MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:56pm
... jackie sphere joins me to talk about what happens next after putin places more than 100000 troops at russia's border with ukraine. plus, the january 6th committee subpoenas fake trump electors. a number of them, from arizona. senator -- secretary of state _ ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:47pm
... has subpoenaed 14 people who falsely claim to be electors for trump. how this adds a new layer into the investigation into the former president's effort to over turn the election. the next hour of american voices. the nextou hr of american voices ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:09pm
... possibly prosecuting it as will some of the others. pennsylvania not because they caveated it saying we're not really the electors. sit a general big conspiracy and it carries many years of prison ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:08pm
... the democratic electors failed. the others said we're the duly nominated electors and they are not. they didn't win because their candidate didn't win and some of the people who signed those weren't even on the ballot if ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:05pm
... it's a problem and we'll take it from there. there were a lot efforts but the electors are a new development. we know these entities in seven ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:04pm
... into the plot to overturn president biden's victory? good question. these fake electors who met in a key meeting on december 14th ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:03pm
... it.' thank you all so much for being with us. carol, i want to start with you. give us the broad context here of how these fake electors fit ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:03pm
... to the proper entities in washington, d.c. for consideration by congress. the electors may have been phony but the threat to our democracy remains real. joining me now to discuss msnbc ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:03pm
... the true electors for the presidency met yesterday. yes the republican electors. we gathered together and took a vote for president trump and mike pence. we have transmitted the results ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:02pm
... people. in arizona, the state's republican party posted this video of the phony electors signing the falsified document a few weeks before january 6th. state party's chair even touted the scheme the next day on social media. ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:02pm
... alternate universe that they purported to live in. to that point, this wasn't some behind closed door secret scheme. it all played out in public view. many of the fake electors bragging about this attempt to over turn the will of the ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:02pm
... individuals in and around the white house. i think it's deeply disturbing that not only did they meet at state capitols in the seven states and sent these slates of electors to congress but they sent them to the national archives. they wanted to create this ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:01pm
... friday, the 1/6 committee subpoenaed 14 alternate electors in battleground state. the fake electors falsely claim trump won the election in their ...
MSNBC: American Voices With Alicia Menendez
1/29/2022 11:01pm
... mike pence. it didn't work. then vice president pence went onto preside over the official count. only after a sprawling effort to give pence the option to accept a fake slate of electors. ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta
1/29/2022 10:47pm
... planners and people who signed these electors. these fake election certificates. of the seven, five of them are really bad. they're false statements filed to the federal government with lies on them and people's signatures on them. so congress can get to the ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:26pm
... submitted that fraudulent slaits slate of electors, they were in some real hot water. it appears they committed state crimes and federal crimes, and michigan attorney general dana ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:26pm
... let's call them what they are. it's a fraudulent slate of electors, because they did not certify the popular vote. they had a whole other goal, and we're going to learn more about who organized that and what motivated them, but once they ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:26pm
... legal obligation to certify the results accurately. the results of the popular vote, and the first duly authorized slate of electors from all 50 states did that. then you have something that people sometimes refer to as an alternate slate of electors, but ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:25pm
... some defendant say, i was just following orders, that's not a lawful defense, and that's the way i interpret that statement. as attorney general balderas just said, the electors have a ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:22pm
... electors are required to certify the will of the people, and conduct themselves in an accurate and lawful manner. so, at this point, i believe the doj is in the best position because it's involving multiple states, to gather evidence and really apply the rule of law and ...
MSNBC: Yasmin Vossoughian Reports
1/29/2022 8:21pm
... representative bennie thompson said in a statement, investigators are examining evidence of a scheme to overturn the results in multiple states. that includes the planning and coordination to send false slates of electors to the national archives. the news arrives just days after ...
MSNBC: Alex Witt Reports
1/29/2022 7:53pm
... alternate electors who signed documents falsely asserting donald trump was the winner in battleground states that he actually lost. the committee wants information from individuals listed as chairperson or secretary of the slate of bogus electors. it's across seven states, in ...
