one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and the new york times reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the times. the investigators appear focused on trump s state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on janu
questions. this has been in some ways considered a slow to act criticism of the biden administration that this was identified in may. there s been 6600 cases of monkeypox, roughly every eight days. the number of cases has doubled. it is contagious illness. it s not considered as serious as coronavirus that we have been living with for the past two and a half years. but it is something that has been very present in some big cities primarily, but they want to go beyond that. it frees up some federal resources. they have named a person from fema to oversee the federal response. they want to get vaccines, testing and treatments into a more coordinated accessible approach around the country. declaring it a national emergency allows them to do that. that s something that critics have said they could have done earlier considering that the world health organization had already declard an emergency and cities like new york had raised the flag saying this is a serious problem. today we
that john eastman continued his hunt for widespread voter fraud even after president biden was inaugurated. hours after president biden s inauguration, mr. eastman emailed rudy giuliani, donald j. trump s personal lawyer propose that they challenge in georgia for two senate seats that were won by democrats. according to the times eastman hoped that by trying to overturn another election and finding fraud in that race he would find proof that the 2020 election was stolen, but as we all know, was there no fraud. the election wasn t stolen and the big lie is still just that, a lie. the times also reports that eastman charged the trump campaign $270,000 and no surprise, given trump s long history of not paying his bills, it looks like trump never paid him. by the time mr. biden became president mr. eastman tried to be paid directly although two people with knowledge of the campaign s finances said he never was. john eastman has been under a lot of scrutiny from the justice depart
as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on january 6. and trump being fashioned by tweet, of course, is a key chapter in the campaign to overturn his defeat. he was fired just two weeks after election day. in hindsight now looks clearly like an early indication that the ex-president and his allies would make the big lie a litmus test of loyalty to the ex-president. and that they would be willing to get rid of, to purge, anyone who stood in the way of peddling the election fraud conspiracies that would serve as a basis for their plan to overturn the 2020 election and eventually for january 6. for chris krebs lending his credibility to the chief election official to the other side, to back the big lie, would have meant throwing out decades of work and expertise in assuring a securely election. here s what he said back in november 2020.
destroy our democracy. it s incumbent for all of us who care about this to recognize there is no silver bullet, right? there is no magic wand we can wave. it s going to require all segments of society, republicans and democrats. it s going to require businesses and civil society organizes like the adl to come together and push back and reclaim our democracy. whether you are conservative or liberal, we all have a stake in liberal democracy being con conserved and continue to fleurish. alexi mccammond, jonathan greenblatt and joyce vance, we appreciate you tonight. later, he s made the big lie a litmus test for republicans in the next election. that can t be good for democracy. we ll get into it. the 11th hour just getting underway on a monday night. h hot