convincing the vice president, based on the defendant, donald trump s knowingly false claims of election fraud, that the vice president should reject or send to the states biden s legitimate electoral votes rather than count them. that criminal conduct described in that sentence was admitted tonight on television by donald trump s criminal defense lawyer. the indictment has more about that meeting. quote, during the meeting, as reflected in the vice presidents contemporary us notes, the defendant, donald trump, made no knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, bottom line, when every state by hundreds of thousands of votes and, we won every state. the defendant, known trump, and coconspirator john eastman then asked the vice president to either unilaterally reject the legitimate electors from the seven targeted states or send
he started signing autographs on his teammates necks. jordan poyer, he was like dude, what are you doing? and you ve got dawson knox who doesn t seem to mind. i think that he was happy to show off his signature to just about everybody. but i guess the point is training camp gone wild. can t wait to get them back to work. loves his job. carolyn manno, thank you. and thanks for joining us. new day starts right now. the first known trump white house insiders testify before a federal grand jury. and new reports of china planning, perhaps, imminent moves on taiwan. good morning, i m john berman with brianna keilar. new reports this morning about what the chief of staff the
feeling from people like steve bannon and john eastman that this is just the start. this was the first failed attempt and if you remember kate this memo that john eastman had provided to trump s outside legal team they can ultimately be successful in actually following through on these unsubstantiated frame. these are people not committed to the committee. hey, jackie, good morning. it s jonathan lemire. you have done extraordinary work over the weekend reporting on january 6th and red flags that were missed and moments before the insurrection. the one i hope you can weigh in on the next step. you mentioned eastman, we heard some of the boldfaces and less
and create this picture of the extreme pressure campaign that these people were saying publicly ahead of january 6th on january 6th and after that should have raised a number of red flags but we found even more pressure point that were happening behind the scenes privately that offers new insights into the mindset of some of the key players that were under duress where american democracy were pushed into the brink. you mentioned john eastman and trump s outside lawyer had sent. the siege because you and your boss did not do what s necessary. there was another e-mail, a number of e-mails sent, another one sent around 8:00 p.m., after pence went back to the floor and after the bloodshed that everyone saw played out on national television where eastman sent another e-mail to
pence is chief council in collided in eastman s remark in an opinion article of trump s outside team that he wrote later in january but chose not to publish. nbc news had not seen a draft, article or e-mails. he tries to help donald trump overthrow an election where 150 million plus people voted and he says he didn t mean to do it and he was not blaming mike pence. who does that sound like? we got the e-mail. this is very clear that this is exactly what he s doing. he s blaming mike pence for not committing sedition against the