over throw of an american election but also to preserve american democracy period. every day it seems like more new video emerges from january 6th including this closeup view from "the new york times" showing the mayhem at the front lines of the capitol and given how just insane what we witnessed that day was and all that we have learned in the months since, the simple fact is it actually just has to be illegal to try to over throw the government full stop. but if it isn't illegal, if what we saw on january 6th didn't include major crimes against the united states, there really is no united states. there is no democracy. donald trump tried to overturn a free and fair election. he did it overtly and covertly. he tried to under cut the election on the front end. tried to get ukraine to announce a fake investigation and lied about mail in voting and on and on and on and tried to undo it on the back end. first, he tried to nullify the electoral votes from the