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Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Election result if they dont like the outcome. we would have a reform in the congress saying the congress couldnt do anything about that but accept and certify the electorates. making sure people dont make the mistake to persuade vice president pence to behave differently when it was time for him to certify the presidential count in the last election. the more fundamental challenge right now are the efforts underway ever since the supreme court gutted the voting rights act. >> let me get you to ...

Play out normally here, but earlier this week bennie thompson said a key part of this investigation has to do with phone calls at the willard hotel. the former president and steve bannon would gather and lead up to january 6th. based on your experience as an investigator, what kind of questions should the committee be asking about those phone calls? >> well, they want to know the content of the calls. theyre clearly going to get phone records, what calls were made, how long they took place. but ...

Michonne maddock speaking at a public event last week. listen. >> we fought to seat the electors, um, the trump campaign asked us to do that under a lot of scrutiny for that today. >> you see him saying the trump campaign asked them to do that. the michigan attorney general dana nessel said it was an open and shut case of forgery of a public record. do you agree with that assessment? >> yeah, these were -- first of all, the law is very clear on who the electors are and how theyre selected by the...

Texts, no emails, no written record. so theyre racial gerrymandering can never be found out. i hope a lawsuit will succeed. were trying everything possible. i have called everything, and i just dont think theres any way certainly for me to have a chance in this election. thats their intention, i take it as a compliment. >> does the federal voting rights legislation, does it travel any distance toward protecting this at a national level, or does this need to be solved state by state? >> well, if ...

Power, that legal verification of the votes, the electoral college and electorates is, you know, a flagrant violation of these legal requirements and determinations of who is an elector and the fact that these individuals both co-chair of the state republican party and candidates for the president and their followers lied to the federal government about who those electors were really is egregious, its unprecedented. there needs to be consequences and also a signal of just how far folks were will...

Important sliver of reform. as we saw in the 2020 elections it could potentially be weaponized. but the feelings are still incrediby raw right now and the fear is raw, too. it is hard for me to see a path through politically through the senate. >> the republicans want this because everything that has been done and said in the spirit of the big lie is as bad as democrats say it is. why take this on if you are not aware of the danger? >> i wouldnt go so far as to say that i think there is a sliver...

But in particular in areas where republican power is threatened over both changing electorates and demographics. you have you know white nationalist, reactionary politics starting to grow into a critical mass. and so what we have is the continued sophistication and takeover of our democratic systems in order to turn them into an democratic systems. and order to overturn the results that a party in power may not like. >> and your concern is what we will look like what nation? any nation in partic...

Electoral votes from pennsylvania, or arizona, donald trump had a plan. in a subpoena to pennsylvania republican state senator douglas mastriano the january six committee today said, we understand that you have knowledge of and participated in a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the president of the senate on january 6th, 2021. and we understand that you spoke with former president trump about your post-election activities. the president in the senate on janua...