The violence at the capitol on january 6th, 2021 was just the most visible part of Donald Trumps attempt to hold on to power. Tonight, we talk to those who witnessed the whole plot unfurl and tried to stop it. The lines this election was stolen from you, from me, from the country. If you ask how Many Republican congressmen believe donald trump was reelected, i would say maybe a couple. But 60 of our base does. Conspiracy theories that could have been mickey mouse. This is the craziest thing ive ever seen. And people just bought it. Lawsuits. They tried to not have your votes count. They did not want your vote to count. Potentially illegal Pressure Campaigns. I just want to find 11,780 votes. What he was asking for wasnt supported by the facts. Wasnt supported by the constitution. Extraordinary scheming. Lets talk about this. Just Breath Taking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. And all too many in the Republican Party we belie
trump campaign lawyer named jenna ellis. according to betrayal, the final act of the trump show, a book by abc s jonathan carl, the former president s own chief of staff, mark meadows, forwarded the he willis memo to pence s top aide. there is been so much talk about this memo the john eastman wrote. he didn t even work at the white house. he was some outside lawyer. but meadows is forwarding a document that outlines the effort to have a coup. a document written by a lawyer on the trump campaign pay roll. publicly, pence raised the hope of trump supporters, telling one georgia rally we ll have our day in congress. we ll hear the objections. we ll hear the evidence. pence reached out to others to see if there was some way he could carry out this unconstitutional move, including, according to washington post journalists bob woodward and bob costa, dan