MSNBC: Alex Witt Reports
1/29/2022 6:19pm
... constitutional. and back in washington, the january 6th committee now issuing subpoenas to 14 of the so-called alternate electors who falsely claimed that then president donald trump won in seven battleground states. committee members, what they ...
MSNBC: Alex Witt Reports
1/29/2022 5:18pm
... 14 so-called alternate electors who were allegedly part of a scheme in 2020 to admit fake slate of electoral votes for president trump across seven states won by joe biden. the white house is publicly identifying one name on that list of who biden is considering ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield
1/29/2022 4:59pm
... expansion of the committee's investigation. they want to know if these people ended up communicating with the trump campaign, who was organizing this fake electors effort, because ultimately i think they were hoping mike pence would throw out biden's electors and install these ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield
1/29/2022 4:59pm
... were sent to keep people from that fake elector plot. what can you tell us about that? the committee spent out 14 subpoenas to individuals from seven different states who were really integral parts of this fake electors plan. so what we're seeing here is an ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez
1/29/2022 3:14pm
... these are state party officials who the committee believes may have had an organizing role or knowledge of who was organizing or putting together a plan to bring these fake electors together, have them sign these certificates and submit to ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 2:10pm
... attorney general cannot comment on it because it is an ongoing investigation. that is whether or not criminal charges should be brought. starting with the committee, they're looking at this because at the end of the day fake electors were submitted to the national archives. ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 2:10pm
... sure. you want to the separate out the committee from what the justice department is doing. they're trying to figure out what happened with the fake electors and a continuum that led to january 6th. if the justice department is investigating, the deputy ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 2:10pm
... the justice department confirmed the fake electors. what do we know about the whole thing of fake electors and where it falls into the january 6th scheme to deny thor is the if i kagdz of joe biden? ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 2:10pm
... we're talking about january 6th now. the committee announced a handful of subpoenas on friday and primarily 14 out of the 15 for the so-called fake or alternate electors who tried to deny joe biden in their state. ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 2:02pm
... february. we'll have much more on that story later in the hour. there are also new developments in the house select committee's investigation into the insurrection. yesterday, 15 new subpoenas were issued and announced. 14 of those were issued to the so-called alternate electors ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... wisconsin and arizona, then we'll need these electors teed up so that a judge could say, oh, wisconsin, there was so much crazy voter fraud and we're going to switch and send in the ...
CNN: New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... knowledge of these electors to get them to sign the fake certificates that were then sent to the national are schives and congress. a huge story controversy after controversy, that the ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... trumps team told them that there -- that trump's team had its own civil litigation going into the seven battleground states. so trump's lawyers told the fake electors, if we win these lawsuits to overturn the results in states like pennsylvania, ...
CNN: New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... january 6th and in hope of overturning the election results. these are gop party members and listed as the chairperson -- chairperson or secretary for each slate of electors. these are people that the committee believes have intimate ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... congress on january 6? was anybody going to get fooled and get this envelope and say i get pennsylvania went republican? what the fake electors have said is that the reason that they were engaged in this activity is that lawyers on ...
CNN: New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez
1/29/2022 1:15pm
... subpoenaed? we do, 14 republicans from seven key swing states where they put forth a slate of electors as we've reported, it was a coordinated effort with the trump campaign that led to ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:14pm
... and the ability to convey to people watching us right now that every day this thing seems to have more tentacles that it did. that said, colleagues of mine make fun of me because i say what does success look like. what was success supposed to look like for those fake slates of republican electors? ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:13pm
... situation is percolating points to the increase pressure on the justice department in this context. we know that state attorneys general have referred these electors to the doj for prosecution earlier this week the second in command at doj ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:12pm
... own state of electors declaring trump the winner despite biden's victory. joining me now is betsy woodruff swan, and an msnbc political contributor. good morning to you. i get that the january 6 ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:11pm
... led scheme to replace valid biden electors with so-called alternate electors who would claim that president trump was the winner in their states. the committee said on december 14th, 2020, groups of ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:04pm
... so-called alternate electors met and who was behind this scheme. we encouraged them to cooperate with the select committee's investigations to get answers about january 6 for the american people and help ensure that nothing like that day ever ...
