in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former trump white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the leaked audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he stebve bannon been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire, who is kind of a patron of bannon s. in the leaked audio we got yesterday, bannon out on b
liz cheney wants to be clear, don t think about it as a mission in those hundred and 87 minutes or days leading up to it, it was an act it was a commission, it was donald trump trying to overturn an election that he knew he had lost. yes. that is exactly right, and that was a not so subtle jab at the department of justice. a message to them that their bottom approach has been misguided, according to liz cheney. and from a prosecutorial approach, it is important for the department of justice and hence, some of why i think it can explain some of the committee s strategy here in trying to show that trump knowingly was trying to overturn the election results, despite knowing that there was no fraud evidence, that there would not be any fraud identified by these people who worked in and that he was told over and over again that there was not any evidence of election fraud
that being said, there were still despite tons of color provided, there was still some evidentiary gaps, if you are looking at it from a departmental purview. that is how president trump ultimately made that pivot and leap to realizing that some of the avenues that he had been previously considering were closed, and that he then needed to look towards the march on the capitol as a way to hold on to power. and the pivot is intriguing. and they all went out of the way yesterday to articulate the idea that at some point, everybody was everybody of the same mind was telling donald trump that he had lost the election. he cannot keep pretending that he did not think that he had lost the election. the committee was pointing out that donald trump is responsible for the actions, that he deliberately took.