slate saying he was the winner, not joe biden and those counterfeit documents were sent to congress and then personally involved in instigating the violence of january 6th. those facts do make out what have been termed a likely cite by a federal judge already and i think you're going to see criminal referrals on both of those counts. >> what kind of pressure do you think a criminal referral would put on the department of justice to potentially prosecute the former president or some of the allies we just menti

the entir country aside from participant in the mob who seamen bothered by the mob's actions donald trump and john eastman. john eastman writes an email after the attack, to the general counsel -- greg jacob basically being lik well, the two hour window of t be under the law has bee breached so throughout the law -- had been violated already, b allowing debate beyond two hours -- vice president pence should no longer be concerned that wha president trump and eastman ha pressured him to do also would violate it this really jumped out to me renata, almost as a sort o character evidence about who john eastman was and how he wa operating in tandem with trump at this time >> yeah. you know, there is a wor lawyers you sometimes, disingenuous it is a very polite lure way o saying that somebody is full o crap and i think mr. eastman here was very disingenuous. because what he was essentiall telling pence all this time is i know that this violates th electoral count act and you ca just totally disregard it. that law, yes it is on the books and has been on the book for a long time, but you can just ignore t