of our elections. i urge my colleagues, democrats and republicans, to allow us to debate this critical issue and come up with a bipartisan solution that protects every american s right to vote. not one republican voted to discharge the voting rights bill from committee. then texas republican senator ted cruz blocked the bill from even being debated. this bill would constitute a federal government takeover of elections. it would constitute a massive power grab by democrats. it would disenfranchise millions of americans. and it would do precisely the opposite of its nominal title for the people. it is, instead, for the politicians. a takeover of elections? is he serious? republicans across this country are trying to take over elections right now. voting against the certification of the election on january 6th was trying to take over
secure funding for the u.s. capitol and the capitol police. that s why we, the taxpayers, are paying to ensure that another january 6th doesn t happen. but what good does that protection do if the criminals who attacked the capitol are not sufficiently punished? what good does that protection do if the man who incited the insurrection is never held accountable? as we ve seen time and again, the only authority that s been willing to hold trump accountable so far has been the united states congress. and he might be held accountable once again by congress, and this time it s by a house committee investigating his business dealings. nbc s pete williams reports the house oversight and reform committee can proceed with a subpoena to get documents from mezars, the accounting firm, to examine the nature of trump s federal lease for a hotel in washington. the committee can get financial records to look at whether trump s income on overseas properties violated the constitution s ban on foreign e
committee gets its hands on those tax documents. leading off discussion tonight, tim o brien, senior columnist for bloomberg opinion, author of trump nation. michael j. moore, former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia, partner at u.s. law firm in atlanta. michael, did you work with b.j. pack? do you know him? i know b.j. i was in the group that preceded him under the obama administration. he and i have known each other for a number of years. he s a good guy. i think he s an honorable guy. not surprised he would get in front of the senate committee and give them sort of the straight skinny on what went on. and nor am i surprised he would be someone who would have the integrity to step down as opposed to being used as a pawn to sort of push forward this idea of the big lie of election fraud. and the timing of his leaving, obviously the calls to brassen
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the results in georgia had been undermined by voter fraud, the person said. resigning would preempt a public dismissal, and quote. b. j. pak as the third government official to testify in front of the committee about donald trump s efforts to abuse the justice department for his personal gain. that s not good for the former president, but it s also frustrating because once again we hear about something that sounds like criminal behavior by donald trump, and so far he has not been held accountable for that behavior which goes to a bigger point on accountability in the wake of the 2020 election. trump told his supporters to attack the capital on january 6th, he used his election lies, lies that he wanted to be jay pack and others to spread to propel those protesters to action, to incite an insurrection. more than 550 people face federal charges for invading the capital, but are those charges actually enough to prevent another interaction?