yasmin vossoughian. i ll be back later with a report on the january six. hearings simone sanders starts. now greetings, you are watching simone. one of the most conservative judicial minds in america, tell us the january six committee, donald trump and his allies are still a clear and present danger to our democracy. that is happening right in front arise. plus, i have been saying, and republicans go low, it is time to go toe to toe. so i am asking, why aren t democrats changing from the we ve tops about ginni thomas and her alleged emails to trump attorney john eastman? you know, at the architect of the attempted coup. and, law versus protocol, i am very struck by how much the government functions on protocols that are not rules of law. so, we are going to dig into the difference today, and how this was on full display on january 6th. i am simone sanders, and i have something to say. e sanders, and i hav something to say
my thoughts. you heard my comments at the top of the show. the committee also talked about . no. gets no, gets it is appalling because this was in fact seen attack on our democracy. it wasn t an attack on one political party. the committee this week though, they also revealed and some emails from john eastman and rudy giuliani, and eastman is demanding to be on trump s pardoned list. now congressman, as you know these hearings are not a court of law, but they are definitely a part of the court of public opinion. so i m wondering if you can weigh in here on how a republican congress person goes about defending donald trump s reliance on the east and overturn the election, when we all know that he didn t even believe what he was telling the american people. because much like mike pence, a whole lot of them are guilty. all of them are. they are all willing to go along with this very dangerous person in the leadership of the party, and for four years, leadership of the country, for
republicans in his own party turned against him when the supreme court said that he does not own the tapes, which are smoking gun of sorts. nixon put the country first. i wouldn t of thought that 20 years ago, but i didn t envision donald trump. but it in retrospect, at least nixon had the decency to recognize that he broke the law. he didn t pardon or try to pardon this massive group of people around him. so john earl min, and haldeman, and they went to prison. jonnel trump yesterday s talk about a blanket pardon to anybody dealing with the january 6th insurrection. so nixon is part of the family of presidents, somebody who abused power, paid a high price for. it donald trump is somebody not in the american tradition of the presidency, but one of a mafioso leaders, and of a global dictators. and so it has been, it is sad to watch this hearing and realize the trump s, has put
exist. so mike pence was just stay out of jail and be on the right side of history. which alas, he was. but richard nixon, simone used to say that, if the president does it or says it, it is not illegal. and that kind of hubris scott nixon in deep trouble. he had to flee the white house, as we know. and go back to san clemente and shame. and, donald trump believes that to. it is the mindset of a mafioso. it is the mindset of a dictator, but thankfully in our country, we do free and fair elections. yes. so, douglas, i m wondering if you can really break down then, how does actual history matchup with john eastman s claims that they were both legal authority and historical precedent who having a slate of alternative trump electors, if you will for key battleground states in the 2020 election? like, make it make sense.
lauding of mike pence as a hero for his actions and generous sex. what sort of like chris rock was saying, folks like to kai might take a, you said you re supposed to take care of your. kids so this whole deal of praising mike kid pence for ignoring donald trump, that s your supposed to do do your job. but it is also, remember, he did not call the fbi. when they came with this coup plan, he called dan quayle to get his advice on it. and so mike pence could have actually done more. when we have to understand here, is that if this goes beyond donald trump, simone. this is an entire apparatus. the republican party, from the top to the bottom, that was involved in this the entire conservative movement. talk about lawyers, think tanks, and others. this is what s coups are all about. this is a desperate attempt to hold on to power, and democrats and progressives better stop