specific states. if in when pence did that, by vaguely citing allegations of fraud in those states and quote returning their votes to the state legislature, pence would succeed in lowering biden s electoral vote total to below 270. which would immediately trigger under the 12th amendment a contingent election. the house contingent election the one place where trump could still, quote, win the election. again, those are the three rings of sort of the attack that jaskin i think presciently describes in terms of what was going on, on january 6. of course there is tonight ahead of attorney general speech tomorrow. merrick garland, 2:30 p.m. will give an address to justice department staff and the american public about the january 6th investigation and prosecution. there s tonight still a wide open pressing question, as to whether anybody in that inner
that they seem to know were unfortified in particular areas. they were the ones who led the attack on our officers and started hitting them over the head with steel pipes and confederate battle flags and so on. then there was the inside action, donald trump trying to figure out a way to intimidate mike pence and this is what we call the realm of the coup. it is a weird word in american political parlance, we don t have a lot of experience with coups and we think of a coup as something taking place against a president, this was a coup organized by the president against the vice president and against the congress in order to try to get rid of enough electoral college votes just get pence to rebuff pennsylvania, arizona, georgia and lower biden s total below 270, kick it into the house of representatives for a so-called contingent election. and they wanted that there because in a contingent election under the 12th amendment, we vote not one member one vote but one state one vote. and the
doesn t have power to do, but they were trying to get him to do that in order to lower joe biden s majority in the electoral college from 306 to something below 270 in order to kick the whole election into the house of representatives for a so-called contingent election. and given the fact that rudy giuliani, one of trump s closest circle, were involved in this now, do you read that as the justice department opening an investigation that connects to trump himself? well, you know, if you follow the house of representatives, which obviously i do, he was impeached for inciting violent insurrection back on january 13th of 2021. so a majority in the house of representatives had seen enough after one week, had seen enough evidence after one week to know that this was the president s plan. but what has taken place since
ballot boxes tarp seized. obviously, they were throwing a lot of spaghetti on the wall as i talk about it in my book. although i read today one of the republicans used to a somewhat more vivid and vulgar decision of what they were throwing against the wall. they were trying to do anything to derail the peaceful transition of power. this was one plan apparently that was not executed. we ll be interested next checking it out, nonetheless for purposes of telling the american people what we need to worry about and prepare for in the future, but all of it really came down to the violence that was unleashed against us and the plan to get mike pence to declare these powers to unilaterally re-elect electoral votes in order to kick the whole contest into the house of representatives for a so-called contingent election under the 12th amendment, we would be voting not one member one vote, but one state, one vote.
from one of his e-mails. this i think has been from what i understand a month s long pursuit from the committee here. what do you hope to get out of him? yeah. we don t want any of, you know, our evidence collection efforts to be reduced to a game of cat and mouse. it s not hide and go seek. when the congress comes calling you turn over the information you have. eastman was the legal architect or one of the legal architects of the strategy of falsely thwarting joe biden s 306 majority in the electoral college, reducing that 306 vote to something below 270 in order to kick the election into the house of representatives for a so-called contingent election under the 12th amendment to the constitution and the whole guiding purpose there was they understood there we vote not one member but one state one vote and the gop had 27 state delegations, the democrats had 22, pennsylvania was split, and