Lost the strategic objective already. yeah, great point. it is a cold comfort to anyone hos dealing with the humanitarian side. but as you say, geopolitically, putin and trumpet are both wrong to say nato is i irrelevant. it doesn t feel irrelevant this year. got a lot of other western countries saying you have to staff up ask get serious about dealing with this nuclear power when they act like this. my thanks to general mccaffrey and evelyn farkas, thank you both. appreciate it. break. come look back at the local frost when we return. senator mike lee s texting scandal, the talk of coups, and why former attorney general for barack obama trying to get involved. plus, the video of roger stone absolutely trashing a mini trump. and then, the blow to alex jones conspiracy machine. a story i told you we would stay on. how accountability can work even in this difficult time. that s tonight as well.
Trump was prepared to seize the presidency, and likely to invoke the insurrection act and declare martial law. based on what he knows, your response to that? and the fact that, at every turn, trump never showed the ultimate willingness um i am not going to use a word, like, boldness. but whatever you want to call it, he didn t do some of those things when he was alone. he wanted ag or someone to cover him. your final reaction there? right i mean, congressman raskin obviously has access to information that you ask i don t. but the information we have seen shows exactly that, that trump would have done it if he could get away with it. and he enlisted or at least had the support of all sorts of people like mike lee who were plotting before, during, and after the election to try and hand trump the, you know, the the presidency even if he didn t win the actual vote or the electoral college vote. i mean, this is it doesn t
Works. he clearly doesn t want to own the violence that occurred on the floor where he was standing. and yet, now it is all out this again goes to why investigations matter. i am not aware of anyone at this juncture suggesting any criminal liability for senator lee. we are talking about something more nuanced but quite important. your former colleague attorney general holder was the person in charge of domg for a period of time. this is what he said. plik mike leigh must be confronted quote about his actions to subvert our electoral process and approximate held accountable. um, what do you think of that point from holder? and what lee owes at least his constituents, if not the nation? eric holder is absolutely right, 100%. it may not be criminal, ari. it might be but it s certainly a betrayal of our constitutional democracy or that he is the way it looks from these texts. now, maybe he has got some explanation. i d like to hear it and i would
6th. our job is to open, this then count. that s it. that s all there is. now, there are, of course, rare instainses. ip stances in which multiple slates of electors can be mittedpy the same state. happened in 1960, happened in 1876. that did not happen here, thank heavens, and let s hope it never did. let s hope it never happens that there are alternate slates. this is the mike lee you meet in public. that was on television on a day when he knew many would be watching, january 6th. and you get the impression of ap honest conservative, very concerned about the state of democracy. ask yet, this is what he was secretory texting. cnn first obtained these in their scoop. nbc verified the texts for our coverage. lee told chief of staff nosk 7th, exhaust every
It s because he can t get it to succeed because it s so hair-brained, it can t work but that is the reason and it shows ha donald trump has done to the republican party even formerly meaningly good people like mike leigh and they don t even realize it. mike lee, two weeks ago, voted against skrus tis ketanji brown jackson s nomination because said she uphold the constitution. my god, when mike lee was asked to up hold the constitution at a dark moment, what did he do? he plotted mark meadows and others to try to subvert ourndo mean, when you look at that night. i mean, i remember i was i m sure you do, many people do it was this terrible day with deaths and violence at the capitol and you see mike lee clearly trying to turn that corner and try to present himself as someone who says, hey, guys, this isn t how it