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
judge michael luttig. around here on my team, the story of luttig s tweets that save democracy has become a well-known piece of history. judge michael luttig, a former federal appeals court judge, conservative, longley considered one of the most conserve judges in the nation, was at his home in colorado and january 4th, 21, when he was eating dinner with his wife. he got a call from an old friend who was serving as outside counsel to then vice president mike pence. he told judge luttig that attorney john eastman was insisting to president trump that pence had the constitutional authority to block the certification of electors and overturn the election in favor of trump. luttig can hardly believe what he was hearing. he was respected eastman as a constitutional scholar, but he told his phone on the phone, look, you can tell the vice president that i said he has no such authority at all. by early the next morning, the situation had escalated. luttig received another urgent call from the