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as the first prosecution and perhaps not at all. number three, trumps republican poll numbers have gone up as his most ardent supporters have rallied around him. trumps reaction on truth social is to blame d.a. alvin braggs case on thugs and radical left monsters and accuse bragg of doing joe bidens dirty work. this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. the u.s. is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline, so sad. as for all the saturat...

Are also censoring books that they dont like. so im no longer buying in independent bookstores. im buying at amazon and barnes & noble. howard: got it. >> but, you know, the issue of the four cases, any first-year student, law student, should win three of them. lets go over them one, two, three. georgia case, president says on a tape i need to find, find 13,000 votes. find mes theyre there, theyre to be -- means theyre there, theyre to be found. he didnt say invent, concoct, he said find them. y...

I mean, there were calls that we know about from kevin mccarthy, chris christie was on abc news, there were pleas from inside not just the republican party but trumps own base to beg the president to tell his supporters to go home. we may learn what all those communications sounded like, how they were met, who walked them into the oval office, whether ivanka or hope hicks or others articulated or expressed concern. i mean, we may really piece together the inside of the oval office, again, not be...

They would support any kind of -- lets call it what it would be -- a coup. those questions, why cash of the pael, why chris miller mr. sent to the pentagon as well as the questions about how they acted on january 6th and why there was such a delay in getting the national guard deployed ott capitol. are obviously key questions i expect hes going asked today and hopefully he is answering. hopely hes not up there trying to exert an executive privilege to try to avoid answering some of these questio...

Administration. pat cell also really interesting because he was a senior defense department official on the day of the january 6th attack. to my knowledge, hes the first person from d.o.d. who has engaged with the committee. it is totally possible in the 400 people that liz cheney said they have spoken to are d.o.d. personnel but patel is the first one that we know about it. the question is, why did it take the d.o.d. so long to get the national guard to the capitol. he will likely be asked that...

That pete williams talked about, that this is about another branchs oversight, this is about an extraordinary event, the opinion details everything donald trump did that day. it goes on and talks about, shortly before noon on january 6th, trump took the stage at a rally of his supporters on the ellipse just south of the white house. during his more than hour-long speech, trump reiterated his claims that the election was rigged and stolen and urged then vice president mike pence, who would presid...

Chris miller, a position he was appointed to november 10th. prior to appointment you served as senior director for counter tichl at the national security council. there is substantial to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the department of defense and the white house in preparing for and responding to the attack on the u.s. capitol as well as documents and information related to your personal involvement in planning for events ...

Game over. give me one, two, or three of those. >> well, look, if -- one thing we know about what donald trump has done is even as people, and nicole, you said it earlier in the show, even as people were calling in and begging for donald trump to come out and denounce the violence that was happening on the -- at the capitol, what if there were notes that talked about that where he said, but this is great. this is exactly what i had hoped for. i mean, im not saying he said that, but those are the...

Association would not, will not ever back down on making sure were getting as much access as possssible. but youre right, thats an indication there may be some thorny discussions moving forward. it speaks to this issu though, this is someone whooes not have experience in washington rving inin government, and so there are going to be potentially some of these moments where the traditions that exist here may not be the obvious choices that are made. >> all right, kristen welker, thanks for your up...