and donald trump and the senior leaders at the justice department, if they were looking at a conspiracy to commit a coup, a conspiracy to overthrow the government. here s what he said. the predominant worry that i have about our democracy is not that it is going to be overthrown by a violent revolution notwithstanding that we endured a violent attempt at insurrection, but rather that there will be quasi legal means that so undermine our democracy that it creates a crisis and it falls apart. this is what the republicans tried to do. the trump campaign and administration tried to do. with this memo. but it s also what gop party leaders are trying to do around the country by stripping independent elections officials of their powers and handing them to partisan boards. so that they can succeed where they failed with this attempted coup. so what caught my ear was this quasi legal effort. i mean the eastman memo, i don t
it comes to executive privilege is the current president in the white house. that s joe biden. this answers, nicole, the other part of your question, why, and the scope. the white house is saying look this isn t some minor dispute or something. it goes to the heart of the republic. things like think about all the things donald trump did, ukraine, the tax returns, all of that. none of it provoked the kind of panic that january 6th invokes. and so that s why congress is doing what it s doing, it was absolutely right to do this. it was a long time coming. in my judgment, too long coming, we waited so many months after january 6th. but if donald trump tries to bring this to court it is a dead loser every day of the week, kinds of like him. i want to show you luke broad congressman schiff s response when i asked sort of about the revelations of the east man memo and based on some of the communications that we ve learned about between meadows
know, that might be too nice of a thing to say about mr.eseman s memo, quasi legal. that it is lilg to overthrow the will of the people, it is why dan quayle said get serious, mike. i wonder if you can tie the first four subpoenas together? it feels like they all have something to say about the setup, what people were brought to washington to do, about the state of mind of the expresident. bannon talked about killing biden s presidency in the crib yesterday. it feels as a witness he s an active participant in this sort of quasi legal, to borrow the congressman s term, effort. and it seems like mr. scavino and mr. patel and meadows had different pieces of making the government bend around that attempted coup. can you talk about these four witnesses. sure. yeah. i think the reason the committee
still vote for donald trump again, how many of them will change their minds if they are presented with evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump committed crimes. the paula duncans out there have the future of donald trump s presidency in their hands now. because if some of them, if half of them turn against donald trump, if they are presented with proof that he committed crimes, then donald trump will be impeached, and he will be removed from office even if republicans still control the senate because that would mean that enough republican voters turned against donald trump, that 16 or 17 republican votes to convict the president in the senate would be possible. impeachment is a quasi-legal, quasi-political process. if there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the president committed crimes, then the legal elements of impeachment would be satisfied. but the votes on impeachment would still be a political