about how the president tried to force it to an end. did you hear any part of the phone calls? yeah, i remember hearing the word wind. and i remember he said, you are our wind. new information today on the danger of the vice president faced as a result of the threats to his life, and the president know that that s what he s done. i am betrayed the united states of america. new evidence today showing that people working with the president to enact the scheme. they knew what they were doing was illegal. doctor eastman s emails stated, quote, i ve decided that i should be on the departments list, if that still in the works. and a crucial warning about the enduring threat to the country. donald trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to american democracy. tonight, the member of the investigation who like today s hearings, congressman pete aguilar. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, stephanie r
investigation makes it case, day three, a losing presidential candidate, pressed to force his running mate, the vice president, to throw out the election results, to overthrow the u.s. government. when mr. eastman came in, he said, i m here to request that you reject the electors. new witness testimony today about how the president tried to force it to an end. did you hear any part of the phone calls? yeah, i remember hearing the word wimp. and i remember he said, you are a wimp. new information today on the danger the vice president faced as a result of the threats to his life, and the president knowing that that s what he had done. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america. new evidence today showing that people working with the president to enact the scheme. they knew what they were doing was illegal. doctor eastman s emails stated, quote, i ve decided that i should be on the parted lust, if that is still in the works. and a crucial warning abo
breaking tonight, authorities in las vegas say the person who opened fire on the campus of university of nevada at las vegas unlv this afternoon is dead. police report multiple victims have been taken to area hospitals but they are not saying what their injuries are, at least not yet, nor are they talking about a motive for the shooter. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is following this story from los angeles. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. we got the first word from las vegas police that there was an active shooter on the campus of the university of nevada las vegas. almost exactly three hours ago. and unlv officials immediately sent aletters to all students, telling them to run if they could. hide if they had to. fight if they must. the all too familiar advice that so many students caught in the middle of so many shootings have previously heard. vegas police also said early on that there were multiple victims and have since confirmed the number to be 3 that
and katie, the evidence that you pointed to, the doj officials who took over for barr, absent clark, will say that he ultimately fell into line. a former national security official told me that s because he knew he lost. he ultimately did what they told him to, do whether at the pentagon or doj, because he knew he was leaving and wouldn t have the protections of the presidency? well, also these witnesses, they re lawyers, they re very careful. they would say we, in our conversations, in the end, in our conversations he did what we told him to do. they re careful to say they were not sure what he was doing outside those conversations. it s really outside of those conversations where you see jack smith s investigation and other investigations going, including fani willis investigations. i wanted to point out, testimony we saw, reporting we shared with the public even before some of these hearings, john eastman, when he came to jeff rosen, he
is close to trump, a trump loyalist not to tim, i think ontario is his name, i hope i m calling him correctly. i know you guys will take him to alaska. like, let him stay and do his job. that s the quote of kellogg talking. and this comes back to i think that already for said, that has stuck with me since ari said it, which is, whatever it was, however it had to be done, at a certain point the goal becomes for america to go to bed on the night of the sixth. [inaudible] and that, if you think about that, as the day progressive progresses, just kick the, can play for, time get the rest. and we know how much is figuring at eastman, from the testimony we saw today we know this idea of if there s general disorder and the constitutional jump ball then certainly, as the day progresses, whether it s to actually imperil the safety of the vice president or not, ultimately the sort of forced order goal of the president that night and i think eastman took this is what s already said in that st