one witness, stephen ayres, who has since pleaded guilty, answer trump s call. we didn t actually plan to go down there. you know, we went basically, to stop the steal rally. and that s it. why did you decide to march in the capital? basically, the president got everyone riled up. told everyone to head on down. so, basically, we fault but he said. the committee unveiling never before seen depositions and communications amongst trump insiders, showing that the former president ignored the advice of his own advisers and, instead, leaned on the council of election deniers like sydney powell, michael flynn and rudy giuliani. categorically describe it as, you guys are not tough enough. maybe, put it another way, you are a bunch of weaklings. excuse the expression.
attempted to contact a witness, and they turn that over. they informed the doj. is the doj obligated to follow up on that? it s very hard, nothing actually happened. because the person ever reached the witness. but there is a general overall problem here. the fact that they are paying the lawyers fees, for all of these various people. what it means is, that these lawyers have all entered into a joint defense agreement. something that is very common. when you enter into a joint defense agreement. it means you can then tell each and every lawyer who is part of that agreement. who is testifying, what they are saying. all of that is normally proper. but if you are using that information in some way to find out, who the people are that might be writing you out. or might be talking or cooperating. that s when it comes into a problem. i don t think that s really been explained, that s the underlying issue here. where do you see this, going quickly? i see this going, being tied up next
that s the word that was used. trump knew he lost the election but was driven to overturn the results anyway. president trump is a 76-year-old man. he is not an impressionable child. just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices. a drive that led to iraq s meeting at the white house in the middle of december. trump wanted to name attorney sydney powell as special counsel in order to seize voting machines. the president said, okay. i m giving her security colored s. possible any testified that he was just pleased to see people like powell and flynn in the oval office. telling trump, naming pell special counsel was a grave mistake. federal government sees those voting machines is a terrible idea. that is not how we do things in the united states. there s no legal authority to do that. i don t think any of these
must-see tv. do you ever hear yourself and think that it sounds ridiculous? no. i know myself very well. i ve been in me a long time. i know my reputation. attorney sydney powell was part of the self-proclaimed elite strike force, a team of lawyers who made false promises about rooting out election fraud. powell and others accused voting technology companies, dominion voting systems and smartmatic of using an algorithm in their machines to flip votes from then president trump to joe biden. there s no evidence of any voting system used in the last election changed, deleted or lost votes. during a tense interview powell was grilled about her claims and her research or lack thereof. let s get a few simple facts straight. in how many states were smartmatic machines and software used in the 2020 election? i don t even know the tact exact numbers. a google search would tell you let alone smartmatic have
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