MSNBC: Velshi
1/29/2022 1:03pm
... january 6 committee is taking a big leap forward in its investigation. the panel issued a wave of subpoenas for 14 republicans from seven states who signed documents falsely claiming that they were their state's rightful electors for donald trump in ...
MSNBC: MSNBC Reports
1/29/2022 12:27pm
... liability or no liability because those are the folks when they get a subpoena that say i don't want any trouble. i'm just going to cooperate. so do any of these alleged false electors though open themselves up to legal liability by cooperating with the committee? anyone whoever cooperates ...
MSNBC: MSNBC Reports
1/29/2022 12:26pm
... aspect of that. the milwaukee journal sentinel is reporting one of those alleged false electors wisconsin's former gop chairman andrew hitt plans to cooperate with the investigation. ...
MSNBC: MSNBC Reports
1/29/2022 12:25pm
... witnesses quote have information about how the all the not electors met and who was behind that scheme. here is how committee representative investigates. ...
MSNBC: MSNBC Reports
1/29/2022 12:25pm
... subpoenas yesterday to 14 of the so-called alternate electors who falsely claimed that then president donald trump won the election in seven battleground states. bennie thompson said those ...
MSNBC: MSNBC Reports
1/29/2022 12:20pm
... subpoenas. the january 6th committee is asking 14 of the alleged fake electors to explain their roles in this plot to overturn a legitimate election. one is already saying he'll cooperate. imagine being sued for simply talking about lgbtq ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:19am
... of spokes radiating out. and that's what we seem to have here, donald trump in the middle and then we have the sidney powell and rudy giuliani spoke and the oathkeepers spoke, the fake electors spoke, the john eastman spoke, we have the jeffrey clark and the department ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:18am
... select committee. i'm really interested to see if these 14 fake electors, who appear to have committed crimes, will go the way of john eastman and for that matter roger stone, and invoke their fifth amendment ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:18am
... scheme? well, the house select committee, i'm confident, will get to the bottom of who was behind this false elector scheme. it's interesting to see that 14 of the 59 false electors have been subpoenaed by the house ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:17am
... electors in state court. no double jeopardy prohibition. you can do it in state court and in federal court. okay but we've had these 14 people, these 14 names, and i think the question a lot of people have is who is being the scheme? who is the architect of the ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:16am
... investigated because it violates a number of federal laws as well. and although it's a state crime, because these are state election systems and electors, it also is a federal crime, because it's interfering in the federal election. ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:15am
... electors were doing. what was the campaign about? they were trying to nullify or override or take the will of the voters in their jury diction, because the actual electors had already sent in their certificates and they were ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:14am
... electors were the foundation of trump's plan to pressure former vice president mike pence to throw out the election results that day. and it could be why trump supporters believe that they could stop the steal, despite there being absolutely no steal to begin with. that's the foundation. ...
CNN: New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez
1/29/2022 11:14am
... individuals are? christi, the panel actually subpoenaed 14 people who were behind this push of the, quote, fake electors, alternate electors that were an attempt to subvert, of course, the will of ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:14am
... group of electors submitted electoral college votes for trump to the national archives and added those slates were used to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election on january 6th. now this is important to understand because those fake ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:14am
... today, committee chairman bennie thompson announced new subpoenas against 14 people from 17 states who participated as alternate electors in a scheme aimed at overturning the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. according to thompson, this fake ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:13am
... that was maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin, and the slate of alternative electors submitted to congress, that was criminal and as the justice department weighs prosecution, the house january 6th panel made a move. ...
