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tim miller, thank you very much. coming up with mike pence is split with donald trump extent, will it extend be on the campaign trail on to the january six investigation? committee member, jamie raskin on new upcoming public hearings and rudy giuliani's nine-hour testimony, after this. >> since last july, almost 11 months, a bipartisan january six committee has been investigating the insurrection. they've received over 136,000 documents, conducted over 1000 depositions and interviews, including most recently, with donald trump lawyer and major mclachlin potent scene earlier in the show, rudy giuliani. he reportedly met with the committee for nine hours on friday. and now, as the committee is moving to a new phase of the investigation, the long awaited public hearings, who we learned about all they have been covered. the guardian got its hands on the draft hearing schedule will, which shows six hearing scheduled for the month of june, only two during primetime hours. congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he served on

ben rhodes, and tim miller, he's a writer at large for the bull work. betsy, i want to ask you about eastman in light of politico's new reporting, john eastman revealed friday that he routinely communicated with trump either directly or via six conduits during the chaotic weeks that preceded the january 6th attack on the capitol. explain what's new about eastman and trump. >> what we know is just how deep and close the relationship between these two men was. eastman is essentially saying i was 100% trump's lawyer. i was working directly for him. the advocacy that i engaged in was on his behalf and he was my client. eastman has to be able to make that argument persuasively if he wants to win in court here and if he wants to have any sort of a prayer of making the case that attorney-client privilege should shield the materials that the select committee is trying to obtain and that's why he is really kind of revealing himself in terms of the nature of the work that he did for the president. he wasn't freelancing whatsoever in his version of the story. he w

tim miller is a writer at large for bulwark, he was communications director for jeb bush's 2016 presidential bid. -- they both join me now. trip gabriel, let me start with you now, there's two things that are interest to meet in ohio. it does seem clear that the maga faction has completely run this race at a certain level, in terms of how they dominated the race. it also seems like dolenz a time to distinguish himself by running in his own lane, has borne him for success, and it'll be interesting to watch. >> that's absolutely right, and one of the things that is working for, dolan there really no other republican candidates like that in the upcoming primaries, if you look to pennsylvania in california. the maga dominance of the republican party is so strong, they've got three candidates in ohio who are all fighting hard to win those voters. they may end up canceling each other out to a certain degree, >> that's absolutely right, and one of the things that is working for, dolan there really no other republican candidates like that in the upcoming primaries, if you look to pennsylvania in cal

joining me now tim miller, msnbc political analyst and writer for "the bull wash." his new book "why we did it" a travel log to the republican road to hell comes out soon. tim, if kathy barnette wins on tuesday, what does it tell you about the state of this republican party? >> well, hey, alicia. i think we already know about the state of the republican party by the fact somebody like kathy barnette has a legitimate chance to win on tuesday, by the fact that j.d. vance, jerry majewski, and we will see more of these candidates throughout the season. it tells you this. that kathy barnette reveals -- there is now a maga establishment that's trying to crown candidates of their choosing. they don't dislike her because of her views about muslims, which are not all that different from what donald trump has said in the past. what they don't like is when you showed the clip from before, they don't think she is very good at selling it and they're worried about electability. they're worried pennsylvania is a state the democrats can win in. it could cost mitch mcconnell the sen

also with us is tim miller, writer at-large at the bulwark, and an msnbc political analyst. we'll get updates from pennsylvania and north carolina with reporters on the ground. steve, let us start with you. break down what we saw. >> yeah. and what we're still seeing here, katy, as you see here, this is a cliff-hanger, 2459 votes, that's the margin for mehmet oz for david mccormick, to winner against john fetterman. that's 0.2 of 1% margin. actually we got a few more votes tick in there. you can see, 2463, that's the margin of oz over mccorporal mccormick. just to take you through, from allegheny county, this is pittsburgh-to-pittsburgh area. this is david mccormick home county. there's about 30 precincts that have not reported out of election day vote. the vote that was cast there on election can day yesterday. mccormick has been leading oz by six points in allegheny county. so when those votes are counted it seems likely that mccormick will make up some ground on oz, not enough to erase 2400 votes but enough to cut into it a little bit. by the way, we're getting indication

