more on this development let s bring in wall street journal columnist henninger and dan and based on evidence that s swirling around in the public how strong is this case? that s an easy question to answer paul. because maybe a thousand or more people have already answered it. unanimously, it is not a strong case. it just isn t which raises the mystery of why it s being brought. what trump is being accused of which is related to the possibility of paying hush money to adult film ac tres years ago is a misdemeanor under new york state law. prosecutor bragg is thinking about elevating it to a felonny under federal law which most specialist say they ve never seen something like that happen before especially with the former president. so the question becomes what is going on exactly with prosecutor bragg? he was under a lot of pressure from his staff before this to do it two prosecutors resign one where a book about it. i think there s the possibility paul that he s facing
without congressional approval i think that s absolutely nuts although you know this administration is very good at just magic authority here or there. it would be good to see some in congress really start pushing back against this but i m a little worried paul even some republicans in congress are buying into the notion that what matters most is that we not have a panic. and that they may be edging toward if not universal deposit insurance at least expanding current level which is are also potentially problematic. thank you kim when we come back china xi jinping wraps up his trip to moscow with a warning of changes to come. so is the biden administration s new defense budget adequate to meet challenges ahead? try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv
mr. eastman and rudy giuliani spoke right before trump did at that rally, what they told the crowd, the two of them, was that the election had been stolen from donald trump. the crowd there that they could stop the steal, that day, january six they could fix it. if only they could get my pence to do the right thing, if only mike pence would evoke some magic authority no one ever knew he had before, to refuse to accept the electoral college votes from a bunch of states. if only pence would do that, that would stop the certification of biden s win, and trump could be president again. that s all they needed to do. and so the crowd marched down to the capitol to get it done. , we would later learned that lawyer, john eastman, was really the guy who invented this concept. mike pence somehow had the power to overturn the election himself, to not accept electoral college votes from
if only mike pence would invoke some magic authority no one ever knew he had before to refuse to accept the electoral college votes. if only pence would do that, that would stop the certification of biden s win and trump could be president again. that s all they needed to do. and, so, the crowd marched down to the capitol to get it done. we would later learn that that guy, john eastman, was really the guy who invented thisea concept, that mike pence somehow had the power to overturn the election himself, to not accept electoral college votes from certain states if he didn t want to. teps it was his call. he was the ultimate arbiter of whether electoral college votes counted, and he could just decide some didn t count. this is a crazy theory, but john eastman laid it all out in a legal memo, commonly known as the eastman memo. and that s what he used to get
becoming a familiar one. he is one of the people who spoke at the rally on january 6th. he s the dude in the hat. this is the rally that turned into the crowd at that rally storming violently into the u.s. capital demanding they stop the certification of the electoral college votes. mr. eastman and rudy giuliani spoke right before trump did at that rally. and what they told the crowd, the two of them, is that the election had been stolen from donald trump, that the crowd there that day could stop the steal that day. january 6th they could fix it if only they could get mike pence to do the right thing. if only mike pence would evoke some magic authority no one ever knew he had before to refuse to accept the electoral college votes. if only pence would do that, that would stop the certification of biden s win and trump could be president again. that s all they needed to do. and, so, the crowd marched down to the capital to get it done.