that is what beto o rourke has been fighting, pure insanity. and pure insanity are the words that one of the top officials in the trump justice department used to describe what donald trump and his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, were up to in the final days of the trump white house when they were trying to overturn the presidential election. we know this tonight thanks to justice department emails released by the democrats in the house oversight committee that show donald trump trying to force william barr s successor, acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, to have the justice department join lawsuits to overturn the election. donald trump had an assistant email jeffrey rosen baseless claims of voter fraud in michigan that had already been thrown out of court by a judge, and two weeks later, donald trump had an assistant email a draft brief for the justice department to file in the
national holiday commemorating 1865, the year an army general rode into galveston, texas and told slaves of their emancipation, two years after president nixon isi lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. they had blocked the legislation in the past but today said he would no longer object to the vote on the bill. senator john cornyn tweeting, now more than ever we need to learn from our history and continue to form a more perfect union. the measure now needs to pass the house where it s sponsored by congresswoman sheila jackson lee and be signed by president joe biden to become law. okay, now, look at this e-mail. quote, pure insanity. it s a response to the dea to trump s pushing them to back his
quote, can you believe this? i am not going to respond to the message below. jeffrey clark, who was then the acting head of the civil division of the justice department had no conceivable jurisdiction over voting issues in georgia. but as we discovered in january, jeffrey clark was in secret communication with the trump might house and encouraging with the acting attorney general called pure insanity. and was actually expected donald trump to remove the acting attorney general and give him the job of acting attorney general. put clark in there as acting attorney general. republicans are very disappointed that all of that pure insanity did not work, and the real winner of the presidential election is not rated as the 46th president of the united states. and so republicans in state legislatures are doing everything they can to put pure insanity into election law so that it will work exactly the way they want to work next time. republicans in several states are making it as difficult as
partier hates special interests, anonymous dark money corrupting american politics just as much as anyone does. the numbers are unbelievable. we poll in the high 80s and the 90s fighting that. independent voters on a related question poll at 100-0. absolutely. so we can make this work if the public is with us. the public i believe is but i am now in the next show. i have to go and let chris hayes do his show. senator whitehouse, thank you so much. that is tonight s reidout. go watch chris hayes. tonight on all in the trump plot to steal the election was worse than we even knew. one doj official called the conspiracy theories pushed by the white house, quote, pure insanity. tonight the stunning email
deputy ag called pure insanity. we found out that right wing social media site parler flagged dozens of messages for the fbi like one that said trump needs us to cause chaos to enact the insurrection act. the fbi director doesn t recall hearing about those messages but announced nearly 500 arrests in the attack to date with hundreds more ongoing investigations. and nobody still seems to have a good explanation for why it took nearly four hours for the national guard to deploy. despite all of that, speaker nancy pelosi says that still no decision has been made on whether the house will convene a select committee to investigate the attacks. that s a big mistake. because every day we see more signs that the big lie is metastasizing. sham partisan audits in arizona. ma majority of republican voters denying the election results. this has serious consequences. trump-inspired death threats intimidate honest election officials and their families. senator rand paul said that