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what defenses trump migh offer. nonetheless, there is ever reason to believe here tha there is a case for doj to mov forward with yeah. the thing that i was thinkin about as i was reading through the chapter this afternoon was these two individuals, donal trump and john eastman, have already been identified by a federal district judge in motion around privilege. to have more likely than not to have committed a crime. specifically in what the undertook together in this pursuit. this is what a judge i southern california district court who said basically the evidence court finds that more likely than not, trump and dr. eastman dishonestly conspire to obstruct the joint sessio of congress on january 6th 2021 so you have already before thi report, renato, a federal judg saying there is something here it is not beyond a shadow of
i assume that you re not - using the same boat i am that s why we re gonna g through the final report here. looking at who s read it closely. obviously a ton of information we re gonna get to we want to start tonight with particularly revealing section it s chapter five which is titled a coup in search of a legal theory that title is important becaus it outlines exactly what donal trump is doing in the days leading up to january six. the point is, they hadn t ha results in mind. a coup the first in american history. the first time that the sittin president would overturn the will of the voters they wanted to declare donal
with the clear intention o making sure that neither donal trump nor anybody else can use it to try, ever try to overtur an election again. joining me now is professor of law and political science in ucla, founding th election law block what s been calling consistently and loudl for formal electoral count act rick, this has been somethin we have talked about in this program, you have been talking about it to a lot of folks election law advocates and experts. what do you make of what congress did last week in that on the bus spending bill well, it is both absolutely necessary that it happened and also remarkable that i happened and it took to the last minute was of the very last thing the did before they left but they got it done and it is a considerable improvement of what we had the last law from 1887 was incomprehensible in parts. and, it did have these ambiguities that donald trum tried to exploit and that coul have been exploited again in the future so, it is really good news an