joining me now, msnbc political and bliss tim miller, author the forthcoming book, why we did. it also with, me the john fox, contributing writer for the atlantic. you, know tim, you're not offset many times here and talked about that disconnect. we have talked about a major political parties embrace of white supremacy as you watch this all unfold. what's on your mind? >> first, i just wanna say mahatma another victim of the buffalo. your loved one was in a grocery store, and the dock at home. the fact that for all of these shootings, and having a leave here with you on msnbc when there were shootings, and i grew up about a mile from columbine. the perfect strategy happened around high school, not his long now. i don't think we can do anything to mitigate these mass shootings. it's just a horrific failure of our culture and, obviously, the republican party. it's unwillingness to do anything. as for the extremist rhetoric, look, the manifesto that's online, right now, is indistinguishable from tv segments that you would see on arrival network. this pure hatred. the sense that th

and tim miller, msnbc political analyst. thank you so much. tim's new book "why we did it" comes out soon. thank you all so much. i'm very much looking forward to this conversation. tim, i'll start with you because you were the newest author. ellie is slightly older at this point. i can't help but think when i see all of this additional information come out, when i hear that lindsey graham gets busted again for sounding like a turncoat, he's not loyal to anybody, does any of this actually shake people who are loyal to the republican party? or at this point is it all so much noise and it doesn't really matter what happens in the hearing, it doesn't matter how these people are exposed because your core republican voters are, like, eh, they're still better than the party of nancy pelosi? >> i keep seeing ellie above me on the amazon rankings, so i'm doing the best i can with the new book. look, here's the thing with the republican voters. there is a group of voters that's reachable. i know that maybe that feels like it's frustr

she joins me tonight along with tim miller. writer at the bulwark. and the author of the upcoming book, why we did it. a travel log from the republican road to hell. simone, you are from nebraska, and i think would can get lost in this conversation, is this is not always wouldn't briscoe has looked like, right what's really important to note about this race and particularly about the governor's race and the government in the primary -- one chamber. every woman who serves as the state senator in the unicameral, signed on to a letter denouncing the trump backed candidate for governor, mr. herbster. every single woman. i think that speaks volumes. and if republicans do advance the trump backed candidate to the general election, which is not a foregone conclusion. there are other folks in this race. it's really split, so i think that we're gonna have to watch the numbers tonight. if the trump backed candidate's advanced, i do think, for probably the first time in a long time, the democratic candidate for governor in nebraska was the state senator carol b

tim miller served as director, he's now writer. he joins me now. tim, trump clearly was watching the law records, lessened or some primary publicans who are uncontested so we can get some numbers on the board. >> sometimes you gotta take an easy one, declare yourself the grand marshal. >> the pence dynamic is interesting, because, again, i've no allusions, and i think it's fairly consistent in the mcgahn-ism is the dominant force in republican politics. it isn't republican politics is. the personal appeal of trump's a little bit diminished and attenuated. and i wonder you reads? >> a little bit diminished from's all-time high when he was getting saddam hussein numbers in the gop primaries, but i think if you look at his last live 18 2016, and the percentages heals getting,'s numbers are above where he was when he won easily in 2016 over cruise. i think it's a little bit diminished. well up of gas called the focus group, and this week we did the georgia race. and there's not a lot of evidence muellers and many of these focus groups that they don't l

of the up coming -- tim miller, "why we did it: a travel log from the republican road to hell." literally, tim, i apologize my fellow coloradan. my bad, i'll let you go first. look, the thing is that, you know, i got to let you comment on the delicious irony of the fact that the exact same process that republicans called the steal in 2020 is the same process now that is going to elect these republican primary candidates and it's the same reason for the delay. can they possibly declare this a steal? let's say dr. oz doesn't win because there were no blacks except the lady who lost, this is a very, very non-philly electorate. it used to be that in the 1990s philadelphia and the big four suburban counties passed a third -- used to cast a third of gop primary votes, tuesday was just above a fifth. that's ron brownstein reporting. it ain't philly. it's just the absentee ballots. your thoughts? >> i am wise so i took that as a compliment, joy. it's okay. >> true. >> look, here's the thing, i think you get to the bottom of this, we can mock this. we make fun of it. be like, oh, remembe

