like donald trump, whose kin of the loopholes, to find a wa and say, well, wait a second what if i did it like this and they were like, that s actually not written down that you can do it like that, but everyone knows, it s ceremonial everyone knows that it s bee approved by all of the states. they ve all sent their slate o electors and they said, well, what if w don t do that. and i think with this language is saying is that you can t. you re trying to play a card that no one should play, and what it s officially sayin that that card is taken out of the deck loophole, officially closed carlos, in your opinion, i this reform enough to stop trump or someone like him? in terms of what he specifically tried to do on th 6th of january, to influence or to manipulate his vic president, to just get up on that ross trump, and say, hey, you know, whatever the law is, ignore it. you have the power, as he told the multiple times, mike, yo have the power, people are counting on us
house took a big step in tha direction, passing the 1.7 trillion dollar omnibus fundin bill one part of it modernizes th electoral count act, making it a whole lot harder for someone to try, what trump tried to do in 2020. joining me now to discuss is linda gallon, aka th internet s very popular an informative politics girl. and former florida republica congressman, carlos curbelo, now an msnbc political analyst carlos, can explain how th update of the electoral coun act is gonna work? well, steph, what i ll tell you is what i think is mos important. so, we know what donald trum thought the weak spot was. he thought that he could convince mike pence to just ge up there on that speakers rush room in the house, and just do whatever he wanted, cancel votes, declare certain votes invalid. so, the most important thing people have to understand abou this electoral count act refor is that it makes it very clear
look, there was a first phase. trump gives a speech at th ellipse, he s telling the crowd, let s take back our countr from an election stolen. you have to fight like hell. when you catch someone in fraud, you can go by different rules. he says all of that. at the very same time, the proud boys were attacking th capitol. that was phase one what the report says is th d.c. police were able to fight that back. the problem was, trump s speec at the ellipse induced doe thousands of people to march from the ellipse, to the capital, overwhelming th police resources at the capitol. that timing, and the way the did it, with such methodical step-by-step proof, i think, i enormously important project myth the other thing i would say, i you start to read through thes transcripts that, very striking, is i have never seen so many people forget so much. i mean, a stone or conventio
similar functional equivalence but clearly, the fbi does, the department of justice does there are other law enforcemen agencies which do. i do not know exactly what cassidy hutchinson is involved in now in terms of her testifying, and being a witnes but i certainly hope that on way or another she is gettin good security and good protection because these peopl have run out of arguments an at this point, intimidation an coercion are all really what they seem to have left but when they say that our investigation was one-sided, i just tell them yes it wa one-sided. it was one side of the truth and the facts, and we had bipartisan committee that wa committed to one thing, whic is getting to the truth and th facts. they have some alternative theories about how it wa really antifa that did this an it wasn t donald trump, brin it on, we would like to see it but at this point, the vas majority of the witnesses were
that s no longer an option for anyone because the law now i very explicit in that the vice president is just like any other person up there. they have to accept th electors that are said by th states, and they have to preside over the ceremony. it s a ceremony. this is not, like, whe congress gets together, an there is debate, and people tr to influence one another it s a ceremony, and the law makes it clear now that it s a ceremony and that the will of each stat has to be respected. so, this is very important it s a bipartisan achievement. look, a lot of people in the country didn t get the kind of elections they wanted, but people should know, as we go into the holidays, that this i a gift to the nation, becaus it s gonna make our democrac stronger it s gonna protect our kasea freedoms something under every american s christmas tree. leigh, this full report is ove 800 pages long how would you go about breakin