vice president mike pence and senior government officials warned trump and his co-conspirators efforts to hold on to power could lead to civil unrest. it also highlights how on january 4th, 2021, after one unnamed co-conspirator acknowledged to a senior trump adviser that, quote, no court would support his proposal to reject electoral votes cast for president biden, the adviser responded, quote, you are going to cause riots in the street. joe, all these quotes, and i encourage people to sit with this document, to read it, 45 pages, are coming from people who worked for and alongside donald trump. jonathan lemire is still with us and joining the conversation this morning we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former u.s. senator, now on nbc news and a political analyst claire mccaskill, nbc news legal analyst andrew weisman, new
right to lie. then he moves on to the conspiracies he took part in where he laid it out specifically the rights of voters. the rights of voters. jeffrey clark s name in there makes one eric hirschman prescient who, as we learned again, another donald trump lawyer, a donald trump lawyer who defended him through impeachment, defended him to the very end up until january the 6th, telling jeffrey clark, you d better get yourself a good criminal defense attorney. and we found out yesterday afternoon at about 5:30 that eric hirschman, once again, was right. yeah, even a lot of those people in the trenches right up to the end knew when it was time to get out including hirschman. joe, the new york post is playing it straight today. conspiracy to defraud the united states, talking about donald trump, the new york daily news, crimes against democracy this is headline news in papers not just across the country but around the world. chuck rosenberg, your name was
two weeks before the presidential election. they all stayed with him. they re the ones who are testifying now against him because it was so blatant, it was so un-american, it was so treasonous. no democrats here. all trumpers. the most powerful part to the january 6 house committee was when it was republicans, trumpers who were offering their testimony about what he did, the same is true here in this document. these are republicans. these are die hard republicans, die hard trumpers. that is, these are republicans who stood in the breach. they did the right thing, but some of them suffered real electoral consequences. rusty bowers, he got crushed in the republican primary trying to be house speaker again in arizona. liz cheney, representative cheney, was the star of the january 6 hearings, she got crushed in the republican primary in the aftermath. evidence this is still donald
trump s party. are there exceptions? brad raffensperger won re-election as georgia secretary of state. what we re seeing here from other candidates on the campaign trail that includes tim scott, governor desantis, just about all of them, save maybe chris christie and asa hutchinson, they re all still toeing the line and donald trump is the odds-on favorite to be the nominee again next year. of course it could be a different story in the general election which is going to be happening, andrew weissmann, against the backdrop of, we think, this trial. and we heard from trump s lawyers previewing what we think their defenses will be. the biggest part is, well, he believed he believed that he won. he believed the election was stolen from him. the indictment shows otherwise, the evidence people were telling him, sir, no, you lost. that s going to be trump s mind-set. i won. so talk to us. is that going to be potentially effective defense?
real-time notice. in arizona, the arizona speaker of the house, who was pushed and pressured by donald trump, said if there were evidence of illegal votes or an improper account, arizona provides a process to contest the election. but the law does not authorize the reversal of the results of an election. i don t like the results of the presidential election. i voted for president trump and worked hard to re-elect him, but i cannot and will not entertain the suggestion that we violate current law to change the outcome of a certified election. and his life was changed. arizona voters chose it and our system requires that an evangelical, a republican, lifetime republican, a trump supporters refused to do it. in georgia a senior campaign adviser told donald trump that his dead voters claim was untrue, and he wrote this, he