hello, this is a beat, special report. inside the effort to stage a coup with new evidence tonight, showing this is far broader than prosecutors first thought. we are breaking down the path to a criminal conspiracy ny experts now think the most serious charges may be yet to come. why are we doing this now? the house insurrection hearing show the nation that january 6th was more organized than many realized. the committee devoted to investigating that they has revealed truths about that day. yet, the house probe has also underscored something new to many, trump s plot to overthrow the election was far broader than one date or prepping a one- day crime spree. it was an illegal coup conspiracy starting before the election and lasting months. with criminal plots that had nothing to do with even january 6th and the illegal orders by trump that were resisted. we will show this to you tonight and begin with things that were part of looking perfectly legal, like challenging results
he s well recognized, for him to be treated differently than anyone else. and i also think that with the protections they are setting up, the indictment in georgia s coming soon. and that it is definitely planned to be the last, so that it can be tried last. it will overlap with some of the evidence in the trial of the election case by jack smith. but it s still important to go forward, because should he ever get someone in office who wants to pardon him, they need to have a state charge from which no federal official can pardon him. so i think it is important to try it. and it s a different sovereign. it s not double jeopardy. it is a different law, and a different prosecution force. a different venue. so it should proceed. and i think it will be
convictions and counting. those people at the capitol, the criminal muscle pursuing just one of these plots we re going to go through tonight, let s be clear, trump treated them like pawns, the rest of the players on the board, donald trump s coup plotters, and operatives and lawyer, none of them have been indicted for the evidence of a more intricate secret high-level set of plots to illegally overthrow then president-elect biden. now, if it was a one-day riot, then that might be the proper legal outcome. but if it was a coup conspiracy and the most powerful people, the ones in white house meetings guarded by federal agents with guns paid by your tax dollars wielding the power of prosecution force, even the military, if they ultimately get away with their attempted coup, well, what does that do? the writer doug porter put it simply, if trump s coup attempt
agents with guns, paid for by your tax dollars, wielding the power of prosecution force, even the military, if they ultimately get away with they re tempted coup, what does that do? the writer doug porter put it simply. if trump s coup attempt goes unpunished, it will become a training exercise. that s where we are right now. the understanding of what happened and what we do about it determines whether this becomes an aberration or a training exercise. those are some of the stakes and the evidence that we re going to show you tonight. so we begin, where this began, before election day. most candidates throw everything at women, trump had a different plan to either win or steal the race as soon as he looked like losing which he telegraphed in september, while his 2016 campaign chair steve bannon previewed a very similar declare victory plan. will you commit to making
board, donald trump s coup plotters, operatives, and lawyers, none of them have been indicted of the evidence of a more intricate secret, high- level set of plots to illegally overthrow then president-elect biden. now, if it was a one day ryan riot, then that might be the proper legal outcome. but if it was a coup conspiracy , and the most powerful people, the ones at white house meetings, guarded by federal agents with guns paid by your tax dollars, willing the power of prosecution force, even the military, if they ultimately get away with their attempted coup, well what does that do? the writer, doug porter, put it simply, if trump s coup attempt goes unpunished, it will become a training exercise. that is where we are right now. the understanding of what happened and what we do about it determines whether this becomes an aberration or a