undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
Jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. Prosecutors dont hand out agreements like candy. Mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. He could speak to trumps mindset in a very specific way. Welcome, everyone. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. We begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. The former president s Chief Of Staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his team more than once according to a abc news. He allegedly told investigators he didnt believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day in november 2020. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. [ cheers and applause ] meadows reportedly telling investigators that he believed trump was being dishonest and saying that cnn anchor of the source, kaitlan collins, joins us now. We have been asking for, i dont know, a year plus, whats up with mark meadows .
instance, hearsay, cassidy hutchinson, a lot of that was hearsay. but sidney powell wasn t. exactly, but you also have witnesses who sidney powell, is she going to really hold up on cross-examination? she wants that cross-examination. she wants to cave because she doesn t want to help the government here. where as there are some other witnesses, cassidy being one of them, may not sustain cross-examination as well as direct examination. i think you re making a good point that this has been more like a prosecutorial brief. some of this may not hold up the same way, although there was a lot today. whether or not you can make a case for seditious conspiracy from a prosecutor s point of view, a legal point of view, just from the colloquial meaning, this was a seditious