instead of go along with his unconstitutional, perhaps illegal scheme. on the other hand, you have the trump loyalists that we just mentioned, these republican members of the house. do you think in your opinion, are they fit to remain in office? again, i don t want to go there. that s decision between them and their constituents. i you know, i ve been able to present what i ve presented. i will say this, though. let s contrast them to these three gentlemen that were in front there today. i m sure all three of them voted for donald trump. i m sure all three of them were sad he lost. you know, i m sure all three of them wished the election would have been different. but when faced with that pressure, i mean, i don t think it s tough to explain how much pressure it is when you have a president of the united states putting that on you for all of them to stand strong, for all the deputy, you know, attorneys to basically make the decision that they were going to all resign. it s an ama
presidential pardons from the white house after january 6th. we know one of those lawmakers was scott perry who was involved in the plot to install trump loyalists at the department of justice, and he did not comply with the subpoena to cooperate with the select committee, but we don t know who those other republicans are and we don t know why they wanted a subpoena or why they were worried about potential criminal exposure. congressman pete aguilar, a member of the select committee was pressed about this earlier today. take a listen. it s very clear that some of my republican colleagues felt as well as members of the president s orbit and his former advisers and lawyers close to him in the campaign felt the pressure of what happened on january 6th and they sought pardons and they had conversations about pardons after january 6th. so that is something we are going to be looking out for in the weeks ahead, and it can be really problem attic for a house
since november of 2020. we re coming after you and every mother [ bleep ] that stole this election with our second amendment. these are the kind of threatening phone calls local election officials have received. you rigged my election you piece of the callers are trump loyalists who believe in his big lie. we want trump! we won this election and we won it by a landslide. we won in a landslide! a year into joe biden s presidency. he cheated. there was fraud. you have to revisit. trump won. across the country, donald trump s allies are still at war to overturn the last election, forcing local election officials to revisit the 2020 vote count
trump loyalists who believe donald trump s lies that the 2020 election was stolen. this is one of those defining moments. it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before and where were they after the vote? history s going to judge it. it s that consequential. 19 states have passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, ballot drop boxes, or take some power from local elections officials. there are other constraints as well. the brennan center for justice says it s tracking at least a dons state laws being proposed this year. and some georgia voting rights groups are skipping the president s speech. they re demanding action, not just more talk. so, cnn s jeff zelensy is in atlanta with the president. stacey abrams will not be there for president biden s speech. so, how s he reacting to that? reporter: alisyn, that certainly has gotten a bit of attention. of course, stacey abrams was the face of the need for voting
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