establishing that donald trump knew he lost, that donald trump knew he couldn t win, even the fox news election official chris stirewalt s testimony that there was no way trump can win. in the history of recounts, no one makes up thousands of votes. you only recount when it s a matter of hundreds. is the theory of the case that donald trump knew he hadn t won, couldn t win, didn t win and was trying to plot this coup from inside and that it all comes together? this doj reporting from the washington post makes clear that trump was on the edge of the knife, the pence evidence that we ve seen so far makes clear that pence was casting about for advice to dan quayle to judge michael ludig who i know is a witness on thursday. what is sort of the tension in terms of what we have not seen yet in terms of the evidence? i think a lot of what we are going to lay out is evidence that there were people who were
fraudulent, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? it takes on this dark comedy with you going, you know, you heard those chants. it was terrible. well, hanging isn t terrible. they re angry, jon. it is insane. i mean, not even a moment of pause. well, that s nuts, they shouldn t he was going on. one other really important point about judge luttig, who you point out had advised pence that he didn t have the constitutional authority to overturn an election, the other thing that luttig told me, and i expect we will hear from him at the hearing on thursday is, while it is clear that pence did not have the authority to do that, it s entirely unclear who would have had the authority to stop him if he had tried. and in luttig s view, if pence had gone through and done what trump wanted to do, we would have been thrust into a constitutional crisis unlike any the country has ever seen, and it s unclear if the supreme
the vice president with no such authority. before the joint session of congress. and the truth is, there s almost no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. hi again, everyone, it s 5:00 in new york. in the face of a brutal and unrelenting pressure campaign waged by donald trump and his end game allies in the face of hundreds of angry insurrectionists, literally chanting hang mike pence and a gallows that was erected outside the capitol building, the former vice president on the night of january 6th ended up honoring his oath to the constitution, and he certified the electoral college vote count, formalizing president joe biden s victory. but it is that failed attempt by the ex-president to have pence stop the counting of electoral votes, something he didn t have the authority to do, that will be the focus of the january 6th
free speech. freedom of assembly. the nature of social media being so pervasive that the fbi can t possibly monitor it all, even if they were allowed to do so. getting in after the fact, cleaning up the carnage after the wreck has occurred and relying on a citizen to call in 9 11 in coeur d alene, idaho. you know, human nature tends to default to its lowest common denominator. you asked about where the bottom is, where we declare this is enough, we re here. we re not driving this train. social media at our lowest, depraved capabilities as humans is driving this and the legislative solutions like being able to declare a group a domestic terrorism organization just like we do for international terrorism, is highly problematic. could easily be abused by a former president like trump. yeah, i ll declare that group. i ll declare antifa via twitter, domestic terrorism organization, whether it exists or not.
trump s direction or eastman s direction? yeah, so first of all, you re absolutely right. i mean, barr s comment about a whac-a-mole game is very apt, except this mole turns out to have needed quite big whacking. clark is everyone saw him if they had ever even heard of him as this obscure sort of figure, and it turns out that he s this ruthless ambitious machine, and that s what trump was able to try to exploit. is he looking at criminal liability? you bet, and that s why he and his lawyer have insisted on taking the 5th because this was a scheme he was attempting to do to make that is its bottomed on a lie to make georgia officials essentially overturn the lawful results of the election. there are two crimes that he could be on the hook for, but just generally the way trump s sort of management style married