trumpland and what is the meaningful impact on that in terms of this investigation. yeah, i meanof first thing, donald trump had a rally against the fact that he no longer controls the justice department and these are no longer his appointees anymore and normal investigative step, the kind of steps a prosecution takes when presented with a claimut when ty are investigating somebody, they want to make sure it was true, they would try to vet it, that s not unusual. itth seems unusual, because of e way that trump had been, treat in the past, or because of the perception of his power, or his visibility, and what is truly unusual, that all of these things are happening, these questions are being asked, ofng former president. yes. i mean i think there is a sim question, of why trump took them, right? i mean we don t know why he won t give them back. we re not exactly sure why he took them in the first place, but maggie haberman, your colleague at the new york times had an interesting,m
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pay their fees in case they sued or arrested forle trying to pul thised off. the key first questions. was itth illegal? yes.s. did they know for sure it was illegal? yes. they knew for sure that it was illegal. next crucial question, did they try to pull it off anyway? of course they tried to pull it off anyway. they did in fact, forge fake electoral college slates of votes. they mailed them in to the national archives as if they were real, hoping they would be counted as if they were real. so was it illegal did they know it? yes. did they try to pull it off anyway? yes. was it occasionally hilarious when they did so. yes. we have been covering this part of trump s plot very closely from the be ving and covering it on the show for month and heading into the hearings where we knew they would address this of the plot, i thought i knew a lot about it and i was confident
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0 connecticut, thank you very much for joining us tonight. that is all in on this wednesday night. the rachel maddow show starts tonight. tonight. connecticut, thank you very much for joining us tonight. that s all in. the rachel maddow begins right now. thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. itg is a very simple progressi. i ll tell you the bottom line, it is still notn. early to figu outit how this is all going to d ultimately, but in terms of where we are now, it is easy, it is very, very, it s logical and straightforward, to figure out where we are in this story. because these are the questions we now know to ask. question number one. was it illegal? if the answer is yes, it was illegal, then the next question is, did they know it was illegal? if the answer was yes, they knew it was illegal, then the next question is, did they try to pull it off anyway? if the answer to that is yes, they tried to pull it off anyway, my next personal question is always, well, w