it through enforcement, professor american history at yale university, and steven levitskiy is a professor of history at harvard university. two days before judge michael luttig got a phone call that may have changed the course of history for this nation. then, a capitol police officer who risked his life on january six is hoping to serve his country to different way, this time as an elected official. plus i will talk to california colorado secretary of state janet griswold on the heels of the decision to see whether trump is eligible to be on the stage primary ballot. another hour of velshi starts right now. good morning, it s saturday december the six. i m ali velshi. it s been three years since that mob attacked the united states capitol as part of donald trump s desperate attempt to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election. that attack lasted only a few hours, but the long shadow of the violent insurrection continues to loom large over american dem
publicly. we need to get your voice out to the country. luttig was willing to help, but he didn t quite know how. he was retired, he couldn t think he didn t think he had much of a platform. how would he get his message to the message? you remember thinking, i don t even have a fax machine. then he remembered that he opened an account on social media website called twitter a few months before, but he barely use the site, didn t really know how to work it. so with urgency, judge luttig typed out his statement. he looked up how to make a tweet thread, and on january 5th, he tweeted out a seventh tweet thread statement reading in part, quote, the only responsibility and power of the vice president under the constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. the constitution does not empower the vice president to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise, end quote. and that was apparently what mi