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
fundamentally disagree that there should be some carve out in the constitution for the president. donald trump should not be above the law, above the constitution. a president should not have that type of power. it would set an extremely dangerous precedent to say that a president can break whatever law reconstitution prison that they want to as president. that is what would really lead us to a downward spiral and a degrading of democracy like we ve never seen before in this country. in the last hour, i spoke with a colleague from maine, secretary of state janet pelosi concluded that section three and four of the 14th amendment is self executing, meaning that a criminal prosecution is not necessary in this case to determine whether donald trump is disqualified. however, as you just pointed out, there was not a criminal prosecution in this case, but there was a process, a very robust process, in colorado and in maine that determined that donald trump engaged in insurrection. so we are
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