Show he was pushing extreme election Subversion Strategies that could now put him in brave league goal peril. Were talking about Kenneth Chesebro chesebro was the rightwing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. The scheme to a appoint fake president ial electors that republican legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. Chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the Georgia Election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. Lets get more details from cnns Marshall Cohen who is breaking the story with kfile. Marshall, tell us about these tweets and could chesebro be at legal risk for seemingly hiding them . Jake, he could listen when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth and cnns kfile team uncovered a secret twitter that cheseboro concealed from prosecutors in michigan. There are dozens of tweets from 2020 that undercut what he later told
soon as we get that adds up we re gonna go to. it mike, i will start to the control room for second. we think the president is coming out now. all right. got it, as soon as he comes out it to. we do in a move on to the general six hearings. this hour we re taking an in-depth look at this weeks generous committee hearing. potentially the final one. members made it clear in this hearing, in case it wasn t, before this all boils down to one individual. the central cause of january 6th was one man. donald trump. who many others followed. that none of this would ve happened without him. he was personally substantially vault in all of it they laid out in meticulous detail a plan for the former president began long before january six, even long before election day 2020. . in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump s former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won th
general to shut down about places and all 50 states. it s going to be next. he s not going to d.c.. trump is going to do some crazy stuff. by the, way the former president stuck with the script through animal, through court defeat after court defeat. they re increasingly embarrassing moments for his legal team. all with one goal in mind, stay in power. whatever the cost. he knew he had oscillation, but he made the delivery toys to ignore the courts, to ignore the justice department, to ignore his campaign leadership, to ignore senior advisers, and to pursue a completely unlawful effort to overturn the election. has intent was planned. ignore the rule of, law stay in power. the committee made it clear that cost of the former presidents allies culminating in the deadly violence on
subsequent decisions. how could this possibly be is basically what justice sonia sotomayor said in her dissent when this case went up to the supreme court. we all remember they did nothing for 24 hours this was challenged, and then they said, you know what, this is just so procedurally complicated we re going to have to let thegs law stay in effect while we kind of sort it out. but you can bring other challenges to us. now, let s remember this is another challenge now. it s the department of justice and abortion providers saying we re coming back up with a new question. can we sue? and who can we sue? but to your question of how can this happen, let s imagine that you hurt your ankle, you go to a doctor and your doctor says, god, that s a bad break i m really not sure, walk on it for a few more weeks and then come back to me. and maybe come back to me and i ll have a better sense when