Will the support in the party continue to grow. The fake charges put forth by Thet Biden Sham indictment, i would assume hes mentally ill. Will his top rivals rally around him or start to attack and can our democracy survive this challenge . My guests this morning, john lura and jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th attorney and the former lead january 6th impeachment manager. Joining me for insight and be analysis are hallie jackson, peter baker, republican strategist al cardenes and Kimberly Atkins stohr. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. Announcer from nbc news washington, the longest running show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Voters next fall may be faced with an unprecedented choice, whether to put former President Donald Trump back into the white house or to essentially sign off on his sentencing if he is convicted and send him to a prison or a Secret Service protected home. The latest indictment accuses trump to defr
divided nation and snl offers its own trumped up holiday message i ve committed no crime i will be arrested, tried an found guilty sound familiar? i m jonathan capehart this is the sunday show. the escalating war on the right issues is putting th reproductive rights of million satirist just last week, idaho pass wha it calls in abortion trafficking law that makes helping a minor league the state to get an abortion without parental consent punishable by up to five years in prison. in south carolina, republicans are proposed a law definin abortion as murder making it punishable by th death penalty. friday night, two contradictor court decisions. in texas, a trump appointe district judge invalidated the fda s 23 year approval o method for stone, a truck used in nearly all medica termination of pregnancy s after antiabortion organizations argued that th food and drug administration lacked the authority to approv the medication and did not adequately study its safety an ef
see what was going on on january 6th. both vice president pence and president trump saw that they had 10 million votes more than theyot had in 2016. no president has ever lost under those circumstances. they also saw that joe biden outperformed hillary clinton by 15 million votes even though she was an inspirational candidate and joe biden was sitting at home in his basement. they also saw that president trump won almost all of the disputed counties. ine addition in addition, ty had over 1,000 people come forward and under oath say that there were discrepancies in the election. and finally, and most importantly, what president trump and vice president pence saw were that the rules of the game had been changed by local electoral officials contrary to the state legislature. so he took what he was entitled to do, which is petition vice president pence on january 6th. once that petition was completed
intent and in this case corrupt intent and what that means is you have to have some desire to do something unlawful. if you are if your attorney is telling you that you have a right, then that completely eliminates any criminal intent so under those circumstances you are not violating the law. your actions require you to state your position, but it s not a it s not a violation. so you would be acquitted regardless of your conduct. right. i understand. you keep saying some certain things that vice president pence apparently agreed with. let me play what vice president pence says the former president asked him to do. here s what he said he was asked to do. let s be clear on this point. it wasn t just that he asked for a pause, the president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes
which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the house of representatives and literally chaos would have ensued. so he s just disputing the version of events you re describing. no, not at all. he s substantiating it. in this respect there were some preliminary discussions along thedi lines that vice president pence described but the ultimate ask which was done at the ellipse was to pause the voting for a period of time. now issues like this get discussed and thrashed about all the time but the ultimate call made by president trump was to ask for a pause. if you read vice president pence s book, he agrees there were some anomalies, are discrepancies, even fraud. vice president pence wanted those debated in congress. president trump zhad it be debated at the legislature.