explain what prompted it but the announcement did occur hours after the dear leader made a public demand for it prompting texas governor greg abbott to take time off from putting woman member's bodies under state control to green light those mind you trump won the state of texas. fraud-its are happening in pennsylvania and wisconsin, too and there is nothing funny about that. meanwhile, we're awaiting potentially bombshell information about the front end of trump's attempted coup. last night the house select committee investigating january 6th subpoenaed four former trump officials and associates for documents and depositions to be held next month. they were not only privy to donald trump's thinking before and during and after the insurrection, some were involved in the planning of the stop the steal rallies as well as the pentagon's response to the seeing after. so laugh until you cry. joining me is claire mccaskill