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overturn the 2020 election. one of these has just broken, and it s about this guy. he s not exactly a household name, this is mike roman. he was a director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign, you might know him as the guy who, on january 6th tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from trump s fake electors scheme to vice president mike. pence electors schem about act, bek man trying to lure the fake electors on january 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that there is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see, after the election, there was not much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike roman shifted to a new gate. he acted as a go-between, the vote whimper of sorts, doing allegra to get state level officials on board with trump s fake electors plan. he was an illegal mastermind planning, he was in the brains of the operation, he was the legs of the o ....
and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promot ....
austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you star ....
joining me now is nbc legal analyst lisa reuben, along with the president of naral pro choice america we are waiting for them right now, but i want to let you know we re following both of these two stories so we will have the speech that we know vice president kamala harris gave at this university in tennessee, that was happening while we were waiting to come on the air, and this ruling came down just a moment ago let me tell you a little bit about this judge in his writings, matthew kacsmaryk out of texas has described being transgender as a mental disorder. he s called homosexuality disordered he has had sexual revolutionaries have made the unborn child and marriage secondary tothe desires of liberated adults he sided with a christian father that anyone under the age of 18 in the state of texas needs approval by their parent before getting birth control. he is a university of texas law school graduate who has focused his attention on the legal foundations for aborgtio ....
thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicole. thank you. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. right now this is a busy friday for news after a week that began with the abrupt firing of tucker carlson and the sedition case against the proud boys for january 6th reaching a jury and then just last night we reported that mike pence went under oath for the first time about the coup to the doj. each of those are distinct developments. each stem from the ongoing if tardy accountability for the insurrection. fox news reeling from a record payout for insurrection and election lies which tucker carlson doubled down on which compounded his problems and the transfer of power we should note that this week the current president formally announced he is running for re-election in a video that discusses and shows what he says are the stakes. usually when the incumbent presid ....