night. what they don t know is we re sitting like or maybe they don t or they sort of don t. we re sitting like 10, 15 feet away from each other in the studio and i have to pretend would you like me to read the tweet? now that it s my hour we can put it in public record. that is awesome and hilarious, and i m sorry the studio and viewing public could hear me chortling. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. we have some big breaking news. nbc news has now confirmed that former president mike pence has now been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith, the man who was overseeing the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election including at the u.s. capitol. the news was first reported by abc news. we don t know exactly what information was sought in that subpoena, but according to abc it comes after months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and pence s legal team. but the office and spokesman for the former
prosecutors two of whom served under republican froms, this in the atlantic, after several hearings by the committee, doubt as to who is responsible has been resolved. trump was behind the massive criminal conspiracy behind the proceeding and to defraud the united states of a fair election outcome. trump was not just a willing beneficiary of a complex plot of which others played most of the primary roles, while in office he himself was the principal actor in nearly all of its phases personally involved in elements and aware of and involved of the worst features including the violence on capitol hill mp most remarkably, he did so after vehement objects even by his sink fantic and loyal hand picked team. this was trump s project all along. add to this that more than 800 insurrectionists face charges for their role in trump s project and one big question looms over the country right now when it comes to january 6th. what will the justice department do about the person who is beh
is its purpose. the odd name of the weaponization subcommittee constitutes a case of pure, psychological projection. when former president donald trump and his followers accuse you of doing something, they re usually telling you exactly what their own plans are. and of course a serious bipartisan committee focused on the weaponization of the government would zero in quickly on the trump administration itself. trump and his obliging sink fantic attorney generals like jeff sessions and william barr repeatedly pressured career prosecutors to go hard or go soft in particular cases, always seeking to reward trump s friends or to punish his enemies. if weaponization of the department of justice had any meaning, this is it. that is the state of play here, and if this is how it all starts, where does it go from here? joining us now is the staff writer at the atlantic and author of the upcoming book
now, actually it may not be going through his head. what s going through his head is rage, and the rage is my identity has been destroyed. and so i think if you really if he didn t hold the future of the world in his hands, you could almost feel sorry for him right now. because imagine the stress that this guy is under. he believes he can t trust anyone. i would say that would very easily include his own family, but his most sink fantic vice president in the history of the world even he apparently is not trusted by trump. he is facing these mueller charges. he is facing a democratic congress that he knows is going to go to and investigate him, and that is overwhelming. and i do think that he is in a period right now, a moment of really great fear. i think that fear is such that he cannot he s never a good
through his head. now, actually it may not be going through his head. what s going through his head is rage, and the rage is my identity has been destroyed. and so i think if you really if he didn t hold the future of the world in his hands, you could almost feel sorry for him right now. because imagine the stress that this guy is under. he believes he can t trust anyone. i would say that would very easily include his own family, but his most sink fantic vice president in the history of the world even he apparently is not trusted by trump. he is facing these mueller charges. he is facing a democratic congress that he knows is going to go to and investigate him, and that is overwhelming. and i do think that he is in a period right now, a moment of really great fear. i think that fear is such that he cannot he s never a good thinker, but he literally can t