meadows broke with longstanding policy and pressured the doj to look into election fraud claims. the wildest theory was this thing called italy-gate. mark meadows sent an email to the acting attorney general at the time asking him to look into this theory that there was some italian contractor who was using satellites to change vote tallies on machines, voting machines in the united states. on a december 27th call with the new acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, trump pushed him to quote just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. trump knows that if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they re investigating it or looking into it, that allows republican congressmen to go out
he did so nine times. and as chief of staff mark meadows broke with long standing policy and pressured the doj to look into election fraud claims. the wildest theory was this thing called italy gate. mark meadows sent an email to the acting attorney general at the time asking him to look into this theory that there was some italian contractor who was using satellites to change vote tallies on mans, voting mans in the united states. on a december 27th call with the new acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, trump pushed him to quote just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. trump knows that if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they re inzestvestigating r looking into it, that allows
richard donohue, trump directly asked the doj to undermine the outcome of the election. he did so nine times. and as chief of staff mark meadows broke with long standing policy and pressured the doj to look into election fraud claims. the wildest theory was this thing called italy gate. mark meadows sent an email to the acting attorney general at the time asking him to look into this theory that there was some italian contractor who was using satellites to change vote tallies on mans, voting machines in the united states. on a december 27th call with the new acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, trump pushed him to quote just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. trump knows that if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they re investigating it or looking into it, that allows
of money sloshing around in the background behind the january 6 rally and behind the raid, the riot, in the capitol. for instance, we know that the bradley foundation, which is a big funder, gave money to turning point usa and to public interest legal foundation and it gets more interesting because turningpoint usa has a twin called turningpoint action, which also got money from the judicial crisis network to support the so-called italy gate, the debunked italy gate theory. at the same time the public interest legal foundation had as its director mr. eastman cranking out his fanciful memo for president trump how to overturn the election.
0 about a conversation that i m not i m stunned that you can t recall that. so let s talk about afghanistan. the secretary undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. the question is what s changed? you say always. has any recent event changed the likelihood of an attack? i don t know. you don t know that we withdrew from afghanistan. i know we withdrew. i don t no if it will increase the risk from al qaeda or not. you are the attorney general of the united states. due to the lack of ability to have eyes and ears on the ground there was testimony and the unreliability of the taliban that an attack on the united states within six months or a year is far more likely after a withdrawal, you re not aware he said t