we havate to remember. worst one of the worst ways to instill confidence in our elections is to throw people in prison who question them. i ourf al gore had asked flot to send an alternate slate of electors after the five hundred vote recount margi n. al gore would have been charged with conspiracy to defraud government. al gore believes he won thatd th election. . his opponent s brother was the governor of florida. in an election this close. you re saying al gore working the phones before certification was illegal? it s preposterous. ion there were alternate electos sent in 1876. oney were alternate sent in 1960 on advice of counsel. trump asked pence to kick it back to the states for recertification, where state legislatures are constitutionally empowered t to determine elections. that s called politics. but apparently trump s politics are such a threat to washington that his politicaltrump speecht could be grounds to throw him
ryan nobles joins us now. they want blood somewhere. reporter: i think you re exactly right, garrett. i think there s a real possibility there will be some sort of impeachment vote before the 20 th election. the question might be exactly who the target of that impeachment vote is. even while there s a loud, perhaps animated, section of the republican house conference that would like to see joe biden s impeachment vote brought to the floor, kevin mccarthy knows how to count votes, is probably concerned that bringing any sort of vote to the floor that could ultimately fail would end up backfiring on the republican conference. what you see happening right now is behind the scenes deliberations about the next best step to confront the biden administration on a long list of topics that republicans have issues with. that may mean targeting some of
president and he wanted to debate jimmy carter. carter went down to defeat against ronald reagan. with us right now the hill senior political correspondent, hannah trudeau. what do you make of this, hannah? yeah, thanks, neil. so it s interesting. i mean, r.f.k. junior, he s not somebody that progressives want to claim as th election really
how we underestimated you, dan quayle, during this period vic president mike pence, he was obviously frantically seekin advice from experts, eventuall he called michael luttig, former judge and deepl respected journalist in th conservative movement. he told pence the same thing pence had zero authority t change the outcome of th election by early january, pence and hi lawyers were in the white hous openly arguing with trump an his lawyer, john eastman about whether or not the vic president had the authority to do what trump wanted, here was pence aide, greg jacob testimony to the general six committee about that ver specific theory. a review of text, history and frankly just common sens all confirm the vice president first instinct on that point there is no justifiable basi to conclude that the vic president has that kind of authority.