Sunday, conservative talker Mark Levin blamed the January 6 House Select Committee for what he declared to be the "demise" of the country, which he said was an effort to get an indictment against former President Donald Trump. | Clips
george, let s start with the role that luttig has played in his testimony tomorrow. i find myself watching bill barr, and some of these people and almost giving myself eye strain from how hard i m rolling my eyes. and now they tell us, luttig is in a different category, he was called upon to do this. what do you anticipate will hear from him? well, i agree with you, chris, i really want to hear this testimony. i think it s gonna be a blockbuster moment. these hearings. and the reason is, that mike luttig, was a conservative judicial icon, he was leading the people in the supreme court, he was the judge that really all young conservative lawyers really looked up to. most of his law clerks went on to clerk for the supreme court as you mention, much of those
law clerk to supreme court, clerk for justice scalia, and justice thomas. so luttig was, one of justice calmly as early as law clerks when justice scalia was on the court of appeals. if you took a poll, he was on the shortlist, in the mid 2000s to the supreme court under the second portion administration, frankly, i know some people watching this will turn off the tv. i ve been a member 37 years. and if you pull members of the federal society in 2005, about who they prefer on the same report it was mike luttig. i think luttig, has very strong feelings, i ve heard him express them privately, i ve seen it publicly, many a time. and i heard it on podcasts, he feels so strongly, that would happen on january six was an attempted coup. we came very close to losing democracy, and the rule of law. not only that, he feels that we
are still at risk for 2024. yeah, your point, there i think in the end so many different things or brought to bear, to save us from the worst possible outcome. i do think this is someone with tremendous gravitas, authority, institutional respect. it being him, not just anyone, it was him, him saying it, him saying it publicly. that s why pence went to him. that s why pence went damn. right. that s why. he serves the role as the conscious of democracy, michael luttig, i remember thinking like judge luttig, right-wing judge. he s the guy. he believes in the rule of law. and that s the key point. he believes in the rule of law. and he leads and democracy. believes that if you lose an election, you lose election. you cooperate and do the best thing for the country. he puts his country above politics, he puts his country, the constitution above party.
Hang Mike Pence’s portrait in the gallery of national heroes. As riveting testimony from yesterday’s Jan. 6 hearing showed again and again, it was Donald Trump’s once obsequious wingman who found a backbone and rejected every illegal effort to block Joe Biden’s victory, from private and public political pressure from Trump to crackpot legal and constitutional theories offered by lunatic lawyer/Ph.D. John Eastman to an angry crowd of Capitol invaders eager to turn itself into an actual lynch mob and string him up.