that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo
world. and welcome to this special edition of hannity countdown to iowa. ecial edn of hay the 2024 presidential election that will kick off in exactlym toni one week from tonight. we should have full results fromghhoull the republican iowt next monday, but don t expect anexpect ay from democrats withy complicated mail in voting system and the reshuffling of the democratic party s primary calendar . we won t get an official tally m for months now. of coursonths.e, barring a majop and fall, biden will almost certainly be thethe bi democratic nominee. the big question tonight, why joe biden has been a terrible president. his approval numbers show it. his show it. t doesn his cabinet doesn t even bother to keep him in the loop on major issueto keep n ths. no one even bothered to tell you a president joe biden and his secretary of defense was actually incapacitated in icu for several days. i m just wondering out loud well, what if we had a national emergency or some internati
this is the pentagon. this is the this is the chain command. we put all of these assets in harm s way. wen ay. have hundreds of thousandsmi of military servicemen and women who putawoment their the line. and you know what? there s a chain of command that this has commander in chie. does not take charge. by then t grab it but it doesn t grab it and make it happen. this commander in chieenf is jui absolutely impotent when it comes to running the unitetd states. all right, jason, thank you.th sean, realan quickk yo. ething l any of those soldiers pull something like this, they would have been firewould he woud. arl they would be court martialed and they all know it. geis wasedey a this secretary of defense was a general for 30 years. and if you pulled somethingcommn like this with your commanding officer, you would be out of there . and he needs to lead by example. and i think this is this is aat resignation or a firable offense in morey view. all right. thank you both. happy new ye
being infected with fraud, he went to washington because of that tweet. because he felt like the president invited him. a lot of people told us that. the tweet, which comes when all of those doors are locked during the crazy meeting, ends up being, i think as you said in the lead in, the spark that starts the fire that blazes up the capital on january 6th. tim, it puts him in the chain command of something other than the u.s. military. standby, what s the call to arm? be there, we will be wild, that the call to charge. tell me how that ties into the violence? almost every time i join you, talk about the special counsel s primary task. the president s intent, president s knowledge, presence awareness. his specific desire to interrupt the joint session. his tweet after the crazy ideas are thrown around at that
few days, so she was asked about this, and seemingly confirming this reporting that we have from this book as you just said. she said that she confirmed it by saying it wasn t a question of cutting donald trump out of the chain of command, it was a quek of what the checks and balances were on that chain command. and you know, it is also interesting because she addressed the rumors that former president donald trump might run for president and she said if he runs in 2024, she predicts that he would lose. take a listen. i don t ever talk about him. i mean, i reference him from time to time. but i don t think that we have a situation that is on the level there. and if he wants to run again, he ll be the first president who was impeached twice and defeated twice. reporter: so lots of interesting news coming from house speaker nancy pelosi during this visit in london.