machines. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they had prepared for president trump to further his ands. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump s white house advisers. they traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty towards the president and even exchanges to physically fight. they threatened to beat one another up in the white house. details of that night were revealed during a video of closed-door depositions, including one with former white house counsel pat cipollone. i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn, who saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. cipollone and herschmann and whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. the three of them were
willfully blind. melissa, how key is this? because up until now, trump kind of rolls a mob boss style, that he never signs his name, is not the one on the phone, and it s a trump associate or ally that does it, but never him. this is critical, stephanie, because the real question is, and many people have noted it, is trying to figure out what the president knew, when he knew it, and whether or not there was an agreement. the critical point of a criminal conspiracy is that moment of agreement. and it seems that by putting all of these people, who are really extreme, seems somewhat deranged, on the stage, to sort of testify to having all of these different plans afoot, and to sort of distance the president from it. like, that could be their sort of strategy to muddy the waters about what his mental state was, what his intent was, going into all of this. and i think this was representative cheney s very earnest attempt to rebut that kind of strategy, and to make clear that he was the
he was the one who set this in motion, who incited this mob, and brought his people to the capitol. and he did it, not spontaneously, but in a way that was deeply, deeply premeditated. melissa, you have not taken us to your kitchen before. i am thrilled to be there tonight. that celery green is giving me life. not mike it s an, stephanie. whatever it is, it s fantastic! frank, we are not in your kitchen. but let s get in your head. i wanna talk about december 18th. that meeting at the white house, you ve got white house officials, election deniers, all their, screaming at one another, eating swedish meatballs, threatening fistfights. but beyond the drama, they are actually pushing really crazy dangerous ideas. they wanted trump to consider seizing voting machines. and i want to show what pat cipollone said at that time. to have the federal government seize voting machines, that s a terrible idea for the country.
lot of crazy things including considering seizing voting machines. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they had prepared for president trump to further his ends. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump s white house advisers. they traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty towards the president and even exchanges to physically fight. they threatened to beat one another up in the white house. details of that night were revealed during a video of closed-door depositions, including one with former white house counsel pat cipollone. i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. cipollone and herschmann and whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. the three of them were
he absolutely created a thing that cannot stop now. marjorie taylor greene is sitting in her petri dish, trying to do that, as we speak. ben collins, thank you so much. coming up, how the cult like devotion to trump s trip to washington? and pressured republicans into keeping him in power. we re gonna go one-on-one with mark leibovich, when the 11th hour continues. , when the 11t hour continues