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Adam Kinzinger attacks Republicans begging for pardons while not upholding their oath to the Constitution

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) played a leading role in the fifth public hearing for the House Select Committee on Thursday. Among the things that Kinzinger revealed was that a number of Republican members of Congress asked for preemptive pardons.

He explained that the only reason he knows that someone would ask for a pardon is if they committed a crime.

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'I’m not sure we would have had a transition at all': Bill Barr on why he investigated the election earlier than scheduled

Former Attorney General Bill Barr testified to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress that he had to investigate election fraud allegations earlier than normal to prove that there really was no fraud.

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that there was election fraud. Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as Trump's lawyer at the time, sought trials to shut down the elections based on false claims of fraud that the courts in over 60 cases found couldn't be validated, verified, or weren't unlawful at all.

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Woodward: Growing number of Republicans want to 'push Trump off a cliff'

A growing number of Republicans are growing increasingly miffed with former President Donald Trump. While they've been unwilling to stand up to him in the past, as they make their way through primary elections they're growing braver.

Washington Post Watergate reporter Bob Woodward explained on CNN that for so many years Republicans were willing and eager to protect Trump, but now they're not.

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WATCH: Documentary filmmaker catches video of Mike Pence receiving congressional demand to remove Trump from office

The House Select Committee has video of Vice President Mike Pence receiving an email from congressional leaders demanding that he invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office.

British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder has turned over 11 hours of video footage of the Trump family discussing the campaign and election and then sat for an interview with the committee, and a trailer for the completed film "Unprecedented" shows Pence reading the email on his phone six days after Jan. 6, 2021.

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'Worse than stupid' SCOTUS ruling on guns is like 'a middle finger to New York': Whoopi Goldberg

"The View's" Sunny Hostin is fearful that the bill the U.S. Senators agreed on to better regulate guns will be challenged in court after the U.S. Supreme Court voted down a New York law that has been in place for over 100 years.

The way that the decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas led Hostin to believe that it ultimately expands the Second Amendment and will eliminate regulations across the country.

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Morning Joe unloads on Rusty Bowers for backing Trump after revealing how he tried to steal last election

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough trashed Arizona House speaker Rusty Bowers for revealing damning evidence of Donald Trump crimes but admitting that he'd still probably vote for him.

The Arizona Republican told the House select committee that Trump asked him to violate his constitutional oath and the former president's supporters menaced his family, but he also said he would back him in the 2024 election if he won the GOP nomination.

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Trump’s allies should be 'ashamed' for fear over appearing before J6 committee when Lady Ruby did it: ex-prosecutor

Former President Donald Trump spent much of this week complaining that he's not getting any time to defend himself in public hearings for the House Select Committee. Trump allies have been offered an opportunity to appear before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks on Congress and attempt to overthrow the election. They've just been unwilling to do so.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, ahead of the fifth public hearing, former federal prosecutor and law professor Joyce White Vance nailed those Trump staffers refusing to speak to Congress cowards.

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'I heard evidence of criminality': The View hosts think the Jan. 6 committee laid groundwork for Merrick Garland

The co-hosts of "The View" began their Wednesday show by discussing the shocking testimony revealed by witnesses in the fourth public hearing of the House Select Committee on Tuesday.

The hosts first couldn't quite understand how Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, spoke so eloquently about his duty to the Constitution and to his state, and the horrors he and his family have faced from Trump supporters, but he'd still be willing to support the ex-president again.

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Bob Woodward points out 'stunning' similarity between Trump and Nixon revealed by Shaye Moss testimony

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward noted a striking parallel between Watergate and Donald Trump's effort to overturn his election loss.

The Washington Post reporter whose work helped bring down Richard Nixon told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was struck by testimony from Georgia election worker Shaye Moss, who said Trump supporters burst into her grandmother's home and threatened both her and her mother over the former president's lies about them.

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'Everybody knows he's lying': Morning Joe shreds Ron Johnson's defense after he's snared in Trump's conspiracy

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and conservative attorney George Conway aren't buying Sen. Ron Johnson's excuses about his participation in a conspiracy to deliver fake electors to vice president Mike Pence.

The Wisconsin Republican was implicated in Donald Trump's scheme to overturn his election loss during Tuesday's hearing of the House select committee, and Johnson responded to reporters afterward by pretending to be on his phone and then blaming his involvement on staffers.

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Latest Jan. 6 hearings expose 'inherent tension in MAGA land': George Conway

George Conway said testimony from Arizona's deeply conservative House speaker Rusty Bowers exposed the "inherent tension" in Donald Trump's MAGA movement.

The conservative attorney, whose wife served in Trump's administration until almost the very end, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was moved by Bowers' testimony about the former president's effort to overturn his election loss, but he said it also gave some insight into the true believers and crooks that make up the MAGA coalition.

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Georgia election worker tears up as she describes her grandmother being attacked by Trump supporters

Wandrea "Shaye" Moss was among the election workers who were targeted by former President Donald Trump and his allies who lied about her and her mother trying to change the election.

Through tears and at times shaking, Moss talked about what her mother and grandmother experienced as supporters of Trump knocked on their door at all hours of the day and night.

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Republican gets emotional at Jan. 6 hearing as he recounts horrendous attacks from Trump supporters

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, explained the harassment and intimidation he and his family endured during the fourth public hearing over the Jan. 6 insurrection on Tuesday.

Bowers testified about the pressure he faced from Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani to reverse his state's results. He mentioned that he has been targeted by Donald Trump's supporters and QAnon after refusing to go along with the scheme.

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