MSNBC: Zerlina
1/29/2022 11:13am
... falsely for one other person, that's one vote, what those fraudulent electors were trying to do was to misrepresent themselves as speaking for the will of an entire state's millions of people. ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom Live
1/29/2022 10:17am
... appears to be one of them, that is, having the alternate slate of electors meet on december 14th to having present themselves to the national college of archives, where the supposed list of electors should ...
CNN: CNN Newsroom Live
1/29/2022 9:15am
... and these seven fake electors just so people understand, and we know going around in our every day life you cannot use a counterfeit $20 bill. you can be arrested and go to jail for that. these are counterfeit documents to take the election not from the democrats, not from joe ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:25am
... to the president about it. it is multi layered, many people involved in what appears to be a conspiracy to over throw the election in the form of this nonsensical fake electors thing. it's really fascinating. we got all the players like ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:25am
... you've got rudy giuliani and janet ellis that seem to be driving this thing. you have the electors in each of the seven states. you have other trump administration affiliated people in mouthpieces out there on television promoting it. you have lawyers writing memos ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:19am
... yeah, i think you're right. that's what is going to happen. ron brownstein, thank you. we'll keep reporting. appreciate that. so many moving parts to the plot to overturn the election. the insurrection was the most visible but what about the fake electors scheme? how high did it go? ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:08am
... you guys are the bomb but that's a big storm. good evening. let's talk about republicans signed up to serve as fake electors hit with subpoenas that today knowingly or not, they were all part of the trump team ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:00am
... select committee issuing subpoenas that to 14 republicans that served as fake electors in the plot to overturn the election result and also going after the former president's one-time spokesman who was with him leading up to the insurrection. and why is the right so angry that president biden is ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 8:00am
... plus, the january 6th select committee issuing subpoenas that to 14 republicans that served as fake electors in the plot to overturn the election result and also going after the former president's one-time spokesman who was with him leading up to the insurrection. ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:24am
... hold ap event there like i held every year. lot of fun but he was upset and he was i guess the chairman of the group of false electors in -- in pennsylvania. and now, he's got a real problem on his hands. yeah. well, there you go. kim, sorry you were kicked out ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:23am
... it. i mean, i -- i have my own suspicions but i -- i am sure that there were people involved with the trump campaign and people close to the president himself. maybe, the president himself. all were trying to encourage these people to provide this alternative slate of electors in various states. i ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:22am
... depres gress about the possibility of appointing electors in different states. whether members of congress were implicated here. well, i think -- i think what the committee needs to find out is who put these people up to ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:22am
... republican leaders said under pennsylvania law and under the pennsylvania constitution, they did not have the authority to offer an alternative slate of electors. that they could not, should not, and would not do anything. so these private citizens presumably, on their own offer ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:18am
... documents or some of these documents were privileged. so, 700 documents went from the national archives to the january 6th committee and they are reading them, and they are finding out how to connect some of these dots. and these seven fake electors -- _ ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:18am
... january 6th select committee zeroing in on people who served as phony electors as part of the former president's push to over turn the election results. ? republicans hit with subpoenas tonight. joining me now, charlie dent. he is now a cnn political commentator and former federal ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:15am
... the elector scam, that is like the beginning of unraveling a sweater. you cannot find out about the electors scam in georgia, and then you start pulling and telling on that sweater, and pretty soon you have the whole georgia -- the whole georgia conspiracy about trump calling, and lindsey graham ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:15am
... prosecutor. you can tell by the manner in which this case is being prosecuted by them. so i feel comfortable, and proud about what they are doing. also, since the department of justice is now reviewing the electors, ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:12am
... about, if you are if you are, the certificate of the votes of the 220 electors from wisconsin, we the undersigned being the duly elected unqualified electors for president and vice ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:12am
... we saw. that is the story of these fake electors. your guests have explained it far better than i can. i actually went and printed out the form that the electors signed. think ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:11am
... house, and they worked on, campaigning with the chief of staff says that i love it, we are and have a team on it, it means that we are running from the top. rick, you are someone who has worked at the high-level of administration representing the u. s. abroad, what's strikes to about these latest ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:11am
