personality that s fueled by the qualities of cowardice. all of these people, by and large, that we re talking about have taken an oath to the constitution of the united states, and this man was engaged in an effort to overthrow the government of the united states in about the 244th year of the independence of the country. it s an ongoing conspiracy, an ongoing plot. it s playing out in realtime, and these people are more faithful to their ambitions, to their careers, to their to everything except for the oath they took to the constitution of the united states and to their duty to this country, which faces a real threat from a real autocratic movement. and so, yeah, you know, trump is a thug in the sense that he seems to intimidate, he seeks to
about these bans and about the conversation, but it s a fight that has to be fought. so many levels of government at across the country. at the same time. it s just so startling to think that meeting the other side in the middle would inherently mean that kids are exposed to less because they re so extreme in terms of what they want banned. we re going to ask you to stick around through a quick break. much more on the other side. stay with us. ak much more on the other side. stay with us i brought in ensure max protein,
control, he seeks to punish dissent. and not for nothing, it meant something in 2020 when the republican party abandoned any and all pretense of having a platform at the convention that had to do with issues. it was a loyalty test. the platform of the party is to be loyal to a man, to an individual above all things and that includes the american constitution in this moment. and this is this is happening plain as day in this country. no debate about it, no argument about it. look at what trump said at his rally. right, and this is not us saying it. this is what they put into writing in the gop platform, our platform is trump. garrett, i want to switch gears with you. there is some breaking news on capitol hill. u.s. senator lujan s office has put out a statement that he suffered a stroke. he s resting and expected to make a full recovery, according
america movement. also an msnbc contributor. and nbc legal analyst, joyce vance is here. mike, take us through what you and your colleagues are reporting today. i think the biggest takeaway and the reason we thought this story was so important is that it draws trump into these efforts in a new and more direct way. we ve known for the past year about a range of different efforts that were undertaken by trump and his allies and republicans across the country to overturn the election. we know that in many of those instances, trump was you know, using his own sort of cajoling and calling and pushing and pressuring people. but what we think sets this apart is the consideration, the exploration of using the powers of the federal government. the three of the most powerful institutions not only in the
17th. number one, president trump won on the 3rd of november. the things that he needs to do right now is he needs to appoint a special counsel immediately. he needs to seize all of these dominion and other voting machines that we have across the country. he could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the county country. he could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election in those states. i remember seeing that and covering that and seeing some of your colleagues tweeting about flynn s influence at the time and there was this sense that that was the nut wing and that the nuts were sort of alongside the guardrails and what is revealed through your reporting and other revelations is that the nuts had trump s attention. he was forum shopping by this