i think people running concessions at these justices but there are plenty of pressure. you referred to the chief justice and i can tell you he s not sitting around doing nothing, waiting to see what happens with the draft that sam alito has written. i suspect he s working his on alternative draft, he may be privately shopping it to other justices to see if he can possible still peel off one of the conservatives for some sort of a compromise. we still have about eight weeks left. even though politico reported there were no other subsequent drafts, there are many other ways justices are communicating. just so you know, once sam alito would said around that first draft, every other justice would sent him a memo saying i will join it or i am thinking of concurrence or i am waiting for the decent.
now frank sinatra saint said i want to a part of it. new york, new york. but today you re not so much waking up in a city that doesn t sleep your waking up in a city that doesn t work anymore. with the governor, this is the time for new yorkers to make a brand-new start. and it s up to you new york. and that s the angle. joining me now is new york congressman lee zeldin, congressman. what is the first and that you would do to reverse this downward spiral, if you were to be elected governor? day one we should fire manhattan district attorney alvin. that will set the, they should be enforcing the law put out a memo saying that he was and can enforce laws across the books. others said that he was going to downgrade which is he on day one that he has fired. that is within the constitutional authority in
that kind of game where they just take a snapshot and say, okay, on january 6th, well, there s this independent force that s pushing for agitation and so on. therefore ignore everything in the proceeding. and this is what i think congress is looking at this committee is, you know, understanding the full narrative, which doesn t begin, of course, on january 6th. it begins earlier with trump, you know, saying stop the steal and all sorts of stuff, hiring john eastman, this law professor in quotes to write a memo saying, seven states can send a rival slate of electors. and then indeed it s come out just recently in the last week that there were actually seven fake slates of electors that were sent to washington. and then the justice department is part of this plot was supposed to come in and cast doubts on the election, all of this was just trying to create a house of cards that will last through january 6th and give
down the middle. even if liz cheney tonight vote with them and she wouldn t have, it still would have left them with a 26-state ma genjority an they would have declared a victory for donald trump at that point. i think he was ready to declare the insurrection act and martial law to put down the chaos and the violence that he unleashed against us. he s saying it out loud on tv, bragging about it. you brought up mike pence several times there. would it be nice to hear from him? how far are you willing to go to hear from him? absolutely. i would think the vice president would be the first one to stand in line to say let me tell you what happened on that date. he has a lot to be proud of. he was a constitutional patriot. he stood up for the constitution. he distributed a memo saying i cannot do the things they re asking me to do. i cannot unilaterally repudiate electoral college votes because i don t like the result in the state. but there was a vicious campaign against him, which ende
reporting like the governor of pennsylvania here are the electors that have been decided upon by the people of pennsylvania in our election, okay. so the electoral count act describes what happens. it was in response to a very close con trowverted presidential election in 1876. it took like a decade to try to figure out what these details would be. parts of it are somewhat inscrutable, but we have stuck to it very closely. one of the things that eastman was talking about was just trying to get the vice president to declare that the electoral count act was unconstitutional, and the vice president was going to impose his own system under his dream. fortunately, vice president pence rejected all that. he leased a memo saying i don t have the authority to do what donald trump is essentially asking me to do. but we need to clarify that the vice president s role is an administrative role. it s a chairing role, a ministerial role. it s not a role where vice