... rick. the 16 committee report that asked congress to hold mark meadows in criminal contempt includes this quote. mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent effort to encourage republican legislators and certain states to send alternate electors to congress. ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:09am
... they were only going to be the electors if trump won the lawsuits, which by the way, by the time this came in, he lost all the lawsuits. anyway, two of these days they were caveats, in five of the states there were no caveats. these electors signed sworn statements that they were duly elected, and ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:09am
... cynthia, reportedly as katie mentioned, one of the trump electors who was subpoenaed today intends to cooperate with the committee. what might be motivating that? how much legal trouble could these, quote unquote, fake electors been? they are in a lot of trouble. especially the ones where there was ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:08am
... whole fake electors plot to see if there was criminal wrongdoing. those people probably look like your friends and neighbors, right? and i mentioned mike pence earlier. ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:07am
... also on the governor's certificate. i am not going to get into a political debate. it is the official sealed document. also the gop electors they are here trying to do their constitutional duty. i understand. their constitutional duty ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:07am
... going to be here vote have been checked in. they are already here. but these are -- these are the rest of the electors. i understand. the -- the capitol is closed. captain, the electors are also -- the gop electors are ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:07am
... election. people are mocking it, what is interesting is that he actually does have this. you see these letters with a big slate of electors being sent to the national archives on december 14th saying these states have certified for donald trump. so with the ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:07am
... basically simultaneously with the election, almost. where there was a suggestion that if the results were not going the way that trump wanted, an alternative slate of electors could be brought in. you see this being discussed, you see it kind of break into the open between january 6th and the ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:07am
... electoral college process. anybody else is not permitted to come in. the electors are already here. they have been checked in. they are also -- all 16 electors that were ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:06am
... trump electors plan was supposed to work, and who in the former president circle might have been involved in the plan? so the committee is already covering quite a bit of information about the plan. much of it is public. it seems as though it began in november, ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:06am
... wall to see what was stick. sure looks that way, right? remember what happened when a bunch of republicans who claimed that they were legitimate electors in michigan tried to get into the state senate building while the real electors were already inside and a ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:06am
... giuliani oversaw the fake electors plot. a former trump campaign staffer saying quote it was rudy and these misfit characters who started calling the shots. the campaign was enough at the ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:06am
... we could. he fought for a team of people to come and testify in front of the committee. we fought to seat the electors. um, asked us to do that. sources telling cnn trump campaign officials led by rudy ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:04am
... did you have direction from anybody in doing this? was it you 11 yourselves doing this? or did someone give you advice on the manner in which you can do it? so i'm simply -- i was one of the electors. i am not in charge of the electors so you would -- you would -- you would need to ask ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:04am
... entire plan was, thought the loser of the election would retain a power. just days ago, the justice department confirmed it is also investigating the fake slate of electors. in terms of fraudulent electoral certifications, it ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:04am
... archives as if they needed -- all they needed to do was just print them up and they could shape their own reality and it would be true. really indicative of the times we are living in, like this one on your screen now from arizona signed by those fake electors, ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:03am
... january 6th. that part of the plot foiled when mike pence refused to play along. more on mike pence, in just a moment. but you almost have to laugh. fake electors? certificates. signed, sealed, and delivered to the national archives -- _ ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:03am
... the committee issuing subpoenas for 14 republicans, the so-called chair and secretary from each bogus certificate. they want to ask them about who was behind the scheme to replace the legitimate electors if republicans had succeeded in denying the certifications of the actual electoral votes on ...
CNN: Don Lemon Tonight
1/29/2022 7:03am
... the scheme to put forward fake trump-supporting electors in seven states. this is -- this is probably the most egregious thing. these fake electors and these documents. can you imagine the gull? ...
MSNBC: The 11th Hour
1/29/2022 7:03am
... we win these cases in the courts, that we can direct the state of electors to be certified. watching stephen miller always gives me the chills. tonight, one of the subpoenaed republican chairman andrew hit. ...