the areas jack smith is focused on. i trust you ve never seen anything like that. it does show you a lot of different voices in that room who may have something to add to what was going on behind the scenes. the most important thing was in a lot of meetings that involved lawyers, white house counsel, and the white house counsel was there to tell you what the parameters were that you could do. they were there to offer legal judgment. what s really important here and central to jack smith is if he was getting guidance from the white house counsel that something was not legal, that something was breaking norms, that something was beyond the pale in terms of the proposals being brought to him by this strange collection of expertise theorists, if he heard that advice from his own lawyer and chose to disregard it, that means not only he was trying to overturn the election but he was being told what he was doing was
to that day s events as well as attempts to overturn the election. for expertise theorists like roger stone and al exjones, it s a deadline to hand over documents. for trump s former national security adviser michael flynn and his body man, nicholas luna, it was supposed to be the day for their congressional depositions, but they have been postponed. while all this goes on, the cover of the atlantic captures the growing, really scary fears that attempts to overturn the 2020 election were just practice, practice for what s to come in 2024. i want to bring in ali vitali on capitol hill and harry litman, former u.s. attorney who served as deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. ali, more depositions postponed. i cannot imagine it means these guys are working with the committee. we re talking about michael flynn here. reporter: yeah, so, stephanie as i was talking with the committee this morning, we found out that these two depositions for nick luna and michael flynn
it is somewhat faint. it s like saying to use a grateful dead reference that hardcore deadheads will know, a very organized drums and space sequence is still a drums and space sequence. anyone? no? no? malcolm? not going to hit on that. malcolm, anything? can i just say one last thing about this? sure. the person donald trump will be looking for next can be encapsulated in the character from the movie, you know, general jack t. ripper, right? the guy who believes in expertise theorists and will go along with whatever donald trump says. a chilling final note. end on a slightly lighter note but you took us to a much darker and depressing place about the future of national security in america, but you know, that s your right as our expert, appreciate each of you tonight. thank you. thank you. when we come back, in just 30 seconds, democrats expanding the scope of their impeachment probe with a historic vote this