and "not my party" on snapchat, tim miller. commissioner, as a seasoned veteran of many police departments, just your initial assessment of the approach it appears law enforcement took in uvalde. we know now at 11:40, the gunman entered the school. 12:47, the tactical team arrived, got in, and finally was able to kill him. that's not to say, as we've said many times, there were not brave officers who confronted him initially but were outgunned. based on what you know, what is your assessment here? >> well, a lot of what we're dealing with, willie, is peculation at this stage. law enforcement in texas has been an embarrassment in terms of the misinformation they've been providing. i teach this in terms of communications in times of crises. you always start off with information is preliminary subject to change. information they've been putting out two, three day after the event has been an embarrassment. there's so much misinformation. we really don't know at this stage what happened in those first 12 minutes, the first hour. we

tim miller, let me bring you in on that. your book opens a harrowing tale of a close friend. am i being a spoiler here. >> that is okay. >> and a close friend who was once and every republican has a story like this and what which we used to know and like and think is normal planned the insurrection pre-party. >> yeah, and she was subpoenaed by this committee. and went and testified. carolyn wren. so that has been in the news before. we are close friends and had worked together on a number of campaigns and i tried to understand what was going through her head when she's making these decisions and explain that in the book which is like it is easy to you know sort of paint all of these picture as sociopaths and racists and bigots, but beneath all of that are real humans that are making descriptions an they're making different judgment calls based on sometimes misinformation they've been fed from people in their eco chamber, sometimes because out of naked political interest, sometimes out of greed and i just wanted to explore all of this in the book and i it is very relevant to t

joining me now, political analyst tim miller. he is a writer at large, and author of the book why we did it. also with me, contributing writer for the atlantic. tim, you and i have sat here many times and talked about that disconnect we have talked about a major political party embrace of white supremacy as you watch this all unfold, what is on your mind? >> first, my hearts go out to the victims in buffalo. it is unimaginable that your loved one would be at a grocery store and not come home. just the fact that for all of these shootings, of course i have been here with you when there have been shootings and i go back a mile from columbine, that horrific tragedy happened when i was in high school. it feels so long ago right now. we can do nothing to mitigate these mass shootings. it is just a horrific failure of our culture, and obviously the republican party unwillingness to do anything. as far as the extremist rhetoric, look, the manifesting that is online right now is indistinguishable from tv segments that you would see on a

she joins me tonight along with tim miller. writer at the bulwark. and the author of the upcoming book, why we did it. a travel log from the republican road to hell. simone, you are from nebraska, and i think would can get lost in this conversation, is this is not always wouldn't briscoe has looked like, right? even at the time you're going to college, republicans, lots of republicans in the state, they were fairly moderate. or at least how they sold themselves. there was in that much daylight between many of the moderate republicans, and the moderate democrats. how do we get here? and what does the future look like for those deep red states as long as you have trump controlling the republican party? >> well, look, i think the story of nebraska, the story many places across the country, i work the governor's race in iraq in 2014. after all across the country more times than i thought. and i'll tell you that voters in nebraska are people who are concerned about farmland. these are people who are concerned, these are small businesses. their concern abo

miller, welcome, welcome everyone. congressman, i actually want to start with you, you know the pulse, which you say should always be taken with a grain of salt they do show that republican incumbent georgia, brian kemp, running away with the primary over his trump endorsed opponent david perdue. alison just finished telling us all about the massive turnout that we're seeing there, what does this signal to you ahead of the midterm elections? congressman if you're speaking we cannot hear you, we're gonna keep the conch -- >> it says basically, that the trump candidates are a mixed bag. in some cases but they work, in some cases they don't. it's not a complete sweep, to be backed by former president trump and i think that a lot of it has to do with the party elders, and elders are running away from it they don't want to be associated with -- and vice president pence and now they want more moderate republican party. it seemed to be walking away from the former president, so, it's a mixed bag and we see what's happening in

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writer for the conservative website the bulwark, tim miller, had this take on the two takes after the ohio primaries. quote, for the second time in a year, shontel brown has demolished nina turner, extending the streak over the progressive left. meanwhile, congressman j.d. vance, an insurrectionist who recently argued an authoritarian potus should ignore the supreme court. and said he doesn't care what happens to ukrainians to the senate. the parties are not the same. wow. >> yeah. so, amy, talk about what happened last night. how did vance win in ohio? >> well, he had the benefit of a really fluid field, first of all. this was -- there were a lot of candidates as you noted. and nobody really got much traction in this race, even though candidates spent a lot of money. i think it was something like $60 million spent on television. donald trump coming in at the last minute, giving j.d. vance enough of a bump to get over the top. as you saw, he doesn't win a majority of the vote. he got something like 30% of the vote. it was enough to get him into first place. what's interesting to me is