former president trump s ability to overturn inability to overturn the election was not for lack of trying. rioters stormed the capitol and had every intention of inflicting violence on members of congress, former vice president mike pence, but again, former president trump is the figurehead of the republican party. you know, they ve already made their bed and now they just, this is a never ending cycle we ve been talking about for six yoers and because january 6th and the idea the election was fraudulent is so central to trumpism republicans will continue to go along with it. the last point on this, it is unbelievable how many of the republicans who are pretending this was normal, didn t happen, or that there was fraud or whatever, unbelievable how many of them who are participating in this lie to their voters were on the same ballots elected by the same people the same day but somehow their elections were fine. thanks one and all. appreciate it. pfizer asks the fda to authori
result from this? how do you prevent it from happening again? that is really what a lot of this ultimately comes down to is it is not just about investigating and producing a report. it is actually coming up with some kind of meaningful consequences so that you don t end up with another constitutional crisis especially since former president trump may well run for office again and may well be in the white house again. absolutely. i have to admit i am still capable of being shocked if not surprised. the fealty shown by republicans on the senate judiciary committee today ranking member chuck grassley who in the past has stood up for moral causes and been one of the biggest boosters of whistle-blowers in the history of congress out there saying, you know, yes he basically, i m paraphrasing, yes, president trump talked about committing a coup but he didn t really actually do it. you have something you call the
side show bob defense. the side show bob defense drawn from the animated series the simpsons. one of the villains is imprisoned for trying to kill bart simpson and in one scene is shown on the phone angrily deploring his fate saying attempted murder? what is that? do they give out a nobel prize for attempted chemistry? the idea being if he was thwarted in his efforts to kill bart therefore he is innocent. obviously the two aren t the same. what i will say about this argument from republicans is it is not new. you ve been seeing it from conservatives on social media for months and months. the idea that because ultimately donald trump did not trigger this replacement of the acting attorney general with a loyalist leading to this mass wave of threatened resignations, that they didn t pull the trigger somehow exonerates him which i think would get a skeptical hearing in congress. look, the president had a lit match and he sat there for three hours and he talked to the
separate trump from what really was a crisis of his own making. a lot has to do with tactics going into the midterms. republican voters now overwhelmingly believe this election was fraudulent despite that being completely baseless and it reinforces the grip trump still has over the party that you ll see them put out a rebuttal for what is widely documented as being very much floatd by former president trump and his allies for months. here is the thing. about 12 or 15 republican officials from michigan, the wayne county canvasing board, to bill gates the vice chair of the maricopa county board, to schmidt in philly to georgia, jeffrey rosen we re hearing. just 12 of them or something like that if they had just been weaker people or different people in those jobs, this would have been a stolen election. what can congress do to stop it so it doesn t happen again?
subpoenas i ll highly encourage authorities to pursue criminal contempt. if you refuse a subpoena there are consequences for you. there darned well should be consequences for the president and his top enablers and cronies here. i have to say i think the biden administration would do this. it is very possible. i think that this is the real question facing the justice department as well as the select committee is what does accountability actually look like? the reason they are subpoenaing documents from these witnesses is because they want to get a clearer picture of people who are associates of trump, who are within the campaign, within the administration, and get a sense of what the engagement had been like with the organizers of the stop the steal rally that preceded the insurrection at the capitol. how much did the officials in the white house and the trump campaign who were close to the former president know about the events that led up to january 6th as well as everything that