election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
same category you just described, barr walks out late december, and so these are the two getting that last credential, turning the lights out at the end. they ve got four weeks left in their tenure, and they face a hostile takeover plot from the environmental guy. that s right, now what stops it is a thin gray line. lawyers in flannel suits who swore an oath and took it seriously and said i ll quit. i ll give up power before i do this. that s the only reason this didn t happen. and i ll make you look bad in the process, donald trump. harry litman, betsy woodruff swan. nick sticks around, 31 arrests over the weekend stopping what could have been an awful, awful scene at a pride event. the new alarming focus for far right extremists targeting the lgbtq community, what s fueling it? what can we do about it? that s next. t? that s next. especially when you have metastatic breast cancer. when your time is threatened, it s hard to invest in your future. until now.
be attorney general. quote, he s never even been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a grand jury, much less a trial jury. clark objects, quote, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals in civil litigation, environmental litigation and things like that clark says according to donohue s deposition. that s right, donohue says. you re an environmental lawyer. how about you go back to your office and we ll call you when there s an oil spill. maybe trolls would call that a solid burn. betsy, what s so amazing is the lord of the flies element to these clashes taking place in front of donald trump, and i m guessing that s his jam. he loves that. yeah, no question one of the more distinctive components of shall we say trump s leadership style was that he loved watching his aides fight with each other.
had been building up, nicole, for weeks before january 6th. donald trump getting this idea from eastman and others that pence, as he presided over that counting of the electoral votes, could actually throw out electoral votes and pence characterizes it correctly. the idea was that one man, one person, could overturn a presidential election. could throw out, effectively, tens of millions of actual votes and throw the election to donald trump. and this took place in a series of meetings, and including a phone call on the morning of january 6th as pence was preparing to head up to the capitol to do this duty, and as you remember, it had been reported by the new york times that trump had told pence you could either be a patriot or you could be a and i won t use the word. and i asked trump about that in the writing of betrayal, and i assumed he would deny it and he
the delivery there can distract from the boom that she lowers on donald trump, but they clearly have nine and a half hours of testimony from the former vice president s chief of staff under subpoenas, his former i m sorry, former chief counsel, his former chief of staff also testified and judge luttig, a source close to him promises that he will be giving his final opinion in his live testimony thursday. this is a real exclamation point in the testimony because here we are talking about a plot that doesn t involve violence, to use new electors. we re debating constitutionality. we re talking about whether the courts might intervene or whether we could have a constitutional crisis. and all of a sudden, we re talking about violence. and that s insurrection, a charge we haven t really talked about. we ve been talking about interference with congress. that s so interesting. but you know, that raises this whole notion of seditious conspiracy, and something that has been lacking or